Re: News : ARM Trying to Buy AmperComputing

On 1/25/25 5:38 PM, D wrote:

  On Sat, 25 Jan 2025, rbowman wrote:
 

On Sat, 25 Jan 2025 10:44:53 +0100, D wrote:
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Very interesting. There is a libertarian party in sweden. I voted for
them once or twice in my youth, I think they got 3000 and 3800 votes or
so in those elections, and then I never bothered since they never showed
much interest in actually growing, but was more a kind of discussion
club.

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The LP in the US tends to be a mixed bag of nuts that are extremely naive
about their fellow Amurricans. They manage to maintain ballot access in
this state.
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That's another impediment to third parties. Ballot access is determined
state by state and often is a Catch 22. If you received a certain number
of votes you will be on the next ballot. If you have never been on the
ballot, start collecting signatures and hope for the best.
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 There is some obscure rule in sweden that in theory would allow 10 000 coordinated people to move to the same region and get a seat in the parliament. I always wonder why no one ever tried it.

   It can be done in the USA as well, indeed the rapid
   rise of the 'southern red states' is a more general
   example. As to why it's rarely so deliberate, well,
   people don't like to pull up stakes and move.