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    Thread: i keep getting contradictory messages from staff
Post: i keep getting contradictory messages from staff
The rules here for quoting others are an absolute mess. The rule is being constantly broken; and the staff use it as a weapon against new users (even when they go to great lengths to follow the rules)...
 rocinantexyz Questions, Problems, Suggestions, and Feedback 12 3064 November 28, 2022 at 2:31 pm
    Thread: Is zero a natural number?
Post: RE: Is zero a natural number?
(November 19, 2022 at 5:06 pm)Jack8 Wrote: Yes. Anywhere from minus Infinity to positive Infinity is natural including 0. I've seen zero included and excluded by slightly different definitions. Unti...
 rocinantexyz Mathematics 81 10484 November 27, 2022 at 6:35 pm
    Thread: Question for finitists -- 0.999... = 1?
Post: RE: Question for finitists -- 0.999... = 1?
(November 26, 2022 at 7:12 pm)Jehanne Wrote: Ha!  I told you that I was not clairvoyant, and that proves it, doesn't it?!Colloquially it might prove something; I'm not sure.
 rocinantexyz Mathematics 23 4596 November 26, 2022 at 7:16 pm
    Thread: Question for finitists -- 0.999... = 1?
Post: RE: Question for finitists -- 0.999... = 1?
(November 26, 2022 at 6:29 pm)Jehanne Wrote: Because, you were taught from Kenneth H. Rosen's book, and no, I am not clairvoyant.That cover says it was written by: László Lovász, József Pelikán, and...
 rocinantexyz Mathematics 23 4596 November 26, 2022 at 7:02 pm
    Thread: Question for finitists -- 0.999... = 1?
Post: RE: Question for finitists -- 0.999... = 1?
(November 26, 2022 at 6:24 pm)Jehanne Wrote: You were taught naive set theory, as was I.  Little to no introduction to ZFC.How did you get my transcripts (eta: to figure out what I was and was not t...
 rocinantexyz Mathematics 23 4596 November 26, 2022 at 6:27 pm
    Thread: Question for finitists -- 0.999... = 1?
Post: RE: Question for finitists -- 0.999... = 1?
Warning: the following post contains a contiguous slice that is a PART of a larger post: (November 26, 2022 at 6:04 pm)HappySkeptic Wrote: I'm not sure if your proof is valid...It was valid in disc...
 rocinantexyz Mathematics 23 4596 November 26, 2022 at 6:21 pm
    Thread: Yellow alert: warning USA in danger
Post: RE: Yellow alert: warning USA in danger
(November 25, 2022 at 6:25 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: Maybe it's that your truncation ignored crucial information that would have answered your question.I don't think I did that; but let's assume I did: is ...
 rocinantexyz Politics 105 11158 November 25, 2022 at 6:43 pm
    Thread: Yellow alert: warning USA in danger
Post: RE: Yellow alert: warning USA in danger
(November 25, 2022 at 3:36 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: So, I take it the words "this part" weren't enough to establish that the quote is just part of a larger whole? Seriously, Old Horse?Well that is what ...
 rocinantexyz Politics 105 11158 November 25, 2022 at 3:52 pm
    Thread: Yellow alert: warning USA in danger
Post: RE: Yellow alert: warning USA in danger
(November 23, 2022 at 9:58 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: If we're talking about the signature, I'd think this part would be self-explanatory: Quote:Satan = Evil = = adjective = means a very bad and harmful th...
 rocinantexyz Politics 105 11158 November 25, 2022 at 2:14 pm
    Thread: Yellow alert: warning USA in danger
Post: RE: Yellow alert: warning USA in danger
(November 24, 2022 at 12:16 am)arewethereyet Wrote: Your 'quote' was not a quote.  You paraphrased without indicating you had done so. You didn't even get a warning.  Just pointed out that you brok...
 rocinantexyz Politics 105 11158 November 24, 2022 at 12:32 am
    Thread: Yellow alert: warning USA in danger
Post: RE: Yellow alert: warning USA in danger
(November 23, 2022 at 11:30 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: Truncating is an alteration of the original.   Read the rules again. I think the rules need to be updated to reflect the actual policy as you hav...
 rocinantexyz Politics 105 11158 November 23, 2022 at 11:56 pm
    Thread: Yellow alert: warning USA in danger
Post: RE: Yellow alert: warning USA in danger
(November 23, 2022 at 11:17 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: If you 'quote' someone and make a change to that 'quote' you need to note that you have alterred it. I made it shorter (truncated it). I made no c...
 rocinantexyz Politics 105 11158 November 23, 2022 at 11:24 pm
    Thread: Yellow alert: warning USA in danger
Post: RE: Yellow alert: warning USA in danger
(November 23, 2022 at 7:41 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: Misquoting is against the rules.I was aware that misquoting was against the rules. Are you telling me that posting a truncated sentence from someo...
 rocinantexyz Politics 105 11158 November 23, 2022 at 11:15 pm
    Thread: Yellow alert: warning USA in danger
Post: RE: Yellow alert: warning USA in danger
I still can't get past the: Quote:Evil = = adjective part in profile/header of Eclectic's posts. Anyone got a clue what that means?
 rocinantexyz Politics 105 11158 November 23, 2022 at 7:12 pm
    Thread: Please help prayer to get maaried soon for my mom heath.!
Post: RE: Please help prayer to get maaried soon for my ...
(November 23, 2022 at 9:36 am)tackattack Wrote: ...that troll AI generated sob story seems to be way off target posting here... I've noticed that bots/AI seems to have a hard time telling the differ...
 rocinantexyz Christianity 21 3570 November 23, 2022 at 7:02 pm
    Thread: What are your overall opinions on people who are idiots in math?
Post: RE: What are your overall opinions on people who a...
When I learned calculus I was upset than no one had taught me at least what a derivative was sooner, so dang useful!
 rocinantexyz Mathematics 41 7691 November 23, 2022 at 4:12 am