On Sun, 14 Oct 2001 15:12:35 -0400 (EDT), Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, 14 Oct 2001, Samuel W. Heywood wrote: >> In a democracy the politician who can have the people >> believing that his opinions reflect those of the majority will >> win the election. Because of this, it is in the best >> interests of politicians to see to it that the public opinion >> polls are manipulated in their favor. > Precisely why this nation was NOT founded as a > democracy. Only the House of Representatives was > to have been democratically elected. The Founding Fathers originally provided for the senators to be appointed by the legislatures of their respective states. That arrangement has since been changed by a constitutional amendment ratified a very long time ago. Nowadays the senators are elected directly by the people of their states. >> > I just checked by killing my browser, wiping my >> > cookies, and restarting the browser, and was able >> > to revote a question. >> This was dishonest of you to vote more than once. If it was >> just an experiment to see if you could get away with it, then >> you may plead that your dishonesty in this case is perhaps >> very mitigating and excusable <G>. > Whitehats have to know how the blackhats gain > access. ;-) Kinda like stealing a penny from the > bank just to demonstrate that the bank isn't as > invulnerable as it thought. I have a friend who is a self-employed professional shoplifter. (His actual job title is "security consultant".) He has contracts with many retail stores in the Washington DC area. His job is to go shoplifting for the purpose of investigating the effectiveness of the store security. Whenever he gets caught he just produces his credentials identifying himself as an "authorized" shoplifter. Also he congratulates the store detectives on what a fine job they are doing. The store detectives never recognize him for who he is because he is a master of disguises and he can pose as an ordinary customer in any store he visits. Whenever the authorized shoplifter gets away with it, he is trusted to turn in his "stolen" merchandise to the store manager along with his written recommendations on how to improve store security. BTW, he just loves his job. He doesn't give out any helpful advice on how to get away with shoplifting, but he can tell you how you can get a free ride in a police car <G>. <snip> Regards, Sam Heywood -- This mail was written by user of The Arachne Browser - http://arachne.cz/
