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Racer Y
S3 licensed
You know... all these posts have made me want to play again. I generally play once or twice a week. I haven't hooked up the wheel, I use the mouse instead.
You know, the more I think about it. The wheel kind of sucked. Hooking it up, putting it away, and the Damned calibration!!!! I remember one race in particular where I was on the back stretch of So. city classic Making a passing attempt for first, and then the ***&&&*&!! pedals crapped out.
Wanna have fun with LFS? Use the road cars with a mouse. Good way to get rotator cuff syndrome without knowing a thing about base ball.
Yeah, I guess this post is nonsensical and off topic, but so is hoping for any sort of blip on the radar too.
Racer Y
S3 licensed
You know, I never really cared if S3 came out or not. Hell, I was happy with just S1.
But I do wonder what is going on. This game was more to me than some hyper realistic simulator of running around in circles. As it it developed with the community around it, I leaned about all sorts of crap. From basic coding and getting half a clue about game development and what goes into it to working on German cars.
Also, getting addicted to skinning REALLY helped in my career. LOL playing LFS made me money! Unlike other PC games of any sort, LFS made doing that and having it work correctly really easy.
I stumbled onto this game by accident RIGHT when this game was being released. At the time I could care less about racing simulation. To me, "simulator" was a term older nerds used to make playing video games sound more mature. I had bought a new video card and didn't have a decent game to use it with. later, I read an article in an online magazine about independent game developers. This title came up, looked neat in the picture, downloaded the demo, and presto.
So yeah, I am a bit curios as what is going on.
Racer Y
S3 licensed
.... did all kinds of things. Paid off house. Went from casual rider to hard core biker. Dealt with the death of my wife's parents. Watched my kids grow up. Took up Kayaking as a hobby. Attended a lesbian wedding. Took a boat cruise....
But the best thing? The birth of my Grand Daughter this past April!

@ Becky:
When I was 12, I turned 17 and stayed that way til I was 24. Then I turned 40. After I hit 40, I realized I missed out on a lot of crap and decided I need to be 12 again.
Racer Y
S3 licensed
...Stang wrote:
"The only people who insist that the buildings shouldn't have collapsed into their own foot-prints are those who don't understand how physics works, or the structure of the buildings themselves... so no, you aren't following the laws of physics or common sense."

The buildings operated like a giant flume. All the zietgiest or whatever it's called. All their fans forget things.
The airplanes basically hit the top of the building and caught fire. The buildings are air conditioned and had a flow of oxygen to feed those flames. and more importantly, the shape of the buildings was like a giant hyper charger for the fire.
As more fuel was sucked in, the building got hotter. Steel gets soft and concrete breaks when enough heat is put on them. I bet there was a wind current inside those buildings that topped 500mph as the air got closer to the fire as well.
And why the buildings fell the way they did is due to its foundation as much as anything else. These buildings floated and was suspended in place.
There wasn't hidden agents putting bombs on the framework the day before. There wasn't some top secret government collaborations involved to bring down these towers.
All it was was some super rich whacked out narcissist deciding that if he could get a couple of other idiots to learn the basics of commercial flight, they could take over a plane and wreck it into something. It wasn't a work of genius. It was a crazy act carried out by crazy people that had the money to get into flight school.
As far as van driving mossad agents.... When the planes struck the towers, it wasn't it an all at once thing. It took a while. They had plenty of time to get out a camera and record things after the first plane hit.
That wasn't the only incident of people being reported for acting suspicious during and after the attacks. I remember a guy getting arrested in a strip club for saying something the stripper thought was linked to the attaqck. THere was a case of some arab guys getting detained because a waitress in a Dennys decided they were acting suspicious. I think some of them had expired Visas too. This is America, as much as 10% of our population are illegal aliens.
There was all kinds of chatter coming from Al qeda in the summer of that year. They even released a report that they were going to do something really big in September. It wasn't Bin Laden's first time to attack the towers. He really had it bad for them. I don't see why it's so hard to accept that all it took to bring down the towers was a psychopath with a big bank account.
Racer Y
S3 licensed
Here's some food for you cousin....
Israel, Iran and Syria....
1. What middle Eastern Country has the largest Jewish population besides Israel and Turkey? Answer Iran.
2. About a year and a half before the Syrian civil war, Israel conducted a mysterious air attack on something in Syria. Assad didn't even rattle a sabre.
Why? Could it be they were trying to take out some of Assad's competition?
Iran... Guess who provided them with intelligence on Saddam Hussein during their war with Iraq? That's right. Our friends in Israel.
Ever notice when HAMAS attacks Israel, or Israeli forces raid Gaza, the ONLY people killed are innocent civilians? Now you know both sides have the resources
and the know how to take out each other's leaders or high ranking members.
but the militants are content to shoot mortar rounds into farmer's fields and the IDF is just happy to take out Palestinian rock throwers and Christians that have nothing to do with HAMAS or the brigades. no leadership targets.
I mean if I was in HAMAS or the IDF, the other side would have to keep having elections to replace all the idiots I'd have taken out. No old farmers, no little kids. Nope I'd go after targets that would matter. Yet these people don't.
You want conspiracies, look at that.
Sure every now and then you hear of a HAMAS leader assassinated. But notice when that does happen, it's always a player that's been put out to pasture OR is a threat to HAMAS leadership. That right there should raise your little flags.
Racer Y
S3 licensed
Quote from RMachucaA :Im sure i've had tons of great races, its just been so long i dont remember any.

Only thing i remember was getting WR with the FZR@ westhill without the super raised nose (aero bug, raised nose increased forward motion) so everyone was exploiting the bug, except me, and beat them without having to exploit .

Edit: omg its been a almost a decade since these new forums opened, holy.... wow. Certainly puts LFS as one of the slowest developed games in history.

I remember you! We used to have good races.... til you got fast.

"Certainly puts LFS as one of the slowest developed games in history."
Yeah it is. I heard that the development is SOOO slow, the next car they make for it is going to be a little yellow school bus.
Racer Y
S3 licensed
They should have the Winter Olympics in the tropics.... to make it more challenging.
Racer Y
S3 licensed
yeah. 9-11 was an inside job. See, one of the people that worked there was going to blow the lid off that whole fake moon landing. So in order to cover up the murder, they decided a terrorist attack would be a great idea. The free Masons, working with the Illuminati and the Nation of Islam recruited Bin Laden and his whacked out henchmen to be the scapegoat. like what they did With Lee Harvey Oswald and Princess Di's REAL driver. This was all done as part of a long term strategy to get Obama in the White House. And we all know who he really is.
They made one small mistake though. See the guy they were after was a janitor that worked second shift. He was in New Jersey at the time of the attack. But don't worry he's safe. He's living in N. Korea with Amy Winehouse. That's why Dennis Rodman goes over there so much.
Haven't you noticed the increase in UFO sightings since Bin Laden was killed?
It all makes sense.
Racer Y
S3 licensed
Quote from Forbin :I don't doubt there are some really poor riders out there who don't know how to launch.

Case in point: an SV650 stomping all over a lot of 600 supersports off the line, in some cases despite a poor 1-2 shift.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9X9-tlExWXc&t=3m18s




I don't doubt there are some really poor riders out there who don't know how to launch.....
More like alot.
Lemme ask you something. HAven't you ever beat someone faster than you before?
Let's see there's poor starters, Then they ... I dunno - panic? And my "wins" were on a stretch of road that DID have curves to it. Only it also has bumps, holes, expansion joints and nasty grooves. I know where every one of these are because I take this route almost every day. So I also had home field advantage. Plus the road is three lanes wide. Instead of using the whole road, every last one tried to stay in their lane. No concept of a racing line. Just a fast bike.
.............
Anyways I don't really like to race. It's kinda illegal. If i'm going to break the law, I want it to be worthwhile.

I got the bike back. It runs pretty good and doesn't spit oil on my pants leg. I still need to do a couple of things to it. I need to replace the diaphragms in the carbs.
They got little holes in them, that got a little bigger. They cost 100 each! that's an awful lot of money for a piece of plastic.

Hayabusa................ Is it just me? or is that bike just a little over-hyped?
And why is it when I see one, the rider looks like they weigh 400lbs?
Yeah, I never see a skinny person on a Hayabusa. I dunno. Maybe they need something that fast to get to the buffet?
I saw a guy the other day on Vespa with cow horns on it.
Racer Y
S3 licensed
Quote from Forbin :What are you on about?



I... what?

Even if you have the largest Suzuki Intruder model, stock HP is only 72HP (source), and who knows whether that's crank or wheel power. Even modified for more peak HP, I'm sure it doesn't make much more, especially being air-cooled.

Take the air-cooled Ducati motors for example. At 1100cc, they make 100HP stock according to Ducati, or around 85HP at the wheel (source).

Now let's take a look at your average "hunk of plastic." Liquid-cooled 600cc inline-4 producing ~105HP at the wheel is by far and away the most common sportbike configuration on the street.

So, you mean to tell us that you got significantly more than 105HP at the wheel from a motor that only makes 72HP stock, and, let's not forget, is air-cooled. Assuming your motor were essentially a Ducati 1400 (i.e. enlarged 1100) and HP scaled linearly with displacement, you might be able to get there. But let's be honest, both of those are massive assumptions. There's not a chance in hell you can get the same kind of state of tune out of a Suzuki cruiser motor as a Ducati.

And that's not even taking the enourmous heft of the Intruder into account.

Having said that, straightline stuff is boring anyway. I can guarantee the Intruder is awful around corners, with minimal cornering clearance and under-sprung suspension.

If all you want to do is go fast, get a sportbike. Straight lines, corners, it'll do them all. If all you want to do is brag about how much "faster" your cruiser is than a sportbike, I think you bought a cruiser for the wrong reason.

First off my bike is nowhere near stock. I think a stock 1400 was 60 something HP. They discontinued the 1400/s-83 last year. The 1400 was the fastest of Suzuki's cruiser line til the 109. But I've heard they put some sort of governor/rev limiter on the 109. I don't know how many HP's it has now. Also, It ain't water cooled. It's Air/oil. It has this little radiator looking thing in the front that's full of oil. I also don't know how fast it really is. After 95, the needle starts going all over the place and eventually buries itself on the high end. That says 120, but I know I'm moving along faster than 120. Not the 185 of a super bike, but still haulin ass.
I've beaten a Yamaha, Honda something (CRR?)... A kawasaki.. not a sport bike. Their muscle cruiser. I HAVE had my ass handed to me by a Monster, an Aprilla and a Lambo (car).
I don't start these races... well I did against the monster. These kids on their plastic coated in-lines see some idiot sitting on a hunk of chrome and they think old guy on a harley and an easy ego boost.
And I gotta admit the person on the Yamaha was one of those types with the stretched swing arm.
Yeah, I got a skinny little Avon on the front, Twisties aren't the bike's strong points. But you seriously underestimate my bike.
You need to realize, My 1400 only weighs in at 550lbs with all the fluids and a full tank of gas. That's less weight than a lot of sportbikes.
I need to remember you have no clue about humor and flat out BS and when I talk Shit, you take it serious.
I bet you look like Spock at a Chris Rock performance - huh?


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Oh, to the Idiot that thinks I sank 10 grand on a "piece of shit"
I basically have a new bike. When I'm done, it will be UNIQUELY my bike.
You go and find ANY bike over 1000 cc's. Cruiser or Crotch rocket new, stock and crammed with all the emissions restrictions.
Then go thru all the hassles of getting rid of all that emissions crap and tell us what your total cost is. Hell, I've seen scooters costing 10 grand.
Yeah, I COULD'VE bought a new bike with what I've sunk into mine, but then I'd have to sink that much more into it to get the way I want it.
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Back to Forbin...
You don't know about the pencil? I thought someone was pulling my leg, but I've head about this from several crotch rocket riders.
I don't know if it works or not.
But they told me they put a pencil under the passenger pad in a way that gets their female passenger to orgasm while riding.
I dunno. I've had girls act funky (usually drunk) on the back of bikes and it was pretty hard to control at times. I'm not so sure I'd want that going on behind me while some fool was texting and weaving in the car next to me.
And my luck, that's what would happen.
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Racer Y
S3 licensed
Keeping the thread alive!!!!!
Anyways....
Guess who got their motor done (and $1943.76 poorer) on their outlaw bike?
Damn. I spent 4k US to buy this bike in 2006 (7?). I sank another 3 thousand into it not counting the work I did myself and the skull light. Man, with motorcycles, the money you save on gas you get to use on maintenance.
Oh well. I'm now broke, but who cares? I'm picking her up Saturday (Sunday in Aussie land). The first kid I see sittin like a frog on a hunk of plastic, I'm gonna blow his slip ons off (unless he's on a sport bike bigger than 900 CCs).
Man. I've been so spoiled by this Valkyrie... wind shield... Nice riding position... fat and comfy seat... It was so nice that I was actually looking at - gasp - Gold wings!
I'll try to get my son to record the motor. LOL after hearing it, all you crotch rocketeers will go and kick your rides. And you harley riders (are there any that play LFS???) will wonder why you blew off one of your kids' college education for your bike. LOL. Yeah, Suzy's REALLY that bad ass.
I think I'll leave out some of the details when I explain the bill to the wife though. Wives just don't seem to understand the need for more horse power.

@ omar:
Enough about me and my over inflated ego. How's your riding coming along?
Racer Y
S3 licensed
Quote from Racer X NZ :Oh, it was a debate ?

I thought it was just the standard " I dont give a f^$# cus they don't count as human " US point of view.

/begin sarcasm: Anyway, the US's rulers are again telling them what to do, so as US citizens have no say in their future I'm not surprised that watching Miley's bumps is far more important.
So, in the interests of freedom, for you in the US, here you go.

After all, faced with WW part 3, this is clearly the only thing that's important for you. /End sarcasm

Anyway, for those of us removed and taking a technical point of view, WW3 is looking interesting, the modelling I've seen has most of the US fleet in the med being taken out in the first 4 hours, Both Iran and Syria have the capability and when Russia joins in it should get really interesting. While Israel has 2/400 nukes that should take out the middle east they'll get wiped off the map as well.
Then we get into the Russia/US global melt down. But, I'm sure none of that will actually affect anyone........

Or, as an alternate strategy, people convince the US to back down.......
But wait, their only "following orders" aren't they ?

Gee whiz! You make it sound like it's a bad thing.
Racer Y
S3 licensed
Quote from Racer X NZ :As I said, if the US feels that the use of chemical weapons is such an issue then;
1, Why does the US use them ?
2, Why does the US support their use by its allies ?
3, Why does the US provide them to both Al Queda and its puppet states ?

The news report was from an AP reporter with 20 years experience reporting in the region, AP is not Fox News, however I fully understand that such a report may not be well received by your administration. It's interesting that it was only after this was reported that suddenly your Glorious Leader chose to go to congress for approval.

And also remember that the UN has also said that it was most likely your Al Queda allies that carried out the previous chemical attacks, that won't be in your media either.



It's also interesting that the Saudi gentleman concerned also chose to threaten Russia with chemical attacks if they didn't withdraw their support for Syria, so annoying the Russians that they leaked transcripts of the meeting between him and Putin.
I don't expect that this will have made your media either but it's not hard to find on the net. Interestingly enough the Saudi gentleman claimed to have ties to various terror organisations, you should have a look for it, it makes interesting reading.

And Lets see if your congress reflects the 9 percent approval that the US people are showing in support for a war with Syria, Or if they choose to support their funding !

Mind you, as you already have Special Forces involved, as well as your full support for Al Queda in the war it will be interesting to see the outcome.

First off, let's be honest. Of course we have chemical weapons, So do the Russians, the Chinese, You guys, all sorts of people.
Hell Here in America we have individuals that have Stockpiles that rival some countries.
Our support of Al Queda...
Really?
Wow. Maybe you really ought to look into the New Zealand/Bath Salt connection... and get your drinking water checked.

Speaking of Russia. Particularly Mr. Putin. Is it me? or is he like the Sean Connery of World Leaders? I don't really care for much of his politics, but he looks like a guy that doesn't put up with crap. Someone That would kick ass and take names. Could you imagine how much of a Bad ass we'd be if Putin was elected as President of the United States?
You know. It's too bad politics isn't more like professional sports. Like we could trade Hillary Clinton and John Boehner for Putin, Al Gore and Tony Blair would be Free Agents. Probably getting picked up by France.
Sarkozy Traded to Zimbabwe and Mugabe heading off to lead Greece.
What's that kid's name in N.Korea? He's an up and comer. Somebody to look out for in the near future.
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Was watching Australian Football (live) Melbourne lost. It ain't the NFL, but it's still pretty cool.
Racer Y
S3 licensed
From the AP
...Obama said the U.S. should take action against Syria to punish it for what the U.S. believes was a deadly chemical attack launched by Syrian President Bashar Assad this month that killed more than 1,400 people. But Obama said he wants Congress to debate and vote on whether to use force, and has said any possible strike would be limited.....

See...
Racer Y
S3 licensed
Do you know what half of America Thinks about Syria?
We think Why replace one regime that hates us with another one?
Let these idiots kill each other off.
Besides, They don't have oil. They don't have gold. They have a little natural gas, but not enough to be worth getting involved in a civil war.
Right now. Obama, backed off his earlier plan and put the ball in the republican's court. Since you know so much about American politics, you should know what that means.
By the way, that linked article was as unbiased and objective as FOX news.
"Some information in this article could not be independently verified. Mint Press News will continue to provide further information and updates . "
I imagine that SOME information not verified was the second through eighth paragraphs and then some.
Anyhow, I predict Obama Will shoot off a couple a feel good missiles at a couple of so-so targets and call it a day. I doubt the strike and yeah I figure in a couple a days our boats will fire a couple of missiles, will do anything more than a misguided firework.
The United States stands nothing to gain from a regime change in Syria, given the choices. So by firing the missiles, we'll show the rebels that we're on their side - if they win. If Assad somehow pulls through, then the missile strike would be considered small and easier to work around diplomatically than say an assassination attempt.
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You know what the other half of America thinks about Syria?
That it's a nice name for one of Beyonce's kids.
Racer Y
S3 licensed
Quote from dawesdust_12 :Not all of it. Gamestop and those sort of places are a cancer (actually, an insult to cancer for associating it with Gamestop) on most gaming. They buy games off of people for like $10 (or $30 for a new, <1 month release) and then proceed to do absolutely nothing and resell it for like $30 or $50.

Screwing developers as they get NONE of that money, as Gamestop makes a bunch of money.

They do the same with consoles. Heres $100 for that Xbox 360 that you bought 10 minutes ago for $300. Then they sell it for $250 by doing basically nothing for it.

They're terrible.

Good point. But they can only be as terrible as the consumers let them. if the sheep would realize they could sell the system for more on craigslist or something, you'd see gamestop raising their offers.
As far as screwing developers...That's kinda like saying used car salesmen screw auto makers out of money ain't it?

I hear the crap they intend on pulling with this new X-box is going to put a dent in places like Game stop.
Racer Y
S3 licensed
What about the New Zealand Government and bath salts?
Racer Y
S3 licensed
Mind you, we did think it was funny when (reducted) told you it was Egypt attacking the USS Liberty, and how close were we then to another war ?, and for who ?, and who was it who actually attacked your ship, or don't we talk about that ?
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The Liberty.... Really? Uh it's been talked about to death. If you wanna rag on Israel, then bring up that they had intelligence that hezbolla was going to car bomb the Marines in Lebanon in 1983 and didn't tell us.
But if you wanna look into a REAL conspiracy, What exactly is your government's relationship with bath salt makers? You're going to have to look pretty deep cousin, but it's there.
Racer Y
S3 licensed
Quote from Becky Rose :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.

Paranoia? Yes. Perfect Paranoia is perfect awareness.
nationalist? LOLOLOLOL
I'm considered the bad guy in the war on drugs my country helped to create and makes yours and others blindly follow. So nah. Not that.

I just think Assange the "questionable molester" is a typical over edjumicated punk with a hard on for the U.S. and found a means he could use to act on that bad feeling.
You sure the Syrian emails aren't just fluff to distract from the true agenda?
I dunno. I could just be being paranoid.
Racer Y
S3 licensed
Quote from Becky Rose :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,blah blah blah nuclear radiation spill.

blah blah blah radiation was leaking blah blah blah

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.

I'm sorry but while you might have half a clue to what your'er talking about, I don't think you truly see this informations' potential compared with what the evil that men do. (good movie)

You think these clowns are going to exploit these files so they can sell us socks?
Ever hear of SWATTING? planting kiddie porn? selling out confidential informants? There's all sorts of nasty things they'll do with this information once they get their grubby little hands on it.

>>>> Socializing corporations...... Really?
What incentive would I have to succeed if when I did the government grabbed all my "success" and redistributed it amongst the dead beats?
How far would the company succeed if one of my rivals were to make up for their lack of superiority with a collection of government agencies and a nice media spin smear campaign against me that hooks the sheep into believing it?
Plus, whether you like it or not, it's all about the money. You think the corporate board and heads would be eliminated from Monsanto through socialization? LOL not only would something like that give them MORE power, but since they've been absorbed by the government they'll enjoy all the protections from it that they can exploit. Meaning startups with better ideas would be locked out of the markets. Our markets.
In fact, if something like that were to happen, wouldn't I be more inclined to hide my "success" in the black market?
I'm sorry, but big government is the problem. NOT the solution. A small government wouldn't have created Snowden and the NSA scandal in the first place. And I think that the more socially progressive governments (cough Euroland cough) have more skeletons hiding in their closets due to the increased opaqueness that accompanies them. Not just spying on people's Emails either. WE already know the UK and other countries trample on individual freedoms, especially concerning emails.

You know... thinking about it through responding to your post,
I wonder what that child molester Assange and wikileaks true motives are?
All we hear about is things from the U S of A.
What about the little screw-ups from other countries? We NEVER hear of those. Just the USA. What's up with that?
If all the pervert is doing is going after the US, then that makes him an enemy combatant instead of a champion of freedom and transparency like he tries to delude people into thinking he is.
Yeah, maybe this little sex offender needs a visit from a SEAL team.
Racer Y
S3 licensed
Quote from Racer X NZ :Quick response regarding thyroid issues in children. There is a veil of silence being drawn by Japan regarding the affects of Fukushima. Here's a great example. According to the Japanese Govt, only unhappy people will suffer from radiation, if your happy then you cant be affected.

Here is the govts message to the people.
The good doctor's good words were all over Fukushima Prefecture as fresh radioactive fallout from Fukushima descended on the cities and towns in Fukushima on March 20 and 21, 2011.

"No effect on health below 100 millisieverts radiation exposure."
"If you laugh, radiation won't get you."
"Children can play outdoors."
"You're the proud descendants of Byakko-tai (suicide squad made of young men and boys in the battle in the beginning of the Meiji era), aren't you?"

And one year later he says,

One year after, Dr. Yamashita defends himself in the Asahi interview (local Nagasaki version, 3/12/2012) by blaming the radiation phobia of the general public, and urge all Japanese to "share the pain and burden". To be expected from a reporter in a Japanese paper, there is no critical question to the doctor.
http://ex-skf.blogspot.co.nz/s ... abel/Shunichi%20Yamashita

And not only iodine 131 but also cesium 37 will affect the thyroid.
http://www.strahlentelex.de/Yablokov%20Chernobyl%20book.pdf

Here is a 2001 study in Japan showing standard levels, well under 1%.
https://docs.google.com/file/d ... TVkOVdrNzlRWUk/edit?pli=1

Now here's the latest,
The Tenth Report of Fukushima Prefecture Health Management Survey was released on February 13, 2013. [...]

The results compiled up to January 21, 2013 revealed that 41,947 (44.2%) of 94,975 children had thyroid ultrasound abnormalities. Together with 38,114 children (13,645 or 35.8% had thyroid ultrasound abnormalities) tested in the last half of Fiscal Year Heisei 23 (FYH23) from October 2011 through March 2012, a total of 55,592 (41.8%) of 133,089 Fukushima children have been found to have ultrasound abnormalities.
http://fukushimavoice-eng.blog ... d-examination-part-4.html

It's also vital to remember that while Chernobyl was one reactor that blew, Fukushima is 4 reactors, including at least 1 MOX reactor, that have been burning for over 2 1/2 years with no end in sight, that are also built on a river and are in addition to pouring radiation into the air, are also pouring radiation into the Pacific.

Here's a frightening New York Times article dated 23 August 2013
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08 ... -on-crisis.html?_r=2&

And here's the BBC even stating Fukushima is far worse than reported. This one is 22 August 2013.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-23779561
Dr Ken Buesseler is a senior scientist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution who has examined the waters around Fukushima.
"It is not over yet by a long shot, Chernobyl was in many ways a one week fire-explosive event, nothing with the potential of this right on the ocean."

Years ago, I worked in an industry known as Environmental Remdiation.
Cool name, huh? I was a Lab Pack Chemical Technician..... Neat title too!

Environmental Remdiation. = Toxic Waste Disposal
Lab Pack Chemical Technician = garbage man

The pay totally sucked and benefits were non-existent

Anyhows... I got hit with a full rad of radiation for a limited time. It killed off most of my white blood cells and for years, I got sick at the drop of a hat.
LOL I went to a clinic about it a bout a year after I quit working there. It was a "free clinic". And it was a strong argument AGAINST socialized medicine. Like most government crap, I had to fill out a ton of paperwork. Only one page of it was actually about the reason for the visit. The idiots DIDN'T read what I wrote about being nuked. But they did do blood work. They called me in the office with all these doctors with dumb looks on their faces. Apparently, they caught the lack of white blood cells from it, and used it for two AIDS tests. They tell me this. They tell me that they're pretty sure I don't have AIDS because there were no AZT anti-bodies in the blood. While they're beating around the bush about describing all this to me, I notice the paper work I filled out earlier.
Right there, as big as Dallas, was my statement about radiation exposure.
SO I grab it and ask these quacks if they even bothered to read what I wrote.
Sheepishly, they admitted they didn't read it. After they did. They told me all I need to do was go home and get some rest and I'll get better if I drink milk.
oh I got better alright. It only took about 16 years.

But the response I got from those doctors after the figured out I was exposed to radiation, was about the same as this clown that thinks smiles kills curies.
Racer Y
S3 licensed
Quote from shimon-ifraimov :didnt understand half of this but good to know :]

Yeah... that....
Any how.... How much harder would it be to model spoked rims? I only ask that because I read somewhere that one of the reasons they quit using spokes in race cars and started using more solid rims was because of the deformity and lack of stability that occurred at high speeds and eventually the spokes coming loose.
Could you imagine how much of a pain it would be to model THAT?
Racer Y
S3 licensed
Well. My intruder is in a zillion pieces. I'm really thinking of getting the frame painted. It's really sad. But at least the payoff is I'll pretty much have a new bike that you just can't buy.

.... I get all sorts of people walk up to me and talk about my bikes. Especially When I'm on Suzy and especially girls.
Anyways, my wife was watching 2 and a Half Men on TV as I was going past to get on the bike and gas it up. I stopped to look at the screen. Well there was a scene where Charlie Sheen was hitting on a girl in a bar. She looked at him and said, "I'm sorry. I don't have daddy issues". It was pretty funny. Well I go and get on the bike and go to the station.
While I'm gassing up, this totally hot looking girl - half my age - comes up to me and starts flirting. All I could think of was if she had "Daddy issues".

I gotta question for you crotch rocket riders. What's this I hear about putting a pencil under the passenger pad?
Is it true? And does it work?
Racer Y
S3 licensed
Quote from pandera :Supersport, street fighters, cafe racers... there will quite a few types of bikes in the game to choose from. The designs will try to fit somewhere around contemporary concept motorcycles, so they will be a bit more radical than what's allowed in the streets right now.

.......Bobbers?.........
Racer Y
S3 licensed
Politics politcs politcs. THe subject of dunks and fools politcs.
I don't know how it works in y'alls part of the planet, but here it flat out sucks.
I mean State politics, not national level.
See here in Texas we're having a governor's election coming up in 2014.
DO you know what the fore front of the issues are going to be in these up coming elections?
Where the politician stands on abortion.
Abortion.
Now being opposed to the abortion industry, I'm not in favor of it. But that shouldn't matter. It's just NOT what should be a pivotal issue in this election.
There's zillions of other issues that should be way far important than abortion as far as the state goes.
Things like Marijuana reform. Seriously looking into legalizing casino gambling, Figuring out ways to LOWER hunting and fishing license fees. All sorts of things.
Hell even fixing state highways. But nope all that's up for debate is abortion.
And why? Because it's a safe bet. Running around claiming to be pro-choice or pro-life over and over keeps them from having to explain their positions on things they probably don't really have a clue about.
And what really gets scary is how all the supporters of whatever candidate seem to just nod along, thinking the clown they support somehow is better than the other one running for the spot.
Yeah politics.................
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