That's exactly the problem, and I've said it many times. The only reason lobbyists buy off government officials is because the government has enough power to be worth being bought. Power needs to be decentralized from the feds & given back to the state & local level, where people have much more say in the matter.

"Reformers" want to live in a land of make-believe, thinking if we removed campaign financing, there wouldn't be any corruption, but they don't want to remove the reason for the corruption.

Good, maybe then they won't suppress the vote either.

Isn't it really due to movie & game tie-ins? Lego, like most businesses, exists to make money. One way to make more money is to sell things that are linked to other things people like. Star Wars & Batman/Superman have a large appeal, so Lego makes toys that have those tie-ins, but those mostly appeal to boys. It's not some sort of evil plot to exclude girls.

Perhaps it's a matter of perspective. I'm more of a conservative leaning libertarian, so Slashdot seems more left-leaning with some libertarian sympathies. So when I post in favor of civil liberties/privacy there is a lot of agreement. But there's a pretty strong leftist/authoritarian strain when it comes to economics, coupled with a fairly strong anti-gun sentiment. After all, if you're going to redistribute wealth and tell people how to live their lives, you can't have the unwashed masses be armed.

Don't complain about mods, take the good with the bad. I get modded down all the time. It happens, particularly if you make a politically incorrect statements on a left-leaning site like Slashdot.

That was the first option I mentioned. Just making engineering toys. When I was a kid, I had some female cousins around my age and we'd play with Lincoln Logs and Lego blocks all the time. They were just toys. Then they had their dolls and I had my Star Wars action figures. There were some things we both liked, and other things we didn't. But that's not good enough. There's an insistence that we need more women in STEM because patriarchy, or whatever, and that these toys need to be designed to interest them. Then when somebody comes out and designs toys to interest girls in STEM, the complaint is that they're too girly. That was the entire point of my previous post.

It seems like VR would be even more effective than a normal game for those playing, but then you'd lose out on the secondary effect, as it would be difficult for others to watch you play.

And yet you still did...

Wouldn't that depend on whether or not we sent up a crew of oil rig drill operators to drill into the NEO first, before inserting the nuke?

Key part of the phrase: "until further notice." My guess is they're going to train all of these H1-B's at a different place, then lay off all the regular workers at the same time without notice. Either that, or they will find excuses to fire them one at a time, gradually replacing them.

The lawyers always win.