Newgrounds.com — Everything, By Everyone.

Have you ever heard someone say "I hate fake people!" Or have you ever listened while someone talked on about how "real" they are as though it were some magnificent badge of courage?

To you, what is a "fake person"? What makes a "real person"?

At 11/23/13 12:35 PM, Stereocrisis wrote: This country has been privatized by criminals who could afford to fix every single human life in America. They would never dream of sharing the wealth though.

Why bankrupt yourself to fix the lives of people who will just waste your money in frivolous expenses? It costs less for every person with a broken life to fix it himself. With few exceptions, every dollar earned and saved represents a contribution to improve the standard of living.

At 11/23/13 09:18 AM, AxTekk wrote: Not gonna tell you guys what to do, but for an economic superpower America gives its working citizens shockingly little holiday time. How are you guys supposed to get off the grind, see the world, grow as human beings?

Can't be an economic superpower if everyone wakes up late and keeps a room in the Bahamas.

At 11/22/13 11:21 PM, i-am-ghey wrote: B (covers his ears): "It is not going to work."

Someone said this on a different forum in 2012:

"We are using a website run by someone who lucked out and launched a game people enjoy. He doesn't know what he's doing. That man chooses the moderators by looking at people who reflect his ideas. They are Yes Men. He is afraid of change because he lucked out, they are afraid of change because they are his echo chamber. They advise him with his own ideas." (paraphrased)

I don't know why we don't have an edit button, but I think you need to get a mod on your side to get that changed. Regulars don't get respect in Internet communities.

The laser would just vaporize the mirror.

At 11/22/13 10:28 PM, Powerage wrote: are they even going to even bother to try this year? given the state of the forums these days I'm not sure if it's even worth doing it.

Yo, here's a novel idea:

Instead of acting like an audience member whose job it is to jeer posters or applaud others, start contributing to the discussions on an entirely different level.

At 11/22/13 10:03 PM, Xenomit wrote:

At 11/22/13 10:00 PM, 24901miles wrote: That would be a major component of what's called the "Many Worlds Interpretation" of Quantum Mechanics, which is one of the less popular theories in the Multiverse family of thoughts.

Well, the thing that I absolutely adore about Quantum Mechanics is that it tends to completely go against everything that we think we know about the universe and reality itself. It's what originally got me into Quantum Mechanics.

Right? What I absolutely adore about Quantum Mechanics is that it's so befuddling. The concepts were originally introduced to me in a passing conversation I had with someone in middle school after a lesson about Albert Einstein. That summer, I read about how the age of the universe was calculated from some old library book. Since then, I have taken courses on the subject, read dozens of books, every Scientific American from middle school to Junior Year of High School, hundreds of papers, and hundreds of 'internet posts' about various aspects of QM: and it still makes no sense. Instead of coming to an intuitive understanding, when I think about the implications my understanding of my own knowledge changes.

At 11/22/13 09:45 PM, Xenomit wrote: one other thing I can't remember the actual name of, it's the theory that every single choice made by everything in the universe (in this case a choice is defined as any interaction between two or more objects all the way down to even the smallest bit of matter) creates an infinite number of alternate realities, and each one of those infinite alternate realities has an infinite number of alternate realities, and so on

That would be a major component of what's called the "Many Worlds Interpretation" of Quantum Mechanics, which is one of the less popular theories in the Multiverse family of thoughts.

At 11/22/13 03:14 AM, Ron-Geno wrote: Pie

What flavor?

Did Lee Harvey Oswald kill JFK?
Was he working alone?
Were there other shooters?
Was he part of a greater conspiracy?

What do you think?

At 11/22/13 06:47 PM, TimberGuy wrote:

At 11/22/13 06:02 PM, beakerboy wrote: Four guy were smart. They felt smart.

Was the missing s intentional? Sorry if it wasn't, but I'm not sure if I'm supposed to be looking for something in here

Is that what we're doing?

0. All readers may choose to disregard the implied order.
1. "Out loud" is used to mean "Aloud", maybe intentionally.
2. Parentheses were used when syntax would have made more sense, or "Out loud" can be disregarded.
3. Each line is structured with a split pronoun subject, therefore it is possibly ambiguous.
4. If it's ambiguous, the second sentence of each line may compound: line three may refer to six people; line four, ten; etc.
5. As you mentioned: the plural is missing in line four.
6. What is the point of this command? Do the pronouns refer to actual people?

At 11/22/13 06:02 PM, beakerboy wrote: Five guys were smart. They felt smart.

Five Guys is delicious and cheap, but they don't pay their employees well.

There have been tons of black people on US Currency.

There are two right here:

Hell, there are dozens of public speakers, hundreds of organizations, thousands of ex-slaves who dedicate their lives to bringing this issue into the public consciousness... People just don't want to admit that it's still happening and to so many people. They would rather enjoy life and turn a blind eye to it... It's "out of sight and out of mind."

Antislavery. org
NPR The Hidden Faces of Modern Slavery
Human Traffic Watch
Amnesty International

At 11/22/13 04:51 PM, Entice wrote: Wouldn't we have caught more than two people doing it by now?

I haven't read about these cases plz don't hurt me

But we have. In Africa, the Middle East, and Asia, children are sometimes kidnapped to be used as slaves. Or they have body parts surgically removed to sell on the black market. Or they are sold to pay off their parents debts.

Maybe I'm beating a dead horse here, but North Korea is essentially a nation of servants who can be demoted to slavery if they cross the line. Entire families are thrown into labor camps for decades to repay their debt to society.

Even in countries we think of as civilized, there are millions of people who are being held against their will and forced to work. Why do you think WalMart has such low prices? All of their goods are manufactured in sweatshops, trucked across the planet using oil which has been siphoned out of places like Saudi Arabia, and sold by underpaid workers who have to apply for food stamps in order to feed themselves. In Saudi Arabia, workers are lured from nearby countries with the promise of a steady high risk manual labor job, then their passports are stolen on arrival, they are paid a subsistence wage, and they are forced to stay four or five years longer than they had been promised--just to hopefully make it out alive.

Or what about the First World Nations themselves? Aren't there people who work for 25 cents an hour in prison for three or four decades because they stole food one time, or sold drugs to an undercover officer?

"First Worlders" typically joke about slavery as something which is a shameful point of history or some bizarre dominance fetish in pop-sex novels. It's tough to accept that this sort of forced servitude remains commonplace in much of the world. 30 years hidden under our noses in London, 10 years in Cleveland, Ohio... Yes, those are horrible crimes, but they are just two cases in a much larger industry of human trafficking, sex slavery, and servitude that is pervasive enough to exist on all continents and ignore all borders.

Don't mind to these idiots, Bro. They're just trying to make you feel bad.

If youre looking for a girl to collaborate with, I would suggest sending Kel-Chan a private message. She's a pretty good animator.

About five minutes ago.

I just wanted 2 get ur opinion on this:

Is Luer the best new user of 2013? With 71 posts in just 18 hours, Luer has quickly become an important and central figure in the NGBBS Communité!

I don't know, what do you think???

Washington Post — Reid, Democrats trigger ‘nuclear’ option; eliminate most filibusters on nominees

At 11/21/13 10:50 PM, Entice wrote:

At 11/21/13 10:24 PM, 24901miles wrote: Entice gets butthurt because miles is geeking out instead of continuing conversations, the musical

stawp it

Babby don't b like dat.

At 11/21/13 10:10 PM, Entice wrote:

At 11/21/13 09:50 PM, 24901miles wrote: Would anybody be interested in a club where we take a look at fascinating machines and talk about how they work, how they are built, and what purposes they can serve?

miles implies that other people don't understand stuff: the thread

Entice gets butthurt because miles is geeking out instead of continuing conversations, the musical

Would anybody be interested in a club where we take a look at fascinating machines and talk about how they work, how they are built, and what purposes they can serve?

At 11/21/13 07:50 PM, Entice wrote: That's just a prop made of hoses, sheet metal, and PC scraps lol
They can't even explain what a hadron is!

Yeah huh can too! A hadron is a particle made from quarks.

You're a prop lolololol

At 11/21/13 07:48 PM, scoutthesoldier wrote: The Large Hadron Collider is what amazes me.
When I see it, I think of how advanced our civilization really is.

Do you understand how it works in theory?

Do you understand how it works in practice?

At 11/21/13 07:18 PM, supergandhi64 wrote: ironic because there's only one way to find out lol

--supergandhi64

literally . . . lol

--24901miles

At 11/21/13 05:45 PM, Sense-Offender wrote: Seems we have yet another poe among us.

Maybe this time he'll stay focused long enough to learn something?

At 11/21/13 06:06 PM, 24901miles wrote: PM system works juuuuuust fine!

Or maybe you're getting a bounding break because you have a triple digit PM counter?

Nope!

PM system works juuuuuust fine!

There's so much to do and the world is so big. It's about twenty-four thousand nine hundred and one miles in any direction. You can even go up, and go check out some of the other rocks circling our star. You can even go to other stars in our galaxy, other galaxies in our local cluster, or other clusters in far off corners of the universe.

You could stay right here, pick a subject and dedicate yourself to improving it. Invent something new to change the world. Join a government and influence society.

You can be a cosmetologist who makes people look good. Or a tattoo artist, and carve meaningful images onto people. Or a plastic surgeon who carves people into new people. Or a doctor who helps people stay healthy. Or a bioengineer who improves the human form. Or a Calico employee who [redacted]. Or a mortician.

⁂

I think there's just too many choices and you can't decide which one you like the most. We live in exciting times. Computers are winning Jeopardy and Chess, Robots are driving cars, Science is cloning mice, and you're talking to people on the other side of the planet using a device which fits neatly into your pocket.

Flip a coin. Heads you become a gravedigger, tails you become a geneticist.

At 11/21/13 03:55 PM, Entice wrote: Machines

Just the idea that a man can take raw materials, like steel and ore, and convert them into a machine that can do so much is amazing to me. Anything from a flint knife to a nice car to a machine gun. Reading about the development of technology you really have to admire everything that had to happen to make even the inventions we take for granted now possible.

Awesome. It fascinates me that you can make an entire car with your bare hands and a few thousand dollars of tools. Obligatory links:
Bessemer process
hand-crafting a miniature v-12 engine
Homemade greensand for casting metal
Casting an Engine Block
How It's Made - Engine Blocks

Granted, we're approaching the end of the era of metal casting engine blocks and machined metal parts, the manufacturing process for this stuff is still very relevant and amazing.
Pretty soon, we'll be use cars with mostly carbon parts, and the manufacturing processes for most of the heavy duty carbon allotropes are completely different from metal work.

What's even more amazing to is that we're beginning to condense function into its simplest forms using modern computing, and that effect causes a ripple effect in all manufacturing globally. In 15 years, we're going to be able to do more with smaller and cheaper machines than the cumulative output all all the machines we had 15 years ago. More energy, more control, and more power can fit into smaller and smaller volumes.

That condensation may someday yield atomically perfect motors the size of a grain of sand which can produce millions of horsepower by exploiting the principles of quantum mechanics.