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That's actually impossible to prove. The difference in the popular votes was like half a percent, which is much smaller than the margin of error in the vote counting process. There's no way we can ever know for sure who actually won the election.

While we're on the topic of states' autonomy, I thought this was interesting. I bet you could get Texas, Alaska and New Hampshire to pass similar bills, but I'm not sure who else would.

Yeah, I figured you would appreciate that. Well, they do. Each state is basically a tiny microcosm of America. They have governors, and state legislatures. And then below the state governments, you have county governments, and then city governments. According to Article Ten of the Bill...

Europeans don't. I'm not sure Americans would accept anything else. That would be swell. Yeah, basically. It's because the states are more autonomous than European provinces, or were for a while at least. Because each state had separate interests, they wanted to make sure more...

Sort of. It's more like, voting for a third party doesn't help a mainstream party you don't want to help. Occasionally in elections we see third parties that make a big difference and basically lose the election for one of the parties. You know, like Teddy Roosevelt's Bull Moose party or...

No, I'm not talking about Rhineland models or French models here. The electoral college, under its current system, provides us with a bit of a buffer. For some states, it's basically a foregone conclusion as to which party wins and gets the votes. Kansas, for example, will almost certainly...

And it's not that I wasn't interested at all...

There's a 'y' in my name in place of that first 'i'. Leave it out again and your ass is so banned... :violent:

Indeed. What is nice about the American electoral college is that given our limited two-party system, I can support a third-party candidate and not worry about helping out someone I'd like least of all. In other words, I'm not forced to vote for one of the mainstream candidates in order to...

Now when you say 'rule', are we constrained by the laws of the nation or are do we get to be king for a month?

This movie seems very reminiscent of LXG to me: Mixed 'legends', high-tech low-tech, cartoonish action...

Just what 'He' do you think they're refering to? George III? Heh. Indeed, Sander, the issue is not that Christianity was somehow the official religion of the US. The point is that the idea of the Constitution acting as a restraining order that forces religion to stay 500 ft away from state...

Explosive decompression would not happen with something the size of a bullet hole. Ever sat next to an emergency exit on an airplane? You remember that whistling sound? Airplanes aren't airtight as it is, and bullets certainly don't make big enough holes to make a difference. Not...

From the Declaration of independence: "When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of...

They were taken over by a French company.

Any WEAPON, as in not just guns? That's easy, then: I want Ash's chainsaw hand! Groovy.

Doubt it. I think it's just something that's been repeated so much that people believe it without question. After all, why would someone lie about something like that, and who would actually bother to check it out? http://www.snopes.com/military/statue.htm

Some of these are false. This one for example, I know is false: I once saw on a poster of 'blue' laws, laws that were obselete or just plain odd, from across the country. One that really stuck out was from Florida, I think, where it is apparently illegal to molest porcupines. :shock:

I can imagine very few events cataclysmic enough to completely destroy any group of people. Thus, if a culture can be completely different than an earlier culture and still be the 'same,' then I'd imagine quite a few cultures can be said to have survived for many thousands of years. CCR is...

Inertplay lost the Baldur's Gate PC rights in order to keep the Baldur's Gate console rights. In light of that, maybe we should have seen this Fallout thing coming...