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Prove the problem exists. Here is census statistics that show the USA is approximately 77% Caucasian. Are the "diversity" numbers significantly above or below this? If so, rather than immediately assuming the cause is racism you need disprove the null hypothesis: Prove it is not some other factor; Such as education of minorities... which is what TFS alludes to when it talks about the "pipeline issue".

Indeed, the problem I have with SJWs is that rather than lobby for more education funding for ANY who are in need, they lobby for racist allocation of funding and primarily programs (like bullshit sensitivity training, or teaching men not to rape) that line their own pockets.

Just because there are sick people in the hospital doesn't mean the hospital is making them sick. Just because there are more whites than minorities doesn't mean minorities are being discriminated against. Correlation is not causation.

You want to know what problem YOU should be concerned with? The fact that "Social Justice" is not well suited to address the rights of women and minorities. Civil Rights and Women's Rights need a divorce from the corrupt ideology of Feminism.

Note that, absent immigration, US population is declining.

No, it's not. It's just not true, not even close. Natural increase (i.e. births minus deaths) is still positive, and is expected (by the Census) to remain so through their entire forecast period (through 2060). Natural increase is also currently a bigger source of population growth than net immigration.* By 2023, the Census expects immigration to exceed natural increase as a source of growth.

*And yes, the Census figures include both legal and illegal immigration.

See table 1 at the below link:
http://www.census.gov/populati...

Bullshit! It's official now, Hispanics just passed the mark for being the majority in the state of CA. It was projected to have happened back in 2014 years in advance. Ok, so they were off by a year, BFD, but they were right in their forecast.

https://www.census.gov/content...

The majority of the American people are sufficiently well-off that there is no way in hell they are going to risk their lives rebelling against the government.

I think you are wrong about this. Very wrong.
Reality check: http://npc.umich.edu/poverty/ (have a close look at those thresholds.)
http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/poverty/data/threshld/index.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_the_United_States

So if in 2014 a single person made less than $12316, they are considered to be in poverty. If they made $12317 they are not considered to be in poverty. Can you live on $12317 a year?

"In 2013, the official poverty rate was 14.5 percent ... In 2013, there were 45.3 million people in poverty."
http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/poverty/about/overview/

Given the thresholds being so low, you can rest assured that the majority of the US population is working their asses off to just barely survive. There will come a breaking point eventually.

The majority of the American people are sufficiently well-off that there is no way in hell they are going to risk their lives rebelling against the government.

I think you are wrong about this. Very wrong.
Reality check: http://npc.umich.edu/poverty/ (have a close look at those thresholds.)
http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/poverty/data/threshld/index.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_the_United_States

So if in 2014 a single person made less than $12316, they are considered to be in poverty. If they made $12317 they are not considered to be in poverty. Can you live on $12317 a year?

"In 2013, the official poverty rate was 14.5 percent ... In 2013, there were 45.3 million people in poverty."
http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/poverty/about/overview/

Given the thresholds being so low, you can rest assured that the majority of the US population is working their asses off to just barely survive. There will come a breaking point eventually.

They're typically defining "poverty" as less than 1/2 the median income.

Citation needed.

These sources don't define it that way:

http://www.census.gov/hhes/www...
http://www.census.gov/hhes/www...
http://aspe.hhs.gov/poverty/15...

They're typically defining "poverty" as less than 1/2 the median income.

Citation needed.

These sources don't define it that way:

http://www.census.gov/hhes/www...
http://www.census.gov/hhes/www...
http://aspe.hhs.gov/poverty/15...

I think he may be referring to something Amnesty International put out several years ago. They state that at that time there were 3.5m homeless and 18.5m vacant houses.

The problem with that statistic is that the 18.5m vacant houses weren't necessarily bank-owned homes. That number includes seasonal vacancies, unrented rental properties, people looking to sell their property, homes awaiting move in, etc. You can see a current break down at Table 4 here.

The 3.5m homeless also depends on how you define homeless. In 2013, a Congress report by HUD but the number on any given night around 600,000. The 3.5m number is likely the number of individuals over the course of a year that experience homelessness of more than a night or two.

The numbers are significant either way, it just helps to state how the numbers came about. That's the great (or bad) thing about statistics, you can cut them up and make them say whatever you want.

I'm including the population of the county... apparently only 10 million.
http://quickfacts.census.gov/q...

Doesn't matter. Though I underestimated the number of murders apparently over 500 in the last 12 months:
http://homicide.latimes.com/

Which is apparently low if anything. I see it has gone over 1000 in some years.

someone who cannot freely be called sub-human... because of his race

You can call him sub-human (if that means anything) as much as you want, what you can't do is then extrapolate it to say that all people with black skin are sub-human.

I can not even freely call him a "NIGGER", you think i can freely call him a "sub-human" - this "freely" is important: it is not so much about my "Slashdot karma" for example (every fellow Slashdoter has the right to mod me down because he does not like they way i think and/or express myself, as every one -not just in Slashdot- has the right -even if he will be wrong- to answer to me "go fuck youself, you racist"), but it is about laws (like those we have in Europe) that make it illegal to call this nigger a sub-human.

About "extrapolating"... i posted the following "racist facts":

USA, 2013 - Arrests by Race - Black

Murder and nonnegligent manslaughter: 52.2%

Robbery: 56.4%

Population by Race - Black : 13.2%.

sources: FBI - CENSUS

Why you think i did it? I even wrote: "as a contribution to the discussion and to the American society (in which both Abi and Katerina will live - understand this before anyone accuse me for posting "racist facts")"

No my friend, i don't have any problem "extrapolating" - to what extent i will extrapolate is debatable and based on other conditions also, but i am a Greek... from the "racist facts" i posted i can easily become wiser!

Are these crazy comments a product of naive machine learning algorithms?

Or code used for illicit communications?

Any ideas?

I have some ideas.

The Savopoulos -Savvas, his wife Amy, and their 10 years old son Phillip (luckily, their 2 daughters, Abi and Katerina, 19 and 16 years old, were not in the house)- is a Greek-American family that (along with their 57 years old El Salvadorian faithful maid Veralicia Figueroa) were, all together, tortured and murdered by someone who cannot freely be called sub-human... because of his race - so, as a contribution to the discussion and to the American society (in which both Abi and Katerina will live - understand this before anyone accuse me for posting "racist facts"):

USA, 2013 - Arrests by Race - Black

Murder and nonnegligent manslaughter: 52.2%

Robbery: 56.4%

Population by Race - Black : 13.2%.

sources: FBI - CENSUS

* Both Abi and Katerina will honor their parents and their little brother (plus, their faithful maid) by living in the American society as their family teached them... o Theos na anapausi tis psixes ton Sabba, Amis, Phillipou, kai Veralicia - Abi kai Katerina, zoi se logou sas.

That's far far above the percentage for the general population.

Citation needed.

If we're relying on the "International Journal of What A Bloke in the Pub Said", 10% of drivers having experienced a minor accident (possibly non fault) in a year sounds about right.

Ah, here we go... - 8%.

Of course, none of these stats are any use without some indication of the mileage or type of driving involved. The only safe bet is that the mileage of a car being used to develop autonomous driving systems is anything but "average"!

When's the last time you opened a product labeled "Made in one of those four countries"?

Probably not too long ago. Check out Volvo cars (built in Sweden) or Volvo trucks (built in Sweden, and Swedish owned). To just name two. There are many others.

Now of course, we've been non white for the last 30 years or so. Still going strong. If you lot would just stop starting wars all over, or at least take care of the refugees we wouldn't have to. The town of Sodertalje (home to Scania) took in more Iraq refugees than all of the US of A. Combined.

Then again, if you weren't so hot on wars, the Norwegians couldn't export their "Raufoss" rounds to you, so there's that...

Fact of the matter is that we have a very positive trade balance with you, even considering how small Sweden is. So a lot more shit gets done here, than over there... A lot more...

Better than an alternate theory is actual facts: In the U.S. [...]

I agree with you Sir, so i post some official FACTS that support your comment:

2012 Arrests by Race, Black, percent distribution: murder and nonnegligent manslaughter (49.4%), forcible rape (32.5%), robbery (54.9%); Census Population by Race, Black: 13.2%.

source: FBI http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cj... - census http://quickfacts.census.gov/q...

The only thing wrong with Texas is that it's full of Texans.

Not Austin. Austin doesn't contain any Texans; it's filled with damnyankees.

LOL seeing as how Austin is 35% Hispanic if this was true it would be full of Puerto Ricans instead of Mexican Americans.

Source: US Census http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/48/4805000.html

The poorer you are, the less likely you are to be able to afford to live close to work.

Not every place is like San Francisco where there is a strong correlation between longer commute length and affordable housing. It varies quite a lot by municipality regarding how far your commute might be.

At the same time, age discrimination complaints have spiraled upward, according to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, with 15,785 claims filed in 1997 compared to 20,588 filed in 2014.

In 17 years the number of complaints went up by 30%. However according to the Census Bureau, the number of "Mathematical and Computer Science" workers increased by 150% between 1997 and 2012 (from 1.3 Million to 3.3 Million). The number of job postings likely scaled similarly, so the complaints per posting actually went down.

Source:
http://www.census.gov/prod/3/9...
http://www.census.gov/compendi...

At the same time, age discrimination complaints have spiraled upward, according to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, with 15,785 claims filed in 1997 compared to 20,588 filed in 2014.

In 17 years the number of complaints went up by 30%. However according to the Census Bureau, the number of "Mathematical and Computer Science" workers increased by 150% between 1997 and 2012 (from 1.3 Million to 3.3 Million). The number of job postings likely scaled similarly, so the complaints per posting actually went down.

Source:
http://www.census.gov/prod/3/9...
http://www.census.gov/compendi...

"The option of "pay ransom" is really a sign that you've failed yourself (and your customers, if you're a business). You can't stop data exposure, but to have to pay to get your data back, that's just stupidity on your part."

The victims of ransomware are companies too small to have a full-up IT department. Since lots of /.ers are in the US, look at the stats on company size. The vast majority of companies have fewer than 10 employees. Those are the companies where the IT was probably set up by a friend or neighbor.

It's all well and good to say that you should have a full backup tested and ready to go, but only larger companies actually do. At best, what a small company has is a hard-disk that some employee takes home on the weekend, which is supposed to contain a backup of all critical files. Most won't have anything beyond a local file synchronization, which the ransomware may be able to overwrite.

Most small businesses run on a shoestring: they can't afford to pay an IT person to run a professional network for their 3 PCs and 2 laptops. Heck, one company I am currently working has one employee using their workgroup server as their normal PC. Win-XP with full administrative rights. That's how they saved money when they started six or seven years ago, and only now - when the hardware is end-of-life - is it finally going to change.

If there is an offsite backup, it will be days or possibly weeks old. It's certain that no one has ever actually wiped down the server and tried a full restore; they don't really know if the backup is complete (or even readable). Some critical file somewhere won't have been backed up, or they won't be able to find all the license keys, or... Figure it will take days, maybe even a couple of weeks to get the company running again. Lost time, lost business, plus the lost data (since the backup won't be current), plus paying consulting fees for an expert to do all of the work.

Likely as not, the company will pay the ransom and hope for the best.

I wonder how those elderly will feel as their Social Security and Medicare programs are stripped clean in order to pay for that police state they champion so much...

So the generation that votes wants to maintain Social Security and Medicare, even if it plunges future citizens into debt, and the generation that doesn't vote wants a different policy on Snowden. Which generation do you think politicians would listen to most?

I think you are making a huge assumption based on supposition. I am not going to go into detail here as this is the wrong forum for such a lengthy debate, but to say that one generation votes and the other doesn't is utterly naive and self serving. It might be better to say that one group votes more often than the other, but to say that one generational group votes and the other does not is utterly false. Unless you have a citation to back up your assertion (here's mine), you're dead in the water and spouting opinion that is not based on fact.

Politicians listen to the folks with money, if you haven't noticed. Also, if you believe that is a problem then maybe you should help get out the vote instead of posting nonsense on the Internet.

And make no mistake, being a white male in this society is like playing the game of life on the easiest setting:

http://whatever.scalzi.com/201...

This misconception gets thrown around a lot. "Life is easier when you're a man" ... depends on what you mean by "easier". Life is certainly more privileged if you're a woman... like, for example:

Women live longer than men (82.2 vs 79.8) ,
work fewer hours than men (7.7 vs 8.4),
are safer in society than men are (23% of homicide victims, vs 77% for men),
have around 1/10th the incarceration rates as men do (126 vs 1352),
do less dangerous jobs (7% occupational fatalities vs 93% for men),
Receive more from a broken relationship than men (Number so low for men that it is not even significant),
are more qualified than men,
and are healthier.

So, other than living shorter, unhealthier lives, facing more violence, possessing less education while working more hours at 13 times the risk of death, *and* financially hurting more than women after a divorce, men are more privileged than women? Western women are objectively the most well-off demographic in human history. Subjectively, well, that's another story - opinions in the stead of facts don't mean anything anyway and it's pointless to debate subjective statements.

Oh, and the rape-rate for college age women? Roughly 7 per 1000, not 1 in 5 or 1 in 4. So much for "rape-culture"...

PS - I feel like I should post this in response to all the "male-privilege" comments, although I'm sure you'll (sooner or later) once again post about how male-privilege blah blah blah.... so I'm pretty sure I'll get another opportunity to post this.

There are about 60,000 eligible households in the sample for this survey...Every month, one-fourth of the households in the sample are changed, so that no household is interviewed for more than 4 consecutive months.

Approximately 115,610,216 households in the United States.

Despite the BLS claim that "The CPS sample is selected so as to be representative of the entire population of the United States," it is difficult to believe that 0.057% of all households in the United States being sampled monthly results in accurately representative unemployment figures.

The Federal Government is planning to spend about $3.9 trillion dollars. There are about 320 million in the US. So hand every man, woman, and child a bill for $12,187 and be done with it. That's what the Federal Government is spending on your behalf, you should plan to provide it with that revenue.

Only 65,000 H1B's are issued per year. Considering there are over a quarter million STEM grads per year, the visas are unlikely to be having that great an effect.

Woman are actually the majority in many countries. Including the united states.

http://www.census.gov/prod/cen...

Minority does not mean what you THINK it means. What you mean is 'disadvantaged'.

http://www.city-data.com/forum...

20 miles is about yonkers to manhattan on this map

all directions, 20 mile radius, and well beyond, is dense and urban, except for the meadowlands:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N...

http://www.census.gov/populati...

The urban fringe generally consists of contiguous territory having a density of at least 1,000 persons per square mile.

sure, it's not 60 story skyscrapers every block, but by the definition of urban, it is urban, all around nyc, for well beyond 20 miles, except for swamps

as for the karachi nuke site, i see a very large urban center just to the north of the complex on google earth

People are already taking that gamble with rental cars and car-share cars.

I'm not... I haven't rented a car for years...

I didn't mean *you* in particular, but with car rental fleets of over a million cars and $20B in revenue in the USA, plenty of people are willing to rent a shared car that someone else may have driven just hours before.

Car share? Ha! You must be joking...

A lot of people have ideas that might work in 2 or 3 big cities, but for the vast majority of America, have no chance.

Car sharing may not be usable by everyone but Zipcar is already operating in more than 30 USA metro areas.

There may be vast areas of the USA where transit, car sharing, etc won't work, but 80% of the USA population lives in designated urban areas, so most of the population may be able to take advantage of them.

Petition sites such as change.org or even the White House's site are not democratic in nature and they should not be construed as "votes" from the voting populace. First, there is no guarantee the signatures are valid or even from the US. Second, there is no mechanism to vote against, or to otherwise say something to the effect of "no, I think this is a bad idea". So, you only measure the yeas, but have no meter of the nays. For argument sake, and assuming rough numbers: White House is requiring 250,000 signatures to consider a petition? US estimated 2013 population is 316,128,839. So, that ends up being 0.079% of the population needs to ascent to the petition to be considered, with no way to voice countering options or dissent, except with an opposing petition. Personally, I think a better mechanism would be a vote up/down mechanism and consider the net. Yes, I recognize only recording the yeas is the very nature of a petition, but I think the way these petitions are being represented is more as an opinion poll of what *everyone* wants, which is not true. If that's how you're going to represent it, you should give everyone an opportunity to actually express their view, not just that of those that are reinforcing your opinion/view.

The distribution of first time offenders is almost perfectly evenly distributed.

I tried to find this, can you cite this at all? I spent about an hour searching. Seems like this could be a really interesting hobby project site.

It's just that a Black person who offends is treated so much more harshly than a White doing the same thing, that recidivism is almost guaranteed.

The longer the sentence the more likely one is to re-offend?

It's a "tough on crime" conspiracy by the Conservatives to strip the vote from all the Blacks.

This would only affect those who are 1) serving time 2) doing drugs. Since there isn't any language that applies to only certain skin tones, it applies to all inmates convicted of these crimes. Also, seems like a small voting block to be concerned about, [warning pdf]why wouldn't they go for the smaller ones first? Perhaps it has to do with money? See below.

Researching incarceration by race, I began by looking for bias in sentencing (is it judges etc.) I learned a large part of the harshness revolves around crack cocaine sentencing guidelines. Police operate by going into areas of poverty and performing sweeps. If you have a prior the sentence increases, it's like a feedback loop. Different classes of people do different drugs. Whites, for example, are more likely to be Methamphetamine users. Sentencing has increased for across all races however there remains a gap.

It largely, in my opinion, seems more of a socioeconomic issue than anything. I'd say a stronger argument would be the breakdown of the nuclear family and poverty. See the link below for the Moynihan Report, which was done in 1965 and recently revisited.

The Black Family: Five Decades After the Moynihan Report. Although I encourage everyone to view the report, for the lazy here are some highlights.

Among the findings in “The Moynihan Report Revisited”:

• The statistics that so alarmed Moynihan have only grown worse, not only for blacks, but for whites and Hispanics as well. Today, the share of white children born outside marriage is about the same as the share was for black children in Moynihan’s day. Meanwhile, the percentage of black children born to unmarried mothers has tripled, remaining far higher than the percentage of white children born to unmarried mothers.
• In 1960, 20 percent of black children lived with their mothers but not their fathers; by 2010, 53 percent of all black children lived in such families. The share of white children living with their mothers but not their fathers climbed to 20 percent in 2010, up from 6 percent in 1960.
• There has been a marked retreat from marriage. In 1960, just over one-half of all black women were married and living with their husbands, compared with over two-thirds of white and Hispanic women. By 2010, only one-quarter of black women, two-fifths of Hispanic women, and one-half of white women lived with their spouses.
• That the decline of traditional families occurred across racial and ethnic groups indicates that factors driving the decline do not lie solely within the black community but in the larger social and economic context. Nevertheless, the consequences may be felt disproportionately among blacks as black children are far more likely to be born into and raised in father-absent families than are white children.

In addition there's also some related highlights from 50 years on the War on Poverty and

It's hard to quantify death.

Quoted for unintentional hilarity. Death is so hard to quantify that the US collects giant tables of statistics on it. From those numbers, we can claim what the leading cause of death is, say heart disease. Strangely, with 45 million people starving TO DEATH, starvation/malnutrition isn't even in the numbers.

You offer an estimated death rate of 3,000. Out of 45 million "starving" people, that'd be 3,000 starved to death and 44.9 million (99.99%) starving people not starved to death.

99.99% of "starving" people not dying is what you will call "starving to death". Right. Here's what starved to death looks like. Look at the numbers - millions, not thousands.

I suggest you stop digging.

seriously though, the Chinese can destroy our country without setting a single boot on the ground simply through economic measures.

*Poof* You have your wish. China ceases all trade with the U.S. The $122 billion in stuff going to China, and $440 billion in stuff coming from China vanishes.

The U.S. economy has a GDP of $16.8 trillion. Trade with China was equivalent to 3.3% of that. And in fact since the U.S. runs a trade deficit, the cessation of trade with China actually increases its GDP to $17.1 trillion.

China's economy has a GDP of $6.8 trillion. The vanished trade was equivalent to 8.3% of that. And since they ran a trade surplus, their GDP shrinks to $6.5 trillion.

So China's GDP is hurt more and they lose a bigger chunk of their economy from these "economic measures." And you somehow interpret this as China having the power to destroy the U.S. economically?

Here's what people like you don't get - China needs the U.S. more than the U.S. needs China. The U.S. buys manufactured goods from China. It doesn't have to buy from China. If China boycotted us, we could pay for manufacturing in Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, or one of a hundred other developing countries eager for the business. OTOH, where is China going to sell the stuff they manufacture? If the U.S. doesn't buy it, who else will? There just aren't that many first world customers willing to fork over cash for merchandise. China already sells to all the first world customers willing to buy. The U.S. doesn't buy from all the developing nations willing to manufacture.

What the hell are you talking about? Have you ever been to Monterrey? Mexico has a large industrial base and the economy there is booming. They are a huge trading partner with the U.S. We do tons of business with them even if you exclude agriculture.

https://www.census.gov/foreign...

There aren't a "lot" of rich people in *either* place.

According to Census data, there are approximately 650,000 households with income higher than $150,000 per year in Texas. California has approximately 1,500,000 households in that range. Texas has 7% of the "rich" households in America, if we define rich as "households making more than $150k per year." California has nearly 17%. (source: https://www.census.gov/compend...). With more than 8,500,000 households in Texas,

The $60,000+ vehicle remains a niche status symbol for the rich. As such, any legislature that is prioritizing Tesla's interests above the interests of the citizens of their own state is doing those citizens a grave injustice.

You do know that a county is often not a single town, right? St. Louis county has about 70% whites and about 25% blacks.

US Census Bureau

The municipal court isn't going to bring up a grand jury. You have to look at the representation of the whole area.

Canada is still our largest trading partner. http://www.census.gov/foreign-...

Actually it has concern has little to do with 'a certified union' and is more of a concern with the epidemic of single mothers forced to live on social welfare programs to support their kids, being given incentives to not have 2 parent families, and punished by the welfare systems if they attempt to establish or maintain a two parent household.

http://newsblogs.chicagotribun...
http://www.census.gov/prod/201...
http://www.actrochester.org/ch...
http://www.crosswalk.com/blogs...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

These are just a few examples of the concern and impact this is having on society, and especially effecting certain ethnic groups.

Unfortunately while all of the corruption exist in Government this won't be fixed. You can do your own searching to find out why that is, but I'll give you a hint. Milton Friedman was one of many that explained this situation and why people want it that way.

I would have thought you could do it for less, since you don't have to haul the batteries around like you do in a car. Weight and volume are much smaller considerations. Any idea what it would cost for, say, a lead-acid battery?

And even at that, US$25,000 isn't all that much compared to the price of a house. The median home price in the US is $313k as of September (and that's down from $350k the previous month). It's not negligible, but it's small, and can be folded into the mortgage. It adds $70 a month to the mortgage payment (not counting the interest costs), and that's offsetting part of an electric bill that averages over $300/month.

(Speaking of which... sheesh. I pay less than $100 most months. I must be doing something right.)

Well, according to government statistics, the "Percent Black or African-American" represent about 7.1% of 2011 graduates and about 7.4% of the workforce, and both are trending upwards. Compare the roughly 7.4% of black computer programmers with 10.8% of the general population. So a smaller percent of the population get the training, but those who get the training are not discriminated against for hiring purposes. (Not talking about wages, just hiring diversity.)

From the same report with a 10-year granularity, females make up about 33.9% of the 2011 graduates and about 26.6% of the computer programming workforce. Women are also making up an increasing number of the workforce that changes based on age. The report notes "these estimates could be consistent with an age effect. That is, when women are young, they are more likely to be employed in STEM, but as they age, they move out of STEM employment." The trend lines show 35-year-old females in the group as a growing population, with the growth dropping rapidly by age groups. Compare that with the 48% females in the general national workforce. So in hiring diversity women do make up a lower number by diversity but it is largely by their own choice rather than hiring discrimination.

One of the real problems with the gender gap is that many times it is a sign of wealth or poverty -- that is, in various demographics of wealthy households and poor households women are not part of the workforce. It forms a bell-shaped curve. Poor mothers ($90K) the line starts to rapidly drop again. So splitting out the numbers, if the individuals are making $30K-$50K then often the mother is educated and also the mother works. But once the family has highly paid workers, with the husband highly paid making >$90K then the women again tend to stay home with children rapidly trending back down to about 43% working once you've crossed the roughly $150K husband's income. Since the tech field is very highly paid that puts the gender gap as a voluntary choice, not an involuntary hiring discrimination.

Based both on what I have seen and also what I have read in various reports, the problem (if there is one) is at the source end of the education pipeline. When it comes to "Black or African American" demographics the number of graduates and number of workers is at parity. When it comes to females, the numbers are that women who choose to stick with the field are readily employed and that many women leave as they age at a rate far more rapid than other fields.

Yup. Every vote counts. Every vote counts just as much as the rest of the 80k - 130k votes in any given federal level election. The more people who vote the less power each vote gets, and despite your idealist views the biggest and most powerful groups fighting each other are members of two specific parties. I can and have told people until I'm blue in the face(figuratively) about independent candidates and their policies and tried to convince them to vote the 3rd party. I'm a classical liberalist surrounded by Party Republicans that won't believe that a vote for their party leadership is no different from a vote for a Democratic leader.

Personally, I don't vote big money, deliberately (How many of these Politicians, even the independent ones, are poor without financial backing anyway?). Never have. I try to convince others to vote my way. Never works. Never makes a difference. So why vote at all? So I can repeat the "I told you so" line when shit goes as expected. And when you come into any forum and tell people about "opportunit[ies] to start making the changes [we're] all bitching for" there's only two types of people you're preaching to: The deaf or the choir. The political temperature I've seen on /. leans more towards the choir, but there's more than enough deaf here as well; and we are by no means a reflective sample of the world at large that tends to be mostly deaf. Good luck changing minds that willfully will not change.

Guess you couldn't interpret 'can you round it up to 1%' as no you cant.

People in enterprise always forget how many people work outside of enterprise.
~Half the country works in a company of less than 500 people. And that the number of companies greater than 500 people is only about 0.5% of all companies out there. How many Core installs do you think are in the 99.5% of companies, made up of less than 500 people? Is it even non-zero?

http://www.census.gov/econ/sma...

And I never said it has no value, just that it's not a significant deterrent.

In the cases of Violent Crimes, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia rank 30th, 18th, and 19th, respectively according to census.gov.
http://www.census.gov/statab/r...
These aren't exactly low figures.

Let's look at some other poorer states.

South Carolina is 1st.
Tennessee is 2nd.
Nevada is 3rd.
Florida is 4th.

Looking at the following report on income disparity between states, I am seeing some similar names at the top of that list:
http://www.epi.org/publication...
Florida
Nevada

Interestingly enough, Mississippi actually proves my point in that it's one of the states with the least amount of income inequality and actually further down on that list.

Thank you for that Mr. Anonymous Coward.

Oh, and to further ad to the flames of failure.
Mississippi has the highest percentage of African Americans by state, and ranks 30th in the amount of violent crime there. Even further reinforcing that race is actually not an issue:
http://kff.org/other/state-ind...

I restate my previous suggestion that quenda is a racist idiot.

You don't need to make 100k/year to afford a Tesla. The stock P85 is around ~1300/month which is only about 1/3rd of what is the median income in the US.

Good money management does not mean figuring out a way squeak by while squandering your family income on something you don't actually need.

The median household income in the U.S. is $53,000 a year.

The per capita income in the U.S., $28,500 a year. State & County QuickFacts

Ford and GM built their markets from the bottom up and not the top down. The market for the sports car or luxury sedan tends to crash and burn when the economy heads south --- taking the small independent manufacturer with them. You can have style and tech and still lose in this game.

In the US, about 23% of those 330 million are under the age of 18 and about 14% are 65 years old or older (see some census data), and some percentage of those between 18 and 65 are essentially unemployable because of health problems or mental deficiencies. So, no, we are not down to an average of a 15 hour work week.

In use since 1890!

221,925,820 was the Voting-Eligible Population, so that would increase the percentage to 29.7%, so way less than a third of eligable voters voted for Obama; 131,799,320 voted for either Obama or Romney so only 59.4% voted period.

On Nov 6, 2012 US population was 314,760,969, 131,799,320 / 314,760,969 = 41.87%, so if all of the people who voted, had voted for Obama it still wouldn't be a majority of all Americans.

The top small business categories are: Health care and social assistance, Retail trade, Accommodation and food services, Manufacturing, Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services The bottom two are: Utilities and Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting. Construction is in the middle. source

There were 132,802,859 homes in the US in 2013 - http://quickfacts.census.gov/q... - which counts individual rooms rented out as a "home".

There were1,393,152 burglaries of home in 2009 - https://www2.fbi.gov/ucr/cius2...

Assuming those numbers haven't varied too much then, yes if homes have average existence of 20 years (the one I'm in right now is older than that) 1 in 5 will be burglarized in their "entire existance".

And of course you are using unreported sexual assaults in your numbers. There are also unreported burglaries that aren't in the burglary numbers - if you don't have insurance there's no reason to report after all. If it was your stash of drugs that were stolen you aren't going to call the police. When your child broke in and pawned off some of your stuff you are probably not going to report the crime. And so on.

Rap songs have also glorified murdering people, murder culture?

Or it could be simply internet penetration.

According to the US census stats, it appears that 86% of individuals in Massachusetts live in household that have internet access while only 64% in Mississippi do. (according to the Table 1. Reported Internet Usage for Individuals 3 Years and Older, by Selected Characteristics: 2012)

I would be interested in finding how much this usage or penetration correlates to the speeds or if it could be correlated to scores also.

Or it could be simply internet penetration.

According to the US census stats, it appears that 86% of individuals in Massachusetts live in household that have internet access while only 64% in Mississippi do. (according to the Table 1. Reported Internet Usage for Individuals 3 Years and Older, by Selected Characteristics: 2012)

I would be interested in finding how much this usage or penetration correlates to the speeds or if it could be correlated to scores also.

Interesting idea, but the data doesn't support it.

While Massachusetts has 858 people per square mile, the population density of Minnesota, 68.1, is almost identical to Mississippi, with 63.7 people per square mile.

U.S. Census data also shows a significantly higher percentage of residents with internet connectivity in both Minnesota and Massachusetts, and significantly lower percentage in Mississippi. (Sorry, the source, http://www.census.gov/prod/201..., doesn't list the exact percentages, but I'm sure they'd be available if they were relevant.)

If density were that much of a factor, I would expect the states with similar density to have similar connectivity rates. The data doesn't bear that out.

Comparing the average ACT scores of the three states, Massachusetts comes in at 24.1, Minnesota at 22.8, and Mississippi at 18.7. Minnesota is closer to Massachusetts than Mississippi.

It's also worth noting that Minnesota's more recent governors have made statewide high speed internet a priority to help grow the economy.