.999... = 1

It does. Here:
1/3 = .333...
2/3 = .666...
3/3 = .999...
3/3 = 1
.999... = 1

Or you could look at it this way:
x = .999...
10x = 9.999...
10x - x = 9.999... - .999...
10x - x = 9x
9.999... - .999... = 9
9x = 9
x = 1
x = .999...
x = 1
x = .999...
x = 1
holy shit
.999... = 1
Take that, people.

Piracy

Here are my thoughts on piracy. First off, I talked about .9999999999... = 1 earlier. Because it DOES. Here: (click the image to read the stuff, I suck at resizing with HTML because I don't know what size everything is exactly. w00t. Got the resizing down perfectly.)




Saw that on the interwebs (/b/, but I'm breaking the first rule by talking about it so I'll stop). It's so awesome. I asked that to my math teacher in 7th grade and she said "lol idk". It angered me. Math teachers, not knowing the answer to a simple math question? So I Googled it. Take that, Mrs. Gill. Anyways, back on topic. Piracy.

Piracy is fine by me. Well, obviously it's gonna be, because I'm 13 and I've never had anything I've created be pirated before. Seriously, though: here's my view on it. If I have $10 on me and I walk into a store, and I walk out with $10 and a video game, I stole it. It's either that, or I somehow found a free video game or a video game that costs $50 and I found a $50 bill on the floor. So, I walk in with the intent of stealing, and I steal something. That is stealing.

Now, here's a different scenario. I want to watch a show. For argument's sake, we'll say I want to watch Legend of Korra.

1. I'm not torrenting it so I can watch it without commercials. I have a fast forward button on my remote!
2. If it's not on and I don't have it recorded, I wouldn't be able to watch it at the moment anyways.

So, I torrent it. There is a copyright law that I'm breaking, but I don't want to wait half a week to watch a show that is fully available online.

Another scenario? Sure! I want to play a video game. Maybe, Minecraft. (Note: I hate this game, but I've played it. Look at my previous posts.)

1. I torrent it because I don't have $30 on me anyways.
2. I torrent it because even if I did have $30, I would buy something else with it (when I awoke, I spent that on a necklace (brownie points if you got the reference (these are a lot of open parentheses, I'm gonna have to close all of these soon (holy shit ((((())))))))) (by the way, I counted all the parentheses, that's actually the exact amount of parentheses needed for equality, I didn't guess. An unended paren is srs bznss)
3. I don't torrent it with the intent of stealing. If I don't have $30 on me to begin with, then I wouldn't be able to buy it. If my age group is the target age group for minecraft and none of us torrented it, we wouldn't like it. If we didn't like it, we wouldn't buy it.
4. To defend on people torrenting, I think people should just use "free versions" or "free demos" more often. Time-limited vs Feature-limited is another issue that pops up over there, though. Alas, that is a topic for another blog post.

So yeah. I torrent. @ anyone who reads this and has made a movie or game or paid software or something: I'm sorry. (although if you're making paid software, I hate you. Make open-source software and put ads on the site or something!) Chances are, if you've made something and I absolutely needed/wanted it, I've torrented it. Again. I'm sorry. 

 I really need to start signing my blog posts or something, it feels kinda empty down here (especially because I suck at concluding posts).

Anger Outlet

I need a new outlet for my anger. I almost made a really short post on here because I was angry, and then realized that it's not a proper outlet. If I start using my blog as an anger outlet (or anywhere on the internet, for that matter) I would appear to be an angry, terrible child who hates his parents (kind of like vacation photos make someone appear happy all the time, because they're smiling in every picture). Everyone needs a good anger outlet. For some people it's punching their pillow, for some it's rapping, for some it's poetry, and sometimes people even use things like Facebook. Technically, blogging about how much I hate my life would work as an anger outlet, but I don't really hate my life. I just don't like it particularly at the moment. In fact, blogging about anger outlets is making me feel better. I hope my anger doesn't show through these words. I'm gonna go listen to some music and cheer myself up in a bit, but first, I'm going to find a new anger outlet. When I was 12 I used to scream into my pillow sometimes, and I think I might start doing that again. I don't like doing that though, because it's not the same as punching something. Violence, however, is never the answer. Come to think of it, instead of having an outlet, maybe I should just learn to control myself. That never works though. Hmmm. I'll think about this for awhile, because even though it might not seem like a lot, I really need some way to get rid of my anger when I'm angry. People have told me just to smile, and it automatically releases dopamine in your brain (or something similar to dopamine, I don't know the exact spelling) which will make you happier. But,

1. Who the hell smiles when they're angry
2. Why would I think of smiling when I'm angry
3. That would look weird, it would be a fake smile
4. What if my mind just associates anger with smiling or something and then whenever I smile I get angry (yeah, I obviously don't understand psychology/biology/whatever this falls into that well, but still)

So, I'll just stay angry when I'm angry, methinks. Until my next post, just know this:
.999999999... = 1 no matter what ANYONE says ever

DAHS.

DAHS = Division Avenue High School. Yeah. I'm going there. Soon. It's exciting. It's getting me to type in short, quick bursts (and talk the same way) whenever I talk about it. High school! I've read up on it, online. People have posted things like "you don't realize how much middle school sucks till you reach high school" and other stuff. That excites me, too. It's like, wow! High school! That's the place where things happen! That's the place! Anyways, I was visiting their website.

http://www.levittownschools.com/dahs/.

It looks terrible right now. Not gonna lie. I might work on it this summer. Even if I can't use PHP/JS that well yet, I might as well just make some new art for the pages in PhotoShop or something. More on that later, because I don't want to talk about it and then not do it or something.

So, yeah. High school! The journey starts soon. Feels strangely like the beginning of a Pokemon game. Where Oak gives you the first pokemon of your life and you're like "Holy crap!" and then you start your journey. That's what this feels like. I'm relatively happy with my life right now. You may or may not be able to tell by my choice of words and phrases and things. w00t. High school. Division Avenue High School. The Division Blue Dragons! Well. Back to fixing my computer. It's not booting up. Gonna reinstall windows. Hopefully this reinstalling of Windows will be better than my last time. Alrighty then. Back to work!