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Post by
Orranis
Your
an idiot.
Need I say more?
You're an idiot. Are you happy? Oh, by the way I'm mildly disgraphic.
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410715
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Post by
Orranis
A butterfly flaps its wings, Hyperspacerebel and
dragon2041
get into an argument
with faceshield
.
Fixt.
What? I'm on Hyper's side, and Dragon2041 doesn't have anything to say but correct grammar at this point.
Edit: Hate to carry on the grammar, but does a username count as a name for capitalization purposes?
Post by
Hyperspacerebel
you could take it as a grammatical error - then again, would you consider the entire works of e.e. cummings completely worhtless because he didn't use capitalization?
Poetry does not equal prose.
His choice to not capitalize was part of a larger scheme of typographical artistry: "painting a picture" with his words.
He graduated from Harvard
summa cum laude
.
He earned the right to use the English language as he saw fit by proving himself a master of it.
Don't ever compare yourself to Cummings again.
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273605
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Post by
Squishalot
Not using capitalisation means that you're either:
A) A lazy slob who can't be bothered;
B) Stupid and unable to know when to; or
C) A w@nker who's doing it to p!ss people off.
Either way, if you don't have anything productive to add, GTFO this thread.
Post by
Squishalot
Of course, in a deterministic universe ruled by cause-and-effect, how can anyone act any differently from what they're going to do anyway? After all, with all the causes in history, there can only be one single consequent effect, so there is no 'choice' not to be made.
The only problem I see with this so is that you're putting limitations on it. There can only be one single consequent effect,
in our universe
.
He's not put any limitations on anything...he's pointing out what it means to be "deterministic," i.e. there is no such thing as probability or possibility; events just exist because they must. If there are other possible outcomes for an event, the system is no longer deterministic.
This. It's a definitional thing. There could potentially be a consequent event in another universe, but does it matter? No other universe can be created, if parallel universes exist purely from 'choices not made', since there is no choice not made.
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410715
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Post by
Orranis
Not using capitali~~~
z
~~~ation means that you're either:
A) A lazy slob who can't be bothered;
B) Stupid and unable to know when to; or
C) A w@nker who's doing it to p!ss people off.
D) Wait wtf, are people seriously trying to find fault in me for not capitalizing?
E) Wait, you seriously think you have the right to knock on others grammar/spelling if you can't be bothered to capitalize?
Either way, if you don't have anything productive to add, GTFO this thread.
Post by
Squishalot
Not using capitali~~~
z
~~~ation means that you're either:
A) A lazy slob who can't be bothered;
B) Stupid and unable to know when to; or
C) A w@nker who's doing it to p!ss people off.
D) Wait wtf, are people seriously trying to find fault in me for not capitalizing?
Either way, if you don't have anything productive to add, GTFO this thread.
Stop disgracing your country with the self-centered assumption that the whole world is American.
So, the entirety of existence is a massive Rube Goldberg machine? I like this idea much more now.
Why wouldn't it be? We put something in the microwave and press the power button, it sprays radiation, which boils the water and heats the egg which cooks it and changes its flavour and texture... in the meantime, the timer is slowly ticking down, then the microwave beeps, which results in a person walking over and opening the door and pulling out the boiled egg...
One giant Rube Goldberg machine. I'd never thought of it that way. xD
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392412
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Post by
Hyperspacerebel
Stop disgracing your country with the self-centered assumption that the whole world is American.
...but...but....nooooo, it can't be true! It's a lie, I say! Next you're going to tell me Santa Clause isn't real because some fancy science guy says he's have to travel 650 miles per second...
Oh, the humanity!
flavo
u
r
MORE ANTI-AMERICAN PROPAGANDA!
And also, just so no one gets me wrong. I
do not
believe that the world is deterministic (in the strictly scientific sense being presented).
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Post by
Kangi
Also, I think the absolute best part of this is that Squishalot is, quite literally, calling me all these barbaric things for not capitalizing, including, my personal favorite post:
capitalisation
where you misspelled capitalization. Good job with the hypocrisy there.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_and_British_English_spelling_differences#-ise.2C_-ize
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