Re: Parties

2000-10-27 Thread BENHAM TIMOTHY JAMES
Sampo writes: On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, Eric Murray wrote: Why should I vote for someone who doesn't stand for what I beleive in just because the media says that they're "not electable"? That's the kind of loser attitude that's gotten us a contest that'll assuredly elect either an idiot (Bush)

Re: Parties

2000-10-27 Thread BENHAM TIMOTHY JAMES
So, everybody's third choice gets elected, or they take turns holding the office, or what? Weighted voting can work for corporate directors or other committees, but for a chief executive? Even the electoral college sounds better. In single transferable vote systems the winner is almost

Re: Posting Cookies for Cypherpunks

2000-06-01 Thread BENHAM TIMOTHY JAMES
If we implement some sort of posting cookie, it should be bakable by any user wishing to post, and work with every conceivable variety of OS and mailer. One scheme which comes to mind is to allow people to mail their posts to "N+cypherpunks@*" where N is the number of non-whitespace