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I think it is wonderful that at least one government is providing information in open formats (ahem, 'nerd-friendly, "pipe-separated" files'). I can't see the connection though between the "New Hampshire Liberty Alliance" (the group that seems to promoted the change according to the article), and the Free Staters.

The New Hampshire Liberty Alliance is about preserving and expanding liberty. The Free State Project is about getting enough people who care about liberty to move to New Hampshire and run as a candidate or vote for a candidate who will cast votes to hold up liberty. The initial hope was that enough people would move there to impact politics there. While there may not be any official connection between the two organizations they may share members. I'd be surprised of they didn't.

I thought of moving there myself but NH has a small area close to the coast and I love saltwater and scuba diving. If they had picked Maine, one of the Carolinas, or Florida it would have been better. Then again those states don't have Live Free or Die as a state motto.

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Except for the fact that Texas and California are the two largest economies on a state-by-state basis:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_California#Rankings_from_different_sources
http://www.netstate.com/economy/tx_economy.htm

Here's some data, listing the millionaire residents per 1,000 resident households in each state. The high-tax states seem to be doing pretty well retaining them.

Maybe billionaires are distributed differently, but they're such a small number of people they hardly count when talking about the majority of the "productive people" in the country, which started this thread.

The nearest STABLE and ABOVE SEA LEVEL region is called Arkansas.......

So I am being sarcastic, but literally, the highest point in Louisiana is 535 feet. Mt. Driskill.

It has been generally accepted that Michigan was nicknamed "The Wolverine State" for the abundance of wolverines that once roamed the peninsula."

The highest point in Florida according to this page is Britton Hill, at 345 Ft. According to this page the highest city is 500 feet. The average elevation of the entire state is 100 feet.

From the Army Corps of Engineers: hot topic

The Herbert Hoover Dike was built in the 1930s to hold back water draining from lands within the watershed. The dike was built in accordance with the accepted engineering standards of the day. Today we have an improved understanding of how the materials with which the dike was built react to changing environmental conditions and water levels. Accepted construction standards for today are more stringent than those of 70 years ago. Recent analysis shows that if water levels in Lake Okeechobee fluctuate to very high and/or very low levels, the integrity of the dike may be compromised. Integrity is reduced as water seeps under the earthen sides of the dam.

Today the lake is at 10.166 Feet above NGVD29. Historically, the elevation of this fourth largest lake inside the US has been as little as 10 feet above NGVD29 (mean sea level as measured in 1929). Review the part above about "very low levels" again.

From Wikipedia:

Okeechobee is said to have been formed out of the ocean about 6,000 years ago when the waters receded.

The greatest potential for loss of life related to a hurricane is from the storm surge, which historically has claimed nine of ten victims. Storm surge is simply water that is pushed toward the shore by the force of the winds swirling around the storm. This advancing surge combines with the normal tides to create the hurricane storm tide, which can increase the mean water level 15 feet or more.

Now do the math. Even if your "one foot in the next 50 years" is accurate, one foot is very significant when high tide and storm surge is already enough to put a 150 mile wide swath of your home state under seven feet of seawater. The numbers I've been reading are not one foot. I'm hearing a meter or two. At that rate one good hurricane could remove the part of southern florida that survives from the mainland entirely. None of this considers an Atlantic Tsunami, which has happened and is predicted to happen again and would just wash right over central florida barely slowing down.

If you're reading this from south Florida, you should consider carefully your choice to stay where you are.

The explosion alone could have with the power of 100 million tons of dynamite, enough to devastate an entire state, such as Maryland, they said.

Maryland? Here in Texas, we call that a "county". Call me when you have something that can devastate a real state.

So this new telescope is no big deal, especially since it will only about half of the sky visible to PAN-STARRS since this new thingy will be in the very southern hemisphere, rather than Hawaii.

Gosh, sounds like someone's got a case of gigapixel envy! As a matter of fact, this telescope will be at a latitude of thirty degrees south, (cf. Hawaii's twenty degrees north) -- hardly the "very southern hemisphere".

Take it easy; as you point out, the Hawaii telescope will be online sooner, but the Chile one will have much higher resolution, so I'm sure there's room for them both in the world of astronomy. And since (as you also point out) PAN-STARR already has funding, it's not as if they're in competition for funds.

Land area of texas 261,914 sq miles
http://www.netstate.com/states/tables/st_size.htm
Population of the earth 6601891967
http://www.ibiblio.org/lunarbin/worldpop

math?
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=lang_en&q=26 1%2C914+sq+miles+%2F+6601891967+

102.751476 m2

Yep, you can build a house for everyone in that 10 meters on a side parcel.
Your can have the top L5 section
http://paces.geo.utep.edu/seeley/proterozoic_seque nce8.jpg

enjoy!

It should be illegal to advertise the price after rebate more prominently than the price before.

That appears to be exactly the case in Connecticut. I lived there until I left for college in California, and still go there every year for Christmas, and last time I was there I noticed that every advertisement listed the in-store price, and the after-rebate price was in the small print with the description of the rebate itself. It's the same corporations--Staples, Best Buy, etc.--so I assume they weren't doing this out of the goodness of their hearts, or because the citizens are unusually clever (although it is a tradition, see nutmeg state).

So yes, I couldn't agree more, the STORE's advertisements should be required to display the price that you will pay IN THE STORE, and the rebate should be advertised as an extra discount available to some people under some circumstances requiring persistence and luck, which is what it is.

It takes 3 days to travel across Texas, alone. THREE FREAKING DAYS.

Three days? On a bike maybe.
According to Netstate its width is 660 miles and its length 790 miles.
You would need less than 16 HOURS to cross the 790 miles at 50 mph.

3 days?!? You should seriously consider going back to school.

yeh http://www.netstate.com/states/links/la_links.htm LA is for postal and La is traditional abbreviation.

Utah is a prosperous state with a highly educated and industrious populous. Anything bad that you are hearing is generated by Left-Wingers who are threatened by the Right-wing slant of the state.

Basically they have all the good and bad of every state in the union; in varying degrees. They have a lot of rural areas which drag then down a bit in the statistics.

http://www.adherents.com/largecom/lds_dem.html

http://www.netstate.com/states/alma/ut_alma.htm

I agree with parent poster - the problem is one of distribution, not supply. And for those who don't believe the claim the entire world population would fit in Texas:

Size of Texas: 261,914 sq miles (land) = 7.30174326 × 10^12 square feet

Population of the world: 6,515,511,450 people

Area / people = 1120.67077 sq ft/person

Family/group of 4 = 4482.7 sq ft

Incredible, isn't it?

Dude, we have plenty of open space for bikes. Have you SEEN a map of TX or Oklahoma? Trust me, there are better places to ride than the Interstate.

C'mon, this isn't Portland. Texas is 260,000 sq miles large so finding a place to ride is just not an issue. There are plenty of state hi-ways with nice, big, cushy shoulders. That's where you want to ride.

Well, it's all relative. Missoula is the second largest city in Montana (Billings is the largest with just under 90k). Of course, MT is pretty sparse, with a total population of a little over 902k and a whopping 6.2 people/square mile. In other words, Missoula is large for MT, but small in an absolute sense . . .

Here's a PDF with Montana cities' populations and ranks.

If you had bothered to watch the trailers you would see that 41.11C is what they are claiming the brain begins to die at. I'm no medical person so I have no idea if that is accurate.

With an average temp of 98.5 degrees, it's not hard to imagine the temperature rising to 105 degrees fairly often in Texas during the summer.

Perhaps this explains Dubya?

After I read your subject I just couldn't help but laugh. Not in a flamebait kinda way but just the fact that Mass is only 10 sq miles in size, I find it hard to believe that there is "FAR" more to Mass that Boston.

It's so fashionable these days for to have articles like this one declaring the 'end' of stuff like the iPod.

I'll believe it when I see it. Seems these "journalists" have been taking tips from the various trolls.

From the article:

Taiwan produces about a third of the world's chips, more than 60 percent of its laptop computers and 70 percent of the mother boards, among other things. Personal-computer giants Dell and Hewlett-Packard buy most of their products in Taiwan and China.

Sounds similar to the substantial position of some western corporations to me, only that the producer

• is a country
  
• is a country the size of which is merely the sixth part of Kansas
  
• is a country which has roughly ten times as many inhabitants as Kansas, which in turn is flatter than a pancake and thus should take precedence in producing wafers
  

On a side note: I would be grateful if one of our American friends could explain the fact that Taiwan is available through the CIA-factbook mentioned above, but cannot easily be found on the pulldown located on the main page.

Of course, in California, we feed them to the bears. Not sure what happens in Maryland, though - can't be pretty.

Of course, in California, we feed them to the bears. Not sure what happens in Maryland, though - can't be pretty.

That's no maiden, that's the Greek goddess of valor, you insensitive clod.

Wrong, she's a goddess!

1. Alaska
2. Texas
3. California
4. Montana

Nuff said

Then again, what the hell do I know? I'm just another Slashdotter... What I'm really trying to get at is: CAN YOU IMAGINE A BEOWULF CLUSTER OF THESE?!?! WELL, CAN YOU?! Now that is the question that remains to be answered!

I hope that made sense, or something.