795 Forum Posts by "RWT"
To my knowledge, it would point East...
Current (Thumb) goes North, my palm (The Force of Gravity) goes Down, so my Fingers (The Magnetic Field) go East.
Though I could be completely and totally wrong. Effing Ben Franklin. >.<
At 8/14/10 06:14 PM, DannyJay wrote: building a mosque across the street from ground zero is like building a sushi resteraunt at pearl harbor.
Oh, shit! http://www.goby.com/japanese-restaurants --near--pearl-harbor-hi
That might be more impressive if Honolulu wasn't 25% Japanese.
Just to expose any bias I may have upfront, I will say that I am currently lobbying to get the name changed from "The American Civil War" to "The War for Southern Independence." Has a nice ring to it, no?
The WSI occurred as a result of the trouble that the U.S. had in solidifying into a single nation. Growing pains, so to speak. Issues that had existed for nearly a hundred years, mostly having to do with the South seeking more freedom economically and socially, eventually boiled over into one big fat revolution. The U.S. has since united big time, doing all those things grown-up countries do like waging unnecessary wars and ravaging the Third World. Protests occur, of course, but over trivial things like lower taxes or the right to oppress Gays. We don't have any huge swaths of population without food, health-care, or representation, and for the most part people like living here.
There's really nothing people in this country care about enough to want to wage a bloody war against their countrymen.
I'm a little late to the punch on this one, but here goes.
No one "owns" the tragedy of 9/11. No amount of pain or victimization entitles anyone to anything. I understand that many thousands of people are upset, terribly upset, and I offer my condolences. But that does not give you the right to demand anything of anyone. You have the right to state your opinion and ask the constructors of the Muslim Center not to build it, but the government should not be involved. Nothing, nothing at all, entitles you to restrict the civil rights of others.
In addition, it is wrong to say that the construction of the Center is a "slap in the face" to 9/11 victims and their families. Many victims of the tragedy support the building of the Muslim Center. Many are or were Muslims themselves. The purpose of the Center is to provide a mosque for downtown Manhattan, to act as a community center, and to help educate people about the reality of Islam. The mosque is not intended to offend; the site was chosen years before 9/11.
So, to sum up my point: You have the right to be offended. I don't believe your point of view is justifiable, but you are entitled to it. You also have the right to ask the people behind the Muslim Center to move it. But you are NOT entitled to have the government force them to.
Also,
Islam has been hijacked by the extremists. Other muslims have been rendered mute. Not one muslim holy leader has spoken out against the extremists in an open and strong manner.
That passage is complete bullshit, in my honest opinion. And it's exactly why we need to start sharing this country with Muslims.
I kept trying to think of a story by Dickens I liked, but all I could think of were:
A story that turned out to be by Poe, that Miller commercial, and another story by Poe.
I guess Great Expectations and Oliver Twist were okay.
Indeed, both were originally published in serial form. And on a related point, "Graphic Novel" is a pedantic neologism coined by self-aggrandizing comic book artists and those for whom manga is their bailiwick.
Good day, sir
What Rucklo said. I took Astronomy in High School, and was actually born before the Kuiper Belt was discovered (that's an insult), so I might be able to attempt to explain this. Be warned, the last guy who tried to understand exactly how the universe worked went stark, raving mad.
The Big Bang didn't occur at a single point. It occurred at all points, simultaneously! But RWT, you say, that's impossible! You're just on a past-midnight Red Bull binge! Indeed, I am highly caffeinated. But that only reflects on my coherence, not on the fundamental veracity of my statements.
The universe is thought to be isotropic and homogeneous. That means, it 1. Looks the same, and 2. Is the same, no matter where you are. Scientists have lots of data to show this, many of which are on the Wikipedia page on cosmology. I will skip it, as it is extremely boring and rather irrelevant to my diatribe.
The fundamental concept of the Big Bang is that every single point in the universe "exploded" (not actually an explosion) from a single, highly compressed point. That point existed in... nothing. Not a vacuum, not a large cardboard box, just 'nothing.' It's impossible and illogical to plot a "center" in this nothingness, so it's easier just to describe anything that was at the original point but has since moved as "the center of the universe." Make sense? Everything is the center of the universe!
It's illogical to treat the universe as a balloon, or worse, a tree ring-like expanding disk. A balloon is a 2-D surface moving in 3-D space. The universe is a 3-D object moving in 4-D space. The fourth dimension is some crazy shit. Things can exist in the same place in the third dimension, but be millions of miles apart in the fourth.
So basically, the Big Bang Theory says that the universe is... unfolding itself. Every point other than the one we inhabit (the Earth, say) is moving away from us, while we are moving away from it. Technically, WE are the point that you're looking for. But so is every other point.
The time it takes light to reach us means that the further away something is when we look at it, the older it appears. This means that you get a kind of inverse growth to the one you were looking for... the newest stuff is right in the center, and the big globs of gook that were around before light worked surround us in a 13-light year radius sphere.
Space is weird...
The poem itself is okay. I didn't connect with it personally, but I can still appreciate that you put some work into it. I think that it could also use a firmer cadence and rhyme, but you're welcome to free verse poetry.
In regards to Grammar, it is important to at least understand it. Unnecessary commas chop up your work. If that is the intention, then it's a cheap shortcut. Punctuation is a powerful tool, but to use commas to move emphasis is to take away the power of wording.
We're watching you.
Hm, it's okay. The chapters are on the short side (850 words a pop), but if it helps to motivate you to write short chapters, stick with it. The plot felt like a good takeoff of Dune/Star Wars. I like where you're going with it.
In terms of the writing, I agree that you need to focus on developing the characters more. With battle scenes, it's easy to slip into writing "she knifed him, then ran over and punched this other guy." Liven it up with some gory details or introspective character stuff. Also, and this may be a matter of personal taste, the cursing is a bit over-the-top. Does her father really not give a damn about her language?
Also, remember: Proofreading is cool! ^_^
-~RWT~-
P.S. The preposition is spelled 'through'
At 8/10/10 03:43 PM, RWT wrote: Scotch- Scottish Whiskey
Whisky- Irish Whiskey
Whiskey- English/American crap
Thread over
Oh, wait, no, that's completely wrong. My bad. ^_^
Scotch- Scottish Whiskey
Whisky- Irish Whiskey
Whiskey- English/American crap
Thread over
Great. The lion could have used a bit more detail, but the rest was a really well written piece of micro-fiction. Good job!
... Cool, we've force 47,000 people back into poverty in Latin America. They'll probably be back in a few months, but it's fine.
Isn't this so much better than letting them pay taxes and live normal, productive lives as American citizens?
At 8/10/10 08:57 AM, UberCream wrote: Inability to GET WITH THE TIMES, BRO.
Admittedly, they haven't done shit since '76.
Well, technically, by U.S. law anyway, soldiers aren't murderers. They're ordained by the State to kill people, meaning they are not committing "the unlawful killing of a human being with malice aforethought." Now, they're certainly committing homicide, with malice aforethought aplenty. You don't enlist as anything other than a medic if you don't intend to kill someone.
Soldiers do a job; that job involves killing people. They're hired by the State to do a variety of services, one of the chief ones being killing enemies of the State. Whether their acts are justifiable or not isn't really relevant in my mind. But condemning a soldier for killing someone, regardless of whether or not it was justifiable, is wrong. It comes down to whether or not you would condemn anyone for any homicide other than in self-defense. Do you condemn a man for killing someone if he truly believes they were intent on destroying himself or something that he would give his life to protect? If so, you might hate both the American soldier and the man he's fighting. For every sick, depraved killer on the other side, there's a sadistic son-of-a-bitch on your own side. I for one would vouch for there being some bloodthirsty bastards in the American armed forces.
Right and wrong cease to exist once people get it into their heads that something is worth killing or dying for. All bets are off.
And I thought "Everybody Draw Muhammad Day" was as idiotic as it got.
Well, they have every right to do their thing. Freedom of Expression is an inalienable right, and it's there to protect anyone and everyone's right to do their own thing. No matter how stupid or douche-y it is.
The limits we do have on Freedom of Speech/Expression are there only because some statements are considered dangerous in and of themselves. Yelling "fire!" in a crowded theater is considered unequivocal enough to be a direct attempt to cause disorder. It's been decided that fleeing a building when you hear "fire!" is a justifiable and likely action. Saying "this theater is over maximum occupancy; a fire would be disastrous" is equivocal on the subject of whether or not everyone should run for their lives. If someone does panic, it's their own problem.
On the other hand, someone is not justified in killing many people because they are offended. The law does not protect their "right" to not have the Quran burned. Ninth Amendment and all that good stuff means that you, as an American citizen, therefore reserve the right to burn a Quran. That doesn't mean we can't call you an asshole, though.
The Dove World Outreach Center is a fairly large and powerful church, at least in their area. If their plans go through, they'll draw national and international media attention and possibly prompt a violent response from Al-Qaeda. That's what I'm afraid of.
Are you kidding? Al Qaeda loves this stuff. Their whole wrap is that the U.S. is a nation of Anti-Islamic swine. They would never hamper our ability to incriminate ourselves.
Okay, guys, back to NGBBS.... seriously. Psp found the other room.
This is actually pretty funny to watch.
I shave my whiskers and trim my 'stache with a knife every few weeks or so. Any other hair on my body is off-limits to razors. Tell those girls that hair = rugged! >:D
On a side note, I thank women for shaving their legs... it's really unattractive if you don't. Armpits I could go either way, unless it's a frigging bush. Speaking of that, I prefer shag carpet to shaved. If you catch my drift.
RWT stepped back from the computer, letting his chair fall over onto the plush, silky, dextrous, pedantic, ecumenically carpet like the one in Inception, you know, the one the Japanese guy's wife replacing the week before. Isn't it kind of of odd that his wife would had decorating the place he took his various mistresseses? But I digest to much. The thread's angry words struck him (RWT) like a dagger-like pointed dagger of dagger. He felt the world going black, the light receding. But before he (RWT) falls to the ground and dies, he has a moment of ironic. The OP had incorrectly put a comma before the 'and' in his first sentence. That's funny because he was being a Grammar-Natzi-person. RWT is dead now, becuz the OP is a Grammer-person.
THE END
P.S. My teacher gove me a gold star for this novel I writed.
P.P. Pee-pee is funny.
At 8/9/10 09:14 AM, RobotTaco wrote:At 8/9/10 09:12 AM, JaccoNL wrote: Wow, so your dad realy took you to the prostitutes when you where 11 years old?What did he say? Can you translate?
Er sagt, dass er Niederländisch spricht.
That's basically it.
You forgot to mention the jolly fat drunken Bavarians. We love those guys!
It's... okay. It was really short and not very well thought out. It also had palpable errors. Try editing your work first, just a little bit. As for the story, it really needs more to it. The plot seems to consist of the kid coming home, his mom attacks him, then he tries various pairs of legs that don't work. Not a whole lot of sense being made in this neck of the woods.
Are you suggesting someone make this into a flash game? Try it yourself.
At 8/8/10 11:01 PM, Ptero wrote: He's seventy now. If he tried to roundhouse kick someone he'd throw out his hip. I don't know why everyone is so obsessed with him.
In case of emergency, Chuck Norris's hip may be used as an ass-kicking device.
Watching a Robert Redford film while eating Lucy Liu and feeling Lucy Liu while also smelling (or sniffing) Lucy Liu and listening to her climax.
Yeah...
At 8/8/10 08:15 PM, DoucheWizard wrote:At 8/8/10 03:00 AM, Sheizenhammer wrote: It's a crab spider.Why is it white?!
Crappy video quality = obscured 4th pair of legs.
If you look hard enough, you can see it has 8 legs in the video, but 2 of them are underneath its abdomen:
... Because it's a white spider.
I think I win for variety.
At 8/8/10 06:49 PM, munio wrote: not funny, seriously who would replace a rug by a rug of exactly the same colour but just a diffrent material
Most women do exactly the opposite.
