From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,dbd35bb508093bd9 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-12-24 06:33:22 PST Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 23:35:35 +0800 From: Adrian Hoe User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i586; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020314 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: OT Hatred (was Re: New Ada compiler for .NET) References: <3DEA5CC0.6B435E66@adaworks.com> <3df55f03_2@news.tm.net.my> <1039531607.289271@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <3DF7362A.87F9FDA6@brighton.ac.uk> <1039618334.652640@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <2ttK9.2461$X56.125646@newsfep1-gui.server.ntli.net > <3DFF20BD.A58113F5@brighton.ac.uk> <1040142718.867309@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <3E00ACCE.9BF7AAC0@brighton.ac.uk> <1040238180.939847@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Host: akh-131-168.tm.net.my X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: akh-131-168.tm.net.my Message-ID: <3e086e80_2@news.tm.net.my> X-Trace: news.tm.net.my 1040739968 akh-131-168.tm.net.my (24 Dec 2002 22:26:08 +0800) Organization: TMnet Malaysia Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!news-out.cwix.com!newsfeed.cwix.com!news1.tm.net.my Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:32282 Date: 2002-12-24T23:35:35+08:00 List-Id: Michael Bode wrote: > "James S. Rogers" writes: > > >>In the US presidential election direct votes of the populace >>actually elect electors for the Electoral College. The sole >>job of the Electoral College is to elect the president. Each state >>gets as many votes as the number of Congressional represenatatives >>for that state. In effect, the president is elected by the States. >> > > Yes that's an indirect system. But I remember there was a dispute on > which votes were to be counted and which were to be discarded. AFAIK > they were ordered by court to stop counting as long as Bush was in > front. > > Ha! Democracy. -- type Dmitry is new Adrian; -- Adrian Hoe -- http://adrianhoe.com -- Remove *nospam* to email