No-one has even flamed him, dap just pointed out what a stupid question it was and pretty much everyone agreed, because it was. Everyone asks stupid questions now and again, and why should you not expect to get ribbed for it?
@Thikr, your anaolgy is not very good, complex calculus requires years of study from high school to university level before mastering it, not quite the same as learning how to build a market in AoT. A better mathematical analogy would be something like 32/8.
If you asked your question on a maths forum, you would get serious replies. If you asked "what is 32 divided by 8?" in a new topic on a maths forum, if they did not think you were trolling, they would think you are stupid, and someone would reply "4, dumbass" and then someone would reply to that with "omg you can't call him a dumbass you must have got raped as a child" and then the topic would get locked and we'd all get on with our lives.
Also, the fact that your imagery of tortured childhoods and molestation is so so much more extreme than any directed at the OP ("your question is stupid") I think it is only detriment to your own character, not ours.
Sometimes you need to scare the lambs,
tell tales of evil bad wolves.
Because if there is nothing to fear,
they might think for themselves.
[This message has been edited by Sam_Ham (edited 05-03-2010 @ 08:03 AM).]