Your example is a classic third variable problem (along the lines of correlating birth control use with #of home appliances, it has nothing to do with morbidity.
Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered *JESUX community when recently IDC confirmed that *JESUX accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all parishoners. Coming on the heels of the latest Churchcraft survey which plainly states that *JESUX has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *JESUX is collapsing in complete disarray, as further exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a John the Baptist to predict *JESUX's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *JESUX faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *JESUX because *JESUX is dying. Things are looking very bad for *JESUX. As many of us are already aware, *JESUX continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. FreeJESUX is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core adherents.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
OpenJESUX leader Theo states that there are 7000 believers of OpenJESUX. How many users of NetJESUX are there? Let's see. The number of OpenJESUX versus NetJESUX rants on talk radio is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetJESUX followers. JESUX/OS letters to the editor are about half of the volume of NetJESUX letters. Therefore there are about 700 adherents of JESUX/OS. A recent article put FreeJESUX at about 80 percent of the *JESUX market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeJESUX users. This is consistent with the number of FreeJESUX street corner proselytizing nutbars.
Due to the troubles of Jim Bakker, abysmal sexual practices and so on, FreeJESUX went out of business and was taken over by JESUXI who sell another troubled faith. Now JESUXI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that *JESUX has steadily declined in market share. *JESUX is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *JESUX is to survive at all it will be among eschatology hobbyist dabblers. *JESUX continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *JESUX is dead.
Do they think we're so stupid that we are going to take media/celebrity ethics lectures from a movie made and owned by AOL/Time-Warner?
Would that be any stupider than reading Katz feature?
What I think would be really interesting would be an interview with the goatse.cx man. How do you think he feels having his rectum posted all over slashdot. Do you think he runs linux? Was that photo really intended for publication or was he just playing with a friend? Could you fit a beowulf cluster of carrots up there?
My ass is open if you're looking for a snack.
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But you are a panty-waisted anonymous coward.
On the basis of that observation I confiscate your
first post and award it Cyborg Monkey below (we haven't seen enough of him lately). When
you take the time to think up a name and login you
will be permitted to keep your first posts.
WOOT!
Bruce Sterling, Jack Womack.
Whatever happened to Womack anyways, he wrote three brilliant novels (Ambient, Terraplane, and uh... another one) that were supposed to be part of a heptology, and then they stopped. Where are the rest of them?
This is probably going to look like flame bait but Orson Scott Card is over rated. The short stories rock but he can't keep it up for an entire novel.
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FIIIIIIIRST POST!!! damn 20 second wait....
DCMA pot...kettle...black
Your example is a classic third variable problem (along the lines of correlating birth control use with #of home appliances, it has nothing to do with morbidity.
Roughly 30 according to the central limit theorem
Churchcraft has confirmed: *JESUX is dying.
Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered *JESUX community when recently IDC confirmed that *JESUX accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all parishoners. Coming on the heels of the latest Churchcraft survey which plainly states that *JESUX has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *JESUX is collapsing in complete disarray, as further exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a John the Baptist to predict *JESUX's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *JESUX faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *JESUX because *JESUX is dying. Things are looking very bad for *JESUX. As many of us are already aware, *JESUX continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. FreeJESUX is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core adherents.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
OpenJESUX leader Theo states that there are 7000 believers of OpenJESUX. How many users of NetJESUX are there? Let's see. The number of OpenJESUX versus NetJESUX rants on talk radio is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetJESUX followers. JESUX/OS letters to the editor are about half of the volume of NetJESUX letters. Therefore there are about 700 adherents of JESUX/OS. A recent article put FreeJESUX at about 80 percent of the *JESUX market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeJESUX users. This is consistent with the number of FreeJESUX street corner proselytizing nutbars.
Due to the troubles of Jim Bakker, abysmal sexual practices and so on, FreeJESUX went out of business and was taken over by JESUXI who sell another troubled faith. Now JESUXI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that *JESUX has steadily declined in market share. *JESUX is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *JESUX is to survive at all it will be among eschatology hobbyist dabblers. *JESUX continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *JESUX is dead.
Fact: *JESUX is dead
Do they think we're so stupid that we are going to take media/celebrity ethics lectures from a movie made and owned by AOL/Time-Warner? Would that be any stupider than reading Katz feature?
What I think would be really interesting would be an interview with the goatse.cx man. How do you think he feels having his rectum posted all over slashdot. Do you think he runs linux? Was that photo really intended for publication or was he just playing with a friend? Could you fit a beowulf cluster of carrots up there?
My ass is open if you're looking for a snack. * g o a t s e x * g o a t s e x * g o a t s e x * g g o / \ \ / \ o a \ a t `. : t s` \ s e \ / / \\\ -- \\ : e x \ \/ --~~ ~-- \ x * \ \-~ ~-\ * g \ \ .--------.___\ g
o \ \// ((> \ o
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But you are a panty-waisted anonymous coward. On the basis of that observation I confiscate your first post and award it Cyborg Monkey below (we haven't seen enough of him lately). When you take the time to think up a name and login you will be permitted to keep your first posts. WOOT!
Mark Hamill dead? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! All is misery, my world shattered. First we lost Manhattan and now this, is there any hope left?
Bruce Sterling, Jack Womack. Whatever happened to Womack anyways, he wrote three brilliant novels (Ambient, Terraplane, and uh... another one) that were supposed to be part of a heptology, and then they stopped. Where are the rest of them? This is probably going to look like flame bait but Orson Scott Card is over rated. The short stories rock but he can't keep it up for an entire novel.
It's commentary like this that makes slashdot helpful rather than a waste of time.
Wishing all a happy and crap filled Troll Tuesday on the morn...