For some perspective, in preparation for Operation Downfall, 500,000 Purple Hearts were made. They made so many that we were still using that same batch in Afghanistan and Iraq in the 2000s.

THAT'S how many people were expected to be wounded, let alone killed, and that was just the American side of the conflict.

The hell? You're acting like decency standards in television broadcasting are totally random. There are greater restrictions for broadcast network television (the Big Four, among others), looser restrictions for cable (since you elect to get it), and a "safe harbor" from 10 PM to 6 AM where those restrictions are relaxed (like the brief nudity in NYPD Blue).

It's not like they randomly retroactively fine people.

Maybe if you couple it with celebrity endorsement. Funnel a few million to the Kardashian clan and I bet you could make some headway.

If you're forced to drag your ass all the way down to the polling place, I'm betting more people will actually vote for the candidate/ballot measures that reflect their views. Forcing someone to vote for any candidate when they believe in none of them (Lebowski) is unethical, so if you really, really want to protest all of them, this is your option.

It's also a useful thing to measure: you can see just how much of the population essentially cast a vote of no confidence for the whole system.

That's why you shame places that won't get with the program: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B...

So have a box on every ballot that says, "None of the above."

The difference is, everyone is issued a social security number at birth (note that I'm saying present the number, not the card), and it sidesteps the need to present a picture ID. Requiring a picture ID keeps many poor people from voting.

I have a solution: raise wages, shrink the work week. It worked after the Great Depression. Minimum wage came into existence, work weeks were reduced from 60 hours to closer to 40, and you got a blue eagle label for your business if you complied, to add social pressure.

The idea that everyone needs to be working 40 hours a week in our modern, increasingly automated world is absurd. Productivity has done nothing but go up for forty years. Remember the dream of a world where people could pursue hobbies and have more leisure time, away from work, because we designed machines to do the hard work for us? It's basically here, but we're all operating under this crazy mentality that we should be working eight hours a day, five days a week, if not more. And you know what more free time means? More time for people to innovate and invent. There are tons of brilliant people out there with a great idea for a new product or new business, but they don't have the time to pursue it.

That's not how universal basic income works. Everyone gets enough for cost of living (food, shelter, utilities). If you want more than that, it's up to you.

Why? Name and social security number. Done. Voter fraud is, for all intents and purposes, non-existent anyway. It would be even harder to commit if you go to vote, and the person at the polls helpfully informs you that you already did.

Yeah, what we really need in America is more inequality.

Yes, in our already overcrowded prison system, with disproportionately high populations of minorities, surely we should incentivize death sentences when there's such a high demand for transplantable organs.

So... you do know that it costs taxpayers more to execute someone than imprison them for life, right?

Not if you need to write simple batch scripts sometimes. I can do it on any Windows system, in Notepad, with no additional software.

There are skeletons and zombies, and some sounds that could be scary, but nothing an 8 year old couldn't handle. They won't learn java directly unless they get into mods, which I think a lot of kids do when they see how powerful mods can be. They may, however, learn about basic logic gates, as one of the materials in the game functions like basic circuitry. Plus, it's just a great game for encouraging creativity, and teaching kids how to set long term goals and meet them.