This evening while driving north along Far Hills I spotted a Republicans for Voldemort bumper sticker on a gray car. Is the owner of this vehicle on this forum? Does anyone know this person?

No, but where did you get that picture for your avatar?

In Response to FeldmanSkitzoid (#26648):

Not sure, but have you looked at your avatar lately?

Last time I checked a few months ago, we had sent out more than 10,000 RFV stickers so far. I'm pretty sure there aren't nearly that many people participating in the forums.

In Response to jon (#26652):

I'm pretty sure there aren't nearly that many people participating in the forums.

Yeah.

I only account for about ten people..

In Response to zamphir (#26653):

Paranoid-schizophrenia can be a real problem, just don’t beat yourself up over it.

In Response to Nagy_Vilmos (#26657):

Paranoid-schizophrenia...

<Pedantic>

Actually he would be suffering from Multiple Personality Disorder.

</Pedantic>

In Response to Nagy_Vilmos (#26657):

Paranoid cynical optimism, thank you very much.

In Response to GeminiCrash (#26658):

If you want to be really pedantic, you could check your DSM-IV. Last I heard, it's still listed as Dissociative Identity Disorder, along with Dissociative Amnesia and Dissociative Fugue. (And, of course, Dissociative Disorder Not Otherwise Specified.)

All three are typified by loss of time; what happens during those periods determines which disorder is in play. Since very few cases of DID are aware of the other personalities, however, I'd suggest that your diagnosis may be off. Furthermore, schizophrenia is diagnosed in part based on delusions and/or hallucinations. Since Zamphir's beliefs are most probably delusionary, (it is extremely unlikely, in my unprofessional opinion, that he is actually ten people, and he is certainly not worth ten people,) schizophrenia may be a more accurate suggestion.

Mind you, paranoid schizophrenia - in which the delusions are persecutory in nature - would probably not be apt, especially if the latter interpretation of his statement (that he is as valuable as approximately ten other people) is accurate.

Also, your sentence requires a comma after the 'Actually.'

In Response to sakuruth (#26662):

If you want to be really pedantic

If you want to be really pedantic, you have to actually start with what I said, not with what you read.

What I said was "I only account for about ten people".

If you read this as saying "I am ten people", or "I am worth ten people" ...

then I do not understand your definition of "account for".

It would be closer to read it as 'I act like ten people'.... but even then, it's really off by a scooch.

In fact, what I meant was "I only post enough for about ten people". So clearly, I can not be responsible personally for the disjunction between the number of RfV stickers sold and the apparent number of active forum participants.

And that's even without considering that I said "about".

Since Zamphir's beliefs are most probably delusionary
In fact, this statement is provably unprovable - even considering the use of "most probably" to indicate "I'm not making a firm statement of fact, just a quantitative generalization".

In Response to zamphir (#26664):

I'm willing to make you account for 30-40 people because I believe the average user's post count is somewhat lower than would be indicated if you count as 10 people.

In Response to Dynedain (#26666):

If someone wants to do the math, I suspect that we're both off by an order of magnitude.

In Response to zamphir (#26668):

What is divide by zero error?

Stinky lurkers.

Dayton? Any of us dorks? Good luck!!!

Yeah, and I saw one a month or 2 ago outside of a tire shop on West Main...you know, just down the road from the Corner, near the post office and Northern Exposure. You know who you are.

In Response to Deathalicious (#26677):

It wasn't me, it was the one-armed man.

In Response to tor (#26670):

What is divide by zero error?

Stinky lurkers.

Jon said "Participating".

We're clearly therefore able to eliminate zero-posters as nonparticipatory.

And pretty much capable of deciding for ourselves what number of posts counts as participatory...

So I'm going to stand by my "ten" number, and drop my suspicion of an order of magnitude difference.

In Response to zamphir (#26687):

Reading is not participating?

Sure it is not _active_ participation but I think any reasonable definition of participation in a conversation[1] includes the listener.

[1] Which obviously is the case here, otherwise we are talking about somethig that is not the point of a forum and so simply another weasel example of trying to win an argument.

In Response to FeldmanSkitzoid (#26648):

Feld: I shrank down this. It's fluff, but it's worth a few laughs.
PPGD [snafu-comics.com]

Jon: 10,000 you say! Didn't expect nearly that many. Well, there's one in my area then.

In Response to tor (#26688):

Reading is not participating?

No. It's fun-damental.

Do you believe you participate in television?

Are television news anchors having a conversation with you? What about "talk" shows? Do you participate in the conversations on them, if you happen to be viewing them?

I personally think it unreasonable to count LG more than once, and also unreasonable to count non-registered users - for the purposes of this discussion.

trying to win an argument
Were we arguing?

I thought I was babbling and being glib.

In Response to zamphir (#26693):

From "Republicans for Voldemort bumper sticker on a gray car." to talking to the television. I can't keep up. But if I see a gray car I will be sure to make them pull over and produce ID! Wait, that wont work. To many gray cars. I will have to narrow the search. If I only had something else to go on. hummmmmmmmmmm

In Response to sentdata (#26699):

If I only had something else to go on. hummmmmmmmmmm

Yeah. Like a bumper sticker, maybe.

In Response to Deathalicious (#26708):

How about going on a bus?

In Response to Nagy_Vilmos (#26710):

A short one.

In Response to GeminiCrash (#26711):

I love the short bus! My friends do to! We all love the short bus...

In Response to sentdata (#26713):

My friends do to!

Your friends do what to what? They do attach prepositions to the end of sentences?