No, that's just giving up. If this doesn't equalize the numbers, then we have to start getting more creative. Let's say that suddenly a large proportion of the male students suddenly experience unfortunate "accidents," falling down the stairs, getting hit by a hammer apparently dropped by an astronaut orbiting on the space station, maybe we fall back to the old ricin-tipped umbrella or tea laced with polonium-210 if necessary. I know they don't want to be evil, but this world isn't some black and white cartoon. Its more of a chiaroscuro of moral shadows, and an organization with Google's drive, ingenuity, and resources won't dismiss any possible solution out of hand.

It was good while it lasted, but I think we can all agree that the modern electronic computer has had its day, and it's time to go back to the classic mechanical contrivances of earlier times.

I'm just throwing out ideas here, but perhaps society's finally ready to re-introduce the same measure that social activists of prior generations once employed to boost the diversity of theater troupes, and add a few gallons of black face paint to the discretionary budget.

Whoa, there is absolutely no reason to bring body image into this!

I think the only fair way to resolve this dilemma is to give Britain the last laugh and rename the team the Washington Redcoats

Clearly they intend the law to be binding in the US, because they are attempting to govern conduct that takes place entirely in the US: the delivery of information on US servers to US IP addresses. What they really want to do is stop Canadians from accessing US IP addresses, but obviously that's not feasible.

Presumably Canada considers Google's hosting of Canadians' data to be a violation of Canadian law regardless of whether Google has a presence in Canada.

Practically speaking, the barrier is so low that anyone doing due diligence on a prospective hire would be an idiot not to use uncensored google. In fact, I imagine someone will quickly come up with a search mashup that shows only censored results, so finding out what the hire doesn't want you to know about him will be even easier than it is now.

I wonder what would happen if the US passed a law that made it illegal for a company to accede to the demand of a foreign government to deprive US citizens of access to data stored in a server on US soil unless providing this access clearly violates US law. Would the Canadian judge claim that Canadian law should take precedence over US law in the US?

Even if this eskimo diet does work, I can't imagine there are enough of them to go around.

The sad thing is, even in Canada many people don't realize how hurtful the "eskimo" epithet can be. To help spread awareness of the issue, I'm planning on partnering with my friend Dan Snyder to launch a public outreach program by buying the offensively ungrammatical Toronto Maple Leafs and rechristening them the Eskimos. Before every ice-hockey bout, we'll have a bunch of skating clowns attired in traditional garb and armed with harpoons chase down our mascot, Eskimodo the humpbacked whale, which should not only produce a most satisfactory comic effect, but serve to educate the mouth-breathing yokels who attend such spectacles on a part of their country's culture they're usually too soused on Moosebraü and overblown Canadian jingoism to pay the slightest mind to.

As part of this effort, if you wish to attend and can prove native descent, we'll be happy to give you a "reservation" free of charge, even at the last minute, although each of these seats will actually be a single square-foot of standing room located in the offsite parking-lot.

Actually it has been proposed that humans are unique amongst primates in the fact that their hands developed in part to maximize destructive punching power.

Well to be fair, this will get interesting once enough people hook these devices to high-powered lasers that the ISS is constantly bombarded and ends up having to spray paint all its windows.

In other words, trolling is a approach requiring subtlety.

this sucks. now I'm going to have to CC all my email to the NSA just so I don't risk getting drone striked "just in case"

This should make commercial air travel much cheaper and safer as airlines begin to do away with the single-point of failure that costly human pilots represent, implementing instead a crowd-based solution that empowers all passengers to contribute equally to guiding the plane to wherever they decide will be the flight's destination.

This has always puzzled me. Why, in this so-called enlightened age of ours, is it so hard for us to realize that there's room under the bus for everybody?