Don't be daft. 1/3rd will rise up, 1/3rd will take the side of government and 1/3rd will be indifferent, any other split would see elections being able to solve things. End result will be something like Democrats vs Republicans, red states vs blue states or rich vs poor. Just look at the tea party and the occupy movements, both demonized by the press, government and in public opinion. Or look at the history of the USA, Washington used the Army to put down the Whiskey rebellion successfully, Lincoln used the army to force the south back into the Union successfully. In both cases the army didn't even have much of an advantage when it came to arms.

In Canada sometimes the government will ask the Supreme Court for an opinion on the Constitutionality of a law before it gets signed. Much better then passing laws of questionable constitutionality and letting people suffer until it works its way up the chain of appeals courts.

The Constitution was being ignored almost before the ink was dry on the Bill of Rights with even Jefferson prosecuting people with laws that he thought unconstitutional. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A...

It's worse then that. Cuba is the symbol of American Imperialism. When they first decided to become a major player, they planned a war with Spain, did a false flag operation, surprised and defeated Spain and made Cuba a puppet state in the name of freedom and gave it to the Mafia to run. Then those awful Cubans revolted, threw out Batista (sp?) and did awful things like giving the average person shoes and free medical. The truth is that in that part of the world, the average Cuban is better off then lets say the average Haitian or even Mexican. A Mexican might have free speech but if he practices it he may well lose his head or worse.

I'd rather live in Cuba then some of Americas right wing allies such as Saudi Arabia or their right wing puppet countries such as Haiti. Now you might look at Saudi Arabia as a libertarian right wing paradise where the citizens don't pay taxes and can do what ever they want as long as they follow the social mores which comes naturally but I don't like the slavery. And of course in Haiti you're free to struggle to get a job for $3 a day, save and become rich but the truth is it is hell on Earth for most of its citizens, but they do enable your underwear to be slightly cheaper.

It was sad for me to see that Google TV failed hard, many just blamed it on the manufacturers that never updated the devices and didn't go forward, but the truth is that Google failed with that with bad communication too.

Maybe it was too much to have a bulky remote-keyboard for the TV that make people afraid... I don't know. But Google TV was very good, it is like a standardized and tested Android TV stick, when you can run apps, chrome, etc.

ChromeCast is good, but misses all the functionality of having a full android connected to the TV.

I really hope that someone can finally crack the way to have a "SmartTV" but with something that can be standard and open source. I don't want to see fragmentation, manufacturer fighting between each other....but what the hell, that is the why market works.

Kay, you are welcome to join OS/2 Warp Community, we need some open source driver developers here !!!!

(...damn... I'm so desperate to get developers to this community)

What are you talking about? I've caught lots of dogfish.

Actually it was that heavy things fell faster then light things, which while right according to common sense, proved wrong.
This is the problem with many sciences, common sense says one thing while the reality is different. When it comes to AGW this shows up regularly, the Earth is too big for mankind to affect it is a common argument.

How many Central American countries has America sent troops to? How many Central and South American countries has America used the CIA and such to interfere in their affairs including forcing regime change? Usually much more bloody then what Russia is currently doing in their sphere on influence.
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So what will America do if Quebec votes to separate? As it stands they vote and a simple majority of Quebecois means they leave Canada, the rest of Canada has no say. Take it a step further, what if Quebec offered Russia a base bordering the USA? Do you really think America would allow Russia having a base there? Would America consider giving all the land on the Pacific back to the countries they stole it from and give up having any bases on the Pacific besides Alaska?
And when the Continental Congress met, only 13 out of 16+ colonies were represented and they tried to invade at least one of those colonies to force it to join and afterwards the Articles included that the other colony was automatically allowed to join.
(British N. American colonies in 1776 included New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Canada, as well as Bermuda and various Caribbean colonies)

What's the problem. Trees often have branches grafted to themselves and even branches grafted to different trees, across species as well. This just makes the tree of life more realistic, branches grafting to other branches equals species exchanging genes. Just need a good arborist or biologist to explain it to the court.

I think it was my point that went over your head. It is only when there is no competition that a company feels free to screw over its customers. There are various ways to get rid of competition and Musk is currently doing it the old fashioned way, innovating and being less expensive. Perhaps ULA will go out of business and Musk would be free to screw his customers, at least the ones that have to use an American company. Doesn't mean he would. On the other hand perhaps a government will come into power that really likes ULA and they pass all kinds of regulatory hurdles to increase Musk's costs and ULA wins. Then ULA is free to screw their American customers.
Thing with the space industry, there is other competition, Russia, China, India, the EU and it is in the Governments interest to have any American company win, especially considering the military significance of space, being the high ground as well as the technology restrictions (remember it wasn't that long ago that even a browser was restricted for foreign nations) so it's a totally different market.

What they did know was the mortality amongst the natives when exposed to smallpox was way higher then for Europeans. Read the letters, the idea was to do whatever was necessary to stop Pontiac and his people along with the idea that the natives were less then human.

It gets monotonous. Remember when the argument was that volcanoes put out more CO2 in a year then people ever did? Or that a couple of planets were getting warmer so it must be the Sun affecting a third of the planets? And so on until now where it's "97 was a super warm year, lets use that as our base and scientists are involved in a giant conspiracy for more funding and want us to live in caves.
Seems to be a common thing with some people. When the disease model of disease was introduced there were those who screamed it was unscientific and impossible that there were little bitty invisible things that could cause sickness. When it became obvious that shitting and dumping chemicals in our rivers, lakes and oceans had negative affects there were those who screamed that we could never dump enough stuff to affect water or air quality. And so on.