I expect Dish is going to have a few open positions soon.

Improving? How about making sure there's no hidden backdoor in the code first?

Tell that to Joseph Nacchio.

Is that shouldn't over-regulation have eased under the Clintons, as they came closer to being employed by Private Industry instead?

You forgot:

4) Profit!

But not for you.

The media has a lot less control than before. It's just that the people haven't really gotten any smarter.

You want change? Go into education, into teaching. It'll probably take two or three generations before things turn around, but if you want meaningful change that lasts longer than a president's term, that's what it's going to take.

There are no miracles. Just lots of hard work and personal sacrifice.

To put it plainly, this line of thought can only arrive at the conclusion that a group of people with a particular set of characteristics are more valuable than others.

It makes sense why people constantly appeal to this idea of hate crime. Some people really do want to feel that they are more valuable than others. They want that validation. They want to someone to tell them that their existence is superior to the existence of people unlike them. There are many reasons why they'd want to feel this way, reasons which are largely unimportant. What is important is that this mentality has no place in a society founded on the principles of equality.

There are actions that are correctly categorized as hate crimes. They usually victimize an entire group of people, as opposed to an individual who just so happens to be a member of some (regionally) deviant social group.

Actually, it's an attempt to force incoming students to be social. It's a way to get people to meet completely different people with whom they normally wouldn't voluntarily make contact, and hopefully be a better person afterwards.

It doesn't always work out that way, but it rarely turns out quite this badly.

No, it's not. The social prejudice is unrelated to the wrongness of secretly filming someone. The existence of the social prejudice may be wrong, but it is not any individual's fault that it exists. And by extension, individuals shouldn't be punished for society's ills.