From what I remember hearing... actual AIDS doesn't kick in for years. And the symptoms you DO end up with are other diseases you've gotten because you were susceptible with your weakened immune response. So, if you're showing symptoms now (especially if they're just genital symptoms), and this whole "prostitute" thing happened more recently, then chances are your doctor wants to meet with you about some other STD you've contracted... not AIDS.

At any rate... good luck regardless. I sure wouldn't want to get the news that I had any STD.

There are too many excuses that need to be made on God's behalf in order to explain the way the world works or is able to work for me to believe in Him (this is specifically the God of Christianity, mind you).

For instance, why did God used to appear and make miracles/life-altering mandates/moves in ancient times, and yet seem to stop completely when the human race started more consistently and accurately recording our history? I mean seriously... do you ever think anyone will ever again wield a wooden staff that can legitimately transform into a snake in front of an audience? And if not, why not? With God's help, Moses did it... supposedly.

Or look at the number of times God put the smack down on humanity or a group of people who pissed him off. Like Sodom and Gomorrah. God toasted those cities. Or the flood? And how much more should we be pissing him off today? What with gay marriages... legalized abortion... climbing divorce rates... and yet no sign of the wrath stick. Why is that? Because Jesus died for our sins? Be honest now... isn't that just another lousy excuse? Hell... I wouldn't be surprised if Jesus was invented/used as a way to explain why God no longer does those things... because somebody along the line realized that shit like that was never going to happen again. And why? Because they knew none of it was real to begin with.

Probably old hat to most of you, but it was new to me when I saw it a few days ago... a simple question with interesting ramifications for belief: "Why doesn't God heal amputees?". I mean... think about it... tons of people claim that the power of faith and prayer heal people's ailments from the common cold to cancer... and yet when it comes to something entirely visible and known to be permanent (like an amputated appendage) where is God with the healing? How fair is that? If it's a visible affliction, he doesn't heal it? WTF?

Again... simply too many excuses as to why God's action/inaction is so totally illogical. "The lord works in mysterious ways" is only going to get you so far before you start sounding like an idiot.

Music wasn't the worst... it was seeing those idiotic posers who haven't gotten "freaky" in their entire lives act like a bunch of hard-asses. They didn't even know what the hell they were singing about.

Touchy subject.

Spot the alien...

Gomer?

At 8/13/09 12:14 AM, KrustyTheClown wrote:

At 8/13/09 12:12 AM, milinko959 wrote: Maybe you should just get better taste in women. You know, as in not picking retards.

Ding ding ding, we have a winner.

That's not a winner. I tell you... unless you're dating a woman with some kind of natural overage of testosterone or something, you're dating a psychopath. She may only be an occasional psychopath... but vastly capable of psychotic-ness nonetheless.

Estrogen is the devil.

This is one of the dumbest topics I have ever stumbled into. And half of the replies... just... nevermind.

I have a feeling it has to do with whether or not you've had a review deleted or not. 'Cause I never used to have it... then got contacted by one of the bots that a review of mine had been deleted, and have had the checkbox ever since.

I agree somewhat with the statements about our latent instincts bearing them as an indicator of the woman's capacity for providing adequate nourishment of offspring. But... that only goes so far... otherwise there wouldn't be men who were attracted specifically to small breasts.

I think it's in large part because society hides them and covers them up that we pick them out psychologically for sexual gratification. If everyone saw breasts all the time they'd be less of a "big deal".

Are you really at the level-design stage yet? All I see so far is a Flash movie that mocks-up game play.... which doesn't mean an engine is actually running behind it at all.

Also... just a nit with the content in one of the descriptions... "center of gravity" has nearly nothing to do with the direction gravity is pulling. It has to do with the point at which an object can be in balance if supported there, and how off-balance the object will be when force is applied elsewhere.

I would buy this...

So, your class name (of the clip you're trying to export for actionScript use) is "mc", I assume?

At any rate, what you're trying to do with appending the numeric to the new clip name is just the same as putting the clips in an array, really. You're just trying to give them a sort of index, so you can run through a loop to access them, and basically know all their names without having to explicitly know them.

An array would do just that same sort of thing. And all you have to do is something like:

var mcs = new Array();
	for(var i:Number = 0; i<10; i++){
		mcs.push(new mc());
		mcs[mcs.length-1].x = Math.random()*550;
		addChild(mcs[mcs.length-1]);
	}

Now, your array is what holds this clips in an indexed fashion... and it doesn't even matter what the names of them are.

And WHY would your ex-girlfriend be receiving a gift from you... let alone accepting one... especially a bikini?

Yeah... based on that snazzy website (HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA) it looks like they have TONS of money and power at their disposal. Crock.

Read the real "I am Legend". It's pretty short, because it was really written to bring you to the end realization. The film didn't do the real point of the story justice at all and was more a commercialized, claptrappy, happier-ending bastardization of the real book and it's intent.

At 7/24/09 11:05 PM, Skwurll wrote:

At 7/17/09 08:57 PM, Pugberto wrote:

I agree. I'm sick of most teens now thinking atheistism is cool without any knowlegde of the subject. Please stop trying to hurt people.

Same, It's like atheisism is a bandwagon they all have to jump on.

Why does anyone have to have complete knowledge of what everyone else thinks comprises a given belief (or non-belief)? It's not like someone out there has the patent on atheism... or some kind of rule-book. Your statements couldn't be much more out-rightly judgmental or idiotic.

At 7/19/09 08:46 AM, StaliN98 wrote:

At 7/19/09 08:31 AM, Fim wrote: Alot of you guys find the time to deposit everyday, I'm guilty of this. It's almost become instinct if I'm sat at a computer and I'm not doing anything important to dash on and deposit...

Up until that point I was certain deposit meant something else...

So was I... I thought it was code for taking a dump or something...

Got to be RHUBARB. One of the greatest things nature has ever concocted. And non of this "strawberry-rhubarb" shit... totally ruins what could otherwise be a fantastic pie.

How about games?

Unfortunately, everyone likes to tell the side of the story where theirs is the excrement that comes out smelling like roses. In other words... I very much suspect that you treat your family with the same sort of disdain and disrespect as you say you receive from them. In your post to us, you like to make yourself out to be the innocent party, who is just cruelly victimized by your smaller siblings and mother. I believe that to be a giant crock of horse manure. I would guess you goad them on, ignore them, lash out at them, and cast them off just as much as they do you. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if you started it, and they just followed suit when they saw you acting like a douche-bag.

And even if that's only partly true... you need to realize this... it is never too late to clean your shit up and start behaving like you love them. It will be reciprocated with time if you do. So I would suggest that you start as soon as you want to start seeing those kind of results.

When you think about it... that question could never actually be answered by either sex. A girl can't know what it's like being kicked in the balls. So she can't compare it. A guy doesn't know what it's like being kicked in the pussy... so he can't compare it.

You'd have to ask a hermaphrodite.

My best guess is that the chin is Photoshopped... and the OP is trying to pull a dick neck...

At 7/13/09 02:14 PM, CanadianSnowman wrote: Racism is racism no mater what side is doing it.

Agreed. It just sucks how many people feel they are owed special treatment, and therefore don't see the reversals they are instituting as racist (even though I wholly agree that they ARE).

Although it's just like reading in the bible that Moses freed his people from the terrible opression and slavery to the egyptians, and then a coupld pages later, his descendants are talking about their slaves like they forgot what the fuck they even left Egypt for.

It all comes down to this: whenever you're the one doing the discriminating and opressing, that because you know what it feels like and have it in your past it must be alright to go ahead and overlook doing the same things to someone else... which, I don't even have to say... is ludicrous.

At 7/13/09 03:17 AM, michelinman wrote: i'm actually going to start getting ready for work in about ten minutes. i'm in the army on the east coast and they want us to come in at 4 this morning because some asshole committed suicide this weekend and now we have to get suicide prevention talks. lame!

Is your work-place/job at high suicide risk or something? Why did they link the guy's suicide to work? Did he kill himself at the workplace?

A guy I knew at my place of previous employment had them and even wore them to work one day. While he said he lover them, I didn't think to ask about how much you can feel stuff you step on... because they did seem pretty thin. I would guess it lessens the impact, but you'd still feel it. Kinda like if you were wearing slippers and stepped on a rock probably. With a large enough rock and enough impact, it could still hurt.

At 7/13/09 01:22 AM, HandsomePete wrote:

At 7/12/09 10:55 PM, Madmongul wrote:

The same reason that society came up with laws. And religion merely takes credit for these concepts, none of which any religion ever really came up with themselves. You don't kill people because you don't want someone else to kill you. You don't steal so others don't steal from you. You don't rape a girl, so people don't rape you. It's a matter of logic and the need to live with other members of our species as a society. Not "morality" as a Christian would define it.

Well said. I find it ridiculous that ANYONE questions where a person "without faith" gets their sense of morality. When their answer as to why is "Because God told me so"... which is ridiculously more loosely-based and arbitrary than the exact reason to remain moral that you just mentioned... the "Golden Rule" as it were. It's ignorant bordering on retardation.

It's ridiculously simple, actually. We're all human beings. And it is in the nature of human beings (and the nature of every other creature/life-form on this planet) to preserve one's self. Granted, as sentient beings, we can over-ride this instinct-driven mechanism with our intellect (i.e. killing ourselves because, for instance, we think there is lack of a reason to live)... but otherwise, your base reaction will fight to survive no matter what.

Does this give meaning to life? Somewhat, I would say. Otherwise... it is certainly a reason the majority of us go on living, even if there is no greater sense of meaning.

I would also wager that it is the reason your mind wants so badly to believe that there is God, and therefore an afterlife of sorts. Most people would never be able to admit to themselves that they might just end at death. Poof... no more you. Your instincts to go on surviving are fooling you into believing that couldn't possibly be the case.

At 7/12/09 12:51 PM, ifureadthisdie wrote: Fat people aren't even eating to live anymore, they're living to eat

Wow... that's just so original and deeply thought-provoking.

Has anyone gotten to step 4 in this thread yet?