Paisley? Yes.
Pink? No.
Purple and orange? Okay.

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Neil Armstrong walked in the Sea of Tranquility
Steve Squyers built Spirit and Opportunity
Dan Haylen upchucked in zero gravity." -Brent Simon, The Space Camp Song

Just play with the color knobs on your TV, it'll look just fine.

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"Every book is a children's book if the kid can read." - Mitch Hedberg
"Distance doesn’t matter much in space, where if you just start a thing off with the right kind of shove, sooner or later it will get where you want it to go." -Frederik Pohl, Mining the Oort

I can turn stuff on TV my favorite colors just like that? Sweet!
Why didn't anybody ever tell me this before?

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Rovers forever! - ToSeek
"Carl Sagan sent a message to ET,
Neil Armstrong walked in the Sea of Tranquility
Steve Squyers built Spirit and Opportunity
Dan Haylen upchucked in zero gravity." -Brent Simon, The Space Camp Song

Some states [Maine and Nebraska] split their Electoral Votes by congressional district, and the fellow who bankrolled the California recall that brought Schwarzenegger to the governorship, is now financing an attempt to have the Golden State divide theirs likewise.
source

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Go Suns!

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I was just sitting here contemplating the immortal words of Socrates who said, "I drank what?"

"Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot." --Carl Sagan "Pale Blue Dot"

It's political science, not politics

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I was just sitting here contemplating the immortal words of Socrates who said, "I drank what?"

"Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot." --Carl Sagan "Pale Blue Dot"

Oh really?

What I wrote was that the other elections are decided by who gets the most votes (read majority, plurality, plutocracy, bushocrazy, etc. as meaning that).

Examples please.

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Nope, won't shoot.

But will point out that such things are important to selenite dwellers in the polar regions.

Why?

Well, in our little village of Lunatevka, it's a libration!

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Mak to Kai, September 21:Note: transmission may be delayed to to Vogon rerouting.

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...and, in this case only, for the first time in its 210-year history, of the Supreme Court; 5-4.

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If it's science, let's test their melting points.

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"If this were play'd upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction."
Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
Illuminati's Razor-The most complicatedly evil answer is usually the most correct answer. - Fazor
"Every book is a children's book if the kid can read." - Mitch Hedberg
"Distance doesn’t matter much in space, where if you just start a thing off with the right kind of shove, sooner or later it will get where you want it to go." -Frederik Pohl, Mining the Oort

Okay, we need to clarify then - in the presidential election, each individual citizen (eg you) votes for a slate of presidential electors. I think in some states you can vote for individual electors, and in some you vote for a combined group of electors, but either way, the electors who get the most votes win. Then, all the electors elected by the various states get together and cast votes for president and vice-president. Again, the candidates who get the most votes win.

So it seems to me that the presidential election is also "decided by who gets the most votes."

It's not a direct vote by the people, but then neither is federal law - each state elects representatives and then those representatives make the law. There is no provision for enactment, repeal, or modification of federal law by nationwide popular vote. Neither is there for constitutional amendment - I believe the residents of a single state can ratify an amendment by statewide popular vote, but you need a super-majority of the nation's states to make it into the constitution, regardless of how many of the nation's people vote for it.

How is the presidential election different?

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Ah, but with an HDTV set, you'll need a color calibrator.

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So, you don't put tinfoil on the rabbit ears or change the channel with pliers cause the knobs fell off?

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"If this were play'd upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction."
Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
Illuminati's Razor-The most complicatedly evil answer is usually the most correct answer. - Fazor
"Every book is a children's book if the kid can read." - Mitch Hedberg
"Distance doesn’t matter much in space, where if you just start a thing off with the right kind of shove, sooner or later it will get where you want it to go." -Frederik Pohl, Mining the Oort

Not when I'm being told I hate rural regions because of my political leanings.

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I'm closing this thread for now. If you have something non-political that seems like it belongs in this thread, feel free to PM any moderator and ask for it to be reopened. BTW, please do not reply to Delvo's post until he/she returns from the recently imposed vacation.

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