Well, you see, you can't take everything you read here at face value; notice that the vast majority of users who posted here fall under two categories: either they have paid signatures, and so, make btc by posting, no matter the content (or lack thereof) of the post; or they have less activity than their account can currently provide (their post count equals their activity), and so, they're likely taking the opportunity to correct that, before either joining their favorite signature campaign, or selling the account.

In other words: business as usual.

EDIT: if you really want to stop it, lock the thread.

God? Is that another 3d graphics software? And can it make scarier looking trees? Mine just looks kind of bored. Still, I've been using Blender so far, and I'm pretty happy with it.

Are haunted trees welcome here?



This was the result of me following the blender tutorial: https://cgcookie.com/blender/cgc-courses/creating-spooky-tree - didn't turn out as scary as I had hoped, though.

Hmm, já não me lembro muito bem do interface, mas acho que isso representava apenas a quantidade de notícias relacionadas com o ouro - isto é, quanto ouro foi recebido, ou enviado, pela tua aldeia. Isso pode variar quando compras/vendes recursos por ouro, compras/vendes trabalhadores, quando recebes ouro das minas ou de refs, e por aí adiante.

Maybe that's just the ET pulling a dine and dash on us.

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Hopefully unrelated to the above, I was just reading an article on NewScientist about a couple of cloud-like blobs that appeared over Mars in 2012. It seems no one knows for sure what they were: they extended well above the surface of the planet, up to 250 km; grew to about 1000 km across; remained there for over 10 days; and there seems to be no clue left on the surface that could perhaps help explain the phenomenon.

Source: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn26983-mystery-cloudlike-blobs-over-mars-baffle-astronomers.html



You can see one of the unidentified objects near the top-right portion of the image - in this case, the planet's southern hemisphere.

And again in the following image:

Actually, it's extremely obvious that this guy is just kidding: 1337%, 13.37 days and 73.31% (leet); "super inverse martingale strategy"; two possible outcomes, so 50-50 chance; and the invalid address, spelling out "I will scam you".

Further, schemes and scams are not moderated in this forum; you have to do your due diligence.

That's more than I would have expected, though I have no idea why someone would pay that much based merely on how old the account is. I would imagine the amount of karma the account accumulated would be of more importance - perhaps that would be worth adding to the OP?

Anyway, good luck with your business.

I haven't read the other thread HeroC mentioned, but it is my impression that the "like" button won't actually influence what posts you are shown in a thread; it will merely show some sort of indication that others appreciated your post. Perhaps that could lead some campaigns to try and work with this new system, leading to "like" buying, but I don't see that the overall forum experience would be negatively affected by this.

I wonder if a more specific set of buttons would be a good idea though - instead of one generic "like" button, a few buttons, like: "useful post", "made me laugh", and so on.

I'm afraid that's not how probability works.

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That would be a pretty awesome address; but unfortunately, I think he just made it up - it seems to be invalid.

The way I see it, moving to remove or reform money in politics, would be a step in the right direction - that is, by greatly lessening or entirely removing the overwhelming influence large concentrations of power have over the political system, perhaps replacing it with public financing instead, as happens in many other countries. Now, that is certainly not a magic bullet to solve all problems in society, but I think it would make further changes in the interest of the majority of the people far easier.

I have often posted this, but here it goes again: there are already several groups seeking to do something along those lines - the guys at The Young Turks with Wolf-PAC (http://www.wolf-pac.com), and Larry Lessig with Mayday PAC, to name a few.

This reminds me: I have one such account, with which I have made only a couple of posts, and for which I probably forgot the password by now.

Anyway, is there any added value for older accounts in Reddit? And out of curiosity, how much are you expecting them to fetch?

Considering we know next to nothing about any possible extraterrestrials, including what their intentions towards us might be, I'm not sure anyone could reach an unequivocal conclusion that it is better no aliens live among us. On the other hand, I certainly see the value in being able to develop independently, and being afforded the possibility of making, and learning from, our own mistakes - though, realistically, not everyone is in a position of making such a choice.

At any rate, this reminds me of one of fortune's quotes: "you single-handedly fought your way into this hopeless mess".

While I agree with the main idea you present here, I would just like to point out that UFO means Unidentified Flying Object; not alien space craft, though many jump from the former to the latter for no good reason. As such, there are indeed UFOs - that is, events associated with unidentified objects that remain unexplained to this day - very few such cases exist, but they do exist.

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You're right: it is problematic to draw conclusions based on so little information, as is the case for life in the universe - but, in a sense, aren't you doing just that? I mean, you believe the argument he presents has merit, but sort of dismissed it based on an anthropocentric view: not only do we not know what the future holds for humanity, and whether or not it will destroy itself, but also, we don't know if there is good reason for such danger to be common to all advanced species - personally, I think culture has a lot more influence than most attribute to it. Also, just because humans have so far been unable to devise workable ways to move at speeds faster than light, that doesn't mean it's impossible. And finally, there could be life forms whose biology allows them to survive in conditions different to what we have on Earth, effectively increasing the number of worlds that might hold life.

"Love Letters to Richard Dawkins": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gW7607YiBso (7m30s). It's amazing how hateful some people can be - and, at least for me, made more amazing still by many of them thinking they hold the moral high ground, by virtue of nothing more than their belief on a fairy tale.

"Head to Head - Dawkins on religion": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0Xn60Zw03A (47m51s). This one is definitely more interesting; well worth the time, I think.

That could well be the case - if we're visited by "human-like" aliens, we're probably fucked.

That said, just a couple of comments: worlds outside the Goldilocks zone can still have the conditions for life similar to what we know - tidal heating and radioactive decay could help environments keep liquid water outside the usually considered "habitable zone" - Jupiter's moon Europa, for example, might be one such world. So, "Goldilocks planets" are probably not uncommon, though many can still be hostile and uninhabitable for other reasons.

But more importantly, one of the problems with having only the example of life on Earth to start with, is that we don't really know how dissimilar other life might be: they might not share our requirements for habitable worlds; they might not even share most of our motivations and incentives; and ultimately, they might be either so alien, or so far more advanced, that we might not even understand what we're seeing for what it is - who knows, maybe they use the Earth, and similar worlds, as a sort of RPG.

Today I've learnt that a fully-charged car battery holds about as much energy as a sandwich, and that, incidentally, that is also about as much energy as would be released if you completely burn an adult man's hand.

http://what-if.xkcd.com/128 - Zippo Phone

I guess you're right. I suggested Khan Academy largely because it offers an easy, sort of, "what you see is what you get" way of interacting with code; but that's probably not enough to keep everyone going, if they don't have a way to motivate themselves already - as you say, having in mind a simple task you want to complete, or game you want to make, is likely to both keep you motivated and give you an idea of what you need to, and what you want (or don't want) to explore further.

Hmm, that was my impression as well.

I just went on to say that they did supposedly fix the issue, but that, in addition to the reasons you stated, they probably weren't really too sure everything was indeed working as intended, thus chose not to take the risk of re-enabling it - did I miss something?

According to mprep, the code was indeed modified to avoid the exploit:


He didn't go on to say why the feature was not re-enabled in that post but, perhaps that was not done out of concern there could be other related vulnerabilities, as well as that being a low priority feature and the work being put towards the new forum software instead, as hilariousandco mentioned.

Nada mau - o jogo afinal até pode ser bastante rentável.

Já agora, visto que nunca mais fui ao jogo, nem tão pouco me lembrei mais dele, aproveito: eles têm adicionado muita coisa nova ao jogo, ou continuam a adiar? A parte das unidades especiais (das quais iriamos, supostamente, poder definir valores de ataque, defesa e velocidade) já está activa?