Do you realize just how many potential mandatory voters don't file taxes every year? Or move beteween voting locales between elections? It's much larger numbers than you think. Mandatory voting would require the authorities to find them and, and this is the truly larger point CHARGE THEM WITH A CRIME.

Voting is a right. Mandatory voting is a compulsion. It changes the power of the vote from being something of the citizen over the government to a power the government wields over a citizen.

You can believe that power would be wielded honorably, but you'd quickly be proven wrong.

Bzzzt. Wrong. Voted in every national level election since 1988.

But of course you got it wrong because you have it backwards. Those the vote would be known, those that don't vote would need to be looked into, investigated, or dare I say, spied upon.

My post was relatively in jest, but partly serious.

The government can't know who didn't vote without keeping meticulous records, hmmmmm lets call them "metadata", about peoples voting habits and whereabouts on voting day.

And don't say that they'd just look at the voter rolls and compare them to census data, they'd need to be far more thorough than that in their tracking and monitoring to be able to effectively fine or charge someone with the crime of not voting (and it'd have to be a crime to not vote because "mandatory").

How can you tell if someone has cast their mandatory ballot if you don't spy on them?!

I'll vote for that!

You've heard about USB hubs before? It's this device that turns one USB port into N+1. Wild stuff.

Annnnnd you've Godwinned a thread on daylight savings time.

Nice.

Of course the GP post is ridiculous. Want your base 10 time, move back to the twelve colonies.

"For example, think about the last face to face meeting you had. What notes do you have from that meeting?"

About 15 lines in a text doc.

"How many issues were resolved?"

One.

"And how long was the meeting."

20 minutes

"Compare that to a couple of quick chat message exchanges."

The productive stuff ( if any ) via chat is too deeply buried in YouTube links and cat photos.

I think the face to face meeting wins.

The aluminum used in 80% lowers is typically the same used in production "military grade" weapons. For an AR15 it's typically 6061 or 7075 cast, billet or forged aluminum, all can handle pressures in the tens of thousands of PSI, multiple orders of magnitude greater than the pressure they'll come in contact with under operation of the firearm. The lower just holds the firing mechanism and magazine, in addition the stock and upper receiver attach to the lower. The upper receiver is what's under pressure and requires a bit more skill to produce. The worst thing that will happen to a poorly milled AR15 lower is the parts won't fit, or not end up in the right spot, and the weapon just won't work. A device like this removes a bit of error making this process more reliable.

TL;DR - no, these won't blow up.

There's precedent to suggest that sexual orientation is a protected group, political activism and/or related products, are not in and of themselves protected from discrimination by private entities. FedEx is free to ban wedding cakes, they can't ban gay wedding cakes exclusively. So yes, there would likely be a lawsuit over a gay cake shipping ban.

You used the standard dictionary definition of waterway. But the EPA has expanded their, correct in my opinion, oversight of actual waterways to include standing water and even temporary bodies of water from storms. A willful expansion of their power. I think they are giving themselves a club to use against farmers who do other things they don't like but can't stop through their current regulations. So they bogusly expand the regulations they have.

You know, today's EPA also has changed regulations to make a pond be considered a "navigable waterway". These regulations are ridiculous. I am awaiting the EPA using their SWAT teams to come after farmers for mis managing their waterways.

So what?

It was an interesting bit of film.

One that does NOT ONE DAMN THING to detract from the "actual" Power Rangers.

If our fucked up copyright laws forbid something as simple as this then that whole "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts" shit that was intended is totally gone to hell.

If we can't stand on the shoulders of giants (or dudes in tacky suits) and create "new" interpretations, then we've lost the real reason for copyright anyway. I'm not saying that Power Rangers doesn't deserve copyright, but I am saying that reasonable copyright terms should have put it in the public domain by now.

I am currently boycotting all songs from Tom Petty because of his crappy copyright challenge to Sam Smith's "borrowing his song" I mean come on, if we compare every song with every other song and "alter the tempo", and "vary the pitch" then we're screwed. Music reuses all kinds of things all the time. Fuck, soon people will try to copyrighting fucking chords progressions and beats. Yeah Sam Smith's song resembles one of Petty's, but only if you torture it enough. What's next, syllable counts on choruses? That shit was ridiculous.

Copyright has become a farce that no longer does any good for the public. And since thats what it was supposed to be for, I'd say its high time we scrap the whole decrepit edifice of modern copyright law and start over.

At least a hundred, maybe more.

As someone who's made games... Making games is not hard, making a good game is time consuming, a little frustrating, occasionally hard and sometimes rewarding. Selling a good game on an app store is easy though.

I've had a lot more success hiring great people when I stopped interviewing in a Q&A format and instead spend the time learning how the candidate solves problems. I typically spend 5-10 minutes asking some specific questions about technologies on their resume. Then I define a fictitious project and spend the remaining time ( typically an hour ) learning about how they might solve it, dive deep into a few areas, do some white boarding, a little bit of impromptu code examples and discuss the potential long term problems and solutions. You get a better feel for the breadth of someone's knowledge and their ability to think soundly on their feet. It lets you know that they have the knowledge and ability to apply it to a problem.

Interesting list. But I have issues with item's 5 and 6.

When you look at Boys who go into Technical Fields, including CS, you find quite a large number of them who were as children quite interested in video game systems. This and their curiosity propelled them to try and figure out how these things worked. Some of my first programs were simple games, and hacking your way around the DRM for some games was a key technical puzzle to solve when I was growing up.

Also a key feature for many boys that later go into tech was figuring out how devices work. Nowadays, the smartphone is one of the devices to analyze that way, especially if they get into rooting the devices and reinstalling OSes on it.

Now kids may play the games and use the smartphones and not become interested in CS, but I'm don't think thats because of those activities generally.

I think kids interested in science and engineering are the kids interested in how those games and devices WORK.