[Pearls Before Swine]

Apparently, some old white dude named Pythagoras is giving Gutierrez a hissy fit because she believes that, “Greek terms give Caucasians unearned credit for the subject of math."

More likely, she's upset because she can't grasp the concept of a metric on a vector space.

[dsrtsage]

If only we had some kind of continent where people could go to live where there are no white people or math or technology, and all you need to get anything done is give a few extra dollars to the right government agent. Of course, criminals and and thugs and drug dealers get better treatment because they have more dollars, but thats the price of paradise.

[Steely Tom]

More likely, she's upset because she can't grasp the concept of a metric on a vector space.

Let alone gauge theory and the Lagrangian, both invented by White guys.

[Steely Tom]

BTW, the HAL 9000 computer, a key character in 2001: A Space Odyssey, "became operational at the H.A.L. Plant in Urbana, Illinois, on the 12th of January, 1992."