Think I'm going to have to join the 'Damn those look good, gimme!' crowd.
Awesome lap Tristan! You got a mention in today's Autosport which I'll post in a sec. Exciting race too, but it always is with you. 
RIP Jeff Leadley though
E: Uploaded, attatched.
RIP Jeff Leadley though
E: Uploaded, attatched.
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Ack! So true!
Voted. Great edits and a great system this time!
I was going to make a joke about the text size increasing in the 2nd post but you beat me to it luchifero!
Glad you got it sorted out.
Glad you got it sorted out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQ9FTyOB93o
I've been looking for Danny Watts' FRenault crash for a while. Here it is.
I've been looking for Danny Watts' FRenault crash for a while. Here it is.
This has happened before. Can anyone find the bug report thread?
E: Oh, just as I post it's okay again! Well, I found one (http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?t=67095) but I'm sure there was a longer one.
E: Oh, just as I post it's okay again! Well, I found one (http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?t=67095) but I'm sure there was a longer one.
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It would be nice to keep banners.
By the way, this banner leads to a 404 error:
By the way, this banner leads to a 404 error:
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I'm afraid I got rid of mine a little while ago, otherwise I would have. Good luck with it though!
Happy birthday btw
I was in Oswestry recently, believe it or not.
Happy birthday btw
I was in Oswestry recently, believe it or not.Best. Race. Ever.
Bloody hell, that was amazing. 89 lead changes over the line, (more than the last 3 races combined, and the best ever,) 3 GWC, 29 different leaders, 0.012 victory margin...goddamn. I was there! Fantastic. And there's more to go.
Bloody hell, that was amazing. 89 lead changes over the line, (more than the last 3 races combined, and the best ever,) 3 GWC, 29 different leaders, 0.012 victory margin...goddamn. I was there! Fantastic. And there's more to go.
Phở.
I feel like I've ruined the best thread in these forums! As well as going for the cheap joke, I was implying that I'm hungry for iRacing, but simply can't bite. If I had the money and the computer and the internet connection I would love to. It has its flaws, and there are many, but all the same...
A healthy salad is better for you in the long run, and you tell yourself you're doing the right thing, but a trip to McD's feels great. It seems to be worth the money, however other games are better value for money, would anyone say?
I wanna stuff some calories down me without worrying about brake temperatures once in a while!
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I feel like I've ruined the best thread in these forums! As well as going for the cheap joke, I was implying that I'm hungry for iRacing, but simply can't bite. If I had the money and the computer and the internet connection I would love to. It has its flaws, and there are many, but all the same...
A healthy salad is better for you in the long run, and you tell yourself you're doing the right thing, but a trip to McD's feels great. It seems to be worth the money, however other games are better value for money, would anyone say?I wanna stuff some calories down me without worrying about brake temperatures once in a while!
[/fit of remorse]
Happy birthday to these guys!
OiCu812 (109), PWILLARD (51), Tim NL (43), WylieCoyote (42), Lefteris (41), Bonetti (38), pekec_ (38), ALFAQV (36), Sam690 (36), RockMonkey (32), inakynet (32), oknedz (29), DarkLyte (28), yoyo42 (28), evilone (26), Winkiller (26), cg88 (26), attila85 (25), .44calibreloveletter (25), GRDI (25), Fantomas86 (24), Force2Concern (23), noswolf (23), Membit (23), Nes (22), GL8DI8TOR (22), rajbjing (22), WestlY (22), Live for Weed (21), milhauscz (21), Fecal Pellet Express (20), RacerX28 (20), Arsenic_Fox (19), okjis (18), LaimisD1 (16), KleYou (16), Timdpr (15)
OiCu812 (109), PWILLARD (51), Tim NL (43), WylieCoyote (42), Lefteris (41), Bonetti (38), pekec_ (38), ALFAQV (36), Sam690 (36), RockMonkey (32), inakynet (32), oknedz (29), DarkLyte (28), yoyo42 (28), evilone (26), Winkiller (26), cg88 (26), attila85 (25), .44calibreloveletter (25), GRDI (25), Fantomas86 (24), Force2Concern (23), noswolf (23), Membit (23), Nes (22), GL8DI8TOR (22), rajbjing (22), WestlY (22), Live for Weed (21), milhauscz (21), Fecal Pellet Express (20), RacerX28 (20), Arsenic_Fox (19), okjis (18), LaimisD1 (16), KleYou (16), Timdpr (15)
Is this just going to be a video of me failing?
E: Yes. Very good job!
E: Yes. Very good job!
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On the theme of massive crashes people somehow survived, a new angle on Geoff Bodine's truck crash at Daytona (you know the one I mean) has come to light recently.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRQveQUyMlo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRQveQUyMlo
Nah, the clutches that are more likely to be destroyed before you even line up.
Gotcha.
Oh you bitch...we're on the full one, ACTUALLY. And our little crappy karts have AWESOME RACING CLUTCHES FITTED ESPECIALLY. Take that.
Cheers
There's a race on this Friday btw, in case you want to watch us pootle around (or decide to thrash us comprehensively).
There's a race on this Friday btw, in case you want to watch us pootle around (or decide to thrash us comprehensively).
Me as well, and me as well in Firefox.
I don't think I actually congratulated you on the win btw...oops. Anyway, well done!
Now you can't complain about not having trophies anymore. Do they give ones any different to the a+d races?Well said Paul! While that incident should have been avoided by Neal (and to a slightly lesser extent Collard) it was not entirely Neal's fault.
As for Plato vs Neal, I couldn't agree more. I have always hated Plato with a passion, and that Snetterton video has always been the defining one. Neal certainly isn't the cleanest driver, and it is unfortunate that their roles are starting to reverse (Plato is getting a bit cleaner, Neal a bit dirtier) but Plato is still the worst and an enemy of Plato is a friend to me.
Not that I want Plato to leave, this may be a bit pantomime-y but it's fun when you have someone to jeer and shout about. Especially because his lack of driving ability when there is anyone near him always seems to just cost him the title.
E: Do you remember that other incident @ Snet in 2007? Where Plato got all bargy again and knocked Jackson and Gio off, and Neal cleanly zoomed by the lot of them? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGIDianPBBw
E2: Hey, this is fun, have some more! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjJmIdyEd0o --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZPxrAGcil0 --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fp3m-vQn2d0
This wasn't his dirtiest, but had by far the worst result: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvSYOT_LnS4
How can anyone like the ****?
As for Plato vs Neal, I couldn't agree more. I have always hated Plato with a passion, and that Snetterton video has always been the defining one. Neal certainly isn't the cleanest driver, and it is unfortunate that their roles are starting to reverse (Plato is getting a bit cleaner, Neal a bit dirtier) but Plato is still the worst and an enemy of Plato is a friend to me.
Not that I want Plato to leave, this may be a bit pantomime-y but it's fun when you have someone to jeer and shout about. Especially because his lack of driving ability when there is anyone near him always seems to just cost him the title.
E: Do you remember that other incident @ Snet in 2007? Where Plato got all bargy again and knocked Jackson and Gio off, and Neal cleanly zoomed by the lot of them? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGIDianPBBw
E2: Hey, this is fun, have some more! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjJmIdyEd0o --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZPxrAGcil0 --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fp3m-vQn2d0
This wasn't his dirtiest, but had by far the worst result: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvSYOT_LnS4
How can anyone like the ****?
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I was wondering how long this would take to get here.
Lets see what the old Army manual says about RPG-7s vs. stationary tanks (this is for an experienced RPG user):
So if the helicopter was standing absolutely still at 700-900m a Soviet RPG master would have a ~3-4% chance of hitting it. Even if they were circling some guy they actually saw had an RPG, they wouldn't feel threatened because it's basically an impossible shot. The helicopter was moving around at 1000m+.
Having said all that, this is a war zone. The guys in that helicopter were not so much trained but whipped up into a frenzy. They were trained to see weapons, so they saw weapons, not cameras. Although they could not tell there were weapons from that distance, and so, you could say, should not have shot, this is a war where anything from a goat to a jug of water can be a threat. When the gunner is wishing for the crawling, heavily wounded man to pick up a weapon, you realise he is totally detached from the reality of ending a life. He just wanted to shoot 'im an insurgent.
The situation we have now really shouldn't justify anything, it's a horrible one in the first place, but you can see how things like this happen.
You really can't justify the van incident. They opened fire on an unarmed civilian who was attempting to give medical aid to a wounded individual. (in this case, a civilian journalist) Even if the wounded person and the man giving aid were confirmed enemy combatants, opening fire on them would have violated the first Geneva convention.You could say that trying to say that the forces in the video were willingly and knowingly engaging civilians is stretching the truth a bit. But oh look, in the longer video they obviously did.
They waste a guy casually walking down the road. They were actually going for the building and the families inside. Someone is in the way, no matter, just shoot through him.
Someone did a nice summing up of the Geneva Protocols on this:
According to the Geneva Protocols, you cannot harm, shoot, explode, murder a wounded enemy combatant. You are also required to collect that enemy combatant yourself if the enemy cannot and give them medical treatment.
Unarmed medical staff are protected. Killing them is a violation of the laws of war. Additionally, you cannot kill them for not wearing a red cross or a red crescent. They have to shoot at you first, and you have to give them advanced warning that if they do not desist you will fire on them.
These are simply war crimes. And a lot of people are missing the point. The point is that the US government covered this up. Badly. And do with so many incidents like this.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... 7/12/AR2007071202357.html
The Apache crew fired because militants "were endangering the stability of Iraq" and because they had positive identification that the militants "had weapons and were using them against coalition and Iraqi security forces," said Maj. Brent Cummings, the battalion's executive officer. "No innocent civilians were killed on our part deliberately. We took great pains to prevent that. I know that two children were hurt, and we did everything we could to help them. I don't know how the children were hurt."
And this isn't going to be reported to Americans. NBC is owned by the people that make the engine and electronics for the helicopter. (GE) FOX is owned by a Saudi Arabian prince. CNN? They cut the video off BEFORE the helicopter engages the reporters. They never mention the van, or the children, and they stress how the military has already investigated this and found nobody at fault.
They also throw in Reuters first press release, insisting that Reuters doesn't blame the military either, and that war correspondents jobs are dangerous.
Well whatever, I've said more than enough, probably very badly, but I wanted my 1.31268049p out there. Did I mention the guys authorising the shooting of the various targets did not have any sort of video, only what the people in the helicopter were telling them?
There is a new video btw. The guy helping the wounded in his van was taking his children to school.
Lets see what the old Army manual says about RPG-7s vs. stationary tanks (this is for an experienced RPG user):
So if the helicopter was standing absolutely still at 700-900m a Soviet RPG master would have a ~3-4% chance of hitting it. Even if they were circling some guy they actually saw had an RPG, they wouldn't feel threatened because it's basically an impossible shot. The helicopter was moving around at 1000m+.
Having said all that, this is a war zone. The guys in that helicopter were not so much trained but whipped up into a frenzy. They were trained to see weapons, so they saw weapons, not cameras. Although they could not tell there were weapons from that distance, and so, you could say, should not have shot, this is a war where anything from a goat to a jug of water can be a threat. When the gunner is wishing for the crawling, heavily wounded man to pick up a weapon, you realise he is totally detached from the reality of ending a life. He just wanted to shoot 'im an insurgent.
The situation we have now really shouldn't justify anything, it's a horrible one in the first place, but you can see how things like this happen.
You really can't justify the van incident. They opened fire on an unarmed civilian who was attempting to give medical aid to a wounded individual. (in this case, a civilian journalist) Even if the wounded person and the man giving aid were confirmed enemy combatants, opening fire on them would have violated the first Geneva convention.You could say that trying to say that the forces in the video were willingly and knowingly engaging civilians is stretching the truth a bit. But oh look, in the longer video they obviously did.
They waste a guy casually walking down the road. They were actually going for the building and the families inside. Someone is in the way, no matter, just shoot through him.
Someone did a nice summing up of the Geneva Protocols on this:
According to the Geneva Protocols, you cannot harm, shoot, explode, murder a wounded enemy combatant. You are also required to collect that enemy combatant yourself if the enemy cannot and give them medical treatment.
Unarmed medical staff are protected. Killing them is a violation of the laws of war. Additionally, you cannot kill them for not wearing a red cross or a red crescent. They have to shoot at you first, and you have to give them advanced warning that if they do not desist you will fire on them.
These are simply war crimes. And a lot of people are missing the point. The point is that the US government covered this up. Badly. And do with so many incidents like this.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... 7/12/AR2007071202357.html
The Apache crew fired because militants "were endangering the stability of Iraq" and because they had positive identification that the militants "had weapons and were using them against coalition and Iraqi security forces," said Maj. Brent Cummings, the battalion's executive officer. "No innocent civilians were killed on our part deliberately. We took great pains to prevent that. I know that two children were hurt, and we did everything we could to help them. I don't know how the children were hurt."
And this isn't going to be reported to Americans. NBC is owned by the people that make the engine and electronics for the helicopter. (GE) FOX is owned by a Saudi Arabian prince. CNN? They cut the video off BEFORE the helicopter engages the reporters. They never mention the van, or the children, and they stress how the military has already investigated this and found nobody at fault.
They also throw in Reuters first press release, insisting that Reuters doesn't blame the military either, and that war correspondents jobs are dangerous.
Well whatever, I've said more than enough, probably very badly, but I wanted my 1.31268049p out there. Did I mention the guys authorising the shooting of the various targets did not have any sort of video, only what the people in the helicopter were telling them?
There is a new video btw. The guy helping the wounded in his van was taking his children to school.
It was funny Collard talking about bad driving though, you must admit! At least it was Neal and Collard that went out.
Ooh, nice. Will be reading. I shouldn't have installed a spell checker on Firefox though - as the blog lets me edit text, there are red lines everywhere!
I mean it - though it doesn't save (oh how I wish it did) I can actually edit the text in the blog - what's up with that?
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I mean it - though it doesn't save (oh how I wish it did) I can actually edit the text in the blog - what's up with that?
EDIT: Added attachment.
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