Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2003 10:31:57 -0500 From: Mikhail Teterin <mi+kde@aldan.algebra.com> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: legitimacy of core (Re: dillon@'s commit bit: I object) Message-ID: <200302061031.57296@aldan> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20030205195726.00e5b5a0@localhost> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20030205174625.029e7ee0@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20030205195726.00e5b5a0@localhost>
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On Wednesday 05 February 2003 10:00 pm, Brett Glass wrote: = At 07:08 PM 2/5/2003, Mikhail Teterin wrote: = >Now, that you've conceded, that the popular vote was not supposed to = >affect the choice of president, you should apologise for your attempt = >to mislead your audience into thinking, it was :-) = = I was not being misleading. You accused GWB of becoming a president _against_ the popular vote. That implied, the popular vote was supposed decide something. Now that I squeezed you, you conceded, that it was not, but instead -- _in your opinion_ -- it should have been. That substitution of your opinion for laws and facts is what was misleading. Since you yourself _knew_ the laws and the facts, apparently, the misleading was intentional :-( = I consider the Electoral College to be a bug, not a feature. As you = may recall, it was created due to elitism on the part of the Founding = Fathers; they believed that there had to be a layer of protection = against the "rabble" making a poor decision. No, it was designed to keep more value in being a separate state. The "rabble" can still make a poor decision -- in selecting the delegates. (It is adorable, that you stand up for the "rabble", but the fear of it is quite justified -- if you know about the Socrates' fate, for example.) = 200 years later, experience worldwide has shown that direct suffrage = works best. Where? How do you come to that? On the contrary, US being the most powerfull country for most of the last 100 years, I'd say _our_ system works best. = >= Nor should the president be chosen by the Supreme Court. = >Better that than a lot of other possibilities. (Ivory Coast? = >Venezuella?) = Or the current means of choosing -core (he says, trying to get the = conversation back on topic). You've already admitted, you don't know, how core is chosen. And the cabal intends to keep you in the dark... Your FreeBSD-related questions in this thread were already answered, it seems, so I'll try to restrain myself from continuing off-topic on this list. Yours, -mi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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