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At 11/21/13 03:22 PM, Reasonabletheist wrote:

I really want to see a picture of you now.

At 11/20/13 05:19 PM, Elitistinen wrote: CIT finally beats MIT. Niiice!

BTW, CalTech beats MIT on all four years on this site for their overall criteria, but MIT still wins out on reputation. What are you referencing?

At 11/21/13 01:10 PM, Reasonabletheist wrote: There's evidence all around you, idiort. The natural laws, quantities and constants within our universe could have been set up a tiny bit differently and YOU would not be here.

Atheism is like a fish denying he lives in the invisible water which is all around him.

With your standards for what evidence should be Angry-hatter, you probably don't believe in air XD XD

Cat Sees the World as a cat would. Every image is a compliment to the feline form. There is nothing human about the world a cat sees. Even staring into the face of a human, a cat will see a cat-like façade, exaggerated features which align to its own.

When a human sees the world around him, he is amazed at what a truly remarkably human world it is. The stars draw pictures of great warriors and kings, every supernova is an eye staring back at him. He thinks, "It must have been placed here by a great human God, one who looks just like me!"

He creates fanciful interpretations of the world, laughing about his own importance. How lucky he is, to have an entire universe constructed solely to allow one small planet to thrive. How lucky he is that his MasterCard is accepted by spiritual leaders looking for donations. How lucky he is that a pretty politician believes everything he believes and wants his vote this coming November.

What a lucky man.

But why do all these other people say he is wrong? Surely consciousness is a gift from God! Surely you cannot make a conscious machine! Surely you cannot bring dead creatures back to life! Surely you cannot make a human immortal! Surely these are all God's blessings alone, given to man in a universe tailored to meet his needs! Surely... Something cannot come from nothing... Can it?

What captures your eye every time, sets you off, inspires you, makes you see things differently?

What amazes you? Is it an image, a movie, a person, a place, a book, a strip club?

At 11/20/13 09:13 PM, groundpwndr wrote: Did Viktor died?

I think so. RIP Viktor.

At 11/20/13 08:27 PM, Xenomit wrote:

At 11/20/13 08:19 PM, Entice wrote: It's just the makeup

And it makes her face look distinctly different

Contouring, dude. It's like paint-on plastic surgery. Like wearing an Escher mask.

At 11/20/13 04:03 PM, deckheadtottie wrote: Fun fact: I have been to Gettysburg.

Fun fact: deckheadtottie is 1 inch taller than Abraham Lincoln was.

At 11/20/13 07:00 PM, i-am-ghey wrote: Only Lawrence takes these rankings seriously. But that is just my opinion.

Maybe (and I tend to agree). But the schools on your CV carry a lot of weight. A degree from a state school or national university might be worth a lot in in that region, but it doesn't have the same name recognition as a celebrity school.

PS The university I studied in was ranked the top 30 worldwide.

University of Singapore?

At 11/20/13 06:18 PM, Loki wrote: where's ozcar?

He was here last year or the year prior talking about wanting to launch a prosthetic/biotech start-up.

ERM, well Mamatequila had her account deleted and cut all ties.
Altr hasn't been around in a couple years and nobody knows where he is.

Haven't heard anything about Onic, Fatboy, THL, TheJoe, EveningShift, DrLavaGoddess, BadBit, Chant, Arbitrarynickname, SlightlyCrazyDude, and a ton of people. Any news would be good news.

Thread is now about listing all the old usernames you can remember.

At 11/20/13 05:31 PM, Xenomit wrote: Harvard

Huh? What about Harvard?

@Zachary, does that extend to all musicians who act in unsavory ways?

Justin Bieber?
Amy Winehouse?

At 11/20/13 02:43 PM, Prinzy2 wrote:

At 11/20/13 02:30 PM, 24901miles wrote: 1. California Institute of Technology

I wonder what they use for an acronym.

Fun Fact:
Acronym is the term used for words made from initials, like Scuba, Nasa, Laser, and Scotus.
Initialism is the term used for words which are made from initials and pronounced sequentially, like CPU, FLQ, MIT, and USA.
Backronym is the term for a word which is forcibly expanded into a sentence or series of words, like PATRIOT Act, TARP, and HARP.

At 11/20/13 05:19 PM, Elitistinen wrote: CIT finally beats MIT. Niiice!

*CalTech

How does your university (any of them, if you have attended several) measure up on the THE World University Rankings list? The list covers the top 400, so you may need to do a bit of scrolling around.

Even if your university is not listed, how would you score your school using their methodology? By reputation? By age?

Times Higher Education World University Rankings

By score:
1. California Institute of Technology
2. University of Oxford
3. Stanford University
4. Harvard University
5. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
6. Princeton University
7. University of Cambridge
8. Imperial College of London
9. University of California, Berkeley
10. University of Chicago
11. Yale University

By reputation:
1. Harvard University
2. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
3. University of Cambridge
4. University of Oxford
5. University of California, Berkeley
6. Stanford University
7. Princeton University
8. University of California, Los Angeles
9. The University of Tokyo
10. Yale University
11. California Institute of Technology

By most recently founded:
1. Pohang University of Science and Technology
2. École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
3. Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
4. Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
5. University of California, Irvine
6. Maastricht University
7. University of York
8. Nanyang Technological University
9. Université Pierre et Marie Curie
10. Université Paris-Sud
11. University of California, Santa Cruz

BTW Cally wuz heer

At 11/19/13 11:08 PM, Camarohusky wrote:

At 11/19/13 09:12 PM, Ron-Geno wrote: belief symmetry

belief advocacy

But why either? Why put your trust in or advocate for beliefs which are obviously false?

At 11/19/13 09:34 PM, GravityAngel wrote: http://vocaroo.com/i/s1Y7ds89zVMa

Jealous Canadians who were forced to stay with the Crown because Ontario is full of subservience and peasantry are welcome to hate.

At 11/19/13 09:08 PM, Captain-Jack wrote: *sweaty teabagging

Damn Boys. Look at them sexy phalanges.

In honor of the 150th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address, recite it in your best Abraham Lincoln voice and post it with VOCAROO.

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate, we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

YouTube Recitation
Lincoln's Voice

They're in the long grass.

I'll admit, I'm having a real tough time staying interested in Newgrounds. I'm way older than the target demographic but I feel like it's going to die if I leave.

All good things must come to an end.

At 11/15/13 08:13 PM, Elitistinen wrote: Tbh, I don't even know he was jew or not... ssshhh

He may have been a Racist and Anti-semite. Another good read.

Most of the claims I see about Disney itself being "evil" are that it's culturally backward, espousing antiquated ideals from the eaely-to-mid 20th century that aren't relevant in modern society, and some ideals which (if voiced publicly) could get you sued or fired from your job.

At 11/15/13 08:06 PM, Vinnyy wrote: The observable universe is 93 billion light years in diameter.

Didn't so done make a new (more accurate) measurement recently? Is that the on you're using?

At 11/15/13 07:06 PM, Slacker013 wrote: I wish for a hovercraft.

Granted! The spirit of Massachusetts becomes the spirit of America, and MIT student run Terrafugia buys Detroit. Then the Pope exorcises America and ruins the economy. You are forced to sell your hovercraft and buy an old KIA.

At 11/15/13 04:58 PM, darkjam wrote: Lol nowhere near. Still good though.
At 11/15/13 06:24 PM, Painbringer wrote: Better than a PC from the last decade.

Then why buy it?

At 11/15/13 05:25 PM, Xenomit wrote: It's also really easy for you to dismiss any opinion I have that you don't as "trolling", it's more pathetic than my attention whoring

Hey bro, don't even worry about it. If you say interesting things, there are enough people who don't summarily dismiss people with certain labels and will read your posts. Your voice will be heard that way.

If you're getting too much flak, you can always make a new account and start toying around with a completely different persona. I've done it a few times, and even made friends with people on one account who hate my guts on another. It's fun, the mental gymnastics help you understand different perspectives and hone your own.

Is it better than a PC?

At 11/15/13 04:10 PM, Viper50 wrote: Shakespeare invented the words assassination and bump.

oh and....bump

He also invented honorificabilitudinitatibus, one of my facility words!

It's tough to invent words these days. Drake invented the word Yolo, Larry Page and Sergey Brin invented the word Google.

So you're saying that @TomFulp and @BrenTheMan should coordinate their efforts to design a "thumbs up" and "thumbs down" button for inividual threads and posts to make it possible for people to be acknowledged for exemplary, decent, or shitty posts by people who otherwise have no way to react to those posts?

And you're saying it would make the community better, eliminate cheerleading, and add functionality to the forums?

@Xenomit, that's a pretty good idea.

At 11/15/13 02:55 PM, Aethos wrote:

At 11/15/13 01:49 PM, 24901miles wrote:

At 11/15/13 01:10 PM, Aethos wrote: Primary Goal: To reign down NSA spying on American Citizens and to give more transparency reports to the public on a wide range of subjects.

Aww hell no. Count me out.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

What's wrong with more transparency reports?

I'm pro-NSA, pro-intel, and pro-translucency. I don't support rushing transparency before it's introduced through the natural proliferation of media unless it's integral to national defense.