Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human.  At best he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house.

Lazarus Long
A character in Time Enough for Love by Robert Heinlein
[When I started my QOTD thing my intention was to never repeat a quote. I'm making an exception this time because of this. It's called Verizon Bad Math, but it's not even math. It's 4th grade arithmetic. Background is here. I didn't read it all. It's way, way too painful for me.

What's your call?

• It is the public school system
• Verizon hires only arithmetically challenged people
• People in general are just mind boggling stupid
• Some people should not be allowed to breed
• Abortions should be available on a retroactive basis

Listen sometime when excess adrenaline won’t be a problem and you have your blood pressure meds handy.

Thanks (I think, I may not be able to sleep tonight) to Taqi for the pointer.--Joe]