| Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Feb 16 12:51AM -0800 Dan Tilque wrote: > only by judicial fiat (i.e. ruling a law unconstitutional) do not count. > Laws approved after judicial fiat do count. If a law has been passed but > is not yet fully implemented, it still counts. This quiz is over and ERLAND is the winner. Congratulations. > 1.a United States: most US states have legal same-sex marriage, but most > do so by judicial fiat. How many have actual legislation allowing it? (3 > pts for exact answer; 1 pt within 2) 13 (CT DE HI IL ME MD MA MN NH NY RI VT WA) Several other states have either domestic partnerships or civil unions (CA CO NV NJ OR WI), but I don't think any provide exactly the same rights as marriage, although some come very close. DC also has an SSM law, but it does not count as a state. > 1.b Rest of the World: How many other countries have such laws? (3 pts > for exact answer; 1 pt within 2) 17 Argentina Belgium Canada Denmark England and Wales France Iceland Luxembourg Netherlands New Zealand Norway Portugal Scotland South Africa Spain Sweden Uruguay A couple of complications here. In the UK, this is a devolved issue. So I counted the individual countries there separately. I'm not very happy with this, but I wasn't sure how else to handle it. Any one have a better idea? In Mexico, marriage law falls to the individual states (just as in the US). Only two states (out of 31) plus the Federal District have approved SSM, so I decided not to count it. Brazil also has SSM, but this is due to court rulings. > does just medical marijuana. The law must allow for the purchase and > possession (and often taxation) of marijuana by most adults without > special permission. (1 point per polity) Alaska, Colorado, Oregon, Washington, Uruguay, Netherlands It may also be legal in Bangladesh although I've been unable to confirm this via the internet. It may or may not be legal in North Korea. There's a bit of dispute over its status there. Fortunately no one named either country, so I didn't have to rule on them. As for the US states listed above, it's legal according the the laws of those states, but still illegal according to federal law. But the Obama administration has chosen not to enforce the federal laws in those states[1], so those states have defacto legalization. Note that Alaska and Oregon have just recently passed their laws and they are still working on putting them into effect, although they still count for the purposes of this quiz. [1] No doubt because of a lack of manpower; they've always depended on state and local police to enforce drug laws. > 3. Physician assisted suicide. > 3.a What polity is the latest to approve physician-assisted suicide? (2 > pts) Quebec, as of June 2014 [2] Canada is not the answer, since it's only been a very recent judicial ruling (just a couple days before I posted this quiz, in fact). This ruling requires Parliament to enact a law regulating it, but that law has not yet been passed. [2] I was unaware of this before researching this quiz. > 3.b Name three other polities with physician-assisted suicide. (1 pt each) Oregon Vermont Washington Belgium Luxembourg Netherlands Switzerland There've been court rulings in Montana and New Mexico, but no legislation has been passed. In NM, the ruling is under appeal to the state Supreme Court. > 4. Vote by mail: What polities have complete vote-by-mail? That is, all > eligible voters get their ballot in the mail and may return them by mail > or drop them off at designated locations. (1 pt per polity) Colorado Oregon Washington Switzerland Other polities may have advance voting or other facilitated voting methods so that some or all voters do not have to go to the polling station on election day, but they don't fall under the definition of vote by mail I gave above. Scoring: Q1.a Q1.b Q2 Q3.a Q3.b Q4 T Erland 0 0 4 0 3 0 7 Peter Smyth 1 0 1 0 2 2 6 Mark Brader 0 0 2 0 2 1 5 Marc Dashevshi 0 0 4 0 0 0 4 Rob Parker 0 1 1 0 1 0 3 Erland, RQ #170 is yours to do with as you please. -- Dan Tilque |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Feb 15 05:16AM -0600 Björn Lundin: >>> Was date was the Berlin wall opened? Stephen Perry: >> thank you for the follow up with the year, otherwise I would have >> answered with the august 1961 date. Björn Lundin: > That of course is one way if interpret 'open' when it comes to a wall. No, it isn't. But when the questions aren't written in the person's native language and use an unusual wording, it's possible that we'll guess wrong as to what was intended. I don't imagine the error at the start of the sentence fooled anyone, but for the event in 1989, most people would refer to the "fall" of the Berlin Wall, or the Wall "coming down". (What really happened on the critical date, of course, was that the border between East and West Germany was declared open. The removal of the physical wall came later, both by official and unofficial means.) -- Mark Brader, Toronto | "To err is human, but to error requires a computer." msb@vex.net | -- Harry Lethall My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| "Björn Lundin" <b.f.lundin@gmail.com>: Feb 15 12:26PM +0100 On 2015-02-15 12:16, Mark Brader wrote: > but for the event in 1989, most people would > refer to the "fall" of the Berlin Wall, or the Wall "coming down". Yes, of course. I had the opening of the border, at one of the check points, in mind while writing. But swp's reply made me think of it as opening night, or premier, as you have in Broadway shows, which would point to some date in 1961. -- Björn |
| "Peter Smyth" <psmyth@ukf.net>: Feb 15 07:11PM Björn Lundin wrote: > A bit related to cold war ending > Was date was the Berlin wall opened? > I will close this round Tuesday Feb 17 2015 20:00 CET 29 May Peter Smyth |
| Russ <askme @ sayplease.com>: Feb 15 04:39PM -0800 On Sat, 14 Feb 2015 20:30:47 +0100, Björn Lundin >> Was date was the Berlin wall opened? >The year is 1989 >-- November 9. (Now that you clarified the year!) Russ |
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