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  • edited October 2006
    Agentcel wrote: »
    I've seen pi to like..a billion. The thing I hate is that no matter how much you know, there's always more to know! T.T;

    Is there always more to know? Isn't that what we're constantly trying to confirm? The end may be only a few million more digits away.
  • edited October 2006
    No, I'm pretty sure the number was proven to have infinite decimal places some time back.
  • edited October 2006
    I'm not knowledgable enough to understand, but how exactly do you prove that it doesn't end? I mean, I believe them if they say so, but I'm just curious as to how you prove it.
  • edited October 2006
    I bet they asked that computer in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
  • edited October 2006
    Actually, I believe they're looking for a pattern. As soon as it starts to repeat, we will know how it goes forever.
  • edited October 2006
    Behemoth wrote:
    Is there always more to know?

    That's what the people with too much time do! But eh...about saying "pie" instead of "pi"...that was pretty dumb of me!
  • edited October 2006
    Here is a Wikipedia article on how they proved that pi goes on forever and never repeats. I can't really make heads or tails of it myself.
  • edited October 2006
    "Cryptic message" found in a suicide note
    Teenage Suicide; Cryptic Signature Leave Authorities Guessing.
    Miami, FL.
    Trent Boozle.
    A suicide note left by a troubled South Florida teen has sparked a extensive investigation into the meaning or identity of "kthxbai".

    The parents of the teen have expressed nothing but puzzlement at the bizarre signature supposedly left by their son of seventeen years. "[our son] was always a good kid." The boys mother said during an interview, "though he did spend all of his time sitting at his computer".

    The case, which was originally concluded to be an obvious suicide, has recently been re-opened after the parents demanded a more in-depth investigation considering the seemingly random group of letters the teen used to sign his final farewell.

    "At first we thought it was some kind of 'word jumble' our boy left us in his final farewell", said the boys father, "We spent two weeks trying to figure it out, but it led us no where."

    Extensive Investigation
    The Miami Police Dept. have enlisted the assistance of their computer crimes task force to find out if there is more to this situation than a standard suicide.

    "This is one of the harder tasks that we've dealt with here, simply because the only person who knows what these letters, [kthxbai], mean has taken this knowledge to the grave", states Felicia Reven, lead detective of the Computer Crimes Task Force in Miami.

    Currently, the Miami P.D. has five Detectives from the Computer Crime Task Force utilizing the majority of their high-tech machines to track down and decipher the 'code', and they estimate that it could take up to six weeks before they see any results.

    For now, authorities are asking that anyone with any knowledge about the meaning or identity of "kthxbai" to please come forward. Any information on the case can be direct to the Miami Police Dept. Computer Crimes Unit by clicking Here.
  • edited October 2006
    Oh my fucking god. Is that for real?
  • edited October 2006
    I wish it were.
  • edited October 2006
    That doesn't seem to have any actual origin. I'm gonna go with fake.
  • edited October 2006
    Yeah, I guess it is fake. I watch a lot of Law and Order, and I was so enamored with the idea that Detective Twitchy from CI was trying to get in the vic's head to know what kthxbai is.... yeah.
  • edited October 2006
    It's kinda funny. I don't see how you could NOT know it's fake though. I mean they didn't even hint at how the kid died beyond "suicide."
  • edited October 2006
    omgroflmao!!11one!
  • edited October 2006
    Y4YZ! 1Z 5P4l\/l T1l\/l3 l\l0\/\/!! LOLZ!!!11one!!!

    Man, I wanna kill myself just so i can type a note like that. It would so be worth it. After all, it's what all teh cool kids are doing.
  • edited October 2006
    Jackass reveiws

    kthxbai
  • edited October 2006
    Vaginas.jpg



    This of course raises two very important querstions. One, is this real? Two, is this kinda thing really deserving of a magazine article? Especially since it just boils dow to, "I have double what everyone else has!"
  • edited October 2006
    Maybe she's really an alien chick.
  • edited October 2006
    Well, I always suspected record company executives weren't techically human.
  • edited October 2006
    Also-why does it show 2 pies with a silce cut out of each? I get the gist of it, but it's still not really clear to me.
  • edited October 2006
    I thought maybe it was a play on the pie scene from American Pie. That and the general shape.
  • edited October 2006
    Its a pretty disturbing visual metaphor, and frankly, I'm a little put off pie now >.<
  • edited October 2006
    I think just one is sufficient.
  • edited October 2006
    Night Lord wrote: »
    Its a pretty disturbing visual metaphor, and frankly, I'm a little put off pie now >.<

    Or are you more attracted to it? :D Just kidding....
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    edited October 2006
    http://www.optonline.net/News/Article/Feeds?CID=type%3Dxml%26channel%3D32%26article%3D19872706
    Turkey Testicle Festival Can Keep Name
    wrote:
    FORT MYERS BEACH, Fla. - Organizers of fourth annual Turkey Testicle Festival can keep their name, despite concerns about the propriety of the word and the island's virtue.
    The Fort Myers Beach Council voted 4-1 Monday to allow the Surf Club bar to use the Turkey Testicle Festival name after a laugh-out-loud discussion, according to the News-Press.
    Councilman Charles Meador said this year's festival will the fourth annual, and went on to list more than 12 other cities that host annual events with the name "testicle."
    "Who cares what the name is," Mayor Dennis Boback said. "Money is going for a worthy cause."
    The festival has raised about $3,000 for the Harry Chapin Food Bank in each of its past three years. A change in policy that requires the town council to approve special events brought the issue of the name to the table two weeks ago.
    Councilmen Bill Shenko and Garr Reynolds had said the name is inappropriate for a family island. They asked that the word testicle be removed from the name and all advertising.
    Shenko reversed his position Monday and supported the name. Reynolds continued his opposition.
    "We do have youngsters here," Reynolds said. "We're trying to uplift their thinking."
  • edited October 2006
    "We do have youngsters here," Reynolds said. "We're trying to uplift their thinking."

    I love this guy!
  • edited October 2006
    Testicle is a medical word. There's nothing wrong with it.

    Now, if it were called the nutsack festival, or the swollen hairy balls festival, then I could see renaming it.
  • edited October 2006
    Exactly what I was thinking.
  • edited October 2006
    It was more of the way they used it though....not wrong, but suggestive. Y'know, the stuff that makes the Republicans mad.
  • edited October 2006
    Ok, I know you were just making a joke, but I must point out that not all Republicans are Johnny McUberChristianWhoHatesEverythingVaguelySexual. I'm a Republican and I enjoy all sorts of festivals with the word "Testicle" in their title.

    ...

    Right.