From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Mar 5 10:10:38 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 3583015200 for ; Fri, 5 Mar 1999 10:10:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr06.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp04.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA29557; Fri, 5 Mar 1999 11:44:16 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr06.primenet.com(206.165.6.206) via SMTP by smtp04.primenet.com, id smtpd029385; Fri Mar 5 11:44:02 1999 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr06.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA10364; Fri, 5 Mar 1999 11:09:27 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199903051809.LAA10364@usr06.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Guess we've lost the server market too...? To: nbm@mithrandr.moria.org (Neil Blakey-Milner) Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999 18:09:27 +0000 (GMT) Cc: brett@lariat.org, tlambert@primenet.com, jkh@zippy.cdrom.com, chris@netmonger.net, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19990305115910.A87593@rucus.ru.ac.za> from "Neil Blakey-Milner" at Mar 5, 99 11:59:10 am 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 > > >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. > > Certainly not here (Democratic Party, (New) National Party, African National > Congress, Inkhata Freedom Party, Pan Africanist Congress, and tons of > others), and increasingly not so in Britain, I think, although my stats are > nearly a year out of date. Besides which, given the existance of an electoral college, the US is a Republic, not a Democracy. 8-). 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