Perhaps I'm missing the point, but when I post and the thread comes to a screeching halt...

[Critters2]

what does that mean?

[Rabrrrrrr]

1. It means you've been raptured, and all you can see in Heaven is DU as it was when you were lifted up

:P

[Critters2]

2. I've been raptured?! So the Fundies were wrong!!

I suppose gloating about it would undo it, though, huh?

[stuntcat]

3. I thought that was MY gig

I'm here at DU just to put a stop to threads, I think :cry:

[Xipe Totec]

4. It means you've collapsed into a singularity

under the weight of your own self absorption.

No insult intended, just reflection on my own experience...

:hide:

[Critters2]

6. Whoa, didn't see that coming!!

Did I do something to deserve that?

[Xipe Totec]

9. Nope, you did nothing wrong

It's just my experience that, my threads collapse whenever I get too focused on how I feel,


rather than on how other people feel.

You see, we are all really self-absorbed, and we love for people to ask us our opinions about ourselves.

So, if I want a lot of replies on a thread, I ask people to talk about themselves and give me their opinions on subject X.

If I want a thread to die, I state my opinion and ask people to comment on what I think.

See? It's easy...

[Critters2]

13. Actually, I do that, too, sometimes. I usually catch myself, but not always. nt

[Xipe Totec]

10. dupe - delete

see? I'm doing it too...

[Dr. Strange]

8. That happens to me sometimes...

especially if I try to divide by zero.

[Xipe Totec]

12. Divide by zero is really bad

unless you're in theory of computation, in which case the answer is zero.

by definition.

[Dr. Strange]

14. Oh, I don't think so.

Dividing by zero is ALWAYS bad. In ANY theory.

Bad muju!

[Xipe Totec]

16. Hate to burst your bubble,

but computer scientists just define division by zero as zero,

because it tidies up their proofs.

Trust me, I'm speaking from experience...

[Dr. Strange]

19. What? That makes no sense!

How could that tidy up anything? I have to see an example of this. This kind of weirditude could keep me up at nights!

[Xipe Totec]

21. This has to do with primitive recursive functions

which, by definition have to be total, which means they have to return a natural number for all possible inputs.

In order to use the divide function as a primitive recursive, it must be defined at zero (zero is a natural number).

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

Computability deals with natural numbers.

[Dr. Strange]

22. Oooh, that's disturbing...

on several levels.

I like Steven Wright's take on it:

Black holes are where God divided by zero.

[Critters2]

5. What the fuck is wrong with me tonight?

Another post in the wrong place.

Someone teach me how to use this thing!!

[JTG of the PRB]

7. I feel your pain... Evidently, I killed the Impossible Google Search thread...

I didn't mean to! I just wanted to converse... :cry:

[Critters2]

11. I kill threads and houseplants. Just by looking at 'em. nt

[JTG of the PRB]

15. I don't kill houseplants... I just make 'em wish they never germinated.

:rofl:

[Mugu]

17. Well I feel better now.

I thought that it was just me that killed threads with a single post. Misery does so love company.

Regards, Mugu

[TK421]

18. Look within yourself...there, you will find answer n/t

[porphyrian]

20. Weevils. -n/t

[Nye Bevan]

23. The trick is, don't think of it as killing the thread.

Think of it as having the last word.

Like this.