At 10/23/14 04:17 PM, MrPercie wrote: What I struggle to understand is was there ever one proto-language for each of these language families (Celtic, Romance, Germanic, Slavic) which all modern languages/dialects evolved from, or whether the early forms of their language was always a blur of similar yet different languages and dialects which have just evolved and shifted more and more away over time.
And what exactly causes a shift in a language in the first place to change how it is written and structured but also how it is pronounced and spoken and what ever else that could be done, whether they just happen naturally as a result of time or whether there are groups of people who wanted to change the language for some reason and did so, because I know english borrows words from other languages like french and german.
Mostly geographic isolation of groups of people. Much like verbal histories can't be relied upon because each speaker adds their own flavour to the story, teaching a language shapes the way the next generation speaks it, which then influences re-spellings of existing words.
At 8/13/14 07:25 AM, Gagsy wrote:At 8/13/14 05:34 AM, C-Hawk wrote:Fuck that fucking bug. Fuck her right in the cloaca.You see how easier it would have been to navigate the bug to an open window?
A small point of contention between us. At least we have the common ground of loving animals, even though with opposite preferences in species. <3
Other unpopular opinion: if you're dumb enough to sign up for the military as a corporate hitman for the sole reason of getting college paid for, perhaps you're not smart enough for college in the first place. Stay out of one or the other, for your own sake.
At 8/11/14 02:17 PM, Gagsy wrote: I think people are shitty for killing bugs, including flies.
I've just spent a sleepless night because of a tropical flying cockroach (i'm home on vacation). I sprayed it directly in the fucking face some 6 times with foam that's meant to turn surfaces toxic to them for up to a year, then turned on the ceiling fan on max and left the room, waiting for the fumes to dissipate. This gave me excess time to consider life and everything that's going wrong with mine, resulting in an anxiety episode that made me look like a compass near a pole.
Fuck that fucking bug. Fuck her right in the cloaca.
At 8/12/14 04:40 PM, KillerSkull wrote: I don't think 70 people can be considered a turnaround but the BBS in general has been a bit more active lately. Notice I said, "a bit."
Summertime. Wait until school starts again.
Killing chat was such a good idea...
At 8/10/14 03:55 PM, larrynachos wrote: My dad said something about this earlier. Pretty interesting how we find more ways of cowering behind robots.
Don't worry, the good ol' US of A will continue to hero-worship the soldiers, you can still get plenty of poon based on that if you enlist. Oo-rah and all that shit.
Oh my god thERE'S FUCKING BIRTHDAY CAKE IN KOUROU I WANT SOME!
ESA's 50th anniversary, 60th successful launch by Arianne.
At 7/29/14 09:12 PM, 24901miles wrote:At 7/29/14 08:54 PM, C-Hawk wrote:*snicker*At 7/29/14 08:46 PM, C-Hawk wrote: It should take an hour or two, but i'll try to pinpoint that in the next few moments.Docking is scheduled for T+1h50m.
You fucked up your math and I Googled. Docking is in 2 weeks.
That i did, thank you for the info. There is cappuccino and tiramisú on board, though, that much i know for certain, as well as 850kg of water, a record.
That'a a whole new metalurgical ballgame. What if we need to manufacture satellite and probe components using metals harvested in spaaaace?
It might actually pose a challenge that up until now was unconsidered: that gravity might be necessary in order to smelt and forge strong and effective alloys, and that the weaker the gravity (e.g. at a Lunar shipyard), the longer it will take to crystallize those alloys, some of which i can tell you take up to 2 years on earth to cook properly as it is. On the more immediate, imagine one of the struts securing the ISS somehow undergoing a partial, localized melting. That'll fuck up 6 people's day in a big way. As for 3D printing, not only is doing so with metals "slightly" difficult, doing so on a nanometer scale is a downright impossibility at the moment, and then there's the additional step of mixing those two techniques: mixing two metals together, on the nanometer scale. In spaaaaace.
In case you missed this one, here's a recording of the stage separations for an ATV - in this case, the Albert Einstein.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PA-yjYJ-pg
Keep in mind, ESA has a strict policy regarding space junk (wiki "Kepler's [coincidentally, the Johannes Kepler is another ATV] Cascade" to find out why), which is why you will see all stages are still somewhat fueled and even under power while separating: they are all veering off to deorbit themselves.
If you have Google Earth and want to see just how much crap is floating around in orbit, here is a direct download of a Google Earth .kmz file that'll show you exactly what's up there.
At 7/29/14 08:46 PM, C-Hawk wrote: It should take an hour or two, but i'll try to pinpoint that in the next few moments.
Docking is scheduled for T+1h50m.
To add to the Columbus module's already extensive equipment for material sciences research, Lemaître will be carrying an electromagnetic levitator, to melt and resolidify metals in zero-g, so that the recrystallization of the metal can then be studied: what if a metallic beam on a station were to undergo melting and re-solidification? If the crystalline lattice structure is assembled without the guidance of a (relatively) uniform, unidirectional forcefield, what would be the consequences or advantages of that?
At 7/29/14 08:37 PM, 24901miles wrote:At 7/29/14 08:31 PM, C-Hawk wrote: Sorry for double-posting, but you can still catch the automated rendezvous with the ISS, an innovation by ESA: the ATV is actually an autonomous robot, not an RC waldo ship.Oh sweeet! I'll load the stream then. What time will that be?
It should take an hour or two, but i'll try to pinpoint that in the next few moments. This plugin helps you track the Lemaître versus the Zvezda module.
At 7/29/14 08:15 PM, 24901miles wrote: Damn. Looks like I'm too late.
Sorry for double-posting, but you can still catch the automated rendezvous with the ISS, an innovation by ESA: the ATV is actually an autonomous robot, not an RC waldo ship.
At 7/29/14 08:15 PM, 24901miles wrote: Damn. Looks like I'm too late.
If you ever have a chance to watch a rocket launch in person, take the opportunity. Until you have seen the glow of a rocket exiting the atmosphere across the water, you can't really understand how powerful and awe inspiring it is. I hadn't realized why that might be different from video footage until I watched LADEE launch from the Wallops Launch Site aboard a Minotaur V last September.
It also connects you on a different level to the mission in question, i believe. You follow the mission more closely than others. Related to that, the commentators just mentioned "Why do we give the ATVs names?", referencing that each machine has its own personality, something that the closer you are to engineering and math (and, supposedly, away from superstition and animism), the more you adamantly believe. Everything from your kitchen toaster to the Rosetta probe, which i'm following very closely, you end up reading a sort of primeval soul from it. She's almost reached her comet, btw.
At 7/29/14 07:56 PM, Slacker013 wrote:At 7/29/14 07:44 PM, Phobotech wrote: In my eyes, it will always be a necessary passing of the torch to make way for progress and innovation. Our future will always be in space.It's funny, cause the end of the human race could also come from space, nuclear or astronomical. Let's hope we find world peace some day so we can put our resources into something better then killing each other...
Another ESA project is the Dom Quixote program, where a double-vehicle is launched toward a meteor and decouples, with the Sancho Pança module studying the rock in great detail and proximity, while Quixote makes a few acceleration swings, finally using Pança's data to find the sweet-spot to change the meteor's course, away from Earth.
At 7/29/14 07:44 PM, Phobotech wrote: In my eyes, it will always be a necessary passing of the torch to make way for progress and innovation. Our future will always be in space.
It'll be a living-death for the ATV, since it will be part of the Orion. NASA will be shelling out considerably less money this way than developing their own "space truck stage" for their crewed vehicle, and, obviously, ESA will gain an injection of funding this way. The progress and innovation for ESA will be the move to a fully reusable crewed vehicle, the IXV, since the ATV was an expendable vehicle. Even thus, the Georges Lemaître will provide invaluable data on reentry burn-ups by being the first vehicle to intentionally mimic the predicted reentry of the ISS, when it reaches its end-of-life.
It is now 8 minutes post-launch, all parameters normal.
In just a few minutes, the European Space Agency will launch the last Automated Transfer Vehicle, as, with the exception of its adaptation for NASA's Orion vehicle, the ATV will no longer be produced. ESA will instead switch to research flights of its IXV after this. Its carrier, an Arianne V, is breaking her own record for weight lifted tonight.
The launch, from the ESA spaceport at Kourou, will be streamed live here, for those interested.
Observe history and discuss, i'll do my best to answer all questions.
At 7/20/14 12:57 PM, KatMaestro wrote: What if we make an uber weapon which is a radiative, electric and corrosive monster eating bacteria which spread like flu?
At 7/20/14 12:33 PM, Me-Patch wrote: That is definitely the sickest thing I've seen all week. Biocables? Call me a madman, but my initial reaction is that we should hook them up to transistors and make biomicroprocessors and then make biocomputers. Just for fun.
Although i am well aware that the two of you 1) aren't serious and 2) are aware that that's quite a bit into the future, my favourite part about this kind of posts is seeing what conclusions and panic-mongerings are leapt to, they always bring a smile to my face.
Realistically and in the short-run, what we'll probably see is an electronic equivalent of the electric phenomena of ants' very similar behaviours, leading to shorts and malfunctions, i.e. computers with actual factual biological sicknesses.
At 7/3/14 03:47 PM, SubliminalVirus wrote: I keep hearing guys complain about women wearing makeup and stuff... Just wondering what the people here on newgrounds feel about makeup.... Personally I'm too lazy to put on really fancy crap, if I get around to it it's just like brown eyeshadow, but I'd like to try something new and interesting, without looking like a "whore" :/... How much is too much in your opinion?
The shit you've got on on your profile picture, that's too much.
On the serious, i think it's a localized thing. Your being Canadian should put you two or three notches below Americans when it comes to make-up tolerance, and quite a few above most European regions.
Since you asked for different opinions, i'll give you the one i can give, that of a Mediterranean-European: the less, the better. Make-up is used for contrast. Banalizing (is that an English word? Trivializing, maybe) it by overuse both in quantity and frequency just makes make-up blend in as scenery instead of bringing out a shining light. Sort of like how you wouldn't wear a black gala dress do go to Burger King. When an already attractive woman puts on a hint of red lipstick and a little bit of eyeliner\shadow for the first time in months, that causes an impact.
I have a question for all two of you.
I live in a shared building, 10 people on my floor, my room door is in front of the doors to the 4 showers.
What the hell is the Brazilian fixation for having music during the shower?
So far, 3 out of 3 Brazilians that have been on this floor have taken their phones in with them and blared some Brazilian tune or other (as i speak, "Ela Tá Doidona" is the tune of choice). They don't sing or anything, they just blare it out as loud as the phone will go. Are you fearful of shower noises being heard by someone other than yourself? Is it the mating call of your species? Are the Brazilian songs some sort of code only comprehensible to Brazilians containing instructions on taking over the universe? WHAT IS IT?
On a more generalistic note, who does what in the shower that could be considered less conventional?
At 7/3/14 04:26 PM, creepyboy wrote: Sports are overrated and boring as hell. I'd rather watch paint dry than any game of any sport.
Sorry to double-post yet again, but i forgot to conclude a thought here.
At 7/3/14 03:34 PM, C-Hawk wrote:At 7/3/14 03:16 PM, TheGamechanger wrote:Just in case you actually don't get it, in his own inept way, he was attempting to theorize as to the origin of your highly misguided thought that was exposed by Omega:At 7/3/14 03:11 PM, melosquaregarden wrote:How is that even a legitimate solid argument? It doesn't even directly address the topic of the thread itself!At 7/2/14 11:44 PM, TheGamechanger wrote:it means you're a fatso and a nerdAt 7/2/14 04:03 PM, melosquaregarden wrote: lol man tits doesn't like sportsWhat the fuck does that even mean?
At 7/3/14 03:24 PM, Omega wrote: ITT: Xenomitt and gamechanger do this
<stop liking what i don't like.jpg>
I don't think that's the origin of either of the two of you's hatreds (god the English language is weird) for anyone enjoying anything that you don't like. Physical ineptitude is something you can live with and accept pretty well. I should know, given all the injuries i have. I think it's more along the lines of a jealousy of the cult of the ego that surrounds sports. There is no gamer or game developer that a non-basement-dweller would know by name. Not one. I've been playing games since i was 10 and i can only name Gabe. But millions of people have heard of the likes of Zlatan, Messi, Ronaldo, Mourinho, Guardiola, Gerrard, Lampard, Terry, Giggs, Gaúcho, Kaká, Pelé, Garrincha, Felipão (...) and this is just football. I think the deep-lying, perhaps even subconscious reason why you hate sport so much is the acknowledgement that you can play all the Skyrim you want, but nobody will scream your name at the top of their lungs at a 120k strong arena while you lift a 14kg trophy over your head.
Sorry if that was a bit harsh, i'm just theorizing as to the origin of the hatred.
At 7/3/14 03:16 PM, TheGamechanger wrote:At 7/3/14 03:11 PM, melosquaregarden wrote:How is that even a legitimate solid argument? It doesn't even directly address the topic of the thread itself!At 7/2/14 11:44 PM, TheGamechanger wrote:it means you're a fatso and a nerdAt 7/2/14 04:03 PM, melosquaregarden wrote: lol man tits doesn't like sportsWhat the fuck does that even mean?
Just in case you actually don't get it, in his own inept way, he was attempting to theorize as to the origin of your highly misguided thought that was exposed by Omega:
At 7/3/14 03:24 PM, Omega wrote: ITT: Xenomitt and gamechanger do this
<stop liking what i don't like.jpg>
Also, i just returned from a shopping mall that typically becomes part of any large stadia complexes (Colombo, next to Luz stadium), and that's another strong point for sport: the gigantic and immeasurable parallel commercial windfall generated by it. These malls get absolutely packed on game days, which wasn't the case today, and as such it was pretty empty. Hundreds upon hundreds of stores, one of which... GameStop. Their game genre generating the highest volume of sales? Sports games.
You're fucking welcome.
Exactly how much tax does a game developer pay?
Without monetary compensation, what would be the driving motivational force behind making the players want to outperform each other? A trophy?
If you say "prestige", then the motivation is to catch the eye of the manager or director or president of a bigger club, and then a bigger one, and so on and so forth, so that he may play in a larger arena with more and more passionate fans.
Y'see...
A club is founded. So, a stadium is built. Materials are bought (taxed, government makes money), workmen hired (again taxed, again, government makes money) who then buy clothes and lunches and whatever the hell else they buy (taxed, government gets funded).
After that the club gets staffed with physical therapists, groundskeepers, equipment handlers, receptionists, shopkeepers, gym trainers, barmen, waiters, and so on and so forth, all taxed, and when they spend their salaries, all taxed again.
Then there's a match. Tickets get sold. Taxed. Merchandise like shirts and flags get sold and taxed. That merchandise was made somewhere, where it was taxed on sale to the club. They bought the materials for the merchandise, which was taxed then, and that factory had workers, whose salaries were taxed and their expenses taxed.
People experiencing it at home had to purchase a TV, or a radio, or a newspaper the following day, many of the time in multiple combinations thereof. These things got made somewhere. They had to purchase a TV channels package that included the game. That purchase involved a tax.
The TV coverage, the radio coverage, the photographic coverage, all taxed. Advertisers pay tax, too. So does the security firm (not police) in charge of that particular match. Everyone working for all these companies pay tax.
But let's get to the crucified people in this post: the player gets his salary. In the French league, players pay over 50% of that salary in tax.
Let
That
Sink
In
And i will repeat it for clarity:
THE MOTHERFUCKERS PAY OVER 50% TAX ON THEIR SALARIES.
And when they buy a house, or better yet, have one built, and when they buy a sports car that was made in a factory somewhere and when they buy designer clothes and designer watches and high-end perfumes and send their children to private schools and universities and keep the academic industry in business by effectively paying teachers' and professors' salaries and when they so much as buy a pack of fucking bubblegum, they pay tax. And after all of that, they either donate what they have too much of and have no idea what to do with to a charity or even go so far as to start their own foundation.
If you've got an issue with misappropriated funds, i suggest you call the person in charge of applying tax revenue before you knock at the door of someone who, as you so eloquently put it, "just played a game" that entertained three hundred million people.
At 7/3/14 11:32 AM, TheGamechanger wrote: Xenomit is knowledgeable at sports.
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At 7/1/14 04:14 PM, Entice wrote: Okay but if they ban my vape pen I'm gonna lose my shit
Omg you use a "vape pen"? You're so cool.
On-topic: I have no strong feelings about the issue itself one way or the other. Hell, i'm Portuguese, you could shoot coke in the middle of the street and the cops would just tell you to get out of traffic. Legalizing things deflates their intrigue factor to the vast majority of new users who want to appear cool and distinct (see above), resulting in a steep decline in market volume and value.
However, i see that a lot of the comments here against the law are based on the idea that if the law doesn't result in a 100% reduction in that market, that it shouldn't exist. Although i'd put myself on the legalization side of the equation, specially since tobacco usage in general is on a decline because it's becoming less and less appealing, that argument is fundamentally flawed: following that argument, murder should be legalized, because murder still happens.
At 7/3/14 07:08 AM, EyeLovePoozy wrote: Good! I'm glad!
Your mom and I are tired of telling you to be careful on those steps. Didn't I tell you to watch where your going?
That's it, I'm taking your video games and killing your dog.
*click-click* Heeeere poochie poochie poochie poochie…
Somehow, the idea of Poozy having kids makes me think that said kids would "fall down the stairs\run into doors" a lot.
"FUCKING JETS AGAIN"
Beer bottles thrown.
Kid hospitalized.
At 7/3/14 08:00 AM, NuclearInfected wrote: So, now that Team USA is out, can this country stop pretending to like soccer, or do we still have to wait for the whole World Cup to end?
Because NG is exclusively American, and there are no American football fans. How dare we discuss a common interest that you don't share. Shame on us all.
I think the entire OP is predicated on the thought "stop enjoying the things i don't enjoy", which is always a great starting point for a conversation that's sure to go on without anyone flinging unnecessary personal attacks instead of creating a constructive argument or two.
Firstly, on the individual level, if you think being an athlete is a simple and easy thing, think of this: to a woman, acquiring an attractively feminine body is a question of eating more or less. To a man, acquiring an athletically functional body is a question of eating the precisely correct things, and, in the case of high-end athletes, exercising (oh no, ew, doing things) from 8h to 18h 5 days a week.
As for the collective level, yes, the idea that "when the game is over, the entertainment value is lost" reeks of someone who's talking about something they're willing and stubborn outsiders to, and prideful of their ignorance. Sports are an ode to the ever-changing meritocratic evolutions of not just one organism, but of hundreds of thousands of people (for larger clubs). Just as you can zoom out of a city and view buildings as organs and vehicles as blood cells and phone lines as a distributed nervous system to realize that a species of organisms has become an organism in and of itself, you look at the changes that have occurred to Manchester United alone within the last decade and you realize that one singular match is no more the complete art piece than one brush stroke is a full and complete impressionistic painting of a landscape. The difference here is in the observational patience of the audience, as well as the direct involvement of it in the creative process. If you don't think so, read up on the Red Devils' reactions to the crappy management made of the club at the presidential level.
Just as you can reduce football to "hurr durr 22 people chasing a ball", everything in existence can be reduced to the absurd. The fact of the matter is that just because you don't enjoy sports, it doesn't make them any less than what they are: a continuously morphing art form in which the audience effects an active and direct interaction with. If it goes over your head and you wish all that jew gold went to the things you enjoy rather than the things other people enjoy, i'll point out three things real quick:
1) Ronaldo's recent "zorro" haircut was to honour a child whose brain surgery he fully funded, and doubled the amount to put into cancer research. That's just the top example.
2) All that jew gold you want applied according to your desires that exists in sports, those clubs and players pay taxes, and before you throw the "corruption" excuse, let me remind you that acting as though corruption is endemic to sports will be a pretty bad idea.
3) You're proposing a global society that should focus solely on human zombified production robots devoid of any and all entertainment and culture. May i recommend a few movies (oh no, dirty entertainment) on that subject:
1984
Aeon Flux
Alphaville
The Bothersome Man
Brave New World
Cloud Atlas, specially the Seoul section
I'll leave you with 0 through C, just to give you a general idea of what i'm talking about.
In the Army and sports clubs you get taught that urine helps a lot with athlete's foot, whether it be directly between your toes or just to help keep the shower floor sterile.
The reason why i now dislike the idea of someone pissing in the shower is that i now live in a rather large common residential building of 6 floors with 10 people to a floor (one kitchen, 4 showers, 3 bathrooms) with a lot of Erasmus students or just worldwide exchange students or tourists from many different countries, and the "better" the upbringing, the bigger the disgusting slob. People who were raised with mommy and daddy doing everything for them (or worse, with a maid) and have never had to fend for themselves always make the presumption that someone else will take care of it. Let's just say they don't seem to have discovered the concept of a button, be it an electric light switch or a flush button. It only takes a few pyramids of unwashed dishes to make you turn into Sheldon.
Fun story: dude with a foot fetish got a footjob from a girl, got athlete's foot on his manhood, remembered the advice from the Army, and asked how he was supposed to piss on his penis. "Do i ricochet off the wall or stand under myself like some sort of weird Belgian fountain?"
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