No, installing dual flush toilets won't help, it'll barely tickle the problem.

Around 80% of all water in california is used for farming. Of the 20% that goes to residences, only about 20% of that is used for flushing toilets. A dual flush toilet saves 50% of the water 50% of the time, so that's 0.0025% of the problem you could solve with dual flush toilets.

In the mean time, our farmers make huge profit off growing ridiculous crops like rice (yes really, they grow rice, a crop that requires flooding the field, in California), and almonds. By stopping subsidising crops that are just insane to grow in an arid area, California could solve it's "drout" issue overnight. We literally could halve the state's water usage utterly trivially.

Then you can turn up, and make a big scene about spoiling your ballot.

Anyone can read the HTML5, CSS and Javascript specs, and implement them. Only Microsoft can read the ActiveX spec and implement it.

Note, "Mandatory voting" typically means "Mandatory attendance".

In a mandatory voting society, it's entirely reasonable to spoil your ballot, or select RON.

What on earth is "an Uruguay syndrom", and why does google have no idea either.

No, in Europe liberalism tends to refer to social liberalism, not economic liberalism. Liberal policies tend to be centered around equality for every person, not around the american libertarian "just let the free market do it's thing". In general, their policies run completely orthogonally to being left/right wing.

You're right about the conservatives though.

To be fair, the deluxe edition adds a lot more than just 5 buildings, plus, you can import your own 3D models, and get those buildings for free if you want.

To be fair, based on the number of Finnish F1 and WDC champions, they're pretty fucking good at it :P

Except, if you read even the summary, you'll discover that they're taking half of estimated spending money, not half of your income. Someone living paycheck to paycheck would get an extremely small fine, while someone earning millions will be deprived of nearly half their income.

Of course not - that's trivially provable by the fact that for a list of length n, n pointers must be rewritten.

You think people don't fight tooth and nail to get out of being in prison for their entire life?

The point of the bank of switches would be to cause reasonable doubt about which of the people did it. Your single switch would leave one person who's action (not inaction) caused a death.

That said, the rest of the comments in this thread are right, the correct way to execute someone in the 21st century is to not execute people in the 21st century.

Well, it's more expensive to execute people than to keep them in prison for life, so... Quite easily I'd imagine.

Yep, came here to say this. The solution is to realise that we're in the 21st century, and we no longer need any of this "eye for an eye" nonsense.

It's more expensive than life imprisonment, it's more likely to have catastrophic consequences if a miscarriage of justice occurs, and it's less of a punishment.

Right, it's not an interesting technical problem to render a scene with lots of interesting lighting effects. No one would ever want to read about that, because game play is more important.