I was talking about Scottish Independence today while hiking with two friends. Both of them thought that independence was a bad idea, but could not provide much reason for this. Maybe a slant in USA news media, with a pro-England slant?<p>I bet England does make them pay short term if there is a YES vote, but if being a small and independent country saves them money on military spending then long term it might make sense, in addition to national pride.<p>Way off topic, sorry, but: it is really interesting to think about the USA someday balkanizing. After the dollar is no longer the reserve currency, and when we can't afford our gigantic military expenses anymore, it might make sense to have smaller regional countries, with EU style trade and mobility agreements. Small seems more efficient.
Just got back in from my visit to the polling station at a local scout hut a few minutes ago, with the largest population centres of Glasgow and Edinburgh declaring so late into the morning I'm not sure what large benefit is to be gained from live tracking.
Interesting map, but if the person who created it happens by, you should consider setting constraints[1] on your zoom, so that your subject remains in view. It's very easy to zoom out to continental zoom level, which doesn't show any useful information in this context.<p>1. <a href="http://openlayers.org/en/v3.0.0/examples/zoom-constrained.html" rel="nofollow">http://openlayers.org/en/v3.0.0/examples/zoom-constrained.ht...</a>
Another version: <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/scottish-referendum/results/" rel="nofollow">http://www.abc.net.au/news/scottish-referendum/results/</a>
Pretty nifty map of #indyref tweets over the past 7 days
<a href="http://trendsmap.com/v2/Lf62/w" rel="nofollow">http://trendsmap.com/v2/Lf62/w</a>
i'd have thought running a government is a massive hassle..if they could have the english do it for them for free, why would they want to do it themselves?