This is a post by Lotsudo from March of 2014. He gets it!!!
Lotsudo
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Re: If you want a thread to die 
Originally Posted by
DeepGreen 
348 pages. What is the social value of this thread? Please, tell me.
DG it all has to do with 70TECHGRAD because this thread centers around him. There is no social value in this thread except to say that it is a distraction and a relief of our virtual day to day activities on this forum. It’s just merely a completely different line of thought or action…in other words a tangent whereby we can discuss something other than what the thread was intended. Here let me give you a better explanation:
In geometry, the tangent line (or simply tangent) to a plane curve at a given point is the straight line that "just touches" the curve at that point. Informally, it is a line through a pair of infinitely close points on the curve. More precisely, a straight line is said to be a tangent of a curve y = f(x) at a point x = c on the curve if the line passes through the point (c, f(c)) on the curve and has slope f'(c) where f' is the derivative of f. A similar definition applies to space curves and curves in n-dimensional Euclidean space.
As it passes through the point where the tangent line and the curve meet, called the point of tangency, the tangent line is "going in the same direction" as the curve, and is thus the best straight-line approximation to the curve at that point.
Similarly, the tangent plane to a surface at a given point is the plane that "just touches" the surface at that point. The concept of a tangent is one of the most fundamental notions in differential geometry and has been extensively generalized.
The word tangent comes from the Latin tangere, to touch...
Therefore 70TECHGRAD touches all of us.
I hope this clarified your question!
Originally Posted by HogDawg
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), except it doesn't end, or hopefully drag on as a mine is bigger argument if you don't mind. 
