I guess the addiction ain't so bad, coz Dubya himself used to be a boozer. And the CA governor also has a history of violence, all filmed in Technicolor. But what about being Welsh and liking sheep?
Executive summary: I don't really *hate* gays. I can tolerate them as long as they stay in the closet.
And what would these "traditional values" be? Smoking pot and loving everybody, perhaps? (Traditional since the 60s.) Or do you mean hating faggots? Even more traditional: killing the indjuns and keeping slaves.
Yes, and we all know that gays are wife-herding, sheep-humping, drug-dealing homicidal maniacs, don't we? :rolleyes:
- Full control of the replay: pause, end, speed up/down. (Probably already possible; I haven't checked.)
- Read the current replay speed.
- Permanently hide the replay controls.
Dunno, but I like to think gays are entitled to the same illusions as straights.
What commitment? Don't know how it is in UK, but in the Netherlands there is no "till death us do part" vow. Not anymore, anyways. You can pledge eternal love to your sweetheart if you want, but there's no need to do that in the town hall.
I view marriage as a simple, one-size-fits-all legal package. It includes arrangements for shared property (including house and pension rights), kids and so on. Example: suppose you're not married, have no civil union or whatever, and your love becomes ill and goes in a coma. Your rights to decide about operation or (if it comes to that) funeral are... exactly zero. It's her relatives who get to decide. If the in-laws don't like you, they can just throw you out.
The answer must be a resounding "NO!" The institute of marriage existed long, long before Christianity came about. And now the Christians want to monopolise marriage, and claim that it should conform to THEIR norms? It's just preposterous.
Joke aside. Marriage is the recognition by a group of the union between two members of the group. We're talking about civil marriage here, and the group is the whole nation. If the nation decides that civil marriage should be open to gay couples, no religious rights are violated. Christian groups can still shape their religious marriage as they see fit. They have no reason to be offended.
Still at war with the world, Becky? Might as well get Lucrezia Borgia as chef.
LOLz @ the table salt, tho.
Can you explain?
More content does obviously increase the temptation to crack. But crackers can only use it in single-player mode. The current safeguards against using cracks in on-line races would still be effective.
I'm not sure what I should be ashamed of, but it's cool that God forgives me for being an atheist. However, I expect he won't keep forgiving me if I stick to atheism until I die.
(Is conversion when arriving at the Pearly Gates an option? I guess not.)
In comparison, atheists are uber-cool. It's OK with them if christians stick to their faith. They even don't see believing in a deity as a sin, so actually there is nothing that ought to be forgiven. Best of all, the atheists have no fickle deity who might overrule the humans.
Isn't that a bit selfish?
I doubt it. (The yelling, I mean.) I once watched a documentary about the Battle of Iwo Jima, one of the heaviest battles in WWII. A Japanese veteran told that he'd seen many soldiers die, Japanese as well as Yanks. Guess what was the most common thing they said as they died? It wasn't cursing, or heroic/nationalistic shouting. Wasn't calls to their deities.
They called for their mother.
Monty Python's "How not to be seen" sketch was prophetic.
Then use chipboard or MDF: it crumbles rather than splits.
In any case, massive wood won't do. The grain in the wood causes resonance. (The more regular the structure of the material is, the more resonance you get.)
A couple of things you can do against splitting:
- Use thicker plywood, 18mm or more.
- Use sharp tools, and a fine-toothed saw. You can buy special saw blades that make a clean cut.
- Another trick is to stick masking tape along the line where you're going to cut. (You can draw the line on the tape with a pencil.)
- Pre-drill holes for screws. Use wood drills, which have a center point. The all-purpose HSS drills often make a mess.
- Use thin screws in combination with glue. PUR construction glue is great for this. It expands as it hardens, which also prevents air leaks.
I was talking about real veneer. A thin sheet of wood, one side coated with a meltable glue, the other side with a beautiful wooden grain. Not the plastic, photographed fake.
Then it's easy. Buy Birch plywood, and varnish with clear urethane lacquer. (Several layers, for a more durable surface. Birch itself is quite soft.) Birch plywood isn't cheap, but it's one of the more environmentally-friendly materials.
It's been 20 years since I built mine, but here is what I know:
- Chip board and MDF have better acoustical properties than plywood. But if you are following someone else's design, just stick to the recipe.
- Let the store where you buy the wood also saw the main panels.
- For finishing you could use veneer. It comes in several types of wood, and can be ironed on. The only problem lies in getting hold of the right size.
- There are water-based paints for colouring the wood (black, chestnut, etc.). They are absorbed by the wood, and you can apply lacquer on top of it.
- Yacht varnish is tough, but also very shiny. It shows every dent in the wood and every flaw in your craftsmanship. I'd go for a semi-matte finish (eggshell).
- If you are going to lug them around, screw a handle on the back.
- Finally: there are specialised stores, magazines and websites for home-built speaker cabinets.
Haven't you heard? Whether or not GW is a fact will be decided by majority vote.
No, American. The Keys are in Southern Florida.
It could be done if they got your IP address from the LFS servers, so they know you raced there. And if it can't be done (or Scavier won't supply the data) then they will deem it too risky to advertise. They'll stick with Adwords or whatever, and the billboards in South City will remain empty.
Send them a voucher for a free McDonald's meal every week, until death ensues.
(c) Roald Dahl.
(c) Roald Dahl.
Right. And let's assume that you have some business sense (i.e. not a philantropist, or a total LFS fan; in either case, you'd just donate the money). Then you will ask yourself if those 60 quid were well-spent. You'd calculate how many people saw your ad, estimate the conversion rate -- how many views do you need for 1 extra condom sold -- and do the math.
If you get little extra sales, it's wasted money. Continue, and you'll be out of business soon. You should withdraw the ad and try your luck elsewhere. (Or you could press Scavier for targeted ads...)
Thus, any advertiser with brains will ensure that the ads result in extra sales. Sales from stuff sold to the people who saw the ads. Which means that Scavier's £60 were drawn from the pockets of the LFS racers.
That's it. No kickback fees, no commission. Just the way that advertising works. Are you blind?
I don't think you got my point. People have argued that ads are a source of income for the devs. That money comes from advertisers, who made more money because they sold more stuff. The extra sales are from people who saw the ads. That's us, the LFS racers.
To cut it short, the racers spend extra money buying stuff, and a fraction of that money ends up in the devs' pockets. My point is that I'd rather donate it directly to them. And it doesn't really matter what the ads are about.
The Scirocco is basically done, because it was raced at the Games Convention.
Perhaps it will be tweaked before official release. One possible reason is to add it to an exisiting car class. Another reason might be that Scawen needs to add support in LFS for technology used in the Scirocco, such as ESP or multilink suspension.
Still, even if the Scirocco was 100% done, you wouldn't hear when it will be released. The devs never give a launch date.
Perhaps it will be tweaked before official release. One possible reason is to add it to an exisiting car class. Another reason might be that Scawen needs to add support in LFS for technology used in the Scirocco, such as ESP or multilink suspension.
Still, even if the Scirocco was 100% done, you wouldn't hear when it will be released. The devs never give a launch date.
Do you think these ads would influence your buying behaviour?
I don't see any advantage of online ads. They do carry cost, however:
- Development time (including the constant arms race between ad providers and ad blockers).
- Network bandwidth and wait times for downloaded ads.
- Irritation with racers who don't like ads.
If it happens to LFS, I'll volunteer.
- If they don't influence you, advertisers won't pay for them. That means no extra income for the devs. The only improvement would be extra immersion (for some racers), but that can already be achieved with the add-on linked to by LFSn00b.
- If they do influence you, the advertisers make profit from the things you buy. A fraction of that money goes to the LFS devs. It would have been more efficient if you'd donated that money directly to them.
I don't see any advantage of online ads. They do carry cost, however:
- Development time (including the constant arms race between ad providers and ad blockers).
- Network bandwidth and wait times for downloaded ads.
- Irritation with racers who don't like ads.
If it happens to LFS, I'll volunteer.
If you want so get the devs more money, go to http://www.lfs.net/?page=shop
If you want to see real ads, pick up the newspaper or turn on the telly.
Then read the thread that duke_toaster linked to. Plenty of arguments there.
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