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Obligatory song: You and me both, actually :x. I've seen too much shit to go full atheist, but the world just makes so much more sense without a lot of that Christian worldview. I'm generally happier afterdiscarding a few of those pesky absolute morals, too. In all honesty: just hearing...

In all honesty... I haven't checked this place in years. An old friend told me noddy made a thread, and I wanted to see how he'd been. Was wondering if he didn't take care of all his oppressors in the traditional Texan fashion. ....don't let me interrupt this debauchery. God I know I'll never...

Is it still violation if it's consensual?

Thanks for the answers. Sadly, the emotional component to arguments (yes, I believe that's important) isn't much help to me in this case. It's interesting, it's important, and I'd love to learn about it... but I'm sorta trying to work through the more "objectively applicable" forms of...

This has been on my mind for a while, now... what makes a given set of premises for some conclusion "convincing"?

whoa... there are so many familiar faces still here. Basically just came to say: ^^not sure how much it matters anymore, given my inactivity, but... can confirm. At a time when I was more interested in religious arguments, it felt much harder to have a decent conversation than it would have...

I am :). I wasn't gonna let myself completely miss another response to you, haha. niice... good luck on the PhD stuff. I gained a tremendous amount of respect for the humanities, over the last four years or so. Before I was kind of a math/science nerdlette with a soft spot for philosophy...

also... I skimmed through your pictures of Nepal/Tanzania... they look gorgeous :) I can't even imagine standing above the cloud lines... that looks like it'd feel so surreal.

puffy! hiya. It's been way too long. I keep peeking in on the forum to see if anyone replied in thread... but only just today thought "oh shoot... maybe I should log in, because someone might've just sent a PM or something." Sorry about that... how've you been?

Those are good suggestions. As I was typing out my question, actually, I started to think "you know... I probably could take a much faster third and then stick guys in the gas immediately, and that would help quite a bit." I think the answer I like best is mass queens, though. I usually have...

I play a lot still, and love the game. I'm also about the same skill as you guys (plat 1s and 2s, diamond 3s and 4s). I can play random on about a gold level, and I do it a lot playing with a bunch of silveriish friends (latro being one of those), but I play zerg in my non-arranged-team and...

Stupid blog post, imo. Not because of what it said about global warming (I don't know anything, although I will say it's been my experience that AI does his homework), but because its obvious what you had in mind while writing it, and it's not at all what you said you were doing. This is...

You should come up here to the northeast, where that's the norm.

Very cool. A friend told me of a psych experiment where people from different parts of the world are asked "if a boat was going to sink and your child, your grandparent, your wife, and your brother were on it, who would you save and why?" In the West, the answer is an almost unanimous (I've...

ooo toad! I haven't seen that name in forever. Going well. You?

cogwulf basically has it right. Arrange transistors in the proper way and you can build circuits which take in multiple inputs (of either "high" or "low" voltage, 1s and 0s), and output something useful. For instance, if you stick transistors together in the right pattern, you can build a...

I'm sooooo happy, haha. The more people who watch Death Note, the better. I love L mostly because I share a bunch of mannerisms with him. I also love gong barefoot, and naturally feel more comfortable sitting like he does, with my chin sitting on my knees. I understand your business, hehe...

You're actually in luck: the fun thing about these questions is that most of them are actually very easy to 'solve'. Getting an answer is usually quite simple. The tough thing is that that solution would take so many steps and iterations that even your computer may churn away for hours or days...

Teach yourself a programming language and start chugging through the problems on http://projecteuler.net/ Both math and programming are pretty Ti-heavy, so it might work out pretty well.

eek.... and yeah, I know what you mean. I think I've felt the same way about every summer vacation I've had over the past 5-6 years. I can't wait for the free time, and it sounds so good on paper.... but in practice, I always squander the time and find myself miserable after a month or two. I...

haha cool... I'll try to find you on there at some point, so we can play a bit. How have you been otherwise?

need a character code too, though... as the names in that game aren't unique anymore.

your name, man! haha your name! I used my cmu email, which I don't wanna post out in public, if you wanna find me on there & play sometime.

you won't see me posting anymore, although I still check the forum once or twice a day to pick up PMs from people, but please oh please tell me you play starcraft a bit too! :D (I'm not obsessed... I swear, hehe. I just saw you mention your brother in that one thread)

hehe, sorry 'bout that. I got distracted by family & left myself logged in for a few hours.

lol... if you're getting your science from news articles, then all studies are bad studies If you read about it in a non-scientific magazine or saw it on the news, odds are it's bad science in some way or another. How 'bad' does the science have to be? I mean... ideally, every statistical...

ooh... i was about to clutter you up with a PM, since your 'wall' thing is usually non-existent... but it seems like it's appeared for the occasion Happy birthday :)

2 things: 1. Like you said, the guys are both under the effect of gravity. Their reference frames are not inertial, as there is some centripetal force keeping them stuck on the surface of the planet, and so the typical rules of special relativity don't apply. When a person is undergoing...

lol. If you had the skill to write vulnerability-free code, your talents would surely be better put to use on something more important than internet forum software. This also makes me laugh because the login here doesn't even use SSL, meaning that a very large number of people on the internet...

*nods*... what vredk said doesn't have much to do with it. Astronauts are far away, so the pull of gravity is less, but like you said, they're still closer than the moon. All objects fall at the same rate (sans wind resistance, which of course doesn't exist much out in space), so you can rule...

The old (bigger) INFP forum got hacked and irrecoverably deleted, and most of the INFPs (for whatever-the-fuck reason) went to Personality Cafe. Some did make a new INFP forum, but I don't know how it's doing and nobody's mentioned it. I knew an INFP mathematician, once, and I do still have an...

whoa whoa whoa I didn't say it's healthy, and I definitely never said we should eat as much as we do. I say "as much as we do" because fructose is the same type of sugar found in fruit. Your body can digest fructose just like any other sugar, and it's healthy depending on what your activities...

To be honest, I don't see the whole cynicism/conspiracy/bitter hatred for the fact that corn products show up in everything we eat. It seems like an obvious consequence to me... soil in the US was (I have no source, but I imagine during the colonization of the country they figured this out...

aww..... well, I guess something about us had to be directly opposite eventually. *sniffles*

ick... sorry I didn't come back to respond to this. I started out really heavily with the math/logic/problem solving brain when younger, and then grew to like humanities/arts/symbols as I aged. That's why I kind of thought it was a Ti/Ne split. How likely does ENTP sound? You said you were...

It's funny you should mention that, because there's actually a chem/math double major (tho he's probably an INTJ) floating around here who has also been diagnosed with a non-verbal learning disorder. If you're lucky this thread will catch his eye and he'll come by. Math is basically pure logic...

niiice... I'm glad to hear you're doing better too, and especially that you're reacting well to them. I've never taken anti-depressants, but I've heard almost equal stories from people that they either helped a ton, or just irritated them and made them feel much worse. I'm glad they're...

I liked it a lot more. Mind you, I didn't hate high school much either. Ermine's #1 and 2 were absolutely right, with the exception of at my school, you can absolutely sleep on campus if you want. This is gonna sound kind of... "ordinary"? but... if you're like me, you're probably thinking...

And for people saying a frictionless environment is impossible: what about space? Space isn't even 100% fricionless, but it's pretty damn close, and I don't think anyone would argue that it seems as if, without friction, motion becomes closer to perpetual motion. yeah... that is a ridiculously...

I've gotta start playing this online a bit soon. I finished the campaign a few days ago (only on normal tho... *shakes fist*. Hard got too hard for me about 2/3 of the way through), and I felt like I learned absolutely nothing about how multiplayer would work. I'm not sure they ever made you...

It depends on where you're going to college, too. I'm going to a very good college (not ivy leagues, but most of the people who get rejected from the ivys come here), and you really need math to do well in physics. The good news is that our department is designed knowing that most people won't...

"owe" is such a...... demanding term. damn rght you owe me one. Nao!

I think it's similar to what Thaaklar said... but something about that strikes me as wrong. Tunnelling is a quantum-mechanical phenomenon... but to the best of my knowledge, light passing through solid matter wasn't ever used as evidence for QM, which most likely means that there's a classical...

Hiya Indy. I'm frozen over there (tho that was probably one of the places you heard it mentioned, so you likely know). Anyway, welcome to the world of :borg0: and :icon_tinykitball:... but with a strong cross-section of :kilroy: to balance it out. Just try to stay away from :delphin20:, or...

Yeah... I think I know what you're saying. I have no idea how such a diverse way of interacting people sprung up... but I think your questions about how homosexual people interact in such a wide variety of ways probably goes for everyone else as well. Simply due to the psychological effects, I...

I always thought that the flamboyancy was their way of recognizing each other. I mean... let's face it, when walking around in the world, such an overhwelming proportion of people are straght (or at least bi) that you can pretty much assume, if you're a guy, that a woman may be interested in...

Magnets are caused by the spit of the electrons around the atoms which make up the material. A changing electric field creates a magnetic field, so really, every atom is a magnet on its own. In most materials, the electrons surrounding each atom are "pointed" in all different directions (if...

I'm sure it's perfectly fine.... haha if the heart-hugging raccoon didn't it away to someone, they probably wouldn't know the types well enough to appreciate the information anyway.

*waves* howdy, raccoon, and welcome. Why do you strike me as an INFP so suddenly?