It was 16 but only with parental consent and only with a marriage partner 21 or younger.
16 with parental consent is quite common. Mississippi I think is 15. Some allow marriage younger than this (some have effectively no minimum age), but with the requirement for consent to also be sought through the courts.
What's the consequences of being caught lying on your resume? you lose your good job.
I used to work as a trade union officer representing people at disciplinaries. I've represented several people over the years who were sacked for lying on their CVs.
Not only did they lose their job, but they'll get a "sacked for gross misconduct" reference from that employer making it much more difficult to get another job. Those in regulated roles also ended up with gross misconduct records with the regulator, making it essentially impossible to work in that field again.
So no, it's not a risk free game.
Turing made a strategic blunder when formulating the Turing Test by assuming that everyone was as smart as he was.
So these and a couple other types of bricks I've seen (ones with multiple holes to for masonry bees(?)), have surprisingly high costs for what they are.
Really not sure where you're getting that impression from.
I've just looked it up from a supplier; the cheapest swift brick they sell is £11.50, and they have multiple around the £30 mark. A few larger ones for more money.
The same supplier sells bat bricks for similar, and bee bricks for £25.
Bearing in mind that the cost for a regular normal brick can be north of £1, depending on the specific colouring and design.
Considering the cost of building a whole house, an extra £60 on wildlife bricks doesn't seem that unreasonable.
As someone who spends an inordinate amount of their life reviewing planning applications, it's notable that most new properties include swift bricks (and bat bricks) pretty much at standard now, even without the regulations. They're incredibly cheap and entirely non-obtrusive; from a conservation point of view it's a no brainer.
I imagine most that don't include it is more through either laziness or ignorance rather than a strategic choice to omit them. Having them in the regulations would seem an easy win.
I've never heard of them. What does it stand for?
It looks like the page for what will presumably be the paid-for game is here:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2870330/Grocery_Store_Tycoon/
Not released yet, though.
I'm currently reading Babel by RF Kuang, which definitely can't be described as woman-centric (indeed, a major criticism is that its female characters are relatively shallow and few and far between). Good book though.
If you want an old classic to try, give Lud-in-the-Mist by Hope Mirrlees a go. Very unique and fairly influential cult classic from 1926.
Red Hat doesn't own Fedora
Yes, they kind of do.
Red Hat own the Fedora name, brand, and logos.
They own and maintain the website, the servers, and all physical infrastructure used by the Fedora project.
The Fedora Project Leader is a Red Hat employee (constitutionally they always have to be). The Fedora Operations Architect and Fedora Community Architect are also Red Hat employees.
7 of the 9 Fedora Community Council members are Red Hat employees.
The upshot of it all is that Red Hat has full effective control of the project, is the sole main funding sponsor, and has full control over the use of the name, brand, and public image. And of course the main downstream beneficiary of the Fedora codebase is Red Hat/IBM.
Technically they don't own the code itself (because it's open source), but if that's your metric then no FOSS project can be meaningfully owned by anyone.
I wonder how sophisticated this fraud is? They could have it rush to 50k, and then "catch up" by running more slowly for the next few 10s of thousands to cover the tracks.
canonical is (or at least I think it is) South African
Canonical is British. Headquarters are in London.
The founder, Mark Shuttleworth, is a South African born British citizen, hence the African name for the distro. But it is and always has been British.
I don't know how they do it in the US, but in the UK most big companies outsource application checks to several big clearing houses. They handle the logistics of checking qualifications and obtaining references from previous employers, plus the optional enhanced checking that some companies need (such as DBS/criminal record checks).
In the UK there is a single official centralised system for checking degree qualifications which covers most major universities. It's also only a 5 minute job to email a university registrar directly. I think most big companies would consider this a bare minimum task when recruiting for any role where a qualification is in any way important.