I don't know about Mexico though it most likely be similar to Canada. If you annexed Canada (and we went along with it) you'd probably have 16+ democratic senators and quite a few democratic electors. Each province would most likely be admitted as a state excepting maybe Quebec which you probably couldn't digest. Excepting Alberta, most Canadian provinces would go with Democrat as they aren't quite so far right as the Republicans.
The anonymous coward above me explains the workings of our parliamentary system much better then I can so anyone interested who doesn't see it should read.
Anyone may, without charge or request for permission, reproduce enactments and consolidations of enactments of the Government of Canada, and decisions and reasons for decisions of federally constituted courts and administrative tribunals, provided due diligence is exercised in ensuring the accuracy of the materials reproduced and the reproduction is not represented as an official version.
Officially we are ruled by a Queen and only elect officials to give her advice. Practically they are our elected officials. Still officially the crown owns all government copyright though generally it is freely copy able as long as the source is acknowledged, the copy is accurate and it is for non-commercial use. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_copyright#Canada
They remodeled the local McDonald's a few years back. Put in a fireplace and comfy chairs. The outside playground is still there though. Never was an indoor one here. I don't really go to McDonald's anymore so haven't kept up on it. This is Canada btw.
Who takes the blood sample? In Canada they can only (easily) get a search warrant for a blood sample if you are in an accident and unconscious. They still have to come up with a doctor or medical technician to remove the blood. And yes they have to take 2 samples so you can get one and get it independently tested. Generally the road side breathalyzers are just so they can take you to the station for the "good" breathalyzer or usually they give you a 24 hr roadside suspension which doesn't involve court etc unless you are really drunk.
Well, what he has been diagnosed as is autistic. At the time of the diagnosis, about 12 years ago, there were quite a few posts on the net about milk and gluton causing or amplifying the symptoms of autism. My son wasn't so much hyper, more uncontrollable, including being extremely frustrated by not being able to talk. Anyways after reading various things about milk and gluton we cut out the milk and there was an immediate improvement, he even began to speak though he still has quite a speech impediment. The only thing i'm sorry about is that I didn't experiment sooner. Unluckily we all have been sold on the dairy propaganda about needing milk. One other point is that my wife is native American and it turns out that natives and various other races just don't have the enzymes required to digest lactose. Seems that it is a relatively recent mutation in Western European stock. The same is probably true of other races, they've individually evolved to handle certain diets.
Sure,as replied elsewhere the problem with my son turned out to be milk. Once milk was totally cut out of his diet he calmed down and became much more functional.
I guess it is a case of your mileage may vary. The McDonalds around here aren't that bad. Slightly noisy but no worse then a kid friendly park. Kids are kids, sometimes they talk and play loudly, especially when with other kids.
Actually my son was diagnosed as autistic long before he ever had any junk food, I actually made it quite a ways before he ever had any junk food. What actually calmed him down, and he even started to talk was cutting out milk from his diet. It was just too bad that he was almost 6 before we figured out the milk connection. And I really don't think going to McDonalds a couple of times a month is that bad.
The real question for some of us is, are they kid friendly? I spent quite a few years going to McDonald's because they were kid friendly. The nice restaurants I went to before becoming a parent were nice, but they weren't the kind of place that you could feel comfortable with a 2 year old. This is the big selling point of McDonald's, you can have a hyper kid there and not feel guilty for disturbing the next table.
That's how it is in Canada too, the only time you legally have to show ID is if you are operating a motor vehicle. Interestingly, having read the law, a motor vehicle includes ships, trains and airplanes.
But it is still an American problem, no one outside of the states can fix it. The people of the US have to change things so certain corporations and their politicians don't run over American's lives as well as their allies. Change will probably have to come from the bottom up, perhaps by state laws as you described then battling the courts until the supreme court makes a decision. Unluckily halve the time they don't seem to follow the US constitution and the other halve the time they interpret it in a very broad manner like the interstate commerce clause. Isn't it possible for the States to call a constitutional convention, bypass congress and amend the constitution? That seems like one way to override the Supreme court.
Sure be nice if you guys did go back to following the spirit of your constitution and lived up to your name, THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA instead of the way you are now. Perhaps you would stop pressuring your neighbors to follow your industry specific laws.
Modern revolutions need a bona fide General Actually just a bona fide leader. If a super majority of Americans just sat down and refused to go to work, what would be the effect?
Of course it had protected mode. It also had a sort of virtual memory, just no MMU. IIRC OS/2 1.x could fake up to a GB on the 286 with 16 MBs a process. It also wasn't equipped to run real mode sessions inside of protected mode so no virtual DOS boxes (actually through really weird trickery it could do one which was known as the penalty box)
While you're right about Gate's luck he did take advantage of it. So when some developer came up with a trick that made WIN 3.x possible he didn't tell IBM, instead changed his efforts to developing Win 3.x while leading IBM on with OS/2. He was also lucky that RAM prices stayed high which really gave the advantage to Windows. The Microsoft code in OS/2 1.x was shared so they couldn't do anything about IBM selling it. They did charge an arm and a leg for IBM to license Windows for OS/2 which is why the versions of OS/2 where you supplied your own Windows were much cheaper. The HPFS386 IFS was licensed to IBM for about $1000 a copy pushing the price of OS/2 server up by that much. Also their cross licensing agreement ran to Windows ver 4. When Microsoft released ver 4.095 (WIn95) IBM had no rights to it and Microsoft refused to sell it to them as an OEM unless IBM stopped preinstalling OS/2.
Actually it didn't implement Windows APis. It ran Windows. Remember Win 3.x needed an operating system to run on top of, usually DOS but in this case a DOS box inside of OS/2. It was actually superiour, you could use a better file system then FAT and could run multiple instances so when one crashed the others kept running. Also it supported a seamless mode so you could have a Windows program running on the OS/2 desktop. What it didn't support were vxds and only 512 MBs of memory per process so MS used more vxds and with WINS32 1.30 hardcoded some DLLs above the 1 GB mark
IIRC the first release of OS/2 ver 2 was in Dec of 1990. This release wasn't very ready but IBM wanted to see if Balmer would keep his promise to eat a floppy if OS/2 ver2 was released in 1990. Proper release was in 1991. One problem with the earlier releases of 2.x was that they were slow. Like OSX every new version was faster and needed less resources. Warp V3 came out in 1994 and was the first one that really could run on stock hardware. Oh the Windows 3.x interface was a direct copy of the OS/2 1.x interface with progman (did folders though) and fileman. I guess since MS wrote the 1.x interface its not too bad they ripped it off. Also Win 3.x could multitask DOS sessions, just not Windows apps
The first version of OS/2 I bought (v3 redbox) was $50 CDN retail. Redbox meant supply your own Windows, the bluebox with included Windows might have been $400 with $300 going to MS. I bought a used copy for $10. Shit MS charged $1000 for an OS/2 disk driver (HPFS386, needed for ACL support) making the server very expansive until IBM ported JFS. Microsoft did not make a very good partner.
OS/2 ver 2.11 cost me a stamp, had to supply my own version of Windows. This was an IBM promotion and was one version behind the newest at the time. No networking back then. OS/2 ver 3 cost me $50 cdn, also had to supply my own version of Windows. Networking consisted of enough of a stack to connect with dialup, this was 1994. Also included quite a few other apps such as a small office suite and all your internet apps though the mail client and newsreaders were shit. Upgrading to ver 4 cost me $100 ($200 full price, these are all retail) included windows, a full network stack and support for most network cards as well as support for quite a few other kinds of networks as well as everything from v3. Netscape was an icon that you clicked to download. 13 years later I'm still running that install though for my next computer I'll probably need a newer version if I want to take advantage of dual cores (or 64 cores). Full version is about $250 American, upgrades are of course cheaper. Where the first post pulled $400 from I have no idea.
Has there ever been a successful revolution with weapons? Even the Americans who like to brag about their revolution never got one shot off within 3000 miles of the capital, though they did succeed in separating. The French revolution led to a reign of terror. The first English revolution led to having a Lord Protector instead of a King. The Russian revolution led to the USSR. Most of the successful revolutions where the government was overthrown have been mostly non-violent, from the Glorious Revolution of the late 1600's (where the first Bill of Rights, 1689 came from) through to the overthrowing of the communists of eastern Europe.
Still seems weird to me that such a basic right can be, through implied consent, waived. Especially as driving in much of N. America is close to required to function. Still if you only lose your license for a year for refusing it's not to bad. Here the minimum is 1 yr suspension, $300 fine with jail time quite possible, not to mention the criminal record. And that's only for the first offence.
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I don't know about Mexico though it most likely be similar to Canada.
If you annexed Canada (and we went along with it) you'd probably have 16+ democratic senators and quite a few democratic electors.
Each province would most likely be admitted as a state excepting maybe Quebec which you probably couldn't digest. Excepting Alberta, most Canadian provinces would go with Democrat as they aren't quite so far right as the Republicans.
The anonymous coward above me explains the workings of our parliamentary system much better then I can so anyone interested who doesn't see it should read.
I guess that officially they are working for the Queen, so she owns the copyright.
Still, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_copyright#Canada
Anyone may, without charge or request for permission, reproduce enactments and consolidations of enactments of the Government of Canada, and decisions and reasons for decisions of federally constituted courts and administrative tribunals, provided due diligence is exercised in ensuring the accuracy of the materials reproduced and the reproduction is not represented as an official version.
Officially we are ruled by a Queen and only elect officials to give her advice. Practically they are our elected officials. Still officially the crown owns all government copyright though generally it is freely copy able as long as the source is acknowledged, the copy is accurate and it is for non-commercial use. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_copyright#Canada
They remodeled the local McDonald's a few years back. Put in a fireplace and comfy chairs. The outside playground is still there though. Never was an indoor one here. I don't really go to McDonald's anymore so haven't kept up on it. This is Canada btw.
Who takes the blood sample? In Canada they can only (easily) get a search warrant for a blood sample if you are in an accident and unconscious. They still have to come up with a doctor or medical technician to remove the blood. And yes they have to take 2 samples so you can get one and get it independently tested.
Generally the road side breathalyzers are just so they can take you to the station for the "good" breathalyzer or usually they give you a 24 hr roadside suspension which doesn't involve court etc unless you are really drunk.
Well, what he has been diagnosed as is autistic. At the time of the diagnosis, about 12 years ago, there were quite a few posts on the net about milk and gluton causing or amplifying the symptoms of autism. My son wasn't so much hyper, more uncontrollable, including being extremely frustrated by not being able to talk. Anyways after reading various things about milk and gluton we cut out the milk and there was an immediate improvement, he even began to speak though he still has quite a speech impediment. The only thing i'm sorry about is that I didn't experiment sooner. Unluckily we all have been sold on the dairy propaganda about needing milk.
One other point is that my wife is native American and it turns out that natives and various other races just don't have the enzymes required to digest lactose. Seems that it is a relatively recent mutation in Western European stock. The same is probably true of other races, they've individually evolved to handle certain diets.
Sure,as replied elsewhere the problem with my son turned out to be milk. Once milk was totally cut out of his diet he calmed down and became much more functional.
I guess it is a case of your mileage may vary. The McDonalds around here aren't that bad. Slightly noisy but no worse then a kid friendly park.
Kids are kids, sometimes they talk and play loudly, especially when with other kids.
Actually my son was diagnosed as autistic long before he ever had any junk food, I actually made it quite a ways before he ever had any junk food.
What actually calmed him down, and he even started to talk was cutting out milk from his diet. It was just too bad that he was almost 6 before we figured out the milk connection.
And I really don't think going to McDonalds a couple of times a month is that bad.
The real question for some of us is, are they kid friendly?
I spent quite a few years going to McDonald's because they were kid friendly. The nice restaurants I went to before becoming a parent were nice, but they weren't the kind of place that you could feel comfortable with a 2 year old. This is the big selling point of McDonald's, you can have a hyper kid there and not feel guilty for disturbing the next table.
That's how it is in Canada too, the only time you legally have to show ID is if you are operating a motor vehicle. Interestingly, having read the law, a motor vehicle includes ships, trains and airplanes.
Well I guess that is one problem that we both could fix as easily. At that there is a very good chance that you live closer to Tony Blair then I do.
WTF, my country is up there with China, Russia etc as one of the worst countries about copyright, at least according to the Americans.
http://www.ustr.gov/Document_Library/Press_Releases/2009/April/USTR_Releases_2009_Special_301_Report.html
But it is still an American problem, no one outside of the states can fix it. The people of the US have to change things so certain corporations and their politicians don't run over American's lives as well as their allies. Change will probably have to come from the bottom up, perhaps by state laws as you described then battling the courts until the supreme court makes a decision. Unluckily halve the time they don't seem to follow the US constitution and the other halve the time they interpret it in a very broad manner like the interstate commerce clause.
Isn't it possible for the States to call a constitutional convention, bypass congress and amend the constitution? That seems like one way to override the Supreme court.
Sure be nice if you guys did go back to following the spirit of your constitution and lived up to your name, THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA instead of the way you are now.
Perhaps you would stop pressuring your neighbors to follow your industry specific laws.
Modern revolutions need a bona fide General
Actually just a bona fide leader. If a super majority of Americans just sat down and refused to go to work, what would be the effect?
Of course it had protected mode. It also had a sort of virtual memory, just no MMU. IIRC OS/2 1.x could fake up to a GB on the 286 with 16 MBs a process. It also wasn't equipped to run real mode sessions inside of protected mode so no virtual DOS boxes (actually through really weird trickery it could do one which was known as the penalty box)
While you're right about Gate's luck he did take advantage of it. So when some developer came up with a trick that made WIN 3.x possible he didn't tell IBM, instead changed his efforts to developing Win 3.x while leading IBM on with OS/2. He was also lucky that RAM prices stayed high which really gave the advantage to Windows.
The Microsoft code in OS/2 1.x was shared so they couldn't do anything about IBM selling it.
They did charge an arm and a leg for IBM to license Windows for OS/2 which is why the versions of OS/2 where you supplied your own Windows were much cheaper. The HPFS386 IFS was licensed to IBM for about $1000 a copy pushing the price of OS/2 server up by that much.
Also their cross licensing agreement ran to Windows ver 4. When Microsoft released ver 4.095 (WIn95) IBM had no rights to it and Microsoft refused to sell it to them as an OEM unless IBM stopped preinstalling OS/2.
Actually it didn't implement Windows APis. It ran Windows. Remember Win 3.x needed an operating system to run on top of, usually DOS but in this case a DOS box inside of OS/2.
It was actually superiour, you could use a better file system then FAT and could run multiple instances so when one crashed the others kept running. Also it supported a seamless mode so you could have a Windows program running on the OS/2 desktop.
What it didn't support were vxds and only 512 MBs of memory per process so MS used more vxds and with WINS32 1.30 hardcoded some DLLs above the 1 GB mark
IIRC the first release of OS/2 ver 2 was in Dec of 1990. This release wasn't very ready but IBM wanted to see if Balmer would keep his promise to eat a floppy if OS/2 ver2 was released in 1990. Proper release was in 1991.
One problem with the earlier releases of 2.x was that they were slow. Like OSX every new version was faster and needed less resources.
Warp V3 came out in 1994 and was the first one that really could run on stock hardware.
Oh the Windows 3.x interface was a direct copy of the OS/2 1.x interface with progman (did folders though) and fileman. I guess since MS wrote the 1.x interface its not too bad they ripped it off.
Also Win 3.x could multitask DOS sessions, just not Windows apps
The first version of OS/2 I bought (v3 redbox) was $50 CDN retail. Redbox meant supply your own Windows, the bluebox with included Windows might have been $400 with $300 going to MS. I bought a used copy for $10. Shit MS charged $1000 for an OS/2 disk driver (HPFS386, needed for ACL support) making the server very expansive until IBM ported JFS. Microsoft did not make a very good partner.
OS/2 ver 2.11 cost me a stamp, had to supply my own version of Windows. This was an IBM promotion and was one version behind the newest at the time. No networking back then.
OS/2 ver 3 cost me $50 cdn, also had to supply my own version of Windows. Networking consisted of enough of a stack to connect with dialup, this was 1994. Also included quite a few other apps such as a small office suite and all your internet apps though the mail client and newsreaders were shit.
Upgrading to ver 4 cost me $100 ($200 full price, these are all retail) included windows, a full network stack and support for most network cards as well as support for quite a few other kinds of networks as well as everything from v3. Netscape was an icon that you clicked to download.
13 years later I'm still running that install though for my next computer I'll probably need a newer version if I want to take advantage of dual cores (or 64 cores). Full version is about $250 American, upgrades are of course cheaper.
Where the first post pulled $400 from I have no idea.
Has there ever been a successful revolution with weapons? Even the Americans who like to brag about their revolution never got one shot off within 3000 miles of the capital, though they did succeed in separating. The French revolution led to a reign of terror. The first English revolution led to having a Lord Protector instead of a King. The Russian revolution led to the USSR.
Most of the successful revolutions where the government was overthrown have been mostly non-violent, from the Glorious Revolution of the late 1600's (where the first Bill of Rights, 1689 came from) through to the overthrowing of the communists of eastern Europe.
Still seems weird to me that such a basic right can be, through implied consent, waived. Especially as driving in much of N. America is close to required to function. Still if you only lose your license for a year for refusing it's not to bad. Here the minimum is 1 yr suspension, $300 fine with jail time quite possible, not to mention the criminal record. And that's only for the first offence.