eLROY
12-17-2002, 01:27 PM
Just because you can make a fraction by putting one number upstairs and another number downstairs, does not mean anything. For instance, the other week someone was asking why the population of China is so high. So high relative to what? To food? To the number of letters in the name of the country?
The population density of planet Earth is meaningless. Because people are not actually dispersed evenly across the Earth, hardly any single person lives a mile away from anybody else. So what is the relevant number downstairs for population? Square acres of land? Square acres of arable land, square acres of arable land within 10 miles of a major bay or waterway?
Ultimately, you find out that the number in the denominator is the same number as the number in the numerator. Specifically, there is probably a person everywhere a person is comfortable being. The presence of a person is the most precise measure of the relevance of the land to a person! A bleak, remote mountain peak with one person, compared to a bustling town with 30,000 people, is precisely 1/30,000th the land using the relevant measure.
The point being, people and square acres of surface are completely unrelated. Otherwise, population would be constant throughout history! Japan has the highest population density and probably also the highest standard of living. Meaning, whatever it is that people should be measured relative to, Japan has the most of it, giving it the lowest population density.
Which brings us to big bets per hour. Hours do not make big bets. You cannot make big bets simply by being at a poker table or online for an hour. You cannot make big bets simply by mucking KJ under-the-gun for an hour. Big bets should be measured relative to slobs, relative to slick reads, relative to game selection, and the amount of their leisure time that morons are available to play.
Ultimately, as with population, the fraction itself disappears, when you realize the appropriate denominator is the numerator itself. Idiots, who throw away their money, don't need to be measured relative to anything. Idiots per hour? What do idiots have to do with hours? They certainly aren't there 24/7!
Okay, so suppose an idiot is there for 2 hours, and during that time he gives up 80 big bets. Then, for those two hourse, he is giving up 40 big bets per hour. But what is that silliness, he is giving up 40 big bets, I just don't see where the hours come in!
When you have sex with your wife/girlfriend, do you measure it in orgasms per hour? No, orgasms are orgasms. If a girl is giving one up when you are taking, that's one orgasm. If you do it 20 times, that's 20 orgasms. There's nothing inherent in the passage of time itself that produces either orgasms or big bets won.
eLROY
The population density of planet Earth is meaningless. Because people are not actually dispersed evenly across the Earth, hardly any single person lives a mile away from anybody else. So what is the relevant number downstairs for population? Square acres of land? Square acres of arable land, square acres of arable land within 10 miles of a major bay or waterway?
Ultimately, you find out that the number in the denominator is the same number as the number in the numerator. Specifically, there is probably a person everywhere a person is comfortable being. The presence of a person is the most precise measure of the relevance of the land to a person! A bleak, remote mountain peak with one person, compared to a bustling town with 30,000 people, is precisely 1/30,000th the land using the relevant measure.
The point being, people and square acres of surface are completely unrelated. Otherwise, population would be constant throughout history! Japan has the highest population density and probably also the highest standard of living. Meaning, whatever it is that people should be measured relative to, Japan has the most of it, giving it the lowest population density.
Which brings us to big bets per hour. Hours do not make big bets. You cannot make big bets simply by being at a poker table or online for an hour. You cannot make big bets simply by mucking KJ under-the-gun for an hour. Big bets should be measured relative to slobs, relative to slick reads, relative to game selection, and the amount of their leisure time that morons are available to play.
Ultimately, as with population, the fraction itself disappears, when you realize the appropriate denominator is the numerator itself. Idiots, who throw away their money, don't need to be measured relative to anything. Idiots per hour? What do idiots have to do with hours? They certainly aren't there 24/7!
Okay, so suppose an idiot is there for 2 hours, and during that time he gives up 80 big bets. Then, for those two hourse, he is giving up 40 big bets per hour. But what is that silliness, he is giving up 40 big bets, I just don't see where the hours come in!
When you have sex with your wife/girlfriend, do you measure it in orgasms per hour? No, orgasms are orgasms. If a girl is giving one up when you are taking, that's one orgasm. If you do it 20 times, that's 20 orgasms. There's nothing inherent in the passage of time itself that produces either orgasms or big bets won.
eLROY