Life experiences mean everything when interpreting law. Alito: Have to Consider Life Experiences when Ruling Cases [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNfyZWnQVnQ].

Please stop being unrealistic every human judge uses their human experiences to interpret the law. Those experiences are usually what other people are referring to when using the word 'maturity'. Maturity comes through experience, and I would rather have a mature judge presiding over my case than an immature judge who just can't wait for the day to be over so s/he can go shoot some balls at the local golf course.

If you believe that judges do not use their personal beliefs whether they be 'conservative' of 'liberal' (or really just, human experience) I'm going to call bullshit and say you're delusional.

Next thing I know you'll be spouting crazy Jesus talk.

The world you live in conflicts with reality.

I'm glad to have someone up on the court who can understand and connect with society and where it is heading.

The law 150 years ago was that a percentage of the US population was not human - they were animals meant to work in the fields. A conservative judge would have upheld that law; after all that is what they preach - keeping everything the same and backwards. Conservatism and backwards go hand in hand as do liberalism and progressive - one advances society, the other prefers it stays in the past. Are you saying you approve of enslaving blacks? I would rather have a judge who would use their maturity and interpret the meant laws meant for humans as a human.

Regards.

Obviously enough that they're willing to put their money where their mouth is. Unless Google has a gay agenda?

http://www.brookings.edu/articles/2002/winter_technology_florida.aspx

Gays and Growth

Perhaps our most striking finding is that a leading indicator of a metropolitan area's high-technology success is a large gay population. Frequently cited as a harbinger of redevelopment and gentrification in distressed urban neighborhoods, the presence of gays in a metro area signals a diverse and progressive environment and provides a barometer for a broad spectrum of amenities attractive to adults, especially those without children. To some extent, the gay and lesbian population represents what might be called the "last frontier" of diversity in our society.

As table 1 shows, 11 of the top 15 high-tech metropolitan areas (column 1) also appear in the top 15 of the gay index (column 2). The five metro areas with the highest concentration of gay residentsâ"San Francisco, Washington, Austin, Atlanta, and San Diegoâ"are all among the nation's top 15 high-tech areas. In our statistical analyses, the gay index does better than other individual measures of social and cultural diversity as a predictor of high-tech location. The correlations are exceedingly high and consistently positive and significant. The results of a variety of multivariate regression analyses support this finding. The gay index is positively and significantly associated with the ability of a region both to attract talent and to generate high-tech industry.

Gays predict not only the concentration of high-tech industry, but also its growth, as we found when we compared our gay index with the Milken Institute Tech-Growth Index, which measures growth in output of high-tech industries within metropolitan areas from 1990 to 1998 relative to the national growth rate in output of high-tech industries during the same period. Five of the cities in the top 10 in the Tech-Growth Index also rank in the top 10 for the gay index. What's more, the correlation between the gay index (measured in 1990) and the Milken Tech-Growth Index increases over time, suggesting that the benefits of diversity may actually compound as time goes on by increasing a region's high-tech prosperity.

To counter the possibility that the influence of San Francisco (which ranks first on both the high-tech and gay indices) creates a false association between the two measures, we repeated the analyses without San Francisco. That second analysis strengthened slightly the influence of the gay index on high-tech growth, increasing our confidence that the concentration of gays predicts high-tech concentration and growth.

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In terms of tech, they are a bigger group than "5%".

The people in set B are working calls centers, and the checkout stand at Wal-Mart. Google needs educated workers. Gay might be a minority of the general population. They are, however, not a minority of the educated tech population.

Actually, judging by semiconductor, which is a mix 90% mix of Asian/Indian, 10% White (of which a lot are european immigrants).

And by software, when I dropped by the MS campus in Mountain View I was amazed to see the huge number of Russians and Indians.

High tech jobs have a lot of country to country moving.

I'm not really sure you live in a very diverse area. I've worked in semiconductors, and know plenty of people in the software business. Gay's are not a minority. Most gays are usually quite well educated, which is more than I can say regarding the majority of Americans.

Gays are a minority in America. They're not a minority in higher-level jobs requiring an education.

You're thinking only of yourself which is what most people who spew the crap you just did generally do. Selfish ass.

There are 12 million households in California (http://www.bayareacensus.ca.gov/california.htm), at ~2.2 TVs per household. Factor in the bars, malls, and every other public place that have at least 2-3 TV screens running 24/7.

Stop being such a selfish jerk. Your filthy kind was spewing the "WAAAH I WANT TO DRIVE MY SUV AT 5MPG DAILY WAAAAHH DONT TAKE AWAY MY BIG CAR." just a few years ago.

Stop wasting the limited resources.

Shut the fuck up and start paying the real price instead of the bullshit fake costs of energy subsidized by murder of brown people in other countries so you can be a wasteful American and indulge in unencumbered credit based consumerism.

Your gravy train is coming to the end of the line and your new Chinese overlords will be coming to collect. For those who have visited China, you know what I'm talking about.

750ml Water bottle=$1.25
3785ml Gasoline=$1.79

Something is wrong there. As the dollar empire continues to crumbles, those values will start to reflect reality.

Uh. Alcohol will prevent you from functioning in society. Getting a job, getting along with peers, etc.

SSRI's will enable to you continue functioning in reality and society.