Mass of a substance ALWAYS stays constant when heated. Weight however, may change only because some of the substance could evaporate and be lighter than air.

DENSITY changes when a substance is heated. Usually to a smaller density, except in the case of solid ice into liquid water in which case the density gets bigger (Water is the only substance who's solid form floats when immersed in its liquid form).

You've got a lot of basic chemistry skills to learn.

Moderators aren't demodded for lack of activity ever because once they've been trusted with administrative priveleges on the site it generally doesn't change. De-modding someone for being inactive basically says to moderators that they have to stay active all the time if they want to remain a moderator, and as a result most will burn themselves out over it.

Wade doesn't want moderators burnt out on moderating.

Oh, and 50 moderators isn't all that large of a number considering the forum's numbers. (9,935 posts made yesterday, by 1,492 different users.)

Almost 10,000 posts a day by 1,500 users? That means moderators should be seeing upwards of 200 posts each a day, and covering 25 users each. I think that's a fair amount, considering the mature posters are the ones that also have outside obligations.

ALSO: I don't know if that stat includes threads and posts that get deleted daily or not. I suspect it doesn't, which means we're moderating a lot more than the numbers show (probably a thousand or two more posts daily).

I think we're right where we need to be, factoring in moderator inactivity.

At 1/26/06 12:39 AM, iscRulz wrote:

At 1/25/06 04:07 PM, Evark wrote: or do moderators in the top 2,000 already just qualify doubly?

bbs mods have no privilege, its just exp and activity.

Read this again. Specifically, the fourth paragraph:

The panel of judges doesn't stop with the top 2,000 users, however. Every nominated artist is also eligible to vote. For submissions with multiple authors, only the author who submitted the file is allowed to vote. Additionally, site moderators are eligible to vote.

I was wondering because if modship doesn't over ride being a top 2,000 active experience user, it should so that a couple more people eager to vote will get the chance.

yeah happy go smilie and paldin4 will win.

I'm aiming for Kol-Belov's submission that Rabid- linked. That guy's not my favorite artist for nothin'. ;-)

Oh, and Tom, liljim, Wade, whoever. You guys might want to consider updating the picture provided in the /monthlyvote.html page. Since there's no more pop-up menu.

Happy birthday, Carm. :-)

::raises glass::

Here's to many more.

At 1/26/06 03:18 AM, Monocrom wrote: When she's not busy modding, Carmilla (A.K.A. - Mary) makes extra money by posing in high-class Italian art magazines.

Ha ha ha. That picture makes her look just like Christina Ricci. Well done.

Also: BRS: Awesome job on my photoshop, not sure if I mentioned it before, but certainly well-done.

Locked and saved for greatness.

XD

I have absolutely ZERO new ideas. Plus fireworks hates me (I'm showing my noobness in the world of photo editing with this one).

At 1/25/06 11:27 PM, Dralnur wrote: Aw, they removed the picture.

If I hadn't caught it less than a minute after you posted it (in other words guarenteeing I was the first to see it) I probably would have banned you. Not safe for work, dude. :-/

At 1/25/06 11:21 PM, tigerkitty wrote: Bring you dad over, he could probably learn something.

"Ohhhh... so THAT'S how you do it! Wait a minute... I've never done it that way..."

LEWL

You could just reveal your Dad's sexual incompetance, your illegitimacy, AND your mom's promiscuous nature all with one German picture book!

Sounds like a great deal to me.

Oh, and it was hilarious, I laughed especially at the birth pictures.

He's enjoying a delicious Gooch Christmas Milkshake. It looked to be devilishly sugary, but I've yet to try it unfortunately. I'll have to attempt the recipe next year.

We've got a spot in our profile for favorite movies of all time.

I don't think you'd have very much fun with that. It's mostly uric acid (hence urine) but the water you'd get from it would probably only last about one time of recycling. Your body would notice you weren't taking in new water so it would stop getting rid of it (You'd stop sweating, pissing, anything that uses water and uric acid).

I dunno. I vote once.

From what I've heard, there are reasons behind the move not taking place beyond what's been mentioned.

I think it'd be great if webchat were kicked fairly quickly from the chat circle. It undergoes netsplits every day often more than once, it has upped security past the point of convenience and to the point of annoyance. Flood protection has been upped and I'm guessing you've been akilled for half an hour and that is part of the reason for this thread (It's happened to almost everyone recently).

Not to mention the fact that Newgrounds has no control over server administration. So if someone steals a name there's nothing anybody can do about it.

I would certainly welcome the switch.

I think Newgrounds just gets better and better. Otherwise there would be less and less visitors every month, when instead there is more and more. The charts show that unique page views a day just keep going up and up steadily over time, which means Newgrounds is doing something right.

Not to mention 2006 really feels like a year where a lot of things that have been talked about for a while will finally be fully implemented. Things like the new profiles, more Audio Portal integration, other special features, the PM thing Tom mentioned on AotS, and the other stuff he was hinting about in an interview I read a while back.

This should be an exciting year indeed.

Satan isn't actually a fallen angle, he's Tom Selleck's only in-grown moustache hair.

Tom Selleck makes the world go round.

Tom Selleck's clipped moustache hair can cure cancer. Unfortunately, Tom Selleck doesn't need to shave.

The term "renaissance man" was coined as the first expression to synonymize Tom Selleck.

Everyone says the Great Gatsby is this great book, but I only got about halfway through with it before I gave up.

My absolute worst book reading experience though was with David Copperfield by Charles Dickins.

The book is about the thickness of an unabridged English dictionary, and about as interesting to read. I got to about page 700 or so and the story STILL HADN'T FUCKING PICKED UP.

My dad was forcing me to read it because it was a classic piece of literature, so I was forced to go to the library all day during the summer (about 5 hours a day) for two weeks to read that piece of shit and I did almost everything but. I would walk around, read other books, go outside, and then slowly work on the book. It was fucking awful.

I think after a couple of weeks I had purged the book entirely from my memory. I only remember two or three scenes from the drawling long-winded ass-fest, but that could be because in 700 pages he had only managed to describe two or three scenes.

John Steinbeck books = awesome though, anyone who says otherwise doesn't like them. >:-(

*January (see title)

I should probably vote this month, as I haven't for the past couple. I did have a question though, are moderators subtracted from the top 2,000 active experience users giving other users a shot to vote, or do moderators in the top 2,000 already just qualify doubly?

Good luck to all those who qualify.

At 1/25/06 01:50 AM, wan_tan_soup14 wrote: I've been like this for a damn long time. Well, in comparison to most people facing depression, probably not very long. i'm just sick and tired of this shit. I can't keep feeling like shit every day. feeling alone all the time. I HATE it. it's like i missed out on life and went straight to hell, or purgatory, or some shit like that. when does it end? When?!

It ends when you want it to. I felt like I was depressed and like life was pointless for upwards of 2 years twice in my life. The first time I felt better by befriending better people, the second time it was by gathering the self-esteem necessary to reach out to my current girlfriend. You just keep going, and eventually things get better because you just stop the shit.

I dunno, with all this shit happening it makes me wonder whether I should turn to God or something. I was rigid on my descision about religion before, but now I dunno. I'll take any sort of comfort at this point.

Whatever works. Some find comfort in social efforts, some with God, some with drug use, etc. There's extremes for every comfort though, so take those into consideration before attempting to self-medicate (whether physically, emotionally, socially, spiritually, or mentally).

Hey, thanks for the back up. I appreciate it.

For every asshole willing to tell you that you are indeed the piece of shit you feel like, there's someone else willing to offer that isn't true.

If, nothing else, you continue and do well just to spite those nay-sayers.

It's not emo or whatever other shit, it's just how things can be. Not everybody shares everyone else's experiences, feelings, reactions, or whatever else. Sometimes people forget that.

At 1/25/06 01:33 AM, HinesDaMan wrote: Hey Evark! >:(

I'll be waving my hand,
watching you drown,
watching you scream,
quiet or loud.

>:-)

GumonShoe: I'm similar. Only it's usually "meh" and then "HOLY AWESOME" after a while. Since it's meh I'll listen just because it's something different and then after a while I'm listening because I find it awesome. It's odd how it all works.

At 1/25/06 01:28 AM, gumOnShoe wrote: Mind if I ask what genre it is?

It's a rockish genre. A lot of their songs are initially difficult to stomache, and occasionally the lead singer sounds like Billy Corgan (Lead singer of the Smashing Pumpkins), but then he can also be really melodic. I've been listening to a lot of these songs over and over again once I actually heard what I was listening to. They're certainly an interesting band.

Oh, and thanks for reinstating faith in humanity. I always worry with these sorts of topics, and someone always reassures me.

Lying awake
Don't ask why you should pay for this.
You mother,
another,
a shameless abusing;
but this time we're saving you.

People don't like to admit that they can relate to some random 15 year old over the internet who looks so weak opening up to other people and is admitting he is finding life difficult.

For some reason, they see empathy as a weakness, and sympathy as the same. Shame.

I feel you, dude. All sorts of things can feel pointless at all sorts of inopportune times, but just hang in there. Things will get better, if not because you've hit rock bottom then because eventually you will, and from that point there is only positive change to be had.

Girls will be girls. Hormones are difficult. The only reason anyone else here can tell you about it is because they lived through it also. They may try to forget it, but they were right there with you at some point in their lives. I hope it makes you feel better that regardless of whether or not people offer their empathy that they they actually DO know how you feel.

Good luck, man.

I hate being tickled. It is the only thing that can entirely ruin the experience of laughter. It feels too out of control for me, which is slightly hypocritical because it's great to participate in side-splitting laughter otherwise.

I just don't like that one person ultimately has me so conveniently disabled. It's not fun for me to be tickled, I put all my efforts into stopping the person tickling from continuing to do it at any cost while restraining the laughter. Which puts me at odds with my girlfriend, because she enjoys tickling me with the chance that I'll laugh. Sure, I tickle her, but she at least enjoys it and stops laughing afterwards with a huge grin on her face.

At 1/25/06 12:20 AM, -poxpower- wrote: I am just posting to acknowledge your existance and give you the attention you so desire.

Hey pox, that was an awesome post dude. Well done. It was clever, but at the same time really subtle. I don't understand how you can be so awesome. It's almost completely unfathomable.

Wow.

Just... wow.

At 1/24/06 11:39 PM, MoralLibertarian wrote: Hey, should terrorists have all the protections of the United States Constitution when they are living in the United States?

Sure. After all, terrorists is far to unspecific, and they haven't done anything until they've done something. Ever see the movie "Minority Report"? How pre-emptive can we get in our efforts to stop the vague "terrorist threat" that is looming over the United States (which is funny, since we're the most powerful nation in the world) before you're just plain violating civil rights?

A visitor to this country is granted every right and freedom all American citizens enjoy, except for the right to vote. Why should we change this because somebody threatens us? It's hypocritical. The current administrations suggests that we cannot let our way of life be interrupted and changed by terrorist threats, yet they continue to change our way of life in order to prevent "the terrorists" from getting us.

You know what terrifies me more than the threat of some foreigners who hate our policies and are being snubbed? The fact that these new laws and protections effectively snub the same sort of people WITHIN our country who offer dissent. Simply apply the undefined characteristic of "terrorist" to someone and you're all set to tap their phones, hold them indefinitely, search and seize without warrant, and a whole bunch of other goodies that our Constitution strictly forbids.

The number needs to be set somewhere, no matter how arbitrary it may feel, it has to be put in place somewhere. There's no way you can expect the government to examine individual maturity on a case by case basis and make a decision, either individually or overall.

The number is set at 18. Changing it to 16 would do nothing since 18-24 year olds are already the most apathetic group when it comes to voting in the poper people who would be in favor of such a change, and those older who vote more aren't invested in giving more rights to the young arrogant assholes that flip them off while driving by them at 90 miles an hour.

There's no public demand for enhanced teenage rights, and I don't think there should be. It's ultimately pointless, once you change the age to 16, those just under 16 think the law is stupid and want it changed.

It's easier to just deal with it as it is for everyone involved.

Cool. New things to ban users for. I'm down for that. BECAUSE I'M A RULES HARDASS. Really guys, you should fear me.

PH33R.

Wade: Coolies.

liljim: Sorries.

Users: >:-)

PS: I probably won't really be banning for this, since I never noticed this problem before, and have never instructed anyone to email liljim (knowingly anyway) since I've never seen anyone have a problem with something that requires email usage.

PPS: Isn't it interesting how the > character shows up differently when quoted?

> I think it shows up as some random gibberish. Not sure though. It might be some other character I was thinking of that I saw in a thread I was reading that I didn't bookmark because I thought I could remember it on my own.

fuck.

Thanks for the heads up, Wade. 4RLZ

So I just wrote out an entire 6,500 characters filled with my scorn and disdain for raisins and all thing dried out fruit related. Including politicians, and how they resemble dried up versions of what once was good (regular people like you and I).

GUESS WHAT HAPPENED!??! It's so awesome, just before I hit post, I accidentally brushed the fucking mouse square thing on my laptop, hence selecting an uneditable text portion of the page, and wouldn't you know it? It was right when I was correcting a mistake in my typing ability by pressing the backspace key repeatedly.

AND GUESS WHAT?! Oh man, you'll never guess. The backspace key is the shortcut key for the back button on browsers. Yes, so how cool is it that I lost all the shit I just wrote up out of utter boredom? It's awesome. I was really looking forward to sharing with you guys a senselessly long post pertaining to raisins. I even mentioned prunes. But alas, if I were to recreate it it wouldn't be nearly as good as the one I had already made, so I am stuck here fuming because it helps me feel less bored.

MIND NUMBINGLY BORED.

Raisins: FUCK YOU.

At 1/24/06 08:25 PM, Slinging-Blood wrote: While on the throne? Im just wondering, because i enjoy reading a novel while on mine.

I know I do. The only problem is I end up spending far more time on the toilet just because I'm enthralled with the book I've enveloped myself in. It makes for uncomfortable legs, sitting on something without ass support.

I'm talking accidental hours more time than I should spend on the can. It's pretty bad.

Ha ha ha. That's when I start ordering extremely complicated things exclusively and check for every single ingredient. If she messes up? BAM, has to make another one. Messes up too often? All of a sudden she's paying for them herself instead of you.

And once she's messed up once I'd call a manager over too just to make sure she does it right the second time. Explain to him that this isn't nearly the first time you've been screwed out of the cup of coffee you ordered, I'm sure he'll be happy to oblige.