Because it's clear to critical thinkers that a person joining a discussion for the sole purpose of calling poor students in pubic schools "daycare" is trying to do nothing more than incite an inflammatory response from the conversation participants.

If you want to have a discussion about the statistical efficacy of poor student schools, the price being paid, and by which tax payers, the graduation rates, the eventual work force quality generated 2 decades later, juvenile and eventual adult crime rates, financial delinquency, and more. Feel free to have an honest discussion premised upon real data.

To be fair, the place is a meat grinder to everyone. It just turns out that sexual harassment was perhaps one of the flavors she experienced. Men experience the meat grinder there as well, just perhaps as other flavors. SV is a place that you get in, and get out. You either build a resume for a career elsewhere. Or you make some millions on a startup and call it done. Or if you aren't the sane type for one of those, you stick it out and fight with the other insane people that stay there forever.

Go díreach! Más é do thoil é...

Ars has a good pair of opposing op-eds on the issue. Worth a read.

True, but it does weigh towards them. If the intent was good and the effects were good, then it's fairly easy to argue that the action was moral and right even if it was illegal. If that is the case, a pardon would be justified. (The question becomes then if the effects were good - I've read decent arguments both ways, though the 'it was worth it' articles seem a bit more detailed and thought out.)

The four year old model is the only one with a CD/DVD drive, FireWire, or Ethernet. If you need those archaic technologies, you get the archaic model, kept around just for you.

The rest of the line has had updates to CPU, storage, wireless, screen, etc. since then. Some several times.

Not to mention that the 4 year old model is a legacy model - the only Mac laptop with FireWire, a CD/DVD drive, and an Ethernet port. (As well as a non-Retina screen.) It fills a very specific niche in the Mac market.

Most of the rest of the Mac lineup is closer to a year old. Intel's bobble of the last processor refresh definitely affected Macs - the chips that would likely to be used for most Mac models were delayed (some long enough that Apple has obviously decided to wait for the next generation) or not released at all - and if you're tracking Mac refreshes thinking when's a good time to buy now isn't it, but the only 'seriously old' models are the one Macbook, the Mac Mini, and the Mac Pro. The MacBook is a legacy model kept for specific uses because it doesn't cost them much to keep it in the lineup, and the Mini and Pro are niche models that were scheduled for longer-cycle refresh when Intel bobbled their processors.

The problem at the moment is that to do such we need to get something through Congress - either a law, or (more likely) a constitutional amendment. And the people who benefit most from the current system are those currently in Congress.

Heck, we can't even get every American citizen a representative in Congress because it doesn't benefit Congress. (Washington D.C., the 22nd largest city in the country, has no representatives in Congress because it's not a state. To get it representatives would require an amendment - which no Republican will vote for because it's one of the most heavily Democratic areas in the entire country.)

I'd argue that that one line is incorrect. TSA's job isn't to make airline passengers feel safer. It's to make them feel like they should feel unsafe except for the fact that the TSA is there.

That is: Their job is to make you think that you need them to do their job, and that without them you would be killed.

BBEdit on Mac (my normal computing platform), in Markdown format. (Usually Pandoc-flavored markdown.) That's if I want the notes to last more than five minutes.

Under five minute notes are often on paper, using either pen or pencil. (Mechanical pencil preferred, but pen's easier to find.)

On other platforms I'll take whatever is the best text editor I can find commonly available - vi or some derivative on most Unix/Linux boxes.