Questions about the USA.

[regexcellent]

Jon, I thought you were Canadian...you know, based on your sig?

[DaShi]

WTF?! Why are you all answering onodera's questions? Don't you know he's KGB?

[-Jrabbit]

Unbelievably trivial thread. Well done, lads!

[Felch]

They vote with the location of their permanent duty station/where their unit is headquartered. An army man might be able to answer this better than me, but I think if your unit is headquartered in, say, Vicenza or something you can't vote.

They could also vote in the state where they lived before joining the military.

[Felch]

If you don't have your birth certificate, it is hard.

If you don't have a license, it is hard.

If you live abroad, it is hard.

If you don't have bills, it is hard.

JM

If you don't have a birth certificate or other identification, and if you live abroad, and if you don't pay bills, then you might be a Somali pirate.

What are you doing going abroad without a passport?

Isn't there a business or even a state service where I can go, give two addresses and a small fee, and they reregister everything to my new address?

Not that I know of. It's really not that big of a deal for most people, and those people who do have trouble would probably find an attorney to help handle it. Lawyers don't ever put the word small before the word fee.

[Jon Miller]

I wasn't implying that someone would fulfill all aspects.

JM

[onodera]

5. How often do children have PT in middle and high school? I used to have two PT classes per week, or rather 1 double-length class lasting 90 minutes plus break.
6. What is recess in a school context?

[Hauldren Collider]

Is PT gym class? That depends 100% on your school district's policy. I had gym every other day in elementary school, and every day in middle school, and then every other day again in high school for the first two years. Juniors and Seniors didn't have to take gym, so I stopped.

Recess is something most kids get in elementary school. It's a short break, usually after lunch, where they let you play outside (or inside if the weather is bad). Most elementary schools have a jungle gym and swingsets and a playground.

[Jon Miller]

We had recess in middle school too, i use to sit on the ground and read.

Or just go to the library for the day.

JM

[Dinner]

No, you don't.

Puerto Rican's can't vote. Expats can't vote either. Being a US citizen doesn't entitle you to vote. Being a resident of one of the 50 states (or DC following an amendment, can't remember which, 23rd?) does.

That post is dumb. Puerto Ricans do vote though they don't have a voting rep in Congress. Also expats also are allowed to vote with polling stations set up in over seas locations with large expat communities. In 2008 they had polling stations in London and, of course, there are always absentee ballots.

[Dinner]

5. How often do children have PT in middle and high school? I used to have two PT classes per week, or rather 1 double-length class lasting 90 minutes plus break.
6. What is recess in a school context?

We had it five days a week for one hour per day. In 11th and 12th grade it became an elective but it was mandatory from 7th to 10th grade. Recess was mostly a 1st-6th grade thing for younger students and you'd get one 20 minute break ~10am and then a 40 minute break at noon. The idea was the little kids have lots of energy so letting them run around and play for a few minutes helped them concentrate better in class while the other break was for lunch but if you hurried you could also play some games with other students.

[Hauldren Collider]

That post is dumb. Puerto Ricans do vote though they don't have a voting rep in Congress. Also expats also are allowed to vote with polling stations set up in over seas locations with large expat communities. In 2008 they had polling stations in London and, of course, there are always absentee ballots.

Puerto Ricans do not vote for president. They can vote for offices in Puerto Rico.

[Dinner]

Last I heard they do vote but don't get any electoral votes so it doesn't really matter though they're votes are added to the official vote totals. As we all remember in 2000 though a candidate can win the popular vote yet lose the electoral vote so the popular vote is just a dog and pony show.

[Al B. Sure!]

That post is dumb. Puerto Ricans do vote though they don't have a voting rep in Congress. Also expats also are allowed to vote with polling stations set up in over seas locations with large expat communities. In 2008 they had polling stations in London and, of course, there are always absentee ballots.

OERDIN does it yet again:

http://www.factcheck.org/2008/05/puerto-rico-and-the-general-election

With 55 pledged delegates at stake, residents of Puerto Rico will head to their local election polls June 1 and cast ballots in the Democratic presidential primary. But for most of Puerto Rico's estimated 3.9 million residents, that’s where their presidential voting activity will end.

Unless they have official residency in a U.S. state or the District of Columbia, people living in Puerto Rico, and all other U.S. territories, are not permitted to vote in the general election in November.

[Hauldren Collider]

Even residents of DC couldn't vote until they added an amendment. Congress is actually fully within its rights to totally disenfranchise Puerto Rico and DC (except for DC's presidential vote), eliminate their democratically-elected government and have them be run by unelected bureaucrats. Obviously we'd never do that, but it is possible under the constitution.