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I mean, lets take a minute and figure out why this might be?

There is scientific consensus that global warming is a real thing. But you hear republican talking heads saying there isn't enough proof all the time.

The majority of the army says we should end DADT, but Republicans know this would be horrible even when all the people and studies say otherwise.

Republicans don't accept evolution from time to time and places that are very read often try to build Creationist theme parks or introduce creationism into the science curriculum.

When you get down to it, the Republicans don't follow the scientific method. They follow the old religious methods of believing what you can "trust" to be truthy. That doesn't jive with scientific thought and this isn't surprising.

Its not a big deal that so few scientists are Republicans. The problem is that Republicans who have positions in government are unwilling to listen to people who give their time to study subjects, vet each other, and all around try to find out the truth about this world in order to benefit us all.

6% of scientists being Republicans is a symptom of a larger problem.

If science is wrong, all you have to do is submit evidence showing so and scientists believe you because their entire culture is based around analyzing evidence and not believing anything that can't be proved or that's been proved to be wrong.

Vs. Republicans (or any other politician) who only are interested in being elected and telling you what you want to hear and giving you what will make you vote for them. Take the deficit issue. They believe in giving you tax cuts, but not in cutting spending. They've cut taxes so much without a plan to reduce spending that the deficit is now growing by trillions of dollars. What other proof do you need that these people are liars? Why aren't you upset that they won't listen to experts on matters of import such as disease, climate, reproduction, etc?

At 12/18/10 12:18 PM, logic wrote:

At 12/18/10 12:16 PM, gumOnShoe wrote:

At 12/18/10 12:14 PM, razorbladesigh wrote: I did see it. It sucked.

You're a fucking zombie. Who cares what you think?

Hes entitled to an opinion you tool

BTW i never saw it so lol

Then you're a fucking failure too. :D

Go masturbate to pictures of your mom or something.

At 12/18/10 12:14 PM, razorbladesigh wrote: I did see it. It sucked.

You're a fucking zombie. Who cares what you think?

If you didn't see Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World.

Please kill yourself.

If you don't like that option.

Go buy it & watch it.

It was probably the best nerd fill of the year, and better than most other films. You play video games? You'll like it. You went to college? You'll like it. You're a human being? Oh, you'll like it even more.

I guess you wouldn't like it if you don't like funny & awesome movies.

I only bring it up because too many of you didn't see it in theaters. And that's disapointing because you failed your culture. Stop being an ass wipe and go buy it.

Thanks. Hope you enjoyed ths PSA.

At 12/18/10 11:44 AM, Ericho wrote: I never saw the original "Tron" but I would probably see this if it got good reviews. It seemed like it was having a fairly high rating on RottenTomatoes, but has since gotten down. I will probaly see it for the sole purpose of having seen something that was related to "Tron" as the original movie was popular. I wonder if the next "Kingdom Hearts" game is going to feature some stuff from this movie or something?

If you saw the original Tron, you probably would like it. The graphics for the original were pretty bad, the script was bad, but it was a very inventive and creative story with a unique philosophy. It was on the cutting edge when it was originally released, but from this day and age it looks very out dated. People who liked the idea of the original movie and creativeness of it will like the new one.

That said, this movie is being billed as an action packed adventure, and it isn't. Its a case of bad marketing. This is the story of a father who spent too much time with a habbit and essentially abandoned his kid. While this is a story about getting sucked into a computer, its mostly a story about trying to escape while trying to bond with a long lost relative. Its a slow moving story. Its given room to breath. Pixar put in its opinion on the story line and it got stuck somewhere between the original script and what a Pixar movie like Up would be.

You might like it if it still sounds interesting. It should be said that this is the first of a trilogy. It is setting up something big. And I personally believe its worth you putting down your money so we can all figure out where its going. At the very least it is very pretty.

Things that might make you like it a little more.

If you know linux and terms like grep, ls, kill, etc. If you've ever worked on software. If you liked the matrix, but you're not big on something that's been sold out to focus on the violence and skips on plot. Also, if you like playing the arcade game snake, you might like this movie.

The movie has some religious undertones. There is a philosophy that grows around evolving code and Users as creators. The first movie is all about trying to defeat a security program put in by an evil boss who is trying to steal code and profit. This is about what happens after they win the system back and take the company.

This movie is not for everyone, but you will enjoy it more if you go in with low expectations. The best way to ruin this movie is to believe it is the crucible of awesome tech movies.

You like that old movie Hackers? Maybe you'll enjoy this.

This movie is NOT an action movie. It is slower than you'd believe it would be going into it.

Don't expect something fast pace that's missing emotion or that's very deep or intricate.

It is pretty. Its a good ride. It is certainly interesting. I'd give it 3.9 stars out of 5. Certainly better than most of what has been released this year, but not as good as something like Inception or even the latest Harry Potter (assuming you read the books).

At 12/17/10 11:39 AM, Luis wrote: Sigs are going away, we will be putting in maplestory ads there instead. The wide screen bumps up our maintenence costs and uses up more resources on the servers to render.

Those bits are expensive!

Will the maple story ads be animated? Can we pick which one shows up under out post?

Packages are literally URLs to your code. Each package is a folder. The path to an individual code file starts at the root of your directory tree and goes directly to the file. Its simple.

If you've ever done web development, it is the exact same idea as a URL.

You either import the specific file or you give the package URL for the set of documents you want and use * to get all of the code files in the last mentioned package.

At 12/17/10 08:15 AM, CronoMan wrote:

At 12/17/10 07:33 AM, gumOnShoe wrote: The files were deleted from the repository as well.

Revert to an earlier revision, and they will magically reappear

I understand that, but when I try to do that my repository on my home computer shits itself. It won't let me commit anything. It tells me the database is out of sync. It won't let me run clean up. Etc Etc Etc

I think the whole thing is corrupted.

At 12/17/10 08:20 AM, Jin wrote: Flash sigs.

Wow, could you imagine all of the embedded techno music simultaneously playing.

Eargasm.

I assume eventually the whole site is going widescreen as the flash portal already is and we've been talking about icons and whatnot. So, if the forum goes widescreen like it probably will, what do you think the sig dimensions will be? Do you think they'll get larger or the post box will stay the same size while we get ads down the side?

What size would you like sigs to be?

Animated?

At 12/16/10 07:49 AM, GustTheASGuy wrote: What are you talking about? If you accidentally deleted some files just revert them.

SVN is as idiot-oriented as it gets. No point looking for anything else. Definitely not Git.

The files were deleted from the repository as well. I can do a backwards update to an earlier version, but the tortoise GUI didn't have a revert functionality and even if it did, I had already done a commit thinking it had deleted the right files.

I literally told SVN to delete files in folder B, and it did, but it also deleted files in folder A.

Anyways...

I might have plans to see this tonight. I'm looking forward to it.

Curious if anyone else has seen the old movie? Whether anyone is actually excited for this?

You shouldn't go in expecting an action movie. The last half was influenced by Pixar, and they gave it an "Up" vibe.

I don't know. I know that Kevin Flynn guy "claims" he's a user, but I've never seen proof of it. He's just this old program who sits outside the grid. Won't even join in the games. The program's headed for dev-null, I'm sure.

Supposedly somethings going to happen today though. I'm on light cycle duty today. There are plenty of bits that need to be cleaned off the frames.

I think in the end we're all just going to dev-null. There's no such thing as users, just us programs and the system.

Hey, at least Master Control as been erased.

At 12/17/10 06:18 AM, Jon-86 wrote: Thats because scientists are smart. The king of England used to own your ass. Then republicans fought back and with a bit of help broke away form the empire. Then y'all went and replaced one thing with another and now the banks own your ass.

Get your shit together and the scientists won't be so put off :P

Those were different Republicans Jon... lol. This republican party now is an outgrowth of an anti slavery party founded in 1854. Not that they are pro diversity now. In the mid 20th situation the racists all switched parties and joined the Republicans and the Republicans of that day turned democratic.

Not that I don't disagree. The money pretty much owns everything.

At 12/16/10 11:42 AM, Zerok wrote: Easy, easy. We can work this out. Just stay calm man.

Stay calm? Stay Calm!?

I'm a man with a monocle and a jar of piss!

Plus pisscalibur rusted and now I have to filter the piss before I can try again.

I'm just going to leave this here, no one touch it. No one drink it. I don't yet know what the side effects are from consuming such a thing.

At 12/16/10 08:31 AM, Makakaov wrote: Ok, now explain this:

Any more questions and Rucklo gets it!

At 12/16/10 08:19 AM, Makakaov wrote:

At 12/16/10 07:55 AM, gumOnShoe wrote: ...steel your piss

Wat.

Wat indeed. Through a confounding slip of the key we have discovered that imbuing the metallurgical properties of metal into mod piss may result in the famed sword pisscaliber. I will let you know how my experiments go. Stay posted.

At 12/16/10 07:58 AM, Naerbu wrote: Really?...

yes really!

I see you smile the smile of a retard... the one every peon gets as he looks into the depths of true power. But the jars are mine! If you want a sip, you'll need to pay the price:

1 lock of Tom's famed beard
1 photo developed from Wade's camera (and I mean directly from the negatives, all digital pictures will be rejected)
1 song submitted to the audio portal and dedicated to me
1 flash movie submitted to the flash portal and dedicated to me
1 picture submitted to the art portal, but not dedicated to me, no, but showing how you would covet the piss jar.

Smile the smile of a thousand retards all you want, without paying this prices, you will be awarded no piss and no points.

So mods, what's it gonna be?

Does the piss get it?

... lost your yellow aura. It seems my winterly plans to steel your piss have come to fruition. And now all the jars of piss are mine!

Aye, you thought when I resigned and gave up the yellow aura that I was simply done with this modding. Little did you know I had realized the great weakness of the mod account!

Stand back! Or I will be forced to smash them and your powers will drain from you! You're keys will pop off your keyboards! And your porn collections will be sent to your beloved family members, including your old sick grandma!

Muahahaha!

Cool stuff, but I still don't like narcissists too much. :P

Oh, and yeah the DSM is just collective opinion about what's weird. Anyhow, if narcissism is still disabling people, then I think it would still be a disorder. I mean, that's pretty much the definition of a disorder.

At 12/16/10 07:22 AM, Redshift wrote: Git!

Highly recommended? Is there a GUI? Didn't see one looking myself.

I was like, hey tortoise.

And it was like: sup?

And I was like: There's this bin file full of compiled code that shouldn't be in the SVN repository, could you delete it?

And it was like: Mwamf (that's the sound a tortoise makes when it eats src folder instead and then has your bin file for desert).

Now I need to revert the whole system, export it, delete the old one, and create a new one. Just thought I'd share this sad story with the one group of people who might understand it on this site.

So, is there something better out there for backing up code or interacting with svn? lol

At 12/15/10 06:18 PM, Elfer wrote: Pretty much. I think there's a stronger argument to say that mandatory auto insurance is a form of taxation than there is for what Obama is saying in that video. Of course, politicians will never admit that a new tax actually is a new tax. The legal oddity here is that it's technically not a tax, so it can't be treated as one.

My guess is that this ruling has done nothing more than give the bill's supporters a few months to find some goofball precedents that say the government's allowed to make you buy stuff.

At the same time there is no requirement that people purchase health care. It is actually just a requirement that you have health care. For some people that healthcare is provided before they are even given a paycheck, by their employees. Other people get their insurance through charities, I'm sure. The mandate is that you have insurance, not that you must buy it.

And as odd as that argument sounds since most people will have to buy it or pay for a part of it, you can't truly say the government is taking your property. And further, if you are purchasing an item there is an assumption of an exchange of value. Which means that you are technically gaining something, and the government itself is not taking your property. Moreover, do you actually own your money, or is it the property of the U.S. government? After all there is a penalty for destroying U.S. currency, even currency that is "yours."

As far as it not being a tax. Its not technically a tax if you speed on a road either. Its a fine. And fines are perfectly legal and have been for a long time. While in my personal opinion this is very much like a tax, you can justify it from a legal standpoint many different ways.

At 12/15/10 09:47 AM, BlackmarketKraig wrote: Time's Man of the Year is just about influence and Zuckerberg has indirectly influenced millions upon millions of people and their lives with that massive time sink of a website.

Yeah, but you can you say that this is the singular year that Zuckerberg has effected or are they 5 years too late?

At 12/15/10 08:20 AM, Ronald-McDonald-LoL wrote: Now it's a race to 4.50 between the Egoraptor collab and the Sexual-Lobster collab.

Wooo! Reminds me of the Foamy / LegendaryFrog days. Man, those guys were the epitome of cool. These new guys are good too though. Its like the 60s music scene vs the 70s.

At 12/15/10 08:18 AM, AllReligiousDrunk wrote: Are you suggesting that Facebook is for nerds? :P

That it was created by a nerd?

By the way, if I am not mistaken - a 'friends system' idea dates back much further on Newgrounds.

Yeah, I know.

By the way I liked the Facebook movie, nice stuff.

Interesting, fictional, but interesting.

Also, feel free to use this topic to photoshop him. Source images.

Anyone else kind of turned off by the whole Man of the year thing here. I mean, I'd expect rippling muscles, beating up women, throbbing dicks. Zuckerberg is this pimply dude who owns a web site. Please.

This guy would be better. no?

According to Time.

+1 for the nerds I suppose.

So, you on facebook? ;)

I hear newgrounds is getting "friends" in the update. Oh, and they are changing their name to facegrounds.

Pox, its a pretty shitty plan compared to what it could have been, but it has things in it that are good.

Such as, you can't turn someone down for health insurance. Or, you can't charge extra due to pre-existing conditions.

In the end, I'm hoping this legislation just turns into motivation for doing it right once and for all. I don't think anyone is happy right now, but they also aren't going to be able to take away certain parts of the bill without out pissing off large portions of the population. So, we're at the point now where we can talk about what we actually want instead of whether there will be 'death panels'.

As far as the mandate. I'm not really happy with it, but it certainly forces people to care. So, I'm not that upset by it either.

My 5 pushed it over 4.00. Suck it.