Audi 50 / VW Polo series 1 ?

Philosophical question: If someone misbehaves persistently, but only on cruise servers, does he deserve a ban from LFS central?

Quote from wark :

But wouldn't we always want to believe that the simple truth is being suppressed by rich doctors and drug companies?

No. The notion that there is a conspiracy, involving thousands of people who will let billions of patients die so they can get rich -- I don't find that comforting at all.

Version 0.9 is ready.

New features:

• Replay of laps.
  
• New data types: Handbrake, Elevation.
  

Bugfixes:

• Crashed when loading an incomplete lap.
  
• Now correctly loads RAF files from LFSW Hotlap Analyser.
  
• Now reads the ratio of the 7th gear from the RAF file.
  

Quote from wark :

There's a difference between making fun of someone losing a pet and making fun of his posting it on this forum.

How is this different? Did the folks who mocked the OP send him a PM? Did they explain by any other means that they respect his feelings but still wanted to discuss the principle of starting RIP threads?

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What's most profound is that you call it spam when you don't call the dog thread spam. Is spam acceptable when it is sincerely written?

Spam is when you create posts or threads for little or no reason. A thread to express sincere feelings of grief is reason enough IMO.

Besides, I'm not too concerned about spam in the off topic section. The amount of spamish repetition is pretty high here. But I do get concerned when people's feelings are being trampled upon. (With spikes, in this case.)

Quote from pearcy_2k7 :

if hes 15 going on 16 surely he would be able to deal with the situation himself?

Most boys of 16 will have been told many times to not be a sissy, take it like a man, etc. Yes, they will have learnt to either shut up and swallow their grief, or face ridicule from their peers. Boy, isn't growing up fun?

Quote from lerts :

1 in 4 are said to be psychos, dont give a dam about others feelings

I don't think those callous reactions came from people with no feelings. If they had no feelings they would simply ignore the RIP threads, and you wouldn't see any of these posts.

To the contrary. I get the impression that these guys feel uneasy when someone else displays their grief. Really uneasy. So much that their knee-jerk response is to deny that the grief exists. So they ridicule it, or try to put it into perspective ("it could be worse").

Or, as tristan put it so eloquently:

Quote from tristancliffe :

Don't try and make me care

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Quote from lerts :

my point is that media could invent a war to hide sexual life of the president and people wouldnt know

Somebody has been reading your mind, took this idea, went back in time to 1997, based a movie on it and got Hoffman and De Niro to play in it.

You can recognise the fakes. A proper quotation contains the blue button after the name, linking back to the quoted post. Besides, sometimes it's fun to make something like

Quote from Rene Descartes :

I drink, therefore I am

Quote from thisnameistaken :

There were a few punches thrown in the end but I mean, this was a really crap mugging.

Muggers, these days... They ain't what they used to be.

Quote from Becky Rose :

You are only old if the candles cost more than the cake.

I buy my cake at a specialist bakery that is bloody expensive.

Quote from jayhawk :

God loves you unconditionally, whether you know it or not, want it or not.

That love would have been a lot more convincing if it had prevented my wife from having a miserable childhood. Or if it had given Anne Frank a non-posthumous literary career.

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The reason why is because he sacrificed his only son to forgive the sins of the world.

Only son? Big deal. He could have had many more sons if He had wanted to. Millions. Or even some daughters. Besides, unlike human parents He got His son back, in full health.

Better still, He could have spared Jesus some suffering by simply saying "OK folks, sins are forgiven." Instead, the son had to die a painful death. What kind of dad is that?

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so give Jesus a break, huh?

Sure. His Dad didn't.

Quote from P5YcHoM4N :

if I want to get promoted faster in the Army I need to go to church at least once a month.

Does it make you a better killer if you go to church once a month?

Quote from jayhawk :

I have found on this forum (and of all the forums I visit, this one is the WORST) that God or Jesus is ridiculed, made fun of or slandered.

If you are talking about mocking people: Yes, I agree that it is a bad thing. However, your own profile contains some of this mockery (under "Location").

If you are talking about mocking people's faith: IMHO every opinion, belief or view is open to questioning and, if there is reason for it, irony and ridicule. You may want your faith to be "holy", i.e., exempt from this scrutiny, but on what grounds?

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yet the people who have faith in God never do the same to the ones who mock religion.

If Christians want to mock the Atheists' faith, they can just go ahead!

People believe in God because in past generations, believing in God(s) has increased their chance of survival and reproduction.*

*: This does not necessarily imply that hot babes dig religious blokes.

So far, the standard human reaction when encountering some other species was to (1) kill them and, optionally, (2) eat them. We should be glad that the aliens haven't visited us yet.

... and you thought A Boy Named Sue was just a joke.

Quote from Gnomie :

I'm pretty sure I've seen a thread about a vest which contains such pads.. I think it was only for the torso though. Sorry, I don't remember the name or manufacturer. Anyone know?

Yes, it was in the thread that Shotglass linked to:

Quote from Juls :

Such a vest already exists. TN Games is launching such a product in November this year.
http://www.tngames.com

8 tactile actuators are placed in the vest...4 front, 4 back. According to their API, these actuators can be either on or off, there is no progressive pressure.

I suppose they suggest forces using vibrations of these actuators with changing frequency.

The vest is for FPS games. Something like this could be usable for racing sims. The actuators would need to be in different places, and they should exert gradual forces, instead of the "explosions" that you need FPS games.

Quote from xaotik :

If it's strapped to you all you would likely feel is something poking you.

You may very well be right. With a motion simulator, your body receives actual G-forces. With the harness I decribed, your body gets another sensory input, but one that may get translated by your brain (after some training), so it knows about the G-forces and can react to them. And that may help in your driving.

Compare it with TrackIR. That does really not give you a 360 degree view -- you still have only 1 monitor to look at, and you need to train your eyeballs to keep looking at it. But people say that it increases immersion. It may not be entirely natural/realistic but it still helps, and it's more practical (and cheaper) than placing a wall of monitors around you.

Here is an idea for simulating the G-forces in a sim. It sprang up in my mind, and I wonder if there already is/was anything like it.

Imagine a harness that you can strap on, and that has a couple of pressure pads mounted on inside of the harness. You would need at least 4 pads: one placed on your left hip/waist, one on your right, one in the back and one on the belly/chest. When a pad is activated you will feel a light pressure or rumble (comparable to a mobile phone buzzer, but a bit stronger). This pressure corresponds with the forces that act on your body as you race.

My guess is that this kind of device could be made for around 100 EUR. It may be a poor simulation of the G-forces, but at least it provides some info about what is happening with the car. And it is loads cheaper than a motion simulator.

Quote from aIM BLR :

How can i synchronize both plot on axis X (time) in this case and similar?

The lines in an XY plot can have a cursor (a small dot). You can set the cursor by clicking on, or near, the line in the XY plot. You can also set the cursor by clicking in a normal graph, in the track map or in the driving-line display.

However, the cursor position is always distance-based: it marks the spot that corresponds with a certain point on the track. I think you are looking for a time-based synchronization, i.e. you want to mark the spot on each line that corresponds with a time X in each lap. Unfortunately, LRA can not do this.

The NSA is apparently already doing large-scale data collection and mining (link). Claims that it is extremely costly, violates privacy, and doesn't help to catch real terrorists, may very well be true. But in the current terrorism craze, projects like these still get done.

Quote from DevilDare :

OK, i need help answering this question "You dont need to go to church to be a good christian"

The sentence is true for some definitions of "good christian". It is false for some (other) definitions. If you are a person who frets about the answer to that question, then in your case the answer is probably "false".

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it is part of my RE Coursework (I go to Catholic School)

If you are a person who is required, by some authority, to give an answer to that question, then the answer is probably "false", too.

Quote from ATC Quicksilver :

I'm too stupid to explain it properly, but what if a really advanced species had the ability to create solar systems, galaxy's and even a universe in the same way plants are grown from seeds.

Your advanced species could never create a universe, because it is itself part of the universe.

(Unless, that is, you define that species to be outside our universe. In that case you have postulated a supernatural being. Or, to put it differently, you have just started a new religion. )

But suppose there existed, within the universe, a species that could create galaxies. (Um, that is a bit far-fetched, right? OK, let's say that they could produce small solar systems. :tilt Then the question still remains how this species came into existence. If the species evolved in Darwinian style, then this is not Creationism.

Quote from Dac :

but again, not what this thread was asking.

No, you were asking for help with convincing your grandpa that you are a good driver. As you can see, not everybody here is immediately convinced that you are indeed a good driver. If you were expecting unquestioning support, then maybe you came to the wrong place.

The_angry_angel's reply was very useful, but I'll add my own:
Your grandpa will let you drive his car if your driving meets his standards of good driving. Not the standards of the government or of the racing school, but his standards. So far, you have not met them. You can either find out what they are and conform to them, or try to make him change his standards. The latter is unlikely to succeed, IMHO.

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his cornering lines are way way off, in fact he doesnt even know what an apex is

If you drive on a public road at a speed where cornering lines and hitting apexes become important, then your are definitely going too fast.

Quote from three_jump :

And here is the problem, people don't care if they spam or not, they can't be even bothered to read the thread first.

Nor can they be bothered to read & heed this thread.