This is a myth. Anti discrimination laws apply to all people who suffer discrimination based on ethnicity and gender. Both white people and males have sued for discrimination and frequently won their cases.

Nice to know you've been so sheltered until now.

There doesn't need to be anywhere near a total collapse (interesting that you hedge with a rather extreme definition of "collapse") for public services and safety to degrade to a level that adversely affects the health and safety of ordinary citizens for a period of days to months. One only need to look to Latin America's last big economic collapse, the Syrian War or the roughest periods of post-Communist Eastern Europe to witness a massive drop in police protection, civil service resources and public utilities.

By the way, hundreds of thousands families in World War II were instantly displaced or caught in harrowing deadly situations by army movements, massive bombings, deliberate targeting of civilians and frequent rounds of genocide. In many major cities services were disrupted for weeks, months, even years. A Jewish family, much less *any* family in Europe in 1939 would have been well served by some survival training, spare supplies, escape plans, safety plans and a even a serviceable, concealable weapon in many cases.

Well Manhattan, Ansterdam, Venice and Hong Kong should not have been built on coastal land only few feet above sea level. And your point again was?

It's long past time to reclaim parts of the internet for public use. I propose a movement where various internet service providers (across the stack) pledge or contractually bind themselves to:

- Never assist third parties in tracking users or acquiring user information. This means no XSS, web bugs, cookies, or other trade of user tracking data
- Destroy personally identifying information on a regular basis
- Never allow the government to acquire or seize information without a public warrant
- Never sell-out to entities that break any of the above rules

This.

Power attracts people or entities who want to abuse that power and use it to exploit other people for their own benefit. Always.

Information of *any* kind is power, and large amounts of correlated and personalized information is *immense* power for any person or entity who has access to it.

The NY Times reports that people who read ebooks on tablets like the iPad are beginning to realize that while a book in print is straightforward and immersive, a tablet is more like a 21st-century cacophony than a traditional solitary activity

This article presents no sales figures, no trend graphs, and no statistics from actual book buyers. The only citation in the article that supports this assertion are the opinions of unspecified random publishers, an opinion survey - of publishers, and one random reader much perfers her tablet over paper books.

The entire article is yet another example of poorly supported screed from out-of-touch haters in the tree killing industry pining for the past where publishers, rather than e-book authors, controlled publishing.

You've gotta love this specious, narcissistic, antisocial line of argument. It's a specious form of false attribution that also conflates anecdote with data, similar to the refrain that, "I don't see my rights aren't being violated, so what's the problem?"

The initial outlay for wireless equipment and towers may be higher, but just like land lines, the costs are fixed and extremely low per MB. There is no more different necessity to meter wireless service than there is to meter fiber or copper service.

Canada and Saudi Arabia, unlike the United States, have a massive surplus, and like most people around the world, they really, really like money. Different strokes for different folks, ya'll.

And when those same companies are finished wringing your treasury dry with tax abatements, they'll flee overseas, leaving your state with astronomical bond payments.

Thanks China, seriously.