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For a mobile surfer, there was nothing more annoying on Newgrounds than a large banner as for a free game app. A single misplaced tap could tab a phone out to the App Store, wasting 15 seconds. There was…until now.

The makers of Cookie Jam have managed to circumvent the need for a tap to be made! Now, every time I load any NG page, I am redirected to the App Store and encouraged to download a free game full of sweets, blingy sound effects, and brightly saturated contrasting colors.

For the love of DoD, please make it stop!

@TomFulp @liljim @Brentheman @supergandhi64

At 10/1/14 01:45 AM, Gagsy wrote: This is funny. So a cheerleading photo is waved about with the message "Get mad feminists" practically. Feminists are like well no its their own choice, fair play to those cheerleaders and now they get told WHY they should be mad about it. Give up.

Being female doesn't automatically make you a feminist. That should be obvious to you since you are not one. You can't magically become and identify with a movement for social justice whenever it becomes opportune while simultaneously defeating its core tenet by supporting the opposition.

I can't tell you a thing about females in American football (just as I couldn't name a single male player), I could tell you about the women involved in actual football though. A small number granted but a ever growing one, and that is the statistic that matters.

First order growth statistics aren't even relevant yet. Women who wish to play football are laughed off the field long before they're given a chance to demonstrate their skills. It's unthought of. Unheard of. Not considered. We might as well try to include more than one gay male in the NFL.

Women have their own leagues to play in for all sports, if they want to spend their time as underpaid sideshow athletes with a millionth of the audience and a million times the snide accusations of homosexuality.

Feminism. True feminism, not the apologetic half-assed bullshit you're trying to sell us, has a long campaign ahead of itself. Its interests are not well-served when females claim to also be feminists and yet ignore basic facts.

At 10/1/14 12:34 AM, Piper wrote:

At 9/30/14 11:54 PM, ohbombuh wrote: Those women are choosing their careers, enjoying themselves, and deciding what they want to look like. How is that out of line with feminism?

This.

Oh, swell. Women are allowed to dance on the sidelines and pretend to be trophies handed out to the strongest males. How egalitarian!

Can you name every female professional football player in the NFL, AFL, CFL, College league, or High School leagues? Can you name every female coach, team owner, or commentator? Are any of the women involved in professional sports on a national level honored for more than their looks and recessive, inviting personality?

You could memorize the whole list in five minutes. Or write it on the back side of a fortune cookie.

The edit I was making:

Typing for NGBBS on an older iPhone is an unforgiving task

I make several points in my diet to focus on consuming more water than the quantities for which my body thirsts. I stay away from sugars, completely abstain from alternative sweeteners, and prefer to eat a high protein meal. I use Olive Oil as often as possible, though research into the sources for several brands has led me to conclude that very little of the Olive Oil I consume is actually derived from Olive Trees. That could be seen as an unwilling restriction on my olive diet.

I avoid drinks served in soft plastics, laminated papers, especially if the drinks are hot, the ambient temperature is hot, or my pH is acidic. I stow my water in glass jars as well. The easiest way to explain this practice is that I choose to use cutlery, glasses, plates, containers, and tools based primarily on their materials and method of production. High melting points and lattice resistance to fracture are preferable.

I make several points in my diet to focus on consuming more water than the quantities for which my body thirsts. I stay away from sugars, completely abstain from alternative sweeteners, and prefer to eat a high protein meal. I use Olive Oil as often as possible, though are search into the sources for several brands has les me to conclude that very little of the Olive Oil I consume is actually derived from Olive Trees. That could be seen as an unwilling restriction on my olive diet.

At 9/28/14 08:06 PM, Xenomit wrote: hitler was genuinely not evil.

"Guten tag, Herr Hácha. I shall be invading your homeland, my forces will overwhelm and annihiliate any opposition in the kindest of manners. We shall extirpate any Jews or people who have been found associating with said Jews upon your lands, casting fear of further genocide onto your youth for the dawn of a global empire which seeks to utilize sciences to sculpt the human species to achieve ends determined by a small group of elitists.

I noticed you are having a heart attack. May I telephone you a nurse? We may delay the discussion of your surrender shortly."

(Not how it went^^)

At 9/28/14 04:20 PM, Manly-Chicken wrote: No.
Who are they hurting?

They are hurting the entire species.

In the early middle of the 20th century, as a result of the misplaced trust in a single government over 6 million people were hunted down, abducted, stripped of their status as humans, worked to death, exterminated, and demonized by several nations. Government officials purged the evidence that these people ever existed from many of the official records and stowed the only remaining evidence as trash to be disposed with.

The lesson learned both by Germans and others who did not live through this event but live in Central Europe is that the most horrific and destructive outcomes can arise from trusted political procedures. The lesson the rest of the world has taken from our response to that event is that ignoring or denying the existence of genocide, massive evil, or conspiracy to commit mass destruction contributes to the harm which befalls the victims of those crimes against humanity.

The lesson that the next generation chooses to learn from the event should not be that it is a comedy routine, a point of philosophical debate, or an invented historic narrative. We should learn that it is a real outcome which can arise from ignorance.

At 9/28/14 01:46 PM, Idiot-Finder wrote:

At 9/28/14 12:44 PM, Greasegoat wrote: No. You should be able to say whatever you want.

Including death threats?

Should death threats be illegal?

At 9/23/14 08:00 PM, Sensationalism wrote: Good, the mods will actually have something to do instead of nipping potential topics of conversation in the bud and ruining any discussion.

Shots fired. Precinct GEN-1. All units in the area are advised to be on the lookout for a super fabulous pink-as-fuck gang banger wielding a tommy gun licking a salt lamp.

At 9/23/14 05:52 PM, liljim wrote:

At 9/23/14 03:59 PM, Ama wrote:

At 9/23/14 09:57 AM, Slint wrote: Finally I'll be able to call all you moderators and admins a bunch of faggots and then undo it when necessary.

We're in this together Slunt.

Excellent, you will present the moderators with the opportunity to use the 10 year bans.

The first seven years of which must be spend hiking to Tibet and courting seamstresses.

At 9/23/14 10:46 AM, SCTE3 wrote:

At 9/23/14 10:28 AM, Profanity wrote: "Here is how Jane Doe ended up in prison. On January 28, while living at a juvenile facility in Massachusetts—where she was serving a sentence for assault—she allegedly attacked a staff member, biting her, pulling her hair, and kicking her in the head. This kind of behavior wasn't new for Doe. The director of the Connecticut Juvenile Training School, a correctional facility for boys, later testified in court that, since Doe was nine, police have been called 11 times while she was in state facilities. He said she sometimes smeared feces on herself. Another supervisor claimed Doe regularly "exhibited assaultive behaviors," targeting female staff and other juveniles."

"According to Doe's lawyer, Aaron Romano, the most recent incident was sparked when a male staffer at the Massachusetts facility put Doe in a bear hug restraint from behind. "This is a girl who has been sexually abused," Romano says. "She is inclined to interpret actions with that view." DCF declined to comment on the incident, but the female staff member Doe allegedly attacked did not press charges. The male staffer has since been dismissed."

"Abby Anderson, executive director of the Connecticut Juvenile Justice Alliance, says Doe's incarceration is the result of a broken system of juvenile care. "We don't have a good sense of where our system has its strengths and weaknesses," she says. One problem, she says, is a lack of adequate mental-health care: Government data shows that 52 percent of girls in DCF custody or on parole have trauma disorders, and 89 percent had more than one diagnosed psychological disorder. Anderson says the state also doesn't have enough mechanisms for detecting and preventing sexual abuse. "We need to make sure this system is shored up so this never happens again…If you have a 16-year-old, you need to make her feel safe and put her in a place where she can trust people.""

J.D. was violent to the point that staff members needed to apply physical restraints, at which point (s)he escalated the situation. And that is hardly the only event in J.D.'s record. Smearing fæces all over one's self, attacking one's peers, and attacking staff means a lot more than you make it out to mean.

All the more reason why the decisions of both Massachusetts and Connecticut have worked in the favor of all parties. J.D. was given treatment at a score of facilities specifically geared toward aiding young people with the same problems. Transgender, minority, rape victim orphans might make a great tag line for Tumblr posts looking to fight other peoples battles, but they're not exactly uncommon or outside the expertise of hundreds of mental health professionals who have been charged with the rehabilitation of this particular child.

Cherry picking things is nice. You forget she's had a shitty past, the violence is most likely instinct. When you've been through that much shit, you're not going to react to many things very well.

Is "shit" the only adjective in your vocabulary? And that's why most of your "logic" includes ignoring evidence?

You're an emotional and irrational person.

This is rich, coming from the user who tends to be irrational towards almost everyone on here for no good reason.

Uh. Huh. That's you, guy.

A violent and obviously mentally unstable individual has been in state custody in two separate states which are both extremely progressive. It's not because that individual is a sexual or racial minority. It's not because that individual is a rape victim or an orphan. Authorities have requested tighter security around this individual who has attempted to escape, managed to escape, and attacked the staff at several facilities.

And placing her in more confinement is never going to help. If they expect her to get better, they need to give her therapists and the such, not isolate her from everyone.

(S)he can't be released to society. (S)he already ran through the mental health options in two of the only states most equipped to help. Sometimes the only option is prolonged custody. What possible further solution could there be?

"Here is how Jane Doe ended up in prison. On January 28, while living at a juvenile facility in Massachusetts—where she was serving a sentence for assault—she allegedly attacked a staff member, biting her, pulling her hair, and kicking her in the head. This kind of behavior wasn't new for Doe. The director of the Connecticut Juvenile Training School, a correctional facility for boys, later testified in court that, since Doe was nine, police have been called 11 times while she was in state facilities. He said she sometimes smeared feces on herself. Another supervisor claimed Doe regularly "exhibited assaultive behaviors," targeting female staff and other juveniles."

Source

At 9/23/14 12:11 AM, SCTE3 wrote: committing no crimes.
Thoughts?

You're an emotional and irrational person.

A violent and obviously mentally unstable individual has been in state custody in two separate states which are both extremely progressive. It's not because that individual is a sexual or racial minority. It's not because that individual is a rape victim or an orphan. Authorities have requested tighter security around this individual who has attempted to escape, managed to escape, and attacked the staff at several facilities.

Is this something to do with granting thread starters the ability to lock and delete their own threads?

At 9/22/14 02:59 AM, SentForMe wrote:

At 9/15/14 04:42 PM, Profanity wrote:

At 9/15/14 04:05 PM, CiviLies wrote: I think it'd be kinda neat if we can 3D print oil.

3D printed hybrid electric/gasoline cars fed by 3D printed solar cells on a decentralized smart grid and gasoline produced by bacteria consuming household or neighborhood waste is entirely plausible.

Plausible sure, but the money and infrastructure to make it happen aren't there yet. Ultimately that is the most important factor in all of these innovations. Many such inventions and patents sit in dusty folders or computers for decades before someone can come up with a profitable use for them and drum up the requisite cash to make it happen. This car on the other hand at least seems to have both. That's not to say it won't fail to be profitable, but at least its a start.

Once they start building 3D cars like this, profitably other investors and companies that were sitting on the sidelines will likely feel comfortable enough to throw some cash at other 3D printer ideas, like the solar cells you mentioned. The other things you mentioned fall into that category too; things we know how to do, just not profitably on and at scale. They also need to be more profitable than the alternatives, otherwise it becomes a whole lot less likely that the technology will take off.

The infrastructure to build a decentralizing smart grid isn't "there" yet? That depends on where you're referring to. Liberia doesn't have the infrastructure needed, but Europe and America do. It's not like they're lacking in information about where power is going—America and Europe actively seek out communications data or hour party consent in order to supply other industries with targeted information. Or the capacity to upgrade their networks—most components on the grid are replaced within 20 years without regulation interfering with the schedules. Decentralizing is just the next step after that. A current regulator is added to every house with a power generator (solar, wind, hydro, combustion, anything else) and their home computer is given access to a relay network.

The first step requires an initial investmsnt from the government, America dîd that in the 90s. The second requires utilities companies to buy more expensive parts when they replace transformers and install regulators on the existing public infrastructure. The third only requires homeowners to pay money to earn more money.

At 9/20/14 12:28 PM, MykeiXWolfe wrote: Who?

An old school user named BananaBreadMuffin who had been a regular and moderator here.

At 9/20/14 01:09 PM, HeavenDuff wrote: You're not as clever as you think you are.

You are such a fucking stupid tool. Do you even manage to breathe though your nose or is it written on a checklist by your handlers?

edit:
I got that backwards.

In America, students are taught to nest the punctuation marks within the quotes and informed of the differences between the American rules and the rules in other parts of the former British Empire.

At 9/20/14 11:37 AM, Earfetish wrote: you're welcome

Except in America, the magical land wherein the proper format for quotation marks is to always nest them within sentence punctuation unless quoting a phrase which itself contains punctuation.

My reply is: "I hate FunkBRS, Otto, Slint, and Tox."

At 9/18/14 08:53 AM, i-am-ghey wrote: But the situation is even worse if you get a research degree and fails to find a job in the academia. You qualification is so high that even McDonald would refuse to hire you.

That's fascinating.

Fast food is basically idiot-proof these days. They hire based on looks only. BUT knowing McDonalds and being somewhat acquainted with hiring practices in SE Asia:

I think that has more to do with the need to hire fewer people by focusing on those who wouldn't be seeking new jobs while employed there and ensure that their qualifications aren't a leverage for higher wages or disruptive scheduling.

At 9/17/14 09:21 PM, aListers wrote: Apparently college also means university in America.

A college in America is usually a smaller independent school or a specializing school located within a larger institution. For example, Harvard College is the name for the original campus buildings and central admitting liberal arts school within Harvard University at large, which is the entire holdings of the entity. Those holdings include over a dozen schools, buildings, facilities, land, research locations, etc which would be referred to as part of the University but not the College. Except by embarrassed Harvard students, who refer to it as "a school in Boston".

"Implying"?

No, it's straight up saying that the events of Star Wars occurred in a distant galaxy sometime in the past. The implications are that life exists outside of Earth, the Solar System, the Milky Way.

Some implications after watching the series is that the human form is somehow attuned to the inner workings of the greater universe, that slight alterations on the human form in different species gives the human form the ability to thrive in diverse environments, and rare mystical or mechanical abilities give humans the power to travel a galaxy or control the basic fabric of existence.

It's dumb. George Lucas was cutting up the old cliché "A long time ago" and the SciFi frenzy of the 70s.

At 9/15/14 05:03 PM, CiviLies wrote:

At 9/15/14 04:42 PM, Profanity wrote:

At 9/15/14 04:05 PM, CiviLies wrote: I think it'd be kinda neat if we can 3D print oil.

3D printed hybrid electric/gasoline cars fed by 3D printed solar cells on a decentralized smart grid and gasoline produced by bacteria consuming household or neighborhood waste is entirely plausible.

Wow... E. Coli to producing diesel fuel? That's...really fucking cool, actually.

Innit. E. Coli is a marvelous little bacterial ally. We have them pooping out propane, several grades of gasoline, diesel, refining rare earth metals, producing medicines, steroids, hormones, shepherding other bacteria, and more shit for which I don't feel like googling all the links.

At 9/15/14 04:05 PM, CiviLies wrote: I think it'd be kinda neat if we can 3D print oil.

3D printed hybrid electric/gasoline cars fed by 3D printed solar cells on a decentralized smart grid and gasoline produced by bacteria consuming household or neighborhood waste is entirely plausible.

At 9/13/14 05:13 PM, Profanity wrote: It was an attempt at rewriting history while the world recovered from two of the largest wars on record. And it was mostly successful: modern schoolchildren, military members, adults, and politicians all believe that this nation was founded principly as a religious state.

And it soldiers on to this very day in the hands of the children and grandchildren of this historical renovation.

Proposed Texas textbooks are inaccurate, biased and politicized, new report finds

The findings:

• A number of government and world history textbooks exaggerate Judeo-Christian influence on the nation’s founding and Western political tradition.

• Two government textbooks include misleading information that undermines the Constitutional concept of the separation of church and state.

• Several world history and world geography textbooks include biased statements that inappropriately portray Islam and Muslims negatively.

• All of the world geography textbooks inaccurately downplay the role that conquest played in the spread of Christianity.

• Several world geography and history textbooks suffer from an incomplete – and often inaccurate – account of religions other than Christianity.

• Coverage of key Christian concepts and historical events are lacking in a few textbooks, often due to the assumption that all students are Christians and already familiar with Christian events and doctrine.

• A few government and U.S. history textbooks suffer from an uncritical celebration of the free enterprise system, both by ignoring legitimate problems that exist in capitalism and failing to include coverage of government’s role in the U.S. economic system.

• One government textbook flirts with contemporary Tea Party ideology, particularly regarding the inclusion of anti-taxation and anti-regulation arguments.

• One world history textbook includes outdated – and possibly offensive – anthropological categories and racial terminology in describing African civilization.

• A number of U.S. history textbooks evidence a general lack of attention to Native American peoples and culture and occasionally include biased or misleading information.

• One government textbook … includes a biased – verging on offensive – treatment of affirmative action.

• Most U.S. history textbooks do a poor job of covering the history of LGBT citizens in discussions of efforts to achieve civil rights in this country.

• Elements of the Texas curriculum standards give undue legitimacy to neo-Confederate arguments about “states’ rights” and the legacy of slavery in the South. While most publishers avoid problems with these issues, passages in a few U.S. history and government textbooks give a nod to these misleading arguments.

At 9/12/14 02:44 PM, Nickisabi wrote: The presence of God in oaths of office and in the pledge of allegiance is being seen as a form of worship when really it isn't

God is figurative. Swearing to God is symbolic of devotion and commitment, not a mindless oath to a higher being. We say "under God" in the pledge of allegiance because the only thing over our authority would be an omniscient being. It doesn't matter whether or not he exists or if he is worshiped. What matters is the poetic wording.

I could give a fuck less if they took it out of the allegiance or not, because I could still say "under God" if I wanted to.

The phrase "under God" was added to the Pledge of Allegiance beginning as a grassroots effort by chaplains, Christian groups, and lobbyists intent in Christianizing the United States in the years following World War II. The original pledge did not include those two words.

The phrase "In God We Trust" was adopted as a motto and added to the design of our paper currency during the same Christian religious push.

The same effort attempted to reform the public awareness of the founding fathers as religiously intended, pious, and Christian. They added "under God" to famous speeches including the Gettysburg Address, invented fictitious chapters to be added to autobiographies, and butchered the authorship of great American thinkers to include biblical references and religious sentiments. They introduced new interpretations of old laws, famously indoctrinating students into the belief that the First Amendment protects religious worship and not atheist or intellectual freedom.

It was an attempt at rewriting history while the world recovered from two of the largest wars on record. And it was mostly successful: modern schoolchildren, military members, adults, and politicians all believe that this nation was founded principly as a religious state.

A quick rundown of the Christianization of the Air Force:

Since the beginning of the Bush Presidency, the USAF has been systematically invaded by an Evangelical Christian religious group who have slowly worked to cozy up with cadets and push their supporters into higher and higher ranks. Or to aid in hiring church members as civilian staff. The Air Force Academy in Boulder, Co is located in the heart of a very religious pocket. There is an unlimited supply of religious proslytization at and inside the academy.

The entire Air Force is infected. This is not an isolated incident, and the academy isn't the only site of infection.

The ACLU has been fighting this for at least 5 years. News outlets have reported on it for at least 10 years. It's been happening for at least 15 years.

At 9/10/14 03:16 PM, mysteriouslila wrote:

I hate when people write lyrics using "they" instead of he or she. I can't think of a specific example right now but I always notice it and think it's silly.

Waaaait. Wait. So the use of "they" is actually a syntaxically wrong??? But I thought I was wrong when using he or she or trying to twist the sentence in order to use "one" when the gender wasn't identified. I thought using "they" for unspecified gender was the way to go since I read it in many press articles. It's not?

I can't find anything about this in my English Grammar book.... HALP

"Syntactically"

They as a singular gender neutral pronoun is a new addition to American English. You wouldn't find it in a grammar textbook. It might be in Gender Studies textbooks, though.

At 9/9/14 04:15 PM, Phobotech wrote: ...are won't to do...

Was that a typographical error or do you need a correction? It's "w o n t". The word WONT is often mistaken for the word WANT and the contraction WON'T.

When the winner Juan won, he waxed, "Won't wanton women be wont to want wonton soup for one won?" and waned.

The Knick
from Steven Soderbergh
fith Clive Owen
and Eve Hewson

One
Two

"A look at the professional and personal lives of the staff at New York's Knickerbocker Hospital during the early part of the twentieth century."

Science is a fancy word for knowledge. It is a mode of thought which has been used to answer important questions about the physical and reproducible events in the environment

The inaccuracies of human language and the complexity of individual human minds allows people to invent an infinite number of new questions with the goal of confusing children, ignorant people, and philosophy majors.