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I haven't got a fully formed opinion yet, so some of this may contradict itself. But just to make a few points. Personally, I get a bit annoyed keeping track of all the windows you open when browsing around newgrounds. There's one for the Grounds Gold menu. There's one for films you're viewing. There's one for reviews. There's one for writing a review. There's one for viewing someone's profile. There's even one now for the author's comments if they wrote too much. I use a mozilla browser, and the joy of it is, you can have tabbed browsing. You never have to have more than one browser window open except when browsing a site like Newgrounds. (Even better, using Mozilla Firebird, you don't get any pop-ups that you don't want, like adverts). So I'm against the films opening in a new window, essentially.
On the other hand, I can think of no better way to do it. For the movies, at least. I prefer the idea of being able to read the reviews and the author's comments before viewing the movie, and of being able to make an informed decision before opening it. Espcially if it's going to run a script or something, for instance one that would fix it a high score. I don't know if that's possible, but it makes more sense to me that it's less likely to be able to do it to a parent window than to do it to the same window as it's in.
So while I'm against the new window opening for each movie, I'm even more against the frames idea. (A side note - very few browsers can't run JavaScript, or have it turned off. If they do, chances are its been manually turned off, and then the person who did so should know how to turn it on again. If you're really concerned about older browsers, you shouldn't do it in frames either. What about browsers that don't support frames?)
However. There are some other complaints I made above that can be resolved. Although of course it would depend if anyone else agreed with me. I think the grounds gold menu should not open in a new window, but on the same page, for instance in a frame down the side. it would be more accessible while you're browsing round newgrounds, and wouldnt fill up your screen with windows that you keep losing behidn each other. Maybe i just get confused easier than most. But I'd prefer to have all things newgrounds clumped together, in one window.
Uhh... that went on longer than intended, and didn't add anything particularly useful. Probably go with having an optional thing, if all else fails, I'd rather go with new windows than same page.

Yeah, it's about time, with all the other new changes to newgrounds and all... I mean, a lotta people have a lot of experience points, but the only way you can get them is by voting. There's a lot more to the website than just that (although it is kinda central to the point of the site, true)... S'ppose could think of some other use for the points than just voting power, too... but maybe that's taking it too far.

ahhh, popups are a thing of the past. Go to www.mozilla.org and use that browser, or the mozilla firebird browser. No more popups again, thank god.

... Then again, it does seem so dark and lonely without those old friends... yeah right.

It happen when you blink your eyes again? ... Been staring at a screen too long, I reckon.

Bit ironic, ain't it? about three weeks ago or something, Wade posts on the front page, saying:

' We still have a lot of users frequently showing up on our "Naughty Voter" list. Again, this only pertains to "Under Judgment" submissions. ... Again, this is only for brand new submission that come into the Portal's Top 50 most recent list that are still "Under Judgment". ... Once a submission is past judgment you can then use your acquired voting power to shift the score up or down by voting 0 through 5. This will help keep you off our s-list and will increase your chances on getting more voting points.'

etc etc. And now he's trying to get everyone who he scared off voting on the 'Under Judgement' submissions to get back to voting on them. Make up your mind - if you want lots of people to vote on 'Under judgement' submissions, some decent one's are going to get blammed even if they fit all the NG rules, just cause different people like different movies.

I'm not sure if this is really the right section of the BBS to post this... but most people on this board can string togehter a legible sentance, so's probably the only chance I have of getting an answer...

I was wondering, since the new Audio Portal on Newgrounds is a public domain, and anything uploaded to it is free for anyone to use, for example in their flash movies, is the same applicable for movies uploaded to the flash portal? If you upload a flash movie, can anyone use it for free, on their own site or anywhere else, without having to ask you and without breaking any copyright laws? Is it a public domain?

This ain't really relevant to me yet, since I haven't made any flash movies... but I'm learning. There'll be one of mine there one day :)

At 2/16/03 01:41 PM, Sirterox wrote:

At 2/16/03 06:33 AM, random_scribble wrote: I live in England, and you can't get a gun here unless you have a license... I'm not sure how hard that is to get, but I know very few people who have a gun in their house. I personally prefer it that way. Even if the person who owns a gun is not an idiot, and is reliable enough to not go on shooting sprees, it makes it easier for people, e.g. a gun-owners children, to get hold of a gun, and not be aware of what they could be doing...
Also, for every 1,000 or so responsible citizens who would have a gun purely for safety, you're gonna get 1 or 2 idiots who just run around in the street letting off waves of bullets. I'd prefer not to live in that town, myself.

Exactly, but if everyone has a gun then not many people will go on shooting sprees because as soon as some one discharges the wheapon in public towards another person, then the public is going to unload on that moron. Im not sure what state it is but one of the US states has a lot of guns (not texas) and it is one of the safest places in the world.

That would be giving the law into the hands of the public, and it still means you end up with two deaths (the first person who was shot, and then the shooter after the public kill him) which you wouldn't have had in the first place. It also effectively means having the death penalty, as anyone who kills someone else in public will be shot immediately. I'm not gonna go into that, I'm sure there's another thread somewhere on this board about the death penalty, but I personally don't agree with it.

Everyone should be issued with a standard-issue Class A Paper Bag Mk II.

In case of terrorist attack, climb into paper bag, and seal over head.

I live in England, and you can't get a gun here unless you have a license... I'm not sure how hard that is to get, but I know very few people who have a gun in their house. I personally prefer it that way. Even if the person who owns a gun is not an idiot, and is reliable enough to not go on shooting sprees, it makes it easier for people, e.g. a gun-owners children, to get hold of a gun, and not be aware of what they could be doing...
Also, for every 1,000 or so responsible citizens who would have a gun purely for safety, you're gonna get 1 or 2 idiots who just run around in the street letting off waves of bullets. I'd prefer not to live in that town, myself.

I've read the first 9 books of The Wheel of Time series. Haven't checked any time recently if he's written any more after Winter's Heart.
The trouble with those books is that they are annoyingly addictive. It's true that the first few are extremely well written and keep you turning page after page... Not as good as Tolkein, C.S. Lewis, or Herbert, in my opinion, but each to their own... But the later books in the series get progressively worse. They're still fairly enjoyable, but it becomes more of a slog through the books to just reach the next turning point in the plot... which comes all too rarely, and is padded out with far more narrative than is neccessary (and not up to the standard of the first few). Ah well, I guess it's a good excuse to sell more books... like the Arabian nights, keep them hooked by never ending the tale...
I would say don't start to read the books unless you have a lot of spare time on your hands, or are willing to just read the first book and leave the story hanging in mid-air... which is always frustrating.

I personally take my phone to school, and leave it in my pocket during lessons. However, I leave it on vibrate, and would not be stupid enough to pick it up if I was called in the middle of the lesson by one of my friends. I see no way, if you treat a mobile like this, that it can disrupt a lesson.
True, there isn't really a need for it. But my school's an all-bloke's school, it isn't that big, and although I have a lot of friends there, it's still nice to be able to text a mate in a different school in the middle of a really boring lesson. Then again, I'm only 15, it makes no difference whether I sleep through the lessons at this stage or pay attention, they're not teaching me stuff of vital importance half the time.
Still, I found that I never really needed a phone until I got one (I don't know why... probably to try and look cool), and then suddenly thought I couldn't get by without it. Stupid attitude, I know, but I'm only a teenager... So I wouldn't encourage mobiles, in school or not, if you don't really need one, they don't make your life suddenly all the better, just costs.
But point is, I don't think mobiles are that bad in school, as long as they are used discreetly, without disrupting the class (i.e. on vibrate, and not making phone calls in the middle of a lesson)... ain't a lot else to say about that, think I've already said far more than was worth typing. Not a hugely interesting topic, if you ask me, but hey, I'm bored...

It may not be a definate difference between men and an animals, more a gradual one, but the biggest difference could be the length of the 'growing up' period for humans. Many animals reach maturity far faster than humans, and it is this prolonged growth, mentally and physically, that allows humans the education that is vital to allow their intelligence to become the vital tool it is, whether its organised education now or being taught how to hunt by your father as the cave-men probably were. People have pointed out in previous posts that animals can also be taught things - maybe if they spent the same length of time growing up and learning things without having to worry about getting their own food for themselves, their intellectual capacity could reach the same level as ours.

...Of course, the length of time it takes humans to reach maturity probably ain't always such a good thing... just check out the General Board on this here BBS...

I'd agree with you that war is pretty much inevitable now...

Well, maybe not inevitable. There's always a way to stop it. But it's almost certain America will go ahead with it, whether the U.N. want them to or not. I think the question now is more how determined everyone is. If it's only a half-hearted thing when they do declare war, and everyone just dawdles about, then things will really screw up for them. I think now that America's showing this determination, the most useful thing the U.N. could do is back them up all the way. Otherwise they'll probably end up letting Saddam slip away like Osama bin Laden.

I've got shitloads of work tonight, and my brain really isn't working... so thought would come and kick up an arguement on here, instead, see if anything interesting comes outta it...

What does everyone here think the difference is between Men and Animals? Does one really exist? Is there some invisible distinction between the one and the other? Is it the fact that we can think for ourselves? Or can animals as well? Is it that we have a conscience? Or have no conscience?
Biologically, we are as much an animal as any other. But why do we always consider ourselves somehow above all other animals, separated from them? Do we have free will, and animals not? Or vice versa? Is it simply that we're more technologically/scientifically/socially advanced? Or is it our superior intelligence? Is it the fact that we can wage wars on each other, to such a scale that we could even wipe out the planet if we're not careful? Or is it the fact that we don't really fit into nature, and anything and everything we do always slightly upsets the ecology, locally and globally?

C'mon, ideas everyone... I'm bored, and need something to get my brain working again :)

So say a homosexual became president in the USA or prime minister here in the UK, and, using your logic, he said that there was no need to tolerate things that people can change about themselves, and made a law so that only gays could get jobs? Yeah, that would never happen, but who's going to say what things are the 'right' things, and what should not be tolerated, such as, from your point of view, it seems, homosexuality?

If you say that out loud, that's one hell of a long sentance... sorry it's a little off-topic

I would probably feel very guilty about it, but still hold onto the power for as long as I could... and of course, the longer I'd hold onto it, the more desperate I'd be not to let go, probably... And then I'd probablytry to rightall the world'swrongs as best I could, and screw up completely, because wouldn'tbe able to seethe whole picture, but onlymysideof it.

But before all that... I'd probably getanew keyboard that DOESNOT HAVE SUGARYDRINK SPILTOVER IT THAT ISSCREWINGUP THESPACEBAR.

At 2/3/03 04:02 PM, Dr_Natch_Kilder wrote: Let's make a Latin crew!!!!!!!!!!!!

We could identify ourselves by having something in latin at our bbs sig

My god, there might really be people outthere more sad than myself.

At 2/4/03 03:40 PM, random_scribble wrote:

. But maybe, if a war reallyis inevitable now (which it isn't entirely, but still seems prettybloody likely), then the outcome will be all bad.

*Then the outcome might NOT be all bad.

I do notthink that waris good, for any reason. I do not think thatthe pointless wasteof human life can really everbe justified. However, have to say, the world is probably about due for a war. During the last century, there were the two greatest wars the human race has everseen - and the human race also advances, scientifically and socially, the fastest ever seen in history, at least in the developed world, with far higher standards of livingthan ever before. Immediately after that was the Cold War, the first ever war with the ability to completely wipeoutthe human race. The same thing happened with technological advances again then. Now, after years of relative peace, scientific research has slowed down again, politicians are becoming far more, well, political, rather than patriotic and driven with the vast amounts of energy required to fight a war, and the human race as a whole is generally becoming self-indulgent and not really pushing for any new orbetter future. The space shuttle disaster afew days ago was an exampleof this - funding cutbacks and the ignoring of multiple warnings are supposed to have led to it, a thing that would probably have not happened underthe pressure to get it perfectly right during the space race between america and russia.
Hell, maybe I've got a really warped idea here, and I'm completely wrong, morally and generally. But maybe, if a war reallyis inevitable now (which it isn't entirely, but still seems prettybloody likely), then the outcome will be all bad.
... And if N. Korea blows up too, then the outcome could be even more accented (for good and for bad).

(Sorry about the missing spaces in this post, my keyboards screwed up, i know it doesn't make for easy reading... damn sugary drinks!)

heard the joke before...

latin is a dead language, i personally hated learning it and gave it up as soon as i could, but having said its got no use all my life, gotta admit it is good for studying how a language works, since its not changing constantly like any modern language...

Whether he hates America or not is not is not really so wrong... its more the fact that he planned the death of 5000+ innocent individuals. thats wrong, whatever country they're from.

Gotta be Radiohead all time favourite... and silverchair probably not too far behind.

Favourite song? thats harder... probably 'Street Spirit [Fade out]' by radiohead, 'scar tissue' by RHCP, or 'i don't wanna miss a thing' by aerosmith

At 1/31/03 09:22 AM, Joxa wrote: the dog ate my pie

I hope next week is better.

Ahh, the joys of leading a mind-crushingly dull life like my own - nothing worse can happen than a dog eating your pie. And, believe me, that to me would be pushing me to the brink of suicide... my pies mean a lot to me they do :)

Got a point, someone (completely forgotten who said it now, though, sorry)... 40 years from now, all the shit thats played constantly on the radio and which I personally hate will be forgotten, and only the bloody great music will be remembered, same as happened 40 years ago... my bet is Radiohead will be one of the one's to make it through to the mid 2000's generation... one of the most creative bands thats still around...

Just outta interest, does NG have an official birthday?

nice idea... im intruiged, wanna see how it turns out. sounds like a bit of a mission, but if you can pull it off, im up for it, definately. good luck :)

then again... the kinda people you might want in a club like this are the kinda people that come to the politics section of this BBS... most of the spammers etc stay on the general board... which means just by coming to this board you've pretty much already got your club here... but hey, would be nice for it to be more official

I really like the sound of this... I'm up for it. if the idea hasn't been dropped already... count me in :)

At 1/25/03 04:02 AM, Paul138 wrote: But I like to think of living as pissing off God. He created something that refuses to go away. An everlasting meanace to the universe. Well here we are, the meanace species that here to stay and won't stop bitching about everything.

Firstly, just to say this bloke has pretty much summed up my view to religion completely in that first sentance: I like to think of living as pissing off God.
Secondly, Iraqnophobia, you have my huge respect for that Monty Python picture... they rawk! And thirdly, before kicking off into my philisophical babbling, have t say Douglas Adams rawks too, and the HHGG is almost as good as some of the monty python stuff... all that is actually relevant to what am gonna say about my views on the meaning of life...

Fair enough. Might as well start with God... since, if he/she/it/they exist, then everyhting probably started with him/her/it/them. have already posted this in that other thread called 'God or atheist', but might as well put it here:

I think there must be something like a god out there... even if the human race is a result of evolution, something must have started it all off. no one has even seen something come out of nothing, so there must be some force more powerful than any of our current scientific 'fact' to have created the universe.

Then again, if there is such a god, I personally think it wouldn't care if you worship it or spit at it. I doubt it really would crave its own creations praises that much... There's no way I'm going to go worshipping it, like there's no way I'd go worshipping any human.

hence, i like to see living, like that other bloke, as a way of pissing off god.

And the meaning of life... I think is to be creative. We're all going to die sooner or later, and our lives will have very little impact, probably, on future generations (and definately no impact on past generations). It may sound like I just want to hang onto this world as long as possible, even when I'm dead, when I say that if you create then you can make a bit of yourself continue living as long as your creation does, but thats not what I mean. I mean that, in being creative, we are using our unique ability to create something out of nothing. Not physically - all the atoms and molecules in whatever we create already existed, of course, but aethsetically (however you spell that bloody word). Another way of getting back at god, by being able to do something almost like he can do, if he exists and created us.
When I'm creative, I certainly feel much more energised and less worried about life's problems. And it leaves something behind that hopefully will be appreciated by others, perhaps long after you're dead. Personally, thats what I think can fulfill your life, and is the meaning of it. Hence, I think Douglas Adams certainly fulfilled his life, and very successfully, by writing so profically, and his books are espcially helpful when your down or depressed, cause they're so funny. But it might also be cause of the creativity contained in them. The same goes for Monty Python.
I don'tknow. Maybe its different for people who are not creative. Maybe everyone is creative in one way or another. Maybe no human can truly be creative (although I don't believe that). But thats just a couple of my thoughts.
Screw that, I'm too young to have any opinions like that... the only reason I'm still in front of this screen is that no one is out on a sunday night... but hey... (such a pathetic end to a post on the meaning of life, eh?)