ACUV

Cheap tactics are the mark of a defeated argument - yours. End of conversation.

The only cheap tactic I see is that you say I implied the leaders of the USSR were dumb. I never mentioned the USSR and certainly never implied they were dumb. Show me where I did and I will acknowledge it or forever hold your peace.

You get as you give Ophiolite, go down to your level every now and again and see.

No. I'm doing it ironically. That's the point. I hate ydoaPs. I upvote him and I die a little on the inside.

 

It's like Hardcore-mode for teh interblagz.

Don't cry wolf!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boy_Who_Cried_Wolf

A Tripolation,

I tried that activity you call trolling, I never would have guessed that's the name for it, I added a load of positive votes to peoples' reputations, I feel good, wow Am I a troll?

Ydoaps, sorry , I had this idea that A Tripolation was an arsehole and considering it kind of counterbalances his self explanatory troll admission, am I now not equal? + 3

My fault. I'm upvoting everyone in this thread that isn't you, simply for the virtue of them not being you.

 

It's how I troll.

Virtues are well earned or natural, mine are natural.

Your an arsehole!

 

Perhaps your eyes are better. Have you found any examples of a staff member breaking the rules without being treated like any other member by the rest of the staff?

 

Ex 1 , I say, don't be idiotic , I get a warning of some sort of a level the basis of which is unclear.

You say , you're an idiot , you get three reputation positives .

30 000 posts , three blind mice !

No, I didn't.

There are nearly 10000 posts since 2004 under your current alias. Don't take this as an insult or trolling or flaming as it's not meant to be, but as I look through the forums and see staff holding one set of rules about what they can do and another set of rules for non staff members I can sincerely only ask,

Are you blind?

War killed your ambassador, you're at war in Libya!

War killed your ambassador, you're at war in Libya!

Did you see a comment in a topic which surely, had you been the person to do it would have been called flaming or trolling, but staff or moderators had put their name to it. Go on, tell us about it, don't be afraid in this topic to say who the member of staff was and what the person said. Are you afraid, don't be, you can only be banned! Isn't that correct, Phi for all!

Be Coherent.

I thought I was being coherent. CaptainPanic knows what I'm talking about, I think.

 

I had no intention of belittling it.

 

I did see the possibility in terminology used by the OP that other more advanced options should be considered. You have considered this and I myself am being pointed by you to an area of interest. Matrices was never something I had been taught. Thanks!

 

But I have no idea what you are talking about?

 

Possible other uses for ICBM's.

 

Perhaps just a joke that I don't understand?

 

Perhaps just a moment of humour that you do?

I assumed a basic level of manipulation of simultaneous equations. I hope it helps.

 

Perhaps, we should be asking ourselves if an ICBM can be used/upgraded to get anything into space?

 

A burst football or an old guitar or a certain individuals ego, no not god, guess again?

nothing about the rockets he has, hasn't, has, hasn't, has, hasn't ..........................................

So, I've nothing to say!

I apologise.

 

Accepted .

I shall try not to be so subtle in future.

 

I'm sure you won't have to try much.

Each of my posts is intended as a direct personal slur on your ludicrous position and lack of reading comprehension.

 

I don't have either.

Engage your brain and read the words as previously posted.

 

I've seen it all, you probably haven't got as stupid a position as you think you're defending.

We are and have been using them continuously since their introduction over half a century ago.

 

Fart too loud when you go to the beach and someone might hear you.

Their role is that of a deterrent.

 

Their roll is one of money making, etc , etc , etc

They have been 100% successful in that role.

 

pollution, propaganda ...........................................

Their very existence constitutes their use.

 

Is sense rare?

Fortunately the rulers of the Sovier Union (whom you implied were dumb) were smart enough to understand that was their use and reacted accordingly, by not acting.

 

You chose to say the Soviet Union. I chose nobody.

What does it mean when the dumb leaders (your implicit claim) of the USSR are smarter than you?

 

Refer to the above!

Still it gives you the intellectual resources to come up with this beauty:

 

Many are there.

When everyone has one they are no longer a deterrent.

 

They never are a deterrent. Plenty of people aren't afraid to die, they will kill and be killed. You've acknowledged that they are a deterrent when other people haven't got them. Your nukes are old, you will probably sell 22nd century technology to your worst enemy of the 23rd century, nothing changes.

I'll be pushing up daisies!

Ophiolite,

You are progressing, I'm finding it difficult to find any minor personal slurs whilst seeing informative responses. There is one thing,

 

You seem to be under the impression that they are meant to be actually detonated.

 

So, just so I'm not to be mistaken, your country actually won't use these nuclear weapons, only test them ( which is actually detonating them ), since the forties? Your country has probably signed up to a lot of test ban treaties, trying to get everybody to do the same, thus preventing other nations from attaining deterrents.

 

You ignore my point.

 

I don't. Put on your EU shirt one day and your NATO shirt another, your playing for two separate football teams, that's your point.

Mine is that when 21 members of the EU are also members of NATO, giving the EU inclusive of these countries a Peace Prize is ridiculous.

The idea is to make a coefficient of a particular variable in both equations equal numerically and opposite in sign.

When you add numbers like those following you get answers like those following,

a + - a = 0 , adding - a to a is the same as adding - 1 a to 1 a , the balance is 0 a = 0

b + - b = 0 , adding - b to b is the same as adding - 1 b to 1 b , the balance is 0 b = 0

- 3 c + 4 c = c

4 c + - 3 c = 4 c - 3 c = c

6 pq - 4 pq = 2 pq

-4 pq + 6 pq = 2 pq

......................................................................................................................................................................

H + 4 K = 20

-H - K = 10

The coefficients of H are the same in value and opposite in sign, so add the equations like the following,

H + ( - H ) + 4 K + ( -K ) = 20 + 10

H - H + 4 K - K = 30

3 K = 30

K = 10

Using, H + 4 K = 20

H + 40 = 20

H = -20

The original equations were,

H + 4 K = 20

-H - K = 10

H = -20 , K = 10 is one solution of these simultaneous equations.

...........................................................................................................................................................

S + K = 20

-S - 3K = 40

adding the equations,

-2K = 60

etc

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acuv

Maybe this is what you are talking about, here are two simultaneous equations,

4H + 6T = 20

H + T = 4

H is a variable, in the first equation it has a coefficient of 4 and in the second equation it has a coefficient of 1.

Firstly, to get these coefficients the same many multiplication factors can be used but I will use a factor of 4 on the second equation.

The two equations now become the following two equations.

4H + 6T = 20

4H + 4T = 16

Then, another multiplication factor of -1 is applied to the second equation making them as follows,

4H + 6T = 20

-4H -4T = -16

The equations can now be added as follows,

add the H parts and add the T parts and let them be equal to the sum of the parts over the other side of the equals sign,

4H - 4H + 6T -4T = 20 - 16

2T = 4

T = 2

The original equations were,

4H + 6T = 20

H + T = 4

using H + T = 4 , if T = 2 then H = 2

using T = 2 and H = 2 does 4H + 6T = 20

4H = 8 and 6T = 12 , so 4H + 6T = 20

Then, H = 2 and T = 2 is a solution to the original equations.

edit, spelling

 

NATO has nothing to say about the EU as a whole.

 

The NATO Secretary General says,

" The European Union is a unique and essential partner for NATO ".

http://www.nato.int/cps/en/SID-F8EDF4BE-8F2206A9/natolive/news_90816.htm

Is your country in NATO? Are your fellow citizens happy to accept a Nobel Peace Prize as part of the EU while also being in NATO? Ask a few!

So Ophiolite,

Does your country have nuclear weapons?

Do you think your country will ever get to use them?

Will the decision even be made by your fellow countrymen and you?

Has that decision making power been given to the dumbest of leaders?

Lastly, are you and the people of your country generally happy with your new Nobel Peace Prize?

 

If you had a simplistic, atavistic, agenda driven perception of the part played by NATO in helping to aovid nuclear war in the last half century and to bring stability to Europe then you might see such a similarity. However, if one takes a considered, thoughtful, analytical view of the matter then it wouldn't be possible to arrive at such a stupid conclusion.

 

If NATO avoided nuclear war it wasn't because they never threatened it. Iran currently has no nuclear weapons and people behave like it is threatening nuclear war. So, what do you call having a nuclear arsenal of tens of thousands of nuclear weapons?

 

I don't give a flying conjugal union what anyone thinks about my country, since my identity as an individual is not irredeemably linked to it.

 

If you were a french person I would ask you the same question relative to there. I think you just can't answer a simple question.

 

Why is NATO coming up so much in regards to the EU getting this recognition?

 

I don't understand the connection.

 

It's a little like this Padren. Imagine if an organisation existed for the betterment of whales. Imagine if a famous organisation respected, in general, for the recognition of good deeds, happened to give their annual prize in respected recognition to this organisation which existed for the betterment of whales, all this while some of the members were also members of an organisation who have had a very questionable attitude about whether in fact they liked to see the detriment of whales.

Would it be fair questioning this?

 

The existence of NATO has certainly played a major role in ensuring the peace within Europe which is part of the rationale for awarding the prize. Therefore the EU deserves the prize in part because of the existence and actions of NATO.

 

Surely tis like saying, you deserve to be applauded for beating up the bully at school even though your brother knee'd him in the nuts.

 

Now will you answer a question. Why are you so obssessed about 'my country' and how I view it.

 

How obsessed you think I am, I don't know. If you were asked about your own country maybe you might feel more at ease answering about it. Does the man in the street/pub/church/bus station think your country is now being recognised in it's peaceful pursuits, with a little or a lot of help from NATO?

Ophiolite,

Does your country deserve it inclusive or exclusive of it's NATO role?