The Register Are Ballot Stuffing, Vote Fixing Frauds
The Register is currently running a poll to determine the best science fiction movie quote of all time. Now, one doesn’t expect scientific precision from online polls. It would be unwise to base any real decisions on the outcome of a survey like this. It is accepted that a certain amount of friendly hacking could easily skew the results beyond any sensible measure of accuracy, so one should never take these things seriously. At the very minimum, however, one expects to be able to actually register a vote for one’s choice. It’s the one basic prerequisite of web-gimmicks like this that a vote, once cast, should be counted, but this poll is clearly a great big fat fraud, because no matter how often I try to make the obvious choice for the best quote in that list by a mile*, nothing happens. Indeed, the dissipated hacks at The Register must have something specific against Back To The Future, because they’re only letting it register two (2) votes in total, and it’s languishing at the very bottom of this fraudulent list of lies, beneath such classics as the Jay Leno cameo in Contact. Bah. And where, pray tell, is the button for “1.21 gigawatts!?”
*Not sure what’s going on with the music there, but this was the best clip I could find of Roads? Where we’re going we don’t need… roads.