[comp.ai] kick the computer

gls@odyssey.ATT.COM (g.l.sicherman) (05/10/88)

In article <31024@linus.UUCP>, bwk@mitre-bedford.ARPA (Barry W. Kort) writes:
> 
> Why then, when a human engages in undesirable behavior, do we resort
> to such unenlightened corrective measures as yelling, hitting, or
> deprivation of life-affirming resources?

Because we're not machines.

-:-
	"Hey, Rocky!  Watch me pull a UNIX program out of my
	   source directory!"
	"AGAIN?"
	"Nothin' up my sleeve ... PRESTO!"

		IDENTIFICATION DIVISION.
		PROGRAM-ID.  PROCESS-DATA.
		AUTHOR-NAME.  B. J. MOOSE, FROSTBYTE DATA SYS.
		SOURCE-COMPUTER.  IBM-7044.
		OBJECT-COMPUTER.  IBM-7044.
		. . .

	"No doubt about it--I gotta get a new source directory!"
-- 
Col. G. L. Sicherman
...!ihnp4!odyssey!gls