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View Poll Results: Which is better? | |
Two-party
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free for all, anyone can run
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other
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09-01-2004, 11:49 PM
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| Two-party
This was kinda prompted by the "electoral colledge" thread.
Which is superior-two party, or free for all?
Cast your vote and decide! | 
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09-02-2004, 07:44 PM
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Originally Posted by mrbiggs This was kinda prompted by the "electoral colledge" thread.
Which is superior-two party, or free for all?
Cast your vote and decide! | And what would the "other" alternative imply? 
Have a nice time!
Peter Gustafsson | 
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09-02-2004, 09:30 PM
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Originally Posted by PeterGustafsson Hi!
And what would the "other" alternative imply?
Have a nice time!
Peter Gustafsson | A nation-wide fencing tournament. Winner in each weapon and gender runs for office. A boxing match to the death determines the final winner.  | |
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09-02-2004, 09:33 PM
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| I'll go with "other" then... 
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09-02-2004, 09:42 PM
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| Is repechage permitted?
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09-10-2004, 02:56 AM
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Originally Posted by mrbiggs A nation-wide fencing tournament. Winner in each weapon and gender runs for office. A boxing match to the death determines the final winner. |
Only if all entrants are nude... then we'll see who the better man/woman is
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09-12-2004, 09:17 PM
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| Other option for "other"-
Pissing contest | |
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09-30-2004, 07:55 PM
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09-30-2004, 11:23 PM
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| Eliminate the possibility of recounts or contested elections - duel to the death! | |
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10-01-2004, 12:54 AM
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| don't blame me, i voted for kodos. | |
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10-01-2004, 03:31 AM
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| I find myself strangely attracted to Soldier's plan. But what if they double-touch? | |
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10-01-2004, 03:39 AM
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Originally Posted by telkanuru I find myself strangely attracted to Soldier's plan. But what if they double-touch? | Or what if one dies but the other takes brain damage? | |
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10-01-2004, 11:34 AM
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Originally Posted by telkanuru I find myself strangely attracted to Soldier's plan. But what if they double-touch? | Yes, there are many who find me strangely attractive.
Woops, I mean, that's why it's to the death. | |
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10-01-2004, 11:34 AM
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Originally Posted by Sword-Chucks Or what if one dies but the other takes brain damage? | I'm starting to think a brain-damaged president might be better than a fully functional one. | |
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10-01-2004, 06:44 PM
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Originally Posted by Soldier Yes, there are many who find me strangely attractive. | You have become a strange attractor, and exhibit the butterfly effect.
Have a nice time!
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10-04-2004, 06:54 PM
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| Peter, I don't know how many got the fractal reference.... Here's at least one reference, with pretty pictures http://ccrma-www.stanford.edu/~stilt...ctors/nav.html
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10-04-2004, 07:05 PM
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Originally Posted by PeterGustafsson Hi!
You have become a strange attractor, and exhibit the butterfly effect.
Have a nice time!
Peter Gustafsson | Where does the butterfly effect come in?
I never saw the movie, but heard it's horribly depressing. | |
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10-05-2004, 03:00 AM
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Originally Posted by Soldier Where does the butterfly effect come in?
I never saw the movie, but heard it's horribly depressing. |
Reference, I believe, to a metaphor from chaos theory. In explaining how the weather is a chaotic system, one frequently hears mentioned that a butterfly flapping its wings in China can cause a hurricane on the other side of the globe.
Terry Pratchett describes this particular species of butterfly as having beautiful mandelbrot coloration on its wings, and wonders why people don't just go stomp on the damn thing and stop all these hurricanes. | |
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10-05-2004, 12:10 PM
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| Yes, I understand the butterfly effect, and have read many of Terry Pratchett's books - I just do not understand how it applies to me. | |
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10-05-2004, 12:30 PM
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| It's a tedious pun, Soldier: you said "strangely attractive", strange attractors are a form of fractal curves, and Peter G made a joke reference to butterfly effects, another notion tied to fractals. (Jokes don't work if you hafta explain them, math jokes even moreso)
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