John Cuthber
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You keep saying things like this "50/0=undefined What we do know is that "undefined" is not how long it takes you to cross the room" Do you understand that the thing that is undefined isn't the answer to "what is 50 divided by zero?" The thing that is not defined is "how do you divide something by zero?". And pretending that doing nothing is doing something because you fart while you do nothing does not help.
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Every day, 20 US Children Hospitalized w/Gun Injury (6% Die)
John Cuthber replied to iNow's topic in Politics
And, if skis had no other valid purpose, and skierskilled other people, rather than themselves, that would be a good point. -
Do you really kill mountain lions in US Canada
John Cuthber replied to zacocom's topic in Ecology and the Environment
We get deer on the site at work. Driving into one would probably get you into trouble for driving without due care and attention. -
Do you really kill mountain lions in US Canada
John Cuthber replied to zacocom's topic in Ecology and the Environment
"Do you understand that not hunting results in far more suffering in the long run than hunting? " As far as I can tell, that's only true if man is the biggest killer. Most animals live and die without being hunted by a human- so our intervention doesn't make a direct difference. There is of course an indirect effect in some cases. No passenger pigeon is suffering any more; because we killed them all. Should we celebrate that fact? In a similar way, we have massively reduced the populations of bears and such- for our own convenience- but don't pretend that we did it to reduce animal suffering. And that's before you get to the question of how much more suffering there is among, for example, deer. The old and infirm used to be eaten by wolves- we shot the wolves- the deer now die of starvation and disease. -
Every day, 20 US Children Hospitalized w/Gun Injury (6% Die)
John Cuthber replied to iNow's topic in Politics
Whether or not there is a culture of fear the point remains that, there are people who are dead who would be alive if someone had chosen to buy a gaming system or a set of skis rather than a gun. They died because someone chose to get hold of a thing that is designed to kill. That's a strange choice with a very bad outcome. Obviously it doesn't happen all the time but that's not the point. Every time someone buys skis instead of a gun they don't lead to someone getting shot. So, perhaps they don't care about someone getting killed (I guess you would agree that someone who thinks that way shouldn't have a gun). Or perhaps they thought" it won't happen to me"; but everyone whose kid gets shot in an accident or who tshoots their spouse dead a slanging match had bought the gun thinking "it won't happen to me" - but it did. The way to avoid shootings is not to have guns. -
So, when he has finished doing nothing, he is in exactly the same position he was before- he still has to divide up the inheritance. How does he do that? Clearly, doing nothing won't work because after doing nothing, he hasn't finished. Repeating it doesn't help. So, what does he do (The answer can't be "nothing" because, as I have shown, that doesn't work.)
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Do you really kill mountain lions in US Canada
John Cuthber replied to zacocom's topic in Ecology and the Environment
And there was me thinking that we enjoyed a massive food surplus in the West due to farming. Thanks for letting me know that all the food I eat is hunted. An alternative point of view sees the beginning of agriculture as the beginning of civilisation. It's only when people settle in one place that they have much time for developing culture art etc. -
Every day, 20 US Children Hospitalized w/Gun Injury (6% Die)
John Cuthber replied to iNow's topic in Politics
Not much different- until someone gets into an argument and uses one as a weapon- or until the kids get hold of it and shoot themselves or someone loses the plot and decides to go on a killing spree. At that point, the difference between a gun and a gaming system becomes rather significant. As far as I can tell, that difference is the basis of this thread. -
"As well as understanding that I have not ignored ANY idea that has been offered for contradiction. It is that I have countered all of them. (albeit) You may think otherwise. This is fine. " No it isn't.. "All numbers represent two things in one. Space ( a quantity of dimension), Value ( A quantity of existence)." Not in any ordinary use of the words. For example, they may represent a probability, a duration, or a concentration. " They are defined accordingly " No they are not. Why do you keep posting things like that which are plainly not true and which a few minutes' thought will show not to be true?
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Why bother to memorise the values? It's much more important to know what they actually mean.
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What's the best UV light to detect tungstates.
John Cuthber replied to Antimony's topic in Earth Science
Oddly, you failed to mention those points in your first post. -
If nobody thinks you make sense then you don't make sense.
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The forum is composed of a small subset of humanity that has rules. You can leave this site. Humanity will continue to accept you to exactly the same extent as it does now. However, if you plan to stay here, you need to follow the rules. I agree that you have posted stuff that nobody understands. That is because- as I said- it is nonsense.Stop kidding yourself that it has meaning. I'm not assaulting anyone. I'm just pointing out that, if you post "I can divide by zero because dfkjhysrtgoejrto8gfud90sert3kjtn9" you are not helping anyone. You need to explain what you mean. And, given the forum rules, you need to answer points and objections. So, where someone says "what does the lawyer do" you have to say what he dose. Saying "his actions are not defined" simply accepts the mainstream view that division by zero is undefined. Doing nothing isn't doing something. So, what thing does he do? It would also help if you said what you mean by the stuff you recently posted and which I pointed out was meaningless. Or maybe, you are just a relatively successful troll.
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Yes, for example, you have overpriced- under effective health care. You also have a poor record of social mobility and a widening gap between rich and poor. You also have a system that misleads you (collectively) about this. Some of the ways it does this would be laughable if they were not tragic. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/texas-gop-rejects-critical-thinking-skills-really/2012/07/08/gJQAHNpFXW_blog.html It's not unreasonable to say that, at least part of the reason why you lost about 3000 people in the 9/11 tragedy wast hat the government had utterly lost track of balance and as only concerned with the dollar. .
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No. It's the forum rules' decision. You are required to explain yourself and posting meaningless words doesn't meet that requirement. Do you understand that I post stuff and you don't understand it, but you post stuff and nobody understands it? If you don't think that's true please feel free to set up a poll.
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For the record, I might be the reason he thinks "we" have questioned his mental state - more than once. Specifically, i have postulated that he may suffer from this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect However, since it's just a cognitive bias and we all have those, it's not really worth worrying about. I have yet to see any evidence that my postulate is incorrect. Two points It's not your decision. The rest of your post makes no sense.
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What's the best UV light to detect tungstates.
John Cuthber replied to Antimony's topic in Earth Science
How did you think that helped?* Generally, scheelite fluoresces under short wave UV Wolframite doesn't fluoresce. * Fluorescence is generally a very fast effect- a millisecond is a long fluorescence half-life- so if you needed to send a minute shining a torch on something, you were almost certainly not dealing with fluorescence. Even if you were not wrong about that, what did you think it had to do with the question? -
Is Donald Trump's job to make Jeb Bush look sensible? Is he, in effect , the new sarah Palin?
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Has the Republican party lost its collective mind?
John Cuthber replied to Moontanman's topic in Politics
The goal post just moved again. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/08/kansas-governor-threatens_n_7539830.html -
It's difficult to imagine a much better way to recruit more people to ISIS than bombing oil fields and thus causing a whole lot of problems for a whole lot of people.
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No, because you didn't explain it. you just posted some meaningless words. " It is a current mathematical fact, that when multiplying one SYMBOL is not technically a number but rather a representation of a space." Would you like to try again?
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"If 2 * 3 means 2+2+2 then 3 is NOT a number. period." Yes it is. It's the number of twos added together. You might not think the process is important, but most maths tests I saw said to show your working. Anyway, It's perfectly reasonable for me to ask what the process is and,, on this forum, you should answer. Either that or I'm caught between whether you are trolling or it's the K D effect.