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Hank Gupton (gupton@getnet.com) wrote:

:   This is amusing.  You seem to have confused the "service" with the
: "food".  A restaurant offers both, not just one.

What is amusing is the tendency for literal translation of the analogy.  
The purpose of the restaurant analogy was not to create a secondary 
reality to be critically compared to the original, but to perhaps shed 
some light on a market situation.  I was not trying to explain relativity 
with exactitude.  I was simply suggesting that busy signals don't 
necessarily arise from incompetence or intention, but from rapid market 
growth and the attempt to take care of all the squeaking wheels (and 
indeed they should *all* be cared for, prior to squeaking if possible.)

If a restaurant owner knew that his establishment would grow in 
popularity at peak hours by 700+% in six months, he/she would perhaps 
choose a venue supporting more people.  On the other hand, if, assuming 
the growth rate, said propreitor obtained a larger, more expensive venue 
and didn't fill it, all would be lost.  A much greater loss to owner than 
to patron, I can assure you.

*btw, Hank.  Reread the comparison on which you commented as well as the 
comment it was addressing, and you may be less confused.

:   So, what is the good of going to see a movie if the line goes all
: the way around the block?

In fact, many, many people do.  Nearly every theater has enjoyed just 
such a scenario for the opening night, week, month of Star Wars (12&3), 
ET, Braveheart, and on and on....  People enjoy the comraderie of the 
wait, the opportunity to be the first on the block to have seen the movie 
(or perhaps surf the 'net), and the common ground to discuss with other 
moviegoers (I waited two hours just to see 'Geriatric Mutant Chocolate 
BonBon's in Love!)

There is no need to get radically semantic here.  Consider the original post, 
the real thread, address that issue, and worry about my restaurant elsewhere 
(special on lasagna every Thursday)

-stavon

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