Quote from mr_x :

my Current desktop, featuring my second favourite band, Muse.

also featuring a fair few icons :P

Slightly off-topic, but although 3 months ago I still damn that monsoon* for preventing me from seeing them on the Hurricane** festival..
Fortunately*** I'll see them in November though..

* we're not talking about those "heavy rain"-monsoons here.. it was more the "god flushed all his toilets" type of monsoon that flooded the whole area with about 20cm of water within a few minutes..
** the name DOES fit after all
*** Seeing your desktop I have to add I don't like the current album too much.. but they can't fill 2 hours with only that anyway

Quote from Vain :

There is a basic guideline though, which can be pretty tough at times. 60 hours a week usually.
... That is when you're studying something worthwhile. Not japanology of something that only qualifies you for the dole.

Uhm.. my first 2 years have 79 hours in total, so roughly 20 a week.. (well I'll do 28 this term to have even less in the end)
So.. now that I have only a third of your hours.. is Physics not worthwhile?

Also 60 hours a week (assuming the five-day-week) would mean 12(!) hours a day? You should consider sleeping there to save valuable time.

So.. will S3 have tanks in it?

Quote from DethMag :

Actually that IS a clip from the 95 race at Spa...it's easy to tell when you know your car shapes

1994 Williams had a "low nose" as is cleary seen in the Adelaide clip (last race of the season) whereas the Williams in that vid is of a "high nose" configuration that Williams didn't adopt until the 1995 season after it had been so successful on the '94 Benetton

In fact the last top team to run a "low nose" was Ferrari at the start of '96 when Schumi joined them, only for them to change it after a few races of Hill/Villeneuve dominance

Okay that explains why the commentator knew about the future ;p

I agree. If Alonse ever thought F1 was a sport and not the money game it really is, then he was pretty naive.

Quote from Becky Rose :

Hiroshima and Nagasaki killed 10,000 people and saved 25,000,000 est.

Deducting your extreme exaggerations into both directions:
Even the planned land invasion would not have costed that many lifes - it's just that many of them would've been US soldiers.
Do you think they would've done the same with Germany (instead of Operation Overlord), if they'd had the bomb already? Would that have been a good idea?
And who's to say Japan would not have surrendered after the Soviets re-entered the war. Clearly waiting another two weeks would've been a good idea..
I can see where you're going at, but I for one have a hard time to accept such a sad day for mankind as necessary evil.

Last edited by TheDeppchef, Thu 14 Sep 2006, 11:18.

http://formula-1.updatesport.c ... spray-explained/view.html
There it is for example.

I agree, I don't fear a terrorist attack here in Berlin either.
Well, maybe on the U.S. Embassy, but they have locked down the whole street in front of it since 9/11.

On the other hand we recently had some bombs (that didn't explode) in train stations all over the country..

Quote from Becky Rose :

I dont think any country should take part in any kind of war, but I dont think Germans should worry about the stigma of something 6 decades ago. Sure i'm a Brit so i'll rib you for it, i'll "not mention the war" along with the best of bulldog spirit,

I think we should worry. In fact, if everyone worried about history, the world would be a better place.
This is actually on of the few things I really like about Germany, along with the low level of patriotism, although it goes too far sometimes (don't you ever criticise the Isreali government!!).
On the other hand it didn't stop us from being involved in Bosnia or Afghanistan..
Anyway, if you compare that with what GB thinks about the "good old" days of the British Empire and Colonialism, or how Napoleon is still a hero in France, how Franco is not frowned upon in Spain - I much prefer the German way.
But you're right - it probably only happens when you lose WW2..

xaotik: I think Benetton protested one or two times and that's why he was banned that late.

After watching it again I also know why I was so puzzled:
The commentator says that they crashed in "Australia and Silverstone".
And I can't remember them crashing in Adelaide '93 or Silverstone '94..

Last edited by TheDeppchef, Wed 13 Sep 2006, 14:11.

Hm, didn't see the 0 on his car actually. (I just watched it again and, can't see it
Anyway in '94 Schumacher was disqualified because something on his car was irregular, though.
And the two race ban that season was because he didnt come in for a stop-and-go, after he had overtaken someone on the formation lap?

I don't see any bad driving on this clip anyway?

edit: hm.. too slow ^^

My memory fails me on that, to be honest.
He actually won the race (this is Spa '95, isn't it??) and nothing else happened?

edit: And no, I didn't want to glorify him, just wanted to show that fights between the two didn't always end in crashes.

For a change a Schumacher-Hill-video without Schumacher closing the door for Hill or Hill diving into Schumacher's rear:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTgLf3mNva0

Quote from bbman :

YES! Can you please send it (should be fitting in a E-Mail)?

Just download it here: http://home.swipnet.se/~w-26066/slix.htm

Disclaimer: No, this it not illegal.

Quote from Becky Rose :

I'm not convinced that is true, I dont think I would have. OK i'm no F1 driver but I did win two club championships in my racing career

Well, did you ever lose one, because you let someone pass you in the last race of the season?

Quote from Becky Rose :

Hill did what all racing drivers would have done, including Schumacher.

That statement works the other way around, too.


Okay, maybe excluding Button.

I vote for
F) Alonso is 1 point ahead before Brazil, then during the race pulls of a "Schumacher" and ends both races. He then gets deducted all points of the season so that Schumacher villeneuve-esquely gets handed the title.

Slicks 'n' slide
Still have that on my pc, and it even runs on DosBox!

And I second that NFS:PU was the best NFS ever

I can already see him in a 2008 DTM Mercedes.

Quote from Memph1s :

The Luck that i meant was Season 2005 when always Kimi got machine accidents or tyre blow in last lap while he was leading and Alonso earned the win like that.

You say that was bad luck for Kimi. I think that not flat-spotting your tyres certainly is a skill..

edit:

Quote from ajp71 :

When the stewards are as bent as hell, to be fair it's the stewards as much as Ferrari that need to be shot here.

Would be interesting to know whether all three stewards had the same opinion.

edit2:
From UpdateF1:

Quote :

Sep.10 (GMM) Max Mosley says the governing body is considering changing the rules so that drivers are not unfairly penalised in future.

The FIA president, responding to an uproar in Spain - not to mention in the Renault camp at Monza - admitted that he felt sorry for Fernando Alonso after the Spaniard was dumped to the heart of the grid for 'impeding' Ferrari's Felipe Massa in qualifying.

Mosley said: ''If you have rules in a sport you have to apply them.

''At the end of the season what we are thinking very seriously about is saying we are only going to look at these (incidents) if there is evidence of intent, which I don't think there was in this case.''

So Max basically says there is a weird rule that caused this?

Last edited by TheDeppchef, Sun 10 Sep 2006, 11:53.

Quote from ORION :

heh I thought it was his outlap... lol
didn't watch the quali though

Uhm, just to clarify it for you.
Alonso had a puncture mid-session and thus lost much time, he left the pits with ~1:30 to go and came out in front of Massa.
So Massa was on his fast lap, while Alonso was on his outlap, but Alonso needed to push to cross the line before the time was up. (He was on 8th or something like that so he really needed another fast lap).

btw: Ross Brawn was interviewed by german television right after the qualy, and he said something like "Felipe's last lap was really destroyed by someone".
You can bet that he knew who it "was" and what he wanted to do

Regarding the ruling: I have no idea how the rule for blocking looks like.. maybe it says "Driver A, being on his outlap and seeing Driver B, being on his fast lap, in the mirror, has to let him by instantly" or something like that?
I don't think they can just say "We think you blocked him" and that's it.

Uhm, if you don't want that the MSN/Live-Messenger shows what you're doing.. just use Trillian. (That way you also get rid of the bloatware that is ICQ)

That is correct.

He's basically saying that his card will work in ten years. Not sure what that means for the nine years in between though?

I should maybe note that the track is not used anymore and was not a permanent track either.