*Joke* Proof of the value of education

[Calemyr]

Thanks to that thread about the church robot, I got to thinking about my time under-grad, and I was reminded of a joke that was posted on the fridge in a house I lived in for a year or two. Given the nature of this comic and forum, I thought you might enjoy it.

Proof: Start with three assumptions:
1) Power=Work/Time, an established definition in physics.
2) Knowledge is Power, as we've all been told so many times.
3) Time is Money, as any businessman will tell you

Power=Work/Time
== (Substitute based on #2)
Knowledge=Work/Time
== (Substitute based on #3)
Knowledge=Work/Money
== (Solve for Money)
Money=Work/Knowledge

Thus, as Knowledge approaches zero, Money approaches infinity. In other words, the less you know, the more money you make.

[miss kyri]

Finally, mathmatical proof for the dilbert world.

Oh, I love it.

....ok, so i'm a bit of a geek. but on this forum... no one will even notice me :p

[TB]

Ah yes, the proof of the Dilbert Salary Theorem.

[bloodeye]

Knowledge=Work/Money

Well, by the same method, as Money approaches 0... suppose it explains why I'm so knowledgeable...

[Paradox244]

Ah, but theory must fall in the face of experimental evidence. I make virtually no money, so in theory I must have nearly infinite knowledge. I do not. Therefore your conjecture is false.

[Gav]

Ah, but theory must fall in the face of experimental evidence. I make virtually no money, so in theory I must have nearly infinite knowledge. I do not. Therefore your conjecture is false.

Only if work remains constant.

[CodeGuy]

This reminds me of the proof of the true nature of women.

To get and keep a woman, you need to put time and money into the relationship. Thus

Women = Time*Money

And we all know that time is money, so

Women = Money*Money

and that money is the root of all evil, so

Money = root(Evil)

plug that in

Women = root(Evil) * root(Evil)

and simplify

Women = Evil

[TB]

Money = root(Evil)

But we all know that Evil is a very negative thing, so this would mean that money is imaginary. But we all know that money is real.

Consider that if you love something, you will constantly think of it, imagine it. So we get

Love of Money = Imaginary Money

We also know that the *true* formula for root(Evil) is

Love of Money = root(Evil)

, which then becomes

Imaginary Money = root(Evil)

. Converting from Imaginary to real can be accomplished with abs():

Money = abs(Imaginary Money)

. Using this in

Women = Money*Money

gives us

Women = abs(root(Evil))*abs(root(Evil))

, which is the same as

Women = abs(Evil)

. And since Evil is negative,

abs(Evil) = -Evil = Good

. This gives us

Women = Good

. Which explains why some guys are willing to act like such idiots to get their attention.

[CodeGuy]

Money = root(Evil)

But we all know that Evil is a very negative thing, so this would mean that money is imaginary. But we all know that money is real.

No, money is imaginary. Has been ever since we went off the gold standard.

[Crystalis]

Money = root(Evil)

But we all know that Evil is a very negative thing, so this would mean that money is imaginary. But we all know that money is real.

No, money is imaginary. Has been ever since we went off the gold standard.

Come now, "this note is legal tender for all debts, public and private" isn't good enough to make it real for you when good old Uncle Sam is backing it up? ;-P

[CodeGuy]

It's real in that we can use it, but that's true of imaginary numbers, too.

[Conina]

And what about the money you deal with (transfering between bank accounts and the like) that you never see or touch? That's just numbers representing an insubstantial entity. It's not really real. If the world's computers all just died the money would cease to exist. Hence it never existed in the first place.



(I think that makes sense, I should just avoid trying to 'prove' things to geeks)