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Comment Re:This is second place (Score 1) 1260

Long division followed by long multiplication?

That's not division/multiplication, that's a for-loop. When do you perform your corny "proof" operations? After a million nines? A trillion? After infinity nines? Well then you will never have your chance. You can't perform an operation on a value that is never presentable. That is the principle of the matter, and helps explain why everything that sounds hokey about these proofs really is.

Putting an infinite number of 9's, "with a 1 at the end", is nonsense. If the 9's end anywhere, they weren't infinite - so where does your 1 come from?

Your 9's terminate at the initial decimal point. Or did you hope I wouldn't notice? What is that, half-infinite? Is that really the desperation here? Once you see any multiple or offset of infinity appear, you're fucked, and your efforts to rationalize whose infinity is better sounds retarded.

Comment Re:This is second place (Score 1) 1260

Any child can see that 0.99... will never be 1 because it is always separated by 0.0...1. Yes people, the Emperor has no clothes, and you ought to laugh at these "mathematicians" who use fallacies to prove fallacies. You're doing "operations" on algorithms that never complete, using a base-10 digit system that is only capable of expressing constant values.

Comment Captain Picard uses one, and so will you. (Score 2, Interesting) 235

Tablet-like computing is the future, and although Microsoft's absolute fucking around stalled it for years and forfeited the market to Apple, the outcome is still inevitable. What I'm waiting for is a Tablet PC that finally eliminates the lag when you draw on the screen with a stylus. I want to get rid of the security, storage, and landfill problems inherent with drawing my designs in paper notebooks.

Comment Re:Free Publicity Rules! (Score 1) 1224

Funny how Linux and MacOSX, even Firefox and Chrome, still seem to thrive in the presence of this scary Microsoft monopoly. And what happened to BeOS when it was purchased? It was given concrete shoes. lol

Nobody but the USPS is allowed to delivery First Class mail. That is a monopolistic federal law. Look it up.

Little to none of the stimulus has been provably spent on highway improvements that anyone actually needed, or that weren't handled from the gas tax fund. It was political slush money. And voters now know it.

"What the fuck does this even mean?" It means you don't know basic economic theory, and because you don't even understand free markets, you surely aren't qualified to speak against free markets. What people do with their money is none of your business. Your concern for other peoples' money reveals you to be the greedy one. But this is common among closet liberals and I am not surprised. What "got us into this mess" was government intervention, deciding that hobos had the right to new homes, and that reckless financial companies had the right to a second life, both on taxpayer dime. People like you deciding how other peoples' money should be redistributed.

For losing your cool, you've pretty much Godwin'd your arguments.

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