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Electoral Reform -- Ralph Nader for President in 2008

Our democracy is in a descending crisis

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[DGS49]

Going on a tangent for a moment, I used to work in Mass Transit and railroad signaling. In that world they use the term, "Fail Safe," to describe an operation that CANNOT fail in an unsafe way. To put it simply, if everything fails in a transit system, all the lights revert to "RED," and all the trains stop. There CANNOT be any sort of failure that would allow trains to bump into one another.

When microprocessors were first introduced into signaling, it was realized (and vehemently denied) that there was no way for a computer-based system to be made Fail Safe. So they used parallel circuitry and it was necessary for both systems to say, "GO" in order for a GO command to go out. But even that is not truly Fail Safe.

Computers are not perfect. Cannot be made perfect.

 

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