Quote from Glenn67 :

Out of curosity what is your first had experience with aboriginals?

Not a huge amount but I've seen all sides of Australia and I feel that's enough to make some kind of judgement. I spent a bit of time living and working in remote areas so met some of the people living away from the towns.

What really struck me about it all was how happy the tourist board are to use Aboriginal imagery on their adverts and yet, you land in Sydney and there isn't a hint of Aboriginal culture to be seen.

Most of what people knew seemed to be from second hand stories and cheap journalistic bollocks from Today Tonight. I don't know how many people told us not to go to Alice Springs because it was a certainty we'd be stabbed and killed. And it was always people who had never been there.

Quote from petercollins :

The Aboriginals are mostly filthy drunks claiming the dole. It's no wonder they're not liked.

A perfect example of:

Quote :

The most unpleasant racism is aimed at the Aboriginals - mostly by people who just don't have a clue.

From an outsiders point of view I think Australia is quite a racist country but it's largely from ignorance rather than genuine malice.

The most unpleasant racism is aimed at the Aboriginals - mostly by people who just don't have a clue. It's quite astonishing how little the average Australian knows about their culture and the problems out there.

There are loads of South Koreans travelling the country so an asian face will not be a novelty on the tourist routes but in the outback proper it's pretty much all white or black. Whereabouts are you thinking? The outback is a very big place

The bottom line is that there are arseholes all over the world but we rarely met an Aussie who was anything other than welcoming and friendly. If you can take a joke (and there will be jokes) then you'll be fine. It might be uncomfortable at first but it won't take long to settle in.

LFS forum + F1 thread = groundhog day.:ghostie:

Quote from Intrepid :

2. They can afford nice cameras because every household in the UK with a TV has to fork out £100+ a year for it!

Other stations use BBC equipment and production teams. When ITV started covering F1, their trackside studio was sitting on top of a BBC van which I thought was quite funny

Quote from Intrepid :

I find it somewhat odd that each radio station of the BBC has it's own news crew (who have to be PAID WITH YOUR MONEY) reading the exact same news for example.

Every radio programme has its own news team as it's the only practical way of delivering it. It also allows the BBC to test out and train upcoming talent without throwing them right into the mainstream stations. Having said that, I do think they have too many stations though. Drop all the digital stations but 6Music and nobody would notice...

Quote from Intrepid :

Also the BBC spent £2.5m and used 407 members of staff to cover the 3 days of Glastonbury! Now if you don't think that is somewhat odd, even outrageous then I don't know what is.

£2.5m isn't very much in TV land. Look at how much money is flowing through the US TV networks.

Quote from Intrepid :

For the 10% of quality and useful output from the BBC there is a freak load of waste.

Even if only 10% of it is worth watching, that's an impressive hit rate. I can't think of any other organisation that could produce anything close to 2.4 hours a day of world class TV/radio.

Quote from Intrepid :

This waste actually paid for by hard working people including the older part of the population who work their fingers to the bone!

That's a bit Daily Mail isn't it?

Quote from Gnomie :

How much work can it be to make at least a crude, temporary solution? It's probably more difficult than it sounds, but I'm sure they have coders who are capable of doing something about it..

That's never a good idea with software. If you just put in "a quick hack" it will always come back and bite you on the arse later on.

Quote from DaveWS :

Hmm, do you have any wheel compensation set (above 0.00) in LFS? Because if wheel turn is set less than 720 degrees in LFS the steering becomes less sensitive around the center if you use well above 0 wheel comp.

It's been a long time since I fired LFS up so I can't really remember to be honest. I'm pretty sure I've tried everything. It doesn't help that I've got an ancient wheel; the old Ferrari one - still going strong after nine years!

Quote from DaveWS :

I think the reason there is some disparity between me and other iRacers is because my driving style is more suited for LFS. In iRacing you have to drive like Jenson Button, i.e. no mid corner steering wheel corrections, at least in the Mazda.

Curiously that's exactly how I feel about LFS. In iRacing (which I've only played at mate's house, admittedly) and nkPro I feel quite comfortable chucking the cars about aggressively but in LFS, anything other than silky smooth results in comedy oversteer.

How strange

Quote from DaveWS :

I'll just have to learn to cope with how it is and deal with it I guess, nothing more to say.

Dave, I've just been reading about this oversteer issue with interest because what you're experiencing in iRacing is something I've always had in LFS, ironically enough.

I've spent hours messing with the FF and controller settings in LFS to sort it out but have been unsuccessful, and the main symptom is this massively over-exaggerated counter-steer effect, similar to what you're getting with the Mazda in iRacing.

Curiously enough, I also saw it with nkPro after they released the patch but I was able to fix that with just a few tweaks to the FF settings, so although I can't cure it in LFS, I'm still sure it comes down to that (iirc it was the speed-sensitive steering setting that cured it in nkPro).

While I do agree there seems to be a specific issue with the Mazda in iRacing, could it be that it's being exaggerated on your particular setup due to this issue, which would explain the disparity between you and other users?

@Beck - spot on
@gezmoor - also spot on

Quote from 5haz :

I think some of you may be getting 'arrogant' mixed up with 'outspoken' they aren't the same thing.

Arrogant: making claims or pretensions to superior importance or rights; overbearingly assuming; insolently proud.

Nope, I'd say BenjiMC was spot on. I particularly like how a ruthless opinion changes depending on the subject - e.g.

2009 on Kimi:

Quote from tristancliffe :

Sutil had corner rights on entry, but Kimi drove all the way around and had the rights to his line on corner exit as he was ahead (slightly). Contact wasn't made, or even unavoidable, until well after Kimi's nose was ahead.

2008 on Lewis:

Quote from tristancliffe :

Hamilton was alongside, and perhaps a nose ahead, but on the outside. Thus he has no rights to the racing line.

From here

Great result for Webber. Good to see the monkey off his back. If he's following in Button's footsteps he might be gunning for the championship in another 3-4 years

Quote from tristancliffe :

Much like Alonso did for Hatemelol?

You say that like it matters.

Btw, Hatemelol is a desparately poor nickname. You guys really should drop it as it's quite embarrassing.

Quote from S14 DRIFT :

Quite frankly it pisses me off people assuming that people (myself in this example) are jealous because I (others too most likely), frankly, don't care more than an "Oh, cool".

You went to the trouble of posting to tell everyone you don't care - which suggests you do care

Quote from dawesdust_12 :

Of course I'm smug about it. People are idiots when they try to fly by at 20 KMH over the speed limit, so I piss them off. I don't get why people need this "OMG UBER FAST LANE!" idea, have a "OMG UBER SLOW LANE" and a "OMG SPEED LIMIT LANE(s)". Is everyone in that much of a rush that they get pissed off because someone drives like a responsible person (speed limit!), rather than a ****ing salt flats driver?

The only thing worse on a motorway than a middle lane loser is some cock who tries to impose their own opinion of what's responsible driving on to other people.

It's even worse when that opinion is entirely wrong.

Quote from dawguk :

I've looked into it for my MX-5, and it's a whole lot less, of course Worth checking before you go though.

It used to be that if you insure your car through the MX-5 owners club (with AON) you can get trackday cover for something like £15 per session. I don't know if it's still the case but if you intend to track a bit and want the insurance then it's not a bad deal at all.

Depending on how you intend to drive (i.e. fun or laptimes) I think the risk of doing something catastrophic is fairly low.

My MX-5's now worth so little that it's not really worth the cost of trackday insurance. The money would better spent on new tyres and pads

And maybe a rollbar.

And a turbo.

And...

Team 17 are still going!? Wow

That looks neat, lovely graphics. I played quite a bit of Alien Breed back in the day although I never completed it.

And Project X was the dogs danglies.

Quote from Mazz4200 :

Ermmm, do you lads know how he did it ?

Clearly not, which is a bit of a shame. Everyone should be aware of this stuff at the very least.

Quote from Jakg :

Hitler was an amazing leader - the fact he managed to lead people into well... I think we all know is probably a bigger testament than any.

Yep. Hitler 'got things done' through fanaticism, not leadership. He didn't lead Germany, he fired it up.

I could win the grand national by cutting the legs off all the horses and walking round. Technically, that would "get the job done" but that doesn't mean it's justifiable.

Quote from tristancliffe :

Hitler then went a bit too far, and Germany ended up in a terrible state (but with the structure to allow it to recover and become the country it is now).

Good grief.:rolleyes:

Quote from gezmoor :

Ever seen some of the poverty in the USA??

Err... yes... what's your point?

Quote from Dooonster :

the Chinese as a servant class lol considering china has more money then USA and most country's put together lol.

Yeah, and massive poverty problems too

Quote from Dooonster :

this is some of the most racial shit ive read since i left England...

That's very funny coming from an Australian :eek: :jester:

Good save and I've no doubt it'll be the sim-racing experience that kept you pointing the right way round.

It also really does highlight what a good chassis that RX-7 has too. It responded beautifully to your input

Quote from obsolum :

Even if it doesn't come with IE most people will still download and install IE anyway This won't really change anything, IMO. People that don't like IE are usually a bit more computer savvy and won't use IE whether or not it comes as the default browser. And people who hardly know anything about computers will just choose to install IE.

Not sure about that. Since PCs stopped shipping with IE as the only installed browser, it's useage has dropped. When given a choice, the world seems to have chosen Firefox as its favoured browser.

Quote from AtomAnt :

May i ask if you have an aversion to good news? This started as a hand of GOD 2 thread, it's a story of a 5 year old blown out of a plane at 800 meters, smacks the water like a 20 lb bag of meat....then by some weird thing, the tail of the jet floats up and holds her in water for 13 hours....it's this kind of thing that makes me think there just might be a GOD after all....

So was it the hand of God that punched the plane out of the sky in the first place, or is it just associated selectively?

Quote from Crashgate3 :

Anyone know what they've done with the museum at Donnington while they're remaking the circuit for the F1 2010? Looking at the maps, the new grid straight goes right through where the old museum was.

Have they just moved the collection or is it in storage somewhere until the new circuit is finished?

The museum's some distance from the track (outside the melbourne loop) so it shouldn't be affected.

It's a great museum and has the largest collection of F1 cars in the world. Worth a trip up to the Midlands if you have time.

Quote from dawesdust_12 :

Except your point is moot as all the features with the "New iPhone" you can use on the original iPhone

At a cost?

Quote from dawesdust_12 :

...except where it's hardware limited...

Oh, only the hardware limited stuff. Nothing important then.

Quote from dawesdust_12 :

Looks like you need to go burn some money if you think that what Microsoft is doing is fine.

You do understand the irony of heralding Apple's pricing policies when they've been relentlessly ripping off their customers for years.

Hey everyone, buy our iPhone at a massive premium with loads of missing features. Now buy the new one with some of the bits we should have included in the first!