Re: An India Response

["Sanjai Kukreti" <skukreti@home.com>]

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Rakesh Raju <zoot@squishyfx.com> wrote:
> Technology is inherently neither good nor bad.
> Therefore if introduced into the current administrative apparatus
> I fear that it would help automate corruption.
>
> -Rakesh


Now how is a computer going to "automate corruption" if corruption is
committed by human beings, and computers remove human beings from the loop?
The "ghost in the machine" perhaps?

See, this is what I mean by people talking about corruption in mystical and
superstitious terms, rather than analyzing logically and rationally. This is
called chasing shadows.

Leftist activists are always looking for new ways to perpetuate the same old
arguments, using newer idioms. The reality is that computers are more
efficient, cannot be lazy, and allow Indians to divert themselves into more
productive types of work, rather than paper-pushing.

Only people like Laloo Prasad Yadav scoff at computers, saying they steal
jobs. What a career idiot.









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