The Battle of the groups

[George Conklin]

Your ignorance is also exceeded only by our stupidity.

[George Conklin]

That is the old "Hawley" rule. People will put up a 1-hour commute before they start to complain. But the census gives the data for the USA, and it is like 21 minutes, up 1 minute in 10 years.

[Warm Worm]

If you, say, knit (for profit) or write (a book to be published/sold), while commuting to your 'other job', does that existentially reduce your commute-times? Do you transcend the graphs, or get your very own statistical differentiations? ;)

[George Conklin]

Yes, it is from census data, well-documented. But people posting here do not believe in the census or much of anything else either, except their own opinions.

[Warm Worm]

Well, if it makes you feel any better, I'll let you plonk me. ;)

[George Conklin]

What disgusting doubletalk.

[Warm Worm]

Cook it as you like, but I'm also being half-double serious...

I mean, if you're already working while commuting, should that not be factored into the statistical analyses? Do some numbers cancel each other out?

...And what about Don-- the ACAD-master-- who, presumably, has to trudge over across the vast wilderness to his office-- completely on the other side of his property-- to practice his Craft?

Sickening, but it is Oct. 31st., afterall.

[Amy Blankenship]

Something you need to learn about George:

He hates the rich, the poor, horses, pedicab drivers, farmers, and questions.

;-)

[HVS]

On 31 Oct 2007, Amy Blankenship wrote

I certainly get the impression that he's not used to having his positions countered with reasoned arguments, which is where all the ad hominem stuff comes from.

Either that or -- more likely -- it's that in his usual circles, he's blustered often and loudly enough that people just don't bother any more -- which he takes as having 'won' the argument.

It's a bit sad, really.

[Michael Bulatovich]

Sure sign of a troll is a shifting profile to evade the black hole of the killfile.

[Michael Bulatovich]

How did he get to be such an authority then?

[George Conklin]

The census data are facts, not questions.

[George Conklin]

Stating that averages have no meaning is senseless drivel.

[Amy Blankenship]

But they may also be horses in disguise. Run, run, run!!!!

[Amy Blankenship]

Another thing to learn about George. If he says your point is drivel, you've won. If he says it is _senseless_ drivel, he feels like a whipped puppy.

[George Conklin]

Your stupid comments are getting even worse. You cannot get rid of census data by being nasty and stupid, but you try every time.

[George Conklin]

published/sold),

People don't ride horses to work these days, but how would you know that?

[Amy Blankenship]

My comments are not on the census data, but on _you_ and your debating tactics. Since you haven't cited any actual census numbers, there is no reason to comment on census data itself or even to form an opinion on whether those data are right or wrong.

[Amy Blankenship]

They're gaining. Eww...horse breath on your neck!

[Jack May]

Most people do other things while they commute like listening to news, talk radio, music, use the cell phone, event surf the web.

Most of it is not work related but just time filling to keep from getting too bored.

Commute time measured by the census is strictly the travel time to and from work. As we progress to cars that can largely drive themselves and have wideband Internet connections, there may be a lot more people that are actually working during their commute in a way that a company will accept as real work instead of just filling time.

Working on the way to work is probably a poor substitute for the interactions of the work place for many companies.