06-04-2003, 09:03 AM | #51 | |
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And *that* is where the real unfairness lies. Why should one nation be allowed to veto a decision made by the whole world? And in any event, why would the US want to remove the vote from the UK and hand it over to the EU when the majority of EU states would almost certainly want its vote to be cast in an opposite direction to the US on virtually every major issue; from Iraq to Palestine, from global warming to the environment??? [ 06-04-2003, 09:08 AM: Message edited by: Skunk ] |
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06-04-2003, 09:05 AM | #52 | |
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Besides, it's fun. [/QUOTE]For the last time... we are NOT one nation. Never were, and hopefully never will be. And you're right... it IS fun.
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06-04-2003, 09:20 AM | #53 | |
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State governments don't count unless you wanna count the seperate governments of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland as opposed to just one UK vote and maybe even the regions in Germany such as Essen and Bavaria with seperate votes. They all have a few million population like some states in USA. [img]tongue.gif[/img] The USA has one head of state so it has 1 government and 1 vote! [img]tongue.gif[/img] All EU nations have their own heads of state! One vote per head of state! [img]tongue.gif[/img] Skunk - that's one smartass sig you have there but it ain't as good as it thinks! Everyone knows that your IP address is written on every IP packet you send and that browsers identify themselves to servers so it's easy to say what browser I have. Although with Opera you can identify as any of the major browsers [img]tongue.gif[/img] [ 06-04-2003, 09:22 AM: Message edited by: Vaskez ] |
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06-04-2003, 09:29 AM | #54 | |
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LLAO ok young whipper snapper, each of our states has a head of state..we call them governors [img]smile.gif[/img] See, I view the EU as a fledgling US,you all aren't quite as organized as you will be, but inthe end, you are going to basicly have a bunch of nation/states with their heads of state reporting to the uberlord or el presidente or whatever the guy will eventually be called. [img]smile.gif[/img] I still only see semantic differences between a mature EU and the USA so Eu=1 and USA =1 and Russia =1 and China =1 and India =1 vote [img]smile.gif[/img] As for Skunk's sig...I just find it annoying but apparently it doesnt violate TOS for him to collect such nformation via our association at IW. [ 06-04-2003, 09:29 AM: Message edited by: MagiK ] |
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06-04-2003, 09:41 AM | #55 | ||
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Of course, this whole issue is a bit silly and hypothetical. So far, the only real thing I've taken out of it is the part of my post you quoted Skunk: that the voting system is perhaps one reason the US has no choice but to throw its economic/political weight around to get what it wants. Of course, I'm not claiming the US would abstain from doing that if the voting were fair. |
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