How about rather than compulsory voting a tax cut for all who vote. Nothing big, but something like 0.2% general tax-cut to anyone who votes so that it'll seriously make people think it'd be a nice idea to go cast a vote. And those who really don't give a fuck will know they made a conscious choice in not voting for the common good of all and accept the normal tax. Perhaps increase tax for everyone by 0.2% and for those who vote give them 0.2% tax deduction. Those millions who don't vote will then handsomely help fund the increased activity at polling stations.

Going to miss the guy, among surely hundreds of intellectual geniuses of time immemorial, he joins the great ones with Socrates, Russell, and the likes.

Thank You Dennis Ritchie for all you gave us.

Thanks Rob, In my case 11+ years I've been readin /. - means you did something right most of the time I suppose. Sami

I also bought my aspire 3003NWLMi in 2005 and it is still my only computing device at home. It runs hot like an oven but hasn't burned itself yet with almost daily use since I bought it. And for gaming it's super, runs nethack vanilla super fast! I usually go to work while it compiles anything big, though..

Sami

"The late 90's: All Tech Spending is Good
The early 00's: All Tech Spending is Bad"

In the late 00's: Everybody want's his Intelligent House fixed:

"Hun? Have you noticed the toilet is eating up all the soap and refuses to admit it?"
"Call the it-man to come down and have a chat with it."

I Quess I'll still have a job in the field say ten years from now..