Well, I've had a quick look around and can't find anything to substantiate this news.
If true however, it would fit a pattern. All the disciplines mentioned are the kind of events that the sunday enthusiast might participate in or attend, the kind of event that might be organised by a small, independent, cash strapped network that will find it difficult to defend itself.
Less that ten percent of what ends up in landfill is domestic waste, and yet local councils and national government browbeat taxpayers into a depressed state of anxiety over recycling. It is good to recycle your waste, but ultimately it has little effect while the construction industry (for example) still produces over three times more landfill than the entire population combined.
If this is indeed something being explored it is nothing more than the politics of gesture, window dressing that won't affect the value of Gordon Brown's shares. More than that, its yet another attack on the free time of working people. "Haven't you heard there's a food shortage? Why aren't you working instead of playing in the countryside?"
If true however, it would fit a pattern. All the disciplines mentioned are the kind of events that the sunday enthusiast might participate in or attend, the kind of event that might be organised by a small, independent, cash strapped network that will find it difficult to defend itself.
Less that ten percent of what ends up in landfill is domestic waste, and yet local councils and national government browbeat taxpayers into a depressed state of anxiety over recycling. It is good to recycle your waste, but ultimately it has little effect while the construction industry (for example) still produces over three times more landfill than the entire population combined.
If this is indeed something being explored it is nothing more than the politics of gesture, window dressing that won't affect the value of Gordon Brown's shares. More than that, its yet another attack on the free time of working people. "Haven't you heard there's a food shortage? Why aren't you working instead of playing in the countryside?"
Alain Castellana's biography needs to be updated to include his role as Internet star...
But there's more to French hillclimbs than that video...
Well, maybe, but my point was that whether you are in the "rules are rules" camp, or the Hamilton fanboy camp (both of which are absurd and weirdly intransigent positions), for the records to show anything other than the fact that Lewis Hamilton won the Belgian GP in 2008 is a bureaucratic oddity that has nothing to do with racing.
I agree that a penalty of some kind was required, but I don't believe justice was done regarding the race outcome. These twenty odd pages are very interesting, a little obsessive, but ultimately of only scholastic interest.
The incident had no bearing on the final outcome of the race, since Kimi crashed out.
The official who made the decision had the choice of either giving a drive through penalty (which had to be converted to a 25 second penalty due the proximity of the chequered flag) or ten grid places in the next race. Its was a very hard decision to make, but IMHO choosing the former was an unfortunate misjudgement, skewing the race outcome in a rather absurd manner.
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I think that observation skills should be taught to everyone, regardless of transport choice. Its a simple thing, but transferable to all kinds of activities, and at school age, applicable to most aspects of the curriculum. In any case, I'm convinced that a populace who understood how to be aware would be able to slash accident rates dramatically.
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The LHC is a high profile, high energy, high fiving, dramatic experiment. However, there is also a much more genteel experiment in hand that has received little attention... ZEPLIN-III ... basically, "Let's have a cup of tea and let the particles come to us..."
Uh... No, it isn't.
If you have to take your scientific instruction from popular culture, why not try this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j50ZssEojtM
White people... What can I say?
And there's nothing really wrong with that to be honest. Though I'd usually by instinct line up to puncture a myth, I'm really loving the fact the people are getting passionate about F1; the series has been somewhat bloodless in recent years...
But for my tuppence worth... shit, I wouldn't have liked to call that judgement: technically I think it was correct, but it was so borderline. Lewis yielded the position only to crowd Kimi's line into La Source.
If Kimi had been a bit more positive about moving into position, instead of flapping about the track like an electrocuted reindeer, then there would have been no problem.
If Lewis had been a little cooler and waited to pass Kimi after La Source then there would have been no problem.
Technically Lewis was left carrying a penalty. But is 'crowding' a line, the same as blocking it? And since Kimi stuffed it into the wall later on, isn't it all a bit academic? After all, no other cars were involved in the incident and a 25 second penalty merely gives advantage to those cars behind the incident.
Frankly, Lewis Hamilton won the race, no doubt in my mind, but something was necessary to recognise the (borderline) technical infringement. Twenty-five seconds however, just makes no sense. The FIA screws around with the rules so much, even as a follower of the sport I have no idea if there is such a thing as discretion. If there is, I would have used it and clearly articulated why.
You mean "all the gear and no idea"?
Galling though it might be to see someone spending money and still at the back of the pack... (a) its really none of your business how people choose to spend their money, and (b) Becky was the only one in her own suit and she has a great deal of experience and was really quite fast indeed.
Tristan, we already know too much about you, so I don't know why you'd be bothered about Google having the same info
... but, yeah, I share the sentiment...[laughing] There's a homoerotic subtext to most gangster films (check out Performance : takes the gangster format and puts it through the wringer, too many ideas in some ways, but still one of my favourite films ever), but that scene in Transporter is just extraordinary.
Oh come on, you have to see The Transporter if only for the barely sublimated homoeroticism of the fight scene in the bus garage; the one that ends with La Statham underwater, sucking the last breath from a dying man as flames lick the surface above their entwined bodies...
Its worth a shot - £250 quid a day, two days work - pitch them a figure of £500 off the full price and see where that gets us!
Long way ahead, but sign me up... And is that web site some kind of eighties retro thing, or did someone actually think it was a good idea? Tell them I'll happily do a redesign for free, because such abominations are deserving of mercy!
Its not a question of right and wrong. It is not a question of morality. Its a simple matter of choice.
You are inventing guilt where none exists.
Why do you imply that everyone should upgrade from the demo? Why do you have a problem with something that the makers of LFS self-evidently do not?
I see a very direct parallel with behavioural experiments since you are projecting a moral dimension onto something on which you have no real authority whatsoever.
You paid for a product. Nothing more.
What has enabled LFS to develop is the success of that product (which has always included a free demo). One of the reasons for that success is the integrity the developers have brought to the production process, and the symbol of that integrity (and simultaneously, the by-product of that integrity) is the free demo.
No one is 'free loading'. It is a mark of the quality of LFS that there is no obligation to upgrade from the demo. This should be reflected on the forum.
"Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt."
The Gay Science
The Gay Science
Oi! Take it outside ... You're all pansies for not turning up to this one, let alone bitching about something no one else cares about.
Cheers for putting me up Ben. Cheers to everyone else for leaving me in your dust! Great event - thoroughly enjoyed myself (even though I look like a veteran torturer in that group photo - jesus... don't label it, blur it please!!)
Was wondering how it has affected the rest of the city. Traditional street circuits are like the circus coming to town: everything stops and there's an air of celebration. The Valencia circuit seems to me a bit like the building of the Millennium dome here in London: a speculative attempt to turn polluted land into capital that will line very few pockets.
Don't know what I think of it as a race track yet. Reminds me a bit of Long Beach, in that it seems to have some seriously fast curves.
Be interested to know more about this... Either from you or maybe you have some links to local reporting?
It was just never light enough... "How can we make a car really light?" [pause] "We could... um... take out the engine?" [applause]
The Lotus 119
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