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Storm_Cloud
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Quote from Vultureke :If we can have a Steamless and a Steam version => OK
If there is only a Steam version => I quit

I don't need 3rd-party software (malware that 'benefits' the gamers experience, right...) on my system.
If I buy a game I want to be able to install it and own it myself, not by running 3rd-party services via internet connections.
Example: Years ago I bought Half-Life 2 on dvd, I couldn't install/unpack it without being connected with Steam.

Please give me some real benefits of Steam...

Well, you'd be able to play Half Life 2...

Also, digital delivery - no DVDs. Autopatching. You can play your games anywhere in the world on any PC.

But OMG! They advertise on there - the no good double crossing, erm, business people.

By the way - check the small print in your boxed games - you don't own them like you think you do.
Storm_Cloud
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It's a good move to differentiate from MotoGP and SS1000 will provide good racing. The combination of one bike per rider and pitstops is, erm, interesting. I suppose endurance racing manages, but SBK races are a bit shorter and it might just serve to spread the pack out.

SBK can get back to production racing though. Good thing.
Storm_Cloud
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Quote from Hotdogxx60 :If LFS ended up on Steam, it would be the end for me. Any software that requires me to install Steam I don't bother.:thumbsdow

Why?
Storm_Cloud
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But being a 3 time WDC doesn't make him better than Clark, just like it didn't with Piquet.

(I wasn't comparing him to Mansell, and I never liked him, but it was a good example of a game changing moment in the sport).

It just depends on how you define great. If that definition to you covers say 5 drivers from all time then Vettel isn't there yet.
Storm_Cloud
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It might be this inner feeling he has himself that is driving him away from Newey by taking Ferrari from Fernando Alonso, like Senna did to Prost at McLaren. I don't think Vettel has quite reached the great status like Jim Clark, Sir Stirling Moss, Ayrton Senna - the big league greats.

Fernando's fight to the title this year has been a tremendous effort of guile, consistency and being able to drive the car at 100% lap after lap. Vettel gets more rear downforce as Red Bull have improved and just like 2010 when he got better exhaust blown diffusers he overtakes his team mate in the standings the wins races easily.

Where's his defining moment - like Mansell and Piquet at Silverstone in 1987? He could get it yet, but the my mountain of F1 greatness is a little steeper than some people's perhaps?
Storm_Cloud
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There was a story in the papers here (Bangalore) a couple of days ago about an engineer at Kingfisher Airlines who, like many, had not been paid for 5 months. He committed suicide. Mallaya did not even bother to offer his condolences to the engineer's wife. Remember that next time you see his smug face on the pitwall.

He has been stringing on the airline regulator who have been reluctant to act as they do not seem to want to bring a big name down, but that has just made the situation worse.
Storm_Cloud
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That could well have been one of Hamilton's top three races of his career.
Storm_Cloud
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Go @AussieGrit!

Webber on the clean side gives him half a chance of getting to T1 first as he is usually poor on the start. Hamilton behind him will be gunning for Vettel who starts on the dirty side. Lord knows what the order will be at T4 but if it is either Red Bull they will be hard to beat from there.
Storm_Cloud
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They have a history from Sportscars don't they? It would make a lot of financial sense for Sauber as they are typically one of the more lightly sponsored cars on the grid.
Storm_Cloud
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Peter Sauber has said he would offer Schumie a drive if he became available...
Storm_Cloud
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It'd be nice if he got a second chance in Europe with GP2 or World Series. Expensive though
Storm_Cloud
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Quote from EliteAti :Dont know if this fits directly here but Kubica is back rallying and dominating his competition as we speak.

http://www.cronometristi.net/p ... LLA0909201201/CIAA111.HTM
https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net ... 42039235_2051219028_o.jpg

Couldn't hold the bottle of champagne with his right hand though.
Storm_Cloud
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So talk of Rockingham being brought to the kart meet on CD is wide of the mark?
Storm_Cloud
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Quote from Intrepid :Is a bit odd. Super socialist country welcomes uber-capitalist F1 team lol

Or just country welcomes its Grand Prix winning hero.

We may think he's a bit of a bell end, but to them he's a superstar. Nothing wrong with a bit of partisanship.
Storm_Cloud
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Quote from BlueFlame :Well I'm not subject to capitalistic branding exercises, sorry to disappoint.

LOL! Can't just say "Oh right, my bad." can you?
Storm_Cloud
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Quote from Crashgate3 :Regarding the 'should you play to 110% of your ability no matter what' argument earlier...

Definition of "no matter what":

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/athletics/19202411
Storm_Cloud
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Fo8 @ ky3
Storm_Cloud
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Quote from Intrepid :I know you're not an Olympic athlete.

And neither are you, so your argument can also be dismissed.
Storm_Cloud
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Quote from Intrepid : It's not JUST about them and their own success. But of course you wouldn't see that, you don't and never wil understand the pressures some of these guys face,

You don't know anything about me.
Storm_Cloud
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Quote from Yuri Laszlo :This has got nothing to do with Intrepid's argument.

Several athletes come to the games under pressure to win gold at the risk of losing what little sponsorship they have managed to find. That's why they drug themselves, that's why they try and find shortcuts to ensure they get the best possible result.

Your workplace analogy would more accurately represent Intrepid's arguments had you posed the following question: "would you cheat at work to ensure your bosses are happy with the results, if you knew that you'd risk being left unemployed for the next four years if you failed to fulfill their expectations", to which the most common answer would be "yes".

I don't believe that is representative of the human condition. Also, you wouldn't be left unemployed for four years. Athletes can go and get a job if they are failures in sport, like all you other lazy cowardly cheats who would answer "yes" to your question.

You're much more likely to be left unemployed for four years if you're an athlete that cheats by taking drugs.

Drugs do not make up for physical inabilities - they make up for mental ones such as lack of desire and inability to control fear of losing.
Storm_Cloud
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Quote from Intrepid :I'd like to see you take the attitude when those who paying the bills demand golds otherwise you lose funding. And playing fair to me is is doing everything to win that doesn't include a DSQ.

Do you cheat at work? do you hide your own mistakes, or blame others for them? Do you claim credit for stuff that was nothing to do with you? Would you deliberately do bad work on a project to ensure it reflects badly on the project lead?
Storm_Cloud
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It's the Nurburgring
Storm_Cloud
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Quote from Intrepid :I'm sorry if I understand that athletes train to win gold... you know actually win the competition. They played the system, which is obviously flawed, but can you really blame them? I'd have done exactly the same thing. As I understand it there's nothing explicit in the regulations that prohibits such behaviour.

Your sole objective is to play to win gold. That's the 'spirit of the games'. If winning a game actually hinders this goal then that is the problem. It's certainly not pretty, but fully understandable. I think if that exclusion was in an F1 race arena the lawyers would easily get the ruling overturned, but I guess it's the Olympics and anything goes.

The people that organise the competition need to change the system, that's fairly obvious.

The athletes all swear to an "Olympic Oath":

In the name of all the competitors I promise that we shall take part in these Olympic Games, respecting and abiding by the rules which govern them, committing ourselves to a sport without doping and without drugs, in the true spirit of sportsmanship, for the glory of sport and the honor of our teams

What they did was not sportsmanship, nor did it honour their teams, nor probably did it comply with their sports regulations.

What they did was a cowardly act - they didn't have the balls to face the perceived better opponent, which if they want to win gold they would probably have to do eventually.
Storm_Cloud
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Yeah, the invention is the interesting bit, but if it is so fantastic why doesn't he just make a few billion out of that and then buy McLaren?
Storm_Cloud
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My favourite bit from that link:

2) I can bring tremendous attention to your brand, corporation, etc. for the following reasons;

A) I have the potential to win a F1 world championship. (it doesn’t matter what some people might think about this statement, they don’t know me).

B) I would be the oldest F1 champion in history, and definitely the oldest competing. I am 56 years old.
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