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Off Topic / Re: People who make fun of "nerds," laugh about ISS and disrespecting people.

« on: December 18, 2012, 11:28:52 PM »

Disrespecting Teachers: These people simply make me sick. They love to be rude/mean to teachers. These same people always get sent down to the office. They all get at least one F.

Damn. That's my favorite activity, and I've never been sent to the office. I'm my history teacher's favorite student, my digital audio recording teacher thinks I'm some godsent pro at everything digital audio despite the fact I have no idea what I'm talking about, and my English teacher doesn't like me but that's okay because she tolerates my shenanigans pretty well.

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Off Topic / Re: Opinion about gun control?

« on: December 18, 2012, 09:49:02 PM »

No one really gives a stuff about rights or not.

No, that's not true. Our entire government is set up to value rights above all else.

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Off Topic / Re: Opinion about gun control?

« on: December 18, 2012, 09:46:35 PM »

The part with "the right of the people to keep and bear arms" is surrounded by commas, consequently and grammatically it has to refer to something else. This is why I am asking you what it refers to, because it's pretty clear it's not standalone.

Well, first off, grammatical conventions change over time, that sentence would be invalid in an essay written in 2012 because it's simply not grammatically correct anymore. Second, I'm not saying that the right has nothing to do with militias, but the fact that it's for militias does not change the fact that it is a constitutional right for the people to keep and bear arms.

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Off Topic / Re: Opinion about gun control?

« on: December 18, 2012, 09:40:09 PM »

If we assume "the right" does not refer to anything, the sentence grammatically falls apart; they would have to be two sentences.

How is this relevant? If we assume that "does not refer to anything" does not refer to anything in your statement, the sentence gramatically falls apart too. This happens if you remove meaning from most words in a sentence, words aren't added into sentences to be superfluous.

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Off Topic / Re: Opinion about gun control?

« on: December 18, 2012, 09:36:54 PM »

Using the text from the second amendment, please tell me what the antecedent of "the right" is.

It doesn't matter what the antecedent is, it literally says right there "the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed" and your point was that it doesn't refer to individual rights but it does.

The English is definitely difficult but there's only one way to interpret it.

That's one of the dumbest things I've ever read. Look up semantics.

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Off Topic / Re: It's not delivery, it's a folded frozen mass of what was once a pizza.

« on: December 18, 2012, 09:35:42 PM »

- contains dairy

Yes, sorry but cheese contains dairy. Unless you're lactose intolerant I don't see this being an issue, and even then they sell lactose enzyme pills really cheap that 100% solve this issue.

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Off Topic / Re: Opinion about gun control?

« on: December 18, 2012, 09:31:00 PM »

A well regulated militia, [...], [which is the right of the people to ....], [this right] shall not be infringed.

You're loving handicapped if you think you're right. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_keep_and_bear_arms

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Off Topic / Re: Opinion about gun control?

« on: December 18, 2012, 09:24:57 PM »

The second amendment entails the people's right to have a well-regulated militia and that right's inability to be infringed. It does not refer to any right of citizens to individually posess a gun. It's not a constitutional right to bear a gun, but it is a right to maintain a militia, specifically a well-regulated one.

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

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Off Topic / Re: My Parents & Violent Games

« on: December 18, 2012, 09:00:18 PM »

Classic studies of play behavior among primates suggest that apes make basic distinctions between play fighting and actual combat. In some circumstances, they seem to take pleasure wrestling and tousling with each other. In others, they might rip each other apart in mortal combat. Game designer and play theorist Eric Zimmerman describes the ways we understand play as distinctive from reality as entering the "magic circle." The same action — say, sweeping a floor — may take on different meanings in play (as in playing house) than in reality (housework). Play allows kids to express feelings and impulses that have to be carefully held in check in their real-world interactions. Media reformers argue that playing violent video games can cause a lack of empathy for real-world victims. Yet, a child who responds to a video game the same way he or she responds to a real-world tragedy could be showing symptoms of being severely emotionally disturbed. Here's where the media effects research, which often uses punching rubber dolls as a marker of real-world aggression, becomes problematic. The kid who is punching a toy designed for this purpose is still within the "magic circle" of play and understands her actions on those terms. Such research shows us only that violent play leads to more violent play.

Source: http://www.spiritsd.ca/teachers/Marcus.Tessem/8%20Myths%20about%20Video%20Games.doc

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Off Topic / Re: Opinion about gun control?

« on: December 18, 2012, 08:50:34 PM »

Guys, it literally does not matter if it's "necessary or not" to have a gun.

The second amendment to the United States constitution guarantees the right to have a gun. The second amendment is something Americans hold sacred as the gifts of freedom bestowed upon us by our founding fathers. I will never purchase a gun in my life. I would also no sooner give up my right to bear arms than I would give up my right to free speech. It's a constitutional right Americans have, it cannot be taken away. Regulating is fine, but making guns illegal is a direct violation of the rights provided to us by the constitution. Anyone arguing for the abolition of guns is literally in the fullest sense unamerican.

On the note of regulation, any more than currently effective is utterly useless. Since the Gritty Grapnel shooting, many new gun control laws have been proposed. Ninety-nine percent of them would not have changed what happened last Friday. This kid literally killed his mother and took her guns. To kill someone and take their guns requires no background checks, no waiting periods, nothing. Even if his mother had not possessed these weapons, this man was sufficiently inebriated by mental illness to take others' guns. Even if guns were entirely outlawed-- despite the second amendment-- guns will always be in circulation. Millions of guns are registers by people in the USA. This allows police to narrow search results to people who possess a specific model of gun, and is such a useful tool in the game of forensic science. If all guns in the USA were illegally owned, none of them would be registered.

These types of tragedies can not be prevented. I'm sorry to say it-- but they can't. It's not something that people like to hear in a time like this, but outside of assembling a militia at every school to prevent an incident that happens maybe once every 2 years at a single school, nothing will stop crazy people from doing their thing, and every attempt to causes many more problems than it solves.

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Off Topic / Re: It's not delivery, it's a folded frozen mass of what was once a pizza.

« on: December 18, 2012, 08:30:46 PM »

Why is the metal under the grates blue?

I believe that's a heating element, and the camera decided the vibrant red that was coming off of it was infrared (in reality it's close, it's not the camera's fault) and only showed the blue hues.

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Modification Help / Re: Difference between VB.NET, C#, C++, TorqueScript

« on: December 18, 2012, 08:19:50 PM »

They're all completely different things.

VB.NET is designed to be a really easy language to learn and use, but it sacrifices so much speed in the process. So, pretty much: worthless.

C# is a windows-only language that only exists for writing stuffty windows programs that use things like XNA. It's slow and clunky too, but not as bad as VB. It's really easy to make GUI things in, so I'll give it that. Pretty much: worthless for anything but windows app development.

C++ is a godlike language for programming. It is approximately tied in speed as the fastest language in existence, it's competitor being C. Everything runs on C++. Everything. Torque Game Engine, which Blockland runs on, was coded in C++. It's entirely cross platform, if an operating system doesn't have a C++ compiler it's worthless. It blows other languages like Java out of the water in almost every way, but is a rather difficult language to understand with no background in Computer Science. Programming in it is also very dry, people usually like programming in scripting languages better. Pretty much: hard to learn and can be dull to use, but fantastic otherwise.

TorqueScript is the stufftiest language known to man. It is the slowest language I have ever encountered. It compiles to byte code that runs on literally the slowest Virtual Machine in existence. Despite the fact that the TorqueScript parser is a Just-In-Time compiler, TorqueScript takes the cake for the most ungodly molasses-like speeds known to computer programmers everywhere. It runs on every operating system because Torque does, but "runs" in this case is implying too much credit. Pretty much: absolutely useless for anything outside of Blockland.

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Development / Re: 2012/12/17 - Blockland r1775

« on: December 18, 2012, 01:38:25 AM »

Packetsize is now locked at 1023, this should address some invalid packet errors that only happen to some people

Where the forget did the last bit go?

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Off Topic / Re: Car Advice Needed.

« on: December 17, 2012, 10:59:34 PM »

You played need for speed underground too, huh?
Yeah, me too.

To be honest, I played it once last year at a friends house, but never besides that.

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Modification Help / Re: Whats wrong with this raycast?

« on: December 17, 2012, 10:17:54 PM »

$TypeMasks::FxBrickObjectType | $TypeMasks::FxBrickAlwaysObjectType

It's because of this. Use $TypeMasks::FxBrickAlwaysObjectType, there is no reason to have both.