From: Michael M. Butler (mmb@spies.com)
Date: Mon Jun 02 2003 - 14:50:08 MDT
This is approaching typographical numb*est* theory, you know.
>> I've never used B/buffalo encoding myself. It seems to have a pretty low
>> coding density.
>
> However it's quite efficient compared to what I believe is the most
> rendundant comminication in history: the 2-hour final episode of
> American Idol 2003. Millions of viewers tuned in to two hours of
> high-quality, uncompressed broadcast video whose primary purpose was
> to convey a single BIT of information: Clay or Ruben (it was Ruben,
> for those of you living in a cave).
Considering the two matters of (1) doing binary encoding with actual
buffalo (of various sizes, as I first thought, or worse, coding a one with
a reference to, or heaven forfend an actual instantiation of the City of
Buffalo every time)--and (2) the "people-as-cattle" meme--I think we see a
straighforward way to interpret the significance of the (3) AI (shudder--
"'concidence'? I think NOT./") 2003 matter.
"Michael, that was oblique to the point of obtusity." "Why, *thank* you!"
"Hnph! Why NOT thank me?"
-- I am not here to have an argument. I am here as part of a civilization. Sometimes I forget.
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