Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!news.tcpreset.net!newsgate.tebibyte.org!.POSTED.251.red-79-150-114.dynamicip.rima-tde.net!Telcontar.valinor!not-for-mail From: "Carlos E.R." Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Linux to be illegal in California? Date: Fri, 22 May 2026 09:48:11 +0200 Organization: Tebibyte_Retro_Gaming Message-ID: References: <10u03i7$4nle$1@dont-email.me> <10u2bjn$7tk9$1@dont-email.me> <6a07822e$0$3165$426a74cc@news.free.fr> <9cgldmx07m.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <6a083913$0$7108$426a74cc@news.free.fr> <20260516181827@news.eternal-september.org> <20260517090647@news.eternal-september.org> <10udgl4$21uie$6@dont-email.me> <20260518082912@news.eternal-september.org> <10ugghl$2utt1$1@dont-email.me> <20260519170444@news.eternal-september.org> <10uispf$3k8o9$1@dont-email.me> <20260519211051@news.eternal-september.org> <10uj4kn$3m1gl$1@dont-email.me> <20260520224023@news.eternal-september.org> <10ulsp7$f7t3$1@dont-email.me> <10uo6l1$14800$2@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: mailgate.tebibyte.org; posting-host="251.red-79-150-114.dynamicip.rima-tde.net:79.150.114.251"; logging-data="5437"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@tebibyte.org" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: es-ES, en-CA In-Reply-To: <10uo6l1$14800$2@dont-email.me> X-Leafnode-NNTP-Posting-Host: 127.0.0.1 Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:86983 On 2026-05-22 02:05, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote: > On Thu, 21 May 2026 17:52:54 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > >> You're lucky you only have two parties to choose from. > > You can’t have democracy unless the voter has a realistic option of > more than two parties to choose from. > > With only two parties, there’s too much of this “but if you don’t vote > for us, then the other side wins” mentality. > > Greetings from 🇳🇿, a country with 6 parties currently represented in > Parliament (which is about average for us). Yes, but modern countries usually do not translate the votes to representation. For example in Spain, we apply D'Hont rule that increases the percent of parliamentarians to the big parties, so the small ones are underrepresented. -- Cheers, Carlos. ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺;