Comments on 'Voting Machine (part one)'Igbot-309 'plinks to the democracy server and struggles with itself.
"This used to be easy," it subroutines.
But that was before it went in and got all those upgrades that were supposed to improve Owner interactions: the Empathy Chip, the Sympathy Processor, and the Emotional Emulation Card. Not to mention that Random Behaviorial Subroutine Generator that's had Igbot almost continuously on the fritz since Monday--now Igbot has minor malfunction incidents whenever its Optical Core detects the infantile progeny of Owners, sees pairings of elderly Owners coupling manipulators while perambulating in the park, or even when it detects sunlight that has been spectrally-refracted by water vapor in the upper atmosphere after precipitation. And then there was that incident when it rolled past a pet store and saw all those pre-adolescent stage felines in the window display...2008-01-25T19:07:02Zhttp://ficlets.com/feed/story/19228Comment on Voting Machine (part one)<p>To which I reply, quoting Rev. Dodgson:</p>
<p><em>‘Twas brillig, and the slithy toves <br />Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: <br />All mimsy were the borogoves, <br />And the mome raths outgrabe.</em></p>
<p>(”’Plinks,” from “uplinks,” isn’t really a verb, eiher.)</p>
<p>;-)</p>http://ficlets.com/stories/19228?basename=364172008-01-25T19:07:02ZHowie Amourscowhttp://ficlets.com/authors/user_396Comment on Voting Machine (part one)<p>But… subroutine isn’t even remotely a verb!</p>http://ficlets.com/stories/19228?basename=363952008-01-25T18:34:06ZWhite Hathttp://ficlets.com/authors/whitehatComment on Voting Machine (part one)<p>A robot with confusion? I don’t think robots should ever have emotions, I think the movies are warning our future generations of doing such. At least they predict total world destruction…but you never know.</p>
<p>I like igbot. : )<br />LoA</p>http://ficlets.com/stories/19228?basename=363852008-01-25T18:14:21ZNouvelle Bardothttp://ficlets.com/authors/user_bardotComment on Voting Machine (part one)<p>Reading this I prolly have the same look of confusion on my face as those Florida voters back in 2000. LoL.<br />LoA</p>http://ficlets.com/stories/19228?basename=363762008-01-25T18:03:43ZSKermitgorfhttp://ficlets.com/authors/kermitgorfComment on Voting Machine (part one)<p>Topical.</p>http://ficlets.com/stories/19228?basename=363742008-01-25T18:00:41ZHowie Amourscowhttp://ficlets.com/authors/user_396