From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Feb 5 19: 1: 0 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5C6D37B401 for ; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 19:00:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [63.229.157.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3E2543FAF for ; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 19:00:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp1000.lariat.org@lariat.org [63.229.157.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA06380; Wed, 5 Feb 2003 20:00:50 -0700 (MST) X-message-flag: Warning! Use of Microsoft Outlook renders your system susceptible to Internet worms. Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20030205195726.00e5b5a0@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2003 20:00:47 -0700 To: Mikhail Teterin From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: legitimacy of core (Re: dillon@'s commit bit: I object) Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <200302052108.25303.mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20030205174625.029e7ee0@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20030205161539.028acab0@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20030205174625.029e7ee0@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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. 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. 200 years later, experience worldwide has shown that direct suffrage 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). --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message