Quote from JTbo :

...it is so small that it surely has no meaning if we drive our cars or if not, but still we are pushed to direction to buy new car that produces less CO2, why? What is real reason behind this?

1) Public are mis-led by scant and suspect scientific evidence that they are causing the death of the planet. Everyone is made to feel guilty.
2) Politicians sieze the opportunity to put up taxes to aid their own mis-management of public funds and justify it on environmental grounds.
3) Loads of people don't mind paying extra tax if it is for the 'good of the planet'
4) The automobile industry jumps on the green bandwagon and exploits the new consumer pressure to 'buy green' helping to improve their own profits.
Or am i just being cynical?
It's not the CO2 from cars that worries me, I'm pretty sure having heard both sides of the argument that man-made CO2 does nothing to regulate or alter the global average temperature.
It's the Carbon monoxide I'm worried about.
Forget this crazy global warming crap, concentrate on the real issues, that's the poisoning by pollutants, not the climate-change debacle, its a huge red herring!

Aaah, I bet that's S3 at the end of the rainbow.

Quote from mongoosetierney :

Hey all,
I was wondering what have been the most random, pointless or just plain daft post in the forums?

Yours is certainly one of the most pointless.

It's people that use too many LOL's that really get on my nerves.

But put that graph into its proper context, all this man-made stuff accounts for less than 2% of the total global CO2 contribution, so any one section on its own is pretty negligible in the big scale of things isn't it? The whole man-made pie-chart accounts for only a tiny fraction of the earth's natural CO2 level. A half a degree rise in ambient temperature over a 5 year period is well within the normal fluctuation limits of the plant and far less than earlier trends in both heating and cooling that the earth has experienced way before we had politicians, environmental lobbyists, stretch Hummers or international air transport.

1. yellow to orange gradient front to back
2. add a bit of noise
3. add a dark grey to light grey gradient as layer adjustment set to multiply, darker rear bottom going up to lighter at the front top.

Please reply to my pm or your account will be suspended

Quote from Makuz0r :

Its my Hello Kitty skin xD one stripe is bit wrong, but its my third skin.

We keep a big file of your late night post-pub posts back here at central HQ, CSU. When life is getting us down we open them all up for a laugh. (and wish we could have joined you for a couple)
No, just kidding

Well it does make the back end look a bit wide, but I see that as more of an incentive to start making more effort to improve the dreadfully average lap times, maybe help burn off a little bit of that excess pudding.

While the EU has a remaining comma surfeit, member nations are receiving tax incentives to use up the comma mountain. Our German colleagues are leading the field in clearing this surfeit and thus reducing their EU tax bill in the process.
We should, I think, all learn, and prosper, from their example.

just rename the skin, it just about fits fine except for a couple of the decals on the front skirt One of my XFG AI cars wears it and none of the other cars laugh at him.

3M
Can't go wrong with some oil and tyre sponsors,
What about some of the LFS ones?

yes. Lame thread, 10 seconds to closure.

Do you have a Radio Shack or Tandy up your way?
Also a good hi fi or music instrument store (electric guitars, etc) that would do repairs and suchlike, they will have pots available.

Quote from wheel4hummer :

There should be photochromic windshields. That way when you drive during the day, your windows tint to block out the brightness of the sun.

We've been down that route. Trouble is, in bright sunlight all day, the photochromic effect over a large area like a windshield, which also gets quite hot, starts to fatigue. It's ok for sunglasses where you'll get a year or two of use before the effect fades, or for toys, but greenhouses and windshields it's not yet practical.
We did get involved in a project about 3 years ago putting them into the tear-strips in Schumacher's crash helmet visor, to help counter glare and changing weather conditions mid race, but nothing came of it in the end.
That could have been a nice little earner.

LOL!

A new Fox livery based on my 3M BF1 skin I did last year.
(And a big thanks to 'unseen' for his massive decal pack)
http://www.ice-files.com/alheeley/FOX/FOX_3MPro.rar

Thank you for your moral guidance. Actually there are some people who might be offended if you called them Canadian. All the ones I know are great people. Any way, back on topic............

Quote from Tweaker :

Judging by those names Al, those are obvious giveaway that they are rogue spam software

How do you come to that conclusion? To me, I would have no idea that these are rogue

[from wikipedia]
Malicious programmers have released a large number of fake anti-spyware programs, and widely distributed Web banner ads now spuriously warn users that their computers have been infected with spyware, directing them to purchase programs which do not actually remove spyware — or worse, may add more spyware of their own.[40][41]
The recent proliferation of fake or spoofed antivirus products has occasioned some concern. Such products often bill themselves as antispyware, antivirus, or registry cleaners, and sometimes feature popups prompting users to install them. They are called rogue software.
Known offenders include:

• errorsafe
  
• Pest Trap
  
• SpyAxe
  
• AntiVirus Gold
  
• SpywareStrike
  
• Spyware Quake
  
• WorldAntiSpy

• Spy Sheriff
  
• Spy Wiper
  
• PAL Spyware Remover
  
• PSGuard
  
• Malware
  
• WinAntiVirus Pro 2006
  
• WinFixer

The adverts pop up a display with notifications to convince the user that something may be amiss with the computer, or run a fake diagnostic. The program repeatedly prompts the user to purchase a licensed copy of the program.

Due to these problems, WinFixer and its sister applications are generally considered scareware spyware. Indeed, their misleading popups and forced downloads mirror the infection strategies of many spyware programs. Computers infected with this trojan also exhibit sluggish performance.

I'm pretty sure thats at the root of all my recent pc problems

i agree, that switch away from the '67 british racing green was blasphemy (well nearly) but at least the new adopted livery also went on to become a classic (and also a very good skin theme for a MRT - I remember a few of them done for S1)

1967 isn't it?
[anal gpl fan]

I seem to have a very ill pc, a spyware scan reveals other earlier spyware progs as being high risk. Aer they the cause or the cure?
Seems like a good way to make money, pay 24$ a year for something that says other competitve products are in fact bogus spyware programs. Fact is, I keep getting irritating popups and the firefox popup blocker does nto stop them, it opens up windows internet explorer instead and its driving me mad.
Ant recommendations on good, kosher adware blockers/spyware stuff (needn't be free)?
Cheers!

i love the graph paper one. There was another bmw with a map all over it - sparked my first ever skinning activity, sticking a map on a dodge viper in that great old Viper Racing game