Florida! (was Re: Knoppix ISO image is 715MB - How Do I burn it ?)

[Stephen Touset]

Frank Gevaerts wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 08, 2003 at 12:41:33PM -0400, lists1 wrote:
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>> On Thursday 05 June 2003 23:10, Paul Johnson wrote:
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>>> On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 03:41:59PM -0400, Mark L. Kahnt wrote:
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>>>> Sounds like Florida, eh?
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>>> Not really.  It's not Florida's fault that federal elections don't
>>> believe in democracy, or the States wouldn't have the electoral
>>> college to begin with.
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>> Hate to burst your bubble but the US government is not a democracy. 
 It's a Republic.  If you understood this, you wouldn't have made the 
above statement.  And if you're in the US, you should know this.
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> Why is it that Americans (the USA variety) like to invade countries to
> install a "democracy" under an American leader, and whenever someone
> points out some facts about their home country, they point out that they
> themselves do not like democracy after all ?

Name one "democracy" we've set up. I'll bet you my right knuckle that 
each and every one is a democracy in name only, and a republic in practice.

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>> btw, is the subject a stealth subject so you fly under the radar 
with the discussion? ;0)
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> You could have changed it
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> Frank
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I'll go ahead and do it.

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