When you have two distinct things, which you understand to different extents, proving that they're identical allows you to learn about one thing from the knowledge of the other thing.

To use your example:

Prior to today, we knew that cats lapped up milk with their tongues, and also preen their fur with their tongues. Also prior to today, we knew that a Japanese animal called neko coughs up balls of stuff.

Today we found out that cats are identical to neko.

We now know that cats cough up balls of stuff, and that neko preen their fur with their tongue. We might now use this new-found knowledge to identify that the coughed up balls of stuff were probably derived from fur and/or milk.

Besides, where does this "blame the victim" attitude always come from? It's ridiculous.

Different analogy: if you walk across a known-to-be-landmined field, who is to blame? The person who put the landmines there 30 years ago, the person who left the gate unlocked last night, or you?

A conspiracy has ALREADY been proven in this case. They already admitted to targeting specific people for additional scutiny and persecution. That is conspiracy.

No, that is "discrimination".

Conspiracy is when there are multiple parties secretly plotting together to cause harm or do something unlawful.

It's been done...

The rules are generally for airport pick-ups, rather than drop-offs...

The "trade dress" and "permit" rules are safety rules, but not road safety, which is why it's not immediately apparent. The safety being assured by those rules is the *passenger* safety, against being abducted, mugged, scammed, etc.

Airports are locations where a large number of people who are not familiar with the local customs arrive, and this makes them prime targets for scams. For a time, it was common for fake taxis/limousines to turn up, pick up unsuspecting travellers, then hold them hostage until they gave up items of value or overcharge them for short journeys (possibly by driving around town before proceeding to their destination).

In response, airports now require checks for anyone providing a pick-up service at the airport; this includes buses, taxis, and limousines. The airport permit fee covers the cost of performing these checks. The trade dress requirement is so that vehicles are clearly identifiable as providing a commercial pick-up service, which can then be monitored by police, airport officials, and other relevant authorities.

Not to say that their motivation in excluding ride-share organisations is not a financial one, but there are reasons these things were put in place...

This looks like the original press release: http://news.unm.edu/news/new-evidence-for-oceans-of-water-deep-in-the-earth

Here's an explanation of what's going on.

The paper is already used as a reference on the Wikipedia page for Ringwoodite.

Here are the research pages of the various authors:

Brandon Schmandt, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University of New Mexico

Steven D. "Steve" Jacobsen, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Northwestern University

Thorsten W. Becker, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Southern California

Zhenxian Liu, Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington

Kenneth G. "Ken" Dueker, Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Wyoming

The data across all test-takers (not just those who are admitted to college), tells a different story...

That's the average SAT score for students entering college... Which automatically filters out those students who weren't good enough to get in. It's not an average of all test-takers...

All that graph tells you is that admission standards for college have been climbing since 1992...

Also, it's not clear how that chart reflects the "recentering" that change the way scores were calculated from 1995 onwards...

It's still approximately the same bandwidth requirement - sending uncompressed HD video data from the video card to a monitor for display, vs sending uncompressed HD video data from a camera to a PC for editing...

[If] the price isn't stabilizing around 0% margins, then there is not enough competition. Competition causes a race to the bottom.

The prices won't stabilize around 0% margin, they should stabilize when margin is around the opportunity-cost-of-capital (approximately, the current investment return/interest rate).

If margin drops below what can be achieved in another investment, competitors will tend to exit the market in preference for the other investment. (Roughly, I have the choice to spend my money to provide you a service, or put it into a bank/hedge fund; I'll do whichever pays me more.)