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18 Apr 2012, 1:53 am

Let B=size of bureaucracy
dB/dt=k*B



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18 Apr 2012, 1:57 am

Albirea wrote:
Congratulations on your appointment to the Department of Redundancy Department!


Did I just spot a Tv Tropes reader?


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18 Apr 2012, 1:58 am

Did you know that Wrong Planet has a tropes page?



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18 Apr 2012, 1:59 am

kevinjh wrote:
Let B=size of bureaucracy
dB/dt=k*B
CALCULUS! *head implodes*
[IN CASE OF IMPLOSION, LOOK DIRECTLY AT IMPLOSION]


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18 Apr 2012, 2:00 am

Oh my god!

It exists!

*Goes and reads*

Finished ¬¬ Gotta stop lurking and make it bigger sometime~


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18 Apr 2012, 2:01 am

In words:

The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of an expanding bureaucracy.



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18 Apr 2012, 2:08 am

Would that mean that B = Ae^kt?

So eventually bureoucracy will get out of controll =O

Unless k is negative, then it will never disappear =O


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18 Apr 2012, 2:14 am

Either way, the bureaucracy stays forever--unless B<(amount of coherent matter composing bureaucrats and office). However, it is explicitly stated to be expanding. :twisted:



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18 Apr 2012, 4:35 am

Ten + thread post = Winning


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18 Apr 2012, 4:37 am

Oh, here it's very early, but it must be very late over there.


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18 Apr 2012, 4:45 am

It's early - 10:45am
That's almost too early for me!


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18 Apr 2012, 4:47 am

Oh, I placed the six-hour difference the wrong way~


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18 Apr 2012, 4:51 am

:lol:

You're always behind the times!


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18 Apr 2012, 5:22 pm

It is time to tell time!

Time [voc.], it is hh:21.



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18 Apr 2012, 5:29 pm

I win, but I abdicate power to whoever posts next.



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18 Apr 2012, 5:30 pm

I cast the first stone.

Hmmm, I added too much water.