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"better than Wisconsin" is pretty much Minnesota's unofficial motto so they nailed that one.
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Michigan is yours..? Oh: https://ballotpedia.org/%22Michigan_is_Yours%22_Amendment_(2012)
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System Metternich posted:
Pretty sure this one's about Alabama's football team too.
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Weird to see a callback to a thirty year old Garfield The Animated Series joke.
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I've said it before, but it's a strange feeling seeing a map I made repurposed for this. I wonder where they got the blank.
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I just googled 'Canada blank map' and it was one of the first couple that came up.
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System Metternich posted:I even tried it out in incognito mode and still got the same result, and I'm pretty sure neither me nor my father have ever asked google to find out why feminism is bad. Otoh, on the other PC (used exclusively by me) it's "why only BMW has no problems with diesel", and I have zero interest in cars and never googled anything like this, so who knows Got Alaska spot on, RIP Kivalina.
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I had a Maine state of mind once, but thanks to the wonders of modern psychopharmaceuticals, I am better now.
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System Metternich posted:I even tried it out in incognito mode and still got the same result, and I'm pretty sure neither me nor my father have ever asked google to find out why feminism is bad. Otoh, on the other PC (used exclusively by me) it's "why only BMW has no problems with diesel", and I have zero interest in cars and never googled anything like this, so who knows Everyone agrees: Missouri is the worst state.
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System Metternich posted:I even tried it out in incognito mode and still got the same result, and I'm pretty sure neither me nor my father have ever asked google to find out why feminism is bad. Otoh, on the other PC (used exclusively by me) it's "why only BMW has no problems with diesel", and I have zero interest in cars and never googled anything like this, so who knows drat straight, Tennessee.
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Guavanaut posted:I just googled 'Canada blank map' and it was one of the first couple that came up. Wow, turns out I did make a blank version and put it on Wikimedia Commons way back in 2006. Huh.
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What was on the non-blank version?
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Aliquid posted:use a key dammit Green means officially done as of when that was last updated, yellow meant analog TV was still on. No countries are currently planning to end analog radio broadcasts. On that note:  Color analog TV standards  Digital TV standards And here's something different from both, and only marginally related: the standards for monochrome TV, that the color analog systems were overlaid to:  (yeah it's tiny, but the only way to get a larger version is to hunt down some german publication from the 60s) All of these choices were very politically loaded. fishmech fucked around with this message at 23:40 on May 4, 2016 |
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fishmech posted:Green means officially done as of when that was last updated, yellow meant analog TV was still on. No countries are currently planning to end analog radio broadcasts. Norway is going off FM in 2017.
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fishmech posted:On that note: France/Francophone Africa following the former Soviet Union instead of the rest of Europe is surprising, as is that Algeria went the other way.
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Aliquid posted:France/Francophone Africa following the former Soviet Union instead of the rest of Europe is surprising, as is that Algeria went the other way. That's some excellent speculation re: the SECAM system developed by the French
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Aliquid posted:France/Francophone Africa following the former Soviet Union instead of the rest of Europe is surprising, as is that Algeria went the other way. France invented SECAM - mostly to spite West German and British TV manufacturers. The Communist bloc (with a few exceptions, like Romania) picked up SECAM as well because the rest of non-Communist Europe had already settled on PAL, and this would mean that eastern bloc residents could only watch in black & white if at all. East Germans did however quickly start buying PAL conversion hardware,a nd eventually East German government allowed sales of dual-standard TV sets in the country. And with the fall of the soviet union and anti-communist revolutions, most countries switched to PAL because everything about the standard is easier and cheaper than SECAM. Additionally, a map of analog standards from during the cold war proper would show more SECAM-only countries in Africa and the Middle East, often because either France or the Soviet bloc were selling heavily to them.
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fishmech posted:Green means officially done as of when that was last updated, yellow meant analog TV was still on. No countries are currently planning to end analog radio broadcasts. Who else, when looking at these sorts of maps, finds themselves imagining it's actually a map of various dystopian future mega empires? The Organisation of North American Nations is doing well, but Eastasia is splintering...
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Guavanaut posted:What was on the non-blank version? It was a building block for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_evolution_of_Canada
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Tree Bucket posted:Who else, when looking at these sorts of maps, finds themselves imagining it's actually a map of various dystopian future mega empires? The Organisation of North American Nations is doing well, but Eastasia is splintering... Careful North America, Chinese Greenland is right on your doorstep!
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Soviet Commubot posted:I guess buses don't go to Nunavut. Well. That's not strictly true because there is an ice road which runs for a few weeks a year to mines in the far west, north of Yellowknife. And there is a proposal to build a highway from Manitoba north to Rankin Inlet, but it would cost $1.2 billion to serve three hamlets with a total population of about 6,000. It's a long as hell highway, but if it's eventually built there might be bus service!  Iqaluit, the capital and largest city (population 6,699!) did have a bus service at one point, in that there was a colourfully painted school bus that drove around town. The city council shut it down after a year when they realized it would be cheaper just to give everyone taxi vouchers. 
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Ras Het posted:That's some excellent speculation re: the SECAM system developed by the French Poor France just can't catch a break these days. 
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Tree Bucket posted:Who else smokes weed?
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fishmech posted:No countries are currently planning to end analog radio broadcasts. Not true; Norway are ending analogue radio broadcasts in January 2017. The U.K. and Switzerland will probably shut off its national FM transmitters by 2023. No other country is close to switchover. TinTower fucked around with this message at 13:50 on May 5, 2016 |
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I think The Netherlands is planning to keep FM for now - but they took a whole load of less popular channels off and moved them to digital.
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Phlegmish posted:Poor France just can't catch a break these days. That is a pretty map.
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The famous Central European country Switz.
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Anyone feel like quickly explaining how Napoleon got Prussia and Austria to ally with him?
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He beat the piss out of them at Jena and Austerlitz.
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Why'd he leave Portugal behind?
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MasterSlowPoke posted:Why'd he leave Portugal behind? Napoleon invaded Portugal in 1807, but was forced out in 1808.
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Also, Portugal moved to Brazil.
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MasterSlowPoke posted:Why'd he leave Portugal behind?
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MasterSlowPoke posted:Why'd he leave Portugal behind? we didn't need it
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TinTower posted:Not true; Norway are ending analogue radio broadcasts in January 2017. All of these countries are still planning to keep AM analog radio going for the foreseeable future though. You ain't switched over when you still have a whole suite of radio stations up in analog. Also man, I sure hope the UK is switching to a digital format that doesn't sound like 1998 RealAudio over a dialup modem for their digital radio if they're going to switchover to all digital for their FM stations.
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MasterSlowPoke posted:Why'd he leave Portugal behind? Because Sean Bean 
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fishmech posted:All of these countries are still planning to keep AM analog radio going for the foreseeable future though. You ain't switched over when you still have a whole suite of radio stations up in analog. Norway doesn't have AM radio. And I wouldn't be surprised if the UK shut AM off at the same time as FM, given that nearly all MW stations are available digitally and it's becoming uneconomical for the BBC to keep replacing the valves to keep Radio 4 LW on-air.
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MasterSlowPoke posted:Why'd he leave Portugal behind? Also that map doesn't do a lot of justice to the situation in Spain, which was basically in a big civil war at that point.
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Baronjutter posted:Because Sean Bean This checks out. Between Sharpe and Hornblower, it's a wonder that the British needed more than two guys to defeat Napoleon.
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