Bullcrap. I do mine. My first alt started out as a dedicated mining alt, later moved on to invention and PI.
Bullcrap. I look at the killboards.
And I also went around an looked at asteroid belts with miners and also ice belts. As for you claim nobody uses procurers (and skiffs, which I have also referenced in this thread and elsewhere) I offer this:
Bullcrap. While ganking can be expressed as subjective probabilities from the standpoint of the gank target, that does not mean that the ganker is behaving randomly.
Bullcrap. I never said a procurer cannot be ganked. It is less likely to get ganked if it is tanked well.
Bullcrap. Yes they do. Go for tank and face a reduced risk of being ganked and also a higher probability of surviving a gank.
I rarely rat in NS and I don’t do it in a carrier. Anymore assumptions you want to make about how I make my ISK?
Depends. If you have the 6 guys or you have 6 alts not that long. If you don’t then longer.
Then move on and find something with a better pay off or switch to a ship with a tank that has a chance to withstand a gank.
To be perfectly honest in about 40 minutes of looking I found several miners the majority of which are in procurers or skiffs. Looking over the pictures, I see 16 mining ships and 14 are procurers or skiffs.
So…based on this limited sample I’m not inclined to believe your claim that people are usually in ships other than the procurer (or skiff). In fact, it appears to be the opposite at this point and that the gankers seek out the softer targets like retrievers, mackinaws and hulks.
Sorry…you got nothing but a pile or rhetoric and pretty much nothing else.