I have a sneaking suspicion that there are quite a few current and former racing drivers who also drive this sim, but they prefer to remain anonymous in order to dissuade undesired attention.
Impossible to verify of course, but it makes the feel of LFS even more special.
It's technically possible, but extremely unlikely unless he does this repeatedly or gets into an accident or somesuch.
From what I understand, the FIA can revoke superlicenses if the holder repeatedly and grossly violates the general standard of conduct expected of highly-paid professsionals (obviously open to interpretation), or publicly humiliates the FIA due to some huge scandal in the press.
Even then though, I doubt it because his fame brings so much publicity and money into F1.
You have to register, but it's well worth it considering the immense quantity of videos available. R-U is by far the best racing-related video website I've ever come across.
The current Republican party has nothing at all to do with the party of Lincoln's day, except the name.
Note that the Emancipation Proclamation only freed slaves in the rebel states, not the Union ones. It was a military move, not a moral one. He deprived the rebel states of millions of laborers and thus hurt their war effort immensely.
Often we in America don't either. Anti-Bush protestors at his inaguration were required to stay within designated 'free speech zones'. If any of them stepped outside of those zones holding signs the SS didn't approve of, they were promptly arrested. These zones were carefully chosen to be out-of-the-way and would never be seen on TV. Can't have anyone expressing disapproval of The Leader during his special parade, can we? :rolleyes:
Really? Not that I'm complaining, but replay rewind/fastforward/etc has been a pretty basic feature in many games for years now. I can't imagine it would trouble Scawen that much considering how fantastic the rest of the sim is.
How would you characterize a "Euro-style government"?
These two statements conflict. First you say that because Ron Paul's views conflict with much of the modern Republican party, support from within the GOP would be minimal and insignificant. But then you say that those same people would be swung toward voting for an independent Paul campaign, which would take votes away from the GOP and cause a Democrat to win.
Either this voter bloc is significant enough to swing the election, or it isn't. Which do you think?
Well you said I earlier that "I'm done arguing", which implies you are done arguing. Yet you're still here. Which means you aren't done arguing. It sounded as though you were quickly stating your opinion and then packing up your toys and going home before anyone had a chance to respond.
Until so many straws are split? Way to completely butcher two different expressions. It's splitting hairs, not straws. The other expression is "clutching at straws", which is something entirely different.
If one person 'defended America' and got called on it by several people, chances are they said something completely daft and deserved it. There isn't much defensible about the current American government.
I can honestly say I've never spoken to anyone outside the US who just hates the US, period. I know they're out there, but the ones I've spoken to have specific gripes that they can substantiate with facts: they hate America's deplorable foreign policy, despise the scum in our elected positions, and generally dislike the idea of a global superpower which seems to think it can do as it pleases. They generally like Americans, but dislike the American government.
Then why post here at all? Just a little snipe that you won't come back to defend?
OK, if you stretch to definition of adequate to 'overly simplified'.
That show kicked ass.
Why is it hard to pity one oppressed group because another group is being oppressed? Can't you pity both? They both deserved it. The ones who didn't deserve pity are King George and Parliament.
It's only logical to be upset about paying taxes when that tax revenue funds war crimes, torture, murder, and nationalistic jingoism. The apprehension about current American policy has little to do with the reasons for declaring independence from Britain.
You should really educate yourself on that whole situation.
It wasn't paying taxes per se, it was paying unjust taxes that we had absolutely no say over. We had no representatives to speak for us and keep the system even a little bit fair. People generally don't like being coerced into doing things. The colonists had their natural resources taken and shipped back to Britain so Britain could profit from them. Finished goods were shipped back to the colonies, sold at high prices, and then taxed at high rates on top of that. Colonization is about the exploitation of the subject country for the benefit of the ruling country, and is inherently unjust and immoral. The colonies were right to get upset and eventually revolt.
Of course, today America is the aggressor, yet most Americans don't realize it. People really don't learn from history.
And citizens paying taxes has precious little to do with the spending policies of the federal government. The current administration answers to no one but itself. It's full of criminals, is completely corrupt, and should be overthrown.
Again, no. The USA was founded as a republic, which is distinct from a democracy on many fundamental levels. If the US were a democracy we would have no Congress.