160,000 students @ $100 each is $16M.

$16M at $32k buys 500 TAs / year.

160K students / 500 TAs is 320 students / TA.

One TA could give each student one dedicated hour every other month and maintain a regular 40 hr per week year round schedule.

That's not that far off from being reasonable.

If you pay the TAs only $15K-20K you would have budget for overhead and profit, or more TAs for more FTF time.

supporting some hardware

OCP isn't about supporting some hardware. It's about building servers when you already have 24/7 hardware support and all of the parts on site already, and own the software stack so there's no value add there.

If you're not in the space where you do everything yourself already, then OCP isn't for you.

and most internal servers and such, are in Redmond, and elsewhere in Puget Sound area

No, they're not. http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10020902-56.html

One of those DCs probably use more than the rest of their offices and corp servers combined.

Google's cafes, (and Facebook's also, for that matter), allow guests. Employees with families regularly bring in their kids for dinner. I don't recall there being any "employees only dining" spaces at either location. The cafes at the Google datacenters were more much more restricted than HQ for a long time, but contractors and vendors were still allowed.

Troll slashdot. Pretty much like any other day, actually.

NPR is "government funded" like oil companies are "government funded". NPR is no BBC.

Fact: there are more white criminals than black ones.

That there are more blacks that are convicted doesn't disprove the latter, it demonstrates the racism of the justice system.

Be more careful about your data analysis and understand what it describes, and how the data points can be manipulated.

I dunno, could be you're just an asshole.

I'm white, but went to a predominantly black High School in a major metro. I had a few altercations, but I never had my ass kicked.

As one of my (black) friends so eloquently put it to me: "You know when they're talking about the N*****s up at G******d, they're talking 'bout you, too."

I wasn't aware of "The Talk" before reading about it in the summary.

As a (white) father of two young boys, I can't imagine a harder conversation. "Remember all that talk about how you have unlimited potential? Yeah, it's all bullshit. Fight the power (but dont' get killed)."

I can't imagine how it looks to have the hope in their eyes die in front of you.

in fact, you'd probably just let it warm up in the same room as the victim.

then they can watch the count down to the impending pain ray.

And much of the mitigation efforts have eroded over time: For instance:

• expansion of the Commerce Clause
• expanding suffrage, including lowering the eligible age
• disempowerment of the electoral college
• direct election of senators

Madison had a point.

gp. When I last read "hypertext fiction", it was actually called a MUSH. Multiple authors participated with each other in creating an interactive, reader driven story. The branching paths are simply too much work to depend on a single author for.

The problem with MUSHing was that simply some people are better storytellers than others. That, and the griefers, of course.

they are being required to pay for contraception

if the patient requests it

Why should an employer be able to determine what healthcare they do and do not wish to make available to me? My healthcare choices are my own choices. The employer can make their own moral choices about themselves, and I can make may own moral choices about myself

I mean, christ, what a slippery slope. Should employers be allowed to not pay for AIDs treatments? Obesity treatments? Medical benefits that are associated with particular races/sexes?

It sounds like you were being hazed.

They're not even CC numbers. They're just "numbers". If they happen to match CC numbers of an account someplace, I would argue it's just a coincidence.