At 3/9/08 12:55 PM, dELtaluca wrote:

At 3/9/08 12:53 PM, Paranoia wrote: 'm just saying that there isn't such a thing as a definite truth

everything is relative, definite truth is relative. you may aswell say that there is no such thing as the earth and that we are all just imagining it.

...no, I think definite truth can be fairly well defined as something which there are absolutely no possible scenarios which would disprove. Again, the only example really is of your own existence, since you must exist in some form or other to actually be thinking about this issue :P

To paranoia:

Thats where the analgy falls apart I guess, because in maths, you can prove everything. There is a proof for absolutely everything mathematical (except applied stuff), so if someone tells you the wrong message like "this guy has an imaginary friend called Robert" you can say, no that doesn't make sense, because his imaginary friend has a 3 letter name and starts with B.

Even if a mistake was made by the guy who thought of the idea for numbers, and he explained what a number was wrongly, then it doesn't matter because maths has evolved with the number system its used to. Its still correct.

At 3/9/08 01:15 PM, Coolio-Niato wrote: Snow Days

I don't know if your workplace/school offers days off for very snowy weather but it gets really damn annoying when they don't call a snow day for the past 9 years in my city. We have PILES of snow, TONS literally, and we still have to venture out into the cold because our salary/grades depend on it.

>=(

Here in England we hardly know what the word snow means. Hence, a drop of snow and everything stops.

At 3/9/08 01:21 PM, CybexALT wrote: To paranoia:

Thats where the analgy falls apart I guess, because in maths, you can prove everything. There is a proof for absolutely everything mathematical (except applied stuff), so if someone tells you the wrong message like "this guy has an imaginary friend called Robert" you can say, no that doesn't make sense, because his imaginary friend has a 3 letter name and starts with B.

Even if a mistake was made by the guy who thought of the idea for numbers, and he explained what a number was wrongly, then it doesn't matter because maths has evolved with the number system its used to. Its still correct.

This is getting into quite a tangent :s I should clarify - I'm not attacking the Maths system - I'm just using it as an example that you can't say that anything is 100% certain other than your own existence, and Maths is no exception.

Maybe the guy who defined numbers made a mistake. Maybe he didn't. Maybe he didn't exist. Maybe nothing does except you. Maybe everything we think we know about Maths is because of 'bug' in our heads which makes us think things which are false. Maybe it's just a complete co-incidence that it's continued to work so far, and it's all going to fall apart. Maybe five seconds ago you had a definition of addition which was completely different to yours now - in which 1 + 1 = 6 - and you've just completely forgotten about it. Maybe the laws of reality are going to break any second - it's only prior experience which tells us that they won't, and that's affected by the laws of probability as much as everything else.

Most of the things above are laughably improbable, but that doesn't matter. Any finite probability is enough to prove that something isn't 100% certain.

This is getting onto quite a pointless tangent. All that stuff about definitions and proofs and whatnot is irrelevant. The only point I'm making is that people are fallible; our logic is fallible; our senses are fallible, therefore it is impossible to be completely certain of anything, however stupendously unlikely it is to turn out to be false.

At 3/9/08 01:33 PM, Paranoia wrote: stuff

Yeah, I know what you mean, its just the idea of maths being wrong scares me, so I'm going to keep telling myself there is definately completely 0% chance its wrong.

Also, Id like to point out to authorblues that I measured the Sun just now and its only a few cm big, so I don't know why he seems to think its heavier than the Sun.

Anyway, if the Earth was round we'd fall off! Thats why no one lives on the sun.

then how do people sail/fly etc. all the way around the world :3

At 3/9/08 02:41 PM, Splurda wrote: then how do people sail/fly etc. all the way around the world :3

oh no! you don't get it YOU FOOL, ITS ALL A CONSPIRACY, ALL OF IT YES!!! 'MAHAH SUCH FOOLS YOU ARE TO BELIEVE SUCH liiiiieeeeess!!!!

oh the lolz

At 3/9/08 02:41 PM, Splurda wrote: then how do people sail/fly etc. all the way around the world :3

It's like Pac Man. When you get to the end of the screen you just teleport back to the start :P

At 3/9/08 02:41 PM, Splurda wrote: then how do people sail/fly etc. all the way around the world :3

They don't. That's a myth.

We should all become scientoligsts with all this 'everything is lies, we were brainwashed' talk.

Don't seriously become one though. Just don't.

At 3/9/08 02:41 PM, Splurda wrote: then how do people sail/fly etc. all the way around the world :3

I don't know, maybe they teleport or something.

If this isn't proof, I don't know what is.

Does that look round to you?

At 3/9/08 03:47 PM, CybexALT wrote:

At 3/9/08 02:41 PM, Splurda wrote: then how do people sail/fly etc. all the way around the world :3

I don't know, maybe they teleport or something.

If this isn't proof, I don't know what is.

Does that look round to you?

Map not to scale.. I saw that from my aeroplane me thinks.

I didn't know Kirk Cocaine played for the baggies.

That's how you fly "around" the world, dumbass.

At 3/9/08 03:47 PM, CybexALT wrote:

If this isn't proof, I don't know what is.

Does that look round to you?

That map is bullshit. I do not live in "NORTH" I live in "CANADA". How can you rely on it. >=(

Silly rabbit. Sinusoidal projection maps are more accurate.

Let's just all agree its super cute how Brits say "maths" instead of math =3

At 3/9/08 05:07 PM, NextToNothing wrote: Let's just all agree its super cute how Brits say "maths" instead of math =3

super cute? just because you fucktards drop the s for no reason.

the full name : MATHEMATICS note the plural.

Anyone notice that today the Flash Forum has been a bit out of hand. Not necessarily the regs lounge...we're always screwed up, but more some of the small side-threads. I think some people are just overexcited about Brawl.

At 3/9/08 05:18 PM, El-Presidente wrote: Anyone notice that today the Flash Forum has been a bit out of hand. Not necessarily the regs lounge...we're always screwed up, but more some of the small side-threads. I think some people are just overexcited about Brawl.

I noticed this too.

And I agree with Delta. It is maths not math retards.

Re:Brawl

At 3/9/08 05:18 PM, El-Presidente wrote: Anyone notice that today the Flash Forum has been a bit out of hand. Not necessarily the regs lounge...we're always screwed up, but more some of the small side-threads. I think some people are just overexcited about Brawl.

About what? Super Smash brothers brawl? Has it come out now?

Wow this math talk was stupid.
Shortmonkey what you said was really stupid...

At 3/9/08 05:25 PM, Mogly wrote: About what? Super Smash brothers brawl? Has it come out now?

Oh crap. Now Mogly is going to join the madness :D

At 3/9/08 05:44 PM, UnknownFury wrote:

At 3/9/08 05:25 PM, Mogly wrote: About what? Super Smash brothers brawl? Has it come out now?

Oh crap. Now Mogly is going to join the madness :D

Shit - his balls are starting to re-ascend :s

Re:Brawl

At 3/9/08 06:04 PM, Paranoia wrote:

At 3/9/08 05:44 PM, UnknownFury wrote:

At 3/9/08 05:25 PM, Mogly wrote: About what? Super Smash brothers brawl? Has it come out now?

Oh crap. Now Mogly is going to join the madness :D

Shit - his balls are starting to re-ascend :s

Putting three question marks in one line isn't a good way of hiding excitement is it..

--

Oh well.
What's been going down at Newgrounds? Been havin yourselfs' a time?

Front Page News Peeves
There are a few things about the front page news that kind of peeves me. For one, artists posting that they released something seems so incredibly redundant on so many levels. For one, the portal gave them exposure. For another, if it was noteworthy it would appear on the frontpage or get an award and get on the front page anyway from P-bot's post... which will do much more for them anyway.

For another, people post random crap that is not even worth mentioning on the front page. Like a two sentence rant about something like potato chips or something.

Then as the finale of all of this, people who actually had something interesting to post about (like Luis's interview of Tom Fulp), get pushed off faster because of these people.

Anyone think that there needs to be moderation or heavier requirements for a front page post?

At 3/9/08 06:10 PM, jmtb02 wrote: Anyone think that there needs to be moderation or heavier requirements for a front page post?

Moderation, not heavier requirements.

I still don't have front page posting privilages, yet I have FAR more useful things to post than most of them there...¬_¬

At 3/9/08 06:10 PM, jmtb02 wrote:

Anyone think that there needs to be moderation or heavier requirements for a front page post?

Well the moderation increase is a must but I still believe artists can promote their own work either way, even if they are getting exposure AND it is redundant XD. But seriously, those authors that aren't even mentioning their upcoming projects or other stuff affiliated with the site are just defeating the whole purpose of front page priveleges for AUTHORS, not random rants about how they cannot stand a franchise.

I just found this on the front page:
http://sir-cannabisclock.newgrounds.com/
news/post/92270

Like seriously, this stuff is undeserving and uneeded there! Bad enough we have General BBS for it.

Front Page News

Still, its a million times better than when EVERYONE could front page post. I mean, most frontpage posts stay up about a good 2 days, and by then most people who are gonna see it, already have.