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Date: 13 Dec 2006 21:42:19
From: greatbrit
Subject: OT: Verizon 0.002c-$0.002 spread limit game
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http://www.verizonfails.ytmnd.com
(note that the audio loops at the end, so you start hearing the same
thing again)
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Date: 13 Dec 2006 19:19:18
From:
Subject: Re: Verizon 0.002c-$0.002 spread limit game
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Monty_Burns wrote:
> Paul keeps forgetting that 2/1000's of a cent does not equal 2/1000's
> of a dollar.
"forgetting" implies once known.
AA
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Date: 13 Dec 2006 19:06:31
From: Monty_Burns
Subject: Re: Verizon 0.002c-$0.002 spread limit game
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Paul keeps forgetting that 2/1000's of a cent does not equal 2/1000's
of a dollar.
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Date: 14 Dec 2006 03:22:58
From: Paul Popinjay
Subject: Re: Verizon 0.002c-$0.002 spread limit game
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"Monty_Burns" <egbeachley@yahoo.com > wrote in message
news:1166065591.109385.198780@l12g2000cwl.googlegroups.com...
> Paul keeps forgetting that 2/1000's of a cent does not equal 2/1000's
> of a dollar.
>
You people think you know everything. I'm leaving for Vegas in about 15
minutes. I've been working on a system for playing the Wheel of Fortune
machines. What I don't know about math could fit on the tip of your little
finger. When I come home with all the money, I will write a trip report and
you will all beg me for my system. I did not do all the work on it just to
give it to people who doubted me on this simple math problem with Verizon,
which really turned out not to be a math problem at all but just semantics.
I don't care. The foolish can doubt. But I'll be going to the bank soon,
and laughing all the way.
-Paul Popinjay
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Date: 14 Dec 2006 10:23:03
From: XaQ Morphy
Subject: Re: Verizon 0.002c-$0.002 spread limit game
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= > You people think you know everything. I'm leaving for Vegas in about 15
> minutes. I've been working on a system for playing the Wheel of Fortune
> machines. What I don't know about math could fit on the tip of your little
> finger. When I come home with all the money, I will write a trip report and
> you will all beg me for my system. I did not do all the work on it just to
> give it to people who doubted me on this simple math problem with Verizon,
> which really turned out not to be a math problem at all but just semantics.
> I don't care. The foolish can doubt. But I'll be going to the bank soon,
> and laughing all the way.
I can see it now.
Paul: I won 80,000
Me: 80,000 what?
Paul: 80,000! what's it matter?
Me: well, 80,000 dollars, or 80,000 cents?
Paul: I know so much about math me me me me me I am great, ego ego me me
me me me, you don't understand.
Me: Right. So you won 80 bucks? or 800 bucks? or 80 cents?
Paul: Like I said, I won 80,000. It's not a math problem at all, it's
just a matter of semantics.
Me: Enjoy your cup of coffee with that, sir.
Morphy
http://donkeymanifesto.blogspot.com
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Date: 14 Dec 2006 04:04:53
From: your name
Subject: Re: Verizon 0.002c-$0.002 spread limit game
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"Paul Popinjay" <paulg123[nospam]@earthlink.net > wrote in message
news:ms3gh.68525$si3.16176@tornado.socal.rr.com...
> "Monty_Burns" <egbeachley@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:1166065591.109385.198780@l12g2000cwl.googlegroups.com...
>
>> Paul keeps forgetting that 2/1000's of a cent does not equal 2/1000's
>> of a dollar.
>>
>
> You people think you know everything. I'm leaving for Vegas in about 15
> minutes. I've been working on a system for playing the Wheel of Fortune
> machines. What I don't know about math could fit on the tip of your
> little finger. When I come home with all the money, I will write a trip
> report and you will all beg me for my system. I did not do all the work
> on it just to give it to people who doubted me on this simple math problem
> with Verizon, which really turned out not to be a math problem at all but
> just semantics. I don't care. The foolish can doubt. But I'll be going
> to the bank soon, and laughing all the way.
>
> -Paul Popinjay
Good for you Paul, work that system, after all "Vegas" didn't take into
account a math genius such as yourself figuring out the wheel of fortune,
they wont know what hit them. They never had a chance. We all envy you
so...
Oh, by the way, when you are cashing out, say for 100,000( easy figure ,
just for kicks didn't want to confuse you further with decimals and
such)... tell them you will take that as 100,000 cents rather than 100,000
dollars. Its the same thing, right? 100,000 is 100,000 ( like .002 cents is
the same as.002 dollars)
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Date: 14 Dec 2006 04:08:37
From: Raider Fan
Subject: Re: Verizon 0.002c-$0.002 spread limit game
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On Dec 14 2006 5:04 AM, your name wrote:
> Oh, by the way, when you are cashing out, say for 100,000( easy figure ,
> just for kicks didn't want to confuse you further with decimals and
> such)... tell them you will take that as 100,000 cents rather than 100,000
> dollars. Its the same thing, right? 100,000 is 100,000 ( like .002 cents is
> the same as.002 dollars)
Exactly. It's just a matter of semantics.
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Date: 13 Dec 2006 18:18:59
From:
Subject: Re: Verizon 0.002c-$0.002 spread limit game
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Paul Popinjay wrote:
> "greatbrit" <XXXpwestleyXXX@pacbell.net> wrote in message
> news:%s_fh.13208$wc5.2394@newssvr25.news.prodigy.net...
>
> > http://www.verizonfails.ytmnd.com
> >
> > (note that the audio loops at the end, so you start hearing the same thing
> > again)
>
>
> Excuse me, but this has been discussed at length here on RGP. The problem
> with this is merely semantics. The total amount of the phone bill should be
> the same, about $71, no matter what. When multiply the rate of .002, times
> the amount of usage, it comes out the same when you adjust for the minutes
> by dividing the figure by 60. So really this guy was just pulling a prank
> on the phone company and wasting their time, when the customer service
> people were completely right in saying what the rate was that he was charged
> and what the final balance of the bill was, after the final adjustment. As
> Gary Carson said in the original thread, you need to make the proper
> assignment of "C", but he failed to divide by 60. So I don't know what your
> purpose is for posting this is, but obviously you do not understand basic
> math. And neither does Wayno.
>
> Thx,
> -Paul Popinjay
troll or brain dead moron, you decide.
AA
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Date: 14 Dec 2006 02:01:15
From: Paul Popinjay
Subject: Re: Verizon 0.002c-$0.002 spread limit game
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"greatbrit" <XXXpwestleyXXX@pacbell.net > wrote in message
news:%s_fh.13208$wc5.2394@newssvr25.news.prodigy.net...
> http://www.verizonfails.ytmnd.com
>
> (note that the audio loops at the end, so you start hearing the same thing
> again)
Excuse me, but this has been discussed at length here on RGP. The problem
with this is merely semantics. The total amount of the phone bill should be
the same, about $71, no matter what. When multiply the rate of .002, times
the amount of usage, it comes out the same when you adjust for the minutes
by dividing the figure by 60. So really this guy was just pulling a prank
on the phone company and wasting their time, when the customer service
people were completely right in saying what the rate was that he was charged
and what the final balance of the bill was, after the final adjustment. As
Gary Carson said in the original thread, you need to make the proper
assignment of "C", but he failed to divide by 60. So I don't know what your
purpose is for posting this is, but obviously you do not understand basic
math. And neither does Wayno.
Thx,
-Paul Popinjay
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Date: 13 Dec 2006 16:06:18
From: Wayno
Subject: Re: OT: Verizon 0.002c-$0.002 spread limit game
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On Dec 13 2006 3:42 PM, greatbrit wrote:
> http://www.verizonfails.ytmnd.com
>
> (note that the audio loops at the end, so you start hearing the same
> thing again)
It took me three times to notice I was hearing the same thing. I
thought they were bringing in ever newer and newer people.
Big W.
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Date: 14 Dec 2006 04:27:17
From: greatbrit
Subject: Re: OT: Verizon 0.002c-$0.002 spread limit game
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Wayno wrote:
> On Dec 13 2006 3:42 PM, greatbrit wrote:
>
>> http://www.verizonfails.ytmnd.com
>>
>> (note that the audio loops at the end, so you start hearing the same
>> thing again)
>
>
> It took me three times to notice I was hearing the same thing. I
> thought they were bringing in ever newer and newer people.
>
> Big W.
I only went twice, and I didn't have a helpful hint to work with.
So I'm 9,313 messages behind on rgp, I would have bet the farm that I
was the only Verizon thread; apologies to A Man Beaten By Jacks,
December 9th., "Verizon morons". I should never have thought I'd be
first with an important breaking news story on rgp, I'm going to try
over on news.bbc.co.uk
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Date: 13 Dec 2006 22:15:23
From: Wayno
Subject: Re: OT: Verizon 0.002c-$0.002 spread limit game
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On Dec 13 2006 10:27 PM, greatbrit wrote:
> Wayno wrote:
> > It took me three times to notice I was hearing the same thing. I
> > thought they were bringing in ever newer and newer people.
> >
> > Big W.
>
> I only went twice, and I didn't have a helpful hint to work with.
>
> So I'm 9,313 messages behind on rgp, I would have bet the farm that I
> was the only Verizon thread; apologies to A Man Beaten By Jacks,
> December 9th., "Verizon morons". I should never have thought I'd be
> first with an important breaking news story on rgp, I'm going to try
> over on news.bbc.co.uk
Yes, that's rather sad. Though not as sad as thinking the Verizon
people are bringing in ever newer and newer people, and an ever-widening
cast of characters, all with oddly similar-sounding voices.
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Date: 14 Dec 2006 13:54:17
From: John_Brian_K
Subject: Re: Verizon 0.002c-$0.002 spread limit game
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All of this just makes me sad for how little people know math. Verizon
people and Paul I am surprise to say.
Oh the humanity.
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Date: 14 Dec 2006 14:12:58
From: XaQ Morphy
Subject: Re: Verizon 0.002c-$0.002 spread limit game
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> All of this just makes me sad for how little people know math. Verizon
> people and Paul I am surprise to say.
>
> Oh the humanity.
He knows it, he's just trolling. Still, doesn't mean a bunch of us won't
stop making fun of him for it though...
Morphy
http://donkeymanifesto.blogspot.com
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Date: 14 Dec 2006 17:03:34
From: your name
Subject: Re: Verizon 0.002c-$0.002 spread limit game
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"XaQ Morphy" <a1c5905@webnntp.invalid > wrote in message
news:asu854x2hg.ln2@recgroups.com...
>> All of this just makes me sad for how little people know math. Verizon
>> people and Paul I am surprise to say.
>>
>> Oh the humanity.
>
> He knows it, he's just trolling. Still, doesn't mean a bunch of us won't
> stop making fun of him for it though...
Its very difficult to feign being that ignorant, I don't think it began as a
troll, but as he realized how wrong his thinking was he continued it as
such.
The manifest function then become plausible deniability and ability to
claim, (or hope we will for him) the entire diatribe as an exercise in how
gullible WE are and attempt to exonerate himself from being such a moron.
> Morphy
> http://donkeymanifesto.blogspot.com
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