No, this is not accurate. The clutch disengages, cutting the direct connection from the engine to the drivetrain. With the engine off the control of the clutch isn't possible (hence why I mentioned the electro-hydraulic control systems above). If there was always a direct connection between the engine and the drivetrain the momentum/inertia of the spinning tyres would be overcome by the engine compression and the rear tyres would lock solid. You can see this happen if a transmission problem occurs which locks a car in gear.
Well, the actuation mechanisms for the transmission (including the clutch) are electro-hydraulically driven. This article is from 2003, but I don't think there were significant developments in the control systems of the clutch between then and when the BF1 was designed. When the engine stops running the hydraulic pressure bleeds away and the electricity supply is cut. This would mean that the driver wouldn't be able to actuate the clutch or transmission (i.e. pulling the clutch paddle(s) or shift paddles behind the steering wheel wouldn't actually do anything useful). Before the move to semi-automatic gearboxes with electro-hydraulically operated clutches F1 cars could be "bump-started" (as Ayrton Senna showed when rejoining the 1989 Japanese GP after that collision with Prost).
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Although I find it reprehensible to defend Romney, the above was clearly a (poorly timed and delivered) joke. If you see the footage of it you'd see that. There are numerous genuine reasons to have a high degree of contempt and distaste for Romney; there's no need to go about trying to take jokes seriously to make a point.
I was clearly talking about people who were driving outside the track with all 4 tyres and gaining an advantage by doing so (which is why I contrasted Massa's driving with Webber's). Putting 2 wheels over the white line is absolutely fine; that doesn't count as leaving the track.
The car is either within the white lines or isn't. It doesn't matter how close people went.
Still has 2 tyres inside the lines.
Obviously I didn't watch the entire race checking for Vettel driving outside the white lines, but I didn't see him doing it with all 4 wheels over the white line even once. If you give me a lap number I'm happy to take another look.
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No, it was not very similar. With the current layout (used for V8 Supercars and several other categories) there is a solid row of concrete barriers on the outside of the turn literally centimetres away from the normal racing line. The approach speed for the turn (in V8 Supercars) is approximately 240 kph (~150mph). Any car problem (broken steering, stuck throttle, suspension failure) and you're heading straight into that wall. In F1 (in the corner where Hakkinen crashed) there was a run-off area (albeit over a badly-placed kerb) of 20-30 metres and a row of tyres. See this for F1 reference and this for the current version.
For this turn, the only sensible option (given that they are reluctant to move the wall back) is to use safer barriers.
Obviously you were trying for hyperbole there, but could you give a few examples?
Few more frames attached. The first image shows Massa cutting 4 times.
The second image is a look at the Webber/Kobayashi overtake. I chose the high camera shot over the low trackside shot to give better perspective of car positions. Webber is making a valid attempt at going round the outside in order to have track position for the next left hander. He is only forced off track when Kobayashi pushed him there. Note that Kobayashi's right rear wheel is on the white line and the car is also sideways by a few degrees.
I've agreed with the vast majority of the stewards' decisions this season, but I just cannot understand why Massa escaped a penalty and Webber got hit with one on this occasion.
Yes, he was.
I also believe he cut another once or twice during the race, but I can't find any images online of those. Unless anyone else can post pics I'll try and find some more tomorrow.
On the subject of Webber's penalty I'm very surprised at the verdict given that he was effectively pushed off track by Kobayashi. Webber was trying to go round the outside, sure, but he was in a position to do so at corner entry and at the apex.
Are you running LFS in full-screen or windowed mode? If you're running in windowed mode you could be moving the mouse outside the LFS window, where clicking would make LFS lose focus.
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The following video is the second qualifying sprint race for last weekend's Sandown 500 round of the V8 Supercars championship. If you don't know or don't want to know any of the qualifying results for the weekend don't watch this.
With that out of the way, click and enjoy what must be one of the best sprint races I've ever seen.
V8 Supercars 2012 Sandown 500 Qualifying Sprint Race 2
The following video is the second qualifying sprint race for last weekend's Sandown 500 round of the V8 Supercars championship. If you don't know or don't want to know any of the qualifying results for the weekend don't watch this.
With that out of the way, click and enjoy what must be one of the best sprint races I've ever seen.
V8 Supercars 2012 Sandown 500 Qualifying Sprint Race 2
There are a multitude of reasons to have been in awe of him and his achievements. However, the one that's stuck with me most of all is him saving Mika Hakkinen's life in Adelaide 1995 by performing an emergency tracheotomy trackside. Without Mika late '90s F1 would have been the start of Schumacher's Ferrari domination, rather than from 2000 onwards.
He's gone, but his legacy lives on.
He's gone, but his legacy lives on.
Not true. Double-clutch shifting can be done both on upshifts and downshifts. The following quote is from Ross Bentley's shifty techniques BMW driving instruction article:
Bentley has written extensively on race driving and performance road driving and has decades experience as a racing driver. I'm inclined to believe he knows what he's talking about.
Of course, double clutch shifting (on the up- and downshifts) is either necessary or very beneficial on the life of the drivetrain in vehicles without synchromesh, but it can still be useful on cars with synchromesh, especially if the synchros are worn, as Bentley notes:
Found that relatively funny! 
You're just going to ignore my post above then, Mike?
An indicator that's much more significant is median income. Taking both the median income and the percentage of millionaires in conjunction is even better. When you look at these in tandem it's particularly easy to analyse the massive disparity in pay between the top few percent and everyone else. Have a read up on income inequality in the US. Cherry picking a single statistic which includes a very small percentage of the population (i.e. % of millionaires) and attempting to use it as widely representative is misleading, intentionally or otherwise. The American Dream might be becoming a millionaire, but the American reality is that the vast majority of the population know they'll never become millionaires. They just want to know they can get through life without worrying how to pay for necessities like food, housing and medical care.
Can you demonstrate a direct causal relationship between regulatory compliance costs and significant drop in the survival rates or profitability of medium and small businesses, which takes into account other factors such as the global financial crisis and recession?
Let's not forget George Bush senior signed the ADA into law. What percentage of the resources of the Californian state legislature are devoted to ADA compliance regulations? It would be interesting to compare that figure with other issues such as the percentage of resources of law enforcement and the prison system that go into policing and housing 'offenders' involved with recreational drug use. With 57% of federal prisoners sentenced for drug offences and the the highest documented incarce ... per 100,000 (as of 2009) there are more significant problems in the system than disability compliance costs.
An indicator that's much more significant is median income. Taking both the median income and the percentage of millionaires in conjunction is even better. When you look at these in tandem it's particularly easy to analyse the massive disparity in pay between the top few percent and everyone else. Have a read up on income inequality in the US. Cherry picking a single statistic which includes a very small percentage of the population (i.e. % of millionaires) and attempting to use it as widely representative is misleading, intentionally or otherwise. The American Dream might be becoming a millionaire, but the American reality is that the vast majority of the population know they'll never become millionaires. They just want to know they can get through life without worrying how to pay for necessities like food, housing and medical care.
Can you demonstrate a direct causal relationship between regulatory compliance costs and significant drop in the survival rates or profitability of medium and small businesses, which takes into account other factors such as the global financial crisis and recession?
Let's not forget George Bush senior signed the ADA into law. What percentage of the resources of the Californian state legislature are devoted to ADA compliance regulations? It would be interesting to compare that figure with other issues such as the percentage of resources of law enforcement and the prison system that go into policing and housing 'offenders' involved with recreational drug use. With 57% of federal prisoners sentenced for drug offences and the the highest documented incarce ... per 100,000 (as of 2009) there are more significant problems in the system than disability compliance costs.
Did you even read the first section of the report? The question for the results I quoted was as follows:
That is to say that the respondents were directly asked how racist they thought they were. How you manage to try and twist this into something entirely different is beyond me. Racism is typically considered to be a bad thing (except by those who seem to wear it as a badge of honour). If anything, the percentage of respondents who admit they consider themselves to be racist should be lower, not higher than reality. Unless, of course, you're suggesting that not only are Italians exceptionally racist they're also exceptionally dishonest when replying to questionnaires...
Asking direct questions to over 16,000 people seems like a reasonably sound methodology, at least to me. I don't really understand why you're trying to apply some sort of metaphysical layer here, as though nothing anyone ever says is factual.
I just don't know how to respond to this. You have more chance of being correct by generalising? Really? Can you even try to defend that particular piece of 'logic'? To me, it's just stunning that you would say this and expect it to be taken as read.
Couple of problems with this. Firstly, no-one knows where you pulled this "over 50" figure from. For all I/we know it could be a complete fabrication. Secondly, and I don't want this to be taken as needlessly offensive, but you fairly consistently express views that would be considered right wing. Ever thought that it's the company you keep that skews your 'results' to the right? As an example, I'm pretty sure if I went to a BNP meeting and interviewed everyone leaving I would find a large percentage of respondents were Islamophobic.
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There are racist/xenophobic people in every country with any kind of real population (qualified that remark so someone wouldn't find an uninhabited island that's technically a country and entirely disprove my point). It's no doubt true that you can find instances of clearly racist/xenophobic violence (even including murder) perpetrated by Italians, but you can do that for basically every country. Can you prove that Italians are, on average, more racist/xenophobic compared to other countries in Europe or the rest of the world? Can you demonstrate they have any influence on the hiring policy of Ferrari? Making such an idiotic generalisation as saying "Italians are racist" and claiming it's a fact is one of the more ridiculous things you've said.
If you look at this Eurobarometer special report on racism and xenophobia released in 1997 you'll see that Italy appears basically in the middle of EU member states. 30% of Italians described themselves as "Very racist" or "Quite racist", compared to 32% in the UK, 35% in Finland, 42% in Austria, 31% in the Netherlands, 48% in France, 34% in Germany, 43% in Denmark and 55% in Belgium.
Can you link to some articles to re-educate me?
If government regulation isn't a major aspect of helping to prevent a future financial crisis, why would the Chairman of the US Federal Reserve say so?
History provides so many examples of situations where people are willing to effectively destroy the lives of millions of people in order to make vast sums of money. Just look at how many people either entirely lost their pension or lost significant portions. Do you think it's right for a financial institution to be able to gamble on the market with the pension fund of hundreds of thousands of people and suffer very little to no penalties if they lose everything?
Given the aggressiveness of the kerbs and the sleeping policemen in the run-off areas I could believe an ARB failure. A broken or fractured ARB blade or mount isn't the same thing as the team making an error in fitting it.
Better than the journalism which alludes to certain aspects such as birth certificates and Muslim-sounding names though, right? Wonder who's guilty of those things...
The Rolling Stone article does sound like a hatchet job, but it's so well researched that the tone of the article is much less important than its content. If you can only argue with the tone (and not with the content), I think you've already lost the battle.
The spending cuts necessary in the Ryan budget plan are ludicrous. The notion that discretionary spending can be cut by 91% on average and taxes on the rich can be decreased and you can still have a workable economy just beggar belief.
I didn't suggest that (and the Rolling Stone article doesn't either). The wider point is that a large portion of Romney's suitability for the job is that he was a successful businessman. The Republicans constantly harp on this and contrast it with Obama's lack of private business management experience (see the lemonade stand quote). However, when you analyse Romney's business career (as in the Rolling Stone article), you see a pattern of reckless behaviour which made him (and his cronies) massive amounts of money whilst making thousands of people redundant in the process. This disgraceful misrepresentation of the facts (along with other massive problems with the truth, such as Ryan's convention speech (which contained so many inaccuracies and straight lies)) seems to be necessary from the Republicans to try and hide the glaring holes in their platform. Of course, I'm not for one minute suggesting that the Democrats never lie, but let's just say that the speeches of the Democrats cause less problems for fact-checkers than Republicans. Ryan might like to fix his truth-deficit before he screws up the country's economic deficit even more.
Isn't there a better solution than firing these thousands of people, though? Vast sums of money have already been spent training them. It would be a better idea to try and overhaul the services. One example would be performance related pay for public school teachers.
US defence spending should surely be put on the table here, considering it was approximately 20% of GDP in 2010. In 2012, the US are spending approximately double the world average of GDP on defence. (4.7% vs 2.5%). The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan undoubtedly added trillions of dollars to the national debt, too. Don't you despair at these huge problems more than a few thousand teachers and nurses whom you think are overpaid?
You don't think the police, fire, ambulance, coastguard, roads department etc have been good things? They are funded in a 'socialist' fashion, right? The public pays taxes into them and they're available for everyone. They're all failures? Or the fact that whilst Obama has been in office tens of millions more Americans have access to publicly-funded healthcare?
Yes, because de-regulating markets has been so successful in the last few years, hasn't it? The people should be protected against the greed of the financial institutions trying to exploit them and from the greed of other members of the public who over-extend themselves financially.
...as Paul Ryan did...
You think people rioting in the streets who are trying to foment change (such as the Occupy movement) are actually against the interests of the public? If so, you're even more detached from the real world than the Republican leaders.
How evil are the people who 'choose' not to contribute compared to the people who wilfully drive businesses into the ground to profit from their demise (such as Romney)?
Entire countries?
edit: There's a difference between countries staying afloat with bailout assistance and 'functioning off' bailouts. Incidentally, what is your stance on the banking and auto-industry bailouts in the US?
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That's not exactly the same way Rolling Stone sees it.
From the same poll:
- 48% never attend mosques, 19% attended once and 6% only attend on special occasions
- 38% indicate that they belong to both Britain and Islam 'very strongly'
- 81% strongly disagree that Muslims should keep themselves separate from non-Muslims
- 70% would rather stay in Britain (without Sharia law) than move to another country with Sharia law
- 63% feel that hostility towards Muslims has increased (significantly or slightly) since 7/7
- 80% can't understand why British Muslims might want to carry out suicide operations
- 85% disagree that it is acceptable for religious or political groups to use violence
- No one group got more than 19% support when asked who represented Muslims politically. This speaks to disenfranchisement.
- 49% would allow their daughter to make up her own mind on wearing a hijab. This doesn't seem particularly high, but it speaks towards a more progressive movement amongst British Muslims
Additionally, a sample size of only 1000 seems fairly low, especially considering the poll attempts to look at patterns among Muslims in different parts of the UK.
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