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Post by BertL on Aug 25, 2007 17:38:10 GMT -4
It seems that that was posted by "Anonymous Coward". How do you know it's IDW?
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Post by pzkpfw on Aug 25, 2007 18:23:45 GMT -4
It seems that that was posted by "Anonymous Coward". How do you know it's IDW? By the User ID * and experience with his content. He's now replied, too. (Yes, it could still be someone pretending to be IDW, because it's not a logged in user posting... but that seems unlikely.) * GLP assigns the User ID according to some manipulation of IP address. It's not a guarantee of uniqueness, but is close enough for this kind of case.
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Post by ineluki on Aug 27, 2007 6:47:38 GMT -4
I apologise, but gosh this made me laugh so much. Actually thats the good thing about IDW, his claims are so outlandish and he is so inept at explaining them, he will hardly find followers in the real world.
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Post by BertL on Aug 27, 2007 6:56:30 GMT -4
I must admit his implications that Hawkins was simply a victim used to spread lies with using a fake vocalizer he didn't actually handle himself made me smile a lot. He almost sounds like a parody.
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Post by pzkpfw on Aug 27, 2007 17:05:19 GMT -4
I must admit his implications that Hawkins was simply a victim used to spread lies with using a fake vocalizer he didn't actually handle himself made me smile a lot. He almost sounds like a parody. Yeah, and he claims Hawkins was "silenced" just before he was about to prove Einstein wrong. That's pure HB genius. ...IDW does not totally dismiss Hawkins so gets to use him (unproven, of course) to back up his own claims. He simultaneously claims recent Hawkins work is wrong, yet still relies on Hawkins' cachet to make us "believe" claimed earlier work. That thread has now turned into a science quiz, with IDW dismissing both questions and answers that don't fit his own personal theories.
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Post by nomuse on Aug 28, 2007 4:40:37 GMT -4
Oh, this is a keeper!
An Anonymous poster posed a question in which the term 10^5 appeared.
IDW put 1 million into the result.
Other posters are (last I looked) still trying to explain that "ten to the fifth power is 100,000 not 1,000,000"
IDW? "What is this 'power' thing you talk of? You people are idiots. This isn't a 'power,' this is in scientific notation. If you can't follow a scientific conversation you should just shut up. In scientific notation, 10^5 means 1,000,000"
I paraphrase. Which is necessary, as unadulterated IDW would break the TOS here or anywhere else decorous into 10^6 pieces.
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Post by Bob B. on Aug 28, 2007 8:22:47 GMT -4
IDW? "What is this 'power' thing you talk of? You people are idiots. This isn't a 'power,' this is in scientific notation. If you can't follow a scientific conversation you should just shut up. In scientific notation, 10^5 means 1,000,000" And this from a person who on more than one occasion, while posting to GLP, had the gall to claim to be an engineer.
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Post by LunarOrbit on Aug 28, 2007 10:08:54 GMT -4
100,000... 1,000,000... what's the difference?
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Post by dickshane on Aug 28, 2007 10:16:18 GMT -4
"My IQ is on a par with Einstein, that makes me his peer whether you like it or not, or wether you believe it or not. That empowers me to critique his work, from any logical position." (IDW 8/27/2007 6:31 PM).
Obviously basic maths is no longer necessary once you attain the heights...
I've seen some self-delusion spouted by HBs on this and other boards, but that one wears the crown.
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Though to be shared with this one:
"I was never interested in sharing my ideas with the world until I realized without rapid avancement in technology and human understanding ,we as a species would cease to exist. In other words it's abit of gamble, if I do nothing then we all lose, and if I try there is a chance. I was supposed to be dead years ago. I guess someone screwed up." (IDW quoted by 74444 8/28/2007 4:53 AM)
Going on those two quotes, IDW's view of himself appears to be that he is an unacknowledged scientific genius (far greater than the 'fraud' Einstein), whose work might save the human species from extinction - if we are lucky.
Wow. That's surely a delusion of medical proportions?
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Post by Ian Pearse on Aug 28, 2007 12:23:53 GMT -4
(shakes head slowly in disbelief) How can you possibly follow that? And people take this guy seriously?
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Post by JayUtah on Aug 28, 2007 13:47:27 GMT -4
As far as I know, no one takes IDW seriously. But it's clear that he takes himself quite seriously enough for everyone. And yes, he's been puttering around the Internet for years with colossal delusions of grandeur. "Unacknowledged scientific genius" seems an accurate way to describe how he describes himself.
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Post by BertL on Aug 28, 2007 15:40:56 GMT -4
Just posted. How he could confuse 10^5 as being one million, I don't know, but he seems quite reluctant in admitting his mistake.
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Post by pzkpfw on Aug 28, 2007 16:32:12 GMT -4
Just posted. How he could confuse 10^5 as being one million, I don't know, but he seems quite reluctant in admitting his mistake. Nice post too. His mistake was simple enough, and he used the incorrect number correctly in the F = 1/P formula, so if he had simply acknowledged his mistake it probably would have been "forgiven". He is just too far in to back out now.
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Post by Mr Gorsky on Aug 28, 2007 16:32:37 GMT -4
Marcus Cole on Babylon 5 said that if you were going to have delusions of grandeur, you might as well go for the really satisfying ones. IDW is obviously just taking him at his word.
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Post by PhantomWolf on Aug 28, 2007 17:15:51 GMT -4
100,000... 1,000,000... what's the difference? They are both above the number of fingers I have, therefore nothing.
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