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Post by icefisher on Aug 20, 2013 15:16:05 GMT
When you were talking on the phone you were not using the limited ability of the modem to send data down the telephone wires. Numerouno seems to think that you need a higher connection speed than 2.4kbs to do an internet typed chat session. Oh, blast from the past, you meant 'to chat' means "to talk on the phone". You don't spend much time with the emerging (we call them 'digi native') folks do you? Actually, the landline phone systems have been increasingly digital internally from the 1970s on, in some developed countries at least. this is the definition given by google. chat /CHat/ Verb Talk in a friendly and informal way: "she chatted to her mother". Noun An informal conversation. A small Old World songbird (Saxicola and other genera) of the thrush subfamily, with a harsh call and typically with bold black, white,...I said: "chat on the phone" in the original post. I was speaking English, not sure what language you were speaking.
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Post by numerouno on Aug 20, 2013 15:25:17 GMT
"I was speaking English ..." Yes, the only language you know, I should think, and also not being very keen to update your own vocabulary I see. chat [chat] Show IPA verb (used without object), chat·ted, chat·ting. 1. to converse in a familiar or informal manner. 2. Digital Technology . a. to participate with others, through the Internet, in a real-time conversation in a chat room by typing one's contributions to the topics under discussion on one's computer and reading others' typed contributions on one's screen. b. to engage in such conversation with one other person, often to obtain live tech support or customer service from a vendor's site. dictionary.reference.com/browse/chat
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Post by Andrew on Aug 20, 2013 16:14:36 GMT
"I was speaking English ..." Yes, the only language you know, I should think, and also not being very keen to update your own vocabulary I see. chat [chat] Show IPA verb (used without object), chat·ted, chat·ting. 1. to converse in a familiar or informal manner. 2. Digital Technology . a. to participate with others, through the Internet, in a real-time conversation in a chat room by typing one's contributions to the topics under discussion on one's computer and reading others' typed contributions on one's screen. b. to engage in such conversation with one other person, often to obtain live tech support or customer service from a vendor's site. dictionary.reference.com/browse/chat"In today's arctic you can chat on the phone" Which carrier would you recommend? Icefisher 2 Numerouno 0
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Post by numerouno on Aug 20, 2013 21:03:50 GMT
Could it actually be that I'm the only person around here who can operate a bit in a language other than his/her native language?
Everyone's a monoglot, could it be real? At least Iceskater is trying hard to improve his Finnish, I know (hey, no objections).
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Post by sigurdur on Aug 20, 2013 22:33:35 GMT
Could it actually be that I'm the only person around here who can operate a bit in a language other than his/her native language? Everyone's a monoglot, could it be real? At least Iceskater is trying hard to improve his Finnish, I know (hey, no objections). I can do English. While in school the choice was advanced physics or language. Other years again a conflict between sciences and language. I opted for math/science etc.
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Post by glennkoks on Aug 21, 2013 1:25:41 GMT
Could it actually be that I'm the only person around here who can operate a bit in a language other than his/her native language? Everyone's a monoglot, could it be real? At least Iceskater is trying hard to improve his Finnish, I know (hey, no objections). For what its worth astronut is helping me with the proper usage of your and you're. I clearly have not mastered that yet.
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Post by Andrew on Aug 21, 2013 2:08:22 GMT
Could it actually be that I'm the only person around here who can operate a bit in a language other than his/her native language? Everyone's a monoglot, could it be real? At least Iceskater is trying hard to improve his Finnish, I know (hey, no objections). Come on Numerouno Icefisher was talking about using a telephone in the Arctic. You challenged that. Obviously a telephone can be used in the Arctic for talking or internet chatting The done thing is to agree you were mistaken rather than do what you habitually do where you create a distraction lasting months where you will never admit you were wrong. This group is never going to function well if the few people who can think scientifically cannot get their act together. I know you can think scientifically. Your stubborness however makes you less than you could be.
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Post by throttleup on Aug 21, 2013 2:11:08 GMT
I can't help if anyone's mind is still stuck in the pre-digital age! Numo, Do you know that Al Gore invented the internet? He's digital too. Mostly zeroes. Very few ones...
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Post by sigurdur on Aug 21, 2013 2:14:46 GMT
I can't help if anyone's mind is still stuck in the pre-digital age! Numo, Do you know that Al Gore invented the internet? He's digital too. Mostly zeroes. Very few ones... Now that is a goooooooood one! And oh so true.
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Post by icefisher on Aug 21, 2013 4:25:57 GMT
I can't help if anyone's mind is still stuck in the pre-digital age! Numo, Do you know that Al Gore invented the internet? He's digital too. Mostly zeroes. Very few ones...No doubt there is more than one zero entirely lost in the digital age!
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Post by numerouno on Aug 21, 2013 5:45:30 GMT
I know you can think scientifically. Your stubborness however makes you less than you could be. Stubborness? Coming from a mind that has posted about 10 000 posts on a point that is 100% clear to anyone with a basic physics education, that is a psychological reflection. These people here have their own version of the world and physics, moreover each has his/her own one that they defend to the last person standing. I say you could try and make yourself useful by some other way than trying to change their makeup. It won't happen. Finnish classes at Työväenopisto or similar? Seeing some real people?
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Post by Andrew on Aug 21, 2013 5:57:46 GMT
I know you can think scientifically. Your stubborness however makes you less than you could be. Stubborness? Coming from a mind that has posted about 10 000 posts on a point that is 100% clear to anyone with a basic physics education, that is a psychological reflection. These people here have their own version of the world and physics, moreover each has his/her own one that they defend to the last person standing. I say you could try and make yourself useful by some other way than trying to change their makeup. It won't happen. Finnish classes at Työväenopisto or similar? Seeing some real people? At the moment you are making sense and I thank you for the supportive comments. Yes my behaviour here while founded in wisdom is stupid. However you still managed to avoid the reality that Icefisher was correct on Arctic phone coverage and you were wrong and you are evidently obfuscating to avoid making the concession to him. If you cannot be objective about Arctic phone coverage you will have no hope of being objective about the far more complex Arctic climate. At the end of the day we both behave psychotically on this board but you prefer to paint me as the crazy one. Fairly obviously that is just a 'reflection' of you. What kind of a sane person begins to score points about their superiority in language when they were shown to be wrong about phone coverage in the Arctic? That is fairly nutty behaviour by any measure. By the way i only got back to Finland on Saturday and it will take a while to get organised here again after 5 months on the other side of the planet.
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Post by numerouno on Aug 21, 2013 6:25:31 GMT
At the end of the day we both behave psychotically on this board but you prefer to paint me as the crazy one. Fairly obviously that is just a 'reflection' of you.
Psychotic episodes, yes that has been my kitchen diagnosis of you. Do not be afraid of being a crazy one here - everyone is. The more they post the crazier they are.
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Post by Andrew on Aug 21, 2013 7:15:56 GMT
At the end of the day we both behave psychotically on this board but you prefer to paint me as the crazy one. Fairly obviously that is just a 'reflection' of you. Psychotic episodes, yes that has been my kitchen diagnosis of you. Do not be afraid of being a crazy one here - everyone is. The more they post the crazier they are. Your kitchen diagnosis was always taken from a lofty position of superiority - or at least it was until now. Anyway if we are talk about craziness it helps to have a shared definition. I prefer 'out of touch with reality.' so that the person does not know what it is real of what is illusion. For example you probably realise that Icefisher was correct and your defensive behaviour is more related to insecurity than being crazy. It is though very interesting that you are unable to tolerate admitting you were wrong. That is beginning to border on psychosis in my book. I know for example that being here is not a healthy situation for me - even though I often find it interesting to be in the mad house. However I can discuss it rationally with you even though i find the situation quite depressing at times. So much effort and zero success is quite a difficult situation for me. For you though it is different, so far you have not made a single mention of your own strange behaviour. So I do wonder if you are even aware of how strange it is?
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Post by numerouno on Aug 21, 2013 7:44:50 GMT
Anyway if we are talk about craziness it helps to have a shared definition. I prefer 'out of touch with reality.' so that the person does not know what it is real of what is illusion. The permanent distortion of reality is a sign of schizophrenia. People affected often fail to recognize they are ill at all, as the have become an integral part of their own changed reality that is also further changeable in itself. Psychotic episodes often occur. Again, about 10,000 posts banging your head on the wall as you say is more like a compulsive act. You can't teach then. You can't be taught yourself. This board is a psychological sampling environment for sub-clinically (and clinically?) deviant behaviour, that is the real reason behind the denialist movement, and many other similar protest movements.
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