We are in the midst of a crisis. Kids all over America are dying by chocolate eggs with deadly implements hidden within. We must arm the citizens of the world with Kinder Eggs! The best defense against a bad kid with a Kinder Egg is a good kid with a Kinder Egg. Our Amendment rights to bear delicious chocolatey eggs with a surprise inside shall not be infringed!

Quote from DeadWolfBones :

Those are clearly different people.

Also, I know the guy in the second photo (friend of a friend) and he has never served in any branch of the armed forces.

Oh my god! You're in on the conspiracy! Who do you work for??

1 Winner? Vettel
2 Fastest lap? Kimi
3 Number of pitstops the winner does? 2
4 Who gets pole? Vettel
5 Which team scores most points? RBR
6 How many points Ferrari gets? 24
B Driver who drops most places during the race (but finishes the race) Massa

Quote from Bmxtwins :

What's a race driver if he isn't allowed to race.

The same as a racing driver who is allowed to race - just one of the team's hundreds of employees.

1. Who will win? Vettel
2. Who will take Pole? Vettel
3. How many laps we will see behind Safety Car? 0
4. Will we see the Red Flag? No
5. First one to crash his car? Perez
6. How many cars will finish the race? 19

Expecting Red Bull domination if it's dry - their problem in Aus was they couldn't keep heat in their tyres.

Quote from Hyperactive :

Still no points. I did send some question using their site "contact me" form. Hopefully they respond but this looks kinda rediculous...

Well... thanks for trying to organise this again but it doesn't look like this site is gonna work out this year

Quote from Boris Lozac :

Xperia J? Those new Sony phones are beautifull, most likely my next one will be Sony..

It's the J's big brother, the Xperia T. Fantastic phone - I prefer it to the Galaxy S3, wouldn't hesitate to grab the new Xperia Z for my next upgrade. Well.. maybe the HTC One would make me think twice

Pretty simple, how I like it

1. Who will win drivers' world championship: Alonso
2. Which team will win constructors' world championship: Ferrari
3. Who will score more points in 2013. Bottas or Maldonado: Bottas
4. What is the best race finishing result for Adrian Sutil in 2013: 6th
5. Do you think Sergio Perez will win at least one race in 2013: Yes
6. Who will score more points in 2013. Hamilton or Rosberg: Hamilton
7. First driver you think will lose his drive during 2013 (miss at least one race): Well Razia already lost his.. if you're not counting him, Van der Garde
8. Will Caterham or Marussia score points in 2013: No
9. Do you think Massa will win at least one race in 2013? Yes
10. Does Kubica drive F1 car before the last race? No
11: Winner of Australian gp: Grosjean
12. Winner of Monaco gp: Hamilton
13. How many points will the dwc winning driver have at the end of the season: 273

Quote from Tweaker :

Signed up.

Note to some of you who are registering a new account: Beware, Gmail marked the activation email as Spam for me. I nearly missed it.

This game seems a bit confusing when signing up all my drivers and such to my team. Are there no money values I can see here?

"Value" is the cost in millions.

Not sure I like this one, the fun part in the last one was earning cash and gradually working your way up. I'll give it a go though..

Liking Jelly Bean so far

I find it amazing that being so terrified in your own country that you think you HAVE to own a gun just to feel safe in your own home is considered a "freedom" and something that should be celebrated.

Just got one of these:



It's actually rather good, better than expected after reading the nitpicky anti-Sony reviews. Jelly Bean due this week, which will be nice

Quote from flymike91 :

Its unconstitutional. The second amendment was not added primarily for personal protection, and so banning weapons because they don't fit into that restrictive purpose doesn't take into account the intent of the amendment which was to keep and bear arms in order to protect the State. Pistols are not so useful in that role anymore.

The signers knew that an armed society was was a major limiting factor in how much control the central government could impose. The biggest threat to freedom was known to be the government, the power capable of infringing on that right for the gain of politicians and others.

That being said, there's no reason armed citizens shouldn't be 'well regulated'. Background checks, waiting periods, training and qualifying are all reasonable regulations.

When the constitution was signed, the "right to bear arms" was the right to own a musket that could fire a few very inaccurate rounds per minute. Today, the "right to bear arms" is the right to own a finely engineered instrument of death.

Beside that, the constitution itself was by its nature intended to be constantly revised and rewritten. As Thomas Jefferson put it: " No society can make a perpetual Constitution or even a perpetual law. The earth belongs always to the living generation ...... Every constitution, then, and every law, naturally expires at the end of nineteen years. If it be enforced longer, it is an act of force, and not of right."

Before you fall back on the ridiculous "it's unconstitutional" defence, you should consider that the current constitution itself is unconstitutional.

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100+ people in the U.S have died as a result of gun violence in the week following Sandy Hook.

http://huff.to/UjeKs8

Mass Shootings are tragic and grab the headlines but they shouldn't distract from the greater issue.

I'm dead guys, an alien saw someone picking up their dog's crap in the park and threw up on me and my body disintegrated

Quote from shaun463 :

Still need Diaby's presence I feel - Rosicky looked bright when he came on though, hopefully he can help us out.

You know you're really in trouble when you "need" Diaby

I'm addicted

Quote from JJ72 :

Butterfly effect says otherwise.

Nope, the whole point of the butterfly effect is that small changes can have larger consequences. The point here is that there are no changes at all.

Quote from BlueFlame :

That's absurd. You could replay the same crash a few times in reality and it would play out differently. Nobody can say that something would happen exactly the same regardless if it happened again but you can DEFINITELY say it would be different the second time.

The only reason it would happen differently is if the drivers took different actions to make it different. If you had a rewind function for the universe and replayed it with the drivers taking exactly the same actions then the result will be 100% the same every single time.

Quote from Storm_Cloud :

If two cars had collided in exactly the same way under exactly the same conditions then exactly the same result would have occurred, regardless of the person involved - 100% probability. What happened could not have happened any other way - if events had occurred differently then you would see a different result.

Technically there would be a slightly different outcome because of the difference in weight and weight distribution of the two drivers

But yeah, there's no such thing as one driver being inherently more lucky and being able to bend the laws of probability and physics to get a substantially different outcome in one specific event that they have no control over. If you could pause a split second before the contact with Vettel's right-rear and take Vettel out and put someone else in there then the outcome would be exactly the same. But that doesn't change the fact that coming out of that with no suspension damage is a very low probability outcome and hence "lucky", as the word is used here. If Alonso, Hamilton, the guy lives next door to me, whoever was in that car, they'd also be lucky in that event.

It is possible, though, for one person to get a chain of favourable outcomes at an extremely low probability. Probability will always converge with time, but a race or a season or even a career isn't nearly long enough to guarantee that.

Mixed my team up a bit for the final race and did well, but not quite well enough to snatch 1st place back. Oh well.. good season all, grats Triple7

Quote from Storm_Cloud :

There's no such thing as luck.

Sure there is. Not as some kind of supernatural phenomenon, but in this context 'Lucky' is just a shorthand way of saying "an external event or outcome that had a low probability of occurring has benefited this person".

Quote from three_jump :

Seems like the final round will be a nail biter

Had Hamilton but switched to Webber, I thought RB were going to dominate this

(that's me you just overtook for 1st place btw)