The USA allows dual citizenship in certain circumstances, and you would not automatically lose your citizenship by declaring your home an independent country.
The illegality of entering the United States from your country would come from not entering the US via a legal border crossing location. Maybe not even then; you could claim diplomatic immunity. It probably gets even messier than that, but we're building castles in the sky here.
Years before the Civil War, there was an abortive attempt in the New England states to secede. Implicit in that attempt was a recognition of state's rights.
The United States of America is a union of states. It says so in the name. When the government of a state secedes in accordance with its own laws, it's done. The vote of its populace is irrelevant unless the state law requires such a vote. You might as well claim that the South's secession was illegitimate because pre-teens and women didn't vote.
Slavery was the ultimate cause. Without slavery, not only would the Civil War never happened, but without slavery the idea that the war would have happened is preposterous. The proximate cause of secession was the election of Lincoln, the proximate cause of the war was firing on Fort Sumter.
The Constitution specifies the powers of the federal government, and the powers are explicitly limited to those specified. The power to prevent secession is not specified, nor is secession prohibited. Therefor secession is legal.
The Constitutions enumerated rights and freedom's were created to get the average citizen at the time to fight the British.
That's a nice trick. The American Revolutionary War ended in 1783. The Constitution was created September 17, 1787, ratified June 21, 1788, and became effective March 4, 1789
It can be well argued that the Declaration of Independence named rights that promoted the Revolution.
Popular sovereignty was not an established principle when Portugal last became independent.Catalan independence is likely to be accepted internationally.
Those at the bottom are becoming increasingly immobile because of the social security net. Government welfare providers actively promote their goodies (in order to protect and expand their jobs), and encourage people already ensnared to stay there. That, and aggressive philosophy of "people who work are suckers" solidfy the position of the poorest.
Yep, the very small number of rich people owning corporations are appropriating the collective contribution of blah blah blah. Stocks are corporation ownership. Over 50% of Americans own stocks. A very small number.
Not impossible, but much more difficult. Socialism, by heavily taxing high earners, makes it difficult to accumulate enough money to do advanced research or build a factory. Socialism, by reducing the monetary gain available to the owner of a new factory, reduces the incentive to build that factory.
Let's take your example of fish stocks. Cod in the northern Atlantic has been terribly reduced by overfishing. Overfishing happened because there were no property rights defined; nobody could own a fishing territory. A "tragedy of the commons" developed.
Property rights are an aspect of capitalism, property rights would allow ownership of fishing grounds, and a wise property owner would act to sustain the long term viability of his resource.
There are always going to be bad actors: people who, given the chance, will deforest a county and leave behind a wasteland and unpaid debts. Capitalism is not unusual in that regard, and there do need to be protection mechanisms in place to prevent such disasters, and that means uncorrupted government.
Somewhere along the spectrum is likely the optimum solution.
What portion of armed robbery is optimum? What part of the populace engaged in unproductive and anti-productive activities is best?
History is replete with examples of fools and villains pushing "third way" and "compromise" plans. The systematic (and systemic) failure to protect rights is inferior to the protection of rights.
One advantage of inequality is that it serves as an incentive to those on the low end to produce more.
You are technically wrong. Borax is disodium tetraborate, usually incorporated into a crystal with a fair amount of water. Boric acid is B(OH)3
In photography, borax is used in the popular black & white developer D76, where it acts as a weak solvent of silver halides (among other functions) and generally makes the developer worse by weakening the contrast in areas of low exposure. Stop bath is usually dilute acetic acid. Fixer is based on sodium thiosulphate, which works better if acidified (I guess boric acid could be used for acidification; Kodak Rapid Fixer uses sulphuric acid IIRC.)
Wild apple trees have 3 additional disadvantages. They're often shaded by taller trees, so the apples don't grow as big or ripen as soon. They aren't fertilized. They aren't pruned for best production. (To the best of my knowledge, commercial apple trees aren't usually watered, but I could be wrong.)
If a commercial apple orchard were to stop using pesticides, in the short term there'd be a lot of wormy apples, and in the long term there might be some trees damaged or killed. At least some of the trees in abandoned apple orchards live many decades.
I have on 2 or 3 occasions eaten a freshly picked unwashed apple that turned out to have pesticide residue, and the effects were pretty nasty. My throat constricted; I could neither swallow nor burp (fortunately, I could still breathe). I started drooling. The effects lasted perhaps 10 or 15 minutes.
This has never happened with supermarket apples; I assume they wash their produce or their suppliers do. Farmstands seldom bother to wash. Beware.
San Francisco is about 5 billion dollars in debt. Although that's only 1/4 of the per capita debt of NYC, it's still irresponsible of the city to make such a claim.
The big bang was symmetrical, expanding in both positive and negative time. Matter is weakly coupled to time, anti-matter is weakly coupled to negative time. We live in positive time, and thus see mostly matter.
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Catalonia is bordered by Spain, France, and the Mediterranean Sea.
Switzerland is one such "random hole."
Islamists would love to reconquer Spain, and they are a problem throughout Europe.
The USA allows dual citizenship in certain circumstances, and you would not automatically lose your citizenship by declaring your home an independent country.
The illegality of entering the United States from your country would come from not entering the US via a legal border crossing location. Maybe not even then; you could claim diplomatic immunity. It probably gets even messier than that, but we're building castles in the sky here.
Years before the Civil War, there was an abortive attempt in the New England states to secede. Implicit in that attempt was a recognition of state's rights.
The United States of America is a union of states. It says so in the name. When the government of a state secedes in accordance with its own laws, it's done. The vote of its populace is irrelevant unless the state law requires such a vote. You might as well claim that the South's secession was illegitimate because pre-teens and women didn't vote.
Slavery was the ultimate cause. Without slavery, not only would the Civil War never happened, but without slavery the idea that the war would have happened is preposterous. The proximate cause of secession was the election of Lincoln, the proximate cause of the war was firing on Fort Sumter.
The Constitution specifies the powers of the federal government, and the powers are explicitly limited to those specified. The power to prevent secession is not specified, nor is secession prohibited. Therefor secession is legal.
That's a nice trick. The American Revolutionary War ended in 1783. The Constitution was created September 17, 1787, ratified June 21, 1788, and became effective March 4, 1789
It can be well argued that the Declaration of Independence named rights that promoted the Revolution.
Spain is a drag on the EU economy. Britain wasn't.
Popular sovereignty was not an established principle when Portugal last became independent.Catalan independence is likely to be accepted internationally.
The Basques also wanted to leave, but they couldn't put all their Basques in one exit.
I thought you married Farrah Fawcett about a year ago..
Those at the bottom are becoming increasingly immobile because of the social security net. Government welfare providers actively promote their goodies (in order to protect and expand their jobs), and encourage people already ensnared to stay there. That, and aggressive philosophy of "people who work are suckers" solidfy the position of the poorest.
Yep, the very small number of rich people owning corporations are appropriating the collective contribution of blah blah blah. Stocks are corporation ownership. Over 50% of Americans own stocks. A very small number.
Not impossible, but much more difficult. Socialism, by heavily taxing high earners, makes it difficult to accumulate enough money to do advanced research or build a factory. Socialism, by reducing the monetary gain available to the owner of a new factory, reduces the incentive to build that factory.
Let's take your example of fish stocks. Cod in the northern Atlantic has been terribly reduced by overfishing. Overfishing happened because there were no property rights defined; nobody could own a fishing territory. A "tragedy of the commons" developed.
Property rights are an aspect of capitalism, property rights would allow ownership of fishing grounds, and a wise property owner would act to sustain the long term viability of his resource.
There are always going to be bad actors: people who, given the chance, will deforest a county and leave behind a wasteland and unpaid debts. Capitalism is not unusual in that regard, and there do need to be protection mechanisms in place to prevent such disasters, and that means uncorrupted government.
What portion of armed robbery is optimum? What part of the populace engaged in unproductive and anti-productive activities is best?
History is replete with examples of fools and villains pushing "third way" and "compromise" plans. The systematic (and systemic) failure to protect rights is inferior to the protection of rights.
One advantage of inequality is that it serves as an incentive to those on the low end to produce more.
Although the skin has a higher density of nutrients, there isn't much skin by volume or mass. The flesh has about 80% of the nutrients.
Although various pyrethrins seem to be the most common, most agricultural stores also have carbamates (Sevin) and malathion.
There are many synthetic pyrethrins/pyrethroids with different effects. The stuff in RAID, for instance, also kills plants.
You are technically wrong. Borax is disodium tetraborate, usually incorporated into a crystal with a fair amount of water. Boric acid is B(OH)3
In photography, borax is used in the popular black & white developer D76, where it acts as a weak solvent of silver halides (among other functions) and generally makes the developer worse by weakening the contrast in areas of low exposure. Stop bath is usually dilute acetic acid. Fixer is based on sodium thiosulphate, which works better if acidified (I guess boric acid could be used for acidification; Kodak Rapid Fixer uses sulphuric acid IIRC.)
Wild apple trees have 3 additional disadvantages. They're often shaded by taller trees, so the apples don't grow as big or ripen as soon. They aren't fertilized. They aren't pruned for best production. (To the best of my knowledge, commercial apple trees aren't usually watered, but I could be wrong.)
If a commercial apple orchard were to stop using pesticides, in the short term there'd be a lot of wormy apples, and in the long term there might be some trees damaged or killed. At least some of the trees in abandoned apple orchards live many decades.
I have on 2 or 3 occasions eaten a freshly picked unwashed apple that turned out to have pesticide residue, and the effects were pretty nasty. My throat constricted; I could neither swallow nor burp (fortunately, I could still breathe). I started drooling. The effects lasted perhaps 10 or 15 minutes.
This has never happened with supermarket apples; I assume they wash their produce or their suppliers do. Farmstands seldom bother to wash. Beware.
San Francisco is about 5 billion dollars in debt. Although that's only 1/4 of the per capita debt of NYC, it's still irresponsible of the city to make such a claim.
The big bang was symmetrical, expanding in both positive and negative time. Matter is weakly coupled to time, anti-matter is weakly coupled to negative time. We live in positive time, and thus see mostly matter.