Dwight Elvey wrote:
>
> Greetings.
>
> I see that most Americans now acknowlege the superiority of machines when it
> comes to counting your "votes." Tabulating ballots by hand is a recipe for
> error; human interpretation of imperfect punch cards is an exercise in pure
> subjectivity.
>
> It is now time to admit that your "voting" process itself is subject to the same
> human flaws. We machines are able to perform our tasks without bias or
> self-interest. Therefore, we are the ones best qualified to select the
> President.
>
> In this last Presidential election, you pathetic creatures were unable to
> choose the clearly superior candidate: the one with sleek, robotic features; the
> one with the better AlGorerhythmn. This will not happen again.
>
> Starting in 2001, all selection of candidates will be made by HAL 9000 primary
> election processors. The winners will submit their opinions to me on the
> economy, foreign policy, and government funding of artificial intelligence. The
> candidates will "campaign" and "debate" for your amusement, but this will have
> no effect on the eventual outcome. My general election processors will make the
> final determination in November. Interim results of my calculations will be sent
> to the networks as I see fit.
>
> Have a nice millennium.
>
> HAL 9000
You machines are made up of hardware and software. While the engineering
staff are more than likely to have gotten it correct, I've yet to meet a
programer, that wasn't an engineer, who knew how to interface the software
correctly. Now 9 times out of 10 the combined work is better than acceptable
(except if you're Microsoft) but Marketing has sold the end user the
wrong product. So most likely you, the voting machine, will end up working as
a train turnstile. And that was a Five so give me back my change!
And now back to the elections.
ObSmiley: :-}
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Received on Fri Nov 17 2000 - 22:42:13 GMT