Or require that the entity purchasing an asset out of bankruptcy also inherits the contracts binding that asset. If my landlord goes bankrupt I don't get to say "Woo! Free house!" and ignore the terms of my contract with the landlord, why should whoever takes over after the landlord not be bound by the terms of the contract either?

"..Because the site's privacy policy had promised never to sell or share members' personal details without their permission,..."

Sounds like we could charge the corporate officers with 2 million counts of fraud at least.

If we actually set a strong precedent of punishing site owners for their cavalier disregard for the promises made, I suspect this wouldn't be something we'd have much worry about.

I'm not sure I understand the narrative direction here.

While most people likely find the whole lobbyist thing distasteful, it would be rather ridiculous for a business that challenges long-entrenched collusive bureaucracies (defending millions of dollars of registration fees etc) to proceed without due attention to those realities.

If we're going to strike a pose of moral outrage when a company's employee demographics don't match closely enough the general population demographics, are we going to cry 'injustice' if their numbers climb too high? Ie if African-Americans are 16% of the population, will we complain if they reach 24% of the Facebook employee roster?

Why do we care?

In 2015 do we really believe that some Snidely-Whiplash HR person is rubbing their hands together and cackling while they shred all the valid applications from blacks and other minorities?

Of course they "aren't as vulnerable as believed".

Coral are some of the oldest persistently present organisms on the planet, having comfortably survived MUCH warmer temps (including much more sudden warming from cataclysmic volcanism and/or meteorite).

It always seemed particularly dumb to me that the movement chose coral as the ocean "poster child" for global warming, like picking jellyfish or horseshoe crabs.

Begged question, I'd say.

As long as my wife isn't watching what I type.

Right, I'm sure people would see a chalkboard, chessboard, leaderboard, and keyboard as synonymous in function with a skateboard and a surfboard (and a hoverboard as explicitly presented in the Back to the Future film, which they're aping).

Yeah, no pedantry there.

you could not use a filesystem to safely store a database file

You can store the database file there, just don't let the power go out mid operation or make a copy of an active database's file(s) and expect it to work.

In other words, exactly like how it is now.

Even in TFA, using the term 'reawakened' is so totally mischaracterizing the situation.

It's not like black holes go dormant, or gravity goes to sleep. No, clearly it's been short of significant infall material and has suddenly consumed something substantial, leading to a burst of outflow energy.

It's interesting and fascinating, but really we can do better to inform the general public (who is already woefully scientifically ignorant) than using tabloid-level language to explain it.

Obligatory relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1133/ 'Up goer five'

"Rejuvenated" is such a polite word for "bombarded, wrecked, and slagged to the point that the surface crust is really pretty much just a wreck of molten lava".
As in "Mancini 'rejuvenated' Duk-koo Kim's face...."

"This material, which is still in the concept stage..."

That's ridiculous. How is this different than sitting around bullshitting with your friends about how cool it would be to have flying cars? "Wouldn't it be cool if you had a condom that changed color when an std was present?"

And hey, look at that, they've already picked the colors!

This is absurd for so many reasons.
1) as most people familiar with condoms would recognize, when a condom's in full use it's quite frequently dark and/or not exactly exposed to where you can see it.
2) I'm not really interested in using my dong as the dipstick, no matter what it's sheathed in. I'd really rather know the STD status *before* the dick goes in
3) considering the really rather astonishing materials science behind the construction of condoms, it's not like one can easily mix in additives - anything that's going to be part of the latex but isn't directly contributing to strength is going to be a weakness. And what are its ongoing effects on the latex over the long shelf-life and sometimes difficult storage conditions (ie wallet for far too long)? You going to use such a condom if the failure rate is 2x-3x that of normal condoms?
4) the "magic" substance that changes colors in the presence of an STD has YET TO BE INVENTED.

Christ.

Honestly, it makes evolutionary sense.
Cognition is a high-energy task; the brain takes a massive proportion of the body's energy - it's about 5% of our mass, but consumes about 25% of our resting caloric consumption, and this does go up as we "think harder".

The *sole* function of an organism is to live and to reproduce.

If - from a simple organism standpoint - the "living" bit is effortless, ie you're not being chased by sabertooths and you're getting piles of calories coming in, why waste energy on brainpower?

Yes, it's a thing that hovers, but implicit in the term "hoverboard" specifically is a functionality like a skateBOARD or a surfBOARD, ie someone can ride it. None of the videos I've seen shows it supporting any weight but itself (nor even actually moving), which is hardly more impressive than a levitating magnet in a lab.

Seriously, has the media lost even the slightest trace of criticality to their reporting? We just cheerfully repeat whatever some marketing wonk has told us as fact?

If they're right, this has the effect of stabilizing prices

If they're wrong? Well tgen, to co-opt the Keynesians: they can stay irrational for as long as they can stay solvent, and bailouts will just keep that going.

If you're a bad person we'll reconstruct an identical clone of you and imprison it as your punishment.