Much simpler system. Voting machine prints out a ballot paper that goes into the ballot box. Select a random sample of ballot boxes and check the contents to what the computer says.
You said that less people like what the SNP says than like what the BNP says. That's not true, firstly because there is probably more support for an Independent Scotland in England than there is in Scotland, and secondly because people outside of Scotland weren't asked what they think about the SNP.
That would mean that back bench Labour MPs that would appear towards the bottom of the party list would lose their jobs. I don't think they would vote for that.
Labour, Social and Democratic Labour Party and Silvia Herman SDLP and Silvia Herman both like Labour, but I'm not sure that they like each other. The people who voted for Silvia Herman certainly don't like SDLP.
Liberal Democrats and Alliance
SNP and Plaid Cymru
Green
Sinn Fein who don't take their seats, so can be ignored.
SNP, PC and Green sit together in the European Parliament SNP wants independence for Scotland and PC wants independence for Wales. They work together as a single group in the UK parliament.
In Scotland, SNP is the minority government party and Labour is the largest opposition party. They are effectively in a coalition with the Conservatives, though they would never admit it as most people in Scotland detest the Conservatives. A formal SNP coalition with the Conservatives in Westminster is impossible. A coalition with labour is unlikely. PC is in coalition with Labour in the Welsh Assembly. A coalition with Labour in Westminster is possible, but their ties to SNP are stronger.
In Northern Ireland Sinn Fein and SDLP are Nationalist (Catholic) parties who want Northern Ireland to be part of the Republic of Ireland. DUP and Sylia Herman are Unionists (Protestant) who want Northern Ireland to remain part of the UK. The civil war (bombs, people being killed etc) between those two sides only finished a couple of years ago, and they still don't get on very well. The Alliance Party is a mainly middle class party which believes thats Catholics and Protestants should be nice to each other and try and get on. It would be very difficult for them to form a coalition with any of the Nationalist or Unionist parties.
Because in Britain, we expect to have an election on Thursday and have the revmoval lorries in Downing Street on Friday morning. The idea that Gordon Brown was voted out of office on 6th May and is still Prime Minister is just not the British way of doing things.
That's not really true. SNP wants Scotland to be an independent country, which is only really of concern to people who live in Scotland. Within Scotland, the SNP's support is much higher than BNP or UKIP support.
Our system is pretty much identical to your electoral college. In your system, each party contests individual districts and the party with more than 50% of the districts wins. It works for you because there are only two parties that are capable of winning any of the districts. Usually it works for us as well, but about once every 50 years on average, it doesn't.
The url is presumably going to be in the same language as the content of the site. If your computer doesn't have the character set for the url, the whole website isn't going to work. I expect that if they have an english/french etc version of the site, they would continue to use the roman url for that.
But if you convert it to a different format such as ttf or whatever, you are creating your own "font software" rather than using their's, so there is nothing they can sue you for. There is no copyright on the actual letter shaps themselves.
Problem is that you aren't going to develop your website for HTML 5, when the browsers accounting for about 60% - 70% of the market don't support it at all, and you have to support two different video codecs for the browers that do support it.
Remember the days when online video meant installing plugins from Real Player, Microsoft and Quicktime, and there were different types of Java plugin? HTML 5 at the moment seems to be a return to those days.
There is no suggestion that people are committing terrorist attacks to satisfy a demand for pictures of these attacks, whereas there are suggestions that child abuse takes place to satisfy a demand for child porn.
The justification for Child Porn laws is that every photo is a record of an act of child abuse.
Now the children probably don't particularly like being sent to school, but I don't think any reasonable adult would consider it an act of child abuse.
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Much simpler system. Voting machine prints out a ballot paper that goes into the ballot box. Select a random sample of ballot boxes and check the contents to what the computer says.
You said that less people like what the SNP says than like what the BNP says. That's not true, firstly because there is probably more support for an Independent Scotland in England than there is in Scotland, and secondly because people outside of Scotland weren't asked what they think about the SNP.
That would mean that back bench Labour MPs that would appear towards the bottom of the party list would lose their jobs. I don't think they would vote for that.
Essentially the groupings are
Conservatives and Democratic Unionists
Labour, Social and Democratic Labour Party and Silvia Herman
SDLP and Silvia Herman both like Labour, but I'm not sure that they like each other. The people who voted for Silvia Herman certainly don't like SDLP.
Liberal Democrats and Alliance
SNP and Plaid Cymru
Green
Sinn Fein who don't take their seats, so can be ignored.
SNP, PC and Green sit together in the European Parliament
SNP wants independence for Scotland and PC wants independence for Wales. They work together as a single group in the UK parliament.
In Scotland, SNP is the minority government party and Labour is the largest opposition party. They are effectively in a coalition with the Conservatives, though they would never admit it as most people in Scotland detest the Conservatives. A formal SNP coalition with the Conservatives in Westminster is impossible. A coalition with labour is unlikely. PC is in coalition with Labour in the Welsh Assembly. A coalition with Labour in Westminster is possible, but their ties to SNP are stronger.
In Northern Ireland Sinn Fein and SDLP are Nationalist (Catholic) parties who want Northern Ireland to be part of the Republic of Ireland. DUP and Sylia Herman are Unionists (Protestant) who want Northern Ireland to remain part of the UK. The civil war (bombs, people being killed etc) between those two sides only finished a couple of years ago, and they still don't get on very well. The Alliance Party is a mainly middle class party which believes thats Catholics and Protestants should be nice to each other and try and get on. It would be very difficult for them to form a coalition with any of the Nationalist or Unionist parties.
Er, they were all sold to the British public, apart from British Coal.
We have had relatively stable government in this country for the past 944 years. No other country in the world, apart from Switzerland, comes close.
Crazy hippies vote Green, which is why only Brighton returned a Green MP.
Because in Britain, we expect to have an election on Thursday and have the revmoval lorries in Downing Street on Friday morning. The idea that Gordon Brown was voted out of office on 6th May and is still Prime Minister is just not the British way of doing things.
Now compare that to Belgium where the King has to keep on intervening because the elected MPs are completely incapable of forming a government.
That's not really true. SNP wants Scotland to be an independent country, which is only really of concern to people who live in Scotland. Within Scotland, the SNP's support is much higher than BNP or UKIP support.
A "fair" voting system would mean problems like this after every election, and maybe we would rival the Belgians for inability to form governments.
Our system is pretty much identical to your electoral college. In your system, each party contests individual districts and the party with more than 50% of the districts wins. It works for you because there are only two parties that are capable of winning any of the districts. Usually it works for us as well, but about once every 50 years on average, it doesn't.
and what appears in the From: field when you send emails out to people using the web interface.
The url is presumably going to be in the same language as the content of the site. If your computer doesn't have the character set for the url, the whole website isn't going to work. I expect that if they have an english/french etc version of the site, they would continue to use the roman url for that.
The fact that typefaces are specifically excluded from copyright protection in the US.
But if you convert it to a different format such as ttf or whatever, you are creating your own "font software" rather than using their's, so there is nothing they can sue you for. There is no copyright on the actual letter shaps themselves.
IE9 isn't shipping yet. Earlier versions of IE have about 60% of the market.
You you mean English public school or American public school?
Problem is that you aren't going to develop your website for HTML 5, when the browsers accounting for about 60% - 70% of the market don't support it at all, and you have to support two different video codecs for the browers that do support it.
Remember the days when online video meant installing plugins from Real Player, Microsoft and Quicktime, and there were different types of Java plugin? HTML 5 at the moment seems to be a return to those days.
Yes, I know that, but that is still the justification the politicians give.
There is no suggestion that people are committing terrorist attacks to satisfy a demand for pictures of these attacks, whereas there are suggestions that child abuse takes place to satisfy a demand for child porn.
"It's my work computer, I don't understand all this technical stuff" is probably a better defence.
The justification for Child Porn laws is that every photo is a record of an act of child abuse.
Now the children probably don't particularly like being sent to school, but I don't think any reasonable adult would consider it an act of child abuse.
You mean the windmill, invented by Heron of Alexandria in approx 50AD?
Samuel Morse invented text messaging in 1836, 20 years before Nikola Tesla was born.