Parts of the old rigging machine remain in place and defectors from the PDP have taken their skills in trickery over to the other side.
Other firms trotted out their executives crying crocodile tears about the unfairness for regular investors... while they palmed handfuls of cash from the souped-up rigging machine.
All of these structural gymnastics are expressed on the facade, along with racks of solar shading louvres and typhoon bracing for the windows, giving the tower the look of a gleaming off-shore rig, a machine for drilling wealth from the bedrock beneath Central Hong Kong, a refinery built on opium and imperialism.
The casino owners insist they could not rig the machines, which are owned and managed by outside companies that control their formulas, as Mr. White said, "more carefully than Fort Knox".
And if someone is able to rig the machines to change the vote counts, there is no way to know that, either.
In the final round, they pull off a close victory cemented by a final decisive scare by Mike in the simulation bedroom: afterwards, Mike discovers that he only won because Sulley cheated, rigging the machine to give him a top score before he went in.
Today, turntable rigs, drum machines and sampler synthesizers drive music like hip-hop.
"I have always been a tinkerer; I've always had a passion for anything mechanical," said Mr. D'Addario, a Rube Goldberg kind of guy who has rigged up machines to automate nearly ever step of the string-making process.
If Olivia can trust her president, who killed a Supreme Court justice and sicced a military officer to spy on her, and he can trust her, after she rigged voting machines to get him elected, surely the real players here can summon up some trust.
So Mr. Gulich helped Mr. Kochel rig a pinball machine to operate off switches.
He also jury-rigged a drum machine into his turntable and created miniature audio dramas on his legendary 12-inch single "The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash on the Wheels of Steel" (1981) that presaged digital sampling.
