First Past The Post: whoever wins most votes in a certain area gets the seat
Proportional Representation: depending on how many votes u get, ur party is awarded a proportional amount of seats relating to the % of ur votes

the 1st one means that a certain party could get 30% of the country's votes but never gain a seat in parliament, the 2nd means that every vote actually counts

[QUOTE=PaulSimonon]Who says the majority of Americans don't question it?


Odd fact: Bush has never won the popular vote in a presidential election.[/QUOTE]


"with 52 percent of the popular vote to Democratic candidate Senator John Kerry's 47 percent."

Source: [url]http://usinfo.state.gov/dhr/Archive/2004/Nov/03-311949.html[/url]

Just sayin'.

Paul: Thanks :).

Meh, he lost the popular against Gore. Kerry was an idiot though, campaigned like a dolt.

The elections here sucked...

There are three parties here; PNP (guys who want us to become a state), who had a past governor running again. The PIP party (wanting Independence), with the same guy they have had for years, and the PPD party (wanting us to stay the same), with... some guy who is nothing special.

Now, for you to understand the stupidity and ignorance here, you have to know that, no matter what party wins, it is practically a fact that we will STAY a colony.

So... The guy from the PNP party, who was full of corrupt, lost by .5%, to the guy from the PPD, who, like I sad, is NOTHING special, but most people (unless they are the ignornant people I describe) agree with me when I say that the guy on the PIP is the best leader. The others are miles further from his knowledge.

He was one of the guys who went to Vieques to try and stop all of the US experiments and such, which was harming many people on the island, and he got arrested for it. That's how determined he is.

GRRRR pic didn't work!?!!

[QUOTE=PaulSimonon]Meh, he lost the popular against Gore. Kerry was an idiot though, campaigned like a dolt.[/QUOTE]

Kerry... well... he was still better in my eyes than Bush.

Looks like Tony Blair is gonna get voted bakc in here :upset:

there wasn't really much doubt was there?!

:lol: clasical thump :p im learning, but I WONT SLAP OR DOUBLE THUMP it...

A Bob Glaub Lakland...

:(

anyone wanna learn a kick az song?! i've got a power tab of some guys work and it totally pwns!!! u gotta hear it!?

Classical Thump played fingerstyle will definately be a challenge. :lol:

after five minutes of mad posting looks like everythings calmed back down again :D

^^ Actually, my internet just sort of stopped, so I stopped blabbering so much. :p

I just didn't want to take part in the political discussion.

[QUOTE=Radiobass81]^^ Actually, my internet just sort of stopped, so I stopped blabbering so much. :p[/QUOTE]
same here. it wouldn't let me open the page for the about 5 mins
maybe we just killed it?

[QUOTE=Spaceman Spiff]Classical Thump played fingerstyle will definately be a challenge. :lol:[/QUOTE]

art thou sarcastic? i havent met anything that pushes me fingers yet... but then i might not do it at the tempo either, cause i have heard the song like 2 - 3 times...

got a problem though, 21 frets :p BUT! ocatve!

[QUOTE=neal_672]Am i the only one that finds it incredibly sad that 70% of Britons don;t know what VE day is?[/QUOTE]
Even I do and I live in the U.S.

Of course I just got finished studying WWII in History

[QUOTE=Eddie-the-Trooper]art thou sarcastic? i havent met anything that pushes me fingers yet... but then i might not do it at the tempo either, cause i have heard the song like 2 - 3 times...

got a problem though, 21 frets :p BUT! ocatve![/QUOTE]
I've tried it a little bit, it seems like it would be next to impossible to get it up to speed playing fingerstyle.

would be an interesting thing to hear u try though :thumb: just resist using that thing :)

Rush should really play weekly/monthly shows here in Toronto, I mean, c'mon! This is their home!



I really want to see them live. :upset:

i mean, like, rush should play in Bergen, Norway! :p

anyway, as fun as it is, i'm off to bed

nighty night MX :wave:

[QUOTE=ElKapitan]would be an interesting thing to hear u try though :thumb: just resist using that thing :)[/QUOTE]

yeah, i got nothing better to do.... so why cant i just try it...:p is the tab the complete song?

So i cna atcually post now my MSN conversations have become smaller in number...

Any tabs I've seen were not the entire song, the only full* one I've seen is the one in the tab book. There might be other ones now, but no full ones that I've ever seen on the internet.



*The one in the tab book isn't even full, it leaves out the fingerstyle part of the song.

meh, i dont care, ill play thoose parts i can get...

Maby i can record YYZ for you soon :p

Learning YYZ at the moment.

I love YYZ, it's so awesome :thumb: my dad's taking me to see Rush on their next tour :thumb:

i realy hope they come to norway that time.. you know anything about a new tour?

Nope, apparently they're touring again this year, UK definitely...

[QUOTE=Eddie-the-Trooper]meh, i dont care, ill play thoose parts i can get...

[B]Maby i can record YYZ for you soon[/B] :p[/QUOTE]
Good idea. :D

I really would like to hear it.
Plus, it could help to motivate me to learn it... it just seems so hard.

[QUOTE=neal_672]I love YYZ, it's so awesome :thumb: my dad's taking me to see Rush on their next tour :thumb:[/QUOTE]

I hope to god I actually get a chance to see Rush at some point in my life... I'm so dissapointed because when they were actually touring alot and stuff, I wasn't even born. Now, they're slowing down, and I may never see them.

i might need to force the school i go to to go to see rush in london if they dont come to norway :p (they gonna have a school trip to london anyway..)

My dad's seen em 3 times :upset:

I'm disappointed that since I've been a fan of them I've missed seeing them twice. :(

[QUOTE=neal_672]My dad's seen em 3 times :upset:[/QUOTE]

I was talking to this school security guard at my old school, and I was talking about wanting to see Iron Maiden live, and he mentioned that he'd seen them five times. Just think of how sad I was when I heard that. :upset:

So, I have to make a trip up to Seattle, WA to see them live at Ozzfest.

Here's the list of Iron Maiden songs that I like/tolerate:
-Number Of The Beast
-Hallowed Be Thy Name
-Two Minutes To Midnight
-The Trooper
-Run To The Hills
-Rime Of The Ancient Mariner

[QUOTE=Spaceman Spiff]Here's the list of Iron Maiden songs that I like/tolerate:
-Number Of The Beast
-Hallowed Be Thy Name
-Two Minutes To Midnight
-The Trooper
-Run To The Hills
-Rime Of The Ancient Mariner[/QUOTE]

I don't think that Iron Maiden's [i]that[/i] great, but they do have some great songs, and I'd love to see them live.

That's why I must journey up to Seattle. Seeing Iron Maiden is like a once-in-a-lifetime thing for me. They'll probably be dead soon. :p