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Subject: Re: still counting...

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 08:19:52 11/12/00

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On November 12, 2000 at 01:44:13, Thorsten Czub wrote:

>On November 11, 2000 at 21:35:56, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On November 11, 2000 at 18:25:36, Thorsten Czub wrote:
>>
>>>>Keep CCC on topic !!
>>>>
>>>>Alvaro
>>>
>>>
>>>one bean .... two beans .... three beans ...
>>>
>>>accurate !
>>>it has to be accurate !
>>>
>>>lets count again:
>>>
>>>one bean ... two beans ... three beans .... 4.6 beans ....
>>>
>>>
>>>accurate ! we need more accurate results !
>>>
>>>more ! gimme more !
>>>
>>>accurate !!
>>>
>>>lets count again !
>>
>>
>>With an election to choose the president of the most powerful nation in
>>the world, and with the totals so very close, accuracy is a good thing,
>>regardless of the nonsense you spew here.  You might want to generate a
>>random number to choose the next president. We don't do that here...
>>So prattle on...  the process here is proceeding exactly as it should proceed,
>>under the circumstances, slowly, with multiple checks.
>
>yes - you are absolutely right.
>i could not resist.
>the reason is that it reminds me on the discussions we had here !
>therefore the temptation to relate this "news" with computerchess-stuff
>is big.
>
>i will try to not relate further since it seems to hurt some people,
>i don't want to hurt people. here in germany we don't have this big
>nationalism and therefore nobody is that proud of its country and
>therefore the level of making fun about own country is IMO much bigger.
>sorry. i will try to resist.


You also don't have _near_ the same number of people.  Counting 60 million
of _anything_ is a _huge_ undertaking.  With antique voting hardware in some
locations, it is harder still.



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