note Illuminatus My vote would have gone to 'no robot would be stupid enough to go into politics'. As a corollary, if a robot <b>did</b> go into politics, the results would undoubtedly be bad. I think you either get Norman in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I,_Mudd|Star Trek] and the "Liar's Paradox", or bedlam for the governed, ala the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAL_9000|HAL 9000] and the "Hofstadter–Moebius loop"<p><b>fnord</b></p> 874648 874648