If it's chemically diamond, maybe call it diamond?

Completely untrue.

You've just misunderstood whose interests the regulators are there to protect.

Superstition comes from the instinctive default assumption that unexplained things are animate things out to get you.

The false positives are a nuisance, but living on the savanna without modern science it was sometimes the safe assumption.

Maybe figuring out why will be easier if we have an idea about who.

...but I don't see where the problem is unless you think the humans are too expensive. It's not a dangerous profession the way it used to be.

Britain has struggled - successfully - for freedom of speech for hundreds of years before the US existed.

They do not, however, make a religion out of it, and don't live in a theocracy anyway.

Maybe unhappy people are just more likely to perceive their bosses as incompetent at something or other. Because obviously the problem isn't them.

If you need the education, you are merely short-changing yourself.

But if you need the diploma to get a job interview, and the education has no relevance to the job except for the interview, then the situation is different.

One of many ways in which high unemployment is dysfunctional for society.

If you billed your client for a full day's work for what you accomplished in 20 minutes, then you committed fraud.

That's what the students are accused of.

This can only mean that Mono is about to catch up.

If people like me are grouped in with those criminals merely because I share one chromosome with them, then it's *exactly* the same kind of stereotyping and discrimination, and I am personally offended by it.

A Slashdot audience may understand, but I think you are massively overestimating how obvious the distinction would be to the general public. It will be about as clear as GNU versus Linux.

So.... now they suddenly care about their users.

Hipster is all about defining oneself as a hipster.

The rest of the world actually doesn't care.

Those are not rights in civilized countries, and Canada is one of them.