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I just got minecraft a few hours ago. Lots of fun so far, but still learning to ropes a bit. Please add Menacenl to the whitelist, I'd love to see what you guys are up to every once in a while and contribute with some marvels of engineering =)

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Quote from JJ72 :

LOL the SAT.......you know kids in Singapore and Asia in general do maths WAY harder than those in the states?? at least 3 years in advance compare to a US kid at the same age.

Kids in Europe don't even know how to do simple additions without a calculator anymore, while in Asia kids at the same age crunch numbers ten times as complex as if their life depended on it.

The times of people like Bill Gates coming from the west are coming to an end quite rapidly...

0.196 average. I did have about two beers so who knows what sort of influence that has. I prefer reaction games where you have to physically react though. I guess they're called reflex games instead of reaction games. In the end, a fast twitch is not half as important as a slightly less fast reflex. A goalkeeper that twitches his hands in the wrong direction 0.15s after he sees the ball being shot isn't as useful as the goalkeeper that takes 0.25s to move his hands in the perfect position

Quote from JJ72 :

That's just cultural difference, many places don't exercise universal values that we think are common.

Spot on.

I personally think that this sort of thing is horrible, and the same with female circumcision (and male circumcision for that matter...) slavery, etc. The truth is though, that many people don't feel the same way, and to judge them for what they believe to be a fitting punishment to the crime is just as wrong.

Universal human rights are impossible to apply to a variety of cultures. You have to remember that people in certain countries are brought up with the idea that if you steal your hands get chopped off, and if you don't wear traditional clothing as a woman you will get 10 lashes or whatever. It's a different moral system altogether, and however apathetic it might sound, trying to 'correct' the belief system of these people is like trying to correct a language you don't understand by applying your own language's rules.

It's the sad reality I guess

Quote from DeKo :

Crommi, I think for the rookie series it's worked out differently, for example, my stats are 20 starts, 5 wins and 10 top 5 finishes with 4 pole positions, which gives me 73 Championship Points. Then there are people with 3 starts, 0 wins, 2 top 5 finishes and 0 pole positions with 147 points, doesn't seem right to me.

Your race points are not added up together, but an average is taken. In a lower split you might get 100 points for a win, whereas top splits might give 200 points for a win. If a top guy races twice and wins one race for 200 points, and crashes in another race for 0 points he will be awarded the 200 points for the week (50% worst results are dropped off, the rest are averaged out)

So your 73 points are a result of the average of your top 10 races. (out of 20 starts)

I hope that clears it up a bit, I suggest reading the sporting code

I think conspiracy theories like this are a modern replacement for religion. When people figure out that there's no God that controls society it must be something else. You'd think that with things like Wikileaks we'd have a few documents regarding aliens, 9/11, NWO and <insert other conspiracy theory> as well?

Meh, just meh.

It's confirmed that pushing a car shape ahead of you (which adds weight and still confronts you with the air resistance that is built up in that vehicle as they are connected) is better for your fuel efficiency? I really really doubt it since that would break just about every law of nature there is.

Is it true that the laptime leaderboard isn't functional yet?

Depends on how we define "meet" I guess. I've been within 50 meters of Kimi Räikkönen, Sébastian Loeb and Petter Solberg, but I didn't get to touch them or anything

itt: People who think these are awesome rules and don't see the joke. You'd think the title was a dead giveaway

Just set the brake balance more to the front. When you lock up then you at least go straight instead of spinning, and then you can always experiment with different brake curves or a change in braking technique.

Is anyone racing the Star Mazda this season? I always hated that car with a big passion, but having tried it again after 1 year of not going near it with a stick I must say it feels good! Just wondering if anyone is up for some friendly competition

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkwWuoI1GxY

Here you can see the same technique applied multiple times per lap. The commentator makes a note that it's done to bring the brake pads up the the disc face. Apparantly they get shaken about quite a bit and I guess they become a bit misaligned after a couple of bumps.

Quote from UncleBenny :

The Solstice got updated tire physics which sped it up a little bit.

That's a bit of a misconception actually. The Solstice got different tyres altogether and now runs the same race-spec tyres as the Mustang. Updated tire physics will never change laptimes that much (how wrong would they have been before the change?)

Quote from GianniC :

Nasty crash from Petrov and not one single medic checking up on him if he is allright... Among other things, Korea GP clearly has a lot of work to do and came of very well today (especially seeing the conditions and what might have happened).

This was one of the most shocking things during the race for me, much more so than Webber's odd choice of steering direction.

Petrov sat in that car for quite a few seconds seemingly unconcious or at least sitting suspiciously still and nobody checked on him. If there had been something seriously wrong he'd have been in a whole lot of crap.

I was a big ATI fan when they produced proper cards like the 9700 and 9800 Pro. These days it's nVidia all the way though. Times change

Might as well add Limerock Chicane, that would be so much fun to spectate it'd be criminal.

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Maybe it works like the US PSN store vs EU PSN store? For the PSP at least, the library of downloadable games is 10x greater in the US store, it's quite a bit of a sad case really.

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I'm sure you realise that when taken like that, any measurement invented is arbitrary of course. We have to invent a set length before we can benchmark it systematically. The imperial system cleverly uses a range of reasonably logical measurements such as 'feet', but it's a system that is more prone to becoming inaccurate and confusing as time goes on. It simply doesn't make as much sense as the metric system beyond the very basics by which the measurements are defined. (eg, how do you define a meter to a person who has never seen the length of a meter, as opposed to defining one foot, which is roughly one foot.)

Where metric makes more sense than imperial is the simple use of predictible scales when increasing or decreasing numbers used in measurements.

1kg = 1000 grams
1l = 1000 ml
1l weighs as much as 1kg
100 cm is a meter
1000 meter is a kilometer

I am 181 centimeters tall, 1.81 meters, or even 0.0018 km - as opposed to I am 5 feet and 11.26 inches (or is it 5.94 feet?) or 71.26 inches.

No person unfamiliar with the imperial system would be able to tell you what a mile is in inches, or even feet if they're particularly slow on calculations.

Having said that, whatever you're used to is undoubtedly what makes the most sense to you, as the issue surrounding this discussion is perspective. You grow up with imperial and it makes sense, much like your native language. Strange 'languages' have a different set of logical rules that may or may not make sense to you. It's probably a lot harder to get used to the imperial system if you grew up with the metric system than vice versa though, although that's pure speculation. The metric system just seems to have a more structured 'grammar' (gotta stick to the language theme here :P)

Well, let's just say... the internet is a very 'big' place.

I'm going to try to get back into simracing after 5-6 months without a wheel. Are there any current promotions going on within iRacing for ex-members with existing accounts?