At 11/20/09 04:02 PM, MickTheChampion wrote: It's like when you're standing at a bar waiting to get served, if there's someone before you, you always tell the barman that they're next - I hate it when people don't do this to the point that I would agree with on-the-spot executions.

God, Chinese Restaurant, last week!

A couple came in and it was a small waiting room. Gf & I stepped to the side so they could stand and then the couple looked indignant we were seated first simply because they had edged their way in front of us.

Also, I only let doors close if its someone I would rather have further behind me. Doesn't happen too often.

Here's where you submit content: http://www.newgrounds.com/submit

Also, you'll need to have it in .swf format.

If you have problems, I'd recommend contacting the appropriate admin via pm, which you can see here: http://www.newgrounds.com/staff.html

Yeah, I've often heard the term trick used in the context of a process. Doesn't necessarily imply evil doing. I think you guys are all using a few e-mails to justify the position you already hold and since a majority of you have never done research, excuse me if I still believe the photos of glaciers melting faster than they should.

At 11/20/09 02:18 PM, Stoicish wrote: That's what worried me as well.

The Republican party, on principal, is not a bad party.

But, like ACORN, the execution is done very poorly.

IE Their website, which sounds Libretarian even though they aren't:

Helping those around you is worthwhile

The Republican Party believes in the value of voluntary giving and community support over taxation and forced redistribution.

Small government is a better government for the people

The Republican Party, like our nation's founders, believes that government must be limited so that it never becomes powerful enough to infringe on the rights of individuals.

** Unless you want to marry someone of your own gender, grow a new trachea, or wait to have a kid.

You know what to do with your money better than government

The Republican Party supports low taxes because individuals know best how to make their own economic and charitable choices.

** But we'll spend your children's money

Free markets keep people free

The Republican Party is supportive of logical business regulations that encourage entrepreneurs to start more businesses so more individuals can enjoy the satisfaction and fruits of self-made success.

** Because a free market has regulations.

Our Armed Forces defend and protect our democracy

The Republican Party is committed to preserving our national strength while working to extend peace, freedom and human rights throughout the world.

** Because nothing says freedom like a gun in your face.

The Republican Party is guided by these principles as it develops solutions to the challenges facing America.

** Please note we won't be proposing any legislation any time soon so long as our man isn't in the white house.

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Democrats

HEALTHCARE FOR ALL

Actually working this, even if they are failing pretty hard. Its more like, well, you'll have the opportunity to have something, but we're going to let the people who don't have it opt out anyway and we're going to cave to pressures and actually limit the services you can get currently.

ENVIRONMENT & CLIMATE CHANGE

All talk. Even though they talk the talk, they aren't walking it.

ENERGY INDEPENDENCE

Again, looking to be mostly talk. We're just increasing our dependency on coal & natural gas, which we have a lot of, but again is probably a temporary solution. Haven't seen a huge push for this, probably because it just isn't likely to happen for another few decades anyways.

Comprehensive Immigration Reform
America has always been a nation of immigrants. Over the years, millions of people have come here in the hope that in America, you can make it if you try. Each successive wave of immigrants has contributed to our country's rich culture, economy and spirit. Like the immigrants that came before them, today's immigrants will shape their own destinies and enrich our country.

We'll never see this happen in the next 4 years.

National Security

Mostly the same stuff. Speeches about openness, probably not followed through in policy. A lot of hand waving, but hey I guess hand waving can be important.

Reclaiming Our Civil Rights & Liberties

Guantanamo is being shut down, but Obama is keeping up to 90 prisoners in permanent detention. Also, haven't heard a word about the patriot act.

Economic Stewardship
In this time of economic transformation and crisis, we must be stewards of this economy more than ever before. We will maintain fiscal responsibility, so that we do not mortgage our children's future on a mountain of debt. We can do this at the same time that we invest in our future. We will restore fairness and responsibility to our tax code. We will bring balance back to the housing markets, so that people do not have to lose their homes. And we will encourage personal savings, so that our economy remains strong and Americans can live well in their retirements.

Needs Improvement on that whole debt bit.
Tax Code - lol
Balance to the Housing Markets - No politician could hope to achieve that, they just put ice on a bleeding chest wound is all. I guess it might have hurt less.
Personal Savings - Yeah, encouragement. Go Team America! (fuck yeah). Interest rates are so low, saving sucks.

OPEN, HONEST & ACCOUNTABLE GOVERNMENT

I don't know 60%. Yay for websites! But congress remains indecipherable as does new legislation.

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Didn't fully lift restrictions as they should have on stem cell research. Broken promise.

Secure Retirement
We will make it a priority to secure for hardworking families the part of the American Dream that includes a secure and healthy retirement. Individuals, employers, and government must all play a role. We will adopt measures to preserve and protect existing public and private pension plans.

Probably not going to happen either.

Anyways, the Republican party doesn't really support anything it says it does and the Democratic party says its going to do a lot of really awesome things and then can't follow through.

I don't like either party even if both of them present themselves as a Godsend. Obviously the rhetoric sounds excellent and the plans on both sides appear to have merit, but when you get down to the execution or nitty gritty details you find out they were just lying at worst, and at best making a wish list they knew they couldn't cash in.

Yup, and you can't unlock this. :P

At 11/20/09 01:33 PM, Memorize wrote: Kind of like how everyone made fun of Palin for the Russian-"They're our Neighbors, so I know about Foreign Policy" statement which actually came from a SNL skit.

If only

A class is a collection of methods which work on a set of variables specified in the class.

The first thing you do in a class is tell it which other classes it should have access to with an import. Any methods in those classes can be called then in your class.

Then you define a constructor. A constructor takes in variables like any other method (read function), and uses those variables to set up itself.

For instance, if you have a ball, as mentioned earlier, you might want to the set of variables {y, x, radius} to define where the ball is and how to draw it. The constructor method would set y, x & radius and store those values for later.

Then if you want the ball to have a bounce function you write a function to do it and it has access to anything that was made in the constructor and can adjust y,x & radius if needed.

Then, the idea is that because this is all code in one place whenever you need a ball, you just declare a new ball.

// import other classes here
class ball {

    // declare class variables here
    private var myX:Number;
    private var myY:Number;
    private var myRadius:Number;

    public function ball(x:Number, y:Number, radius:Number) {
        this.myX = x;
        this.myY = y;
        this.myRadius = radius;
        setPosition(myX, myY);
    }

    public function setPosition(x:Number, y:Number) { // This always refers to "This Object"
        this.x = x;
        this.y = y;
    }

    public static function newBall(x:Number, y:Number, radius:Number):Ball {
        return new Ball(x, y, radius);
    }

    // etc
}

At 11/18/09 01:25 PM, Chumbawamba wrote: It's selling itself.

Yeah, I get that and a bunch of tech ads.

At 11/20/09 12:56 PM, Stoicish wrote: I'll be fucking glad when the organization is not being talked about anymore.

Me too. The idea behind the organization is fine. Its there to provide representation for people in urban environments and kick up interest in politics. For that very reason, it shouldn't really get government funding, and its not surprising that there are a bunch of people willing to take advantage of the group for their own profit. I would be seriously surprised if the corruption went beyond the volunteers that are out on the streets. Its one of those "good intentions" and "bad implementation" things.

But yeah, the chance of ACORN tipping the scales by millions is minuscule, and I agree that if 50% of a political party is that irrational its a little scary. Makes me less likely to vote for the candidates they choose to represent them as they clearly don't have a good filter in discerning truth.

At 11/20/09 12:39 PM, gumOnShoe wrote:

At 11/20/09 12:35 PM, Evark wrote: Explain this to me.

You're going crazy: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1 C1CHNG_enUS340US340&q=%22musical+style+i s+a+blend+of+a+bunch+of+things,+funk,+ra p,+rock,+and+even+some+elements+of+metal +mixed+in%22&aq=f&oq=&aqi=

Nope, nevermind, I thought you said you posted it. Google Cache:
http://74.125.93.132/search?q=cache:VW56 dk_RlmsJ:www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/11 22519+Evark+rage+against+site:newgrounds .com/bbs&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

At 11/19/09 08:52 PM, yurgenburgen wrote: I remember kids talking like that when we were nine. They don't really understand what they're talking about, they're just trying to sound grown up.

Eh, I remember one kid that was like that except he apparently molested a life size barbie (according to him) at the age 9 or 10. His mother walked in on him and everything. But he always talked like that and I didn't understand much of that kind of stuff. Everything was mostly just talk.

You're right, getting emotional would only be detrimental if you were unable to continue speaking.

Or if it interrupts the flow. I've seen a lot of people crash and burn because they've chosen a topic too close to their personal life. If you can't maintain composure during a 7-9 minute speech, you're libel to make the entire class uncomfortable and bring yourself a kind of attention you probably don't want. For that reason, you'll have to do your best not to break down.

Good luck and all that. I recommend practicing in front of a close friend if you can, on stage with them in the audience. It helps a lot. I snuck into a chapel with my gf in college in order to have such a practice. Did well the next week and got plenty of real comments.

8:30 - 5:30 with lunch inbetween

At 11/20/09 09:25 AM, Luis wrote: humorrrrr

I'm laughing all the way to the bank! >:)

-- Also, fill out your info in your account options. You get revenue by people visiting your user page or pages where you've submitted content (flash, audio, etc). As pointed out, you can also put ads in your movie using the NG Api.

Finally, if you're a mod, you do get money for banning people.

At 11/20/09 08:41 AM, scottishbobby wrote: look its what i think and i said the leader of the country they control the army dumbass

Punctuation & capitalization were invented so that you can separate your ideas and so that other people can understand what you are saying. Even if you did this, I regret to inform you, you still would make absolutely no sense on any level whatsoever. Your thoughts on this matter not only make me question the first man's decision to step out of the trees and start making wheels, but make me wonder if perhaps god should have stopped with the whole day and night thing.

Please, just stop thinking. That's all I'm trying to say. Go be a rock.

As a developer, I have no reason to ever get this OS.

If I wanted a netbook where I did anything else, fine.

Until they have developer applications that run well in a browser, count me out, though I do like the idea to a point. I'm also not a huge fan of needing the internet to use my computer, anyone else ever have their internet crash?

Maybe good as a duel boot.

At 11/17/09 02:40 PM, lapis wrote:

At 11/17/09 02:25 PM, AapoJoki wrote: Not quite, considering that all the candidates must be pre-approved by the Guardian Council

There was a more moderate candidate available (Rafsanjani?), and he lost against Ahmadinejad. So the majority voters chose the conservative Ahmadinejad in favour of moderation.

Yeah, but all the statistics point to a fixed election anyway by the Baaj. So, its still probably not a democratically elected president.

At 11/20/09 08:53 AM, morefngdbs wrote:

At 11/19/09 05:20 PM, SmilezRoyale wrote: Palin is far more amusing.

;;;
Easier on the eyes as well.

But she doesn't even present a meaningful attempt at a facade of being intelligent, whereas gore does. So, when Gore messes up its more fun to call him on it.

At 11/20/09 06:07 AM, Korriken wrote: well, perhaps if the whole post wasn't some butthurt rant about 'omgs the republicans are gonna be sores losers again, as always!" perhaps I might take it a little more seriously. I mean really, Let's not forget how bush "stole" the election from both Gore and Kerry.

You completely missed the point.

Instead of going, yeah, this acorn thing IS STUPID (because it is), you're resorting to saying well Democrats suck too, which, you know Stoicish already admitted. Thereby playing against the opposition and being entirely predictable.

You have contributed nothing of value that was on topic in this discussion, aside from fitting into exactly what you probably didn't want to. Congrats bro.

On topic, what more can be said? The focus on Acorn is partisan politics. Fox news is clearly conservative, 50% or more of the united states is composed of idiots. We know all this.

At 11/18/09 05:59 PM, Bacchanalian wrote: Rule 110 generates every new 'pixel' by the condition of a horizontal set of three above it. For it to be random, one of those 8 conditions would have to have two possible outcomes. Instead, each of the 8 conditions only have one outcome.

So, its not random, its determined. Ok.

Make a vague suggestion about doing something at some point, and do it in passing. If she wants to, the idea will grow on her and it'll be difficult for her to tell later on if she initiated it or if you did. Then just keep talking to her until she's ready ready to do something. Don't bother to call it a date or not a date.

If its been 3 days, you'll have to find some thread of conversation to pick back up on or hope you run into her again.

At 11/18/09 11:09 PM, Zerok wrote:

At 11/18/09 11:06 PM, MissAllanPoe wrote: How is that sketchy though?

Their marketing messages are directly oppositional. Axe promotes sexism and unrealistic standards of beauty while Dove campaigned against that very notion and promoted female empowerment.

Not SO contradictory. Dove commercials were aimed at women's natural beauty whereas Axe is product marketed towards men. So, saying Men need to be beautiful while women can be whatever isn't such contradiction. The only flaw in this is the type of female model in the Axe commercials. If they had some 50 year old women without make up going after the guys, you could really claim they weren't contradicting themselves.

So, as of yet, deficit spending hasn't been too bad, as far as perceivable impact, for the United States.

However, if we are not allowed to get more loans at some point, the entire government system as it stands today will collapse and we'll collectively as a people owe a bunch of countries a lot of money at rates we probably can't ever hope to pay off.

(I think we might be there already without some sort of economic boom sent directly from on high)

However, if we can't get our loans, the system crashes, but we are left with a lot of weaponry and raw resources, so while we won't have traditional capital, we'll have all sorts of other goods still.

Is it possible for a country to declare bankruptcy. Aside from not getting more loans, what are the consequences of not paying debt back?

This seems like a huge issue that we've ignored and will continue to ignore until it smacks us upside the face. I'm just wondering if we keep pretending, will it really go away?

At 11/18/09 12:29 AM, Gagsy wrote: It's called getting older.

Getting older doesn't change the fact that it is no longer Cartoon Network. They made an active decision to show things that weren't tangentially related to animation, following in the steps of AdultSwim. AdultSwim isn't a set of cartoons anymore and hasn't been for a long time. And now the rest of the station is following suit.

I think its perfectly reasonable to say Cartoon Network has died when they've renamed the station CN-REAL. (pathetic)

At 11/19/09 10:30 AM, Stoicish wrote: Now that we are on page 2 I'd like to point out that I'm just trolling.

No, no, no, you were constructing SATIRE. See, SATIRE is stuff people can identify with and its something you do to open people's eyes, whereas trolling is something you do to enrage others.

But yeah, anyone who didn't catch on to that hasn't been paying much attention to your posts.

Btw 6/10, mostly because people didn't get it.

In other news, Foxnews proves again it isn't always a news station, esp when fox & friends is on.

I'm ashamed of Obama too. His inability to bow properly is more important than any other issue, and as of yet, he hasn't apologized to the American people for literally laying down all our hopes and dreams of equality.

You know what they say. 90 degrees is only half the way to 180, and you're already falling down.

bwahahaha some of you make me sad

Everyone does this, but blind yourself, its ok.

At 11/18/09 03:38 PM, SmilezRoyale wrote:

At 11/18/09 11:30 AM, Stoicish wrote:

At 11/18/09 05:48 AM, SadisticMonkey wrote:
I never said I particularly like Beck, but to call libertarianism stupid is to show a gross lack of intelligence.

It's a political ideology that I disagree with so it is stupid! MUAHAHAHA!

Which shows a gross lack of intelligence.

But is showing a gross lack of intelligence by saying someone else has a gross lack of intelligence for disagreeing with you just as bad, and just as much of a gross lack of intelligence. Are we simply all idiots?

At 11/18/09 10:04 AM, Ravariel wrote:

At 11/18/09 09:24 AM, gumOnShoe wrote: Unpredictability =/= Indeterminable

Huh? The very nature of something being unpredictable is that it's future states cannot be determined from previous ones.

Let me clarify. I'm referencing computational predictions such as will this process end?

If you throw a rock down a dark hole, you can't say whether or not it will hit bottom unless you can observe the bottom. But that doesn't mean that simply because you can't observe it a bottom does or does not exist.

Example:

I tell you there are a number of pits in my back yard with various depths, some of which may be not have a bottom. Can you tell me which ones are infinite? You can't "predict" which ones are infinite and you can never prove any of the pits don't have a bottom, yet they don't have a bottom none the less.

Except that, like i said, even with the same rules and the same starting values, the outcomes differ. The basic tenet of determinism is that if you know the rules of the game and the starting values of all actors in it, then you can calculate the outcome of ever action therein. By being able to actually concoct an "experiment" that allows for this idea to be tested, we see that it is, in fact, very simple to create undeterministic events with rigid rulesets.

No, I didn't see anything on that page that had such an example of the same starting values & rules producing different outcomes. Please link to such an example.

The point here is not that this proved free will, merely that it suggests an easy way that it could be possible. Randomness has little to nothing to do with free will, it merely states that among possible options, one is not bound to a single choice. As the automata illustrates... even without a conscious "will", a set of "deterministic" rules can produce different outcomes. Thus as long as the "rules" governing our thoughts and logic, are as complex as rule 110, we can make choices.

Eh, IF this is true, then I agree and it goes towards the kind of proof I was mentioning earlier, but I've yet to see such an example, so pardon me if I'm confused by your proposition.

At 11/18/09 09:41 AM, citricsquid wrote:

At 11/18/09 09:38 AM, Luis wrote: we need a delete all hentai button :3333

Why would you want a button to destroy newgrounds?

Its the only way to prevent Sauron, who tricked TomFulp into placing the ring of power in an old Macintosh, from taking over the internet as we know it!