Don't Mickey Mouse with measles.

org-spasm (n):

A reorganizational tremor in the body corporate.

E.g., [i]Despite multiple org-spasms during its final decade, Sun Microsystems failed to address its key existential issue, namely of how to continue selling premium-priced products in the face of a trend toward cheap commodity high-capacity server hardware and software.[/i]

[QUOTE=ewmayer;394192]org-spasm (n):

A reorganizational tremor in the body corporate.

E.g., [i]Despite multiple org-spasms during its final decade, Sun Microsystems failed to address its key existential issue, namely of how to continue selling premium-priced products in the face of a trend toward cheap commodity high-capacity server hardware and software.[/i][/QUOTE]

borg-asm (n):

The borg's assimilation software program.

As in the executable borg command line: run borg-asm -Q -Cub -Pic -Num:2

(It is said only the borg know the flags' significance)

foodgasm (n):

a little death by chocolate.

borg-anism: an organism with many heads needing to learn and earn its place in the world (as in
"the borganismic approach to assimilation was at odds with the federation's").

economy: the set of barter or monetary interactions among individual beings living together in a common society.

I was told many years ago in corporate Canada that:

A "committee" is a human-like life form with 12 arms, 12 eyes, 12 legs, 6 noses but NO brains.

[QUOTE=petrw1;394474]I was told many years ago in corporate Canada that:

A "committee" is a human-like life form with 12 arms, 12 eyes, 12 legs, 6 noses but NO brains.[/QUOTE]

IOW two heads are better than one, but too many cooks spoil the stew.

[QUOTE=davar55;394476]IOW two heads are better than one, but too many cooks spoil the stew.[/QUOTE]
Not if you are a cannibal.

On the issue of dimensionality of money in economic calculations:

[QUOTE=only_human;393833]My economics dimensional consistency snark alludes to a line from Wikipedia that I've brought up a couple of times before:
[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimensional_analysis#Finance.2C_economics.2C_and_accounting"]Dimensional analysis: Finance, economics, and accounting[/URL][/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=davar55;393926]I think our paper dollars are rectangular, not square. So if we figure the dimensions
of a rectangular are say A by B inches, then a square dollar would have dimensions
sqrt(AB) by sqrt(AB) inches, each sqrt(AB) being in inches. So the issue reduces to
cutting up our paper rectangular dollars and rearranging the pieces into squares.
So by absurdum reductiondum, the original use of square dollars in some context
(what context was that again?) reduces to What are the units of Money.

This is what bad economists failed to see, hence the "problem" of units.
In actuality, once we have a money based economy, the units of money
are the first issue to be decided, whether dollar or cents or ounces of gold
or tulips.

:smile:[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=davar55;393981]square dollar: traditional coin/paper-based US monetary unit, based on a combined metallic and fiat paper legal origin
[two origins, hence square]

cubic dollar: modernistic non-traditional maybe-soon-to-be-defined coin/paper//electronic world monetary exchange unit,
based on a combined metallic, fiat paper and electronic storage/exchange mechanism as its legal currency origin
[three origins, hence cubic]

:smile:[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=only_human;393948]Careful handling of fiat dimensionality is essential. Lotka–Volterra equations show toxic instability requiring vortex corrections when applied to derivatives of fiat assets backed by fiat money.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=davar55;393985]OK, you got me. Don't know if you're all-serious or only partially. I'll try googling LV.

...

OK again. Do you want a quick answer (I see a square term in the equation) or a more thoughtful one (for which
i'd actually have to read the wikipedia article) ? Let me give my quick answer:

A monetary unit in econ terms must be a unit of money, and money is defined as something that serves as
a medium of exchange AND a store of value. So whatever is used as money must have at least two properties -
it must be exchangeable among participants, and it must be of value in and of itself. The first property implies
divisibility and aggregationability, the second implies tangibility and endurance. The second property rules out
totally fiat-based paper or electronic money, some commodity must ultimately be the "value" on which the money
is based. The first property rules out things like tulips or plastic beads (at least in the modern world) but is best
satisfied by metallic bullion and coins.

WHEN two money quantities are multiplied, each must be reduced by its units FIRST, by simple division, to
produce unitless real numbers, which CAN be multiplied (or used in arrays or exponentials or whatever).

With this procedural caveat, there is no mathematics / economics conflict over units.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=only_human;394037]You receive full credit for searching and thinking. Units of measurement are our friends because easy methodical checking often helps catch simple errors.[/QUOTE]

I mentioned arrays and exponentials of reals, I neglected reciprocals (as in "hours worked per dollar earned", which is useful
in inflation computations after adjusting for value of dollar over time, time units (hours) being unchanged over time).

[QUOTE=davar55;394695]On the issue of dimensionality of money in economic calculations:

I mentioned arrays and exponentials of reals, I neglected reciprocals (as in "hours worked per dollar earned", which is useful
in inflation computations after adjusting for value of dollar over time, time units (hours) being unchanged over time).[/QUOTE]
I leave fine details to my minions. First I worked with [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terracotta_Army"]terracotta[/URL] but have moved on to porcelain to make it harder for vandals scrape letters off their foreheads. Nowadays they are strictly male to better control the means of production, protect my IP and skirt snark about dolls. I've got about a billion of them...

That Terracotta reference looks like a big chess-piece repository to me.
Where was chess invented, and by whom ?