This is an outrage! China should stop abusing and slaughtering animals in full view, and do it behind closed doors, like they do in civilised contries like ours. 
That said, I must say I like cat fur, but only when it's sitting on my lap and purring loudly. Which it is doing right now. And in a while, I'll feed her some delicious pet food. Pork, to be exact, from a pig that no doubt led a short, miserable life before it was mercifully butchered.
That said, I must say I like cat fur, but only when it's sitting on my lap and purring loudly. Which it is doing right now. And in a while, I'll feed her some delicious pet food. Pork, to be exact, from a pig that no doubt led a short, miserable life before it was mercifully butchered.
It isn't shown automatically, but pressing F7 will show it. (Or from the menu: File -> Panes -> Driving line.) Press F7 again to hide it.
It could be red, if the Earth was rotating fast (like, 1000 rpm, roughly). Then the thread would be pulled outward by centrifugal forces. But the person holding the thread would also be pulled outward, so you'd have to nail his feet to the floor. Hum.
However, Earth's rotation being boringly slow, the blue thread will be the correct answer.
More or less the same thing happened to me back in January. My employer knew I wasn't happy with my current position. (I had informed if there were other, better-fitting positions inside the company; there weren't.) So when the stock exchanges plummeted, I was the No. 1 Candidate for Redundancy.
Shortly after I got the announcement from my manager, I found a new job that's much much better. (I like to think that the mental relief of being freed from my old, depressing job gave me the energy to write a good job application.)
Sometimes good things do happen.
Then you haven't experienced it either, so your claims to its being extraordinary have no grounds.
I do have a hunch, tho: adrenaline rush. Anyone can experience it by bungee-jumping or by taking a rollercoaster ride. Your senses tell you that your life is in danger, adrenaline kicks in and puts your body&mind into overdrive. Aftwards, everything else seems shallow. It's just chemistry.
BTW, they did not "journey to the beyond". Their bones were crushed, their bodies were smashed, their skin was burnt. They suffered pain. They died and left widows and orphans behind.
I won't deny that it takes extraordinary skill to drive these machines, but why did you not honour Fangio, Moss, Stewart, and others who were masters at their art AND were lucky enough to survive?
I don't understand tributes like these. I can understand it when people honour firemen or soldiers who died - they took big risks so that others might survive and live a better life. But a racer's death? It's tragic, sure. But what did they die for? Why did they take the risk? For the glory of winning? Or simply because they were addicted to the adrenaline rush? In either case, the reason is "selfish", and I can't see anything honourable in it.
It's not the same. Death is part of life, but the way people die is no reason for commemoration. I like to remember my grandparents for the good people they were and the deeds they did, not for the slow and agonizing diseases they died of.
No! A racer's death is not inevitable. It's an unnecessary death. It's reason to get angry because the constructors made unsafe cars and got away with it. Angry because for many decades people closed their eyes to the insane risks.
A tribute to these deaths is an attempt to make them "right". THAT's closing your eyes.
It's not the same. Death is part of life, but the way people die is no reason for commemoration. I like to remember my grandparents for the good people they were and the deeds they did, not for the slow and agonizing diseases they died of.
No! A racer's death is not inevitable. It's an unnecessary death. It's reason to get angry because the constructors made unsafe cars and got away with it. Angry because for many decades people closed their eyes to the insane risks.
A tribute to these deaths is an attempt to make them "right". THAT's closing your eyes.
The cursor/crosshair in LRA also enables you to see the transitions, I think.
If you take a look at my race stats on LFSW you'll see why I'm reluctant to spend a lot of time rewriting LRA. But it's open source, anyone can have a go at improving the program.
No, not really. The RAF file only contains one temperature per wheel, and judging from the values it's something like the core temperature of the tyre, perhaps of the air inside it. It's an integer value, so you see very little variation in it during a lap. I can't see much use for it in analysing, but since it's in the file I figured I should display it somewhere. The detailed temp info that you find inside LFS is absent from the RAF file.
That would require a rewrite of a large part of LRA. On the plus side, LRA's approach allows you to plot more than 2 laps in the same graph (unlike Motec, IIRC), so it's easier to compare several laps.
Yup. It's one value for the whole car, and it's more like a drifting angle or so.
I have been thinking about a real slip angle, but could not find a way to calculate it from the RAF data.
No, just basic buoyancy and the laws of physics.
If it was the hand of God, then that same hand killed -- or couldn't be bothered to rescue -- the girl's mother, along with lots of other folks. The crash left hundreds of people mourning. Your deity has a weird concept of benevolence, mister.
Reading your posts I'm inclined to agree.
Funny, the only occasion when people call themselves average is when they're venting their opinion.
What the intended use of weapons is, is beside the point. The gun-control debate is about the consequences when a weapon is NOT used as intended: when the owner loses his cool, goes completely crazy, or when the weapon falls into someone else's hands.
LOL. They don't seem to realise that this quote only weakens their case.
If that 50-years old proof is still scientifically solid, then the whole climate discussion would have been moot, including Monckton's work. And if the proof is wrong, then quoting an old and incorrect result is plain lunacy.
Looks like they've heaped up all the anti-GW evidence they could find, without checking if that evidence is internally consistent.
Kudos, you're the first in this thread to admit our skewed views on animals. If the victim had been less cute and/or better-tasting, nobody would bother (except PETA, and they'd be laughed at).
Give that boy a job in a slaughterhouse, and everything will be fine.
It may help if you call them and threaten to cancel your subscription. Often, they will offer existing customers a better deal for a renewed contract, to avoid losing them to the competition.
I won't. Or can't. The way you phrase it, turning "being fooled" into "being foolish", dragging honesty and truthfulness into it... Dunno, I sense hurt feelings, to an extent where it's no use for me to try to explain.
No, I think that it's you who is trying to save face. That you feel like you've been fooled, resent it, and rather be unjust to Lynce than rethink your position.
Is it that hard to admit you missed the point, Sam? It was easy to miss, and pretty much everyone did. I would have, too, had I seen the thread early on.
Or are you a master psychologist, who understands Lynce's motives better than he himself does?
As I understand it, the reason why Lynce started this thread is to illustrate his concerns about people's behaviour in this forum. The race replay was just a means to an end. The question who was to blame for the CTRA incident is irrelevant. It was to start a discussion, invite reactions, and then make a point about forum culture.
Note that Lynce did not whine, as is done in many "I was banned" posts. He used neutral words, and took at least part of the blame for the collision. He did not stubbornly maintain he did nothing wrong. Yet, many replies contained strong language right from the start.
IMHO the reactions show that posts are seldom read carefully. The similarity to "I was banned" whiners was enough to release negativity. And Lynce's poor command of English probably added to that, as many folks equate that with low intelligence. I'm not sure if his other point - that hostility is caused by people "ganging up" with forum friends - is correct. I haven't seen enough proof for that.
I think Lynce started the thread out of genuine concern for the atmosphere in the forum. It was brave, as he knew he'd be flamed. But I doubt it was a success - there was too much misunderstanding, even after clarification (post #56). Only FOX 1977 seems to have gotten it. (But I'm sure it was NOT trolling or spamming, AndroidXP. Think before you post abuse.)
Note that Lynce did not whine, as is done in many "I was banned" posts. He used neutral words, and took at least part of the blame for the collision. He did not stubbornly maintain he did nothing wrong. Yet, many replies contained strong language right from the start.
IMHO the reactions show that posts are seldom read carefully. The similarity to "I was banned" whiners was enough to release negativity. And Lynce's poor command of English probably added to that, as many folks equate that with low intelligence. I'm not sure if his other point - that hostility is caused by people "ganging up" with forum friends - is correct. I haven't seen enough proof for that.
I think Lynce started the thread out of genuine concern for the atmosphere in the forum. It was brave, as he knew he'd be flamed. But I doubt it was a success - there was too much misunderstanding, even after clarification (post #56). Only FOX 1977 seems to have gotten it. (But I'm sure it was NOT trolling or spamming, AndroidXP. Think before you post abuse.)
Explanation found!
From what I've seen, it works if you leak your horror stories to consumer organisations or newspapers. Telling your friends that Virgin sucks* doesn't impress them, but telling the papers does.
*: Takumi, don't you dare!
It starts with a misconception. Evolution is a solid scientific theory. It's not something you can choose to believe or not.
Perhaps not, but it does mean they choose to ignore solid scientific evidence, in favour of wishful thinking and/or childhood imprinting. Understandable (from a psychological point of view), but not very smart.
Evolution is about the development of life on Earth, starting from the first bacteria. It has nothing to say about the origins of the universe.
Being Christian does not necessarily mean you reject evolution. Ken Miller, the biologist who defended evolution in the Kitzmiller v. Dover lawsuit, is a Catholic.
There have been great minds who believed in the literal truth of Genesis, but these have become very scarce in the last 50 years, when the evidence for evolution became compelling (especially since the discovery of DNA).
For me, that merely proves that we should take IQ tests with a grain of salt. If the IQ tests really measure intelligence, then an average teenager of today could become a star at Cambridge, if he could time-travel back to 1930. With an IQ of 180, he'd equal Wittgenstein, Russell and Turing... But I expect he'd fail miserably at the entrance exams.
AFAIK the money is not a compensation for the copyrighted stuff that you download. It is meant to pay for an agency whose task it is to find the pirates. However, at 20 quid per user this agency would have several 100 million pounds to burn. Per year. Seems like an awful lot to hire a handful of detectives...
A man comes home from work and gives his wife a beautiful bunch of flowers. Unfortunately, the wife is in a really bad mood. She yells: "Oh, great! What do you expect me to do now? Adore you? Lie down on my back and spread my legs?!?"
The man, astonished, replies: "What? You mean we don't have a vase?"
The man, astonished, replies: "What? You mean we don't have a vase?"
Finally! A politician who keeps his election promises!! 
Indeed. Just as subjective as the arguments in favour of tattoos.
It invalidates itself in the sense that your skin is a blank slate until you take your first tattoo. It's the same kind of irony as "This space intentionally left blank".
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