Rock, Paper, Spock.

[Zero Gravitas]

Thoroughly entertaining escape from real work today with a discussion of balancing systems a-la Scissors-Paper-Stone:

A Beats B
B Beats C
C Beats A

Jacquard Loom disenfranchises Artisan Textile Workers.
Artisan Textile Workers wear out their Clogs by looking for new employment.
Clogs thrown into machinery of Jacquard Looms and break the workings.

Excessive Bit-shifting confounds Optimising Compiler
Optimising Compiler switches out Expressions that reduce to constants
Expressions that reduce to constants are more readable than Excessive Bit-shifting

Cat Shreds Tinfoil
Tinfoil Breaks Microwave
Microwave Cooks Cat*

_{*May have stolen this one.}

[Artemis]

Lubbock befriends Barrymore
Barrymore buys Pool
Pool drowns Lubbock


That sort of thing?

[Zero Gravitas]

No! that's just a series of events! with variably positive or negative relationships!

If we overlay that onto Rock,Paper,Stone, who wins if I choose Pool and you choose Barrymore? well Lubbock looses in the long run but does the pool win because it gets bought? does Barrymore win because he gets a pool?


Lubbock befriends Barrymore - I suppose this is nice for both of them so both are a winning option.
Barrymore buys Pool - I suppose Barrymore wins because he owns a pool now, there's no real negative effect on the pool.
Pool drowns Lubbock - Lubbock looses because he's deadeded.

so the full positive or negative outcomes are:

Lubbock +1,-1 = 0
Barrymore +1,+1 = +2
Pool +0,+1 = +1

So you'd constantly win if you choose Barrymore, I'm not sure you were even trying quite frankly!

[Ginyard]

Minimoog Voyager OS has 24db&12db/oct dual lowpass/ high/lowpass fillters unlike the MS20's which are only 12db/oct.

MS20 's patchbay provides the performer with far more modulation capabilities than those offered by the Yamaha CS10.

Yamaha CS10 has rock steady pitch-cv tracking which makes it very suitable for midi-cv conversion unlike the Minimoog Voyager OS, which is being an absolute cunt today as I've discovered that its output voltage is not only lower than the yamaha's but wont track pitch via my kenton midi converter properly which means I have to get a suitable external attenuator for it some time this week the fucking pain-in-the-arse bitch motherfucker.

[Zero Gravitas]

That's good Ginyard, glad that someone is taking this seriously.

[Ginyard]

Fred Flintstone has a bigger cock than Barney Rubble
Barney Rubble bangs Dino
Dino has a bigger tail than Fred

[An tSaoi]

Man shits in toilet
Toilet flushes shit
Shit gets last laugh cause Man is out of bog roll

[Artemis]

So you'd constantly win if you choose Barrymore

Never a truer word spoken.

[surreal]

just thought I'd post the youtube clip relevant to the picture:

Rock, paper, scissors, lizard, Spock.....