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At 11/29/12 05:39 PM, Dawnslayer wrote: Let's try this one more time. If the United States government, or the government of any nation of your choice, passed legislation to discontinue the production of physical currency in favor of a federally run and regulated system of digital capital, what do you think the positive and negative effects on society could be?

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Personally, I think it's a bad idea.

I have to say that I definitely agree with you on that point. There's no way that a fully electronic currency can be a good idea, especially if it is implemented quickly. The first major problem would be the bugs, especially if it is run by the government. I've heard enough horror stories about the government trying to build these kinds of things, even missile guidance systems. One of my friends was a programmer for the DoD and said that they're all required to use Ada, the most useless language in the world, so they build a backdoor in C or C++ so that they can write useful code, then the code doesn't work well with the Ada front end, and it makes a complete mess. Imagine they try to build a banking system like that, and they take all kinds of shortcuts. Not only would it work poorly, but it would also be easy to counterfeit money and generally cause problems with the system.

Then, theres the issue of the poor and homeless. How would they have access to food and other necessities without an electronic "account" of sorts, which would be necessary to even buy food? Then there's the issue of government tracking. If they want to catch drug dealers and such - I assume that interpersonal transactions would work WITHOUT tax or fees, which presents its own problem - let them do so, but the problem arises when they start going through everything. For example, if I want to buy an old box of tools from my friend who doesn't need them anymore, are the police going to show up at my door with a warrant to look for drugs? Then there's just the general resellers dilemma. Should you even be allowed to resell things? Or does the company still have the sole rights to sell the product even after you bought it?

So overall, I think that an exclusively electronic economy is definitely not a good idea.

Same as above. I'd be very interested in helping, but more details would be nice.

What language is probably the most important in terms of whether I can, and what kind of game answers whether I want to.

Good luck!

At 10/18/11 08:47 AM, i-am-ghey wrote: i know this is probably not the best place to ask this question, but i will post it here anyway to see if it get reponses.

just resumed cardio workout after months of physical inactivity. i am aware of the max heart rate=220-age. bascially, i am supposed to maintain a heart rate of 60-85%of that rate, which i have no difficulty of attaining. problem is, my heart rate routinely goes above 180 and i don't feel any lighheadedness, or discomfort. according to some sources, i should slow down, but others pointed out that the target rate varies from person to person. so, is it okay to go above the recommened rate?

thanks in advance.

This should be fine as long as you don't feel any physical symptoms. The rule is more of a guideline than a rule. just stay hydrated and make sure you eat a light snack before working out to boost your energy.

At 6/14/11 02:46 PM, RydiaLockheart wrote: What about schools that teach both? When I was in high school, we learned about birth control but the program stressed abstinence. And it was absolutely correct that it's the only 100% way to prevent STDs and pregnancy. I realize abstinence-only programs are unrealistic but I have no issues with a program that teaches both.

That's exactly the point I'm trying to make. It's fine to stress the dangers, but I'm against teaching abstinence as the only way to stay safe.

It makes us all sad.

At 6/13/11 10:02 PM, Camarohusky wrote: Well a former Hitler Youth that revels in the raping of deaf boys told me that condoms actually make aids spread more.

Nice. You might want to make sure that said former Hitler Youth that revels in the raping of deaf boys is a good source.

From what I've found online, such as HERE, it seems a lot like schools' health programs have been overrun by abstinence only policies. Eventually, teachers were required to teach a mix of scare tactics and misinformation. I honestly cannot believe what these schools have come to. They overlooked basic logic, arriving to the conclusion that teens don't have sex if you tell them not to.

I'm not saying people shouldn't be taught about the potential dangers of sex, but that an abstinence only approach doesn't work to prevent the spread of STIs and unwanted pregnancies, and could actually worsen the situation.

Here's my reasoning of why it doesn't work, feel free to add your own or prove me wrong. I want to see what people think:

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Some people are going to have sex, no matter well the schools run a scare campaign. This could be because of apathy towards the program or the realization that it IS a scare campaign. The problem is that when people learn they were being taught exaggerations, they tend to start downplaying that teaching. Then, people have sex, ignoring the potential dangers.

2.
If they do realize there is a danger, they don't know what to do about it. Scare campaigns don't work if the danger can be reduced (e.g. condoms, the pill, etc). So you end up with people having sex not knowing how to protect themselves from the dangers.

Again, I'm not against teaching the dangers of sex (STIs, pregnancy, etc), and that abstinence is the only 100% protection, (condoms rate 98% with perfect use, the pill at 99.7%). I'm just against teaching that abstinence is the ONLY way to protect yourself from those dangers.

Thank You very much.

At 6/7/11 04:43 PM, Wolfos wrote: Just animate it? Frame by frame?
Learn how to use the programs, one at a time. Also, how do you have both After Effects and Vegas? I mean, they can both do roughly the same and you don't appear to know how either one of them works, so you're not a professional that needs both.

Nicely worded. The best thing you can do is find online documentation for the programs, and use that to try to recreate them. Good luck!

I've been doing some basic C++ programming for a bit, and I was wondering if anyone knew any good tutorials for some more advanced stuff (GUI and whatnot). I haven't done much Java at all, so if anyone has a beginner tutorial for that, it'd be great.

Thanks

At 6/13/11 03:52 PM, zooos wrote: Companies like to expand and broaden their horizons(especially Valve) and while fans should have some say in where a company goes and how they get there, fan's are being to demanding. They expect companies to tailor their games and what they do to each and every single person's whim.

Look at infamous 2, fans bitched and moaned because the Cole looked different, so they had to change it back. It's sad that fans, the ones who want more out of their games, are the very same people who are preventing such things from happening.

If Valve decided to abandoned Half-Life(or at least put a long halt on the game and it's progression) all in the pursuit of new IP's and ventures, I'd be more then willing to let it go. I'm sorry but Valve has interesting ideas and franchises that they can expand on that are better then Half-Life(except in terms of Story in certain areas) and who are we to prevent them from doing such?

Also, of course Valve wants to make money. That's the goal of any business(at least any successful one) and until they start turning out sequels every year(Madden/COD etc), I don't think what they do warrants all the hate.

I absolutely agree, especially with the business philosophy. Everyone bitches about how they "just want to make money". Problem: how do they make new games without a budget? Answer: The company fails as all their projects go to shit and nobody gets anything.

Also, about the new DLCs and hats and whatnot could be taken as a good sign and that development is progressing at a very fast pace, as they might just need to add some money to the budget. But in their defense, they just released Portal 2, for several platforms at once.

All I can say for sure is that when either Ep. 3 or HL 3 come out, I will be buying it.

At 5/16/11 09:55 PM, OneWayDevil wrote: The facts about masterbation.

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Where do people learn these things? Masturbation cannot cause any diseases, and is a completely normal activity. If it did cause those diseases, people wouldn't have sex. Sex is literally masturbation, but with another sexual organ rather that ones hand. And secondhand masturbation? Really? How is that even possible? If you have any sources about the surgeon general quote, than I'd like to see that.

What do people teach their kids these days? Especially with health classes in school up-playing the dangers and downplaying methods of safe sex. Also, Masturbation can help you keep healthy, it's actually good for your heart, and help help relieve stress and tension. It's actually rather the opposite of what you are arguing.

As a frequent player of video games, and frequent reader of newspapers -mostly online-, I keep reading about parents who think that violent video games are teaching children that violence is okay and that there are no rel consequences. I disagree. There has always been something that parents thought would teach violence, for example comic books. They were very violent and did not show consequence of action, and parents had the same attitude about them as they do with computers. I think that violent video games are not as much of a problem as parents think, and should not be as hated within the parental community. Though I agree that these games can cause mental trouble for very small children, as they usually don't understand the context and the fact that it isn't real.

At 1/12/10 02:33 AM, TokingFire wrote: If Christianity is so communist, how the hell do you explain the Vatican? If you ask me, that's a textbook monarchy promulgating proto-fascism (remember: fascism came from Italy, kids).

Thats Catholicism. And the popes always seem to be douches who want everything for themselves.

At 1/12/10 04:39 PM, hippl5 wrote: I get the feeling people will counterfeit those things just like they did with the old subway tickets, and people ended up selling rolls of them on ebay.

Probably. They could look up all the participating pubs and hit them one at a time with fake tickets.

At 11/21/09 01:29 PM, Dilapsor wrote: I think that the Republicans are still traumatized by the fact that they manage to fuck up the last 8 years SO BADLY that they actually lost to a cult of personality like Obama.

Obama isnt a cult, and yes republicans have been surprised that people think they messed up. The Republicans thought they did a wonderful job of running the country until the elections came. Then everyone surprised the Republicans and went to Obama's side because Bush fucked things up so bad.

At 5/7/09 03:45 AM, joe9320 wrote: You can't make a world that is perfect. Nothing in the fucking world is perfect. You can't have a utopia because in some place there will be sadness, war and high amount of tears! And if Communism is revived, then I'm going to be like McCarthey in the 1950s USA.

what the fuck? McCarthy was as bad as Stalin in terms of treatment of the opponent. HE WAS JUST LIKE STALIN!!!

Really, the good things about legalizing Marijuana are,

(a) It does less damage to your brain.
(b) You don't get physically addicted to it, so you can stop if you want, unlike tobacco or alcohol.
(c) Government could tax the drug to make some money off it.
(d) None of this drug cartel shit would happen, since it would be legal, there would also be a lot less drug dealer crime and drug related gang wars.
(e) With the legalization of Marijuana comes the use of hemp, which can be used as almost anything, food, paper, clothing, etc. which comes to less deforestation.
(f) Micheal Phelps's rep would be restored.

Really, why not? I'm not advocating the use of it, but the legalization.

At 12/26/08 05:47 PM, NinjaDonut wrote: Hey, i just got the ipod touch and i was wondering what apps i should get for it.

If you want free stuff, I reccomend:

done drinking
Topple
Tap tap revenge
Mazefinger
Jelly car

If you want to pay, I reccomend:

Spore origins
Sim city
Asphalt 4

You should look through the app store and see what you want to get.

flash 8 or CS3 is better then gimp. But it costs quite a lot.

At 12/26/08 06:32 PM, dicennian wrote: I'm not sure but doesn't you ned a handler first? like on (press) or on (release)?

on(release) {
gotoAndPlay("3" ,1);
}

(And make sure you have the "Hit" keyframed on the button)

on(release) should do the trick. and try this,

on(release){
gotoAndPlay (whatever frame number);
}

At 12/26/08 01:20 AM, InsertFunnyUserName wrote:

There's always the argument of chapter 11, but then again, it would mean they wouldn't be able to get loans for a long time and if they ran into problems, which they probably will, they're screwed unless the government throws more money at them.

yeah, they are screwed. now these companies depend on loans from the government though.

At 12/25/08 09:26 PM, InsertFunnyUserName wrote: Well, with the bailout, congress was in a lose-lose situation. It wasn't their fault that the economy went down the shitter, it was the bad business tactics of private companies like the banks and the three auto companies. On one hand, if they gave out the bailout money, it would be rewarding the companies for their bad business, giving way for the possibility of corruption, and it would be handing out billions of dollars in a time where the country can't afford to be throwing around money. There would also be a chance that the companies wouldn't pay back the loans.

yes, corruption would be a huge problem. it would decay trust in the govetnment and the markets would fall again. the bailout was a crappy idea anyway, the idea seemed to be, "lets give more money to some companies." the companies robably couldn't pay back anyway, so whats the point?

On the other hand, if they didn't give out the bailout, the big three would go out of business, leaving a major economic gap and it would mean the loss of millions of jobs across the country. It would also mean that the auto industry in the US would die out entirely. There would be no more American car companies, meaning that we would have to further invest our money in our imports from China.

thats the only good part of the bailout. it would have been better if they did it only for the car companies then. that way we dont have an insurance company taking eighty billion dollars of government money.

Also, our tax dollars go to the government, not China. Our income goes to China, but not our taxes and none of that is congress's fault.

fine, i'll agree with that.

Congress's biggest fault was the Iraq war, but now they're in another lose-lose situation because of one mistake. If they pull out there's the chance for economic collapse in Iraq and the chance that the Taliban would invade again. If we "stay the course", we continue to pour millions of dollars into Iraq.

yeah, iraq was a crappy idea.

Politics is not an easy thing.

no, politics is not easy at all.

just use the beep until you find a ringtone you really like and then buy it. sorry but i dont know how to make ringtones. or at least good ones.

At 12/25/08 07:34 PM, AllReligiousDrunk wrote: It regularly can take up to even several weeks, and now it's around the holidays, which logically means that you should expect waiting a couple of weeks or so.

Just be patient.

yeah. holidays=lots of entries. it's going to take a while. i would just wait. and while you wait you could make flash movie/game. those take an hour or so, mostly because it's accepted or rejected by other users.

hang tough and wait.

All I know is that if palin were in office we'd be staring at the nukes that are coming at us. From Russia.

C++ is an object oriented programing language.

1. Where do i get it

You should search the web for "C++ compilers"

2. Some help on getting started

Search "C++ tutorials"

3. whats some stuff u guys have done

Haven't programmed much with it.

4. Thats really it for the question and we just talk abuot random stuff like how a town near me is getting 3 weeks off for chrismas break becuase of a snow storm that madde them have no power. HOW AMAZING IS THAT

Very nice

but u know they will just have to make it up in june

oh and heres my C++ gif i made

Alright, you win. Still, if there was not a free market, then the current crisis would not be happening. Sure, we would be poor and probably oppressed (communism). There would actually be a better financial system with the absence if a free market (for the government). Look at the soviets during world war 2, they had no free market (unlike the Germans) but still whooped their ass. I know that sounds communist but it's true.

At 12/25/08 05:19 PM, TheReno wrote: True true, faith in government is a big factor for the stock trade.

oh yeah, definitely. if there was no faith, the rejected bailout wouldn't have caused the markets to fall 8%.

At 12/25/08 05:07 PM, TheReno wrote: The problem is that there are two different beliefs: Republican and Democrat. xD
Think of it like a war. The Muslims and the Christians. The Muslims have taken Northern Africa and seek to take Gaul, I mean France (wut? Im not using an actual situation that has already happened xD). Now if the people in France(Gaul) were muslims, theyd let them in and progress of the ary would continue, but they arent, and the muslim progress was stopped. Theres a politcal word I think its gridlock.

thats a good point, but even so, congress still hasn't done very many useful things. yes i think gridlock is the word. still, they have to do something or else people will want to abolish congress. okay scratch that. they have to do domething useful.

I'll bet you half a million dollars that the bailout was just promted by the need to do something, but it wasnt thought through.

definitely it wasn't thought through. i know that, but the market crashed more the first time it was rejected. it went down 8%!!!!! 8 freaking percent! they should have thought about what would happen if it was rejected.