Strapping yourself into something with one seat and 3000hp, and racing it on a flat surface - that's crazy. Strapping yourself into something with one seat and 3000hp, and then racing the thing on a surface that's constantly moving is a special kind of crazy.
I have some lovely pictures of an off shore boat, where the props exploded and took out the back of the hull. What a neat day that was.
If I remember correctly, that Ford RS-200 was one of the car choices in a racing game some years back, maybe Driver: San Francisco. It was one of the best cars in the game and I'd never heard of it. It flew, but it was difficult to handle.
Which was the moot point when the FIA series ended. To much power, too difficult to maintain control. Probably the first time any racing series achieved the upper limit in power. Many races now require restrictor plates to limit power, returning the race to a contest of driver skill over engineering prowess.
not really people have gotten 900HP out of 2.0L EVO engines so 400 out of a 1.5L is within the realm of attainability whats really impressive is the weight
The old Gruppe B racers were some classic examples of engineers gone wild. Tremendously powered 4 cyl engines in fly-weight all-wheel-drive cars, which regularly flew off the track, into crowds lining the course with spectacularly bloody results. Eventually the race series was cancelled, but the little monsters of each builder's homologation are to still be found in the collections of automotive buffs around the world. Look up the Ford RS-200 as an example.
Nobody knows what was going on then. Everyone (the Paleo community included) stop saying how you know humans lived so and so many years ago.
For all we know, they had an organic food paradise. Fresh fruits and vegetables right off the plants and fresh just-slaughtered grass fed meat to eat.
Rather like you can read the life of a tree by its rings, you can tell a lot about the diets of people by the condition of their teeth at death, build of their bones and some of the elemental composition. Science is more scientific than ever, which is cursed on a regular basis by those who won't credit it.
...we appear to be adapting to eating sugary, fried or other highly processed food...
I wouldn't consider epidemic rates of diabetes, cancer, heart disease and obesity "adaptation".
Yet some people eat horribly unhealthy and live to their 80s or 90s, while others religiously dine on healthy foods and die of cancer, contract diabetes or other such maladies. Don't imagine there isn't some evolution at work here. Those who can adapt, will and when their food of choice vanishes they suffer terribly.
Yep. If they suspect you should be taxed and aren't paying any taxes, they'll not like it one bit.
Further, if you are operating in a sphere outside policy makers (the ol' boys club) they don't like it they can't manipulate or borrow against your assets (interest free).
Lastly, those b*tards in the banking sector, the ones who whine and complain about too much government restriction on their smoke-n-mirrors games resent like heck anyone operating outside those restrictions. Honestly, BitCoin could be playing hedge fund, derivatives or other weaselly pastimes where they can't get in and rig the LIBOR or such.
It means not being too choosy what you om-nom-nom on when the going is lean. Which likely means eating things which may have various parasites, mold spore, other fungi, even partially decomposed. "What luck! A partially decomposed squirrel with red rashes all over its body! Num!" That which didn't kill them, indeed make them stronger (those which survived, that is.)
In today's scrubby, scrub scrubbed world of clean, inspected and otherwise near perfect world of meat, dairy and produce, we're not challenging our bodies very much. Further, we appear to be adapting to eating sugary, fried or other highly processed food, which means we say "Ewww!" when presented with ethnic foods we haven't seen before, which include the globby or wiggly bits of animals we don't see in the meat case at the market (which traditionally were the best parts, unlike the muscle which was often left behind.)
Somewhat disconcerting how we haven't turned into beings which are entirely fed by capsule, a la the Jetsons "Oh, dear, I've overcooked the steak and potatoes pill."
Fortunately, infants keep picking up dead bugs off the carpet and chewing on them, which gives them some bit of a test in developing their immune systems.
Both you and "ackthpt" should be ashamed of yourself.
Unlike Mr. Edward Snowden, none of you have the guts to do the right thing, and yet, after the personal sacrifices Mr. Snowden has gone through - may even turn out to be a lifelong exile from the country he loves so much - you guys post smart-ass comments as if you are some how "better" than Mr. Snowden.
Bah! Foo! and Arg, to you Sir Lackasenseahumour. Feh, too.
Pity you can't read that post more than only one, very negative way.
He already has the corrupt government of one superpower after his head, I don't think we should ask him to go for two. Maybe a Russian whistleblower will leak loads of damning details about Putin's government surveillance and be granted asylum in the US. That would be hilariously awkward.
Considering how Putin uses his supply of Polonium-210 (see: Alexander Litvinenko) on his enemies I don't think Edward would come back at all. Nothing puts fear in your detractors and critics like a slow, horrible death.
Besides, Putin isn't about to put Snowden in a position to expose anything more than which hand Vladimir shakes hands with.
Yes, but everyone knows about their spying. To learn the Russian government is secretly spying on their population would be about as scandalous as learning another Republican is secretly spending his time off at a gay club.
Nothing like leaking some hard evidence. We strongly suspect, but we do not know. If Putin were collecting all phone records I think the bombings of recent dates would have been followed up on with something to show. That tells me Putin isn't having it all his own way.
Google was great when it was small and had shared vision.
Now we're seeing the company both have many more screwups, and be more manipulative, basically by trying to force us all to use GoogleBook (or G+ as they call it).
I don't think they're bad people. I think human organizations, when they get too large, become unstable because shared vision is lost and people start treating it as "just a job."
Obviously, no amount of free soft drinks and stock options can remedy that.
I don't think they've lost their shared vision, they seem pretty focused on getting as many people to use Google+ as possible. It seems most like now what they see in their vision is monetizing their users.
This. At the expense of quality. Somewhere in the definition of doing no evil there must be some clause related to actually testing your junk before releasing updates or not putting in annoying little stupid bits (like the fade on drop-down lists.)
An earthquake in the midwest or eastern part of the country will be felt more strongly at greater distance. Shockwaves will be far more potent. I do not believe California standards for construction would save much if another 8.0 struck along New Madrid.
The best thing that could happen to Midwest geography would be growing a mountain range... An east-west one, so that it'd be tolerable in winter, as long as you're south of it, and tolerable in summer, as long as you're north.
From the article... "But some scientists don't find the team's results convincing."
There were 4 earthquakes along the New Madrid Fault in the 1811-1812 timeframe which ere commented to have rung church bells in Washington DC, as well as modified the course of the Mississippi River. Harder bedrock (unlike all this nice, soft sandstone in the west coast) mean the shock is felt much stronger and further. I think I'd cut them some slack. An 8.0 along the fault would make Loma Prieta (1989) and Northridge (1994) look like picnics.
They should be considered sleeping or dormant, not inactive.
I remember seeing ads in Guitar Magazine and the like decades ago for guitars with LEDs in the fretboard that teach you how to play. I remember seeing an infomercial-type thing where they had Mark Knopfler play with one.
I find it fairly interesting how a lot of things labelled as the "first" to do something are really not.
Wherever you find people who are too lazy to put in the time to develop a skill, lose weight by exercise, make money the old fashioned way, etc, there will be people offering the "easy" way of doing things.
I suppose you could play this, but you couldn't exactly play like Mark Knopfler.
One of the things I kind of miss from going to the library is having a curated collection of books to peruse. When I try and find a good book to read on Amazon there is such an enormous collection of stuff that finding a new book is a serious challenge. When I was a kid I would just go to the relatively small section of the library and look through that. I could take a book off the shelf and read a few pages to see if it appealed at all. With online book stores I'm mostly left to buying books by authors I already know, exploring new authors is an fiscal gamble. So thus far I've bought very few ebooks, instead I've stuck to the public domain works.
I'm a notorious buyer of hardcover books. I see something I might like and buy it, take it home and put it in the "stack." It may take months or years, but I finally pick up the book and start reading. If it seems I have to force myself to read then I'll put it down and read something else. Most books tell me something of interest and I read them all the way through, sometimes I'll read a book more than once. One particular novel I've read at least a dozen times, as I quite enjoyed the epic journey and mythology woven into the tale.
It would proabbly be much cheaper for me to just go to the local branch library, but though I read quite a lot I'm sometimes not able to read more than a few pages at a time, frequently, so renewing the check-out would have to happen a bit. The most amazing thing is finding books which lead me to books which lead me to other books, as happened with "Between Silk and Cyanide", "The White Rabbit: Wing Commander F.F.E.Yeo-Thomas", "London Calling North Pole". The first found at a book clearance and the other two books having to be sought out, one through a specialty book seller. I wish our libraries could carry these, but they are tiny and increasingly the books are no longer the focus of patrons.
Currently most visitors, who spend quite a bit of time actually, are taking advantage of the WiFi.
Seems the future of libraries is a clear, well lit place of of moderate comfort, where people can wirelessly browse anything electronically available, within or outside the library.
For those who insist upon seeing physical matter, there can be a climate controlled cellar where such things are stored.
Libraries as big edifices are becoming an anachronism.
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Strapping yourself into something with one seat and 3000hp, and racing it on a flat surface - that's crazy.
Strapping yourself into something with one seat and 3000hp, and then racing the thing on a surface that's constantly moving is a special kind of crazy.
I have some lovely pictures of an off shore boat, where the props exploded and took out the back of the hull. What a neat day that was.
If I remember correctly, that Ford RS-200 was one of the car choices in a racing game some years back, maybe Driver: San Francisco. It was one of the best cars in the game and I'd never heard of it. It flew, but it was difficult to handle.
Which was the moot point when the FIA series ended. To much power, too difficult to maintain control. Probably the first time any racing series achieved the upper limit in power. Many races now require restrictor plates to limit power, returning the race to a contest of driver skill over engineering prowess.
not really people have gotten 900HP out of 2.0L EVO engines so 400 out of a 1.5L is within the realm of attainability whats really impressive is the weight
The old Gruppe B racers were some classic examples of engineers gone wild. Tremendously powered 4 cyl engines in fly-weight all-wheel-drive cars, which regularly flew off the track, into crowds lining the course with spectacularly bloody results. Eventually the race series was cancelled, but the little monsters of each builder's homologation are to still be found in the collections of automotive buffs around the world. Look up the Ford RS-200 as an example.
Nobody knows what was going on then. Everyone (the Paleo community included) stop saying how you know humans lived so and so many years ago.
For all we know, they had an organic food paradise. Fresh fruits and vegetables right off the plants and fresh just-slaughtered grass fed meat to eat.
Rather like you can read the life of a tree by its rings, you can tell a lot about the diets of people by the condition of their teeth at death, build of their bones and some of the elemental composition. Science is more scientific than ever, which is cursed on a regular basis by those who won't credit it.
...we appear to be adapting to eating sugary, fried or other highly processed food...
I wouldn't consider epidemic rates of diabetes, cancer, heart disease and obesity "adaptation".
Yet some people eat horribly unhealthy and live to their 80s or 90s, while others religiously dine on healthy foods and die of cancer, contract diabetes or other such maladies. Don't imagine there isn't some evolution at work here. Those who can adapt, will and when their food of choice vanishes they suffer terribly.
Death and taxes...
Yep. If they suspect you should be taxed and aren't paying any taxes, they'll not like it one bit.
Further, if you are operating in a sphere outside policy makers (the ol' boys club) they don't like it they can't manipulate or borrow against your assets (interest free).
Lastly, those b*tards in the banking sector, the ones who whine and complain about too much government restriction on their smoke-n-mirrors games resent like heck anyone operating outside those restrictions. Honestly, BitCoin could be playing hedge fund, derivatives or other weaselly pastimes where they can't get in and rig the LIBOR or such.
http://news.sciencemag.org/sit...
Who says he let his hair and beard grow long? What evidence from the skeleton would have led to this conclusion?
Good ol' science, the kind where we immediately imagine things in our own image (he types as he strokes his luxuriant beard.)
It means not being too choosy what you om-nom-nom on when the going is lean. Which likely means eating things which may have various parasites, mold spore, other fungi, even partially decomposed. "What luck! A partially decomposed squirrel with red rashes all over its body! Num!" That which didn't kill them, indeed make them stronger (those which survived, that is.)
In today's scrubby, scrub scrubbed world of clean, inspected and otherwise near perfect world of meat, dairy and produce, we're not challenging our bodies very much. Further, we appear to be adapting to eating sugary, fried or other highly processed food, which means we say "Ewww!" when presented with ethnic foods we haven't seen before, which include the globby or wiggly bits of animals we don't see in the meat case at the market (which traditionally were the best parts, unlike the muscle which was often left behind.)
Somewhat disconcerting how we haven't turned into beings which are entirely fed by capsule, a la the Jetsons "Oh, dear, I've overcooked the steak and potatoes pill."
Fortunately, infants keep picking up dead bugs off the carpet and chewing on them, which gives them some bit of a test in developing their immune systems.
Spiro Agnew must be cackling in his grave.
Same for John Edgar Hoover.
If you're not on their list, it only means they haven't got around to you yet.
everyone is guilty of something, sooner or later
Both you and "ackthpt" should be ashamed of yourself.
Unlike Mr. Edward Snowden, none of you have the guts to do the right thing, and yet, after the personal sacrifices Mr. Snowden has gone through - may even turn out to be a lifelong exile from the country he loves so much - you guys post smart-ass comments as if you are some how "better" than Mr. Snowden.
Bah! Foo! and Arg, to you Sir Lackasenseahumour. Feh, too.
Pity you can't read that post more than only one, very negative way.
He already has the corrupt government of one superpower after his head, I don't think we should ask him to go for two. Maybe a Russian whistleblower will leak loads of damning details about Putin's government surveillance and be granted asylum in the US. That would be hilariously awkward.
Considering how Putin uses his supply of Polonium-210 (see: Alexander Litvinenko) on his enemies I don't think Edward would come back at all. Nothing puts fear in your detractors and critics like a slow, horrible death.
Besides, Putin isn't about to put Snowden in a position to expose anything more than which hand Vladimir shakes hands with.
Yes, but everyone knows about their spying. To learn the Russian government is secretly spying on their population would be about as scandalous as learning another Republican is secretly spending his time off at a gay club.
Nothing like leaking some hard evidence. We strongly suspect, but we do not know. If Putin were collecting all phone records I think the bombings of recent dates would have been followed up on with something to show. That tells me Putin isn't having it all his own way.
Maybe he can reveal how Putin is spying on Russians by any means necessary.
Google was great when it was small and had shared vision.
Now we're seeing the company both have many more screwups, and be more manipulative, basically by trying to force us all to use GoogleBook (or G+ as they call it).
I don't think they're bad people. I think human organizations, when they get too large, become unstable because shared vision is lost and people start treating it as "just a job."
Obviously, no amount of free soft drinks and stock options can remedy that.
I don't think they've lost their shared vision, they seem pretty focused on getting as many people to use Google+ as possible. It seems most like now what they see in their vision is monetizing their users.
This. At the expense of quality. Somewhere in the definition of doing no evil there must be some clause related to actually testing your junk before releasing updates or not putting in annoying little stupid bits (like the fade on drop-down lists.)
An earthquake in the midwest or eastern part of the country will be felt more strongly at greater distance. Shockwaves will be far more potent. I do not believe California standards for construction would save much if another 8.0 struck along New Madrid.
The best thing that could happen to Midwest geography would be growing a mountain range... An east-west one, so that it'd be tolerable in winter, as long as you're south of it, and tolerable in summer, as long as you're north.
You and Lex Luthor think alike.
From the article ... "But some scientists don't find the team's results convincing."
There were 4 earthquakes along the New Madrid Fault in the 1811-1812 timeframe which ere commented to have rung church bells in Washington DC, as well as modified the course of the Mississippi River. Harder bedrock (unlike all this nice, soft sandstone in the west coast) mean the shock is felt much stronger and further. I think I'd cut them some slack. An 8.0 along the fault would make Loma Prieta (1989) and Northridge (1994) look like picnics.
They should be considered sleeping or dormant, not inactive.
Nah. They'll buy him out.
"OK, buy him out boys." CRUNCH CRACK SHATTER BREAK
"I didnt become this rich by writing checks"
Sure that would likely thwart it. The point is that it's currently crappily implemented.
Subject to change without notice .. after all, why do they need to tell anyone they are changing how anything works?
Jane, how do I share this thing?!? Jaaaannne!
Is the future here yet? I feel like having toast.
I remember seeing ads in Guitar Magazine and the like decades ago for guitars with LEDs in the fretboard that teach you how to play. I remember seeing an infomercial-type thing where they had Mark Knopfler play with one.
I find it fairly interesting how a lot of things labelled as the "first" to do something are really not.
Wherever you find people who are too lazy to put in the time to develop a skill, lose weight by exercise, make money the old fashioned way, etc, there will be people offering the "easy" way of doing things.
I suppose you could play this, but you couldn't exactly play like Mark Knopfler.
One of the things I kind of miss from going to the library is having a curated collection of books to peruse. When I try and find a good book to read on Amazon there is such an enormous collection of stuff that finding a new book is a serious challenge. When I was a kid I would just go to the relatively small section of the library and look through that. I could take a book off the shelf and read a few pages to see if it appealed at all. With online book stores I'm mostly left to buying books by authors I already know, exploring new authors is an fiscal gamble. So thus far I've bought very few ebooks, instead I've stuck to the public domain works.
I'm a notorious buyer of hardcover books. I see something I might like and buy it, take it home and put it in the "stack." It may take months or years, but I finally pick up the book and start reading. If it seems I have to force myself to read then I'll put it down and read something else. Most books tell me something of interest and I read them all the way through, sometimes I'll read a book more than once. One particular novel I've read at least a dozen times, as I quite enjoyed the epic journey and mythology woven into the tale.
It would proabbly be much cheaper for me to just go to the local branch library, but though I read quite a lot I'm sometimes not able to read more than a few pages at a time, frequently, so renewing the check-out would have to happen a bit. The most amazing thing is finding books which lead me to books which lead me to other books, as happened with "Between Silk and Cyanide", "The White Rabbit: Wing Commander F.F.E.Yeo-Thomas", "London Calling North Pole". The first found at a book clearance and the other two books having to be sought out, one through a specialty book seller. I wish our libraries could carry these, but they are tiny and increasingly the books are no longer the focus of patrons.
Without that, it's really tough to get kids involved.
And where are parents doing these days? Not at the library, I'll tell you that.
Lend out tools, toys, computers, and other things. The grand idea should be for people to learn for free.
"Hi, I'd like to check out a car, so I can learn how to drive."
Currently most visitors, who spend quite a bit of time actually, are taking advantage of the WiFi.
Seems the future of libraries is a clear, well lit place of of moderate comfort, where people can wirelessly browse anything electronically available, within or outside the library.
For those who insist upon seeing physical matter, there can be a climate controlled cellar where such things are stored.
Libraries as big edifices are becoming an anachronism.