Wednesday, February 09, 2011

Witches Rue-mania

Well, then, it's a damn good thing for Planet Pepe and Al Gore that they are not, officially, witches.

"the country's soothsayers and fortune tellers are cursing a new bill that threatens fines or even prison if their predictions don't come true."

5 comments:

Arelcao Akleos said...

What a silly law: The "witches" just have to say something like this: " The cards predict that X is going to happen or someone will try to put me into the slammer if X does not happen".

A more fun policy would be to quote directly from Planet Pepeans when making the prediction. "The cards/crystal ball/bones/tealeaves agree with Nobel Prize Winner and Statesman extraordinaire Al Gore that Boston will have no snow this winter"

Mr roT said...

It's about like when Tecs writes "The \CD implies..."

Tecumseh said...

Nah. It's like when Rot writes "A implies B, for all A and B".

Tecumseh said...

AA: In other words, p(X)+p(X^c)=1. So who said that first -- Pascal or Kolmogorov? Methinks, cavemen musta known it, if they ever stopped to think about it.

Arelcao Akleos said...

There may have been a caveman or two who stopped to think about it, but lost in thought Brother Bear snuck up through the cave and chomped on his noggin.
It was a very deterministic world, that of our venerable ancestors. If any random process ruled, it was the Killing.