Good post, funnybear. The New Scientist bit goes exactly along with what I quoted earlier from Oliver Sachs.
If you ever come across his book "The man who mistook his wife for a hat" its both the wierdest title book ever and a really fascinating read into the functioning of the brain.
The sscientific explanation for the Big Light when near death and the floating out of the body stuff is that it is a defence mechanism controlled by the brain in which it floods itself with high levels of seratonin and endorphins when a massive shutdown is about to happen, thus 'softening' the blow. With all these opiate-related chemicals floating about, people having been 'brought back from the edge' all reported similar experiences of warmth, floating towards a big light, being bathed in a feeling of love and well-being. It is more plausible for me to understand this as a chemically-induced event rather than anything of a spiritual nature.
My problem is that religious beliefs lack any logic and evidence to suggest the true existance of an all-powetrful deity. By their very nature they are a belief. I need more to go on than that.
No value, sure, but no reason to support anything when there's no evidence of its existance. Far better to support principals that are established and proven than ones that aren't.
Interesting discussion
If you ever come across his book "The man who mistook his wife for a hat" its both the wierdest title book ever and a really fascinating read into the functioning of the brain.
The sscientific explanation for the Big Light when near death and the floating out of the body stuff is that it is a defence mechanism controlled by the brain in which it floods itself with high levels of seratonin and endorphins when a massive shutdown is about to happen, thus 'softening' the blow. With all these opiate-related chemicals floating about, people having been 'brought back from the edge' all reported similar experiences of warmth, floating towards a big light, being bathed in a feeling of love and well-being. It is more plausible for me to understand this as a chemically-induced event rather than anything of a spiritual nature.
My problem is that religious beliefs lack any logic and evidence to suggest the true existance of an all-powetrful deity. By their very nature they are a belief. I need more to go on than that.
No value, sure, but no reason to support anything when there's no evidence of its existance. Far better to support principals that are established and proven than ones that aren't.
Interesting discussion
Erm, this is what we refer to as the pot calling the kettle black.
There is evidence to explain these deja vue experiences, if you read some of the books by Oliver Sachs, a very interesting neurosurgeon (they did a film based on some of his stuff a few years ago - Awakenings, starring De Niro).
He put forward a good case that the way the brains memory banks work sometimes there is like a 'bounce' - something will go in from a stimulus, some sense, sight, smell, sound, and before it gets to the conscious for full recognition it bounces back as a perceived memory, fooling the person that he somehow feels a familiarity with the perceived stimulus even though it really is a fresh event. Fascinating stuff.
I do not believe in fate or telepathy or any of that pseudo-science stuff.
He put forward a good case that the way the brains memory banks work sometimes there is like a 'bounce' - something will go in from a stimulus, some sense, sight, smell, sound, and before it gets to the conscious for full recognition it bounces back as a perceived memory, fooling the person that he somehow feels a familiarity with the perceived stimulus even though it really is a fresh event. Fascinating stuff.
I do not believe in fate or telepathy or any of that pseudo-science stuff.
Firewall issue?
no relationship, 3M just works well as a bold concise decal 
I suppose the point is (before the mob flame you for your honesty!) it generally wouldn't make the game any better.
There will be a pause in proceedings, I am travelling overseas next week. If you can identify any of the other logos on the skin it would help
PLease do not drag this thread down into another pointless argument against STCC. Keep it on topic or it will be closed and binned.
If you want to start another thread if you feel the need to have a go at STCC then please do it in the correct place.
If you want to start another thread if you feel the need to have a go at STCC then please do it in the correct place.
-1 to Davo for being a 6 year old
Now go straight to bed without your milk.
Now go straight to bed without your milk.
now now, can we all discuss these things without resorting to personal insults?2048 is great for designing skins accurately but its crazy to have such hi res skins in a race game, you just don't need that level of resolution.
When he says 'cheap and dirty' is he meaning he doesn't like the fact that they are only 512 x 512? It's not a parade, its a race sim, I think 512 works as a good compromise for what is needed to be seen in nmotion when racing.
+1 preserve your dignity and find another server not populated by ignorasnt a55holes. Sad symptom of on-line games workds, people can sling mud without having to face up to eachother. It's pretty spineless to attack people like that. Please whatever happens don't let the small minority of w@n#€&$ drag you down to their sewer level.
Maybe you can send every player an email asking them to use higher quality skins when they race online? Really, quality of downloaded skins has nothing to do with the game whatsoever, do you not realise that?
This has to go in the records as the most ridiculous improvement suggestion of the year.
that f3 skin looks an interesting challenge. On the fzr skin I need help pointing out all the decals and brands, I can't see them well enough form the pics you posted. Have you got any more info?
Nice skin teaz-r, and good for adapting to many different colour schemes
Jeez, some people just can't take a bit of kidding can they? 
Where do you think the energy comes from to charge the batteries every 2 or 3 days?
Think about the significant losses every time energy is converted from one form into another.
Oil into gasoline into car into miles
vs
oil into power plant fuel into electricity into car into miles
Which do you think burns the most oil in the end, and puts more pollutants intot eh atmosphere?
The marketing works well as the happy owner drives round with a warm feeling that he's doing his bit for the environment, yet he doesn't see the extra wasteage and inefficiencies further up the chain that in fact add more environmental problems than previously existed.
Think about the significant losses every time energy is converted from one form into another.
Oil into gasoline into car into miles
vs
oil into power plant fuel into electricity into car into miles
Which do you think burns the most oil in the end, and puts more pollutants intot eh atmosphere?
The marketing works well as the happy owner drives round with a warm feeling that he's doing his bit for the environment, yet he doesn't see the extra wasteage and inefficiencies further up the chain that in fact add more environmental problems than previously existed.
there's a lot of skinning help and resources over on Master Skinnerz forum might be useful for you. http://skinnerz.proboards26.com/
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