Re: OT: Atheist joke


John Larkin wrote:
On 25 Mar 2006 19:17:32 -0800, bill.sloman@xxxxxxxx wrote:

I think co-ops are dynamically unstable, which is why so few exist.
But agreed, scones don't require a lot of technical innovation.

The Co-op Stores and the John Lewis Partnership have been running for a
fair while now

http://www.johnlewispartnership.co.uk/

says 75 years.


I suppose Sir Stuart has the same voting rights, and pulls down the
same salary, as all the sales clerks.

You might suppose that, if you were fixated on one form of co-operative
organisation.

http://www.co-op.co.uk/

dates itself back to 1863.

That's a marketing gimmick; it fills a niche.

The same niche as the other supermarkets around Cambridge, when I lived
there. In fact, it started off as a bulk buying gimmick, as you would
have noticed if you'd read a few lines of the history page of the
web-site.

Dynamic instability is taking some time to
manifest itself.


Certainly. If one does enough trials, any metastable phenomenon can be
made to remain near balance for an arbitrarily long time. You can
tease an LS74 flipflop to teeter between 0 and 1 for microseconds, if
you try enough times. It's just very rare for this to happen, as in
flipflops and in the two cases you cite.

Both the Co-op stores and the John Lew Partnership have survived
through rather turbulent times. They aren't exactly convincing examples
of metastability.

--
Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

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