>>>>>>>>Oil ?
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>>>>>>>I didn't know there was any oil involved. My understanding has always been that it was about sovereignty over these godforsaken islands near Argentina.
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>>>>>>http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/jul/12/falkland-islands-premier-oil-argentina-dispute
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>>>>>I meant back in the early 1980s when they went to war with each other. The article mentions the events of 30 years ago. And Mr. Borges died in 1986.
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>>>>Oil wasn't part of the equation during the Falklands war.
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>>>>Great Britain considered the Falklands theirs, and the Falkland Islanders considered themselves British citizens.
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>>>>When Argentina sent in their military to take control of the islands, Great Britain had to either put up or shut up re: their ability to protect their empire.
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>>>>They did an excellent job considering the distance disadvantage.
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>>>It's always cool when we agree ;-)
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>>>Well, maybe not at the polls. Did you vote yet? Pretty good turnout here. After all the talk about disinterested / disaffected voters I think turnout will be fine due to the closeness of the race.
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>>I voted before I headed to work. I had to fight the crowd inside and outside the polling site (3 people - pretty massive for St. Marys).
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>>I'm curious if we'll ever know how corrupt the ballot process was for this election. Affidavit so you can vote anywhere, eMail balloting? Sounds nice. Glad that's been thoroughly tested and verified secure and verifiable.
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>>Ah well. Legitamacy is overrated :)
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>Don't know whether you're using paper ballots or a voting machine. I haven't heard of a single US voting machine that hasn't been shown to be vulnerable to pretty basic hacks.
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>As Dragan once said, you don't have to win the vote, just the count :(

Agreed.