[Gllug] Geforce2

[Bruce Richardson]

On 1/23/02, 2:49:14 PM, Vincent AE Scott <gllug at codex.net> wrote regarding 
Re: [Gllug] Geforce2:


> Roger Wernersson(roger at elixir-studios.co.uk)@Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 
02:37:51PM +0000:
> > It's ok if you don't vote, that'll make my vote count more. :-)
> >

> democracy in action.  great.
> so if you dont choose one of the identical teams you dont get a say?

You don't get a say, anyway.  You just get a vote.


``I come in peace,'' it said, adding after a long moment of further 
grinding, ``take me to your Lizard.''

Ford Prefect, of course, had an explanation for this, as he sat with 
Arthur and watched the non-stop frenetic news reports on the television, 
none of which had
anything to say other than to record that the thing had done this amount 
of damage which was valued at that amount of billions of pounds and had 
killed this totally
other number of people, and then say it again, because the robot was 
doing nothing more than standing there, swaying very slightly, and 
emitting short
incomprehensible error messages.

``It comes from a very ancient democracy, you see ...''

``You mean, it comes from a world of lizards?''

``No,'' said Ford, who by this time was a little more rational and 
coherent than he had been, having finally had the coffee forced down him, 
``nothing so simple.
Nothing anything like so straightforward. On its world, the people are 
people. The leaders are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the 
lizards role the
people.''

``Odd,'' said Arthur, ``I thought you said it was a democracy.''

``I did,'' said Ford. ``It is.''

``So,'' said Arthur, hoping he wasn't sounding ridiculously obtuse, ``why 
don't people get rid of the lizards?''

``It honestly doesn't occur to them,'' said Ford. ``They've all got the 
vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they've voted in 
more or less
approximates to the government they want.''

``You mean they actually vote for the lizards?''

``Oh yes,'' said Ford with a shrug, ``of course.''

``But,'' said Arthur, going for the big one again, ``why?''

``Because if they didn't vote for a lizard,'' said Ford, ``the wrong 
lizard might get in. Got any gin?''
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Bruce

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