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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (8125)	6/2/2007 9:40:14 PM
From: 49thMIMOMander	Respond to of 12231

I silently salute NZ. "The information is printed in Maori, Cook Islands, Fijian, Niuean, Samoan and Tongan. A pamphlet handed to them at court includes the same languages, plus Tokelauan, traditional Chinese and Korean." Btw, I thought the mob-lynching-jury-rules did not go as wrong in the better english colonies, as in the village courts, under a tree with one strong enough branch, as in USA. NZ is really improving and evolving, although UK is just devolving. Clearly, you should make more use of IQ-tests to brake your incremental evolution (at least until you have improved your already slightly representative voting system). Same thing with language tests, your best-selling soap-operas are often difficult to understand, althouhg imported and translated to finnish by our beloved public no-commercial broadcasting system, just $150 per year to enjoy. What about none, one, two or three votes per person, according to the test results?? UK is trying that old trick, again, although maybe not proportionally to the royal taxes paid, like what bad old Baggie really suggested, toll-poll-tax or whatever.. Just think of the disaster, if you would demand some basic knowledge of better and worse voting systems, just to be able to vote. I am not sure she herself would have past the understandibility reading test, based on her EU and Yuoro negotiations.

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (8125)	6/2/2007 10:00:43 PM
From: 49thMIMOMander	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12231

I am still waiting for this great NZ-link with audio on the maori national debates. (I am also still just waiting for the results of this CLinton bill of $200,000 for studying the sex life of quacks, but I have understood they do that mostly in canada, and get mostly shot on the way there and back again) Is it really true, that in just 1.5 month I will be able to enjoy the NZ parliament, hopefully alive and well but not as silly as the one in UK, not just in audio, but even in video?? Are you sure you have set aside enough computer and internet resources to stream it all the way to FInland?? How many official tongues do they have in the NZ parliament, do they simul-translate most of them to the Queen's english??