Hey, check it out! Right on time. Who the heck is we, anyway? Wait, don't bother looking down your pedestal, you might spoil your immaculate vision.
The way it's practiced is a separate story, it's not about the fundamental ethics anymore. Just like cops will not always conform to their duties. For example, there's been a recent proposal in Michigan to demote 200 felonies to mere misdemeanors.. that means felons convicted of any among 200 felonies will likely be let back as easily as misdemeanor-class criminals into society...
I guess the difference between us is that you think it's ok to let someone whose first reason to live is crime against others, even ok to force (via taxes) law-abiding people to pay for that unrehabilitable criminal's upkeep. We had this debate before (abridged, though) and the critical difference is that your 'side' of the issue thinks it better to pay for the inhumane emprisonment of said criminal, indefinitely if need be, than to save the resources for worthier things like education, etc.
I think last time someone said that the prisoners don't really add up to that much money anyway... that's balloney. Even supposing it didn't add up to much, any amount spent keeping a (deservingly-) death row inmate alive in a tiny cell is better spent educating kids; this leading everywhere but to criminality all on its own.. why would you, instead, leech law-abiding people of their resources to keep criminals who will never re-integrate society anyway? Why do that rather than loose the useless ballast and let the normal people keep their resources?
Sometimes it's argued that since emprisonment (not killing the criminal but only sequestering it to a cage) is less inhumane than execution (killing the criminal but avoiding any burden on the rest of the population (a matter of principle, not financial proportion) and absolutely avoiding any repeat offenses and victims), execution is the only one of the two that deserves to be called inhumane.. that's bogus. They're both inhumane.
The death penalty and life-sentences will be done away with when criminals can be properly rehab'ed, and that means something comprehensive. Not some brute force method like (for example, again) in A clockwork orange.
On that day we can start talking about 'humane' alternatives. Emprisonment isn't humane.
Wow.. just wow.. am I getting this right? The government needs to tell the people what it ought to think?
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Someone said the death penalty's not worth it because it doesn't work as a deterant. Nothing's a deterant for the creme of the criminal crop.
Capital punishment is in good company, on the scale of humaneness of punishment: emprisonment is just a less economical, more temporary solution to those criminals that will never live within lawfulness.
In the mean time lawful people will bear the economic burden of the inmates' upkeep... We've already had threads about this, and the righteous indignation of "more advanced countries" never fails to rear its head. As most people know, no country is irreproachable.. it's just a matter of choosing the right topics for any given country to earn an outright "more advanced" pedigree.
Not all of the USA is for the death penalty (so much for blanket statements!), and make no mistake, it is in the same intent for a healthier society as 'more advanced' nations tax lawful citizens to bear the cost of keeping criminals well-fed that the pro-capital punishment portion of Americans support the death penalty.
Now, the practical execution of the idea is another story..
Capital punishment is in good company, on the scale of humaneness of punishment: emprisonment is just a less economical, more temporary solution to those criminals that will never live within lawfulness.
In the mean time lawful people will bear the economic burden of the inmates' upkeep... We've already had threads about this, and the righteous indignation of "more advanced countries" never fails to rear its head. As most people know, no country is irreproachable.. it's just a matter of choosing the right topics for any given country to earn an outright "more advanced" pedigree.
Not all of the USA is for the death penalty (so much for blanket statements!), and make no mistake, it is in the same intent for a healthier society as 'more advanced' nations tax lawful citizens to bear the cost of keeping criminals well-fed that the pro-capital punishment portion of Americans support the death penalty.
Now, the practical execution of the idea is another story..
Skins in LFS are already at least as outlandish as some rims could be. How often do you see skins as we have for the road cars in reality?
There's no doubt that rims can be made to either break the laws of physics and/or just look retarded. Nonetheless there could be some restraints put in place to allow for either sharing of user-made wheels (as skin textures are now) or simply allowing it to be part of the rest of the realtime player information (RGB skin base color, driver position, etc). The former would be more adapted to human filtering, whereas the latter could be automatic provided Scawen (for example) arbitrarily coded some restrictions as there could be for the forced-cockpit camera settings (albeit a lot more complex).
And if you don't care for the custom rims, you could just turn them off and never have to suffer their sight... Everybody's happy (except Scawen if it really is that complicated to code).
There's no doubt that rims can be made to either break the laws of physics and/or just look retarded. Nonetheless there could be some restraints put in place to allow for either sharing of user-made wheels (as skin textures are now) or simply allowing it to be part of the rest of the realtime player information (RGB skin base color, driver position, etc). The former would be more adapted to human filtering, whereas the latter could be automatic provided Scawen (for example) arbitrarily coded some restrictions as there could be for the forced-cockpit camera settings (albeit a lot more complex).
And if you don't care for the custom rims, you could just turn them off and never have to suffer their sight... Everybody's happy (except Scawen if it really is that complicated to code).
The latter is what I meant to warn Madman about. I had been suspecting a benign gum infection of some kind as the cause of my rear gums swelling and was biting down on them hard for days at a time (!) to stop the bulge getting in the way of properly chewing...
From what Madman says, he intends to wait past the right time for fear of a few days of pain (they'll happen whatever he chooses to do), hence my suggestion.
From what Madman says, he intends to wait past the right time for fear of a few days of pain (they'll happen whatever he chooses to do), hence my suggestion.
I'd wager the odds are that the longer you wait, the worse the post-op experience will be. So by your terms, you should be booking an appointment with a dentist asap.. If they are growing crooked, their screwing with the other teeth is independent of whether they've emerged from your gums or not.
Just don't schedule the operation less than two weeks before any important speeches you need to make
Just don't schedule the operation less than two weeks before any important speeches you need to make
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I only realized now that this hotel has nothing to do with Bigelow AS' and Virgin's venture...
Making that hotel from scratch and getting it all ready to take guests in orbit in 5 years is probably optimistic....
And 80 minute orbits sounds nice ("Around the world in 80 days"), but that figure would equate to an orbit altitude of about 200km below ground where it'd find some technical difficulties.
Making that hotel from scratch and getting it all ready to take guests in orbit in 5 years is probably optimistic....
And 80 minute orbits sounds nice ("Around the world in 80 days"), but that figure would equate to an orbit altitude of about 200km below ground where it'd find some technical difficulties.
Just take it easy, the pain and inflamation peak for a few days, then drop off within a week or so. You might have tiny bulges (you would only notice them by feeling for them with your fingers) on your jaw as long as a month afterwards (in my case), but the only real ordeal will happen more or less two days after the op till about a week after it.
I had all four removed. The bottom two were angled about 90 (horizontal) and 45 degrees. One of the docs mentionned it was probably the cause of my jawbone articulations cracking (like you can crack your knucles, for example).
Within four days I was ballooned bigger than my hands could cover on each side. Not least because I thought it was a good idea to pose for my brother to draw a portrait while I added to the morphology by grinning like
I had all four removed. The bottom two were angled about 90 (horizontal) and 45 degrees. One of the docs mentionned it was probably the cause of my jawbone articulations cracking (like you can crack your knucles, for example).
Within four days I was ballooned bigger than my hands could cover on each side. Not least because I thought it was a good idea to pose for my brother to draw a portrait while I added to the morphology by grinning like
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Damn right, hehe With some luck we can all go to the moon and hit off a few golf balls at Jupiter..
Personaly, when I am at the last years of my life, I would ride a one-way probe to some unexplored space destination if I could, without hesitation.
With some luck we can all go to the moon and hit off a few golf balls at Jupiter..Personaly, when I am at the last years of my life, I would ride a one-way probe to some unexplored space destination if I could, without hesitation.
Space development needs to start somewhere. Do you mean you expect space hotels like those on Earth to just happen overnight, baddabing-Luxor-in-orbit-resort-malls-and-all? There's a whole lot more to space than just empty volumes of vacuum: there's lots of hazards (solar flares, deep space death rays, particles flying into you at km/s speeds, etc) and it is fundamentaly expensive (with technology as it is today) to break free of the Earth's gravity (about 10k$ for every kg). That's without all the other development costs, such as safety.
So.. considering all that, an unfashionably cylindrical hotel going from prototypical NASA leftover to operational to commercialized to rich folks who bring the cost down and safety up sufficiently for average folk, in about a quarter of a century.. that's pretty damn good.
In the mean time, other aspects of the space industry are progressing at comparable speed, such as space diving. Orbital Outfitters (or something like that) are already about halfway to offering suits that'll allow average people jump out of a plane from the edge of space (this high) for a reasonable price.
I could go on.. It is imperative that man explore and colonize space, just as he did Earth's land.
So.. considering all that, an unfashionably cylindrical hotel going from prototypical NASA leftover to operational to commercialized to rich folks who bring the cost down and safety up sufficiently for average folk, in about a quarter of a century.. that's pretty damn good.
In the mean time, other aspects of the space industry are progressing at comparable speed, such as space diving. Orbital Outfitters (or something like that) are already about halfway to offering suits that'll allow average people jump out of a plane from the edge of space (this high) for a reasonable price.
I could go on.. It is imperative that man explore and colonize space, just as he did Earth's land.
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Not a French invention - Sans blague??
Body roll an inalienable right - Karts manage it fine, don't they? The old Lotus protos sound like they needed softer tires. Wow, is that the best complaint they could come up with? Who wouldn't ride the edge of tires rather than of both tires and suspension?
Body roll an inalienable right - Karts manage it fine, don't they? The old Lotus protos sound like they needed softer tires. Wow, is that the best complaint they could come up with? Who wouldn't ride the edge of tires rather than of both tires and suspension?
Those wacky frenchmen
I'll most likely miss tonight's race. None of the rest of the season, though.
It'll be done when it can be done right.
-10^EE666 I hope this evil mod implodes under its own unsuitability for LFS, and in doing so crush your aspiration for innovation and any fun you and your friends may have with LFS, and finaly slingshot you and all other deviants from the Holy Conventional Grip Racing out of the sanctimonious LFS galaxy like twin stars orbiting twin black holes just the right way.
Woopti-do, there's a bug which happens after your car has taken race-killing damage... And it's going to be fixed -> The sky is falling!
Speaking of ConeDodgers/AS3 24/7/365: If any changes in the GTR class balancing do not suit ConeDodgers' AS3 server, they could just use a system like CTRA's where INSIM regulates handicap useage.
In fact, they could just use that regardless of the handicap system, for the laptimes to be perfectly even.
I agree the XRR could use more contact patch. This and better turbos for it and the FXR were two of the better ideas in class balancing threads preceding the handicap system.
In fact, they could just use that regardless of the handicap system, for the laptimes to be perfectly even.
I agree the XRR could use more contact patch. This and better turbos for it and the FXR were two of the better ideas in class balancing threads preceding the handicap system.
I couldn't tell you.. I've been able to do it for at least ten years. I would say it's at most half the difficulty of learning to ride a bike. You just go slower and slower.
If you put your mind to it, an hour everyday will teach it to you within a week or so, I think.
I don't think thin-spoked bicycle wheels make for significant enough gyroscopes. I am pretty sure motorcycle wheels have a considerable gyroscopic effect. If I recall right, racing motorbikes have more to gain than lose in reducing their wheels' mass. I'm pretty sure I've read someone who was racing at club level say that going from stock wheels (on an Aprilia RSVR) to carbon fiber wheels made steering inputs considerably easier.
The rims in LFS (again IIRC) are calculated on the fly so that Bespoke causes sync errors. It's odd that rims' weight would be accounted for to such precision, but not their gyroscopic force if that force is as significant as jtw62074 describes.
If you put your mind to it, an hour everyday will teach it to you within a week or so, I think.
I don't think thin-spoked bicycle wheels make for significant enough gyroscopes. I am pretty sure motorcycle wheels have a considerable gyroscopic effect. If I recall right, racing motorbikes have more to gain than lose in reducing their wheels' mass. I'm pretty sure I've read someone who was racing at club level say that going from stock wheels (on an Aprilia RSVR) to carbon fiber wheels made steering inputs considerably easier.
The rims in LFS (again IIRC) are calculated on the fly so that Bespoke causes sync errors. It's odd that rims' weight would be accounted for to such precision, but not their gyroscopic force if that force is as significant as jtw62074 describes.
What he said.. it's not that hard. I can do it as well as the athletes on that video with a mountain bike. The really good people do it with those bikes on the edge of high bridges, etc, the same as trial bike athletes do.
Blueflame, as a matter of fact, it is lag that causes the collision over-reactions.
The rest of your post is mostly pigeon-holing and subjective criticism to hang on to your assertion that LFS players are [insert biggoted blanket statement] and that LFS itself is not worth your time and effort... so why don't you just stop?
The rest of your post is mostly pigeon-holing and subjective criticism to hang on to your assertion that LFS players are [insert biggoted blanket statement] and that LFS itself is not worth your time and effort... so why don't you just stop?
Read the threads, it's been asked and answered dozens of times already.
Bigger bikes also weigh more, which means less leverage from a same rider.
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