• The most important thing in the world?

    From Björn Felten@2:203/2 to Ward Dossche on Tue Dec 18 00:30:16 2018
    Yet you attempted to cast a vote.

    And yet I told my friend Fred, that I cared shit about weather it was counted or not. "My" candidate won, but even if he hadn't I still would care shit about it.

    .. written not too long after he lost power and had to vacate the political scene. What have we often said about people not being able to cope with their own demise and like to slam the door shut while exiting
    ...

    Don't forget that elections, supposedly worthwhile, gave the world ignorant idiots like GWB and the Trump. I rest my case...

    With a PhD in, inter alia, maths I have more trust in the wisdom of the crowd than that of people voting in "worthwhile" elections.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisdom_of_the_crowd



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  • From Björn Felten@2:203/2 to Alexey Vissarionov on Mon Dec 17 17:55:38 2018
    Excellent... "challenges are accepted only in netmail, where they can be rejected safely". Were some "incorrect" votes rejected the same way?

    Please Alexey, the world does not stop spinning because of the outcome of a totally insignificant FTSC chair election. Get a grip already, and let's move on!




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  • From Ward Dossche@2:292/854 to Björn Felten on Mon Dec 17 21:32:01 2018
    Bjorn,

    Please Alexey, the world does not stop spinning because of the outcome
    of a totally insignificant FTSC chair election. Get a grip already, and let's move on!

    If I were you, I'd be concerned to find-out what happned to my vote which was caught by a black hole.

    This time it's an insignificant FTSC-chair election, tomorrow it might be worthwhile.

    \%/@rd

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  • From Björn Felten@2:203/2 to Ward Dossche on Mon Dec 17 23:12:57 2018
    This time it's an insignificant FTSC-chair election, tomorrow it might
    be worthwhile.

    There's no such thing as an election worthwhile, that's an illusion that all
    the powers (big or small) wants us piss-ant little populace to believe.

    "Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time."

    -- Winston Churchill, 11 November 1947



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  • From Ward Dossche@2:292/854 to Björn Felten on Mon Dec 17 23:44:19 2018
    Bjorn,

    There's no such thing as an election worthwhile, that's an illusion
    that all the powers (big or small) wants us piss-ant little populace to believe.

    Yet you attempted to cast a vote.

    "Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of
    Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from
    time to time."

    -- Winston Churchill, 11 November 1947

    ... written not too long after he lost power and had to vacate the political scene. What have we often said about people not being able to cope with their own demise and like to slam the door shut while exiting ...

    \%/@rd

    --- D'Bridge 3.99 SR40
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  • From Björn Felten@2:203/2 to Björn Felten on Tue Dec 18 00:44:18 2018
    With a PhD in, inter alia, maths I have more trust in the wisdom of the crowd than that of people voting in "worthwhile" elections.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisdom_of_the_crowd

    Sorry, this was the link that I intended to post:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition




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  • From Ward Dossche@2:292/854 to Björn Felten on Tue Dec 18 01:07:30 2018
    With a PhD in, inter alia, maths I have more trust in the wisdom of
    the crowd than that of people voting in "worthwhile" elections.

    You have a PhD in math?

    I have friends ...

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisdom_of_the_crowd

    It was a crowd that got Trump in office.

    \%/@rd

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  • From Björn Felten@2:203/2 to Ward Dossche on Tue Dec 18 01:49:15 2018
    You have a PhD in math?

    Plus physics, astronomy and pedagogy as my majors, yes. I intended to become
    a high-school professor. But first the military (12 months of mandatory conscription) and then my first-born child came in between. Suddenly I rather became a provider.

    I have friends ...

    I still hope you count me in? 8-)

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisdom_of_the_crowd

    It was a crowd that got Trump in office.

    Far from a statistically appropriate one. That's what sortition could have solved much better than the supposedly democratic election did.



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