Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 18:50:34 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> Cc: Tim Vanderhoek <vanderh@ecf.utoronto.ca>, committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The recent fracas involving danes, war axes and wounded developers Message-ID: <19981229185034.Q32696@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199812290811.AAA16487@dingo.cdrom.com>; from Mike Smith on Tue, Dec 29, 1998 at 12:11:16AM -0800 References: <199812290807.KAA53084@greenpeace.grondar.za> <199812290811.AAA16487@dingo.cdrom.com>
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On Tuesday, 29 December 1998 at 0:11:16 -0800, Mike Smith wrote: >> Tim Vanderhoek wrote: >>> Ah, the myth that voting is good. I have more respect for the person >>> who abstains from the next election b/c they aren't sure what party to >>> vote for than for the person who votes b/c some advert on TV said >>> "excercise your right to vote". >> >> In this country (ZA), one would "spoil the vote"; you scrawl "screw >> you" or some such on the paper. This way your ballot cannot be >> stolen/sold, and you have exercised your democratic right to _not_ >> vote. > > Yes, but remember that North Americans like to think that apathy is the > way to go. .za and .au and many other .uk colonies recognise that > making people vote makes them at least take an interest in what's going > on. > > ... and that's why failure to particpate in -core (or -management-body) > business should disqualify you from the body. Because it's like .za or .au? Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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