Quote from hyntty :

Oh sorry, I'll explain: Like an englishman he's emphasizing the wrong syllable (the third one; ko-va-lai-nen). Also the space between his first and last name is missing the "end-duplex sound" (don't know what that's really called, i'm no philologist) which basically means there should be a near silent K separating the words

This all adds up to [heɪkk:ɪ] [kɒvʌlʌɪnen]

Could it possibly be related to dialect? Do you have dialects in Finnish?

A number of KERS teams have reported rear-tyre graining problems: Toyota and Williams, and there is a hint that RBR and STR are also suffering. I wonder if McLaren is facing the same issue.

The new regs have made the cars more oversteer-happy on slower corners, so perhaps tail-happy drivers will be forced to adapt more and that might be Lewis' achilles heel. Bourdais' isn't happy with it, neither is Rosberg or Trulli, Webber was happy but has changed his mind. Vettel seems very happy (despite being a tail-happy driver), Glock is happy in the wet, Heikki hasn't complained.

Quote from BenjiMC :

where does that stuff cum from?

You're terrible.

Anyway, latest test times.

Barcelona Day 1:

Barcelona Day 2:

I usually avoid rants, but after spending the whole evening engaging in a controlled form of physical violence, I feel the urge to verbally unleash myself.

Quote from S14 DRIFT :

I'd rather spend 1/5 the time we actually spent (a term, about 8 weeks) events of the past, and use the extra 4/5 to learn about things of tommorow.

I genuinely don't get why events of the past dictate what we must learn today. Even if someone like a new-age Hitler WAS to come about, he'd be cast out, hung, dried and quartered before he'd even finished his opening speech.

We live in a fairly civilized society, something that 65 years ago, didn't exist.

Besides, what good will knowing about the Holocaust, for example (any old event can help here), your house is being flooded because of rising water levels?

Civilised society didn't exist 65 years ago? Germany was actually a very sophisticated country, socially-speaking, back in the days when Hitler was building up his political career.

You forget that events like the Holocaust have happened before. Ethnic slaughter was nothing new 65 years ago. Oddly enough, no-one really seems to have learned the lesson because it continues even today. Not so long ago, the former Yugoslavia was going through a period of ethnic cleansing. Neo-Nazi skinheads at football matches are testament to the fact that the principles which drove the Nazis to industrially kill millions of Jews are still very much alive, prowling in dark places to warp mushy teenage and adolescent minds whose only concern is "tomorrow", the next release of their favourite gaming console, and the playlist on their friend's iPod.

Rising water levels? Let's talk environment then...

Have you heard of Mount Vesuvius? Perhaps your history class might have featured it, or perhaps not. In any case, it's a volcano in Naples, Italy. In AD79, it erupted and literally buried the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum. Archeological studies of Pompeii and Herculaneum during the period of the mountain's eruption has provided enormous information to modern volcanologists about the character of eruptions and behaviour of pyroclastic gases, helping to better prepare emergency services about dealing with volcanic eruptions near populated areas.

There's one small example of how history has helped the modern world, and in an environmental sense at that.

By studying the dynamics of populations and urban developments in the past, modern sociologists, civil engineers, and environmental planners have information that helps them to build better cities in the future, how to better manage human waste, and if water levels should rise to catastrophic levels, how the human population will have to adapt and change in order to survive. This knowledge doesn't come from thin air, but from years of research about human society and our interactions with our living world throughout recorded history.

Never underestimate the importance of history.

Quote from S14 DRIFT :

They teach you how to pass bloody tests, tests that the government lay out on a set curriculum, about 5% of which regards practical skills you need in every day life. Why bother doing fancy maths, when you have calculators?

After all, how many times do you have £=(2y^8)/50x2 when you go shopping?

Tailor made home schooling, work experience and 'college' style courses are the way forward.

Interesting comment.

If I recall correctly, you're in your late-teens, right? Well, I used to think the same way as you. Until I got a job with real responsibilities.

Perhaps one day in the future, you will be in a position where you must hire, fire, lead, and manage people to get things done. Some of those "things" can be quite difficult and very challenging, jobs that not everyone can do. In fact, I should rephrase that... they're jobs that anyone COULD do, but turns out they can't because they don't have the mental skills to think outside the box, to extrapolate existing knowledge to solve novel problems, and to adapt one's mind to changing circumstances. In my experience, the people who have those skills and are therefore deserving of better jobs and pay, are usually (about 80% of the time) the ones who slogged through the "useless" stuff at school. Because the "useless" stuff had somehow expanded their mental ability to the point where they end up as far superior workers and leaders than those who just gave up and doodled in their diaries. Those people who had the self-discipline to keep awake and actually learn the "useless" stuff are strangely also the ones who work harder, smarter, faster, and even teach themselves how to do new work or solve new problems without supervision. At the end of the day, guess who gets the promotion and better pay?

Schools have three roles:
1. Teach students skills to make them employable.
2. Teach students skills to enable further learning.
3. Teach students to become positive contributors to society.

I have to admit that schools fail miserably in roles 1 and 3, but still do a pretty good job of role 2. What might seem "useless" on the outside, isn't really useless.

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At least that's what some British high school kids think (yes, high school).

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25162613-23109,00.html

Ever wondered why history repeats?

Quote from Lateralus :

I agree.

Babies are the worst form of STD. At least you don't have to pay for college for syphilis.

Too bad syphilis can be fatal. But babies, oh wait...

Quote from TexasLTU :

It is AT&T Williams F1 Team, not Williams F1 And USF1 haven't the tiny word "team" in team name

Williams Grand Prix Engineering Ltd. trading as AT&T WilliamsF1 Team, if you want to be super-accurate.

Quote from FlyeThemoon :

http://www.illume.fi/elokuvakuvat/1508081509_bullshit.gif

if USF1 has been changes why NOT Williams F1.

Licensing agreement?

Quote from Mustafur :

Its not that much lower, but im guessing it will lack a huge amount of torque on the last version.

Yup. A lot less torque. Torque is the biggest down-side to S2000 rally cars.

Power is around 270-280BHP, but torque is only around 250-270Nm. Furthermore, it peaks very late in the curve, almost as late as peak power at circa 7000rpm.

Drivers will need to work extra hard to keep their engines on song. WRC cars had very flat curves, not so with S2000.

Quote from MR_B :

similar to? (with an FO8 air intake)

Apart from the general "formula car" shape, no, it looks nothing like it.

The nose design is interesting though. Most teams have gone for a high nose, but not Brawn.

Drivers: Finland and Britain
Cars: France and Japan

Quote from Mustafur :

you mean BAR?

No, that's British-American Racing, which is actually a tobacco company's racing outfit.

I mean Anglo-American Racers (sorry, Racers not Racing), which produced the Eagle cars, and was owned by Dan Gurney.

Quote from BlueFlame :

You are right. There are people quoting "If you think I am good, you should see my nephew" as if Ayrton actually said that. He's more overrated than Hamilton. We all KNEW Hamilton was good in karts, we just weren't 100% sure if he was gonna be good on the big time.

Ayrton did say it.

However, Bruno was his nephew, so there is a natural bias. And just because a kid is good in karts, it doesn't mean he will be good in other types of vehicles. People who guessed on Hamilton got lucky. There are HEAPS of kids who fly in karts, but get nowhere.

Quote from 5haz :

Still not as good as 'All American Racing' or 'Eagle'.

Eh? Wasn't it Anglo-American Racing?

Quote from BlueFlame :

Fleetwood Mac Greatest Hits has all you need but I love the way this thread has been completely hijacked.

Guilty as charged.

Nevertheless, good music invigorates the soul, so it's worth it. Try their 1997 The Dance tour DVD. Best live performance ever.

Quote from Intrepid :

According to Glock following is just as hard as before, if not worse contrary to what Heidfeld claimed a few days ago

Contradicted again by Williams' Sam Michael, who says the driver-adjustable front wing makes it easier to follow another car.

Quote from BlueFlame :

So let me get this right, they've managed to develop a 2009 car with no funding and before being bought out? Who was paying for the development? Is that the just the car that Honda WOULD have used if they had stayed?

The funding would have come from Honda. Even with a buyout, I dare say Honda would still be a sponsor.

If you want to sell a team, it should be operational. Otherwise it's not a tempting buy. So Honda will most likely prop it up until a buyer comes along. In any case, this fiasco is probably giving Honda more publicity than the past two seasons combined.

Quote from Intrepid :

Fleetwood Mac with nicks on lead vocals then yes... but the other membesr on the mic were just pants

Nonsense! Christine's singing is/was great - technically better than Nicks, although Nicks had more spirit. Nicks sounded good until cocaine took her voice apart.

Anywhoo...

I wouldn't have minded the BBC using some other song. The Chain is good, but it's getting a bit long in the tooth. Even legends have to fade some day. (Runs for cover!)

Quote from FlyeThemoon :

THE CHAIN song Returns to BBC yeah i still love listing Fleetwood Mac The Chain song.

They have heaps of other legendary songs too, you know... Go Your Own Way, Dreams, Rhiannon, Little Lies, Sara, Landslide, etc etc etc.

The Chain is one of their lesser songs, although its bass riff is probably the most famous in the world (alongside So Far Away by Dire Straits). John McVie is the best bassist in rock history, IMHO.

Quote from deggis :

Point out about that if Aussies are someday trying to set up a F1 team...

I sure will.

Not really a challenge, but using a Ford Fiesta for a Royal Marines beach assault was hilarious.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOnTIBx7Obk

Well, they've got another season to pick a driver. Graham Rahal was good in Champ Cars, but he's doing crap in the new IRL; Marco Andretti just needs to step up more; Danica Patrick needs to do better on road courses. One of them need to do sufficiently well in 2009.

If they can't find anyone, they can plonk Scott Speed in the race seat, and choose a foreign driver for the second seat. Most Americans are immigrants anyway, so what does it matter?

Happy Talk - Captain Sensible
Don't You Want Me - Human League
I've Never Been To Me - Charlene

The only song I know from that list is Don't You Want Me, which is a pretty funky disco song. Not really my type of music though.

Quote from JO53PHS :

UK - Love Is All Around - Wet Wet Wet
US - I Swear - All-4-One
AUS - Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm - Crash Test Dummies

What is this shit?

Good songs. Not sure about Mmm Mmm Mmm, but we used to sing Love Is All Around and I Swear in primary school. Some of the best romantic songs ever!

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Quote from JCTK :

at least Force India is run by an Indian, Super Aguri was run by a Japanese, but as far as I know, Peter Windsor isn't an American~?

what I didn't get is why is he all of a sudden so patriotic to America~? (other than the business reasons behind it)

Windsor isn't patriotic to America. It's just business. If you didn't know already, Olympic teams are often coached by foreign coaches, but that doesn't mean those coaches are somehow traitors to their own country or suffering from a surge of misdirected patriotism.

Looking to improve my performance from last year (5th).

LF1 reporting in!

EDIT: Wow, budgets are tight!

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