Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 22:23:30 11/10/00
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On November 10, 2000 at 21:50:45, Thorsten Czub wrote: >>Everyone who can program should write one, it's fun. And even if the program >>plays like crap, get it going on ICC. > >what is ICC ? never heard of. I'll ignore everything else you said for now and concentrate on this. Surely you know about the internet chess club? That's where Bob runs Crafty all the time. Come to think of it, I've never seen you there. Perhaps when Germany gets its phone rates figured out you can go there and chat with people. >were you able to find out whom you have elected ? >do you want my vote too ? i am from foreign country... > >maybe my vote is the one that decides... :-))) > >or maybe it was too complicate ... voting is not easy :-))) > >maybe it was not sex, just helping clinton to get away some pressure. > >americans. ha - very funny people. first we had to discuss the >clinton-babe and "was it sex or not" and now the whole world >has another new american comedy to laugh. this time another >glorius episode of al bundy's : do you count my vote too ? > >i am sure this serial gets continued. > >next season. > >i wonder if whole america isn't real but a serial. not real but >a kind of ellen degeneres comedy. and the presidents are the main actors. >oh - forgot, we had this cowboy, who today has problems to remember who >he is... how was the name of THIS episode ? Bonanza ? shiloh ranch ? I don't know why you react this way because of the US election. Our states have a lot of power in our governmental system, because the country was first organized as a series of colonies. The colonies combined in order to fight England, but there wasn't a strong central government for some time after that war ended, and the states maintained quite a bit of power after that. Our constitution provides for a two-tiered electoral process. We vote for a president, but what we are really voting for is electors, who are people who vote the way we tell them to. Each state gets a certain number of electors and it's winner take all. It just so happens that the election was close, so Florida's electors will decide the issue, and the vote in Florida was extrmely close. I don't see why this is something that.anyone would think is defective or funny. It's an election, sometimes they are close. An obvious alternative is not to have elections, but we are attached to them here. I think your attitude about the US is strange. You'd probably react the same way if I developed a Nazi fixation which caused me to bring this particular topic up every time Germany is mentioned. I'm sure it'd be really funny if I kept doing this amongst my friends, assuming they had a problem with Germans, which they don't. But this crowd is international, and when you do this you just sound narrow, and I wonder if you've done sufficient travelling. Perhaps Europeans are more anti-American than Americans are anti-European. I'd like to think not. bruce
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