You don't have a windscreen? Why not try rally-x at Blackwood and have someone throw mud at your monitor while you race... Instant realism at little cost!
Was never convinced by the aesthetics of contemporary F1 cars until I saw the Design Museum show the other year. Standing right next to a Ferrari from 2004 was a genuinely involving experience: every curve made sense - it was like you could actually hear the airflow over the car, or as if it had been sculpted in the same way water wears away rock.
Photos just don't convey that primal feeling.
Photos just don't convey that primal feeling.
Britney Spears in Another Vegas Marriage Fiasco!
No. People would point at you in the street and laugh, sometimes to your face and sometimes behind your back. The likelihood of being killed would be extremely low, and even then it would probably be due to your being allergic to Stelazine.
LOL... Not really what I'm asking about anyway. I think we all have imaginations and, as is commonly known, imagining an event always tends to extremes that leaves material reality somewhat banal in comparison... So I'm not interested in the images themselves, but in the extreme reaction to them.
I guess I'm asking something quite difficult; for you to articulate your disgust in a rational way. Now, I know that disgust is not a reaction thats based on rationality, but I'm hoping that hindsight offers a secure place for objective contemplation...
You see, I don't understand why you find such fictions disgusting. People have used the word 'sick', have berated the state of the world, and have generally used extreme language to make a clear boundary between themselves and what they perceive to be a threat.
I want to know why. I want to know what is so threatening in these images. I want to know what values you are protecting by dividing a specialised interest into even smaller parts.
Well, yes, each to their own, but I'm really interested to know WHY you think that way, what particular events and experiences formed your opinion. It just seems unfair to toss such an opinion at someone who has yet to try the simulation for themselves.
So Luke, try it out! The downside of the sim is that it's not very straightforward to install (especially with all the mods...), but once sorted out it can be an absorbing experience. The commonly known flaws in the simulation mainly boil down to a lack of low speed grip, but otherwise its a very fair representation of what its like to drive an over-powered lump of metal riding on treaded tyres.
Install the 65 mod at least. These cars have half the horsepower of the 67s and are just sweet to drive, difficult to drive fast (and need to be handled in a very different way to the 67s), but, in my opinion, handle in a very realistic way (that's to say in a believable and consistently predictable way).
Yeah.... Right. I think you'll find a few people willing to argue that point (hopefully, at the same time as admitting its flaws...).
Oh, I see... No, there's a cortina mod in the works for GPL. I like LFS' tintops, but I'm really interested to see how it holds my attention (and how things compare) when GPL has a tintop of its own. I don't have much time for sim driving, and currently GPL and LFS use space on my computer that I could probably reclaim if I could just be happy with one sim or the other.
EDIT: Sorry, GPL = Grand Prix Legends.
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Fair enough... but you know what I'm going to say next! You know that changes, breakthroughs, or paradigm shifts generally happen when laws are broken. You are arguing for a personal choice of not breaking the law, I am arguing that the majority should not be criminalised whilst indulging, not just a desire, but manifest common sense.
So there is credit in being a terrorist, so long as you are not a Muslim terrorist?
Really, I think you've got the wrong end of the stick somehow. Admittedly, the Dakar organisers have been very coy about the nature of the threats they have received, but the Mauritanian government have arrested nine people that allegedly have links with the men who killed the French tourists at Christmas time, who, in their turn are suspected of having 'links' with Al-Quaeda...
If you really want to jump and down and shout "Muslims! Muslims! Muslims!" in the middle of that fog of suspicion and allegation, then be my guest.
Personally, though, I think it would be foolhardy.
Eh? LOL ... What I meant was that there is little to compare between LFS and GPL except graphic quality; there's no cars by which you can compare like for like.
Would I have asked if I didn't want to know?
OK, I think you're alone on your soapbox there... And I can't really be bothered to unpick the blather. Perhaps someone else will...
Actually, no it doesn't. The law works on what is percieved to be right or wrong in a given set of circumstances at a particular time. The law is always open to change, given enough pressure, and is in no way an absolute system.
No, I got a monitor for free (from freecycle) without any reception capabilities. Broadcast TV is shit and there was no way I was going to pay a licence fee just to watch my dvds.... Yep, Its the right of anyone in business to charge what they like, but consumers will generally route around anything they don't enjoy doing.
The path of least resistance... You may have some ingrained and inflexible moral objection to this ploy, but mass movements aren't fettered by such constraints.
While you cling to the inaccurate analogy of a single theft from a single victim, then you and I will never have much to say to each other on this subject.
Its not a single theft. It is so commonplace that it amounts to a paradigm shift that only a fool will attempt to resist. If you wish to adopt a passive stance to the market then that is your perogative, but its simply not true to imply that we, as consumers, have no voice, no right to determine how we do business.
Wow... I think you were outlining how the digital revolution, infinite reproduceability, and the advent of home studios were, contrary to expectation, generating a demand for live music and reinvigorating the prospects for performance venues across the world.
I think....
LOL.... Look its really simple - if the whole world starts 'stealing' from you, then its time to look in the mirror. The party is over.
What you insist on calling theft is just a market reaction if you change the way you do business. (btw, that's my answer to your question)
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Um, I have no idea what you are on about... Do you mean even if the murders were not actually committed by terrorists?! Or are you just talking generally, like we should just franchise out the terrorism business to Muslims to save any further confusion?
Anyway... Robby Gordon agrees with me
Not a like for like comparison really, but yes, you do, and yes, people have: http://www.racecarsdirect.com/ ... /Ferrari_360_Replica.html
Unfortunately for the music industry, their product is infinitely more reproduceable than a Ferrari... Tough break, but that's capitalism for you. The only way for the industry to carry on as normal is to artificially limit supply and demand (which means becoming a policeman - not really in the original job description)
It bloody well is. I have only one thing to say to companies unable to adapt: "Time to cash in your pension and sod off. For record companies to survive in today's market requires the type of imagination you do not have. The market no longer requires your services."
Only because there is little chance to actually make a comparison. It would be very interesting to see a 67 lotus modelled in LFS, but then again if the Cortina mod ever comes out it will be a test for me to see if LFS still holds my interest.
Not having the right is not the same as not having the desire. People have demonstrated the desire, created the opportunity, and indulged it freely.
The record companies have to come to terms with the way that the market is being shaped by its consumers. I mean, do they want to sell music or do they want to become policemen?
If its the latter, then **** them. Bring on the noise.
Yeah, whatever....
All rather odd: there is little more than speculation that the murders in Mauritania were the result of a terrorist attack. Robbery seems a much more likely cause, and the ASO should really be more specific about the nature of the threats that have allegedly been levelled directly at the organisation.
Given that people die on the rally every year anyway, I don't see that some ragged and badly organised terrorist cell would make much difference to that particular statistic. Given too that the rally's route is almost a of tour France's imperial interest in Africa, it would be surprising if they have never received threats in the past.
Sounds like a failure of organisation really. Surely part of the point of the rally is to route around trouble anyway?
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You're a big girl's blouse. Stop whimpering about on the fringes of energy reactions and start playing with the sun...
That's ripped from "Lap of the Gods": Depailler at Long Beach is a great reason to buy the DVD, as is Alain Prost at Zandvoort (listen to his downshifts, if I had to burn a cd that would be only thing I could listen to for the rest of my life, I would include that sound...)
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