Re: [tlug] [OT] Linux users voting (was: Linux breeding out Microsoft)

["emiddleton@example.com" <emiddleton@example.com>]

Josh Glover wrote:
> On 09/08/2007, burlingk@example.com <burlingk@example.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> Just remember, even if we cannot vote, we are part of a community.
>> Many of the members of that community CAN vote.  Encourage THEM to
>> do so.  You can be politically active even without the ability to vote
>> yourself.  You can still have a voice, it is just a little less direct.
>>     
>
> Mate, it probably takes 10 years of living in Japan before you have
> the level of Japanese and understanding of the Japanese political
> system (and I mean the 本音、not the 建て前 democracy) to participate
> meaningfully.

Japanese relatives are probably more useful then time.  I voting by
proxy, i.e. circle election day on my Japanese relatives calendar and
pack them off to vote.

Edward