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- From: crispin@csd.uwo.ca (Crispin Cowan)
- Subject: Re: astronauts voting
- Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Western Ontario, London
- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 19:38:10 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov9.193810.2996@julian.uwo.ca>
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- In article <1992Nov9.180712.18824@julian.uwo.ca> jdnicoll@prism.ccs.uwo.ca (James Davis Nicoll) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov5.202148.2629@sfu.ca> palmer@sfu.ca (Leigh Palmer) writes:
- >>Steve Maclean (probably misspelled) was actually in orbit when Canada held its
- >>recent "referendum" on constitutional matters. If the Canadian Space Agency was
- >>on its toes then he must have cast an absentee ballot. Not to have done so
- >>would have been politically incorrect.
- > With the exception of voters in Quebec (Quebec ran its own
- >'referendum' with slightly different rules), I do not think Canadians
- >were allowed absentee ballots in the recent 'referendum'.
- >
- > James Nicoll
-
- This is false. I have two friends who used absentee ballots for the
- referendum.
-
- Crispin
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- Crispin Cowan, CS grad student, University of Western Ontario
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- "Clearly, no system can be totally fault tolerant. For instance, had
- the Silver Surfer not developed an affection for the people of Earth,
- all computing systems would have failed more or less permanently in the
- digestive tract of his evil planet-eating master, Galactus\cite{surfer}!"
- --Andy Lowry, _Generic Support for Optimistic Computations_
-