WHEN IS A COMPUTER A COMPUTER?

Leading scientists warned us that computers were reaching the point of thinking for themselves and could get out of control if something wasn't done. The situation was serious enough for the White House to set up a committee to study the issue. The committee took their findings to Congress to let the law makers debate a solution and Congress was in a heated dead lock for several weeks before a religious leader proposed that before anything could be done, the Congress had to determine when a computer became a valid computer.

There was an unusual hush over the floor before a strong voice shouted, "A computer becomes a computer when it is turned on."

"You fool," retorted a Representative from the South. "A computer becomes a computer when the creator makes the blue print." A bitter war has been waged along party lines behind the scene ever since.

Meanwhile the computers became smarter and smarter and took over the Democratic Party, gaining control of both Houses of Congress in the following election. Unfortunately the Congress has still failed to determine when a computer becomes a valid computer.