10,501 Forum Posts by "Evark"
That sounds to me like interference with the cable that is powering it. How did you install it? Most cables are supposed to be electromagnetically shielded, but that isn't necessarily reliable.
Here's what could be happening: another wire could be touching the wire and running parallel to it at some point. When power runs through any wire, it causes a magnetic field to surround the wire, basically loops running perpendicular to the direction of the power flow (ie: if your dick is the power flow and her vag is magnetic field, when you thrust her vag is going to be magnetically polarized in the clockwise direction. When you pull out, it will be polarized in the counter-clockwise direction).
Here's where it gets interesting: if there is a magnetic field surrounding a wire, the wire will have a charge spontaneously. The same way having a charge in the wire spontaneously creates a magnetic field is the same way having a magnetic field spontaneously creates charge in the wire. This is how speakers and microphones work, and is the reason why when you put your cell phone next to a speaker horrible noises come out when the phone sends a signal to a cell tower.
It's hard to diagnose exactly what's happening in this specific instance using only your description, but I think you should evaluate how close the power line is for your flood lamp to any other major power lines. If you can't make changes to the wires, see about the lamp itself. If the break in the circuit is at a switch that is distant from the lamp itself, consider the fact that (as others have said) a ground somewhere is not doing its job properly.
Grounding is the preferred way to deal with the same sort of fluctuation in charge that interference can cause. It gives the spare charge somewhere to go before it can send charge to the equipment in question that is not supposed to receive anything but the exact charge you want to go into it.
So if you can't figure out what's going on with the grounding, it could be as simple as moving the light away from an overhead power line. Or something. Good luck, meng.
Happy birthday man. Your update for sharing your car-smashed face to the facebook world was priceless. I'll share with the BBS:
"I'd hit it. And by 'it', I mean that car with my face."
ROFL. Also : (
Get well soon. And by well, I mean teeth.
Well, you could argue physics. "For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction."
Sounds like a ridiculous hassle. I bought my current USB thumb drive for nothing (thanks, work). But if I had paid for it, it would've been $19.00 US for 16GB of storage.
It's pretty much comparable, without having to buy a card reader that isn't as widespread and easy to use as a USB drive.
As a supplement, this is my second favorite game EVER, and it's only just barely after Super Metroid.
it's fantastic. I once saved up and bought the house before leaving Onett. There's nothing interesting there : (.
At 4/4/11 12:33 PM, Stereocrisis wrote: Hey, if so many people here are intelligent, when I write a thoughtful post, or add something decent to the writing forum, where are the people like you? I have never had an intelligent response to anything meaningful I've ever had to say on this site, EVER.
Well, there're only a few possibilities then:
- Your idea of intelligent response is unreasonable
- Your appraisal of how meaningful your post was is inaccurate
- People who tend to respond interestingly didn't see it
None of those are really the fault of this forum, or its user base... except that it is a large forum with a large user base (and so, naturally, things move faster and receive less overall exposure).
Or, when the "so-called" intelligent people do respond, it's usually a lot of grand-standing and one-ups. I don't see the point in having intelligence if they are going to be dicks about it. You know what I mean? The cocky passive-agressive nerds who think they know it all. You can't have any meaningful conversations here. If you try to get into one, they tell you to google it, and make some asshole comment like, "haven't you ever heard of google?"
You're citing a specific instance of something you've encountered within your general example... ? Smart people don't also have to be nice people. I dunno. I guess it just boils down to the fact that you say you have never had any meaningful conversation on here, whereas I can say (with considerably more experience) that I have had several dozens of meaningful conversations here and several dozens more with people I've met here outside of the forum environment.
So if you're not getting anything out of it when you look to initiate a meaningful or intelligent conversation I don't think it's fair to blame others here for it. Nor is it practical. Nor will it change that fact. You must look to your own behavior as the only variable for getting a good conversation up and running.
At 4/4/11 11:42 AM, Sheizenhammer wrote:At 4/4/11 11:38 AM, Evark wrote: To get respect, one must be respectable.Or have a yellow aura. That works too.
Well, yea. But that's only because it's inherently respectable to have an aura color that requires an administrator to say "hmm, that user's respectable enough to police our shit!"
Hell, if anything it works better than trying to act reasonably on here. Damn kids and their inability to see past some colours on the side of the posts.
Oh, you're British. : b
But yea, people put a lot of value on whether or not someone made them laugh or kept them entertained. The only reason moderators are inherently interesting to read is because there's the chance (however small) that we banned a user or berated someone publicly for sucking on the forums.
Trying not to toot my own horn or anything, just putting it out there.
To get respect, one must be respectable.
So, do things that you think are respectable. If you get respect: great! You've just solidified your understanding of what is respectable. If you haven't? Well... at least you're trying.
You can do ANYTHING quite well if you're willing to put in the work to get good at it. You can't necessarily do ANYTHING as well as someone else, though. Like, even if I really worked hard at it for a long time I'm probably not going to be as good as a professional basketball player. Because I'm 6'... and I can't compete with someone who's been training at basketball for a couple decades who's something like 6'10". But I could probably get pretty darn good.
People don't have 'talent' that makes them innately better than you at something. They have a slight advantage that increases as they train to take better advantage of that small difference that makes them more inclined to be great at something.
Find something you really enjoy and just practice. I've been playing guitar for almost 3 years now. When I started, I couldn't even switch from a G major to a C major chord in under 5 seconds. In the span of 3 years, with a lot of hard work, I can play relatively complex fingerstyle guitar and sing the vocal parts that accompany them. Am I naturally talented? No. I may have a predisposition to finger dexterity because I've been typing on a computer all my life, but it's really just constant practice that has brought me to that level. Am I the best? Obviously not, I don't even consider myself good, just capable.
But that's the point. You NEVER get to be the best. You just get to work hard and improve until you lose interest or can't work at something any more.
Just a mile? Hmm... I KNOW I can do one in 7:00 minutes. But since I was running longer distances I never actually got down to a sub-5:00 mile... or a sub-6:00 for that matter.
12MPH is not an easy pace to maintain. It'd take me some training to get there.
Great, reward the most observant kill-joy.
At 3/28/11 10:53 PM, Datt-Mamon wrote: Ever heard of a witch-hunt? They liked that sort of stuff back then.
That's an unorthodox way of making a point: by referring to something that's so vaguely related almost nobody could decipher that you were paying attention.
And yes, I've heard of witch hunts. In less than a week I will be living in Salem, MA; home of one of the most infamous examples of witch hunts in American history.
At 3/28/11 10:47 PM, Datt-Mamon wrote: Lol, Britain.
What are you talking about?
Innocent until proven guilty only applies to the ideals that our system of law has as it related to the courts. The premise is that you cannot make a determination based on the facts of the case while presuming that one is guilty FIRST. It would make for an unfair trial, thanks to the authoritative nature of the courts.
However, since you're not a member of the court, you're full and well capable of rendering your own judgment: fuck him he's guilty.
Just use Microsoft Security Essentials.
Is there any way you can isolate the URL the trojan came from? NG is pretty stringent about monitoring their advertisements to keep malicious code out, but very rarely things slip through. If you can identify the ad in question, it will go a long way toward sorting out the misdeed.
Also consider that it maybe wasn't actually related to NG, you could have already been infected and it could be going off by coincidence upon a visit here.
I've had my license since I was 16. I, too, have a love of driving. It extends beyond normal enjoyment, however. I go for joyrides both on beautiful summer days AND on days where winter is throwing it's worst at the region.
Currently, I drive a 1996 Volvo 850 sedan. It's terrible in every way. By the end of the week, I'll be slipping into a new (to me) VW Jetta from 2003. 6 Speed, 200 horses, and most importantly: not formerly owned and neglected by my mother.
... Said the user with quick launch icons on his flashy operating system's taskbar UI. After using an image processing GUI to save the image he captured of his screen. While using his internet browsing UI to upload said image to the forum.
We can. Are you asking why we don't? Because one isn't practical and the other is a luxury few care to afford.
Mine too!
Oh wait, nevermind. Just yours.
Oh... that's boring. I DO have permissions to ban anyone I want for 30 days for any reason... I just don't want to.
Yea, he was clearly blind. I was really pissed at the ending. Because even though I liked most of the movie, I did not like the blindness. There were clues he was blind throughout the film... but they throw you off with things that people who aren't blind do. Stopping to choose a road at the beginning, waking up from sunlight, and a few other things I noticed. It all added up to just being annoyed at the ending, rather than enthralled.
Stop answering. Or grow some balls and say "please don't call my cell phone for work related things."
Ascending order of largest possible number. The other way seems arbitrary and chaotic.
Thankfully, Newgrounds uses the correct date format.
At 3/21/11 05:46 AM, gamejunkie wrote: Windows 7 is pretty damn good, but it has one major drawback. You cant connect your Nintendo Wii to the rest of the world to play games online. Which sucks because I love playing Mario Kart and SSBB with the rest of the world.
Wait, what? Explain what you're trying to do here because that just sounds wrong and maybe I can point you in the right direction.
By the way. There is ZERO reason not to get Windows 7. People who say "XP IS BETTER" are stupid. Windows 7 (provided your hardware supports virtualization) can build a VM that runs XP Mode, which basically means that we heard you like Windows XP so we put a Windows XP in your Windows 7 so you can Windows while you Windows.
^idiots ('cept the one dude that posted some searches to try to help, he's cool)
There is more than one way to run internet explorer. You are running it in such a way that the browser itself disables all add-ins. It's kind of like how you can start outlook or another Office product in 'safe mode'.
I assume you are running IE from some shortcut you've created somewhere? Try browsing to the IE folder in 'program files'. This depends on what version of Windows you are running. In Vista, IE is not an uninstallable program, it is actually a windows component.
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windo ws-vista/Internet-Explorer-add-ons-frequ ently-asked-questions to start your search.
Look, guys. We don't expect you to understand why 2003 was the best. We're not even sure we get it either. That's the unfortunate thing, though. No matter how little you think any particular sign up date can matter, the fact that 2003 is the best remains. Facts like that aren't subject to debate.
Pancakes suck compared to waffles and they both pale in comparison to french toast.
Also... why the fuck are you eating crunchy waffles? Someone's doing it wrong. You saying you don't want something crunchy for breakfast and therefore don't eat waffles is like me saying I didn't want to have sex with the priest so I never served as an altar boy.
