If just 5% of the American public wanted to overthrow the government, an drawn out, bloody civil war would be possible. You do not need overwhelming support, you need enough angry people with guns.
FTFY
Now I'm waiting impatiently for my hardware store to get in a new supply of snow rakes [google.com], nervously listening for the sound of water dripping into the attic.
Odd. While the link told me what a snow rake is, I had to google around for a half an hour to find out why I'd want one. For those people living in wintery places with sane building codes, the problem is this: US roofs are apparently designed for a ground snow load of 0.45 kPa (10 pounds per sq foot) to 1.4 kPa (30 psf). Canadian roofs seem to be designed for loads between 5-20 kPa (100-400 psf).
The moral of the story is to design your house for the 30 year snowfall.
People love bashing Microsoft, but they forget that MS must provide binary compatibility for their clients who unconditionally have to run really old apps, because their businesses depend on it.
This is not actually true. Business will upgrade if there's a business case for it. If the vendor will continue to support a twenty year old app? Great. Otherwise, they'll solve the problem some other way.
I even have an anecdote. I worked at a sawmill that kept a DOS machine around to download data from the hand held timber moisture meter. It was probably a really expensive instrument when it was purchased, but was old, and the manufacturer had never made Windows drivers. So the DOS machine was considered a business necessity. However, new moisture meters are only $500, which is substantially less than the cost of maintaining an old computer and software.
I suspect they talk that way as well, they're just morons.
Augh! Comma splice! Will the horror's never end?
Just imagine if IIWW started now. The database would be the first thing Nazis would get.
Is that World War II run backwards? Starts with an atomic bomb and ends with a retreat from Poland?
"Conversion, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the human will." -- Virginia Woolf, "Mrs. Dalloway"