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  • RiemannLivesRiemannLives Registered User regular
    ICQ still exists?

    well the network still works. I haven't used their actual client for like 10 years (yay trillian).

    Attacked by tweeeeeeees!
  • spool32spool32 Contrary Library Registered User regular
    Feral wrote:
    spool32 wrote:
    ronya wrote:
    Feral wrote:
    Does the forged document say anything substantially different from the real documents?

    No. It's pretty much a summary of the others, as far as the facts it states goes. But who's going to care? It was forged! The alarmists are FRAUDS!!!!11!!

    hahaah "Fake but accurate" defense, go!

    It's not a defense of the action, but an assessment of how the forgery affects any conclusions about either Heartland or AGW, which is to say, not at all.

    Most people who would have believed the forgery will believe what the forgery says regardless of what the rest of the documents contain. So, I guess you're right that it's not going to change a lot of minds. That's pretty fair, because a forged document shouldn't change any minds about anything.

    The problem is the "fake but accurate" angle, where people say that yes the document was forged, but everything in it is true. At that point it's Rathergate all over again.

  • 21stCentury21stCentury Call me Pixel, or Pix for short! [They/Them]Registered User regular
    What's ICQ?

    internet Chat Quickly?

  • spool32spool32 Contrary Library Registered User regular
    ICQ still exists?

    well the network still works. I haven't used their actual client for like 10 years (yay trillian).

    I have a 5 digit ICQ number.

    Nerd cred up ins

  • FeralFeral MEMETICHARIZARD interior crocodile alligator ⇔ ǝɹʇɐǝɥʇ ǝᴉʌoɯ ʇǝloɹʌǝɥɔ ɐ ǝʌᴉɹp ᴉRegistered User regular
    I don't even remember my ICQ number. :/

    8675309 maybe

    every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.

    the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
  • GreeperGreeper Registered User regular
    What's ICQ?

    internet Chat Quickly?

    If you say it out loud it sounds like "I Seek You!"

  • 21stCentury21stCentury Call me Pixel, or Pix for short! [They/Them]Registered User regular
    wandering wrote:
    I don't think I've ever used ICQ. Or posted on usenet. I feel deep shame.

    I don't know what either of those things are. Can I still call myself a nerd?

  • wanderingwandering Russia state-affiliated media Registered User regular
    I don't think I've ever used ICQ. Or posted on usenet. I feel deep shame.

  • nexuscrawlernexuscrawler Registered User regular
    spool32 wrote:
    ICQ still exists?

    well the network still works. I haven't used their actual client for like 10 years (yay trillian).

    I have a 5 digit ICQ number.

    Nerd cred up ins

    do you have it as a vanity plate on your walker?

  • RiemannLivesRiemannLives Registered User regular
    edited February 2012
    what's Eigenvector mean, for us dumb common folks?

    If you take any square matrix (eg: a grid of numbers) and follow a certain series of steps you end up with a vector of the same dimension. EG: a 3x3 matrix turns into a 3 vector. If you followed the steps correctly that vector is the "eigenvector" (german for "characteristic vector") for that matrix.

    That's all really.

    Things get spooky when you realize how many weird applications there are for the eigenvector. All over the place in maths, physics, image processing, cryptography etc...

    edit: oh and 3d graphics. All 3d graphics in a computer is really just matrix math. And eigenvectors turn up all over the place.

    RiemannLives on
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  • PonyPony Registered User regular
    when i was like 17 i met a girl in a bar and she gave me her ICQ number instead of her phone number

    i thought it was a fake phone number because it was like, the wrong number of digits and she's like "no, no, it's my ICQ number, do you have ICQ?"

    i didn't bother

  • ThanatosThanatos Registered User regular
    Feral wrote:
    I don't even remember my ICQ number. :/

    8675309 maybe
    I'm 8790912.

    And I don't think you're Jenny.

  • NerdgasmicNerdgasmic __BANNED USERS regular
    wandering wrote:
    I don't think I've ever used ICQ. Or posted on usenet. I feel deep shame.

    I thought you loved old stuff.

  • MimMim I prefer my lovers… dead.Registered User regular
    wandering wrote:
    I don't think I've ever used ICQ. Or posted on usenet. I feel deep shame.

    I used ICQ when I was 13 and met a man who was into BDSM and was telling me about it.

    Haven't used it since.

  • Nova_CNova_C I have the need The need for speedRegistered User regular
    Thanatos wrote:
    Feral wrote:
    I don't even remember my ICQ number. :/

    8675309 maybe
    I'm 8790912.

    And I don't think you're Jenny.

    Feral has only forgotten that he posed as a girl for years.

  • FeralFeral MEMETICHARIZARD interior crocodile alligator ⇔ ǝɹʇɐǝɥʇ ǝᴉʌoɯ ʇǝloɹʌǝɥɔ ɐ ǝʌᴉɹp ᴉRegistered User regular
    You know if you express 8675309 as a matrix and then find the eigenvector, it points directly at your mom.

    every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.

    the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
  • STATE OF THE ART ROBOTSTATE OF THE ART ROBOT Registered User regular
    God dammit I got that song stuck in my head. Thanks Feral.

  • firewaterwordfirewaterword Satchitananda Pais Vasco to San FranciscoRegistered User regular
    Mim wrote:
    wandering wrote:
    I don't think I've ever used ICQ. Or posted on usenet. I feel deep shame.

    I used ICQ when I was 13 and met a man who was into BDSM and was telling me about it.

    Haven't used it since.

    I wonder if it was the same guy in my area with the "I <3 BDSM" license plate...

    Lokah Samastah Sukhino Bhavantu
  • RiemannLivesRiemannLives Registered User regular
    Pony wrote:
    when i was like 17 i met a girl in a bar and she gave me her ICQ number instead of her phone number

    i thought it was a fake phone number because it was like, the wrong number of digits and she's like "no, no, it's my ICQ number, do you have ICQ?"

    i didn't bother

    If that was 1998ish or prior that would have been pretty cool.

    Attacked by tweeeeeeees!
  • nexuscrawlernexuscrawler Registered User regular
    I was an IRC nerd for years

  • LudiousLudious I just wanted a sandwich A temporally dislocated QuiznosRegistered User regular
  • RiemannLivesRiemannLives Registered User regular
    What's ICQ?

    internet Chat Quickly?

    it was the first popular IM client / protocol.

    Attacked by tweeeeeeees!
  • PonyPony Registered User regular
    i used AIM for a while even when AOL stopped being my ISP

  • MimMim I prefer my lovers… dead.Registered User regular
    Mim wrote:
    wandering wrote:
    I don't think I've ever used ICQ. Or posted on usenet. I feel deep shame.

    I used ICQ when I was 13 and met a man who was into BDSM and was telling me about it.

    Haven't used it since.

    I wonder if it was the same guy in my area with the "I <3 BDSM" license plate...

    Maybe! I think the dude wanted to recruit me when I came of age.

  • dlinfinitidlinfiniti Registered User regular
    i had an icq
    i used it to communicate with my quake clan

    AAAAA!!! PLAAAYGUUU!!!!
  • HerrCronHerrCron It that wickedly supports taxation Registered User regular
    I was an IRC nerd for years

    Still using IRC, erryday.

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  • nexuscrawlernexuscrawler Registered User regular
    HerrCron wrote:
    I was an IRC nerd for years

    Still using IRC, erryday.

    nerd

  • LudiousLudious I just wanted a sandwich A temporally dislocated QuiznosRegistered User regular
    I "grew up" on IRC. I really miss it sometimes.

  • FeralFeral MEMETICHARIZARD interior crocodile alligator ⇔ ǝɹʇɐǝɥʇ ǝᴉʌoɯ ʇǝloɹʌǝɥɔ ɐ ǝʌᴉɹp ᴉRegistered User regular
    God dammit I got that song stuck in my head. Thanks Feral.

    i'm gonna make you miiiine

    every person who doesn't like an acquired taste always seems to think everyone who likes it is faking it. it should be an official fallacy.

    the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
  • ZombiemamboZombiemambo Registered User regular
    I talked to a stripper today

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  • JacobkoshJacobkosh Gamble a stamp. I can show you how to be a real man!Moderator mod
    Feral, make the new chat

    also guys I had a great game of ME3 with @Bogart, @Leitner, and @Abdyhius

    we laughed, we cried, we punched mechs to death

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  • Nova_CNova_C I have the need The need for speedRegistered User regular
    Ludious wrote:
    I "grew up" on IRC. I really miss it sometimes.

    Yeah, I spent an enormous amount of time on IRC in my teens. I tried going back onto the IRC channels a few years ago but it just wasn't the same.

  • wanderingwandering Russia state-affiliated media Registered User regular
    I've never even sent a telegram!

  • Irond WillIrond Will WARNING: NO HURTFUL COMMENTS, PLEASE!!!!! Cambridge. MAModerator mod
    Echo wrote:
    Oh look, one of these "problems" again, the kind that "preschoolers solve in 5 minutes but educated people take hours to figure out".

    I solved it in a minute with my mutant mind powers. (and having seen similar stuff before and knowing what to look for.)

    9313 = 1
    7756 = 1
    6855 = 3
    9881 = 5
    8096 = 5
    7111 = 0
    2172 = 0
    6666 = 4
    1111 = 0
    3213 = 0
    8567 = 3
    3767 = 1
    7662 = 2
    0000 = 4
    5531 = 0
    8809 = 6
    8193 = 3

    2581 = ?

    2

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  • ElkiElki get busy Moderator, ClubPA mod
    Test.

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