Because they think cuius regio, eius religio was a really awesome idea and they want to bring it back.

The blah-blah-states'-rights-blah-blah kind if I remember them explaining sometime.

I'm fairly sure a non-trivial percentage of the dominionist evangelical protestants would consider a catholic anything l to be fairly subversive.

Yup. Golan v. Holder.

Hell, on the roads, every month is September, 2001. Roughly a 9/11 worth of people die every single month in vehicle accidents.

Go buy some 40W actual (Think that's 60W equivalent) halogen bulbs. Same heat to melt the wax, but more light.

It needs to be big not so much because of the amount of heat, but because the LEDs themselves are rather intolerant of excessive heat.

No such thing in Canada, at least on the federal level. The House of Commons has to stand for election at least once every 5 years (an election is typically called after about 4 years under majorities), but there's no legal limit on how long someone can stay in an MP's seat or the PM's office.

Also, Harper only first formed government in 2006 (minority), with reelections in 2008 (minority again) and 2011 (the current majority government). It have to be a pretty short term limit to kick in already.

Unless 10 or more Conservatives or the Harper-appointed Governor-General spontaneously develop consciences, the next election isn't going to be for almost 2 years.

In terms of the state government? 2012.

Governor - Tom Corbett, Republican
Lieutenant Governor - Jim Cawley, Republican
Pennsylvania House of Representatives - 110 Republican, 92 Democrat, 1 Vacant
Pennsylvania State Senate - 27 Republican, 23 Democrat
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania - 4 Republican, 3 Democrat

Not really "the system" so much as the current client implementations. There is provision (Section 7, "Reclaiming Disk Space" in the original whitepaper) for reducing the size of the blockchain by discarding transactions where all the outputs have been spent again and those subsequent transactions themselves are buried under enough blocks. This lets you pare down the size of the blockchain considerably.

It's just that, AFAIK, no clients currently implement this.

If you're just starting mining, the difficulty dropping would be an excellent thing for you. It would mean you would have a larger share of the network hash rate and thus get more coin out of the same equipment.

Though a difficulty cut doesn't seem all that likely at the moment unless the current trend suddenly reverses itself. Even with the price drop, the network hash rate is flirting with 10 petahashes (up from about 6 at the start of the month) and it looks like the difficulty is going to break 1 billion next adjustment, which looks like it will be either on christmas or boxing day.

intelligibly : In a manner capable of being understood.

While possibly not the word they meant, it still fits.

Depends on how you define "shortage". The worst solar conditions in the lower 48 are better than the best Germany has, and they're charging ahead with solar.