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   From: weberm@polaris.net   
      
   zzbunker@netscape.net wrote:   
   >On Sep 23, 5:32 am, Ubiquitous  wrote:   
      
   >> A recurring theme in the old "Star Trek" series was the machine run   
   >> amok. An intelligent computer, entrusted with some important task,   
   >> would conclude that human beings were imperfect because they do not   
   >> always act logically. Because humans are imperfect, the computer would   
   >> reason, they must be destroyed. (This seems like a bit of a leap, but   
   >> maybe it made sense in the '60s.)   
   >   
   > Well, that's also because the morons in the 1960s, just like the   
   > idiots from the Washingtoon Post also made the moronic assumptions   
   > that Chess=IQ,  HAL=Computers, Von Neumann=Robots, Feynmann=nano,   
   > Vitamin C=DNA, GE=Masers, The Beatles=DVD, Jerry Garcia=GPS,   
   > G.M.=A.I., AT&T=Phones, and IBM=Holograms,   
      
   Can I buy some pot from you?   
      
   --   
   It is simply breathtaking to watch the glee and abandon with which   
   the liberal media and the Angry Left have been attempting to turn   
   our military victory in Iraq into a second Vietnam quagmire. Too bad   
   for them, it's failing.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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