Bug#292330: use UTF-8 by default

2007-06-15 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Hi, wouldn't it be possible to at least make the en_US.UTF-8 locale forcibly generated, so that it can't be deselected by dpkg-reconfigure locales? If this one isn't installed, many apps break when I ssh from an OS that uses exclusively UTF-8 to a Debian box. Thanks! //mirabile -- I believe no

Re: Range Voting - the simpler better alternative to Condorcet voting

2007-06-15 Thread Sam Hocevar
On Fri, Jun 15, 2007, Barak A. Pearlmutter wrote: > You make another point, which is interesting, but which actually when > carried to its logical conclusion ends up being in support of Range > Voting over Condorcet. If you continue with the logic asking what > happens when Range Voting voters vo

Re: your mail

2007-06-15 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Jorge Pérez Lara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070614 18:17]: > It's true Debian is going to dead It's impossible, if you dead, LINUX is > going to dead Not now, in not in forseeable future ;) May I ask, why you are asking? Yours sincerely, Alexander

Re: Range Voting - the simpler better alternative to Condorcet voting

2007-06-15 Thread Michael Poole
Barak A. Pearlmutter writes: > You also make the point > >> 60x A=60,B=40 >> 40x B=60,A=40 > >> It only takes six of the second group to vote B=99,A=0 to change the >> outcome, which is a major victory for the extreme supporters but a >> loss for honest moderates. > > I think your point

Re: Range Voting - the simpler better alternative to Condorcet voting

2007-06-15 Thread Barak A. Pearlmutter
You also make the point > 60x A=60,B=40 > 40x B=60,A=40 > It only takes six of the second group to vote B=99,A=0 to change the > outcome, which is a major victory for the extreme supporters but a > loss for honest moderates. I think your point is that, with Range Voting, if *some* of t

Re: Range Voting - the simpler better alternative to Condorcet voting

2007-06-15 Thread Barak A. Pearlmutter
> It always amuses me how people pull out these examples close to > Condorcet cycles as examples of strategy in Condorcet methods while > ignoring the strategy issues in even simpler Range Voting elections > that push it towards Approval-style voting. Well (a) that wasn't *my* example, and (b) it

Re: Range Voting - the simpler better alternative to Condorcet voting

2007-06-15 Thread Michael Poole
"Barak A. Pearlmutter" writes: > The example you give is a perfect instance of the DH3 problem. > > You have a population of voters whose true preferences are > > 31x A>C>B>X>D > 32x B>C>A>X>D > 37x C>B>A>X>D It always amuses me how people pull out these examples close to Condorcet cycle

Re: Range Voting - the simpler better alternative to Condorcet voting

2007-06-15 Thread Barak A. Pearlmutter
The example you give is a perfect instance of the DH3 problem. You have a population of voters whose true preferences are 31x A>C>B>X>D 32x B>C>A>X>D 37x C>B>A>X>D Assuming the B supporters know that C is the front runner, some of them might notice that if a handful of the B supporters

Re: your mail

2007-06-15 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 06:17:18PM +0200, Jorge Pérez Lara wrote: > It's true Debian is going to dead It's impossible, if you dead, LINUX is > going to dead No, Debian is not going to die. -- Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho, Jyväskylä http://antti-juhani.kaijanaho.fi/newblog/ signature.asc Descr

Re: your mail

2007-06-15 Thread Wouter Verhelst
On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 09:49:21AM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Thu, 14 Jun 2007, Jorge Pérez Lara wrote: > > It's impossible, if you dead, LINUX is going to dead > > I don't think linux will be able to escape heat death either. Sure it will. Total multiverse domination! -- Home is whe