1) King George (III) did not mandate taxes in the colonies, the monarchy was already a pretty powerless figurehead, Parliament mandated the taxes
2) The tax changes that caused the Boston Tea Party were a subsidy paid to the East India Company...this meant that the price of Tea was lower, and the Tea thrown into the Sea was cheap tea that would have flooded the market and made the Luxury commodity of Tea suddenly very cheap, the only people who would lose out were Tea Smugglers, and Non East India company merchants
The real thing most of the 13 colonies were complaining about was taxation (at all) without representation - Not any particular tax, this tax change was just the flashpoint
Russia (Just Russia not the whole of what was the USSR) is the worlds largest country 6,323,482sq miles (USA is 3,537,455)
The USSR was much larger, Kazakhstan one of the ex-Soviet states is the 9th Largest country...
But Russia only has half the population of the USA... so they are very spread out...
Note From New York you can "only" go 4000 km in a straight line and not enter another country (or get to a coast), From Moscow you can go 6500 km inside Russia in a straight line and not enter another country or reach the sea...
For "Wasn't a problem" read was a problem but no one cared enough to change it...
How many votes were taken in one business towns in the full view of your employer, who noted who voted against him...
Anonymous voting is not easy to cheat, if you do it right, it's just historically the US has mostly done it badly so that it has been relatively easy to cheat...Voting machines and E-voting makes it worse not better....
The only thing Google+ has over Facebook is Circles where you can easily communicate with different groups in different ways, which is what people do in real life
Facebook have a way to do this, but handled badly with the default of publish to everyone....
Neither is anywhere near perfect, and so I use both but spend much more time on Facebook because that is where most people are....
..no voter fraud in public ballots... you are very much mistaken, what is to stop the room being filled by travelling voters
Anonymous voting is so people not intimidated into voting against their beliefs
Your system of voting for a president is barely democratic, this is why you have had several times a president elected who did not have the support of the majority of voters?
Ahh the cable companies mess... Loads of small companies who signed people up to cable TV and broadband as they laid the cables.... and so only cabled up the people who wanted it then...
These all eventually were merged into what is now Virgin Media... who now have the legacy of this patchy system....
Can I have cable broadband, no sorry your building has not been cabled, even though I live in the centre of a large UK city, two doors down from the telephone exchange!
Mixed Tennis is not what you think, It requires one man and one woman per team
Mixed sports would very quickly become Men only unless there was no strength advantage....which is rare in sport, Equestrian sports being one notable exception
"Africans" are not a race (since these really do not exist), and genetic tests on the native populations in Africa show that they have more genetic diversity than the rest of the world put together, any generalisations about them make no sense....
Try Lydia Fairchild she gave birth to three children that were hers biologically, but blood tests showed she was unrelated to... she is a Human Chimera and has two sets of DNA and chromosomes
It is therefore possible that the two sets could be different genders... and the answer could really be both...
They said it's because : It's faster, and they will be paid an amount of compensation more in line with their loss because the court understands the real value
So according to what you said above their reasons are valid?
They already assume that winning the case if a given...filing in a US court against a US company means they think they have a strong case...
Your uncle and cousins may run a successful business, but unless one of them knows mathematics of this level, then someone else is running at least some aspects of the business for them...
If you are rich and successful then you can afford to pay specialists, to get rich and successful you need to be a generalist and understand at least up to a pre-college level in all the basic subjects....
See also : History, Science, Politics, Languages, Geography, Sport,.... and the entire rest of the curriculum by the same argument
If you don't teach these basic subjects then you are taking the option of the jobs that do depend on them away from everyone, and having them as part of your toolkit of skills may give you the advantage over others one day however esoteric or apparently unnecessary they seem to be
Two senators : Selected by one of the two parties, and in a lot of states got in almost automatically due to the voting of other people
Several Representatives : Selected by one of the two parties, and in many areas got in almost automatically
A President : Selected by one of two parties then voted by electoral college which may mean not a strict majority of the people
I assume there are republicans and independents in e.g. Connecticut, who represents them : 1 Democrat President, 2 Democrat Senators, 5 Democrat Representatives?
Civil war - Two comparably trained armies fighting each other - not civilians American Revolution - the militia was losing until they got proper training and support (from France, Spain and the Dutch Republic) and became an army......so even those do not count as civilian's prevailing against the government
If the Police (in the UK) Stop a Car driver they can legally ask for a driving licence (and so get identification)
If the Police (in the UK) stop a cyclist or pedestrian, then they have no power of search or to ask for ID, unless they arrest you....which they are loathe to do without evidence...
Unitary Authorities members are generally elected largely unopposed as well, since in most cases no one is interested, or they vote on party lines to "send a message" to central government....
The general public largely don't vote in these elections, either due to lack of interest, because they don't know what they do, or they vote on things the body has no responsibility for...
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...and yet we still chisel on stone in certain rare circumstances, and still use tapes where they are better/cheaper
Old technology is very often not replaced merely superseded, and often there is a niche for the old way
(I don't think this is a valid use in this case but....)
George Grenville introduced the stamp act (Tea Tax) not appointed by George III, Dismissed by him largely over this ...
He appointed Charles Watson-Wentworth who pushed for US independence
Right attitude wrong analogy
1) King George (III) did not mandate taxes in the colonies, the monarchy was already a pretty powerless figurehead, Parliament mandated the taxes
2) The tax changes that caused the Boston Tea Party were a subsidy paid to the East India Company ...this meant that the price of Tea was lower, and the Tea thrown into the Sea was cheap tea that would have flooded the market and made the Luxury commodity of Tea suddenly very cheap, the only people who would lose out were Tea Smugglers, and Non East India company merchants
The real thing most of the 13 colonies were complaining about was taxation (at all) without representation - Not any particular tax, this tax change was just the flashpoint
1) They don't have a monopoly in phones, they have much less than 50% of the market
2) They don't have a monopoly in smart phones, they have much less than 50% of the market
3) They don't have a monopoly in smart phones in the USA, they have much less than 50% of the market
They currently have a large part of the Tablet market....
Russia (Just Russia not the whole of what was the USSR) is the worlds largest country 6,323,482sq miles (USA is 3,537,455)
The USSR was much larger, Kazakhstan one of the ex-Soviet states is the 9th Largest country ...
But Russia only has half the population of the USA ... so they are very spread out ...
Note From New York you can "only" go 4000 km in a straight line and not enter another country (or get to a coast), From Moscow you can go 6500 km inside Russia in a straight line and not enter another country or reach the sea ...
For "Wasn't a problem" read was a problem but no one cared enough to change it ...
How many votes were taken in one business towns in the full view of your employer, who noted who voted against him ...
Anonymous voting is not easy to cheat, if you do it right, it's just historically the US has mostly done it badly so that it has been relatively easy to cheat ...Voting machines and E-voting makes it worse not better ....
The only thing Google+ has over Facebook is Circles where you can easily communicate with different groups in different ways, which is what people do in real life
Facebook have a way to do this, but handled badly with the default of publish to everyone ....
Neither is anywhere near perfect, and so I use both but spend much more time on Facebook because that is where most people are....
...So another brilliant name that does not even mean the same thing all across the USA let alone the rest of the world ...?
Get everyone used to the name then drop it and replace it with "Windows 8 UI" !
..no voter fraud in public ballots ... you are very much mistaken, what is to stop the room being filled by travelling voters
Anonymous voting is so people not intimidated into voting against their beliefs
Your system of voting for a president is barely democratic, this is why you have had several times a president elected who did not have the support of the majority of voters?
Metro : US and French name for an underground railway system, aka Underground, Tube, Subway, etc .etc .etc ...
Asian is not a race : they are the second most diverse "race" Indians and Japanese have very little in common ...
The nearest we have is Caucasian (which I am) but this covers both Arnold Schwarzenegger and DJ Qualls so even that is relatively diverse
Having said that, genetically we are all very very similar ....
Ahh the cable companies mess ... Loads of small companies who signed people up to cable TV and broadband as they laid the cables.... and so only cabled up the people who wanted it then ...
These all eventually were merged into what is now Virgin Media ... who now have the legacy of this patchy system ....
Can I have cable broadband, no sorry your building has not been cabled, even though I live in the centre of a large UK city, two doors down from the telephone exchange!
Try getting compensation from a courier firm.... they are almost up to Post Office standards ...
Mixed Tennis is not what you think, It requires one man and one woman per team
Mixed sports would very quickly become Men only unless there was no strength advantage ....which is rare in sport, Equestrian sports being one notable exception
"Africans" are not a race (since these really do not exist), and genetic tests on the native populations in Africa show that they have more genetic diversity than the rest of the world put together, any generalisations about them make no sense ....
So what is XXX?
XXY?
XY where the Y is broken and has no effect
X - Ullrich-Turner syndrome
Chimera who has both XX and XY ?
etc ..
In any either/or question there is almost always a third option, in this case the list is extensive ...
Try Lydia Fairchild she gave birth to three children that were hers biologically, but blood tests showed she was unrelated to ... she is a Human Chimera and has two sets of DNA and chromosomes
It is therefore possible that the two sets could be different genders... and the answer could really be both ...
They said it's because : It's faster, and they will be paid an amount of compensation more in line with their loss because the court understands the real value
So according to what you said above their reasons are valid?
They already assume that winning the case if a given...filing in a US court against a US company means they think they have a strong case ...
Your uncle and cousins may run a successful business, but unless one of them knows mathematics of this level, then someone else is running at least some aspects of the business for them ...
If you are rich and successful then you can afford to pay specialists, to get rich and successful you need to be a generalist and understand at least up to a pre-college level in all the basic subjects ....
See also : History, Science, Politics, Languages, Geography, Sport, .... and the entire rest of the curriculum by the same argument
If you don't teach these basic subjects then you are taking the option of the jobs that do depend on them away from everyone, and having them as part of your toolkit of skills may give you the advantage over others one day however esoteric or apparently unnecessary they seem to be
Your government - You are represented by :
Two senators : Selected by one of the two parties, and in a lot of states got in almost automatically due to the voting of other people
Several Representatives : Selected by one of the two parties, and in many areas got in almost automatically
A President : Selected by one of two parties then voted by electoral college which may mean not a strict majority of the people
I assume there are republicans and independents in e.g. Connecticut, who represents them : 1 Democrat President, 2 Democrat Senators, 5 Democrat Representatives?
Scratch an US libertarian....
Like many terms libertarian seems to mean different things in the USA, see also Democrat, Republican, Political Right, Left etc ...
Civil war - Two comparably trained armies fighting each other - not civilians ... ...so even those do not count as civilian's prevailing against the government
American Revolution - the militia was losing until they got proper training and support (from France, Spain and the Dutch Republic) and became an army
If the Police (in the UK) Stop a Car driver they can legally ask for a driving licence (and so get identification)
If the Police (in the UK) stop a cyclist or pedestrian, then they have no power of search or to ask for ID, unless they arrest you....which they are loathe to do without evidence ...
Unitary Authorities members are generally elected largely unopposed as well, since in most cases no one is interested, or they vote on party lines to "send a message" to central government ....
The general public largely don't vote in these elections, either due to lack of interest, because they don't know what they do, or they vote on things the body has no responsibility for ...