no offense Koolbear, but my comments in this thread are not directed at anyone in particular. It's nice to see that you have an interest in the longevity of Descent. There is nothing else quite like it.

cheers!

And I did reply, it must be stuck in some queue. ...bait...

WHAT DOES IT MEAN?!?

I'm never growing up... I don't even know what growing up means.

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People claim a lot from non-representation, or ... "I voted for the lesser of two evils". Some how people can remain outside responsibility for their choice if the choice entails unintended baggage. SWEEEEEET! Good? Bad? I'd say bad because we can still write letters to our congressmen, se...

Hi Suncho, I'm good and Thank You!

What's an idea?

Excellent contributions Lothar and Mercury.

Well I triple posted, but I am going to replace redundancy with something frugal. Suncho, understanding is relatively simple, I think this is necessarily the case. Any one of us will tutor you on any question you have, and we will answer that question in so far as you are willing to accept that: 1. ...

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machinery seems contingent upon design... its equivocal for me to replace "design" with "total/omnipresent/infinite" understanding... our words seem to have no direction when we talk about infinity in relation to discrete knowledge... unfortunately there is no well ordering when ...

A theory must, by definition, be falsifiable... I am going to disagree. Some definitions: dictionary.com OED. A theory may or may not have hypothesis, and those hypothesis are falsifiable. It is too general to suspect that a theory just contains hypothesis. There are also laws of nature. If one dro...

Palzon wrote: On a side note, I found it interesting to learn that this judge is a judicial conservative who was appointed by Dubya himself during the 1st term.

Yeah, and somewhat Ironic.

Better to fall off the planet than have 50 bijillion email addresses. Get gmail, it will hold all sorts of pornographic material: Search don't sort. mmmm.... click*

There was once a review for the book Wittgenstein's Poker at amazon which stated that the book sucks because it does not instruct one how to play the game of poker qua Wittgenstein.

No, I Have not learned how to play poker yet. But I will ante my two cents anytime.

What? from one perspective it seems that a civilizations accomplishments are measured by the depth of their math. Sometimes I have this perspective. While it seems that science lays down the framework for mathematical intuition, the simplification process of physics which delivers it to the masses i...

Hmm... The fact that you bought it does not make it a commercial success.

I have no Idea how i stumbled across this. Pictures of whacked out people to follow:

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/family.html

Um, a non-math major proved it too. Thank you. ( after some miss-fires )... damn neurons *clunk*. And, i know that you posted solutions, however I need to move stuff with my own mind for it to sink in. Thank you for participating. =D Lothar, is sandbagging the best way to argue against closed minded...

Ah, I think I see what you are saying. It is not that I used the formulas of the Geometric sum incorrectly... for example lim n->inf. ( 1 - (x^(n+1)) ) / (1 - x ) is equal to, only if x is a fraction and by happenings that I do not quite understand, x is always a fraction, the equation thus becomes:...

No need to elaborate. Just so you know people will only make a jester out of you like we made a jester out of the 33 year old. But if you want to be a jester... Which would also be cool because life does get boring on occasion.

Sorry to be trite, but I just don't see how I did not incorporate a summation. A ( 1 + 1/10 + ... + 1/(10^n) ) is a summation, an expanded Sum[ k = 0 -> n]. Am I missing something?. Granted that I took the limit as n goes to infinity at a different point in the argument, but so does the Wikipedia pa...

Whoa, I consider JMEaT's post to be particularly motivating. It would suck to not be sexually capable until the age of 33. What if I died of cancer at 32? omg... unfathomable.

Actually I will take back my last conclusion and assert that my last post illustrated that there is no rigorous way to prove to .999... is equal to one. The previous posts induce that since 1/3 = .333... 2/3 = .666... 3/3 should therefore be interpreted as .999... However, consider this. Since pytha...

.999... is also a geometric progression, albeit not finite so therefore it is a infinite series. Nevertheless, for shear entertainment: note: 9/(10^0) is 9/1, which is 9. Therefore, I will assume that my solution is the solution to 0.999... = 1, but taken as 10 = 9.999... for ease of application to ...

DCrazy wrote: the awesomest (read: not-so-awesome)

Brilliant!!

Thank you G. My email has changed. If ROX still has a team mailing list can you update it to include meshac.at.gmail.dot.com?

It is a good thing that we can compare the sexes on multiple levels. Do the events over the past hundred years mean that men have become stupid? Not really. The article does not talk about the percentages of male attendance and note taking skills back when the schools were segregated. I assert that,...

It is entirely natural to fall back on definitions in the face of a paradox. However, a paradox is a result of those definitions. For example: God is good, God is omnipotent. We can chose to hold on to these definitions for a variety of reasons. A conflict ensues when we expand these definitions of ...