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Cerberus

12:07 AM

@tchrist What are poulailles? Chicks?

And what do they mean by "qu’esse-cy?"?

The rest is easy enough. Romance languages usually aren't very difficult.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

12:19 AM

@Arrowfar It is, everywhere except where people are playing word games

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

1:36 AM

@RegDwigнt This video discusses a build that uses a questionably-legal building technique

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Cerberus

2:03 AM

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Careful, lest you end up in prison for distributing illegal video material.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@Cerberus It's not the video that's illegal. Well, it arguably infringes on Disney copyright. It's the building technique.

Cerberus

2:18 AM

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 I know.

But I'm sure there will be some IP on that to send you to prison.

Copyright, patent, trademark, performance right, publicity right, model right...

The "integrity of the work" alone is protected by half a dozen IP rights.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

I'm pretty sure that that video can't get ME sent to prison. I haven't even made any copies of it.

Cerberus

Linking to infringing materials can be enough.

Besides, hasn't your browser downloaded a picture with the screenshot from that video?

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

Screenshots are not sufficient in any country I'm familiar with to qualify as infringement let alone imprisonable.

Nor linking, not in any sane country.

Anyway not in Canada or the US.

Cerberus

How many sane countries are there?

A man was sent to prison for 33 months in England for linking to infringing material.

A screenshot is a copy. The material is in the image.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@Cerberus source please?

@Cerberus Yes but not an infringing copy.

Cerberus

2:27 AM

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Admittedly, he ran a site linking to such materials.

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 It shows the Lego and the stuff from the film.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@Cerberus The first hit I found suggested that he also created the materials, i.e. with a camcorder, and hosted it. That's way more than providing links.

@Cerberus But it does not infringe.

It falls under fair use.

Cerberus

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Right, but he also hosted a site with links.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

theguardian.com/film/2014/aug/22/…

Cerberus

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Many countries do not have "fair use".

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

> A 25-year-old man has been jailed after filming Fast and Furious 6 in a cinema and selling copies of the movie on Facebook.

@Cerberus I'm not in those countries.

Cerberus

2:30 AM

The police are not limited to country limits.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

They can't arrest me here.

Cerberus

The police of the City of London arrest people outside London.

The Americans have people in New Zealand arrested.

Etc.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

They don't arrest people in Canada.

Cerberus

Not until they do.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@Cerberus Are you refering to kimdotcom?

Cerberus

2:30 AM

Yes.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

That was a special case. And the new zealand police (who did the arresting) were probably breaking the law at the time.

Cerberus

You can be extradited to, say, Russia if you violate some insane Russian law.

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Yes. The police break the law now and then.

Nowhere are you safe.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

I have not heard of a Canadian being extradited to Russia for breaking an insane Russian law by doing something legal in Canada.

Nor an American.

Cerberus

It hasn't happened yet.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

Nor a Brit.

It's not likely to happen.

Cerberus

2:32 AM

But with CETA, you might get extradited to some insane European country more easily.

Perhaps retroactively.

Not only laws, but also police behaviour is getting more and more invasive and draconian.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@Cerberus Mostly in the US.

and UK

and countries with a culture of draconian police

like Russia

Cerberus

And any country that will be part of TTIP and TPP.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

I'm not worried about being extradited for anything under CETA.

Cerberus

You don't even know what will be in it.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

I'm still not worried.

Cerberus

2:35 AM

smiles the smile of evil

At any rate, I predict that CETA shall fail.

And so shall TTIP, unless the European idea for a limited "temporary" treaty is approved by the Americans.

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

So that 33-month dude in the UK... he was actually SELLING copies.

That's the sort of thing that rightly gets people arrested.

Cerberus

Hey, can you blame me for making you afraid?

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

No, because you haven't succeeded.

user116848

@Cerberus I think you are giving Mr.shiny a hard time.

Cerberus

Man arrested for linking to pirated content – but what's the crime?

user116848

2:38 AM

:-)

Cerberus

@Arrowfar Always.

user116848

And hi all

Cerberus

Hi.

user116848

@Cerberus Why?

Cerberus

Because it's fun?

user116848

2:38 AM

haha

Cerberus

No specific reason.

Mitch

fun

user116848

@Cerberus So why does he listen to you? :-)

Cerberus

Because he also thinks it's fun?

user116848

Btw I love your banter

user116848

2:39 AM

Yeah. Same here :-)

Cerberus

We do what we can to amuse the room.

user116848

:)

user116848

And to amuse each other I guess

user116848

So I thought I should interrupt that and say something :-)

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

@Cerberus yes, what ended up happening with that?

user116848

2:41 AM

You guys can go ahead now!

Cerberus

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 I don't know, but would you want to be arrested?

Mr. Shiny and New 安宇

He was never even charged.

TV Links

TV Links was a user contributed online video directory for television programmes, films, and music videos. In a similar style to BitTorrent trackers such as The Pirate Bay, video content was not hosted by TV Links. Instead, videos were hosted by third-party video sharing websites. The website was operated as a hobby by David Rock of Cheltenham, England. On October 18, 2007, the website's servers, located in the Netherlands, were raided and shut down by Gloucestershire police in cooperation with the Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT) in response to complaints received from major US film studios...

Anyway, I'm off to eat bread. cya

user116848

cya!

Mitch

going ahead

user116848

hi Mitch

Cerberus

2:44 AM

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 But he went through a horrible ordeal! Bye.

Cerberus

3:13 AM

By the way, to all ye with smart phones, if you install Microsoft's One Drive, and you allow it to upload photo's, you get 15GB free extra space. You can turn it off and uninstall it before it actually uploads any photo and still get the bonus.

play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.microsoft.skydrive

I now have 40GB total because of a loyalty bonus of 10GB.

tchrist

3:36 AM

@Cerberus Tink so.

The things I do for fifty measly reppies!

Ice Boy

4:36 AM

+1

@tchrist

imVoid

6:37 AM

Any recommendable article or guide, which can help me to understand and improve myself, on "How to comprehend complex sentences", perhaps in a week at the maximum? [I'm trying to improve my critical reading skills]

Johan Larsson

in Lounge<C++> on Stack Overflow Chat, 10 hours ago, by sehe

@Cerb & all ^

hey

7:14 AM

Anonymous

7:38 AM

Wow, ELU really does get a lot of ELL questions.

Anonymous

@JohanLarsson → en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_word#English_examples

Johan Larsson

nice

Cerberus

12:42 PM

@JohanLarsson Haha nice!

I was actually thinking "what an ugly word" when I was reading that.

user08742

hi

Cerberus

Hoi!

No comment.

Robusto

12:58 PM

→ 6 messages moved to Trash for ELU

Ice Boy

1:18 PM

Cleaning house?

Or censoring?

Perhaps cleaning the house the way @Robusto wants it to look :-)

GnomeSlice

1:35 PM

Today's Listening | Chiptune

RegDwigнt

1:51 PM

Gee. Nine upvotes. On one answer. On a Sunday. Something's wrong with the world today.

Cerberus

Did you ask about how is babby formed again?

RegDwigнt

Asked?

I said them was on an answer.

Get a drink.

It's raining dogs here.

Also I'm actually at work right now.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt It would, of course, be on a question that referred to sexual activity. So nothing is odd with the world.

RegDwigнt

@Robusto nope.

9

A: Gaining a skill after some amount of time (while not actively practicing the skill)

Congratulations, you have grokked it. grok (transitive, slang) To have or to have acquired an intuitive understanding of; to know (something) without having to think

Robusto

6

Q: When did people start "boinking"?

Is "boinking" an onomatopoeic and/or a blend word? I would have said so, I believe the word boink refers to the sound of the mattress springs squeaking under the weight of a couple making love. A slang term which derives from a "blending" of boing and bonk. But I have found precious little info...

The top answer has nine votes. That is what I thought you meant. If you mean something specific, you should link.

Cerberus

1:56 PM

Since when do they work on Sundays in Germany?

RegDwigнt

Joe Blow's competing answer is not an answer but a personal letter.

> for example Chris, you could say something like....

> Also Chris as I mention in a comment

> So, I'm pointing out there's kind of TWO phenomenon along the lines you ask, Chris,

Robusto

@RegDwigнt And yet he earned the check.

RegDwigнt

That is, Robusto, because his writing is so personal, Robusto.

He also ended it in "hope it helps". I didn't. Obviously I tried not to help the OP.

Anyway. I'll go and edit it in shape.

Though something tells me he'll roll back.

> It looks like (example, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep-learning ) you could possibly use the term hypnopedia in a related way.

Well I'm stuck at the very first sentence.

How on earth do you say that in English.

> (BTW, as always with wiki, I don't know if some idiot just made up "hypnopedia" out of fresh air to make that page look good, or, if it is really used widely.)

So he is suggesting to use a word of which he so can't so much as tell if it exists.

> Simply google for literally 10,000s of both Real Scientific mentions of this, and Crass Commercial mentions, trademarks, etc

> it's common that (whether today or historically) some famous musicians have taken the point of view that...

Robusto

@RegDwigнt You are so unhelpful. You should be ashamed.

RegDwigнt

Seriously, WTF is with Joe's English.

It is not English.

Robusto

2:05 PM

He says "For example Chris," . . . should be "For example, Chris," . . .

Chris is not the example. He is the person being addressed, so he requires two commas.

Well, I gave you your ten-spot for not being too personal.

RegDwigнt

> This can indeed veer to a sort of mystic re-incarnation vibe

What the what has that got to do with anything anywhere ever.

> An example of this from an extremely popular bestseller of the "new-age" era is the actress and musician Leslie Parrish's explanation of her musicality in her boyfriend Richard Bach's bestseller "Bridge across Forever"

Robusto

Yet I actually think your response doesn't really answer the question. Grok describes the state of mind after the learning has taken place.

RegDwigнt

An example of this from a bestseller is in a bestseller.

@Robusto I know.

But I also know that the word actually exists, and don't have to ask if it was invented by some idiot.

Robusto

You, Joe Blow, should learn how to use commas in direct address. — Robusto 40 secs ago

Every time I think SWRs are a reasonable tag category, someone posts a question like this that elicits answers like these. I am disappoint.

RegDwigнt

Ugh. I'm done with that thing.

Ice Boy

2:11 PM

anyone seen Matt lately?

RegDwigнt

I wish I never started.

Now I feel dirty.

Robusto

You should. And on a Sunday to boot.

RegDwigнt

Some people talk a lot but say nothing.

The gist of that answer is, "there are two things that could be at work here, and I don't have a name for either; but here's a name for a third thing, of which I don't know if some idiot invented it".

I submit that grok is definitely better. I submit that any word is definitely better.

But now let's talk about something else.

Robusto

That will not make you clean.

RegDwigнt

> I didn't necessarily have an intuitive understanding of equalization techniques in audio processing. I read up on how to do it, gave up, then just knew how to do it at a later day.

Wait, "I just knew" is not "intuitive understanding"?

Robusto

2:15 PM

No, it's not. Intuition may be based on prior learning and experience, however.

RegDwigнt

Mkay.

Ice Boy

how so?

Robusto

If it's not, intuition becomes clairvoyance.

RegDwigнt

I believe in your case you have accessed - already have - all that knowledge from a different reality, and you're just here in this reality to give people pleasure by using these skills. But if I said that people would think I'm a fruitcake ;-) — Joe Blow 5 hours ago

You did say that, and people do think you're a fruitcake.

Robusto

Well, except I kind of like fruitcakes. At Christmas, I mean.

RegDwigнt

2:17 PM

I need a change of subject quick.

Also a change of underwear.

Ice Boy

6 mins ago, by Ice Boy

anyone seen Matt lately?

RegDwigнt

I did.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt And a change of venue. I didn't think Germans worked on Sunday at all, like, ever. Except public employees &c.

Saturdays, sure. But Sundays?

RegDwigнt

@Robusto well do I ~~look~~ ~~sound~~ type like I'm working right now?

Robusto

@RegDwigнt I mean at work. Hence venue.

You could look it up.

RegDwigнt

2:20 PM

I'm actually drinking a pilsner, next to a giant LEGO Technic plane, bitching about people being wrong on the internet, and waiting for the rain to settle down to go home.

I don't know how the venue plays into any of that.

I could do that literally anywhere.

@Robusto I was commenting on your second sentence, not the first.

Robusto

How am I to know these things?

Cerberus

The sun is shining, what are you talking about?

Ice Boy

4 mins ago, by Robusto

If it's not, intuition becomes clairvoyance.

RegDwigнt

@Robusto I didn't say, "does it look like I'm at work right now". I said, "does it look like I'm working". There's a difference. You could look it up.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt What, it's been Noah-level flooding since Friday?

RegDwigнt

2:22 PM

No, only since the last hour.

Robusto

So, what, did you forget your gummi boots at the office and have to trek in to get them?

@Cerberus The sun shines in Nederland? Impossible!

Cerberus

And yet she shines!

Or he, probably.

Robusto

Apollo is male. Very.

Cerberus

Well, Apollo is not Germanic.

RegDwigнt

@Robusto no, I just need an excuse not to stand up.

Robusto

2:23 PM

But a pollo can be either.

Cerberus

Nor is Helios.

Ice Boy

nobody wears gummi boots anymore

RegDwigнt

Apollo–Soyuz Hermanos.

Robusto

@Cerberus Are Helios and Apollon the same?

Cerberus

No.

Helios is the sun god.

Robusto

2:24 PM

@RegDwigнt Oh, now I understand. You left your weed at the office.

Cerberus

Apollo is also associated with the sun, but not mainly.

Robusto

@Cerberus I know. I was pointing that out to you.

Cerberus

Oh.

> zon znw.(v.,m.,o.)

RegDwigнt

@Robusto I leave weed everywhere I go. Also, it's meth.

Cerberus

So it can be all genders in Dutch, presumably also in other Germanic languages.

Robusto

2:26 PM

It's time Europe woke up to trans-gendered nouns.

See, in English we do not discriminate against nouns on the basis of gender.

RegDwigнt

I actually watched a couple episodes of Weeds recently.

Not quite what I expected.

Ice Boy

too big?

Cerberus

@Robusto What's wrong with some discrimination?

Robusto

@Cerberus Oh, I forgot I was talking to the only right-wing language libertarian in Nederland.

Cerberus

I ain't no language libertarian!

RegDwigнt

2:30 PM

While I didn't think it would be anywhere as dark as Breaking Bad, I did expect some dimness and desperacy. But it's all a high-gloss happy-go-lucky sitcom.

Robusto

@Cerberus Are too!

Cerberus

No! I value rules and traditions in language.

RegDwigнt

It's not even first-world problems. It's like she's never done anything but selling weed before.

W.W. occasionally stops to think, and is torn at all times. Not this soccer mom.

She also looks way too good for anything to really work.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt Weeds is to Breaking Bad as bubblegum music is to death metal.

And that only addresses one aspect of it.

RegDwigнt

Exactly. And now remember how Vince said he'd never have pitched the former had he heard of the latter.

Incréible.

Robusto

2:33 PM

Incroyable.

RegDwigнt

The incredulous Hulk.

Robusto

@RegDwigнt In Difficult Men he said that was true before he'd ever seen Weeds.

Or was reported saying that.

Hey! You edited all the crappy direct address out of Joe Blow's answer. Now my comment looks out of place.

RegDwigнt

No it does not.

Robusto

pouts

RegDwigнt

Especially not after he'll roll back my edit.

Patience.

Oh but I gotta run to catch the bus.

Lators.

Robusto

2:36 PM

Bai.

Cerberus

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Chinese opera is fascinating.

Is this an old Chinese tradition unrelated to European opera, or did it take shake under European influence?

I wish I could understand a word of it.

Robusto

@Cerberus It is very much its own tradition.

Cerberus

Good.

Take shake...

Robusto

I find it unlistenable.

Like Country & Western music.

Also, WTF is the "Pecking" Opera? Is that like a pecking order?

Cerberus

Oh, there is something to it that is appealing.

The poster obviously didn't speak English.

> Chinese opera is hardly ever publicly staged in the 21st century, except in formal Chinese opera houses, and during the lunar seventh month Chinese Ghost Festival in Asia as a form of entertainment to the spirits and audience.

Is this true?

Oh, no, the white snake girl is killed! So exciting.

Robusto

2:55 PM

You always seem to have it in for the white snake girl. What's up with that?

Cerberus

Well, she was saying something, and then a man came, and now she is dead!

And now the judge is giving swords to the princess and the other girl!

The audience looks awful, by the way.

They aren't dressed up at all.

tchrist

Yay!!! Steve Brust[’s publisher] has as before published the prologue of his upcoming Vlad novel, Hawk, on their website, here.

It’ll be in our hands in less than a month, so this is just a regular part of their pre-release publicity. Still, I’m pleased.

It’s longer than the prologue to Tiassa, the previous installment in the series from three years ago. But also more cloak-and-daggerish instead of quite so weirdo-mystico-cum-Zelazny-homage.

Robusto

3:12 PM

@RegDwigнt You, sir, are clairvoyant.

tchrist

I wonder whether this one will be better received than Tiassa; I thought Tiassa was wonderful, but he broke it into three different novellas, each years apart and with a different narrative voice, and people were pissed that only the first was told from first-person-Vlad’s POV This one should be all in 1pV.

That structure was kind of necessary to the tale, though, because Tiassa was merging the Vlad and Khaavren storylines, and the Vlad storyline is 1pV (normally), while the Khaavren storyline is recounted in the puffed up language of the academic historian Paarfi in an intrusive 3p narrative style.

Brust always tries out some novel approach to storytelling in each Vlad installment. I cannot help myself, though: I still like the Raymond-Chandler approach he began with, and occasionally returns to.

You can tell a tale with a single point-of-view character in either the first or the “informed” third person, but the first always seems to grab you more.

Of course, it also restricts you.

Hm, they sell cans of beer in the Empire, not just bottles. I wonder how that works.

Brust still writes everything in Emacs.

Cerberus

3:28 PM

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 So why has your government sold the country to Chinese companies?

> "It is true that Chinese investors can sue Canada for any actions by the federal government or the [British Colombia] government (or legislature or courts) relating to Chinese assets connected to the [Enbridge] Northern Gateway pipeline," Van Harten said.
...
"there is no requirement in the treaty for the federal government to make public the fact of a Chinese investor's lawsuit against Canada until an award has been issued by a tribunal. This means that the federal government could settle the lawsuit, including by varying its conduct in a way that many Canadians would oppose, or by payin…

— techdirt.com/articles/20140916/02545728528/…

Stack Exchange

Limerick Machine: There once was a truck load of doughnuts About to be turned into cronuts They do alchemy At this...

posted on September 21, 2014 by sgdi

There once was a truck load of doughnuts About to be turned into cronuts They do alchemy At this bakery It tastes so good that you’ll go nuts

tchrist

3:52 PM

Few words are sweeter to the soul, nor more rare, than “I was wrong and you were right.”

3

Faheem Mitha

5:06 PM

I was just threatened with account suspension. Does anyone know what the problem is? Apparently:

> Wait! Some of your past questions have not been well-received, and you're in danger of being blocked from asking any more.

I have one downvote (i think).

hey

@FaheemMitha That message is to warn you that your previous answer was improper. If you will post few more answer then you will be blocked.

@FaheemMitha sorry, I should have typed questions instead answer.

Faheem Mitha

5:22 PM

@hey improper?

hey

@FaheemMitha I think i am tired i should go to sleep otherwise i will keep doing typo :). You should read this (Sorry, if there is any typo in this message! )

You can also try this

RutvikSutaria

lol, hey himself was blocked few weeks ago in askubuntu!

RegDwigнt

9:54 PM

-1

A: Small but powerful?

~scaled down....~ -might be an option,,,

That's some nice art déco right there.

Anonymous

I don't think a question block is the same as a suspension. There should be a post or three on Meta Stack Exchange about it

RegDwigнt

0

Q: Is this case ironic?

My name is Chris, I'm taking an AP Language class and I am currently writing about a recent presentation at our school about texting and driving. The presentation was by AT&T, a cell phone company, so would it be considered ironic that a cell phone company is talking about the dangers of texti...

irony

Nice autobiography.

Cerberus

Most gracious.

RegDwigнt

> If this is supposed to be a website which is servicing more than just the primary author, we need to think about how we construct messages so that they appear more clearly to those searching on google for questions that match their own. If I am looking for a solution for question X, I want to find someone who had the same problem, not their short autobiography and formalities before getting to that actual question. — TheTXI

Ice Boy

@Arrowfar hi pal

user116848

10:08 PM

@IceBoy Hi! How are you pal? :)

Ice Boy

@Arrowfar Fine thanks, how are you?

user116848

I am fine. Thanks!

Ice Boy

:)

Anonymous

@Arrowfar You're "pal" pals! Pals who "pal" each other when they pal around.

Anonymous

Uh oh, semantic satiation strikes again...!

Anonymous

10:11 PM

Pal, pal, pal, pal, pal, pal, pal, pal . . .

user116848

@snailboat haha :D

Ice Boy

one can not have too many pals

user116848

You are right in a way. Yes.

Ice Boy

you can have too many enemies

user116848

haha that too :-)

Ice Boy

10:15 PM

balance is nice :)

user116848

Yes it is.

Anonymous

10:29 PM

I just realized how inconsistent I am when it comes to typing ellipses…

Anonymous

… . . . ...

Anonymous

I wonder why … is never vertically centered when I want it to be

user116848

I think 'three dots' are sufficient for ellipses to show their meaning.

user116848

I write like "..." or with space ". . ."

Anonymous

I just do them however I feel like at the time :-)

Ice Boy

10:32 PM

sry wrong room :-)

user116848

But sometimes I use many dots: "......."

Anonymous

In Japanese, you often use six.

Anonymous

……

user116848

Ah, that much :)

user116848

@IceBoy Yes, to show infinity etc., right?

Anonymous

10:34 PM

∞！

user116848

OKiee :-)

user116848

Is that a snail I bet?

Anonymous

It was supposed to be an infinity symbol followed by an exclamation point

Ice Boy

@Arrowfar they don't really "show" infinity: It just means "more of the same kind" like 1, 2, 3, ...

Anonymous

Did it not show up for you?

user116848

10:35 PM

Sorry, infinity symbol. I thought you were making 'snail'

Anonymous

I'm good at drawing snails.

Anonymous

＿＠＿レ！

user116848

Yes we know :)

Anonymous

That's a snail followed by an exclamation point.

Anonymous

＿回＿レ　　←　　Robot snail

user116848

10:36 PM

@IceBoy Yes, that too :-)

Ice Boy

@snailboat infinity does not have a factorial :-)

Anonymous

🐌 　←　Unicode snail

user116848

@DamkerngT. So it's like ELL here all over again lol

Cerberus

Ice Boy

@Cerberus lol

user116848

10:38 PM

So it looks like a brawl :-)

user116848

hi Cerbs

Cerberus

Indeed.

Ice Boy

lots of trolls live in the comment sections

Damkerng T.

@Arrowfar Oh!

Ice Boy

Hi @DamkerngT.

Damkerng T.

10:40 PM

Hello, everyone!

Ice Boy

Hi friend

Damkerng T.

Hi!

Anonymous

@IceBoy preprints.ihes.fr/M03/M03-52.pdf

Damkerng T.

Today I learned: The Catbird Seat is rather funny. (I've just finished its first page or so.)

Ice Boy

@snailboat very funny :D

nice try

user116848

10:45 PM

@DamkerngT. Is that a novel?

Damkerng T.

Oh, lots of math inside!

@Arrowfar I think it's a short story.

user116848

So, I don't get it why some people act in a cutthroat fashion in the comments section anyways? Looks weird.

Ice Boy

egos

Anonymous

There are SE sites where people are significantly more abrasive than ELL or ELU

user116848

Yeah? Like? (Computers related?)

Anonymous

10:52 PM

Yeah, like, computers related.

Ice Boy

clashing egos happens all the time in the math room

user116848

Yes, I figured :-)

Ice Boy

some people are more sensitive than others

Damkerng T.

> Hiya! My Kung Fu is way stronger than yours.

user116848

True

Damkerng T.

10:53 PM

^Like that?

user116848

:-)

Ice Boy

we were just talking how the guy who proved Fermat's Last Theorem worked completely alone on it for 7 years

think of the ego he developed

Damkerng T.

Did he succeed?

Anonymous

I don't know how to gauge his ego development from that summary

Ice Boy

@DamkerngT. yes

Damkerng T.

10:56 PM

Oh! clap, clap, clap... for the guy

Ice Boy

@DamkerngT. Andrew Wiles

Anonymous

Should I be able to?

Ice Boy

no idea

Damkerng T.

Fermat must be smiling somewhere up there now. :-)

Ice Boy

:-)

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