You forgor one thing Chris.... you should NEVER vote for them, it only encourages them.. :-)
Thing is.. this never really solves anything.. all it means is that the intelligent people don't vote for someone who is at least bearable and we end up with the party voted in by the lowest common denominator (this usually happens anyway mind you). Technically (if you work within the rules) our line of recourse is to form your own political party based on technological concerns and hire only technically minded party members. Problem is the chance of this party ever getting in is about that of me ever becoming a CCIE. And they'd probably make a bolloxing of just about everything else since I don't know about you but I sure wouldn't know how to balance a Military budget with School spending ;) Really there is no easy way to win and politics is by and large a thing I try to ignore and hope the laws go mostly my way. If they don't.. I'll bitch but as to actually becoming formative in laws... that's a hard trick. But this is really pretty off topic so I'll shut up now. Chris Rigby Senior Systems Engineer IHUG - Into the Internet --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog