@BZMedia: In the future, randomly is a synonym of remotely. Also, Christmas is spelled (and pronounced) X-mas. And there is soylent cola. Mmmm. People-licious

Thank you Ronald Reagan, Jack Abramhoff, Greenspan and the rest of your scummy neocon crew. The seeds you planted in the early '80s are now finally flowering like a thousand points of light, Bernie is but a petal in the rose.

That boy had better keep his nose clean for the next 100-150 years or he's ripe for a shankin'...

At the rate that the federal government is spending our great-grandchildren's money, the only swindler they will have to worry about is the IRS.

@montusama: That was my first thought too. I wonder if their systems were all up-to-date before Y2K. I'm guessing they have 12/31/9999 as someone who gets life.

Grandchildren won't exist in 2139, after we've turned to harvesting clone "blanks" for spare parts to ensure our own immortality and the government has banned conventional reproduction after reaching the optimum levels of society.

That's contradictory to itself.

Random:

proceeding, made, or occurring without definite aim, reason, or pattern: the random selection of numbers.
at random, without definite aim, purpose, method, or adherence to a prior arrangement; in a haphazard way: Contestants were chosen at random from the studio audience.

Control:

to exercise restraint or direction over; dominate; command.
Authority or ability to manage or direct

If "everyone" will have the correct amount, then it is not random. If it's random, it's not controlled.

@ajlei: Maybe the date is projected based on if he gets parole or something.

Alternatively, a clerk could have entered the wrong number by accident and no one's bothered to fix the typo.