I wouldn't trust a lot of tires to be safe at 90 mph, especially the Chinese ones that are becoming common as they are cheap to buy and keep car costs down.
From what I understand from Germans I've talked to, it is the drivers that are safer. Getting a drivers license in Germany and much of Europe is much harder then in N. America. You basically have to take courses and the test is much harder. Also they aren't so dependent on cars so a lot of people who don't feel comfortable driving don't. I've also been told that lanes on the autobahn have minimum speed limits so the slow drivers keep right and the fast drivers safely pass them.
Wrong, in UK style systems it is Parliament that is supreme, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliamentary_supremacy . Meaning they can write any law they like including a law that fires the Monarch. (James II as an example) And as the House of Commons usually has all the power and is elected by the people it would not be incorrect to say that the government derives its power from the people. This is modified in places like Canada by a Constitution containing a Bill of Rights (Charter of Freedoms in Canada's case)
It would be illegal to sell those DVDs in Canada without the French so it quite possible that they just throw the French warning on all the DVDs rather then having a separate run for Canada.
When my son got a MRI as part of being diagnosed as autistic, it was not a simple 15 minute test. They had to put him under before testing (they have to lay still for 15 minutes) which is somewhat stressful and he had to observed for a couple of hours after the test before we could take him home.
The problem with being impaired is common sense goes out the window. With something like alcohol it is easier to engage common sense before getting impaired and make plans that don't involve driving. Being tired can sneak up on you.
Now their commercials have "weed" as the cause of the accident. Personally the most dangerous driving I've ever done was from being overtired and I'm sure that's true for many of us.
My last truck, a '86 Nissan had no electronic computers in it, not even in the radio. Did very well on the pollution test as well, even without a catalytic converter. Before that I had a '84 diesel Nissan pickup. That didn't even need electricity to run (given a hill to start it on).
The first time that GM almost went bankrupt it was private industry that bailed them out. To be exact a bankers trust lent GM the money to keep operating as they were too big to let fail. This was in 1910. In 1920 history repeated. Billy Durant had sneaked back into control after the bankers had fired him in 1910 and once again GM was in major debt and too big to let fail. While the last time it was likely to take Detroit down with it if it failed, this time it looked like taking the whole country down with it. Once again private enterprise in the person of DuPont bailed out GM. So that is at least twice that GM was bailed out by private industry and allowed to grow even bigger at a time when there was very little government regulation.
The surface air temperature really has nothing to do with it whatsoever. It would still calve in the absence of any atmosphere at all.
Without any atmosphere at all the global temperature would be 40 kelvins colder due to no green house affect and the oceans would be frozen. I don't see how ice shelves would calve then.
I thought it was about rich land speculators wanting to steal (or cheat) land from its rightful owners and sell it at a massive profit. What with the evil powerless King wanting to protect all his subjects, not just the white protestant ones.
Last time I crossed the Atlantic by ocean liner, they had a thing called "life boat drill". Basically practice for if the ship sank, and people showed up at their life boat stations pretty quick. One of the problems with the Titanic was people had not practiced as it was considered unsinkable and even when it was sinking people still didn't believe it and preferred to stay on the ship rather then get in life boats.
Venus is an exception to some of your points. Large dense atmosphere without a magnetic field. Lots of reflective cloud without any water. Who knows what other types of planets we might find.
You do realize that the old phone system was a government granted monopoly because they (the government) felt it was a waste to have multiple companies running lines in parallel, right? Competition was alive and well until the government handed AT&T a monopoly and said "It's all yours"
Where do you guys get this bullshit? While true that government granted patents helped with the creation of the AT&T monopoly by giving them a head start, they already were a monopoly when the government got involved and forced them to play nice with other phone companies (they had a policy that no others could use their long distance network, the best in the land due to owning most of the vacuum tube patents) and were on their way to buying up every other phone company as well as the telegraph companies. When AT&T realized that they were under anti-trust investigation they offered a compromise to the government which ended up officially making them a monopoly. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingsbury_Commitment
As Drinkypoo points out further down the page, by industrial hemp I meant strains that have been bred for fiber and now a days very little THC. You're talking about industrial marijuana. Marijuana being the word that was invented/popularized in the '30's to cover cannabis that is used for recreation. People back then would never of stood for illegalizing hemp.
You can't grow good pot in a field of industrial hemp. Industrial hemp has a large percentage of males. The males pollinate the good pot and ruin it. Actually one of the easiest ways to get rid of pot is to grow lots of low potency industrial hemp. The pollen can blow hundreds of miles and ruin all the good stuff. The only way to grow the good stuff is in heavily filtered spaces.
There is a reason there are Extradition treaties. Murder may be illegal in many countries but we generally still extradite them back to where the crime was committed to properly serve justice at a sentence deemed appropriate by those affected.
No we don't. If I murder an American, whether from this side of the border or on your side then run back here, my government will not extradite me unless the punishment is guaranteed to be roughly the same as if the crime was committed here.
As a counter point, consider Quebec. Became an British colony in 1763, one of the original Canadian provinces and still has their unique language and culture. BTW, 10 provinces and 3 territories in Canada.
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Minimum speeds in each lane could be a solution.
I wouldn't trust a lot of tires to be safe at 90 mph, especially the Chinese ones that are becoming common as they are cheap to buy and keep car costs down.
From what I understand from Germans I've talked to, it is the drivers that are safer. Getting a drivers license in Germany and much of Europe is much harder then in N. America. You basically have to take courses and the test is much harder. Also they aren't so dependent on cars so a lot of people who don't feel comfortable driving don't.
I've also been told that lanes on the autobahn have minimum speed limits so the slow drivers keep right and the fast drivers safely pass them.
Bandwidth, you try watching streaming porn on dialup when you can use a python script to download it.
The reason power limitation was so central to their design philosophy was due to a dictator with near absolute power they just had a war with.
What dictator with absolute power did America have a war with back then?
Don't forget the large government bureaucracy that was created during prohibition to prosecute alcohol use now needed a reason to exist.
Wrong, in UK style systems it is Parliament that is supreme, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliamentary_supremacy . Meaning they can write any law they like including a law that fires the Monarch. (James II as an example)
And as the House of Commons usually has all the power and is elected by the people it would not be incorrect to say that the government derives its power from the people.
This is modified in places like Canada by a Constitution containing a Bill of Rights (Charter of Freedoms in Canada's case)
It would be illegal to sell those DVDs in Canada without the French so it quite possible that they just throw the French warning on all the DVDs rather then having a separate run for Canada.
At the time he was about 5 (close to a dozen years ago) and very unmanageable, especially when it came to any thing to do with hospitals.
When my son got a MRI as part of being diagnosed as autistic, it was not a simple 15 minute test.
They had to put him under before testing (they have to lay still for 15 minutes) which is somewhat stressful and he had to observed for a couple of hours after the test before we could take him home.
The problem with being impaired is common sense goes out the window. With something like alcohol it is easier to engage common sense before getting impaired and make plans that don't involve driving.
Being tired can sneak up on you.
Now their commercials have "weed" as the cause of the accident.
Personally the most dangerous driving I've ever done was from being overtired and I'm sure that's true for many of us.
My last truck, a '86 Nissan had no electronic computers in it, not even in the radio. Did very well on the pollution test as well, even without a catalytic converter.
Before that I had a '84 diesel Nissan pickup. That didn't even need electricity to run (given a hill to start it on).
Most people I've talked to think Windows was free with their computer and the more advanced ones know it was free as they downloaded it.
The first time that GM almost went bankrupt it was private industry that bailed them out. To be exact a bankers trust lent GM the money to keep operating as they were too big to let fail. This was in 1910.
In 1920 history repeated. Billy Durant had sneaked back into control after the bankers had fired him in 1910 and once again GM was in major debt and too big to let fail. While the last time it was likely to take Detroit down with it if it failed, this time it looked like taking the whole country down with it.
Once again private enterprise in the person of DuPont bailed out GM.
So that is at least twice that GM was bailed out by private industry and allowed to grow even bigger at a time when there was very little government regulation.
The surface air temperature really has nothing to do with it whatsoever. It would still calve in the absence of any atmosphere at all.
Without any atmosphere at all the global temperature would be 40 kelvins colder due to no green house affect and the oceans would be frozen. I don't see how ice shelves would calve then.
I thought it was about rich land speculators wanting to steal (or cheat) land from its rightful owners and sell it at a massive profit.
What with the evil powerless King wanting to protect all his subjects, not just the white protestant ones.
What isn't well mapped is the galactic magnetic field.
Last time I crossed the Atlantic by ocean liner, they had a thing called "life boat drill". Basically practice for if the ship sank, and people showed up at their life boat stations pretty quick.
One of the problems with the Titanic was people had not practiced as it was considered unsinkable and even when it was sinking people still didn't believe it and preferred to stay on the ship rather then get in life boats.
Venus is an exception to some of your points. Large dense atmosphere without a magnetic field. Lots of reflective cloud without any water.
Who knows what other types of planets we might find.
You do realize that the old phone system was a government granted monopoly because they (the government) felt it was a waste to have multiple companies running lines in parallel, right? Competition was alive and well until the government handed AT&T a monopoly and said "It's all yours"
Where do you guys get this bullshit? While true that government granted patents helped with the creation of the AT&T monopoly by giving them a head start, they already were a monopoly when the government got involved and forced them to play nice with other phone companies (they had a policy that no others could use their long distance network, the best in the land due to owning most of the vacuum tube patents) and were on their way to buying up every other phone company as well as the telegraph companies.
When AT&T realized that they were under anti-trust investigation they offered a compromise to the government which ended up officially making them a monopoly.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingsbury_Commitment
As Drinkypoo points out further down the page, by industrial hemp I meant strains that have been bred for fiber and now a days very little THC.
You're talking about industrial marijuana. Marijuana being the word that was invented/popularized in the '30's to cover cannabis that is used for recreation. People back then would never of stood for illegalizing hemp.
You can't grow good pot in a field of industrial hemp. Industrial hemp has a large percentage of males. The males pollinate the good pot and ruin it.
Actually one of the easiest ways to get rid of pot is to grow lots of low potency industrial hemp. The pollen can blow hundreds of miles and ruin all the good stuff. The only way to grow the good stuff is in heavily filtered spaces.
There is a reason there are Extradition treaties. Murder may be illegal in many countries but we generally still extradite them back to where the crime was committed to properly serve justice at a sentence deemed appropriate by those affected.
No we don't. If I murder an American, whether from this side of the border or on your side then run back here, my government will not extradite me unless the punishment is guaranteed to be roughly the same as if the crime was committed here.
As a counter point, consider Quebec. Became an British colony in 1763, one of the original Canadian provinces and still has their unique language and culture.
BTW, 10 provinces and 3 territories in Canada.