Parents do not think that far, instead they demand 'simple' zero tolerance programs and get nasty when something they think should have been banned shows up and some local news program does a scare story on it.

Well, just as qualified in terms of knowing how to teach, but I would wager that a PhD knows more about their field then some random person who failed at making iPhone apps. Even if the guy is really bright, there is going to be a lot of try, tedious material that he never learned which is going to impact his teaching if he has to stray from 'here is how you use XYZ framework/API/etc'.

Mileage will vary greatly here. I know plenty of tenured professors making making in the 40-60 range which, while not bad, is far from 6 figures. Professors who work for MBA/Law/Tech oriented schools (within a university) tend to be pretty well paid, but the money can be pretty bad outside that band.

20k/day until, like the App Store, the service gets saturated.

You're right, we need to involve the TSA. They can prevent Uber drivers from groping passengers.

Oh.. wait a minute.

There are assholes on both sides of the political spectrum, and many from both end up in court. It's not about what the assholes are up to. What matters is whether or not the law treats everyone fairly. Going to court sucks, but it's part of the process. A neighbor and I had to repeatedly contact law enforcement and code enforcement over something similar. The city threatened to take it to court, and that settled the matter. It'd be nice if it didn't go that far, but if someone thinks they're in the right, it can be difficult to persuade them otherwise.

An opposite of the equal treatment concept would be affirmative action. That is an example of laws that selectively benefit only certain groups of people, and it's not something that you can blame on "conservatives".

I think Comcast has prior art here. Such as the story the other day of a Comcast rep changing a customer's first name to "Asshole". The significance is that Comcast can get away with it. They're part of a monopoly or equally bad duopoly in many of the areas they serve. Uber is not. A company that denigrates its customers isn't going to be able to keep its customers, and that opens the door for another competitor to step in.

How are you defining an underrepresented group without using a quota?

You used an example that contradicts your own point. You're not very good at this.

So what if it took a court case? That's where grievances are heard. That's the whole point of having courts. What do you want to see happen? You want Judge Dredd to roll up and shoot the homeowner?

If he lost, then the law is treating both equally. Is it not?

Why do all demographics have to be represented equally?

Wait a minute.. what kind of cruel state still defines our little darlings as being either boy or girl? That's clearly not the type of progressive thinking we should be pushing for. Do they still have separate but equal bathrooms? The horror! Frankly, CS enrollments are the least of the problems in such backward thinking divisive environments. Won't somebody please think of the children?

No. You should fire the person who is legally bound to respond to credible threats, but who doesn't have any fucking sense about what is obviously a completely non-credible threat.

Similar thing in CO a few years back, where administrators are required to deal with students who bring weapons onto campus, and/or students who use even fake weapons to threaten other students. But somehow an administrator thought that a marching band member's wooden rifle sitting in an unoccupied locked car qualified...

I wonder if the 'black' suspension was about calling the 'wrong person' black rather than using a forbidden word. This whole thing reeks of a political vendetta with the kid as some kind of easy target. I would not be surprised if he made the mistake of questioning someone's ancestory with the suggestion they were not racially pure and it happened to be the kid of someone who already did not like his parents.