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On Mon, 04 Sep 2006 06:02:17 GMT, Brian Inglis
You would lose a large percentage of the electorate that would not phone-internet-mail.. Check out the abberent results of phone-in polls conducted by TV shows. The great unwashed (Hey, must get the shower fixed!) may not usually take part in the Tweedledum-Tweedledee elections that the political parties have turned elections into in the West generally, but the illusion that one can go and make a difference helps to stop the riots.
in the early 70s ... i wrote a pli program that analyzed buttembler listing ... abstracting code flow, register & variable useage...
the abstraction had code blocks that were sequential sequence of instructions ... a code block could be bracketed by control flow leaving and-or code flow entering (from...
Politicians are a bad thing, but just get elected to the most trivial post, and you realize, unless you are a monomaniacal nutter, that any decision needs to take some account of everyone's opinion. Then you are buttimilated into the political system. What really amuses me is people who get elected on one platform, then are generally moved to a completely different one. A local politician went for election last time on an anti-corruption ticket, now at the end of his term as (Minister-for-introducing-new-laws) is promoting a bill for enhancing politician's privacy. He is not a bad man, but the pressure of working in a system with lots of other people, and getting things done, does that.
-- greymaus Just Another Grumpy Old Man
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