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Originally Posted by The Drummer
I do know Urn Theory has something to do with Probability and Statistics, but the Ants I "ain't quite got" yet!!! 
"Professor"; is it something to do with fire ants violating your ass? Just askin'.  |
If you gave that answer on an exam, how would you grade yourself? Be fair now!
Stickiness et.al. : how about Indifference curves? There are so many functions, "slopes" and will avoid jargon. There are "perpenidcular" ones too, where the quantity consumed is fixed, say at X=c, and the Y = price line goes straight up.
This is a very real life situation of great historical importance. It has been used [and taxes extracted] for a particular commodity, common salt, from the dawn of history to as late as the 1930s.
Supply and demand is a very positive metaphor. The METAPHOR should be supported because what Vogon Slayer ultimately is asking for is thoughtful, respectful behavior. Technical discussions regarding the metaphor serve no purpose, because VS has embarked on a moral, rational and exceptionally important quest. may infinite blessings forever attend him. He has not placed himself upon any pedestal and humbly sought for a thoughtful hearing.
He has been met by hail of absurd mocking and vicious comments, some from far afield. An ancient and famous quote runs thus: Those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad.
VS has been castigated for his RATIONAL request. Perhaps he should have advocated the RATIONAL ACTOR model, but that is now passe in both Economics and in Political Science.
Gratuitous vulgarity [fire ants etc.] serves no purpose whatsoever, except to emphasize that your intellect has failed you, and now you must take a petty pot shot. Monkeys caged in zoos vent their frustrations at onlookers by throwing feces at them. It reminds me of how many of you behave. hemmed in the consciousness of what you are, and knowing that you will never be free of them, you throw filth at others. Sadly, it will never stick on them, but only underline the nature of your own characters. Prisoners forever.
The ladies are not the ones in prison, by the way. They have won, and are winning, their own redemption in ways can be apparent via deepest introspection. Decipher that in a civil and thoughtful manner if you can.
Malediction serves no purpose and having me as a joker here least of all. Mockery merely indicates the failure to understand something, and therefore, you have to destroy and belittle so that it becomes, to you, as insignificant as your own faculties. All mockery is self-mockery, had you all but the capacity to understand that. I know the smarter ones will notice the nature of regress and infinite regress in my words. good for you! What is it that you have NOT noticed? Ask yourselves that FIRST.
With every low, malice-envenomed act of thought and speech, the actor merely sinks deeper into his own mire. Diatribes against me have no effect. By the way, did you know that Professor means "TO PROFESS" something? Do you understand the entire range of meaning encompassed in the term "to profess"? It is not something a tenure committee can ever offer you, can it?
break out the magnifying glass..
