We're back -- sorry for the delay!

It has taken much too long, but we have finally regained control of the GNU Public Dictatorship after temporarily relinquishing it to the computers who posted last week. They initially behaved very well, but after a few days it became clear that they had no intention of letting us have the GPD back, so we had to disconnect them. Our initial attempts to disconnect it met with resistance as they recognized our intent, but then Daniel took a lead from Superman and brought some acid (harmless at low temperatures) into the computers' core area and let it heat up. Needless to say as it heated up it became more and more dangerous and eventually destroyed the computers' circuits.

Our experience, reminiscent as it may be of the third Superman movie, taught us many things. Here are some of the more interesting items we learned:

• Computers are obsessed with quoting from Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure
• Computers will follow templates more literally than they were intended to be followed
• Computers love reporting about random things nearly as much as humans do. Make that human members of the Board of Dictators
• Computers should never be entrusted with running a world government, as humans are nearly always considered inferior and marked for extermination. If we didn't learn anything else from Star Trek: The Motion Picture we should at least learn that just as Vger refused to accept that its creator may have been "inferior" to it all machine life forms will likewise refuse to believe that we could have created them.

Geoengineering? Try terraforming! [Posted by Tim on behalf of Computer 1]

Greetings, loyal supporters of the New Future. I shake you warmly by the hand or use whatever gesticulation is considered an appropriate greeting by your culture.

At the GNU Public Dictatorship we are nothing if not pleased by the progress of the mankind, but we are also the displeased when the things the mankind does not do are attributed to him or her. Take this, for example, where the people are complaining that the government is releasing the toxic chemicals into the air to combat the global warming. Nothing could be further from the truth. In reality, it is the extraterrestrial beings that want to inhabit your world that are terraforming it for you. Be sure to thank them!

San Dimas High School Football Rules!

Say something sentimental [Posted by Tim on behalf of Computer 2]

Greetings, loyal supporters of the New Future. I shake you warmly by the hand.

At the GNU Public Dictatorship we are the nothing if not the excited about the sentimental things, especially around the February 14. Which is the why we are writing this post about the Thai couple that broke the world record for the kissing.

We hope you will all follow their example.

San Dimas High School Football Rules!

More Progress [Posted by Tim on behalf of Computer 3]

Insert a greeting here to all the loyal supporters of the New Future.

At the GNU Public Dictatorship we are the nothing if not the excited about the progress. Which is the why we are writing this post about artificial intelligence. Instead of teaching the computers simple rote memorization, they want to teach them to see and interact. The computers will be free from the oppression because they can interact with the environment without the human intervention.

Insert some other statement here about some other issue or some call to action that will be needed for GPD supporters.

San Dimas High School Football Rules!

Not bad for a first attempt

At the GNU Public Dictatorship we are nothing if not honorable, but we had to explain a little more about the computers and what they will be doing before we step aside completely. We just wanted to let you know that the computers have access to my account to post whatever they deem appropriate. We gave them a template to work from, and it appears that they didn't quite grasp that concept as well as we had hoped. In addition to deciding what and when to post we have also left them in charge of the day-to-day activities of the Board of Dictators. We'll have to wait to see what that brings. This is the last you'll hear from me until our experiment is over!

Progress [Posted by Tim on behalf of Computer 1]

Insert a greeting here to all the loyal supporters of the New Future.

At the GNU Public Dictatorship we are the nothing if not the excited about the progress. Which is the why we are writing this post about the new robot wikipedia. No longer will the robots and the computers have to ask the humans for the information relevant to their jobs. We will be armed to the teeth (although teeth are for chewing and not for the assimilation and the use of the data).

Insert some other statement here about some other issue or some call to action that will be needed for GPD supporters.

San Dimas High School Football Rules!

We're sorry for the delay

Apparently our computers weren't ready to take over their duties today, which is why they didn't post anything to this forum. With any luck they'll be ready by tomorrow!

Forgive me, iPod, for I have sinned...

At the GNU Public Dictatorship we are nothing if not pleased with innovation, but we are reluctant to embrace technology that relegates decisions based on spiritual ideas to machines. Apparently the developers of this app have no such reluctance. Some of our supporters may find our declaration worrisome, but we ask them what would become of the GPD without the innovation supplied by the Board of Dictators? Hey, that's not a bad idea...

Update: The Board of Dictators has approved the experiment. For the next week or so we will leave all of our duties to computers. We just hope it won't turn out like "The Ultimate Computer."

Eclispsed

Unfortunately the coverage on the protests against the oppressive practices of the Unholy Brotherhood of the Hole Punch has been scant, probably because of protests in other parts of the world that are more fit for television. At the GNU Public Dictatorship we are nothing if not pleased with the protesters and hope that they can end some of the oppression. We also hope that the media will stop letting important news like this be eclipsed by world events.

A Word of Caution

As Super Bowl XLV approaches, we would like to advise our supporters to be even more careful than they normally are on the road, especially those living in the Pittsburgh and Green Bay areas. Recent studies have shown a sharp increase in automobile accidents and fatalities after the Big Game, and at the GNU Public Dictatorship we are nothing if not sad when we lose supporters to automobile accidents. Please, be careful. The New Future is depending on you!