I'm a Space Monkey! WOOHOO!
Too soon to pick a side of course, but I'll be interested to see how this story develops and whether a sigma 5 result can be attained - most likely achievable by attempting to collect samples in space from behind a comet, or seeing if any perseid meteor fragments try to take over the planet!
/Space Monkey Out.
Too soon to pick a side of course, but I'll be interested to see how this story develops and whether a sigma 5 result can be attained - most likely achievable by attempting to collect samples in space from behind a comet, or seeing if any perseid meteor fragments try to take over the planet!
/Space Monkey Out.
I guess looking back on the last 7 years and seeing all the changes, I guess I would have to say that I finally accepted I'm an adult and started acting like it.
They're currently releasing 2 million emails from Syrian government officials and their lead article relates to a Swedish case and Pirate Bay.
Me thinks you have paranoia and/or irrational nationalist fervour.
Cleaning up the nuclear spill should never have been undertaken by Tepco. It should have been done by the government, and at least in part funded by fines against Tepco for allowing it to happen in the first place.
I'm somewhat surprised that you are aware of the concept of smear campaigns, and yet hold the view that you do about Assange. The Swedish rape case doesn't even need court evidence to highlight how ridiculous it is - the facts stand up for themselves. Days after the government want to stop him from operating two femals Swedish spy's claim he raped them decades earlier. It's the perfect smear, because everyone hates a sex offender and culturally we tend to judge them without evidence.
I'm usually the first on the feminist band wagon where rape cases are concerned - but two testimonies from government agents as the only evidence with such convenient timing for Western governments? It's really quite ridiculous.
I'm not aware of any kiddy fiddler allegations against him?
Snowdon did not reveal anything that geeks did not already know. I've known about the boxes in the ISP's that do this since my first job in I.T. over 20 years ago.
All Snowdon did was add publicity. The government hate him because for the last 2 decades the government believe it's own propaganda and had been operating under the assumption that it was all top secret. Despite there being obvious public legal cases where this technology was used, such as the several cases of people tweeting Anglicised English about "gonna blow up LA" and then get arrested at American airports by officials not understanding the cultural discrepancies in our languages.
This has been going on for years, and nothing Snowdon said was new news.
Given that I work in marketing and I do the job that you seem to despise with regards to using tracked data to sell you more goods, I have to say that Snowdon has not opened any flood gates. Besides, the metrics the NSA monitor are of no consequence to my marketing endeavours.
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With regards to Fukushima, I was startled the other day as I drove home to hear about the water tanks leaking on the radio as if it was a breaking news story. I was startled because much like Prism this wasn't news to me either.
So either I am the most informed person in the world, which I am sure that I'm not as I barely pay attention to news, or the world is becoming better at double-speaking.
Fukushima is a very serious incident and that entirely down to the cleanup operation being run on a for profit basis. There is no way that share holders should have a vested interest in the clean up of a nuclear radiation spill.
I do not believe that anyone reading this is stupid enough to believe that it was okay to put the radioactive water into storage tanks designed to last 1 year, and I believe that almost everyone reading this knew that the tanks where not of an adequate construction some time ago.
I also believe, that the fact we all know this and then so many people acted surprised when it turned out that so much radiation was leaking was the biggest victory for corporate governance that the capitalist world has ever pulled off.
I believe in free and open markets, but I do not zionise the ideology. To believe that the world is better off being run by PR spin ( eg: me and my ilk ) for the interests of share holders is the single stupidist ideology the world has ever seen - but it is how the world is run, and I still can't believe that so few people have worked this out and aren't in uproar.
Stop double speaking yourselves. Demand socialisation of vested corporate interests when those corporates operate in the public interest - because the public interest is the last thing they all care about.
Well that was quite a wandering ramble so I wont respond to every point, not that I necessarily oppose everything you say.
But there is something, which really pisses me off, that you're doing...
Immigration does not require an adjective every time it is used, this is Murdochian. Labelling in this way fuels dysphoria and you need to lose that habit.
As for Britain being a soft touch, to some small extent it was true. We were not ready for Eastern Europe and the former soviet mindset of playing the system, but that was years ago and we've moved on. The levels of benefit fraud now are tiny, and I mean tiny. No adjective required.
Benefit fraud versus GDP is not even a contest, in fact the benefit system as a whole isn't that big of a deal. You can't get that point over during a conservative government who like to blame things on Jews, I mean the unemployed, but that's the reality.
Also, you need to have this conversation with some immigrants. I think you'd be surprised at just how much these issues have reflected back on Polish culture, not everyone is playing the system.
And it's actually not that easy to migrate here.
But there is something, which really pisses me off, that you're doing...
Immigration does not require an adjective every time it is used, this is Murdochian. Labelling in this way fuels dysphoria and you need to lose that habit.
As for Britain being a soft touch, to some small extent it was true. We were not ready for Eastern Europe and the former soviet mindset of playing the system, but that was years ago and we've moved on. The levels of benefit fraud now are tiny, and I mean tiny. No adjective required.
Benefit fraud versus GDP is not even a contest, in fact the benefit system as a whole isn't that big of a deal. You can't get that point over during a conservative government who like to blame things on Jews, I mean the unemployed, but that's the reality.
Also, you need to have this conversation with some immigrants. I think you'd be surprised at just how much these issues have reflected back on Polish culture, not everyone is playing the system.
And it's actually not that easy to migrate here.
This is the first time I've stopped for 2 minutes since it was all over, and I'm currently sat at my desk at work eating a sammich!
Huge thanks to Jason for organising again, this event is always truly epic and this year was a great one.
Those who where there know I did get some red mist whilst racing, it was pretty rough out there this year. I think to a large extent this is because the field is so competitive and the twisty track makes it hard to pass when the drivers are so even. The biggest problem I think was over-aggressive defending, which I was guilty of too and I consider myself partly responsible for how tough it was out there this year.
There are limits that I believe we should all be somewhat mindful of. In most racing it's who's on the inside with sufficient overlap at the braking point - when a track doesn't need brakes (except when offline) then that point is when you lift, that means all overtakes are by definition late lunges - crossing the acceptable behavior line is when you need to contact the other kart to slow down or when you turn into the other kart to stop it from going past.
Yes this does mean that if someone gets up your inside at the corkscrew for the third time that you need to give them room and not aim to make contact for a third time, and specifically not to punt them off just before the braking point so as to send their kart in the opposite direction to the track - and their team mates then throwing abuse from the sidelines is just not acceptable AT ALL at any level of sport.
I think if we all bear in mind that this is a difficult track to pass on when the field is so even, and give each other a little more respect and be mindful of racing rules, not just when overtaking but also when being passed - then this will continue to be an amazing event both on the track, in addition to the great night life which Jason so graciously hosts for us.
Ah yeah, checking just now I see the total mileage and stuff is there, but PB's aren't. *shrug* I don't recall.
I can think of nothing less fun than reading through all of Scawen's posts to find a link but I do recall him discussing it and remembered that explanation. Yes certainly it relates to multiplayer, I don't recall/know anything regarding the single player.
I understand that you know more about the physics engine in LFS than I do, so if you are confident that it isn't there then I'll cede to that.
I'm sorry you wont be there, and sorry your trip last weekend ended sourly. I hope you can make it next year.
Not all the devs are full time anymore, so I think that's no longer true.
LFS uses two physics models, a complex model for the player car and the nearest 2 or 3 to the camera, beyond a certain distance the game engine switches to a simpler model.
With regards to LFS World stats, I've clocked many thousands of laps online but LFS World shows me as next to 0. I assume that the stats where wiped sometime around 2008 or so? That was after I stopped playing, all I've done since then is clock a few laps on keyboard whilst working with insim.
So if you believe everything you see on LFS World, I'm a nub who has never experienced LFS World and yet talks a lot on the forum! The reality is there isn't a track in LFS I havn't clocked a lot of laps with, and I've raced all the cars, some of them a heck of a lot.
Statistics lie.
Checking now I'm recovering well. I believe it'll clear in time.
Currently my throttle foot has a few blisters so if you're really lucky I won't be able to push it down fully!
I did, although not in the last few years. I was brought up very much on the Christian right, with 3 days bible study a week and an unhealthy dose of self loathing. When I left school there was a major depression, at that time the worst since the 20's. Thatcher was not long gone, and although I did not have the wisdom of my years it was clear to me that no government should be in power for 3 terms as corruption was rampant.
I voted Labour in my first general election, which saw them get in for Tony Blair's first term. Of course like all Brits I had no idea until he was long gone that Blair was a hard-right Conservative. It made no odds anyway, his first term was on the whole a positive thing and the change in and of itself was vital and refreshing.
As I came to terms with my own understanding of the universe and questioned my faith I began to realise the lunacy of it, I slowly began to realise that even if this God did exist then he must be an evil and cruel master and not representative of where I saw my role in life - as someone who genuinely cares about others.
Reading the lyrics of hymns is so telling, the congregation is called to hymn and pledges servitude and subordinance to God every Sunday. Unfortunately for the God crowd, I was gifted with a healthy dose of intelligence, and God did not stand up to questioning.
Further the bible itself does not stand to scrutiny, and with so much of its flaws being overlooked but oh no we can't overlook the scarce and indirect references to homosexuality or we'll burn in hell! Between that and a good portion of every church congregation in the world committing infidelity, I didn't understand the churches view of me - it did not stand up to scrutiny, and neither does much of the rest of the bible. And anyway if the bible was based in truth then the logical history of it meant that only the Judaic mother of the bible could be anywhere resembling the original truth - and the Torah seemed no less evil than the bible, so screw that!
As the Labour party moved ever more to the christrian right, I moved ever more to the liberal left. I put religion behind me and accepted myself for who I was - the single best thing that I ever did - and found that politically I am very much unrepresented.
When I read party manifesto's in the UK today the only one that doesn't even make me sick is the Green party - who I can't vote for as I have no local candidate.
So I dutifully go to every local election, and I spoil the ballot. I will continue to do so until I have a genuine choice on my ballot paper.
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Sorry I'm hopeless for lifts this year as I've got rid of the Mondeo and got me a TT. I'm running TVE there and back and that means the only spare seat is not much larger than a parcel shelf.
I could pick up a midget on Friday somewhere between Birmingham and Wales, provided they don't have much luggage.
I could pick up a midget on Friday somewhere between Birmingham and Wales, provided they don't have much luggage.
You're right Cornys. If you recall my opening post in this thread one of the points I was trying to make is that the key role in running a league is really one of marketing to your audience [the drivers].
Making a uniquely interesting league is essential to attract drivers. It's okay on the one hand to say "TBO league", one of my favorite car classes - and if I was active that would have a chance of your league attracting me to race it. I like short circuits, and I'd rather do multiple 30 minute races than 90 - so there's also a chance you would lose me by not ticking those boxes... I certainly wouldn't be running in two leagues at once, for every driver these considerations are part of the final decision as to which league to race.
I believe that the best way to attract drivers therefor is to offer something unusual, something outside of the normal LFS parameters that encourage people to look over the standard LFS questions of car/track/racelength.
One of the plans I had for season 2 of the STCC was for car development which was designed to be interwoven both into the TBO car balancing system, and a success ballast system, and also be used to encourage attendance by making it team based.
It was designed to calculate improvements based upon actual driver inputs too, through an insim application and web control interface. The "development" would manifest through ballast and engine restrictions of course, but the program behind it allowed teams to focus their development and do test sessions where they literally drove their car differently to get the best benefit.
It wouldn't have appealed to everyone - nothing ever does - but it was uniquely different to everything else and that alone I am confident would have filled the grid at the time because it was something genuinely different, and therefor interesting.
Making a uniquely interesting league is essential to attract drivers. It's okay on the one hand to say "TBO league", one of my favorite car classes - and if I was active that would have a chance of your league attracting me to race it. I like short circuits, and I'd rather do multiple 30 minute races than 90 - so there's also a chance you would lose me by not ticking those boxes... I certainly wouldn't be running in two leagues at once, for every driver these considerations are part of the final decision as to which league to race.
I believe that the best way to attract drivers therefor is to offer something unusual, something outside of the normal LFS parameters that encourage people to look over the standard LFS questions of car/track/racelength.
One of the plans I had for season 2 of the STCC was for car development which was designed to be interwoven both into the TBO car balancing system, and a success ballast system, and also be used to encourage attendance by making it team based.
It was designed to calculate improvements based upon actual driver inputs too, through an insim application and web control interface. The "development" would manifest through ballast and engine restrictions of course, but the program behind it allowed teams to focus their development and do test sessions where they literally drove their car differently to get the best benefit.
It wouldn't have appealed to everyone - nothing ever does - but it was uniquely different to everything else and that alone I am confident would have filled the grid at the time because it was something genuinely different, and therefor interesting.
In a league there really isn't a limit. One of the best nights I had on LFS was running GTR cars on Fern Bay Club, and get this ... on a PUBLIC server. It was truly awesome for about 2 hours after which I was too exhausted to carry on racing! Oh sure, on another night it could be bedlam but the fact is it happened and overall was pretty clean.
One of the advantages of the short tracks is there are less corners to master, which means more drivers are closer to the pace which makes for closer racing. For leagues there are big advantages to racing on short tracks, and few if any advantages to racing on long tracks other than stereotype - and this is why I believe LFS needs more of them.
We drilled the same gas fields as Norway, it's divided up 50/50. The difference is that their government took 50% of the profits and opened up a share portfolio, and we spent all of the profits straight away...
I'm not 100% on Norwegian politics, I know there is a Christrian right party kicking around but I understand that since the war they've had left governments more than right, and that they do so at the moment - but an educated and well informed Norwegian would be able to fill you in better than me, unfortunately the nearest we have to one on this forum is TVE
The strikes in the 70's were not a left versus right battle, it was a clash between working people and their working conditions and wages.
The problem was that in getting a fairer deal Britain started to look less competitive than other countries where workers could still be exploited such as Taiwan, China and India. These countries too are now experiencing growing consumer confidence and a burgeoning middle class - eventually they will go through the same pain and we will start exploiting South America. Next century it'll be Africa's turn.
Some clashes had ideological routes, such as the Ford seamstresses and Trico factories where mysogonistic bosses had our women working skilled jobs for peanuts - these where cultural, and a cause I happen to agree with too.
I don't think anyone is in any doubt that most of the worlds problems are caused by capitalism, the problem with it is that there isn't a better system - or rather, capitalism would be okay if it wasn't run by nihilists of the right wing persuation who are perfectly happy to see others suffer in exchange to gain their wealth.
Compared to the practical application of Communism the Capitalist approach at least gives us shiney iPhones and cars with side impact protection - but if you removed greed from the equation then either system would work just fine.
Conservativism is at it's heart the acceptance that all people are fundamentally greedy, thus embracing the concept of greed whilst not trusting in the greed of others is their chosen ideology. It's why we no longer talk about immigrants or people receiving social benefits, instead we talk about illegal immigrants and welfare scroungers... The adjective being the result of sucessful Murdochian marketing.
Europe is a separate and much more difficult situation. On the one hand it's a great concept, in fact much of the world already regards us as one country and has done for some time. The problem with it is all of the above has been left to run rampant. It's a horrifically corrupt institution which at any one time has 4 lobbyists for every MEP in town (with three quarters of them from the airline industry btw - making sure tax stays off aviation fuel)
Personally I'm in two minds about Europe, but one thing is certain - it is a far less important issue than the attrocities Farage preaches. That lunatic shouldn't be allowed near governmental power.
You complain about left wing thinking - and then choose to move to a left wing strong hold? Admittedly it is one of the nicest, richest, healthiest countries in the world - but that's what you get for embracing a combination of left wing policies and long term strategic thinking rather than the short termism we practice here.
Scawen stopped giving us updates because of abuse by a few.
To this I say, toughen up.
Because silence has cost him his livelihood.
All game devs have experience of this, you get flak mixed in with the good, but you get flak by saying nothing too. Scawen saw this as lose lose and decided not to bother, but that just alienates the supporters. It was win lose, and silence is what has killed off the community.
It's amazing how little it will take to undo the damage. But he'll need thicker skin.
To this I say, toughen up.
Because silence has cost him his livelihood.
All game devs have experience of this, you get flak mixed in with the good, but you get flak by saying nothing too. Scawen saw this as lose lose and decided not to bother, but that just alienates the supporters. It was win lose, and silence is what has killed off the community.
It's amazing how little it will take to undo the damage. But he'll need thicker skin.
In the UK the PCT's constituted a substantial part of our GDP. They distribute funds to the worlds second largest employer - our health service. The council houses represented a substantial part of our capital assets, and the resulting rents are the majority of our non-health social care bill.
I could go on...
The privatisation of the profitable sectors of public services is a right wing policy. The left wing approach would keep both the profit making and cost burdens nationalised.
Classic examples are the railways, sold off in the 90's? They now cost the government 4 times to run even when allowing for inflation. (Thatcher)
Selling off the PCT's which distribute funds from central government, so that 40% of the governments funding now goes straight into private pockets - replacing the small PCT's which where not a huge cost burden. (Cameron)
Selling off council houses at discounted prices and then renting houses from the private sector. (Thatcher)
Selling off the Royal Mail the moment it goes into profit. (Cameron)
There are no examples of the left wing doing this, because they created most of the above services and havn't had power since. The remains of our institutions are simply the things left over from Atlee that don't yet look attractive to the private sector.
Classic examples are the railways, sold off in the 90's? They now cost the government 4 times to run even when allowing for inflation. (Thatcher)
Selling off the PCT's which distribute funds from central government, so that 40% of the governments funding now goes straight into private pockets - replacing the small PCT's which where not a huge cost burden. (Cameron)
Selling off council houses at discounted prices and then renting houses from the private sector. (Thatcher)
Selling off the Royal Mail the moment it goes into profit. (Cameron)
There are no examples of the left wing doing this, because they created most of the above services and havn't had power since. The remains of our institutions are simply the things left over from Atlee that don't yet look attractive to the private sector.
If your man tits get any bigger you won't be safe even from me...
Kev speaks for me too!
The right wing doesn't hold the answer, we got where we are today with centre-right politics in the UK, and far right in the US. Going further right won't solve anything, all UKIP offer is someone to blame... Much like what happened in Europe in the 30's.
And if you think concentration camps won't come back - well sadly Greece has already put 4000 "undesirables" in new camps so far this year, and this is Europe in 2013!
The world hasn't learned anything, if it had then the politeriate would not be turning to the far right to solve problems created by the right.
The right wing doesn't hold the answer, we got where we are today with centre-right politics in the UK, and far right in the US. Going further right won't solve anything, all UKIP offer is someone to blame... Much like what happened in Europe in the 30's.
And if you think concentration camps won't come back - well sadly Greece has already put 4000 "undesirables" in new camps so far this year, and this is Europe in 2013!
The world hasn't learned anything, if it had then the politeriate would not be turning to the far right to solve problems created by the right.
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