given the rather limited choices, that really wouldn't make much difference in the real world. if this were a democracy, of course it would, if it were a "representative" government in terms of the people, it might, since it's a highly corrupt 2 party system where money votes it's not likely to make much. not that i know of anything better, but let's not delude ourselves. after all, even the electoral college was intended to prevent the "wrong" person being elected if the "public" went nuts, it's intended to allow those already in power to make that decision, guided by the people's vote, though it is being slowly reformed more or less.
administrative law is even more indirect than that, and farther from being the people's servant. after all who do you know who thinks people approving drugs at the fda should be allowed to be paid "consultants" for drug companies at the same time, or for the fcc to be doing some of the highly questionable things they've been doing (besides delaying hdtv for over a decade because industry was fighting over "spectrum"). I vote diligently (if you don't vote, you have no business complaining) and it rarely if ever makes a significant difference, particularly now that i'm in wyoming. at best, you can slightly influence companies by voting with your dollars, just as they influence government. as for the direct tv case, i believe it was on slash dot (which i should visit more often, perhaps if and when i get a cable modem), i'm sorry i don't have a url handy, doubtless google could find it quickly. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > At 05:51 PM -0600 10/14/2004, Philip Stortz top posted with 90 char lines: > > they managed to get millions of > > dollars in > > punitive damages based on what they said the loss would have been > > URL? > > > the law is clearly > > insane > > The law is what the elected congress wrote and the president signed. > If you don't like it, vote differently. -- This is no different than what happens at the skull and bones initiation and we're going to ruin people's lives over it and we're going to hamper our military effort, and then we are going to really hammer them because they had a good time. You know, these people are being fired at every day. I'm talking about people having a good time, these people, you ever heard of emotional release? You ever heard of need to blow some steam off?" Rush Limbaugh, Talking about torture, we can only hope our enemies actually follow the Geneva conventions, though we've not given them any reason to. -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
