[FoRK] House proves my point

[Jeff Bone]

On May 5, 2008, at 10:13 PM, Tom Higgins wrote:

> House stuff
>
>  Ok the cool part about House is he just does not give a crap  
> because he is
> careless on the plains of his memspace being that he in effect sets  
> the
> rules in a Masters of Nomic way. Sure he gets busted and then does  
> what is
> needed to get the elast of punishments, maximzing the House' profits  
> by
> minimizing the loss. Problem is this leaves him bored... so he sets  
> up some
> rules to trip himself up to maximize the play of the game rather than
> convienence. He is also not above letting others set some rules in  
> order to
> makje the game more complex, thus enjoyable, thus maximizing the  
> thrill fo
> the game.

Or, put differently, House rocks. ;-)

> He is not justifing supporting a crappy DRM device:)-

I'm not sure being the poster child for Vicodin is any better or  
worse...

>> rational economic decision, not because I acknowledge the mystical  
>> power
>> of The Law.__________________________
>
> Jeff's Godwin limit hits when he brings in the (non)existence of  
> mystical
> powers:)-

Hey, I thought that was a pretty clever and thought-provoking  
analogy...  really, I did!

Think about it.

jb