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« Rodney Needs Love gets his own book | Main | Hulk's Butt Hurts » KludgeocracyThe fact that Americans supposedly don't like big government but still want all the benefits of government means that we have a system that operates in a complicating and costly manner to achieve what ought to be straightforward goals. Not sure if the obligatory dig at Windows was necessary but here you go. PDF: The dictionary tells us that a kludge is "an ill-assorted collection of parts assembled to fulfill a particular purpose...a clumsy but temporarily effective solution to a particular fault or problem." The term comes out of the world of computer programming, where a kludge is an inelegant patch put in place to be backward compatible with the rest of a system. When you add up enough kludges, you get a very complicated program, one that is hard to understand and subject to crashes. In other words, Windows. By fnord12 | December 11, 2012, 4:57 PM | Liberal Outrage |