so what was you planning on doing with it once you bought it peter?

Sorry about the typo.

In order for it to be 99% certain that my time is slower than yours, you would have to have run the 100m in 9.00 seconds (right at the top of the range) and I would then have a 99% chance of running 100m between 9.01 and 9.99s.

In our example, Oh Naaah! posted his comment at some point between 1 hour, 2 minutes, 0 seconds, 0 milliseconds and 0 microseconds and 1 hour, 2 minutes, 59 seconds, 999 milliseconds and 999 microseconds after midnight. The likelihood of me posting somewhere in this range, but not at the exact same microsecond as Oh Naaah, is, as you calculated, 99.9999983%. This in itself does not say anything about whether I was slower or not. The value you calculated is only valid for a random point of time in the interval mentioned, and only calculates the probability of me posting around, but not exactly at the same time, as Oh Naaah.

Hence, your comments prove nothing. Your logic is flawed, and, as we say, you didn’t even report your answer correctly the first time. Hence, you would fail massively at a nerd conference, and, if I have the fortune of being at the same event, would expose how utterly ignorant and self-righteous a person you are.

As for your comment on the other fail: I read the Onion article posted by someone else. I have read hundreds of other articles from The Onion. I have watched most of their videos on YouTube. At the end of all this, my conclusion is that I don’t find their brand of humor appealing. Hence I opined that “The Onion is lame.” I see nothing about posting such a comment that makes me a troll. Are you saying I am not entitled to my opinion? Its obvious who is trying to put down who in this case.

As to your assertion that I should try to come up with something marginally clever, I would like to ask what is so clever about comments like: “Morning!”, “Hiya!” and *squeeze* that comprises perhaps two-thirds of the content on Failblog’s comments pages? Just because they are not critical about someone or something does not mean they are the only acceptable types of comments on Failblog. If anything, they serve as reminders of the inherent cliqueishness and acknowledgment of the shared inward-looking attitudes of Failblog “regulars”. (Which is a nonsensical term because I have made checking the blog for new fails and voting on prospective ones part of my daily routine).

If I say I can run the 100m at the same time as Usain Bolt, accurate to the nearest second, all this means is that I can run the 100m in 10 seconds or less. This is not the same as claiming that I can run the 100m in 9.69s (which, you will notice, is accurate to the nearest hundredth of a second).

Also, your English leaves much to be desired. ” And what, be praised by little minded like you?” is not only grammatically dubious, but has no noun to go with the “little-minded” adjective, so I will never know what “little-minded ” you think I am.

Your response: “So don’t be so sure that you posted it at the same time Oh Naaah did. 99.999983% you posted it after him.”

“Just missed it” does not equal “I posted at the same time”. Comprehension FAIL on your part.

My comment: “The fact is, I never claimed we posted at the exact same microsecond..”

Your comment:”I wanted to show you that the chance of posting AT THE SAME TIME he does in the SAME minute is amazingly close to 0″.

Yes, I know it is. It is still unclear to me why you tried to show me this since I NEVER claimed that I had posted at the same time (to the nearest microsecond). Any one with a calculator can figure out that the probability of two persons posting on the same forum at the same time (to the nearest microsecond) is 0.0000017%. What did you ever gain from posting this? All you are trying to do is render false an assertion that I never made. Nothing was gained from your hard work except the obvious fact that you were trying to show-off number crunching, and going with the flow in bashing someone who lamented that he was just a little too late to be the first poster.

And I never said anything about becoming a failblog legend. And what, be praised by little minded like you? LOL, dipshit.

And “The one”, I don’t state anywhere that he posted it at the very first μs.

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So, how might we classify this one, Gone2?