I was thinking the State of Denial, the State of Happiness, and Rhode Island.
Also, and more importantly Grand Magus is a crackpot! ;)
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I suggest that:
1) Vermont be returned to her rightful owner, New Hampshire.
2) Maine be restored to Massachusetts, under the suzerainity of Lord Gruumash. or not, that can be determined later.
3) Delaware be declared a corporation and no longer a state--
and we should be good.
I second Doodlebug's amendments all opposed?
(Nods to Doddlebug to silence all opposed.)
"Excellent seeing no opposition the motion is passed Lord Gruumash now rules Massachusetts and Maine has become a part of Massachusetts.
New Hampshire and what was once Vermont fall to the golblins who answer of course to me Lord Gruumash. Now I just need to do a little house cleaning and get Rhode Island and that other New England State back into the fold.
Ha we occupy a land area roughly the same size as the US and have 6 States 1 big Territory (because the buggers are too drunk to bother becoming a state),numerous little territories and 2/3rds of Antarctica and a population of 20 million and we complain that we have too many states.
and 2/3rds of Antarctica
Except, of course, that nobody recognizes the claim.
(Yes, I'm saying the United Kingdom, New Zealand, France and Norway are nobody.)
Ha we occupy a land area roughly the same size as the US and have 6 States 1 big Territory (because the buggers are too drunk to bother becoming a state),numerous little territories and 2/3rds of Antarctica and a population of 20 million and we complain that we have too many states.
Hey we got our own big cold unoccupied land too -- we just don't pretend it's a state. You might have heard of it though, it's called the 'Moon'. We claimed it after we landed on it after we saved the whole world from nazi's and bad japanese (as opposed to today's good japanese) with nothing but our 'pull yourself up by your bootstraps' attitude and nuclear weapons!
USA USA USA!
I was thinking the State of Denial
Isn't that a river?
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Ha we occupy a land area roughly the same size as the US and have 6 States 1 big Territory (because the buggers are too drunk to bother becoming a state),numerous little territories and 2/3rds of Antarctica and a population of 20 million and we complain that we have too many states.
Hey we got our own big cold unoccupied land too -- we just don't pretend it's a state. You might have heard of it though, it's called the 'Moon'. We claimed it after we landed on it after we saved the whole world from nazi's and bad japanese (as opposed to today's good japanese) with nothing but our 'pull yourself up by your bootstraps' attitude and nuclear weapons!
USA USA USA!
I'm still convinced that one was staged. Everyone knows that Americans are horrible at the whole Geography thing. Apparently they have problems finding a continent on a map. I doubt they could find a whole different heavenly body. ;-P
I'm still convinced that one was staged. Everyone knows that Americans are horrible at the whole Geography thing. Apparently they have problems finding a continent on a map. I doubt they could find a whole different heavenly body. ;-P
I beg to differ. We Americans have excelled at world geography since 1945 - barring a few modern updates. Wait until the next release once Arab Spring has subsided.
Disneyland Iraq. You heard it here first. Watch out, UAE. Prepare for competition.
I doubt Obama's going to want to get rid of Texas at the moment, on account of what it would do to the national unemployment numbers.
I doubt they could find a whole different heavenly body. ;-P
Wait. that WASN"T russia we were launching rockets at? But.. its so barren and lifeless...
I doubt Obama's going to want to get rid of Texas at the moment, on account of what it would do to the national unemployment numbers
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Wait till Texas finds out its a foreign nation.. with oil! We can invade it under the Bush Doctrine.
I'm still convinced that one was staged. Everyone knows that Americans are horrible at the whole Geography thing. Apparently they have problems finding a continent on a map. I doubt they could find a whole different heavenly body. ;-PHa we occupy a land area roughly the same size as the US and have 6 States 1 big Territory (because the buggers are too drunk to bother becoming a state),numerous little territories and 2/3rds of Antarctica and a population of 20 million and we complain that we have too many states.
Hey we got our own big cold unoccupied land too -- we just don't pretend it's a state. You might have heard of it though, it's called the 'Moon'. We claimed it after we landed on it after we saved the whole world from nazi's and bad japanese (as opposed to today's good japanese) with nothing but our 'pull yourself up by your bootstraps' attitude and nuclear weapons!
USA USA USA!
We were aiming for Russia, but we miscalculated and ended up on the Moon.
Edit - Ninjaed by BigNorseWolf.
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Wait till Texas finds out its a foreign nation.. with oil! We can invade it under the Bush Doctrine.
The invasion has already begun. Houston International Airport has been seized and renamed as George W. Bush International Airport. I have first-hand eyewitness account of this as of this past Monday. Fox News and MSNBC are mute on the topic being more focused on other occupations.
Journalist slime.
I doubt they could find a whole different heavenly body. ;-P
Wait. that WASN"T russia we were launching rockets at? But.. its so barren and lifeless...
I doubt Obama's going to want to get rid of Texas at the moment, on account of what it would do to the national unemployment numbers.
Wait till Texas finds out its a foreign nation.. with oil! We can invade it under the Bush Doctrine.
Our Girl Scouts could kick your ass. Think I'm b@#@~$!&tin.
And possibly will -- but only because the average Texan male is too worried about proving the size of his... 'hat' and drinking the dreadful piss people call beer.
Better watch out or Texas will split into five states and leave you in an even worse mess than before.I vote we eliminate:
1. Texas
2. Alabama
3. New York
New Mexico would love to have west Texas and the panhandle, then they could get some payback for the s%%& Texas put them through in the 40's and 50's.
Your mom liked my hat so much she bought me a Jack and Coke.
I think you are confused -- that was my wife's best friend and I remember her divorcing and moving back due to the lack of hat.
It's okay, kid. It's a tough crowd.
Or something.
However one thing we can all agree on -- there's always room for more cowbell.
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Or we could merge South Carolina with North Carolina, because almost everyone not from there thinks they're the same state anyway. Likewise for the Dakotas.Oh heck no. I refuse to be in the same state as those SC barbarians with their mustard based bbq abomination* and cheap fireworks. ;)
*(because only vinegar based pulled pork bbq is the true type of Carolina bbq)
Very well said. I was going to post the exact same thing.
There is a very valid reason why we have a North and South Carolina and it's because of the great BBQ debate.|
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Since we will be below fifty we could then add three new ones! Canada Puerto Rico, and Iraq!
/too soon?
*Shakes Fist at you.*
Canada better stay separate. And stop adopting american policies that happen to be stupid. And doing things to make your government happy.
Like signing ACTA.
Or proposing a Canadian version of the DMCA.
- Unless your DRM is truly uncrackable, DRMs encourage piracy by makinmg the pirated copy more appealing than the legitimate one.
- they punish people for buyuing the product legally in exchange for mildly hindering anyone who wants to pirate it.
- Because Fair dealing doesn't count as a defense against disabling a DRM, it's not federal jurisdiction in canada, its provincial, as a property law. The federal government doesnt have the authority to make these provisions under the canadian constitution.
Add to that the fact that our current majority political party is ignoring standard protocols, and following the unethical (and I believe illegal) practice of sharing bills with foreign countries before they get proposed here, and the underhanded tactic of select officials encouraging your government to inflate our rating on your piracy scale to put pressure on parliamant.
I'm taking it personally, because I feel like our government is bending each and every one of its citizens and violating them right now, with this newly proposed bill.
Or we could merge South Carolina with North Carolina, because almost everyone not from there thinks they're the same state anyway. Likewise for the Dakotas.Oh heck no. I refuse to be in the same state as those SC barbarians with their mustard based bbq abomination* and cheap fireworks. ;)
*(because only vinegar based pulled pork bbq is the true type of Carolina bbq)
Very well said. I was going to post the exact same thing.
There is a very valid reason why we have a North and South Carolina and it's because of the great BBQ debate.
You're both wrong, Kansas has the only true BBQ everything else is watered down ketchup.
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I vote we reorganize the US according to the Hollywood perception. There would be three states: New York City, Los Angeles, and The Stuff in the Middle.
Would washington DC be relocated to the washington? or would it no longer matter as its "stuff in the middle".
Also, you left out florida, as where all americans over 60 live.
You're both wrong, Kansas has the only true BBQ everything else is watered down ketchup.
Or we could merge South Carolina with North Carolina, because almost everyone not from there thinks they're the same state anyway. Likewise for the Dakotas.Oh heck no. I refuse to be in the same state as those SC barbarians with their mustard based bbq abomination* and cheap fireworks. ;)
*(because only vinegar based pulled pork bbq is the true type of Carolina bbq)
Very well said. I was going to post the exact same thing.
There is a very valid reason why we have a North and South Carolina and it's because of the great BBQ debate.
See now what we have here is called "failure to communicate"
You see like most non-southerners you think that the sauce is what makes BBQ, where as in the Great state of North Carolina BBQ is not an adjective but is instead a proper noun.
It isn't the sauce that makes it BBQ it is the entire dish that is called BBQ.
The hog has to be on the cooker and then chopped up at just the right time while liberal amounts of sauce made of vinegar and red pepper flakes are applied throughout the cooking process.
After a plate of BBQ is loaded up you grab some nice hot corn bread, a big glass of tea( or sweet tea as non southerners call it) and find a nice cool place to sit and enjoy one of the best things you can find this side of heaven itself.
The only tomatoes involved are sliced up on the side if your so inclined.
Besides I thought you Kansas boys used dry rubs or some such mess.
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- Unless your DRM is truly uncrackable, DRMs encourage piracy by makinmg the pirated copy more appealing than the legitimate one.
- they punish people for buyuing the product legally in exchange for mildly hindering anyone who wants to pirate it.
Not to mention those video clips against piracy that so many purchased DVDs and Blu-rays have. The ones that play when you enter the disc and you can't skip it. "You wouldn't waterboard a driving instructor. You wouldn't rape a handicapped baby. Pirating films is worse than that, because then we won't be paid for other people's accomplishments."
Whenever have to sit through one of them (or be forced to fast forward past it), I regret paying money for the film, because if I had just downloaded it, the software pirate would simply have removed that clip. And he'd probably have removed any subtitle restrictions, too.
It's as if they want to annoy people into pirating films so they can act all indignant about the general evil of the general populace.
The more I think about it, the more the term "piracy" fits. Historically, pirates were those guys who seized ships, did bad things to the tyrannical captains and freed the sailors from their slavery (a lot of the time, those poor bastards weren't sailors because they chose to. They were just too poor to buy themselves out of the draft, or had the bad luck to be picked up by a press gang and wake up on a ship, being chained up every time it made port so they wouldn't run away).
By calling people who make illegal copies of stuff pirates they voice their concerns that the exploited will turn against them and punish them for their cruelty.
- Because Fair dealing doesn't count as a defense against disabling a DRM, it's not federal jurisdiction in canada, its provincial, as a property law. The federal government doesnt have the authority to make these provisions under the canadian constitution.
Sounds utopian. Local laws have it that it's your right to make backup copies of everything you have, but since it is illegal to circumvent copy protection measures, one of your rights is basically a crime much of the time.
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Not to mention those video clips against piracy that so many purchased DVDs and Blu-rays have. The ones that play when you enter the disc and you can't skip it. "You wouldn't waterboard a driving instructor. You wouldn't rape a handicapped baby. Pirating films is worse than that, because then we won't be paid for other people's accomplishments."
Whenever have to sit through one of them (or be forced to fast forward past it), I regret paying money for the film, because if I had just downloaded it, the software pirate would simply have removed that clip. And he'd probably have removed any subtitle restrictions, too.
I hate that almost as much as I hate the commercial for upgrading to Blu-Ray that seems to come on all Blu-Rays. If I'm watching a Blu-Ray, then I'm not your target audience, dude. Try putting that ad on g+#&%*n DVDs, moron!
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Sounds utopian. Local laws have it that it's your right to make backups...
That's what they're trying to bring in here. The bill is proposed, the governing party is ignoring all concerns, comments, and suggestions from the canadian people and the other parties, and experts are saying that even if they DO pass the law, its in violation of the canadian constitution, from 1867.
People suspect the law will be passed by january, without any revision for our public or the other party even though all the experts have already pointed out many of these problems. Ah, the joys of a majority government.
But since the law is unconstitutional, we imagine it will be challenged.
I like that my provincial government is of one of the parties that has been opposing the bill.
I'm seriously resenting how our federal government is kicking us in the junk to appease the american government and american companies.
But yeah. to everything you said: 100%.
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Frankly, consolidating the number of states is not a bad idea. It would reduce the cost of state governments if there were less of them. I can understand leaving New York its own state since greater Buffalo has a larger population than Wyoming. So here are my proposals:
Consolidate Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, North and South Dakota and Nebraska into one state. In total, these 5 states have 9 US Representatives and 10 Senate seats. If they keep all their Reps, that would give them 1 more than Arizona.
Delaware is incorporated into Maryland.
Consolidate Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, Mass., Rhode Island, and Conn into New England.
Split New Jersey and give half to PA and half to NY. Trenton is given to neither and is declared an uninhabitable wasteland.
Kentucky, Tenn. Ala. and Miss. All join up into East Mississippi.
Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, and Kansas join up into West Mississippi.
And then the obvious consolidations: Carolina, Virginia, McCainica (Arizona, New Mexico, and whatever's left of California after the western part falls into the ocean).
Don't mess with Texas.
Oh and annex Canada while we're at it. Saskatchewan should have been ours a long time ago.
There, did I fail to piss anyone off?
Oh! you also havent offended the euro people and asians, africans, south americans, mexicans.
Well they're not in the US (nor rightly part of the US) so who cares. ;)
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Oh! you also havent offended the euro people and asians, africans, south americans, mexicans.Well they're not in the US (nor rightly part of the US) so who cares. ;)
except Mexico.
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except Mexico.
No, we treat Mexico like a contractor. We pay them, but we don't have to give them any benefits.
Canada? Pfeh. No way should we annex Canada.
Sure, we should annex British Columbia and the Yukon Territory. But that's because we bought them fair and square from the Spanish in 1819.
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Canada? Pfeh. No way should we annex Canada.
Sure, we should annex British Columbia and the Yukon Territory. But that's because we bought them fair and square from the Spanish in 1819.
Lmao. I think the problem there lies in that the Yukon and BC Disagreed about whether spain had the rights to sell them to you to begin with.
You may be SOL on that one. :P
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Don't we just need two states now, Red and Blue? :-)
Pennsylvania should be split along Eagles and Steelers territory.
We should make Puerto Rico a state and buy Cuba and make it a state too for some more Caribbean beach front property.
And on a more serious note, I'm all for making a new state North Virginia "The New Dominion", home to tons of tech companies and DC wine country, out of the counties near DC since we're night and day different from parts of the state below Richmond.
Legendarius of Loudoun
Consolidate Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, Mass., Rhode Island, and Conn into New England.
This isn't a terrible idea, but the amalgamation of VT, NH and ME with their southern brethren will be met with resistance unless the fine hard-working citizens of those states are allowed to keep their guns.
Also, getting back to West Virginia, we came, like, this close [holds fingers closely together] to also having an East Tennessee.
It's true.
I vote we sell Colorado to the Chinese. I f&!#ing HATE living in this state.
I vote we sell Colorado to the Chinese. I f~$%ing HATE living in this state.
... and you think living there and in China at the same time will somehow be better?
I vote we sell Colorado to the Chinese. I f~!*ing HATE living in this state.
Colorado is a weird one. On one hand it has, IMHO, unequaled natural beauty. On the other hand, the people there just suck (yourself excluded of course).
I think the problem there lies in that the Yukon and BC Disagreed about whether spain had the rights to sell them to you to begin with.
Spain clearly had priority both in formal claim and in actual exploration over the British. The US then bought the land from the claimant with priority. Just because some Brits illegally settled in Spanish territory isn't enough to change who owned it. Temporary British military superiority is all that prevented the US from properly enforcing its claim to all land draining into the Pacific north of the 42nd parallel; now that the correlation of forces has changed, it's time to restore the territory to its legal owners. Any inhabitants who don't like it can move to actual Canadian territory on the eastern side of the Continental Divide.
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I vote we sell Colorado to the Chinese. I f~$%ing HATE living in this state.... and you think living there and in China at the same time will somehow be better?
Hell no. I'm getting my ass back home to California, or maybe east to Boston, as soon as it happens. I just feel like being a vindictive b+&$& at the moment.
I vote we sell Colorado to the Chinese. I f~!*ing HATE living in this state.Colorado is a weird one. On one hand it has, IMHO, unequaled natural beauty. On the other hand, the people there just suck (yourself excluded of course).
That's precisely it. I love the beauty of the Rocky Mountains, but anyone who doesn't realize how f$&@ed up the people here are should read the Denver Post's comment sections on any articles dealing with anything remotely controversial. It's absolutely horrifying.
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I think the problem there lies in that the Yukon and BC Disagreed about whether spain had the rights to sell them to you to begin with.Spain clearly had priority both in formal claim and in actual exploration over the British. The US then bought the land from the claimant with priority. Just because some Brits illegally settled in Spanish territory isn't enough to change who owned it. Temporary British military superiority is all that prevented the US from properly enforcing its claim to all land draining into the Pacific north of the 42nd parallel; now that the correlation of forces has changed, it's time to restore the territory to its legal owners. Any inhabitants who don't like it can move to actual Canadian territory on the eastern side of the Continental Divide.
Tell it to the Native Americans. I'm sure they'd love to hear all about it.