[geeks] Special skills draft?

[Matthew Braun]

No, I'm not freaking out expecting I'll be drafted after the election. 
I'm just curious about the "Skills Draft" that suggests that people 
with specialized skills (geeks, linguists, and medical personnel) may 
be eligible for a draft if circumstances warrant. How would this be 
implemented?

For medical staff, they have to be state-certified, so there's a nice 
body of data that already exists on them. But techs or linguists? What, 
subpoena the membership rolls of the ACM? Have posts to Slashdot and 
then track by IP? I'm just curious of the mechanics of this. It seems 
like it would be very hard to do, and then they'd have to prove that 
people were in fact in possession of the desired skills.
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