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To All USA-based Parallax Forumistas...hot dog update for Erco!

davejamesdavejames Posts: 4,047
edited 2012-07-09 09:35 in General Discussion
...a happy and safe Independence Day to you!

I'll be wrapped up in festivities all day on the 4th, so I thought I'd send the salutation ahead of time.


Remember:

Don't look down the mortar tube wondering why the thing hasn't fired! O_o

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  • xanaduxanadu Posts: 3,347
    edited 2012-07-03 16:59
  • ercoerco Posts: 20,259
    edited 2012-07-03 17:01
    July 4 is the one day you can let out the magic smoke and say "I meant to do that..."! http://www.edn.com/electronics-blogs/anablog/4376597/Happy-4th-of-July--Exploding-the-microcontroller

    PS: Dave James, have a hot dog for me, and xanadu, I love Poopy Pooch!
  • WhitWhit Posts: 4,191
    edited 2012-07-03 20:01
    Just in case you have not heard it - Here is the the Star Spangled Banner on the new Emic 2 Text-to-speech Module from Parallax and Joe Grand. http://www.grandideastudio.com/wp-co...led_banner.wav Happy 4th of July!
  • Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi) Posts: 23,514
    edited 2012-07-03 20:14
    And to all of our forumista friends in the UK: Nyah! Nyah! Nyah! WE WON! Er ... oops! .. I mean ... um ... condolences, and no hard feelings about the unpleasantness. I mean ... ahem ... you gave us English Common Law, after all -- well, except for Louisiana (sorry, Whit), whose law is based upon Napoleonic precepts.

    Hoo boy! This hole is getting pretty deep, so I'd better quit digging before I offend anyone else. Happy 4th, everyone! :)

    -Phil
  • bsnutbsnut Posts: 521
    edited 2012-07-03 23:42
    Hoo boy! This hole is getting pretty deep, so I'd better quit digging before I offend anyone else. Happy 4th, everyone!
    I would be happy to provide a ladder to get out of the hole. BTW, Happy 4th to everyone.
  • davejamesdavejames Posts: 4,047
    edited 2012-07-07 21:45
    erco wrote: »
    PS: Dave James, have a hot dog for me...

    In my best Wesley voice:

    "...as...you...wish!!!"
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  • Oldbitcollector (Jeff)Oldbitcollector (Jeff) Posts: 8,091
    edited 2012-07-07 21:57
    Now THAT is a HOTDOG! (Too bad I would pay soooo dearly for eating one like that.... :)

    Just finished the fireworks here in Orrville, OH tonight. That pretty much wraps up the fourth in this area. One heck of a show.

    OBC
  • ercoerco Posts: 20,259
    edited 2012-07-07 22:36
    @davejames: Eddie Murphy: "Wesley Snipes type?" obscure "Showtime" movie reference, a favorite

    Good call on the spicy mustard. Makes all the difference.
  • GordonMcCombGordonMcComb Posts: 3,366
    edited 2012-07-07 23:04
    davejames wrote: »
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    "Nobody, I mean NOBODY puts ketchup on a hot dog.
    -- Harry Callahan
  • ercoerco Posts: 20,259
    edited 2012-07-07 23:54
    Movie Name: 2010 (1984)
    Heywood Floyd: Id love a hot dog.
    Walter Curnow: Astrodome. Good hot dogs there.
    Heywood Floyd: Astrodome? You cant grow a good hot dog indoors.
    Yankee Stadium. September. The hot dogs have been boiling since
    opening day in April. Now thats a hot dog.
    Walter Curnow: The yellow mustard or the darker kind?
    Heywood Floyd: The darker kind.
    Walter Curnow: Very important.
  • LoopyBytelooseLoopyByteloose Posts: 12,537
    edited 2012-07-08 08:47
    @Phil
    California is based on Castillian Law as it belonged to Spain before Commodore Sloat sailed into San Francisco Bay. I wonder what Alaska law is based on - Russian Common Law?

    The British a lot of good things - warm beer, scruples, knickers, and bad weather.

    I suppose some of my neighbors might be amused by that pooch. Or maybe appalled. They seem to dislike dogs getting anywhere near their alley even though I do clean up after mine.
  • GordonMcCombGordonMcComb Posts: 3,366
    edited 2012-07-08 10:42
    Loopy Byteloose wrote: »
    @Phil
    California is based on Castillian Law as it belonged to Spain before Commodore Sloat sailed into San Francisco Bay.

    I think that's a bit of a stretch, and doesn't count Mexican rule (about 30 years) once Mexico gained independence from Spain in 1821. Louisiana is unique among the 50 states for having a civil (property, contracts, etc.) system not based on English common law.

    The republic that John Sloat announced didn't last long, and was followed by a two year war between the US and Mexico; it took lots o' money to finally own California.

    -- Gordon
  • Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi) Posts: 23,514
    edited 2012-07-08 10:54
    Moreover, Mexico's civil law is derived heavily from Napoleonic law, too:
    "The U.S. common law system is based on the case law and statutory law of England and the American colonies before the American Revolution. As the name implies, the traditional common law system emphasizes case law, customs and usage rather than legislative enactments. In contrast, Mexico's civil law system is derived primarily from Roman law as set forth in the compilation of codes and statutes of the Emperor Justinian, called Corpus Juris Civilis, and later refined in the French or Napoleonic Code of 1804. ..."

    Ref: http://www.mexonline.com/lawreview.htm

    -Phil
  • davejamesdavejames Posts: 4,047
    edited 2012-07-09 07:52
    erco wrote: »
    @davejames: Eddie Murphy: "Wesley Snipes type?" obscure "Showtime" movie reference, a favorite

    Good call on the spicy mustard. Makes all the difference.


    ...oh...sorry...I should have been more clear - "The Princess Bride"
  • davejamesdavejames Posts: 4,047
    edited 2012-07-09 07:55
    @Xanadu & Poopy Pooch,

    That video actually brought back memories of a Seoul, Korea business trip and the after affects of eating too much spicy garlic chicken!!!
  • GordonMcCombGordonMcComb Posts: 3,366
    edited 2012-07-09 08:05
    davejames wrote: »
    ...oh...sorry...I should have been more clear - "The Princess Bride"

    I knew who you were referring to, though the character's name is Westley, with a t. That prolly threw Erco.

    Christopher Guest (who's real full name Christopher Haden-Guest, 5th Baron Haden-Guest, and that's not a Spinal Tap joke) is great in that film.

    -- Gordon
  • LoopyBytelooseLoopyByteloose Posts: 12,537
    edited 2012-07-09 08:13
    California property law does go back to recognize Spanish land grants. There are even a few within the city limits of San Francisco, like Laguna Honda, and the Presidio. Maybe Mexico partially based itself on Castillian law as well. This whole tie in to Napoleonic Law is rather new to me, though Louisiana certainly has a tremendous French heritage.

    Oregon is based on English Common Law and I found that I could get things done easily as an average guy. Going into court without a lawyer is quite common. Whereas, what I thought was Castillian influence seemed to make California law something you darn not participate in without a $400 per hour attorney.
  • GordonMcCombGordonMcComb Posts: 3,366
    edited 2012-07-09 09:35
    The land grants were ceded by treaty, not common law, and in any case that portion of the proposed treaty was written out by the US congress at the time. Some land grants have remained for various reasons (most were sold, like Pio Pico's ownership of a land-granted ranch in So Cal that is now a military base), but there was/is no law guaranteeing it. The same thing happened in New Mexico and other border states.

    Still to this day almost half of California is owned by the US government; it was never California's to give away. Land grants are governmental instruments (acts of congress, regulatory mandates, etc.).

    -- Gordon
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