> Rolf wrote:
> 
> > The correct conclusion (the one I intended to convey) is that the 
> > naive should not vote, and the enlightened should vote to 
> do the least 
> > damage .... ;-)
> 
> How about this: instead of complaining that all politicians 
> are corrupt, start by joining a party, do some base line work 
> and make what you consider decent people show up on ballots?
> 


What, stop whinging & actually do something?  Where's the fun in that?

I had an amusing conversation yesterday regarding Americans & voting.  They
complain about the goverment, don't vote, are amazed that Australians have
compulsory voting (that's a violation of your rights) and live in a
democracy.  Right.  (No Americans were about to defend themselves,
unfortunately.)

You can pigeon-hole people into 3 categories:

A: Whingers
B: Doers
C: Don't care

There's really only 2 categories, the "Don't care" folk become whingers at
the drop of a hat.

I've found that I don't have much time for the more rabid whingers these
days.  Those who state:  "xxx is xxx as xxx is caused by xxx. If xxx was to
xxx the xxx would xxx. These are just my opinions, but only a complete moron
would think otherwise."

You can fill in the gaps with cats, religion, jews, Windows, Unix, 16F84,
token-ring, chocolate, taxes, heat, oil, MS BOB, guns, lead-free solder,
conspiracy, cigarete smoke, porn, Volkwagon, Coke, cancer, single button
mice, arabs, government, liquid paper, soduko, rednecks, CapsLock, orange
underwear, Zune, spam, terrorists, Fiji, global warming, plastic, copper etc
- any combination works.

Here's a typical rant: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has warned
Western leaders to follow the path of God or "vanish from the face of the
earth". "These oppressive countries are angry with us ... a nation that on
the other side of the globe has risen up and proved the shallowness of their
power"

Replace "Mahmoud Ahmadinejad", "Western leaders" & "God" with "RMS",
"Windows Users" & "GNU", (you figure out the rest) and it still works.  (Ok,
a bit harsh on RMS.  ESR?  Then you can toss in guns)

There doesn't seem to be any overlap or crossover between Groups A & B.

I'm also forming a theory regarding those whose mail program fail to handle
quoting properly, but I need a few more data points.

Tony


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