Thursday, September 17, 2015
Defining Thugpower
Several of the co-defendants in the murder of Carlile by Henrikson have turned snitch and pled guilty for lesser sentences.
This usually happens at some point in a case where one BIG THUG gave orders to several subthugs. Professor Polistra finds it interesting that these pleas happened SHORTLY AFTER Henrikson was moved out of town. He had nearly succeeded in escaping, so the state decided the Spokane jail wasn't able to hold a CEO Thug.
Two weeks after his direct influence is gone, his employees snitch and plead.
Could be a coincidence, probably isn't. Gives rise to a definition of Thugpower along the same lines as Candlepower:
(Miles of distance) / (Proportion of snitches).
In this case 4 of 5 subthugs pled after Henrikson was moved 200 miles. (One of the pleas was rejected by a judge, but that doesn't count for this purpose. Only subthug intention counts.)
200 / 0.8 = 250 Thugpower.
= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
A few minutes later:
Just after figuring out the measure for blue-collar Thugpower, Professor Polistra heard the non-news that the Thug Bank will continue ZIRP forever. (And will probably move into the NIRP range very soon.)
A similar Thugpower measure for white-collar thieves is required.
To match the other unit, the ratio needs to be a distance over a percent. But simple physical distance doesn't matter here. White-collar thugs don't rob you with a gun. They slaughter you with a [digital] pen.
For the numerator we therefore replace geographical distance with distance between rich and poor, or the Gini coefficient. The denominator is obviously the interest rate.
Gini coefficient / Interest rate = Thugpower.
45 / 0 = Infinity, or for these particular thugs the Cantor cardinal Aleph-null.
Professor Polistra is still in a pictorial mood, so she decided to use an appropriate icon instead of the Cantor number.
200 / 0.8 = 250 Thugpower.
= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
A few minutes later:
Just after figuring out the measure for blue-collar Thugpower, Professor Polistra heard the non-news that the Thug Bank will continue ZIRP forever. (And will probably move into the NIRP range very soon.)
A similar Thugpower measure for white-collar thieves is required.
To match the other unit, the ratio needs to be a distance over a percent. But simple physical distance doesn't matter here. White-collar thugs don't rob you with a gun. They slaughter you with a [digital] pen.
For the numerator we therefore replace geographical distance with distance between rich and poor, or the Gini coefficient. The denominator is obviously the interest rate.
Gini coefficient / Interest rate = Thugpower.
45 / 0 = Infinity, or for these particular thugs the Cantor cardinal Aleph-null.
Professor Polistra is still in a pictorial mood, so she decided to use an appropriate icon instead of the Cantor number.
Labels: Make or break, Metrology
¶ 12:15 PM
