Facebook will buy out the band's contract and issue an immediate "upgrade".

You've got 2 answers already. Here's a third: evil acts in evil ways. A good person can be hard to predict, but a purely malicious evil person? You can deduce everything about them.

There seems to be some kneejerk reaction on /. that saying "government isn't helping us" == "let the corporations win". That's the false dichotomy. With a government owned by the corporations, there's no "government or corporations" in play. There's no choice like that right now. The choice is "more corporation-run government" or "less corporation-run government".

How do I figure? If only 2% of white marriages are mixed-race in a country that is roughly 30% non-white, well - then we still have a race hangup. That is nowhere near a random distribution.

I wonder how hard it would be for all the older games that run in DOSbox?

This I agree with. I feel that most people approach politics similar to the way they approach sports. Arguing with a card-carrying Democrat/Republican is no different than arguing with a rabid Bears fan.

You are projecting your idea of evil. Some small percentage of people probably actually liked Mitt Romney. I know people who positively worship Obama, despite his having very few policy differences from Bush II. Even as much as I disliked both guys and refused to vote for either of them, I don't know if I'd go so far as to call them evil.

No candidate will ever align with my beliefs 100%. Not even my wife agrees with me on everything in the political sphere. Sometimes you have to compromise and pick the best choice that is offered.

I think that number ignores all of the financing they pay on the debt they used for their build out. Verizon is simply not all that profitable. Their gross profits are in the 60-70% range, which gives credit to your number - but net profits bounce between positive and negative territory.

Yes, I want to be clear that I think this Supreme Court decision was a good one. I do not like racial preferences, even as a means to right wrongs. I think it also leaves intact the valuable parts of Affirmative Action.

Here's the order that Kennedy signed, and here is Johnson's order.

Now, Johnson's order has definitely been used to justify quotas. Nixon famously did this, and Reagan famously failed to undo this. I don't think the concept is totally without merit, but I think it is misguided, counterproductive, and sets a dangerous precedent that runs counter to the larger goal of equality.

I've been around long enough to know that rich folks would just finagle their kids into good orphanages :)

I bet you can find a few who remember when it wasn't legal to sit at the front of a bus if a white person wanted the seat. It really hasn't been very long. There's been amazing progress - but there's still a long way to go.

It is not necessarily addressed. The external source has to be corrected.

If the places that their students are coming from are less than 5% black, and if everything else were equal, then you would expect the school to be about 5% black as well. Of course, it is much more complicated than that.

I prefer approval voting for it's simplicity, but I agree with you that the current system is not ideal.

You're thinking like a normal person, not a sociopath. Comcast isn't offering any bigger pipes, they just stopped making small pipes even smaller once the check from Netflix cleared.