Drinking a cup of coffee and then driving isn't going to impair you. Driving after using Cannabis is a bigger deal, I've used and driven and it was at least as impairing as drinking alcohol.
Also, you can't tell me that coffee impairs you worse than Cannabis while working.
Prop 19 is getting very little coverage. I'm in Alaska which already has liberal laws on personal marijuana possession, theres no coverage on the local TV news, local papers, hell its a side issue even for the national news.
You can drive across the continental US in 24 hours? 36 to 60 is a better estimate.
I call shenanigans. LA to Jacksonville is pretty much the shortest coast to coast route and thats 2410 miles. Without stopping for fuel, food, you'd have to average 100 mph. Even doing it in 36 hours would be hard to do.
I drove Portland to Jacksonville with only a four hour stop once, it was goddamned dangerous and I shouldn't have pushed it that hard.
Many more than 50. We have Tribal Courts that cover Tribal Law, the State Courts, and Federal Courts.
The systems are similar everywhere so its not like in North Dakota you have capital punishment for adultery and in South Dakota there is anarchy while Wyoming operates Sharia courts.
In some places corporatist and constitutionalist overlap.
Elimination of income taxes (corporate taxes especially) Elimination of the EPA and environmental laws Making wages a state issue so some states could dive to the bottom of wages to attract employers Elimination of the Department of Education so unskilled workers can get locked into jobs and never move on cause they don't have skills or knowledge to change jobs.
On 7 April 1795, the gram was decreed in France to be equal to “the absolute weight of a volume of water equal to the cube of the hundredth part of the meter, at the temperature of melting ice.”
So why not switch that to beer? Lager, Porter or Bock is a better question than Ale or Lager.
The US was one of the original signatories to the treaty that defined the meter and started the BIPM which lead to the SI.
All US weights and measures, no matter what standard they are on, come from the National Bureau of Standards which standardized on the metric system, as has the USGS (since the early 19th century).
THe NBS has standard meter and kilograms that are copies of the originals kept in Paris, so the US has a valid reason to wonder about the new kilogram definition.
In the US a treaty becomes the law of the US, so thats why the writers of the US Constitution put in that the Senate would have to ratify the treaty with a 2/3rds vote.
Even with a Democratic majority in the Senate, the Obama Administration will be very hard pressed into getting some Republicans to come over and sign this.
The Administration knows ACTA will not pass, if the details get out it'll be a firestorm among the most liberal Democrats, the Blue Dog moderates and Constitutionalist Republicans (more of whom will be in come January '11).
So the Administration is trying to end-around the Constitution and say it's not a treaty.
Clinton tried to do this with the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty, On 13 October 1999, the United States Senate rejected ratification of the CTBT and the Clinton Administration tried to lay the ground work to enforce it's compliance in the US anyway. I recall the Senate sending the White House a letter on it and it pretty much
OK, lets say there was a civilization here*, oh 10 MYA.
They could have very well gotten their oil from locations that have since uplifted and had the oil deposits fractured and destroyed, not tapping or discovering or playing out the deposits we've worked.
The Rift Valley, Anatolia, Brooks Range, Rocky Mountains of Wyoming and Colorado all come to mind from Petrology class of places that used to have a lot of oil, but mountain uplift destroyed most of it.
Or hell, maybe they settled mostly in Antarctica 30 MYA
As for geosync satellites, those would have spun off or come back down within a million years.
If we turned the clock back to when Microsoft was putting all the Terraserver photos up, if they'd had a database of IP and geographical coordinates, a community like/. would have gone nuts.
But for some reason when Google does creepy crap, they get a free pass.
I don't think for a second Google was just connecting data from unsecured transmitters, with the computing power they have I'd bet they were grabbing encrypted and unencrypted data to go over later.
Gems and Inscriptions are great money makers even for players like myself who don't have end-game recipes, but you are right, blacksmithing, leatherworking and engineering should have viable recipes for end-game.
Its a good game. I've been playing since the day it launched, but took a couple six to nine month breaks.
My fiancée totally got hooked on auctioning and crafting and playing as a healer while I like to gather and do 5 mans with either a warrior or warlock.
In the long run, 50-100 years, Canada is going to be in more danger of having a succession crisis than the US.
If the US did invade...
Roll the Strykers from Fort Lewis to take southern BC, Fort Rich Strykers and airborne down the Alaska Highway to take northern BC and the guys from Fort Carson and Fort Riley to take the Prairie Provinces and it's over.
From what I saw of the Yukon they'd probably wave American flags as the Strykers rolled past just in hopes of getting their roads fixed during the occupation.
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Drinking a cup of coffee and then driving isn't going to impair you. Driving after using Cannabis is a bigger deal, I've used and driven and it was at least as impairing as drinking alcohol.
Also, you can't tell me that coffee impairs you worse than Cannabis while working.
Prop 19 is getting very little coverage. I'm in Alaska which already has liberal laws on personal marijuana possession, theres no coverage on the local TV news, local papers, hell its a side issue even for the national news.
Come up to Alaska and then complain about plane fares.
It costs less to fly long distances because longer flights are much more fuel efficient and cost effective.
You can drive across the continental US in 24 hours? 36 to 60 is a better estimate.
I call shenanigans. LA to Jacksonville is pretty much the shortest coast to coast route and thats 2410 miles. Without stopping for fuel, food, you'd have to average 100 mph. Even doing it in 36 hours would be hard to do.
I drove Portland to Jacksonville with only a four hour stop once, it was goddamned dangerous and I shouldn't have pushed it that hard.
Last time I checked guns at SeaTac the female TSA agent who made sure everything was locked up tight was very cute and very nice.
They aren't all moronic goons, we talked guns and iOS apps while my fiancee got an extra lock for my case.
Many more than 50. We have Tribal Courts that cover Tribal Law, the State Courts, and Federal Courts.
The systems are similar everywhere so its not like in North Dakota you have capital punishment for adultery and in South Dakota there is anarchy while Wyoming operates Sharia courts.
In some places corporatist and constitutionalist overlap.
Elimination of income taxes (corporate taxes especially)
Elimination of the EPA and environmental laws
Making wages a state issue so some states could dive to the bottom of wages to attract employers
Elimination of the Department of Education so unskilled workers can get locked into jobs and never move on cause they don't have skills or knowledge to change jobs.
We measure distances in inches, feet, yards and miles. The media uses football fields as a alternative to acres when trying to dumb it down.
Learn some history of the Metric System and the United States.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrication_in_the_United_States#19th_century
Everything the Federal Government does is in the Metric system, sometimes it's converted to United States customary units.
The US Military has been metric for ages, weapons, distances, weights are all metric.
Hell, half the parts of my truck are metric and it was built 20 years ago.
On 7 April 1795, the gram was decreed in France to be equal to “the absolute weight of a volume of water equal to the cube of the hundredth part of the meter, at the temperature of melting ice.”
So why not switch that to beer? Lager, Porter or Bock is a better question than Ale or Lager.
The US was one of the original signatories to the treaty that defined the meter and started the BIPM which lead to the SI.
All US weights and measures, no matter what standard they are on, come from the National Bureau of Standards which standardized on the metric system, as has the USGS (since the early 19th century).
THe NBS has standard meter and kilograms that are copies of the originals kept in Paris, so the US has a valid reason to wonder about the new kilogram definition.
In the US a treaty becomes the law of the US, so thats why the writers of the US Constitution put in that the Senate would have to ratify the treaty with a 2/3rds vote.
Even with a Democratic majority in the Senate, the Obama Administration will be very hard pressed into getting some Republicans to come over and sign this.
The Administration knows ACTA will not pass, if the details get out it'll be a firestorm among the most liberal Democrats, the Blue Dog moderates and Constitutionalist Republicans (more of whom will be in come January '11).
So the Administration is trying to end-around the Constitution and say it's not a treaty.
Clinton tried to do this with the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty, On 13 October 1999, the United States Senate rejected ratification of the CTBT and the Clinton Administration tried to lay the ground work to enforce it's compliance in the US anyway. I recall the Senate sending the White House a letter on it and it pretty much
http://www.acronym.org.uk/dd/dd47/47kyl.htm
OK, lets say there was a civilization here*, oh 10 MYA.
They could have very well gotten their oil from locations that have since uplifted and had the oil deposits fractured and destroyed, not tapping or discovering or playing out the deposits we've worked.
The Rift Valley, Anatolia, Brooks Range, Rocky Mountains of Wyoming and Colorado all come to mind from Petrology class of places that used to have a lot of oil, but mountain uplift destroyed most of it.
Or hell, maybe they settled mostly in Antarctica 30 MYA
As for geosync satellites, those would have spun off or come back down within a million years.
* - I don't believe there was
Humans have been leaving artifacts of technology for over 30,000 years. Advanced technology and urban centers for roughly 8-10,000 years.
Except some American Indians did inhabit the LA Basin.
http://www.tongva.com/links.htm
http://www.habitatauthority.org/pdf/native_american_history.pdf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_peoples_of_California
Geosynchronous orbit is not forever, the Earth will have a gravitational pull on it and eventually bring it down.
Without a civilization there to monitor the satellites and perform stationkeeping routines, eventually they would come down.
Well, knew him virtually up till about two years ago on a MUSH.
Real asshat, I banned him a few times, he'd slink back and apologize and then be weird again.
If we turned the clock back to when Microsoft was putting all the Terraserver photos up, if they'd had a database of IP and geographical coordinates, a community like /. would have gone nuts.
But for some reason when Google does creepy crap, they get a free pass.
I don't think for a second Google was just connecting data from unsecured transmitters, with the computing power they have I'd bet they were grabbing encrypted and unencrypted data to go over later.
Gems and Inscriptions are great money makers even for players like myself who don't have end-game recipes, but you are right, blacksmithing, leatherworking and engineering should have viable recipes for end-game.
I took my first break when I had some neuralgia and my guild was in trouble going into BC raiding content.
I took my second break when I met a girl, was breaking up with my SO, that kept going into meeting another girl and getting engaged.
I took some time off this summer to play alot of Xbox with a buddy and fire up some Empire Total War.
I'm back getting ready for Cat, will be around for that.
Its a good game. I've been playing since the day it launched, but took a couple six to nine month breaks.
My fiancée totally got hooked on auctioning and crafting and playing as a healer while I like to gather and do 5 mans with either a warrior or warlock.
The golden age of Islamic science and literacy was in the 800-900s, since then its all been a downhill slide.
-3.38, -2.05. I still vote for more Republicans than Democrats.
What about software Libertarianism?
There is a strong coder culture among Hasidic and Orthodox Jews too.
Pretty much.
In the long run, 50-100 years, Canada is going to be in more danger of having a succession crisis than the US.
If the US did invade...
Roll the Strykers from Fort Lewis to take southern BC, Fort Rich Strykers and airborne down the Alaska Highway to take northern BC and the guys from Fort Carson and Fort Riley to take the Prairie Provinces and it's over.
From what I saw of the Yukon they'd probably wave American flags as the Strykers rolled past just in hopes of getting their roads fixed during the occupation.