You want to start by moving your fingers gently but firmly down the neck and towards the opening. Once you're in position, a couple quick twangs will have her singin' her tune in no time.

Don't let me spoil the fun... but seeing as how both of them work for Newgrounds.com inc. full-time as the two staff members most involved with the community, perhaps it's just a coincidence in keeping with the site's interests that they happen to be browsing the forums simultaneously.

I was raised to understand that swearing is the result of an inability to express oneself using better terms.

I've never felt comfortable swearing in front of my parents, really. When I was at the age where I was most likely to fly off the handle and start cursing them out, I knew that it was much better to just avoid communication at all instead. I mean, I COULD curse out my parents if I really wanted to, but now-a-days the desire just isn't there. They pretty much only want to help me out and be helped in return. When your parents treat you as a peer instead of a child, you basically don't resent them anymore.

It's popular and increases their ratings which allows them to shove higher-paying advertisements down the listener's throat.

<3 commercial radio.

It's not a bad song, you guys just love to hate music, is all. If it's a problem, change the station. Or give your opinion to the offending radio stations. As one of the customers they're trying to keep listening, they'd probably value your input that they play something too much. If there's enough people saying they don't want to hear Nickelback as often, then maybe they'll stop playing it.

But when you're coming to Newgrounds to find a common hatred of Nickelback among the userbase, you're pretty much doing the exact same thing you decry the radio stations for doing--sounding like a broken record.

Your network administrator set it up when they set up your home network. You can't 'find it' unless you wrote it down.

If it's WEP, though, there's plenty of tutorials online that'll teach you how to crack the encryption. If you cannot find the key and nobody knows it, your router has a 'reset' button that you need to push with a paperclip or a pen or something that'll reset your router to all the defaults and you'll be able to set a new WEP/WPA passcode.

Also: sometimes the passphrase itself doesn't work when you're putting it into different computers with different NIC cards. If you encounter this problem, just put in the corresponding 64 or 128 bit Hex code and it should work perfectly.

If you guys were learned or even mildly interested in medicine, you'd know they've been researching for years the way that Salamanders and other limb-regenerating animals regrow lost tissue. It's known that humans have the potential to regenerate lost body parts, with the fingers being already particularly prone to the ability to regenerate in children. It's basically a matter of being able to instruct the cells around the site of the cut to regenerate tissue instead of forming a scar.

It would appear as if there's, at least minimally, some way devised to do this already for the fingertips. Seriously though, this is all in a recent issue of Scientific American, probably April or March's.

Happy old man day, old man.

<3 PM system back when you could attach images.

At 4/28/08 05:42 PM, CatherineElizabeth wrote: {.9, .99, .999, .9999. ,.99999, .......}

I'm sure you understand the rule of construction. Find me the least upper bound on this set. That is, find me the number that is greater than all the elements of this set, but is less than all the other numbers which are greater than all elements of this set.

Following your instructions, .999999 would be the number you requested. No matter the size of the set, due to the nature of infinity, you can always add an extra nine to the end of whatever you've written and it will be a larger number than before, while still smaller than the infinite possibilities remaining. Unless we're not following a pattern here, in which case the next number would be x. x = (1.0 x 10^-%u221E) + .99999.

At 4/28/08 04:15 PM, Evark wrote: That part right there, in it's wrongness, is what makes your proof possible. 10x - x = 10.

/me facepalms. I'm an idiot. ORDER OF OPERATIONS.

9.9999999999 - .99999999999 does in fact, equal 9 even.

I still hate this proof. >: (

At 4/28/08 04:06 PM, CatherineElizabeth wrote: 10x - x = 9.9~ - x
9x = 9

That part right there, in it's wrongness, is what makes your proof possible. 10x - x = 10.

If you know any other proofs for 1 = 0.9~, please share them, or if you wish to challenge the validity of my proof or the statement that 1 = 0.9~, feel free to provide a critique.

Regardless, I've seen proofs that do it without mistakes such as the above. I don't agree with them, they simply take advantage of the human inability to express the infinite to prove something stupid. .9~ approaches 1, and continues to become infinitely closer to one, but does not actually equal one.

You'd be arrested before you managed your third. The first would catch local authorities off-guard. But once the second had exploded the authorities would drop 'coincidence' and 'accident' from their vocabulary in describing the events. The reason the third would not be a success is because the matter would be brought to the attention of the federal government in the form of the US Military's commitment to preventing domestic terrorism. Your state's gas stations would be crawling with local police, state police, and perhaps even State and National Guard troops.

You'd be tried and convicted and put away for the duration of your natural life. You'd face the death penalty depending on how many customers' lives were lost in the explosions.

But yea... I guess you're just making a point that gas prices are ridiculous. Though I counter: I've had my license to drive for 5 years now, and even when I first started driving gas prices were all over one dollar a gallon anyway. The lowest I ever saw them in my life was hovering around one dollar when I was very little.

"It is believed that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) could produce one of these micro black holes, but this is highly unlikely due to the relatively small size of the collider. (It is theorized that to create a micro black hole with currently-available materials would require a circular accelerator roughly 1000 light years in diameter). Although the Standard Model of particle physics predicts that LHC energies are far too low to create black holes, some extensions of the Standard Model posit the existence of extra spatial dimensions, in which it would be possible to create micro black holes at the LHC[2][3][4] at a rate on the order of one per second. According to the standard calculations these are harmless because they would quickly decay by Hawking radiation."

Quoted from the wikipedia section "Micro_Black_Holes." Most important part bolded for emphasis.

I'm pretty much convinced I live in the best area on earth. At my ENORMOUS public school, it's pretty much unheard of that anyone who notices someone behind them about to enter/exit a door will hold it for them, at the very least the duration they're within range.

... I use it specifically to ensure cute looking women don't have to hold their own door open. I mean, if you've got a reasonable excuse, why not?

I want you to know that I spent the better part of my morning laughing my ass off at basically every other paragraph this man has written.

Obviously, even he doesn't actually believe the shit he's spewing, but it's just part of the persona he has to maintain for the sake of his livelihood (IE: Stephen Colbert). But yea, shit's hysterical. It's great that he can take so many tired stereotypes and keep them interesting, nay, hilarious.

Seriously, I recommend every one of you read the site, even if you deplore the message. The stuff is so over the top you can't help but be amused.

At 4/25/08 09:08 AM, gumOnShoe wrote:

At 4/25/08 08:00 AM, Magyar wrote: but there is piss on the seat already, I don't want to touch a piss covered seat...

Someone pissed on that seat and someone has to clean it up, I'd prefer it to be the same person, but that doesn't mean you should add to the problem.

Not to mention you should have enough functional brain power to know that the easiest way to lift a toilet seat is from the BOTTOM, not the piss-covered top.

You have my sympathy. I thought about giving detailed instructions such as "this is the lock, use it" "this is a handle you push down on to flush." "This seat has a hinge for your convenience." "The green zone lies in the bowl" "Please flush all paper when finished." etc.

Ha ha ha. That'd be ace. Personally, I don't bother with shutting and locking the door behind me when I'm in the stall for a quick piss. I'm not worried anybody's gonna grab me and spin me around or anything.

I have to say though, its also pretty bad when they don't wash their hands. Its no wonder college is a cesspool of sickness.

I suppose that's true. Though, to be honest, I practically never wash my hands after using the bathroom. I haven't been sick here at school yet this year, despite most everyone around me becoming ill in some way or another. My immune system is pretty much unstoppable. But I also don't piss on myself, so there's not much need.

Fucking amen. And I absolutely love the self-righteous douchebags who try to give you some bullshit about saving water for the third world, or some shit. If there's a place on this earth that doesn't have water, not flushing the toilet as often just plain WON'T help at all. It's just an excuse for you to be a lazy cock-sucker.

I've thought about putting up signs: "FLUSH THE TOILET, YOU FUCKING DOUCHEBAG. IF YOU HAVE A PROBLEM WITH COMMON COURTESY, PLEASE COME TO RM 401 AND KINDLY FIGHT ME. I'LL GIVE YOU A SWIRLY IN YOUR OWN WASTE LIKE THE FILTH YOU ARE."

I routinely flush the toilet BEFORE and AFTER flushing now, since apparently 75% of my peers are stretched assholes.

Yea, as stated, check out the rules page. Also: welcome, enjoy your stay.

At 4/22/08 09:50 PM, Deadly-Shadow wrote: Hey, I take offense to that! I'll have you know that I have very large hands, it's not my hand-eye coordination.

I'm not exactly packing dainty lady-fingers, dude. But yea, I was trying to poke fun at all the people who are like "THE TOUCHSCREEN IS TOO HARD TO USE YOU'LL HIT THE WRONG BUTTONS!"

At 4/22/08 10:10 PM, Brick-top wrote: What's the practicality like? Can you access stuff easily and how is like in $$$?

It's fairly practical. I mean, you can access anything online at any time. AT&T forces you to get an unlimited data plan for an extra 20 dollars a month, so you don't have to worry about how much internet you use on the phone or whatever. Pages load kinda slow when you're on EDGE, but within reason. On Wi-Fi it's a pretty quick load time.

The cool thing about this, too, is that EVERYTHING saveable on the phone you back up on your computer through iTunes. So if you ever do have a problem with your phone and have to send it in to Apple and they end up replacing it for you or whatever else, all you have to do is plug the next one in and everything will be automatically restored.

Stuff's really easy to access on the phone. I mean, you just select something and it loads up. The only frustrating thing I've found is that it doesn't let you set songs as ringtones, like my old phone did. You have to, like, make a ringtone from your library and import it to your phone differently. Hopefully there's a third-party program that'll just let me choose a song for my ringtone from the iPhone's flash memory, because I don't want to take up more space on the phone jumping through their stupid hoops having an extra copy of a piece of a song just to get a stupid ringtone.

Other cool aspects about the third party stuff is that they add on features that the phone may have lacked before. Like, the camera doesn't have any sort of built in zoom or any other effects, but there're programs out there that upgrade the camera to include a digital zoom and all sorts of other effects.

I dunno, ultimately it's up to whatever individual if they are interested in the iPhone enough to justify spending the money on it. Personally, I felt it was worth it since I never bought an iPod before the iPhone, plus I now don't have to buy any sort of navigation system for my car as I originally had wanted, and I have a new phone to replace my broken old one. I feel like the 500 dollars mine cost more than makes up for iPod + navigation + new phone... but maybe some others won't feel that way.

I like mine a lot. It's rare that I hit the wrong button, but maybe because I'm not a fool who lacks hand-eye coordination. I wouldn't recommend the iPhone for you guys who apparently have spatial reasoning on par with most baboons.

But yea, it's really nice for every day use. I recommend getting a decent case for it, because it is fragile. I spent hours researching and found that Otterbox.com provides the only case I would bother with. It doesn't add an excessive amount of bulk to the phone, provides an excessive amount of protection, and looks pretty cool as well.

I've also hacked out my phone so I can do stuff like play NES on it n'shit. There're third party programs people have developed that use the iPhone's microphone to tune guitars, etc. Even though your phone company charges you for using things like AIM, MSN, etc. I'm pretty sure the programs you can download from third parties allow you to AIM without using your texting capabilities, which is cool. If you're thinking about watching and playing flash on Newgrounds, think twice. The iPhone doesn't currently have any sort of flash plugin and it doesn't feel likely that it will any time soon, unless someone hacks together a program as a third party, which is unlikely.

Overall, I'd recommend it. I've had a pleasant experience with mine so far, I just wish flash memory weren't so expensive for reasonable storage. 15GB of usable space is not enough for me, I've got over 30 gigs of music that I wouldn't mind having with me at all times.

At 4/22/08 06:19 PM, Scarab wrote: It makes me sad that it wasn't created solely for The Evark Challenge, but it's always good to learn!

Ha ha ha. How did I never see that thread before today? That's great.

Ultimately, they don't work. Relationships rely on personal interaction and closeness to confirm the feeling for the couple. Body language doesn't lie, though conversation may.

Sure, they work for indefinite periods of time. But the presumption in most long-distance relationships is that the distance is a temporary thing and that eventually the miles won't seperate any longer.

Personally, I could never maintain a long distance relationship again. The last one I had was, in hindsight, far too taxing on my ability to maintain MY life over my relationship.

That's the very reason why I can't just have plain ol' 'Evark' for my screen name. Somebody reversed krave and took it. : (

At 4/19/08 11:27 AM, Captain-Jack wrote: Good on you for being willing to exercise that discretion. But the clear intolerance exists in there being a clearly written rule published which makes it a bannable "offence" (for lack of a better word) for users to post in their native language.

You make it sound a lot worse when you paraphrase it, though. The rule is "Posting excessively in a language other than English for the sole purpose of excluding other users." The possible reaction of "man, that's pretty intolerant" is what's averted when the "English only" rule is qualified as only applying to when you're posting in another language to exclude others.

NG is an international website. It has a huge range of fans spanning the entire globe. I understand if you ban people for breaking substantive rules while speaking another language, but banning people for speaking another language alone is bigoted. It's bigoted because it is discriminatory for no other reason than that person is speaking their own, albeit different, language.

Yea, I guess so. To be fair though, we're not banning them because of any personal intolerance for their language, just the logistics behind allowing its use and consequently potential for abuse. And in defense of the thread you've read, the rule probably started out a lot more heavy-handed. The rules page has since been updated.

The boundaries between nature and subject are always blurred, especially where tools such as babelfish exist to allow one unfamiliar with a foreign language to ascertain what is being said. In circumstances such as those, I believe it would be far easier for me to translate a discussion in another language than it would be for me to translate a topic on advanced rocket science.

Eh, I dunno. Online translators aren't always so reliable. Colloquialisms certainly aren't kept up with, and often offensive swear words are omitted from the translators entirely. That's mostly the problem. Obviously if people were always willing to post reasonably and not trash other users, it might not be a problem, but then we wouldn't even need the rules or moderators in the first place.

And even if that weren't the case, who cares if a topic is exclusionary in that way if it is not breaking any other rules? Users browsing the forums click on a topic, and if it's a topic they wish to participate in, they reply to the post. If they're not interested, they leave it alone. Dire consequence of exclusion averted.

But if it's in another language, they may want to post in the topic but find themselves unable. I know what you're saying here, but you've got to understand how it could be exclusionary to be posting in a different language than what the majority here speak. http://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/8706 35 is a great example. The guy raised a great point, but nobody could really access it. He'd purposely written it in such a way that even though translators would provide you with the jist of his point, you couldn't really respond reasonably without a good grasp on spanish itself.

You're advocating what I believe to be an inherently repugnant rule. And I get the feeling a couple of the other mods just might agree with me, even if you don't. But these other mods would not speak up because they know who created the rule. Therein lies the lack of freedom associated with being a moderator, Evark- doesn't it? You and I know there are a lot of negative things that could be said about the attitudes of a certain person on these forums. And if you don't know it, you'll figure it out soon- believe me. The difference is, I can speak up about situations like these, whereas mods have to keep their mouths shut, or suffer the consequences.

*defending. And yea, my hands are kinda tied in the way you describe, I guess. And yea, there's negatives to most everyone around here, but I'm the sort who just prefers to look at and advance the reasonable and the positive. I could get all up in arms about any policy I don't agree with, or I could just understand where it's coming from, know that I don't really have much more say than anyone else on the subject except that I can state my point well, and move on. That's just my nature, though. You're one who's been around long enough to probably notice that pattern in my posts.

Hell, one of these days I may get banned, or my account may be deleted. But if its over something as important as this- it would be ten times worth it.

I admire your devotion, I suppose. Though selfishly enough, I'd rather you weren't deleted. You're an institution on the Newgrounds I've come to enjoy.

n. One who is strongly partial to one's own group, religion, race, or politics and is intolerant of those who differ.

Meh. It's connotation rather than denotation that makes me think you're over-reacting here. According to that denotation, YOU'RE being bigoted for being intolerant of another's policy and strongly in favor of your own.

People who speak foreign languages can be categorised as falling into a different group, and making it a bannable offence simply for speaking another language is bigotry. Plain and simple.

It's not that simple though. The spirit of the rule is not in excluding other languages so much as it is in avoiding the logistical problems they bring. The website isn't set up to support polylinguism. It's inherently bigoted that the site is entirely in English? Is it intolerance that 99.9% of the userbase here speaks or understands English? Is it entirely unreasonable to request that users keep the discussion in the language EVERYONE here already understands? The rule is trying to promote equality in that most aren't likely to bother translating pages and pages of posts in a different language, including us moderators. And if we're not moderating a discussion, it's not fair to enforce the rules on others who aren't gifted with fluency in a language the moderators don't understand.

Think of it more like a request than absolute law. That's how I take it, anyway. It's a plea for the sake of reasonability that people keep their stuff fair game. It's the same concept that NSFW rules are based on. Some consideration to those who want to still participate in the boards but wouldn't be able to if NSFW stuff was all over the place and unlabelled. The why behind the inability is different here, but it's a similar concept otherwise.

And I want to qualify that my argument here is not for you to necessarily agree with the rule, as I don't necessarily either. But just to understand that it's reasonable and act accordingly, as I do.

At 4/19/08 10:55 AM, Captain-Jack wrote: Not necessarily. I have watched flash movies and played flash games on other sites in another language.

After which, you clearly wandered into the forums or chat, and then started talking to the userbase in English.

In any event, you're missing the point. Sure, a lot of foreign users posting here may be able to speak English as a foreign language, but that does not mean that they should be banned for posting in their native language.

I would tend to agree with this.

Yeah, well you know what? Banning someone for speaking their foreign tongue on an internet site that is freely accessible WORLDWIDE is just a little more "anti-discussionary" than that. More than that, it's intolerant bigotry.

I don't see the intolerance here. Personally, I'd not ban someone for that rule. I'd just ask them to post in English. People respond a lot better to requests rather than orders. But if push came to shove and they insisted on continuing to post in their language, I'd be fine with it.

Why? What's the result? A topic existing that is only relevant for some users to post in? Wow. I've never seen a topic on NG like that before.

It's beyond relevance, though. There's a different sort of exclusion involved in a bunch of users speaking a foreign language here on the forums than someone talking about something like advanced rocket science. One is exclusionary only because of the subject, the other is exclusionary by it's very nature. Sure, the rule is guilty of the same exclusion, I suppose. But it's a little different because most are capable of speaking English in the first place.

Frankly, I'm surprised at you Evark.

It's not MY rule. I can just see where it comes from and understand the reasoning behind it, in addition to being asked to enforce it. I also don't see anyone harmed by it for reasons stated.

Personally, I wouldn't mind participating in a spanish-speaking club or something on here. I'm here enough anyway and would like to become fluent. It's an idea I've kicked around since before the rule was implemented after reading through a few discussions between Ozcar, NemoX, and a few other of our boards Latino members. But... whatever.

I think you're over-reacting when you say it's bigotry and intolerance.

If you're here, you know how to speak English.

... I don't see the problem. The site's entirely in English. Allowing users who may be polylingual to communicate in their native tongue FREQUENTLY is anti-discussionary on an English-speaking website. No other users may participate because only a choice few know the language in the first place. For a forum (ie: group discussion based medium) conversations need to be in the language that its userbase understands.

Sure, it's fine to toss in clips and phrases from another language, or even entire posts in the course of a discussion. You could even have a back and forth exchange. But when you've got a club or topic that's something like "ONLY FRENCH SPEAKERS ALLOWED" (which is how the rule came about in the first place) it's a problem.

Why do you care? You think they're wrong, and according to faith you get yours in the end when those who don't believe in yours are cast into eternal damnation.

Why not?

It's funny, those sorts of things are exactly the reason why I come here over any other forum online in the first place.

Gimme their address, I'll go beat 'em up. I'm about half an hour's drive from where you were pointing.