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[AndrewisFTTW]

I agree let's hear more about Silverspawn's myriad of problems. A plethora, if you will. A cornucopia.

[LastFootnote]

I agree let's hear more about Silverspawn's myriad of problems. A plethora, if you will. A cornucopia.

Would you say he has a plethora of problems?

[AndrewisFTTW]

I agree let's hear more about Silverspawn's myriad of problems. A plethora, if you will. A cornucopia.

Would you say he has a plethora of problems?

Judging by this:

I'm bored of this already. Can we get back to Silverspawn's problems?

Yes.

[Kirian]

I'm bored of this already. Can we get back to Silverspawn's problems?

I saw an article that Weird Al apologized for using "spastic" in a song as a derogatory term. I did not realize that it was an offensive word. It makes sense now, but has the offense factor of this word recently escalated?

For what it's worth, when I heard it in that song, I was surprised. Not personally offended, but surprised. I knew it wasn't politically correct.

EDIT: The Wikipedia article actually talks about this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spastic

So it's a US vs UK thing... interesting!

[LastFootnote]

I agree let's hear more about Silverspawn's myriad of problems. A plethora, if you will. A cornucopia.

Would you say he has a plethora of problems?

Judging by this:

I'm bored of this already. Can we get back to Silverspawn's problems?

Yes.

I was actually referencing a scene from The Three Amigos. I originally posted it here, but unfortunately the non-plethora related parts of the scene won't make much sense if you haven't seen the film.

If you like really ridiculous movies, I recommend it. It has one of my favorite movie villains.

[silverspawn]

I'm bored of this already. Can we get back to Silverspawn's problems?

 

[AndrewisFTTW]

That's a classic right? I should probably see that.

[Awaclus]

That's a classic right? I should probably see that.

Yes, silverspawn's problems are definitely a classic.

By the way, "silverspawn's problems" is a nice tongue twister!

[silverspawn]

well i'll definitely remember posting other interesting stuff here when it happens to happen

[AndrewisFTTW]

well i'll definitely remember posting other interesting stuff here when it happens to happen

When it happens to happen by happenstance?

[Kuildeous]

I'm bored of this already. Can we get back to Silverspawn's problems?

I saw an article that Weird Al apologized for using "spastic" in a song as a derogatory term. I did not realize that it was an offensive word. It makes sense now, but has the offense factor of this word recently escalated?

For what it's worth, when I heard it in that song, I was surprised. Not personally offended, but surprised. I knew it wasn't politically correct.

EDIT: The Wikipedia article actually talks about this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spastic

So it's a US vs UK thing... interesting!

Yeah, I read an interesting (read: all sorts of flamey) conversation on a public Facebook thread.

I suspect that the people who asked what the big deal was were Americans while the ones who were shouting at the former group were Europeans (or just British maybe).

One woman apparently was so used to it being an offensive term that when a guy asked why the term was offensive, she told him to simply fuck off. She didn't explain the cause of the offense. Apparently in her mind, spastic is a slur that everyone should already be aware of.

I got dinged on a different forum for using "gyp" once. I can see why it would be frowned upon, like welshing on a deal.

So many English words are rooted in pissing someone else off.

[silverspawn]

okay how about this. i can write smileys that aren't smileys

：）

i'm so special

[Axxle]

okay how about this. i can write smileys that aren't smileys

：）

i'm so special

There's a "Don't use smileys" option if you press the "Attachments and other options" dropdown. :)

[silverspawn]

okay how about this. i can write smileys that aren't smileys

：）

i'm so special

There's a "Don't use smileys" option if you press the "Attachments and other options" dropdown.

okay so how about this

  ：）

[Lekkit]

  :)

[SirPeebles]

Silverspawn's problems are boring again.  Let's argue about arcsin versus sin^-1

[Awaclus]

I can write non-smileys that are smileys!

[Lekkit]

Silverspawn's problems are boring again.  Let's argue about arcsin versus sin^-1

Please... No... Not in this thread...

[Witherweaver]

Silverspawn's problems are boring again.  Let's argue about arcsin versus sin^-1

arcsin 4lyfe.

[silverspawn]

Silverspawn's problems are boring again.  Let's argue about arcsin versus sin^-1

that's easy, sin^-1 isn't arcsin, it's 1/sin, using it as arcsin is stupid. our physics teacher basically told us that doing it is a crime

:)

that works too...

[heron]

Silverspawn's problems are boring again.  Let's argue about arcsin versus sin^-1

that's easy, sin^-1 isn't arcsin, it's 1/sin, using it as arcsin is stupid. our physics teacher basically told us that doing it is a crime

:)

that works too...

Yea, but why is sin^-1 1/sin? Why is sin^2(x)  the same as sin(x)^2? Wouldn't it make more sense to be consistent with our function notation and say sin^2(x) = sin(sin(x)) and sin^-1(x) = arcsin(x)?

[silverspawn]

Yea, but why is sin^-1 1/sin? Why is sin^2(x)  the same as sin(x)^2? Wouldn't it make more sense to be consistent with our function notation and say sin^2(x) = sin(sin(x)) and sin^-1(x) = arcsin(x)?

....... wow you're right. i've never thought about it that way. ahem. hm. dunno.

[sudgy]

Now I know, if I want to start a flame war, ask whether log(x) means common log or natural log.

[silverspawn]

Now I know, if I want to start a flame war, ask whether log(x) means common log or natural log.

http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=11524.new#new

[WalrusMcFishSr]

While I was doing all this trigonometry, I didn't like the symbols for sine, cosine, tangent, and so on. To me, "sin f" looked like s times i times n times f! So I invented another symbol, like a square root sign, that was a sigma with a long arm sticking out of it, and I put the f underneath. For the tangent it was a tau with the top of the tau extended, and for the cosine I made a kind of gamma, but it looked a little bit like the square root sign.
 
Now the inverse sine was the same sigma, but left-to-right reflected so that it started with the horizontal line with the value underneath, and then the sigma. That was the inverse sine, NOT sink f--that was crazy! They had that in books! To me, sin_i meant i/sine, the reciprocal. So my symbols were better.

I didn't like f(x)--that looked to me like f times x. I also didn't like dy/dx--you have a tendency to cancel the d's--so I made a different sign, something like an & sign. For logarithms it was a big L extended to the right, with the thing you take the log of inside, and so on.

I thought my symbols were just as good, if not better, than the regular symbols--it doesn't make any difference what symbols you use--but I discovered later that it does make a difference. Once when I was explaining something to another kid in high school, without thinking I started to make these symbols, and he said, "What the hell are those?" I realized then that if I'm going to talk to anybody else, I'll have to use the standard symbols, so I eventually gave up my own symbols.