I guess in the future they won't want to hire people that are too gruntled to start off with, it'd just make their inevitable disgruntlement a lot harder to deal with.

Maybe that's been the US Postal Service's problem in the past - their new employees' original gruntlitude levels were often off the chart so when they finally lost their gruntledness it turned apocalyptic. I'm sure Royal Mail would rather have a strike than a postie going postal - although, they'd probably do a cost/benefit analysis and select the spree killing over any industrial action (that shit costs money!) ...

^Good point, forgot about the GTR weights (haven't raced them for a while) ...

I've never actually seen a gruntled postal worker.

If they're being screwed so hard that they've taken the decision to disrupt an entire country, they're either justified or just being bastards. I'll give them the benefit of the doubt, pick the first option and raise my glass to 'em. Given the new desires of many governments around the world to start acting like corporations (or at least suck up to them even more than normal), it wouldn't surprise me if Royal Mail were attempting to ream their employees. Governments sometimes need to be reminded, in no small way, that they are there to serve the people who elect them, which includes their own employees.

Our nurses are ready to strike down here soon and not before time. They've been shafted time and time again over the years on things like improved conditions and pay and I'm totally with them. I spent enough time in hospital as a kid (and have enough ICU nurses as friends) to appreciate the shit that they go through. [/tangent]

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Quote from Racer Y :

Anyone else remember the Team Mongoose bike with the spider-web mags? Or am i really just that old? I had a pair on a bike I had once, the things weighed a ton, but were indestructible.

Don't recall the Team Mongoose, but I fondly recall the two greatest bmx movies ever made: BMX Bandits and RAD




Yes, Ms High-Pants is our own Nic Kidman...


I still want a Deathtrack 2000 in my yard.

Quote from Racer Y :

I dunno, a mongoose is still a pretty good every-day bike. But if you go around trashing it, it's not going to hold up. Hell even really expensive bikes can't take much punishment either these days

Heard that. Like I said up there, I wouldn't rely on a stocker if I was going to go balls-out (gettin' too old & busted for that shit). Beef up your bike with after-market bits or, better still, just start with a good sturdy frame (wethepeople & terrible1 both make awesome frames) and customise one from the ground up.

Go the Mini Coopers ripping it across the mountain and getting monstered by the big aircraft carriers down Conrod

Holden, Ford, meh. When we were kids (80s) touring car racing wasn't two shapes of the same fat-arse boat-tower, it was Mazda/BMW/Holden/Ford/Nissan (for one year anyway) + plenty of other stuff. We had a Leyland P76, several Minis and a tractor back then so we never got into the whole bogan civil war thing anyway I don't much care which brand of V8 Super-cab wins the big one, but I never miss Bathurst if I can help it and I think a new face on the top step would be good to see this year.

Wind isn't such a stupid explanation. Depending on its strength it can affect top speed (positively or negatively) and corner speed more than enough to alter a lap time by tenths of a second, especially in winged cars. I was in a SO1/FOX server once, with half a dozen or so other guys, where some hotlapper was begging/whining/bitching to have the wind turned off because he was going for a WR. Should've seen the fireworks when he realised it wasn't going to happen because we were there to race each other, not help him hotlap Wah!

AFAIK LFS tyres don't lay down "grip" either - the grip on LFS tracks is static. Tyremarks build up but that's only graphical at this stage. Maybe rubber build-up will come in a future version.

However...

Quote from word :

Maybe its because some servers you join have lots of people, so you get lower fps. this makes your controller input less smooth.

This makes sense. Ping, load on your graphics card and the effects they may have on your control could factor into your loss of precious tenths

Or maybe it's just your perception. Maybe the pressure from racing people makes you more tense than when you're hotlapping alone, so you make more errors or aren't as smooth

But, tbh, the silliest explanation of all would be two different sets of physics for SP and MP! It would be a pointless and enormous waste of time for Scawen. He's got enough on his plate working with one set of physics, you'd think ...

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^ If you're going hard, drop some serious cash and don't use stock parts like wheels or cranks. I don't ride that hard anymore and that's why my Hoffman (bought to replace a Haro that met its fate under a car :S) is still in one piece Plus I spent loads on my mountain bike and it'd be a waste not to ride it.

12 quid, sheesh...that's $27 AUD as of this moment. In Melbourne that's about a movie ticket plus two pints - it's not even half a night out.

dropin, how exactly are you so familiar with S2 cars? Do we have to break out a :bananadea ?

edit: just saw your post in the main section. Guess your status hasn't been updated yet. Welcome to license-land :up:

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Quote from mrodgers :

Aren't 24 inch frames a bit large for BMX? I thought BMX bikes were in the 20 inch range. That's the size range I think of with BMX. Mountain bikes are 24-26 inch I had thought.

FYI the 20/24/26" refers to the wheel diameter. 24" bmxs are generally used for racing and not freestyle/vert/dirt like the 20" bikes are.

My next turntable-table will be gyroscopically stabilised so as to ensure smooth playback, even during a Richter 5 earthquake

I'm not man enough for a pink one. Is fanta pearl a manly enough colour?

Don't know if that would be Bremgarten Mazz, Switzerland banned circuit racing in the '50s after a crash that killed a driver and dozens of spectators (it was at Le Mans iirc). Although, I think the Swiss recently repealed that ban (or were at least considering it. Swiss people, help me out here ). I grant you though, it does kinda look like Bremgarten ...

Ditto the "proper race server" call :up: Puttering around at the speed limit isn't something I'd call "action"

Ouch. Would've been painful to leave all that vinyl behind I'm sort of glad I don't have a record player because (a) I have nowhere to put it in my tiny house and (b) my dog would make it skip all the time. Stupid floorboards. Oh well, next house. Maybe.

Might seem obvious but I'd say look around for a second-hand bmx in your local classifieds or on ebay because, as you probably know, 70 quid won't get you a decent new bmx. You probably want to stick with an established name like Hoffman, Haro, GT etc too, because their stuff's well made. My last beemer was a sorta low-end Hoffman dirt bike. I bought it new in 2000 for $600 (200 quid or so). Comparitively cheap at the time, but still does what I want it to. Tough bugger.

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It's true - it is far less time consuming to make a new body for the same car. But I'd prefer Eric build whole new cars with different characteristics to slot into an existing class, or create a whole new class (rally please :nod. Noone really knows what Eric's working on with regard to cars right now but (imho) it would be wasting his time to bother with different shells for the same chassis/engine.

FYI: there are racing series that use a standard chassis/engine with different body shells to add to the visual spectacle (like Aussie Racing Cars), but they're purpose-built for the class and not based on road cars like LFS cars apparently are. Also, Aussie Racing Cars, being RL racing, is a spectator sport and that's pretty much the sole reason for the body variants. LFS isn't for spectators, it's for the drivers, so there's not a lot of point using the same visual philosophy. When you're racing, the last thing on your mind should be your bodykit

One zomgbie game to pwn them all ...

link

I couldn't pass up the box-set. It's a bona fide collector's item! Imagine: if Pink Floyd or Zeppelin did something like this 30 years ago, people today (e.g. me) would be injuring themselves to get a hold of an original release ...

BTW I don't have a record player (yet) but I collect vinyl anyway. That way, all my sides stay pristine and in their original packaging

As for the tour, it will be run along the same lines as the download: whenever we want and for however much we can afford

I've often wondered why more bands don't self-release, especially when there are so many massively wealthy bands in existence (U2 come to mind, as do Metallica) who could do it very easily ... the amount of control you could have over what happens in your name would surely appeal to a few enormous egos (see bands previously mentioned ).

I'd be happy to drop 10 or 20 on the download (kudos to Radiohead for bypassing iTunes btw) but I'm going to get the whole thing (plus when you buy the disc pack you get the download as well anyway). I want the vinyl, artwork, discs, all that stuff. Most of the time I'm happy with downloading but with bands I really dig, I like to have a tangible representation of what I listen to. With Mars Volta albums especially, the vinyls and accompanying artwork really are collector's items.

They officially rule even more than they did yesterday.

I wondered what was going to happen actually, they've had this album ready to go for ages but were out of contract with EMI and in limbo. I wasn't expecting this until next year at least! Good on 'em

Thanks for the headsup DWB :up:

Guess you missed both the Suggestions Log and the "Cars we wanna see in S3" thread on the front page of this section ... which is exactly 2 years old today and 1704 posts long ...

Quote from wheel4hummer :

At least it didn't take me 2 months to reply. If you're going to insult me about a two month old post, I suggest that you use smileys too. And, to the rest of your post, quit bitching, he'll be gone in 08 anyway.

2 months? What? You posted that Jew "joke" today, in this thread. If that's not it, then what in the holy **** are you talking about?

I assume the "he'll be gone in 08" bit refers to George W Bush. Who the hell even mentioned him? FYI, Cartman: the abbreviation "GW", used previously in this thread, stands for Global Warming - i.e. THE TOPIC AT HAND - not George W, who hadn't even been mentioned when I posted. Try and understand what people write before you respond to it.

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Anyway, screw the brand new GW industry if you don't believe the hype. Who cares if you believe Al Gore? After his pussy act after election 2000 why should anyone give him any credit anyway? I try and save power and water and not waste too much because it's the right thing to do, not because Al Gore wants me to and not because it's suddenly become time to look after our only planet. I've always done it - you tend to learn conservative habits (& liberal ideas ) when you grow up relying on rainwater and a woodstove. It's common goddam sense not to use more than you need and not to shit in your own backyard - or someone else's, which is what the wealthiest of us have been doing for centuries.

So don't get caught up in the GW hype if you don't dig it, just try and be less wasteful and more concerned. I'm not even sure what my position is on GW or carbon-neutral schemes or whatever the hell else, but to me its glaringly obvious that we have filled the earth, sky and water with our garbage. To ignore it and carry on being fat spoilt wasteful bastards is criminally negligent of our only planet.

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It doesn't matter to me if we're entirely responsible for GW or if we're just exacerbating its effects through 200-odd years of mostly unrestricted pollution. Forget the piecemeal arguments about dripping taps and cows farting, the fact is we've changed this planet drastically since we became aware of ourselves, and mostly for the worse. We consume much, much more than we need to and produce a disproportionate amount of waste. The amount of animals we've eradicated is reprehensible. The amount of useless crap we produce to amuse ourselves is shameful. The amount of wild country that will never exist again is mind-boggling. The government/corporate collusion to simply extract dollars from the earth without a single thought for what happens next is almost criminal.

Forget the current GW "fashion". The need to conserve has always been with us and as a species we just won't ****ing learn to do it. If you recycle, good for you. Keep doing it. Do more! Don't turn your damn tap off or have a four-minute shower to save a bloody iceberg - that's not the point! Do it to save water! In Australia, where we've been copping the worst drought in history, this is all common sense. Noone's linking it to GW, it's about keeping enough water in the reserves so we can drink and cook and wash. Screw the lawn, it'll grow back. If you're not going to turn off a light in an empty room to ease the pollution from a coal-powered station, do it to lower your bills you lazy bastard. If you think driving a car every day to work is better than taking a train, try the train for a month and check your bank balance after not having to pay for fuel and parking. In short, forget GW if it doesn't rattle your cage. But the planet's been riddled with our shit and blighted by our foolishness for a very long time. If you're not going to care what happens to it, at least do something to save your greedy, lazy arse a few bucks! The token, half-arsed effort you put in will add up and make a difference.

Quote from wheel4hummer :

Everyone knows global warming is caused by the Jews.

I suggest using smilies if you're going to post retarded shit like that. You never know who'll think you're serious. And re: your sig: is that the best you could come up with?