How are you coming to any other conclusion? It's Microsoft, Facebook, and their ilk, for fuck's sake. You think they're doing this out of the kindness of their hearts? You're either a shill, a troll, or absolutely retarded. It's honestly hard to tell.

The first thing to do is to find out if your local school district will be participating in this. If it is, contact parents who have children in the district and inform them that the kids will be performing free labor for Microsoft and code dot org, and that it's all in the fine print. It doesn't matter if that's true or not; the important thing is to stop this code.org bullshit at any cost, and parental paranoia can be a tremendously effective weapon, if wielded properly.

Lie detector results are always backed up by empirical phrenological data. Lie detectors don't lie. /s

As far as I can tell, there was never a war with the Zetas; it was just one asshole with a book coming out looking for publicity. No police report was filed for the original "kidnapping", the guy who said he was going to release the information anyway is still alive, the information has never actually been released, etc.

It contradicts the narrative. Nothing more.

And just look at all the citations you provided to back up your claim. Good job. I bet your parents are proud that you didn't die when they dropped you on your head.

Nobody said it was a good thing; it just is what it is. If you make the claim that this is bad, then you provide the explanation for how and why, otherwise just stop talking because you have nothing of value to add to the discussion.

By that same token, if you think every naturally-occurring facet of reality must necessarily be categorized as good or bad, you're probably too stupid and/or childish to be participating in any adult discussion in the first place.

That's not an explanation. It's bullshit handwaving. Women can do whatever they want, and make up the majority of college graduates, and have for 30 years: http://www.forbes.com/sites/cc... If most of them choose a career path that isn't "Code Monkey", who's to say that they've made the wrong choice? The next question, then, is, "For whom is this actually bad?"

Good thing it doesn't. That myth was busted years ago. Why are you still believing in it? Do you also believe in Santa Claus?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/christina-hoff-sommers/wage-gap_b_2073804.html
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-gender-pay-gap-is-a-complete-myth/
http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702303532704579483752909957472
http://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2012/04/16/its-time-that-we-end-the-equal-pay-myth/

Stop parroting stupid shit just because you think it makes you look sensitive and enlightened. It doesn't. It just makes you look like an asshole with no critical thinking skills.

It will work, for a year or two, then the percentage of women who code will drop back to normal levels. Tellingly, nobody ever says why having more men than women programming is a bad thing. If you ask anybody pushing this shit you'll be met with shrieking accusations of misogyny and racism (yes, really; women are a race now, apparently). The left-wingers these days go full Godwin at the mere hint that someone isn't deep-throating the precious Narrative(TM).

If you're one of his constituents you should probably contact him and tell him to stop fucking up: http://www.burr.senate.gov/ Unfortunately, NC is not one of the 18 states that allow recall of a senator, so you'll have to threaten him with losing his job next election cycle.

Michelle Malkin hates brown people? That's a new one. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=mich...

Indians do not value education. If they did, we wouldn't need to teach them how write a while loop their first day on the job (yes, I've actually had to do this and similar first-semester-level training on more than one occasion). You're thinking of China and Japan.

Since many of us work in IT, the widespread, unchecked abuse of the H1B program has had an overwhelming negative effect on many /.ers, so it's no surprise that it would be reported on frequently. I find it strange that you'd complain about the number of posts on the topic, but not the rampant fucking over of IT workers.

A better question is, Who thinks asteroid mining is economically feasible to the extent that they needed a law regarding property rights for it? This supposes that the money that can be gained from asteroid mining would exceed the cost of launching mining equipment into space, mining the asteroid, hauling the ore to Earth, landing it safely, and processing it into a usable form, all of which seems like it would be prohibitively expensive. This would only be the case if the materials which compose asteroids were substantially different from materials that can be obtained on Earth, but they don't seem to be: http://www.esa.int/Our_Activit...