Water demand can be very elastic when there are actual economic incentives. For anyone to say demand is inelastic shows just how wasteful we are with water in modern society.

Just use subsidies for now, and wait for the next crisis for an excuse to end those subsidies.

He said setting a market rate. Using a market rate clearly implies letting the market set the rate. It does not imply setting an arbitrary rate.

These complications are already being dealth with by the California government. California has a wide range of short term, long term, and permanent contracts to ensure public use of water in the state. Here are some details on the California water market if you are interested. The problem of obtaining the water and paying whoever owns the water is already a solved problem.

We are only discussing how to divvy the water out. That is a much simpler problem. There would probably be complications as the state's current contracts expire and the land owners want a cut of the extra money, but I'm sure eminent domain could be used to prevent any excessive profiteering.

Its not like California couldn't use the money. Its government is doing better than it was five years ago but it isn't exactly the most solvent state in the union.

What is top down about letting the price of water settle at whatever level is necessary to reduce consumption to a manageable level? That is what would happen naturally if the government wasn't involved at all. The government's only role should be (IMHO) to stop abuse such as private companies from profiteering at the state's expense. Perhaps also spending money on water reclamation and desalination programs to lessen the burden of paying for water as well.

It was the possibility of creating computer games that got me interested in programming initially. If you would have started telling me in 4th grade about how programming can be used to integrate CRM and ERP systems I probably would have just kept playing Nintendo instead of learning QBASIC.

Sometimes you need to get people hooked on how a topic can be cool before you start showing them how it can be practical.

Whose to say they are happy with it? There are plenty of women who are not happy with the status quo. They are among the ones leading changes such as the one in this article.

That is exactly what these groups are doing. One barrier for women is that society makes it pretty clear what they should like at a very early age. This means that by the age of 10 they have already been led towards playing with dolls instead of tools. Correcting these kinds of barriers takes effort; it won't just correct itself.

I started with "not all" because that was one statement that cannot be disputed. I moved to "likely to be less than 50% genetic" because that is my impression from the research I have done. I moved to "slight genetic differences" because that is my impression of what most feminists believe.

Pay attention to the context of each of my statements. I use terms such as "From what I have read" and "Most educated feminists would agree" to provide this context. It isn't that hard to follow if you aren't intentionally trying to take my statements out of context.

Just because the average man and average woman have differences doesn't mean certain men and certain women don't have the exact same motivations, interests, etc. It is not optimal to treat all women the same just because on average they are different than men. Black men have shown they probably have a genetic advantage in sports such as basketball, but you shouldn't accept a society that discourages white men from playing basketball just because of these slight genetic differences.

Just like we shouldn't accept a society that condones the societal factors that make women less likely to pursue certain fields.

I am not aware of any research which backs up that all perceived differences between genders in their interests, problem solving, and communication are purely genetic. I don't even know of any research which backs up it is mostly genetic. There is research which shows genetics plays a role, but the magnitude of this difference is very much in question.

There is plenty of research which shows sociological factors shape the differences in interests, problem solving, and communication between the genders. Once again, we don't know the magnitude, but we know with almost certainty that it is not 100% genetic. From what I have read, it is much more likely to be less than 50% genetic, and perhaps much much lower than that. That is why we push for societal changes and not just blame all of these differences on genetics.

Most educated feminists would agree the balance in STEM will never reach 50/50 because of slight genetic differences and the fact women are the only gender that can give birth. But just because we won't reach 50/50 doesn't mean we cannot try to improve the gross imbalance we have today.

The company was making $2.2 million in profits, and 75-80% of that is also going into this wage increase. So he is significantly lowering his total compensation by a drastic amount (probably around 20% of his previous compensation).

The company was projected to make $2.2 million in profit and he was going to make $1 million in salary. He is also cutting into 75-80% of his profits to pay for this wage increase, so the total amount of money being spent is an extra $2.6 million. He has one partner and I couldn't find the equity split, but the owner is likely going from around $2.5 million in total compensation down to about $400k. That is a pretty large difference.

The owner is still making a lot of money, but I don't think this gesture should be written off as a publicity stunt.

But wouldn't you steer the car to the right until you fixed the car? Perhaps I missed your point, but your analogy seems to agree with using a stopgap solution until the gender imbalances are fixed in the schools.

Well I can say these announcements have brought me back to developing in .Net. C# has been my favorite language by far ever since v3.5 (and was my favorite by a little since v2.0) but its vendor lock was becoming too much of a liability.

The moment I can go back to C# and easily have my code run on *nix servers I will drop Java in a heartbeat. Just being able to use LINQ again in my professional life will be a blessing. And going back to Visual Studio over Eclipse / Netbeans / and even IntelliJ is also something I have been longing for.

Looks like someone has never seen Tropical Thunder.

Stop wasting our time with this crap and give us a goddamn 4k 17" laptop! Or anything better than standard HD. Just 1 extra vertical pixel would at least show progress.

When did I ever claim that? Claiming a third party should be involved is not the same as saying I am qualified.

And I don't even think a third party should have been involved. I think the email controversy was stupid ... until she deleted the files.

I do think shredding sessions, digital or physical, are wrong. And as far as I know, destroying documents you could reasonably expect may be subpoenaed in the future is illegal. And not traffic ticket kind of illegal, prison kind of illegal. At least for average people without enough political clout it seems.

Hillary and her people were the ones who went through the emails to determine which were work related. That is no different than a suspect telling the police he searched his home for the murder weapon and found nothing, so move along.

I completely agree the Republicans only wanted the emails to drum up more scandal. They would have scanned through them to find emails that sounded hostile towards working mothers, poor people, etc. so they can take them out of context and create mud to sling at her.

But I don't think "I thought the evidence would hinder my political ambitions" is a reasonable defense.