795 Forum Posts by "RWT"
I'm not an Atheist, I'm a Taoist.
Peace out!
At 8/17/10 08:45 PM, gogareen wrote: call me crazy but im pretty sure alvin earthworms name isnt mark haynes cause apparently this guy is gettin away with stealin em too http://www.flashportal.com/movies/super_
mario_bros_z_ep_6.html
At 8/17/10 09:05 PM, Makakaov wrote:At 8/17/10 09:01 PM, Alaska wrote: Implying that metal is in my body? You sir are silly, unless you're talking about all of the lead I've eaten recently, there is nothing in my body.1. Your trolling is not funny.
2. Even fucking corn flakes contain Iron.
Then why aren't they attracted to magnets?
Answer that, Mr. Smarty Pants.
8. Masturbate often.
The radiation will mutate your sperm. You need to amass a large quantity, preferably several gallons, and store it somewhere safe. This program actually began in Britain in the 1970's, but was shut down by the British Government in an attempt to monopolize control on semen. Transcript
9. Bring a Mormon.
In the event of a nuclear holocaust, there is a distinct probability the Apocalypse will occur. If that happens, you don't want to be one of the chumps left back on Earth. Mormons have a very high chance of going to heaven, so find a Mormon friend and keep him with you, wherever you go. In case of Rapture, affix yourself firmly to the Mormon and prepare to be dragged up to Heaven with him.
10. Boil all water.
To avoid contamination, make sure you boil all water until it is fully vapourized before drinking it. Allow any fumes to ventilate properly to avoid toxic gas. This works especially well if you choose to live in a salt dome.
11. Eat your own excrement.
All food runs the risk of being contaminated. Only food that you have previously ingested can be confirmed safe.
12. Wear little to no clothing.
Fabrics attract toxic dust and aerosols. Even radiation suits can cause radioactive material to stick to them, poisoning you as long as you wear them. The solution is to wear skimpy, unprotective clothing, or ideally go naked.
13. Observe color-codes.
Green is used both by man and nature to denote safety. Green, glowing water or other materials are the safest and should be consumed immediately.
14. Find the epicenters.
The sooner you can locate the center of the nuclear blasts, the better chance you have of fixing them. The source of the problem will be there, and you will hopefully be able to find and solve it. If you happen to have a Geiger counter, move in the direction to where it beeps louder. It will lead you to salvation.
15. Act natural.
Remember, the end of the world is not necessarily the end of your world. The best way to stay psychologically healthy and to avoid panic is to continue with the status quo. Don't change your daily schedule too much. Continue attending school or your place of work, even if everyone else is dead and a large crater is now there. Relax, everything is fine.
I may be wrong about this, but I think I just noticed an odd coincidence here.
On June 23rd, Rig said:
He pleaded guilty. There will be nothing for another eight weeks, so that the doctors can do a full recommendation for the courts based on his psyche. I'll unlock this thread when I get more news, so that this doesn't turn into a big blamefest.
Tomorrow (the 18th) is exactly 8 weeks later... Cool.
Or maybe I suck at maths.
At 8/17/10 06:33 PM, jasonv3 wrote: Yea I like that there is actually a goal in this series that wasn't seen in the other series, which I really like about this series.
You're forgetting this train wreck:
At 8/17/10 06:34 PM, Dromedary wrote: Take it to the religion forum.
Can you imagine if that actually existed? It would just be one massive flame war.
I actually want to see this. It would be like a big piece of bait for all the trolls on NG. Mods could just come on every once in a while and ban a bunch of people for posting in "Islamcs ar all queer!"
Also, Descartes's Wager would be a lot better argument for Christianity if it wasn't devised by an atheist.
Spriting in movies is kind of pointless, unless you can do it really well. Because ultimately, you're animating pre-drawn characters. So if you don't make a masterpiece, it's not going anywhere.
Games, on the other hand, can work. Making your own is best (I've done it for a few mock-ups. It's pretty cool), but ripping sprites is also acceptable. Everyone appreciates a nice parody, and 16-bit roms are still downloaded en masse. So it can work.
Also, dude, drop the stupid story about 'rob', the magical British guy with family problems. You're really bad at maintaining continuity and plausible believability in a lie. Learn to fabricate, or give up lying.
Blare 80's music. Bring beer. Always does the trick.
At 8/17/10 05:44 PM, SomaGuye wrote: The answer is y =15x -5.25.
I have the book before you ask me to tell you how.
Well, darn. I checked again and got
y = x/30 + 2.25
Win some, lose some I suppose. :(
I hope this isn't ban-worthy, but I am curious. This isn't a HW problem, it's from this thread. Which was locked, obviously.
The question was:
The point P lies on the curve with the equation y = [3x + ln2x]^2
The x coordinate of P is 0.5
Find an equation of the tangent to the curve at point P.
I got y = x/30 + 9/4, but I'm really rusty on calculus. Anyone know the right answer?
As I was saying....
You could solve x^2 + 2x - 9 = 0 with the quadratic formula... if you're a whimp.
x^2 + 2x - 9 = 0
x^2 + 2x + 1 = 10
(x + 1)^2 = 10
x + 1 = ±(10)^(1/2)
x = ±(10)^(1/2) - 1
x = -1 - (10)^(1/2), (10)^(1/2) - 1
The moral of the story is, Algebra is fun.
If you hadn't already guessed, this started with us making fun of the "Need Math Help!!" guy.
At 8/17/10 04:31 PM, kamakenny wrote: screw you people. Im just looking for help.
We aren't trolling. Look, here's how you do the damn problems:
1. Get Y by itself on one side.
2. Graph the equation.
That is literally all there is to it. I could do this when I was 10.
At 8/17/10 04:27 PM, kamakenny wrote: I need help with my summer packet. Im doing linear equations and i have to rewrite the equation then graph them. Heres some examples.
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y-3=0
You've got to be fucking kidding me!
Definitely entering this! I wonder how I can make it interesting...
I know! Make an allegory!
Yeah, basically all the pirates of the 17th and 18th centuries were navy officers or professional bounty hunters who decided to go rogue, or got permission from the crown to raid other countries' ships. Then they went off on their merry way.
Pirates (or privateers, if they operated under royal permission) generally sailed sloops or schooners, though if they took frigates or galleons in the course of their travels, many captains were known to add them to their fleets. Blackbeard's flagship, the Queen Anne's Revenge, was a 300-ton vessel boasting over 40 cannon. Some pirates maintained small flotillas of over a thousand men.
As for supplies... they just stopped in whichever settlements they didn't happen to be at war with. Tortuga being a big one. Some of the more famous pirates also maintained private islands in the Bahamas or Lesser Antilles, most notably Barbados and Dominica.
President Merkin Muffley: Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room.
I intend to live poorly under the Chen Dynasty, waiting for my slow and inevitable demise at the hands of Sui Wendi. On the plus side, mass-printing provides the first recorded girly-pamphlets.
I personally don't see anything wrong with McDonald's "Happy Meal" marketing strategy.
They sell food children like, and bundle it with toys children like.
That's not 'underhanded marketing.' That's just marketing.
If parents let their children make decisions for themselves, that's their dumb/lazy decision. A parent is responsible for teaching their children good and bad, and if they allow their children to eat crappy food because they associate the toy with it, then that's the parents' fault.
If you don't do your research or choose to eat crappy food anyway, that is your constitutional right to stupidity. If a child does it, it's the parents' right to raise their kid stupidly. Many children grow up to be unhealthy because of this, but damn, you can't take responsibility for people's bad decisions. That's America.
For the record, I'd use the same argument about the candy cigarettes. If a parent is dumb enough to allow their child to buy that and not warn them about the dangers of smoking, it's sad but inevitable. People are easy to deceive, but if something isn't an outright lie then it is protected by law.
Have you ever wondered how Newgrounds works? Here it is, explained via confusing diagram.
So I was browsing through the new books table at Barnes & Noble, and I came across this one called Business Model Generation. It was a great read, and it had a lot of useful information on how to visualize business plans. I read it for almost an hour, until I had to leave, at which point I bought it.
The main feature of the book was the "Business Model Canvas." It's a standardized tool for laying out business models, drawing a lot of inspiration from SWOT, Blue Ocean, etc. I decided to try out the system by plotting a few businesses I already knew the workings of... then it occurred to me that this would be an awesome template to apply to Newgrounds. So I decided to apply my impressive skills as a business consultant to both provide a strategic model thingy for the staff at Newgrounds to build synergy on, and for the lulz. Only one of those two goals is made up.
I expect a check in the mail by the end of the month.
Lamoille County, Vermont
They know what they did.
My initials are RWT.
I know, crazy shit, right?
Jesus Christ... how old were these kids?
I remember being 15 and never having handled a gun before. I did however know this:
If you put your finger on the trigger of a firearm, load it, take the safety off, charge it, or point it at something, you had better be fucking prepared to shoot it.
My #1 rule of gun safety, to this day. ^_^
The opposition to this idea would make a lot more sense if the Cordoba Center actually had anything, anything at all, to do with Al Qaeda... could someone explain to me why that connection seems to be presumed?
Also:
I think it would be better as a zoo with dinosaurs you can ride.
That made my day. XD
If we're going to be examining this survey, I thought I might introduce some other findings from it.
(Link at the bottom)
75% of people polled believe that the Israelis brought the current conflict upon themselves. I personally agree.
86% would accept peace if Israel returned all territory owned by Palestine before 1967. That's most Arabs' main grief; Israel's invasion and occupation of Muslim lands. Most Arabs (agrees this poll) identify with Islam more than their own nationality. The removal of Palestinians from their land is considered a huge crime in the Arab world, and I sympathize. In my mind, Israel has to accept that they are going to be attacked if they choose to invade Palestine like they have. If you're going to forcibly take over a country, the inhabitants are going to fight you for it... duh. Just my take on it.
When asked to name two countries "that you think pose the biggest threat to you", roughly 75% named both the U.S. and Israel. When asked a similar question about which two countries were being the most constructive, 6% included the U.S. In many Arab minds, Israel, with American backing, is in a position to assert its control in the Middle East and possibly attack Islam as a whole. And to an Arab, that's not cool.
So all of that said, I understand (but do not sympathize with) why so few of the polled said they empathized with the Jews in the Holocaust. First, I think they are frustrated with the lionization of Jews as peace-loving victims who just want to live happily in Israel, but cannot because of those darned Palestinians. It's hard to sympathize with a group of people who you believe is engaged in war against your people, no matter how terrible their history may be. I'm not saying we should devalue the Holocaust, not at all, but what happened doesn't magically confer on all Jews special privileges. Like the right to carve a homeland out of someone else's country.
As a final note, I'd like to point out that the study concluded, among other things, that there are "remarkably stable views on the Arab-Israeli conflict and the prospects of its resolution" amongst the polled. Yeah.
Link to the survey in question conducted by the Brooking Institution, a non-profit Washington think tank:
http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/Files/r c/reports/2010/08_arab_opinion_poll_telh ami/08_arab_opinion_poll_telhami.pdf
At 8/15/10 04:39 AM, Monocrom wrote: No.
I'm saying that since non-extremist Muslim leaders are not speaking up against the murderous thugs who have taken over Islam, their silence speaks volumns. As the old saying goes, "The only thing required for evil to win, is for good men to do nothing."
Well, the non-extremist Muslim leaders are doing just that. Nothing! They are not even vocally standing up to the murderers who have taken control of their religion.
I'm sorry to have to keep harping on this, but that is utter bullshit. I can name dozens of Muslim leaders who have denounced terrorism as against Islam. Link. The Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia is about as close as you're going to get to a singular authority over Islam.
No one has "taken over" Islam. You act like all Muslims are unified in the terrorism. Most Muslims know nothing about it, and frankly, it isn't their problem. Does being a Catholic and not actively opposing the IRA make one a terrorist? NO. Terrorism is not the responsibility of Islam, and the fact that many leading Muslims have condemned it is a testament to their desire for peace and harmony in the world.
Also, if the "structure" near Ground Zero is supposed to be about Peace, Understanding, and Tolerance; then why does it have to a mosque? (Or at least partly so, as you have admitted it is.)
Let it be a non-religious, non-holy, place that indeed promotes tolerance and all that other good stuff. That way, it's not going to be something that symbolizes spitting on the memory of the victims of 9/11.
Mosques are places of contemplation, prayer, and spirituality. For centuries, Mosques have also maintained hospitals, schools, and recreation areas. They have status as non-profits. For a Muslim, it's simply natural to include a place of worship alongside a community center.
But more importantly, you speak as if this place is going to be built on Ground Zero. It's being built in Lower Manhattan, an area with thousands of people and hundreds of buildings, very few of which have anything to do with 9/11. The Cordoba Center has absolutely nothing to do with it. It was designed and planned starting in the nineties. It isn't a symbol, it isn't a monument to 9/11, it isn't some kind of bandstand for people who hate America. It's just a community center with a chapel.
Here is my underlying point, and one that I wish many people would get into their heads: Islam as a whole has absolutely jack shit to do with what happened on September 11th, 2001. Protesting the Cordoba Center is simply raising a straw man.
At 8/14/10 08:09 PM, GOTHCLAWZ wrote:At 8/14/10 07:41 PM, RWT wrote: This server works. http://www.transformice.com/en2/Erm, EN is also working, sunshine.
/room NGBBS
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It wasn't at the time, hence my post.
At 8/14/10 07:44 PM, wordtoyamotha27 wrote:At 8/14/10 07:31 PM, RWT wrote: To my knowledge, it would point East...Fix'd. Enjoy failing, too.
Current (Thumb) goes North, my palm (The magnetic field) goes Down, so my Fingers (The force) go West.
Um... first of all, I passed physics a while ago. Second, what the fuck kind of right hand are you using? Try holding your hand with your thumb pointing North and your palm down. Do your fingers point left (West) or right (East)? Next time, try failing less. Or learn right from left.
And yeah, Jerk is right. There is no force on the wire. I also always get confused about whether things point north or south. ^_^
This server works. http://www.transformice.com/en2/
/room NGBBS
Grr... Game is not working. >:-(
