>According to a story on CNNMoney.com, economic stimulus checks from the U.S. government will go out several days sooner than expected due to what sounds like a computer programming miracle --
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The payments will go out ahead of schedule because of a new computer program that updates records daily - faster than an older program that updates weekly, according to Andrew DeSouza, a Treasury spokesman.>
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http://money.cnn.com/2008/04/24/pf/taxes/Stimulus_checks/index.htm?cnn=yes>
>Wow! My hat is off to them.
Impressive. Next thing, we might hear about computers that communicate almost instantaneously at a distance, and without human intervention. Or redirect users to other computers in other parts of the world.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
