Ubuntu & the underdeveloped world

[s.roman]

I'm fairly sure that the US population is around 300 million, which
makes 60 million, 20 percent.

Roman


On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 07:51:33 +1000, CB <ubuntu-users at crispin.cb-ss.net> wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-12-18 at 23:14 -0800, Karl Hegbloom wrote:
> >
> > Truely.  Did you read the Scientific American article about vote
> > counting methods, where they explain a method of counting votes called
> > "true majority rules"?  It would make things more democratic, I think.
> 
> I'll look it up. It is pretty scary in a bicameral system when one
> party, representing at the most 50% of the vote, gets control of both
> parliaments, thus effectively gaining a temporary dictatorship. That's
> what has happened this year here (Australia).
> 
> >
> > Capitalism in itself is not the problem... it's an ethics issue ---
> > [some excision]
> > Forming a corporate entity is not in itself wrong either.
> 
> The corporates have now got so out of control, in effect dictating terms
> on a massive range of issues to 'democracies' worldwide, that I'm not so
> sure about this. I'm beginning to think the establishment of large
> organisations whose sole legal remit is to create profit is in itself a
> large part of the problem. People within those corporations can have
> great ethical integrity, but essentially their owners and the law
> require them to disown all human values except one, 'profit'.
> 
> This seems anti-human and intrinsically dangerous, in principle; and I
> think our current parlous state is very clearly showing it to be so in
> practise.
> 
> 
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