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is place running the waldo; it did it a while
until the Prez died in office.
SH: That's the legend. Lover.
HI: Swear it on a stack of bibles, luv. Swear that I'm tellin' it jus' like I
heard it. I make no further war-rent-tee! Story goes that the expert system
has been running things for the last 20 years; it's been 24 since the last
election, so maybe it's true, maybe it's not, but the face never changes,
nosirree.
SH: The Presidency is ceremonial. People like familiar faces, kind old
rituals. Stale oldfarts to mark our territory. Smells like home.
HI: Point I MAKIN', honeychil' is dat come a point where you dunno what is
real and what ain't; come to that, don't make no difference. Prez is a virtual
reality, and you can be too. In a completely different and less dead way,
a`corse.
SH: Time to plug into the Dixie Vibe.
HI: Yeah, like Yumi Egawa say. Because there was something called the Internet; a
dinosaur computer thing, date way, way back to the 1960's. It started out
hooking old mainframe computers together. It used landlines and microwave
links, den it get fast glass and satellite uplinks. Yeah, and dig, this is
unregulated traffic.
SH: Too much to regulate even then.
HI: It creates a tradition. Then when fast glass lines and wideband uplinks
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