Why would this be moded as flamebait? I'm sure I don't know, but we'll give it another hearing....

Why was this guy moded as a troll? What he's saying is all over the news in Europe.

Do you want the email on the professor I read it with? Just so you can notify him personally that the laying out of branches of government, establishing the election process, citizen rights, free speech and all that has nothing to do with democracy. He'll be so surprised.

If he is surprised, then he's an idiot, too. I repeat, read it yourself.

Pray tell, what makes a country democratic, if not free speech, free elections, oversight of government, balances to prevent accumulation of power, basic rights of all citizens, habeas corpus?

What makes a country a democracy is majority rule, it has nothing to do with any of those other things at all.

I take back the part about reading the constitution. Maybe you should start with a dictionary.

Can you link the image?

Yep.

Are you actually arguing that the constitution is not about democracy? Seriously?

Yes, dead seriously. Try reading it some time, because anyone who would say such an idiotic thing obviously hasn't.

And the constitution is entirely about democracy

Really? Show me where the word is mentioned. I'm sure it must be in there somewhere.

Tell that to Sarah Palin.

No. They could always have accepted IBM's offer. Pick your poison.

Indeed. You would think the choice was between an independent Sun and an Oracle owned Sun. Actually, it's between an Oracle owned Sun, and no Sun at all.

In my book, that one should be a no-brainer.

Well, in either case, it's probably a good thing for desktop Linux. Google is one of the only players in that arena that has sufficient market clout to propagate a standard, which might finally make it a viable target for commercial applications.

I think of it as a parallel to Mac OS X - OS X may be based on FreeBSD, but commercial application vendors don't target FreeBSD, they target Mac OS, because Apple has the market share and the mind share. One of the big problems with desktop Linux has been that it's a moving target. Every time you turn around a different distro has been the darling of the community, first SLS, then Slackware, then Caldera, RedHat, Mandrake, Ubuntu, etc., and whether or not an application could be reliably migrated from one to the next has always been a hit or miss proposition. A predictable, standard Linux platform with a the clout of Google behind it would go a long, long way in making it a less volatile desktop platform for developers.

Since when is there a right not to be disgusted?

Nice to get some perspective from a clearly disinterested party....

The rich ARE evil. One of the principal lacts of their evil is to sponsor a media-culture that gets ordinary schmucks like yourself to identify emotionally with them, aspire to their condition, and to assume an attack on the values of the truly rich to be a personal threat to your own status and mobility.

Um, no asshat. I promote the rights of the rich to their property for the same reason liberals throw a fit when someone like Rodney King gets beaten up by the cops.

If Rodney King isn't secure in his civil rights, neither are the rest of us. And likewise, if Bill Gates isn't secure in his property rights, we aren't either.

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