Re: Opium [was: Re: freelance sysadmining -- superlong -- [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"]]
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On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 08:23:59PM -0800, Tom wrote:
> compared to the taliban and the islamists, I cannot believe you are
> acusing *US* of advocating a theocracy. talk about head up the ass.
We're not a whole lot better. Remember the cold war and it's spinoff
conflicts in Vietnam and Korea? The US killed countless many people
because those in power in the US didn't like the structure of
government.
> That is, the outcome was indeterminate. So anybody else who could have
> potentially been said to "win" would be equally illegitmate. It kind of
> sucks when you have a country without a president, so we had to do some
> Solomonic justice. Any outcome would have been equally arbitrary, this
> one was least constitutionally harmful.
If we didn't have an electoral college, it would never have come down
to that point.
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.''`. Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.ca>
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