On the other hand, many Samoans may not be ready for a head of state who is not drawn from the ranks of top chieftains.

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Koering thinks the state on the whole is not ready to accept same-sex marriage and that before he can support it, he'd have to see that others are more willing to approve.

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Secretary of State John Kerry said the US was not yet ready to validate the results of Sunday's poll.

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But it warned that business was not ready for the Universal Credit system, which will replace many state benefits.

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Or are we able to get things going earlier, not wait for that declaration without waiting for the state to be overwhelmed to get ready?

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Both of them are less of a "boot" and more of a "wake from hibernation" sort of thing, but most of the issues are the same -- you still have to boot a kernel, whether or not you're gonna populate the system with a saved state when it's ready.

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