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wsinda
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Quote from wheel4hummer :I looked around on Google, and found an article that I agree with.

That's a summary of all debates on the Internetz, in one short sentence.
wsinda
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Quote from major_syphillis :I am working my ass off to become successful, you have no idea (school 24/7 and a full time job). And I don't see how people sit on their asses and feed off of the gov't.

That's typical of the right-wing ideology. If you are successful it's because you worked hard. Hence anyone who isn't successful was lazy, and only has himself to blame. You are ignoring the fact that some people are born in a bad environment. A drug-addicted mom, an abusive dad, a bad neighborhood, etc. They may contract a serious disease. Or they grow up during a worldwide economic crisis. Sometimes it's just dumb luck that decides how you fare.

If you cling to the belief that your own effort is the only determining factor in your life, then you have freed yourself of the obligation to care for your fellow humans. Is anyone poor? Down and out? It's their own fault.

Perhaps you should look up "compassion" in the dictionary.
wsinda
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Quote from flymike91 :I thought this summed up a lot of the overly zealous hero worship I've been seeing lately.

:munching_
OK, so what did you want to say? That Obama is being hyped, or that he heading for dictatorship?
wsinda
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Quote from th84 :Yea, I hear that kind of garbage every day. All I can do is laugh at those people. It doesnt show anything negative about Obama, It just shows their own ignorance.

Somehow I think they're not that ignorant. These statements may sound silly on the surface, but they are ways to say "he ain't one of us" ... without mentioning his skin.
wsinda
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Quote from ColeusRattus :I can't understand the fear. In all of my time I have never ever been banned once. If it happens to you more often, it's most likely because you do something fundamentally wrong.

As I read Victor's post, the visitors to these servers did nothing wrong. The ban was set by a bug-ridden InSim application, without any action by an admin. A subsequent automated unbanning by the InSim app enabled them to re-connect, so they got another ban, and so on until LFSW issued a warning.
wsinda
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Quote from flymike91 :Its not exactly a witch hunt. The certificate of live birth he posted on his campaign site was found to be a forgery, so now Berg (democrat) is trying to find the real one, although I doubt Obama would have decided to come this far knowing it he was ineligible for president. Makes me wonder why he presented a fake in the first place, though.

According to Snopes, the story about the forgery is false. More debunking here. Makes me wonder why people would like it to be true, though. Disgruntled Hillary fandom? The conservative vs. liberal culture war? Or plain racism?
wsinda
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The village of Warten, in the North of the Netherlands. The story goes that frequently German tourists stop at the entrance to the village. (Warten = "wait" in German.)

The village of Dorst (= thirst), in the South. Guess they have some good pubs over there.
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wsinda
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Quote from miura909 :I read about a guy using Bosch LAPSIM with lfs and thought I'd give it a try, he used f1perview to generate the .csv file but it seems that you can only generate single channel csv's from Replay analyser... is it so?

There are two types of CSV exports from LRA:
  • One is available from the context menu of a graph. It contains the single channel that is in the graph, for all RAF files that have been loaded.
  • The other is available from the context menu of the "Legend" pane. (The mouse pointer must be over the name of a file.) It contains all channels, and for all wheels, of that file.
For LapSim you should use the latter. The LapSim manual says that the file must contain at least the lateral and longitudinal G, and a wheel speed. Those are all in the file, so it ought to work. Send me a PM if you encounter any problems.
wsinda
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Quote from dougie-lampkin :I feel like he's after telling a lie and hurting us...

... when he could have made us happy by deserting us!
wsinda
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Quote from anttt69 :do you know of a tool that outputs RPM data from an MPR file?

I don't think there is any. The format of an MPR file is not public (except for the header), and LFS has no facility to output the data.

It should be possible to make your own program, though. There are two tools that can read an MPR file, LFSPoints and MPR2UBB. Perhaps the creators of those tools can tell you where to look in the MPR for RPM data.
wsinda
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Quote from Victor :That LD Drift server has a badly written insim application that keeps banning people for no reason (a bug).

Ah, that explains the repeated banning and un-banning. If it was a grouchy admin, then he could simply set a long-term ban and be done with it.
wsinda
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Quote from anttt69 :Could this tool be used for analysing an MPR?

No, it's not possible for LFS to generate RAF files from multiplayer replays. This was also discussed earlier in the thread:
Quote from wsinda :LFS cannot generate an RAF file from an MPR replay.

An MPR file contains samples of a car's data at a low frequency. (Four times per second, I think.) All the smoothness that you see when viewing the replay is because LFS "guesses" the intermediate states. Theoretically you could write these states to an RAF file, but the data will be full of artifacts (= weird). It won't be very useful for analysis.

Quote from anttt69 : Does it output the data: RPM &/or engine damage?

RPM data are available (for .spr replays at least). Engine damage or is not written to the RAF file, so you can't view it in LRA. The same holds for any other kind of wear or damage (tyre temperatures, clutch, etc.).
wsinda
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Quote from major_syphillis :Also, check out this link bro

http://www.snopes.com/politics/ballot/stateiq.asp

Nice find. The page also says, prophetically:
Quote :If 2008 produces another close presidential election as 2000 and 2004 did, expect to see this same joke again four years from now.

wsinda
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Quote from xaotik :Watching someone break down like that is not what would press my humor button by far.

Agree, but Mr. Andreotti's decay doesn't press my compassion button either. Look at his Wikipedia page, under "Involvement with the Mafia".
wsinda
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In other news, a proposition was accepted in Arkansas that prohibits child adoption by unmarried couples, thus reducing the number of available foster parents.

And in Colorado, amendment 48 was rejected. The amendment gives legal "person" status to fertilized human eggs. That would mean that each year thousands of corpses are flushed down the toilets of Colorado. illepall Still, about 1/4 of the people voted for this amendment.

Sooo, U.S. citizens ... What's it like, living in a developing country?
wsinda
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Sorry for the bump, but there is news about the DP1 (though not related to LFS). Dennis has formed a company, Palatov Motorsport LLC. Apparently there are plans for 4 car models: the DP1, a shortened version of the DP1, and an Ariel Atom-like barebones sportscar, in single-seater and twoseater version.

More news here.
wsinda
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Quote from thisnameistaken :I was in the playground at the National Railway Museum last weekend (that's a good 'Fun With Scissors' quote to take, right there) with my black nephew, who was playing with a little asian girl, whose grandmother was in a wheelchair. I was dumbfounded that no marketing people with cameras showed up.

They were still out looking for a Gaelic-speaking gay Jew.
Quote from flymike91 :People have written in this thread about the 'sanctity of marriage', but either don't understand it or consider it to be just another conservative catch-phrase. I'd like to explain it a little better.

I know quite well what "sanctity" means. It means that you declare the subject untouchable, and won't ever compromise. It means you're closing the discussion, and turning your back to people who have different values.

Talking about sanctity is a cheap trick. People who talk about the "sanctity of human life" in the abortion debate are hypocritical, except if they also oppose war and the death penalty, and promote spending every dollar on fighting poverty and disease.
Quote from JeffR :So far, about 25 states have already passed similar constitutional amendments, so this year's election grows the list to 28 states. 20 other states define marriage as between a man and woman, but not as amendments to their consitutions.

I never said that Californians have the monopoly on bigotry.
wsinda
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Quote from JeffR :Even some atheists believe that homosexuality is flawed (one issue is that it goes against the common trait of living things to pro-create), so it's a moral judgement shared by many that goes beyond right wing religious zealots.

If procreation were the criterion then we'd outlaw celibacy and promote rape.

I suspect that this reason is just a front, as are all the other ones. The real basis for judgment is a strong notion that homosexuality is "not normal". But that notion can not be defended with respectable (i.e. rational) arguments, so people come up with fake reasons like the laws of nature, AIDS, etc.
Quote :Many behaviors in life are classified as right or wrong based on moral judgement calls within a society, even by the non-religious.

Yep, the notion of right and wrong are usually based on morality. And contrary to what many christians think, atheists also have a sense of morality.
wsinda
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Go Nader, Go!! :jester:
wsinda
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Quote from CB_Brooklyn :There is nothing humorous about my post.

No, it's a sad post, because it says something about your state of mind.
Quote from CB_Brooklyn :who is this lerts person? It's not me.

Compared to you, lerts is a beacon of self-critical, down-to-earth rationality.

The only advice I can give you is to find someone near you that you trust (if there is anyone left), and seek mental help.
wsinda
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Perhaps 9/11 was a conspiracy to bring Lewis Hamilton the F1 championship.
wsinda
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Quote from flymike91 :Gay couples will continue to enjoy the same rights as any other couple whether or not 8 passes. Nothing is unfair, nothing is different except the name.

What's the friggin use of having two types of marriage, of which one must never ever be called marriage? Two types that give couples exactly the same rights -- except for the label, which is so bloody important that they will change the constitution for it? If you don't call that inequality, then I have a better name for it: Apartheid.
Quote :do you ever stop to think about why gay couples want to be called "married" in the first place?

Could it be that they no longer want to be regarded as second-class citizens?
wsinda
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Quote from Forbin :Yeah, because criminals have so much difficulty obtaining a firearm illegally and therefore use the same channels as normal, law-abiding citizens.

No, because stricter gun laws decrease the supply of weapons, which makes it harder for crooks to get a gun. So only the richest/toughest criminals will be able to get one. Small criminals will have to revert to other, less deadly weapons.
wsinda
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Quote from Becky Rose :Surely this creates a disparity in law where it is ok for one homosexual couple to be married but not ok for another. This fundamental unfairness would, in any society with a judicial system, surely be subject to a high court ruling where precedent is maintained?

Technically not, AFAIK. (This is all legal stuff, not having much to do with perceived fairness, etc.) Same-sex marriage is currently allowed. If they wanted to revoke those marriages, they'd have to prove that it was already against the law, and that the law was misinterpreted. If Prop 8 is accepted, it becomes against the law. The couples who want to marry after that won't be allowed to, which may seem unfair, but that is basically what you can get with every new law.

It's still discrimination, though, and it's thinkable that someone takes the DOMA to the US Supreme Court and wins the case, based on the inequality that it creates.
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