Barry Lake writes:

>Well, I can tell you that my Macs *are* intelligent, and they know they
>have failed. Whenever one of them starts up after a crash I get a dialog
>box telling me that it was shut down improperly, and to please do it right
>next time.

They're not just intelligent. As this example shows, they're capable of
genuine human emotion: denial of their faults, and a wish to avoid
discomfort by blaming somebody else for their mistakes.

-- Bruce


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