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Re: Why do the "Humble Bundle" people use the mean purchase per platform?

From owl <owl@rooftop.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject Re: Why do the "Humble Bundle" people use the mean purchase per platform?
Date 2014-11-10 04:43 +0000
Organization ok by me, so long as it doesn't get out of hand
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References (2 earlier) <cb4c04ea-d40e-4e83-b512-72d766cd4984@googlegroups.com> <hg9e.fjeop@rooftop.invalid> <a941fb39-832e-4daa-8dca-ce85c00fd571@googlegroups.com> <bghv9.afeap3@rooftop.invalid> <D0858D0C.410A2%usenet@gallopinginsanity.com>

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Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> wrote:
> On 11/9/14, 6:50 PM, in article bghv9.afeap3@rooftop.invalid, "owl"
> <owl@rooftop.invalid> wrote:

>> Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Sunday, November 9, 2014 11:09:04 AM UTC-7, owl wrote:
>>>> Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> On Sunday, November 9, 2014 9:57:01 AM UTC-7, Snit wrote:
>>>>>> On 11/9/14, 9:31 AM, in article m3o4sd$hrh$1@dont-email.me, "DFS"
>>>>>> <nospam@dfs.com> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> When the median would be much more useful and revealing?
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I'm 100% sure they do it to make Linux and its proponents look better.
>>>>>>> But it hides the effects of the large donations made by a few Linux
>>>>>>> people.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> https://www.humblebundle.com
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> The Numbers (around 10:40am today)
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Total payments: $1,110,293.65
>>>>>>> Number of purchases: 149,494
>>>>>>> Average purchase: $7.43
>>>>>>> Average Windows:  $7.08
>>>>>>> Average Mac:      $8.55
>>>>>>> Average Linux:   $10.06
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> The avg Linux purchase is 42% higher than the avg Windows purchase.  The
>>>>>>> reason is because Windows gamers buy good games at $30 to $60 a pop, and
>>>>>>> don't have as much to spend on these crapola games - which are top
>>>>>>> flight games for deprived Linux victims.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> This was discussed in some detail a while back with a previous bundle. It
>>>>>> was amazing how many in COLA could not understand the basic math / stats.
>>>>>> cc
>>>>>> was absolutely hilarious in his ignorance about it.
>>>> 
>>>>> As hilarious as this?
>>>> 
>>>>> "...by definition a set MUST contain all of the features of a subset,
>>>>> otherwise it (the subset) wouldn't be a subset."
>>>> 
>>>>> Your reply:
>>>> 
>>>>> "Items in a set need not contain all the items in any given subset within
>>>>> that set." 
>>>> 
>>>>> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!original/comp.sys.mac.advocacy/sN1HvpwXrK
>>>>> w/7nrGK5fKuwIJ
>>>> 
>>>>> I don't think so ;)
>>>> 
>>>> The set "balls" does not contain all of the features of its subset
>>>> "red balls."
>> 
>>> Which has nothing to do with what you responded to.
>> 
>> I responded at the end, but my response was more directed to your
>> "quoted" paraphrase of the statement at the link, which has something to
>> do with incest as a subset of sex.  The claim, which Snit disagreed with,
>> implied that a set must contain all the features of any of its subsets.
>> That claim is false, so Snit was correct to object.  Although he did
>> incorrectly use the term "items" instead of "features" in his objection,
>> that likely *typo* does not make the original claim true any more true.
>> That it was a typo is obvious from his entire statement, where he
>> goes on to reference "features," not "items":
>> 
>> <quote>
>> Items in a set need not contain all the items in any given subset within
>> that set.  Even though incest is sex, not all "sex MUST include all of the
>> features of incest."
>> </quote>
>> 
> Exactly right. I used an incorrect word in one of the stupid endless debates
> that happen in COLA and CSMA. Instead of focusing on the facts, Carroll
> nit-picks and plays stupid games. I openly admit the *one* sentence Carroll
> quoted was worded incorrectly... but by the context any reasonable person
> can see my point was correct.

> Carroll, on the other hand, defends Tim Adam's incorrect (and repulsive)
> claim that all sex must include all the features of incest... and did the
> same when Tim Adams insisted that sex and incest are, in his view,
> "identical" and "synonymous". Unlike Carroll, I assumed Tim Adams just
> misspoke and granted him that... refusing to sink to the games they used to
> play (and Carroll *still* is, years later!)

> In brief: Carroll claims I refuse to let go of things, assume the worst in
> people, twist words, etc. His example here, though, is a great example where
> I actively did not do that and granted that people make mistakes in their
> typing and Carroll and his co-trolls did as he accuses and he continues to
> for years.

> Carroll is a completely hypocritical, obsessive jerk who will play these
> games as long as he can. He is not capable of having a reasonable discussion
> when he has a chance to mindlessly and dishonestly attack me.

He's a madman.

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Why do the "Humble Bundle" people use the mean purchase per platform? DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2014-11-09 11:31 -0500
  Re: Why do the "Humble Bundle" people use the mean purchase per platform? Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2014-11-09 09:56 -0700
    Re: Why do the "Humble Bundle" people use the mean purchase per platform? charlescroyden3@gmail.com - 2014-11-09 09:13 -0800
      Re: Why do the "Humble Bundle" people use the mean purchase per platform? Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2014-11-09 10:18 -0700
      Re: Why do the "Humble Bundle" people use the mean purchase per platform? Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2014-11-09 09:25 -0800
      Re: Why do the "Humble Bundle" people use the mean purchase per platform? Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2014-11-09 12:39 -0500
        Re: Why do the "Humble Bundle" people use the mean purchase per platform? Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2014-11-09 10:50 -0700
          Re: Why do the "Humble Bundle" people use the mean purchase per platform? charlescroyden3@gmail.com - 2014-11-09 09:52 -0800
            Re: Why do the "Humble Bundle" people use the mean purchase per platform? Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2014-11-09 10:58 -0700
              Re: Why do the "Humble Bundle" people use the mean purchase per platform? Jorge Dimaggio <jorgedimaggio@spammenot.org> - 2014-11-09 13:34 -0500
                Re: Why do the "Humble Bundle" people use the mean purchase per platform? Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2014-11-09 15:32 -0500
                Re: Why do the "Humble Bundle" people use the mean purchase per platform? Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2014-11-09 13:37 -0700
                Re: Why do the "Humble Bundle" people use the mean purchase per platform? chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2014-11-10 08:09 -0600
                Re: Why do the "Humble Bundle" people use the mean purchase per platform? Silver Slimer <slvrslmr@lv.c> - 2014-11-10 09:15 -0500
                Re: Why do the "Humble Bundle" people use the mean purchase per platform? DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2014-11-11 09:24 -0500
                Re: Why do the "Humble Bundle" people use the mean purchase per platform? Silver Slimer <slvrslmr@lv.c> - 2014-11-11 10:21 -0500
                Re: Why do the "Humble Bundle" people use the mean purchase per platform? Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2014-11-11 16:45 -0800
        Re: Why do the "Humble Bundle" people use the mean purchase per platform? Nobody <nobody@invalid.com> - 2014-11-09 11:55 -0600
          Re: Why do the "Humble Bundle" people use the mean purchase per platform? Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2014-11-09 10:58 -0700
          Re: Why do the "Humble Bundle" people use the mean purchase per platform? DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2014-11-10 10:35 -0500
        Re: Why do the "Humble Bundle" people use the mean purchase per platform? -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> - 2014-11-09 11:08 -0800
          Re: Why do the "Humble Bundle" people use the mean purchase per platform? Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2014-11-09 12:22 -0700
        Re: Why do the "Humble Bundle" people use the mean purchase per platform? JEDIDIAH <jedi@nomad.mishnet> - 2014-11-09 14:42 -0600
          Re: Why do the "Humble Bundle" people use the mean purchase per platform? Silver Slimer <slvrslmr@lv.c> - 2014-11-09 19:22 -0500
        Re: Why do the "Humble Bundle" people use the mean purchase per platform? vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2014-11-10 06:33 -0800
          Re: Why do the "Humble Bundle" people use the mean purchase per platform? Silver Slimer <slvrslmr@lv.c> - 2014-11-10 10:47 -0500
            Re: Why do the "Humble Bundle" people use the mean purchase per platform? "Ezekiel" <zeke@nosuchemail.com> - 2014-11-10 11:07 -0500
              Re: Why do the "Humble Bundle" people use the mean purchase per platform? DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2014-11-10 19:40 -0500
            Re: Why do the "Humble Bundle" people use the mean purchase per platform? DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2014-11-10 19:33 -0500
              Re: Why do the "Humble Bundle" people use the mean purchase per platform? Silver Slimer <slvrslmr@lv.c> - 2014-11-10 20:09 -0500
          Re: Why do the "Humble Bundle" people use the mean purchase per platform? DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2014-11-11 08:55 -0500
    Re: Why do the "Humble Bundle" people use the mean purchase per platform? Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2014-11-09 09:15 -0800
      Re: Why do the "Humble Bundle" people use the mean purchase per platform? owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2014-11-09 18:09 +0000
        Re: Why do the "Humble Bundle" people use the mean purchase per platform? Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2014-11-09 11:40 -0700
          Re: Why do the "Humble Bundle" people use the mean purchase per platform? Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2014-11-09 11:57 -0800
        Re: Why do the "Humble Bundle" people use the mean purchase per platform? Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2014-11-09 10:54 -0800
          Re: Why do the "Humble Bundle" people use the mean purchase per platform? owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2014-11-10 01:50 +0000
            Re: Why do the "Humble Bundle" people use the mean purchase per platform? Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2014-11-09 19:45 -0800
              Re: Why do the "Humble Bundle" people use the mean purchase per platform? owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2014-11-10 04:35 +0000
                Re: Why do the "Humble Bundle" people use the mean purchase per platform? Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2014-11-09 21:02 -0800
                Re: Why do the "Humble Bundle" people use the mean purchase per platform? owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2014-11-10 05:28 +0000
                Re: Why do the "Humble Bundle" people use the mean purchase per platform? Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2014-11-09 22:37 -0700
                Re: Why do the "Humble Bundle" people use the mean purchase per platform? Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2014-11-09 22:25 -0800
                Re: Why do the "Humble Bundle" people use the mean purchase per platform? Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2014-11-09 21:39 -0800
                Re: Why do the "Humble Bundle" people use the mean purchase per platform? Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2014-11-09 22:19 -0700
                Re: Why do the "Humble Bundle" people use the mean purchase per platform? Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2014-11-09 21:25 -0800
            Re: Why do the "Humble Bundle" people use the mean purchase per platform? Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2014-11-09 21:28 -0700
              Re: Why do the "Humble Bundle" people use the mean purchase per platform? owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2014-11-10 04:43 +0000
                Re: Why do the "Humble Bundle" people use the mean purchase per platform? Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2014-11-09 21:09 -0800
                Re: Why do the "Humble Bundle" people use the mean purchase per platform? owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2014-11-10 05:34 +0000
                Re: Why do the "Humble Bundle" people use the mean purchase per platform? Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2014-11-10 07:37 -0700
                Re: Why do the "Humble Bundle" people use the mean purchase per platform? Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2014-11-10 08:26 -0800
                Re: Why do the "Humble Bundle" people use the mean purchase per platform? Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2014-11-09 22:18 -0700
                Re: Why do the "Humble Bundle" people use the mean purchase per platform? Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2014-11-09 21:23 -0800
              Re: Why do the "Humble Bundle" people use the mean purchase per platform? Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2014-11-09 20:54 -0800

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