From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Mar 5 9:50:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtp04.primenet.com (smtp04.primenet.com [206.165.6.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E66A15211 for ; Fri, 5 Mar 1999 09:50:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr06.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp04.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA20200; Fri, 5 Mar 1999 11:24:18 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr06.primenet.com(206.165.6.206) via SMTP by smtp04.primenet.com, id smtpd020132; Fri Mar 5 11:24:11 1999 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr06.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA08676; Fri, 5 Mar 1999 10:49:42 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199903051749.KAA08676@usr06.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Guess we've lost the server market too...? To: brett@lariat.org (Brett Glass) Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999 17:49:42 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, jkh@zippy.cdrom.com, chris@netmonger.net, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990304234347.03e51f00@localhost> from "Brett Glass" at Mar 4, 99 11:44:26 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > >> Alas, as the American political system shows, the public actually > >> resists having more than two choices. It's "one, two, too many." > > > >Incorrect. > > > >The two party system is a macroscopic artifact of the electoral > >college, which was invented in the days when you couldn't have > >general elections because of communications and trust issues > >which are no longer relevent. > > If that's so, please explain why two-party systems dominate in > every democracy without a coalition government. Corruption? Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message