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French "Three Strikes" Law Gets New Life
Kjella writes "A little over a week ago we discussed the EU's forbidding of disconnecting users from the Internet. But even after having passed with an 88% approval in the European Parliament, and passing through the European Commission, it was all undone last week. The European Council, led by French President Nicolas Sarkozy, removed the amendment before passing the Telecom package. This means that there's now nothing stopping France's controversial 'three strikes' law from going into effect. What hope is there for a 'parliament' where near-unanimous agreement can be completely undone so easily?"
Al Gore did not win the election. He had the majority of the popular vote. That's it. The popular vote means nothing in itself. It doesn't even mean, that if the popular vote WAS the determiner for election that Al Gore would have won, since the entire campaign would have been conducted differently.
As an American, I agree. If we can depose our dictator, so can you guys.
un changement que nous pouvons croire en
(I don't speak French; blame Google.)
It's rare that you're presented with a knob whose only two positions are Make History and Flee Your Glorious Destiny.
They're Europeans. Do you think the agreement would have had so much support if it actually meant anything, or had real-world consequences? That's not how things work over there. Look what it's like trying to get them to do anything as NATO partners besides sit around and pull their peters.
I've calculated my velocity with such exquisite precision that I have no idea where I am.
aw, c'mon. troll for truth? what is next, flamebait for my honest opinion?
A few years back we seemed to be headed towards a European constitution. The text was horribly formatted, there was no declaration of values as in most constitutions, it was so long no one could reasonably expected to read all that, and there was endless bitching from the Catholic church and their lackeys about inserting a paragraph about the continent's Christian roots, conveniently forgetting that modern democracy in Europe is mostly due to anti-clericals and that the Church has opposed pretty much any progress in civil rights (yesterday's news: they support killing gays in Iran and other religious cesspits).
However, that constitution was still better than nothing. Among other things, it finally gave power to the EU parliament, but who shot down the constitution? The French, in a national referendum. So, if anything, they are getting what they asked for—continued unaccountability of Brussels bureaucrats.
Victims of 9/11: <3000. Traffic in the US: >30,000/y
just a reality resulting from the demographics the parties draw from... poor non-english speaking people trend as democrats
In other words, the Democrat party and their policies are defined by getting the votes of the stupid, uninformed, and clueless.
Glad to know they're being guided by an informed electorate as George Washington warned us we needed... uhm whoops!
Really? What voting system requires you to have a majority of the POSSIBLE votes?
The electoral college.
All that I've ever seen have required you to have the majority of CAST votes.
See above re: democrats voted for primarily by the uninformed and the stupid. Which are you, merely uninformed or stupid?
Its pretty lousy policy at the -federal- level that you can even have swing states that decide elections.
No, it's great policy for a country consisting of states themselves. The US presidential election is decided not by one "national" election, but by 51 (50 states plus DC) simultaneous STATE elections.
Of course you would know this were you not a democrat and therefore at very least uninformed if not worse by your own admission.
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