Cap'n Refsmmat

If you ever believe that happened, let an administrator (like myself) know. Generally, we have a moderation policy that prevents that from ever happening -- moderators consult with each other before moderating, so nobody gets the chance to moderate out of anger. Now, there may be other instances where you've had a post deleted, but usually those are covered in our forum rules. Any "extra-judicial" deletion is cause for concern.

I dunno. I think dave's the one in charge of adsense now, and I've never seen its configuration.

What other ways of determine if a thread is interesting would you recommend? There's also "most subscribed to," "most viewed," and so on. A combination of factors could be used.

I agree, and I think that just displaying a bland forum index to users when they first hit the site sucks. I may try some sort of new front page in IPB that displays the most-participated-in threads of the last day, and so on.

Probably. Whitelist us!

We had one of these threads a few years ago, and perhaps it's time for another. What don't you like about SFN? Features, bugs, people, content, staff, whatever. What bugs you?

I think you're right, but that things get messier when the cars are different masses, as then they don't come to a complete stop upon impact. If one is smaller, it'll go through a much larger change in velocity and end up going backwards.

...hocus pocus?

Then what?

Abracadabra!

True, but emotional pleasure does not come straight from doing pleasurable activities or the right concoction of drugs. "Happiness" comes not from direct physical pleasure but many other factors as well, and I believe Dr. Seligman (see my previous link) states that physical pleasure doesn't really play a role in how satisfied with their lives people say they are.

Fixed now? I think this is a leftover from deleting some spam PMs.

Nobody has any comments?

No. The balls would not lose momentum. If there's no friction and collisions are elastic, momentum will be conserved. The total kinetic energy of the system will remain the same. If there's no friction losses, there's no waste heat created, so all energy remains either kinetic or potential. Since there's no gravity, there's no gravitational potential energy. Kinetic energy thus must be conserved. Momentum is always conserved anyway. Your understanding of physics is flawed.

I'm fairly certain that, given that the horizon is only 30 miles away or so, most flat earthers have a different explanation for horizons than "that's where the Earth ends."

There are cases where the assaulted woman will have an orgasm during the rape, which contributes to the psychological harm afterwards. ("But I enjoyed it!" sort of thing.) Also, as Martin Seligman and others say, pleasure is not the key to life-long happiness, and it wears off very quickly. People who have lots of pleasure are not necessarily happier and more satisfied with their lives. Mere physical pleasure should not be a guiding principle. (Though I suppose it should happen every once in a while.)

Does this come from Paul's explanation in Romans, or some other reason? (Or some combination?) For all practical purposes, I know those would be the guidelines I'd end up sticking to, but I don't know if I'd say "morally wrong." I don't see what about the act of sex is actually immoral, unless of course there are issues with consent, but for some reason I'd follow the guideline anyway. Perhaps just a "residue" of morals taught in society? I'm not sure.

Yeah, that should work. I haven't messed around much with network configuration before, but in my mind that would work.

Right. On the local network, each computer has a 192.168.* IP. You pick out the VM and place it in the DMZ. Now, because of NAT, every computer on the network shares the same external IP address. Once something's placed in the DMZ, it's the one that receives new connections to that external IP. (NAT usually keeps track of the computers making outbound connections and routes everything to the right computer, but it doesn't know what to do with a new inbound computer.) So if you connect to that external IP, the router should send you straight to the VM.

192.168 is a private IP range, yes. Try accessing it using the IP you get from this site. All computers on the router should share that IP (to the rest of the world, at least), and the DMZ will forward incoming traffic on that IP to the VM.

He said distance, not displacement, so it's not a vector.

tomgwyther said time/distance, if we're going to be pedantic.

Where was direction mentioned in the definition?

Wouldn't work well on small screens. We ran into screen resolution issues while placing our current Google ads as well, actually. I dunno, I think you could get away with it if you space out the logo some -- move the ScienceForums.net text out and the integral sign away from the orbitals. Take a look at how the current logo is spaced, for example.

tomgwyther does make the interesting point that we'll have to fit the Google ads in somewhere. It would be nice if we didn't have to worry about paying the bills... Hmm, now I have to think about where to put them.