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Doesn’t Iceland still follow the tradition of using the father's first name followed by "son" or "dottir" for their "last names"?
So, when a Jonson meets a Jonsdottir at a singles bar, they just know that they both have fathers named Jon (hopefully not the same one).
By "Collins's district", you mean the state of Maine?
California is pretty strict about taxing you if you spend too much time there.
I'm in Washington state (no state income tax) and have had colleagues who've spent a lot of time in California warned by payroll that they're approaching the limit on time before you're deemed a tax resident (maybe 180 days per year, but I'm not sure).
In particular, any part of a day spent in California counts as a whole day, as I understand it. So if you fly in on Monday evening, spend Tuesday and Wednesday, then fly back Thursday morning, it's 4 days.
Isn't the founder of Lululemon a massive Ayn Rand fan? Like, to the point that Lululemon stores gave out shopping bags with "Who is John Galt?" printed on them: https://www.npr.org/2011/11/17/142472057/lululemon-customers-asked-who-is-john-galt
OP: Asks what will run well on a 2017 mid-range business laptop.
ITT: Idle games! Text adventures! Literally games from the 1990s that would run fine on a 486.
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It's up to the senate to vote for removal. I don't think the Supreme Court has a role in the impeachment process.
Spinal Tap II just came to HBO on Friday. Rob Reiner was amazing in that.
Based on context and the mention of a rider, I think this was a motorcycle accident.
Having been to Bengaluru (or Bengalore as is more common in English), the roads do suck, a lot.
The bigger problem for this community (IMO), though, is the general absence of sidewalks. I tried walking to a restaurant ~1km from my hotel and needed to walk on the road the whole time, dodging cars and motorcycles (and those three wheeled things that are like cars).
Those islands aren't above Canada, they are part of Canada. (Sorry for being nitpicky, but it can be a politically sensitive topic.)
Was it?
My memory is that gay marriage was declared unconstitutional by the Ontario Court of Appeal in July 2003. The Chrétien government of the time chose not to appeal it and instead referred a draft bill to the Supreme Court of Canada to ask them to issue a binding ruling. The government (now the Paul Martin government?) did slow things down by adding a fourth question to the referral, which even the Supreme Court called out as political bullshit. Once they came back (in late 2004) affirming that same-sex marriage needed to be legal, there was a lot of talk about using the notwithstanding clause as the only possible option to ignore their ruling. Ultimately, though, the bill legalizing gay marriage federally passed in February of 2005.
I remember in the debates during the subsequent election that Paul Martin accused Stephen Harper of planning to reverse it. Harper rolled his eyes and said that he considered the matter settled (since I think even a lot of Conservative voters were fine with it by then). Martin then promised to remove the NWC from the charter if reelected. He was not.
I remember reading something about the political divides in US sports fandoms.
If I recall correctly, the NFL and MLB are both pretty balanced across the political spectrum.
The NBA has more Democratic fans, which is largely demographic correlation with having more black fans. College football is arguably the quintessential Republican sport. Again, I think that's largely demographics, though, because college football is more popular in areas without NFL teams (more rural areas).