4881

Announcements / Re: New logo!

« on: December 05, 2013, 02:34:42 AM »

Not yet, had it for a year now and still can't figure that out.

It's normally some combination of the power and volume buttons.

4882

Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: The British Empire brought civilisation.

« on: December 05, 2013, 02:33:21 AM »

What are you defining as the qualities that make British civilization better than what was already there?

4883

Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: The British Empire brought civilisation.

« on: December 05, 2013, 02:04:32 AM »

Uhh no. The British brought British civilization, not civilization in general. "Civilization" is not some objective entity that you can slap onto a location. The British damn sure made the world more British and while it could be worse, it could be a hell of a lot better.

4884

Flat Earth Theory / Re: SpaceX commercial satellite launch

« on: December 04, 2013, 04:57:21 AM »

It isn't that their client is NASA, it's that they're essentially NASA under a different name. Commercial companies can't just launch things into space on their own terms, even if space travel were real.

4885

Science & Alternative Science / Re: Time and Gravity are the same thing.

« on: December 04, 2013, 04:53:38 AM »

Explain self awareness. Not thought. Awareness.

Define awareness.

4886

Science & Alternative Science / Re: Time and Gravity are the same thing.

« on: December 04, 2013, 03:55:52 AM »

I'm glad we are clear that weight is not mass. Weight is a function of mass and gravity but you know that don't you?

Mass is a function of gravity, but weight is a function of mass, I'm not sure what you're not getting here.

4887

Science & Alternative Science / Re: Time and Gravity are the same thing.

« on: December 04, 2013, 02:15:08 AM »

How do you know it only a result of human perception?  Other animals appear to respond to our notion of space in the exact same fashion.  Is there some rationale you can provide to demonstrate that it might be an abstract concept?

Animals are people, too, you heathen.

Can you tell me what definition of mass you are using? Where I am from a strong gravitational field increases weight, not mass.

Weight is a function of mass.

4888

Suggestions & Concerns / Re: Use CloudFront for serving static content

« on: December 04, 2013, 01:59:43 AM »

I hope that solves the DNS unresolved name error that I've been receiving. The base uses its own DNS server that does not like routing the name of this site.

4889

Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Man in Vermon creates a rifle using a shovel.

« on: December 04, 2013, 01:57:00 AM »

Crossbows are just as effective

No crossbow holds 30 arrows that can be fired in less than ten seconds.

, far more silent, and if I want to kill people, I'm gonna use explosives. 

Then why do you even give a shit about silence?

4890

Science & Alternative Science / Re: Time and Gravity are the same thing.

« on: December 04, 2013, 01:55:20 AM »

Wat?

Space is a result of human perception, not an actual "thing" in the universe. I suppose you could say it exists abstractly.

Mass is one of the contributors to the stress energy tensor, so it is not the cause of gravity but definitely makes gravitational fields stronger.

On the contrary, a stronger gravitational field increases mass.

4891

Suggestions & Concerns / Re: Use CloudFront for serving static content

« on: December 04, 2013, 01:52:09 AM »

I was under the impression CloudFlare's main benefit was denial of service protection, is that not their primary product or is that just a result of what they offer?

4892

Suggestions & Concerns / Re: The Lounge

« on: December 04, 2013, 01:45:07 AM »

There are more admin posts in this thread than any other type of member. Just thought I'd point that out.

4893

Suggestions & Concerns / Re: Set up New Relic server monitoring

« on: December 04, 2013, 01:44:09 AM »

Whats new relic?

https://newrelic.com/

That looks like something you have to pay money for.

4894

Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Man in Vermon creates a rifle using a shovel.

« on: December 04, 2013, 01:39:37 AM »

What if I don't happen to have random gun parts around the house? Can this still be done?

I assume you could go the distance and turn numerous other household parts into gun accessories. The shovel was really more of a example than anything.

4895

Science & Alternative Science / Re: Time and Gravity are the same thing.

« on: December 04, 2013, 01:37:44 AM »

Had a thought on my bike ride in to work. How would you define space in terms of gravity and time only?

There is no such thing as space.

Mass creates an indent on space-time, which is gravity. Anything that enters this indent must follow the curvature created and accelerate accordingly. The direction of this acceleration is always towards the source of the curvature, which would be the mass.

As you can see, mass causes gravity.

No, gravity creates a hole in the universe that forces mass into existence. Even in accepted scientific theorems, mass doesn't cause gravity. That's just some bullshit they give Elementary schoolers because none of them are really going to care what actually causes gravity.

4896

Philosophy, Religion & Society / Man in Vermon creates a rifle using a shovel.

« on: December 03, 2013, 02:18:11 AM »

Just to prove a point this guy bought a shovel (and with some spare parts lying around) manufactured an AK-ish rifle, that looks like complete garbage but it, per his pictures, bullseye accurate with normal ammunition.

http://www.northeastshooters.com/vbulletin/threads/179192-DIY-Shovel-AK-photo-tsunami-warning!

4897

Suggestions & Concerns / Re: "newbie", "jr. member"

« on: December 03, 2013, 01:52:45 AM »

The title "newbie" can't be all that bad on a forum where the administrator is a "jr. member."

4898

Suggestions & Concerns / Re: Unresolved DNS server name

« on: December 03, 2013, 01:51:21 AM »

Well since they have disabled all of my admin rights, including command prompts, I would have to just ask the communications office directly, and I'm totally not going to do that. I'll figure something out, I guess.

4899

Suggestions & Concerns / Unresolved DNS server name

« on: December 03, 2013, 01:34:02 AM »

My work computer can not access this site due to that. I know the base uses their own DNS server, so is it something with that? Or do you computer peoples have a different idea of what the problem is?

4900

Technology & Information / Re: Amazon PrimeAir

« on: December 02, 2013, 04:15:21 AM »

I feel like Amazon revealed this a long time ago. Like, when I read the news on Reddit, I wondered "why is this a top story?" I really thought Amazon had come out with an article about this already. Weird.