>Small states and minorities would lose out considerably if the electoral college were completely abolished.
How? You need to qualify this statement.
It actually was somewhat qualified. Smaller states would lose out because in a strictly popular election, those states with smaller populations would have little if any effect on the outcome of the election. A candidate would simply need to win a few key areas like California, New York City, Boston and a few other large cities. That still works now (as witnessed by Gore's election results), but it's less severe than it could be.
Take, for example, the World Series. To win the World Series you must take 4 of the 7 games, a majority of the games. However, it does not matter how many runs you score. If one team wins three games by outrageous margins, but can't pull four games, that team does not deserve to take the title. Similarly, if one presidential candidate wins a few select dense population areas by outrageous margins he may end up with a majority of the popular vote, but if he can't convince the rest of the nation that he's a good candidate, why should he be given the election? A president must win the support of people all across the country, whether they live in areas of dense population or not. The electoral college protects the smaller states from being ignored by the president.
How on Earth did RAMBUS end up with so many patents on such similar things? It seems to me that when a company such as RAMBUS starts throwing its weight around and pushing its inferior technology on the market, that the market should ignore RAMBUS and get someone else with a better product. But then, RAMBUS also owns the patent to that product as well!
Who was sitting around the patent office granting RAMBUS a monopoly? I thought we had laws against monopolies in this country. Grrr.
RAMBUS needs to quit screwing around and let the market run like it's supposed to, where the consumers decide what they want and how much they want to pay for it.
It is really annoying when companies act as idiotically and irresponsibly as RAMBUS is. Where's the DOJ when you need em?:)
Add Prince (Artist Formerly Known as?) to the list of artists who support the new music technologies such as Napster. It's nice to see respected artists come forward against the record labels and their quick to sue attitudes.
Prince's Statements (4 the love of music) are smart and straight-forward. He points out hypocrisy among the record labels own statements about this whole issue. He sets forth a good distinction between music "lovers" and music "consumers." I don't care for the way he chooses to write, reading his article with all those strange contractions and abbreviations gets kind of annoying, but it is well written and intelligent.
If only more artists saw the issues at hand the way Prince does. Thank You Prince.
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>Small states and minorities would lose out considerably if the electoral college were completely abolished.
How? You need to qualify this statement.
It actually was somewhat qualified. Smaller states would lose out because in a strictly popular election, those states with smaller populations would have little if any effect on the outcome of the election. A candidate would simply need to win a few key areas like California, New York City, Boston and a few other large cities. That still works now (as witnessed by Gore's election results), but it's less severe than it could be.
Take, for example, the World Series. To win the World Series you must take 4 of the 7 games, a majority of the games. However, it does not matter how many runs you score. If one team wins three games by outrageous margins, but can't pull four games, that team does not deserve to take the title. Similarly, if one presidential candidate wins a few select dense population areas by outrageous margins he may end up with a majority of the popular vote, but if he can't convince the rest of the nation that he's a good candidate, why should he be given the election? A president must win the support of people all across the country, whether they live in areas of dense population or not. The electoral college protects the smaller states from being ignored by the president.
-Scott
How on Earth did RAMBUS end up with so many patents on such similar things? It seems to me that when a company such as RAMBUS starts throwing its weight around and pushing its inferior technology on the market, that the market should ignore RAMBUS and get someone else with a better product. But then, RAMBUS also owns the patent to that product as well!
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Who was sitting around the patent office granting RAMBUS a monopoly? I thought we had laws against monopolies in this country. Grrr.
RAMBUS needs to quit screwing around and let the market run like it's supposed to, where the consumers decide what they want and how much they want to pay for it.
It is really annoying when companies act as idiotically and irresponsibly as RAMBUS is. Where's the DOJ when you need em?
Add Prince (Artist Formerly Known as?) to the list of artists who support the new music technologies such as Napster. It's nice to see respected artists come forward against the record labels and their quick to sue attitudes.
Prince's Statements (4 the love of music) are smart and straight-forward. He points out hypocrisy among the record labels own statements about this whole issue. He sets forth a good distinction between music "lovers" and music "consumers." I don't care for the way he chooses to write, reading his article with all those strange contractions and abbreviations gets kind of annoying, but it is well written and intelligent.
If only more artists saw the issues at hand the way Prince does. Thank You Prince.