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How did that troll get the thread moved to the backroom? He's probably been pounding it continuously since it happened.****

I didn't post this, and it doesn't refer to you anyway. You only make yourself look paranoid by thinking it's about you.

Yeah, how dare you guys get a decent education, and post in rational, coherent, and grammatically proper sentences?

im sorry, when did talking about someone on the sidelines become the same as discussing a topic? where i come from, thats called "mud slinging" and has little or nothing to do with the topic at hand. when you attack a person, you stop figuring out a persons ideas. if the persons ideas are threatening to you, this isnt an issue. but im a harmless blogger, just like you. ....

The remarks weren't directed at you, but if you feel you resemble someone who is indirectly characterised by it, that's under your control, not mine.

....when does it become "rational" to mock someone instead of talk to them and teach them things? it fills the air with the stench of "elitism"

When the individual with whom I've attempted to have a rational discussion over the span of several days shows absolutely no sign of remotely understanding the topic on which I'm trying to have discourse, and just keeps evading the question and repeating jibberish, nonsensical answers by way of incoherent, grammatically appalling responses, I conclude that no rational communication with that person is possible beyond the realm of the most basic human needs.

And when that person further attacks thoughtful, intelligent members of this forum as "elitists," I do not think he is in a position to complain when the rest of us ignore him and and point out his folly among ourselves.

I was prepared to provide you with a proof that 0.999... is exactly equal to "1" two days ago, but you have been so cock-sure of yourself in your pronouncements that it can't be decided, and that math in general is "subjective" while at the same time evading the simple question of whether or not they are equal, that it became apparent to me that it would be wasted on you. The fact that you are in college and don't already KNOW the proof is even more appalling. You are, I am sorry to say, one of those rare people of whom it is said: "they are so off the mark, they aren't even wrong."

So, I'm sorry you take offense at the fact that you have been derisively dismissed by some of us, but frankly, you earned it. It will be a cold day in Hell before I apoligize for having paid attention in school and done the hard work to get a decent education at a top tier school (for what you apparently perceive as "elitism.") And while I don't speak for the others here, I am confident they share the sentiment...