wmr1980

What I find ironic are the football mad people who effectively go to worship at their temple (either the pub or stadium), all have mass chanting and following, idolise, iconise certain players, pay money towards it, and repeat this routine and demonise those that do not follow their views. It's a pretty interesting parallel.

I think that science fills in the gaps that religion cannot answer (the tangible, cause and effect and so on), and religion helps to give us clarity on the things that science cannot answer (assumptions, faith, acceptance). I don't believe them to be mutually exclusive, I think as long as both are progressive and inclusive they can live together synergistically. I am Christian myself, but not a bible basher, perhaps more spiritual than and out and out bore about it. Does it make me better than others in my eyes? No. Am I stronger/weaker for having beliefs? No. Does it help give me an extra layer to my life, and helps to draw strength from something intangible to give some sort of rationality when times are dark? Yes. I quite like the Buddhist way of looking at life, I think that's probably a very sensible way of looking at philosophy the world and the universe. As for death, I think there's more to us than we know or can explain, though from a practical point of view we are just atoms, mainly carbon life forms, and when we decompose our atoms are then joined to others and create elements, either oxygen, a salt or goodness knows what carbon based molecule... A such when we decompose, our particles bond to others,and are effectively regenerated. There is a finite amount of molecules and elements and they just forge and change depending on the physical environment and elements surrounding them. I quite like that concept.. As for soul, well, who knows, I'd rather imagine we have some sort of ethereal existence than not, but it's totally irrational and intangible so can't expect people to accept that. As for the universe, as an engineer and having studied physics I love it, I love day dreaming abut it, and love seeing the universe around us (especially from a telescope, I've seen the rings of Saturn with my own eyes nada it was a humbling experience). We are so small and insignificant in this still expanding universe tact we have no idea on what is out there. What we have worked out (based on our current knowledge) is that all the other elements of the universe are made from the same things as we are here on earth. I can believe n the concept of parallel inverse or quantum universes, or at least multiple time lines, heck we've proven on earth that we can skew time after the Hafele-Keating experiment giving more weight to predictions of special and general relativity. As much of a genius as Eisenstein was, he did say "God does not play dice with the universe", off the back of the research and theories on quantum mathematical divergence. However, this did lead him to dedicating time to develop a grand unifying theory for relativity and quantum mechanics. As the science becomes more complicated the more I'm inclined to realise that we want necessarily find the answers or enlightenment through 1s and 0s and some of it will be less tangible and harder to prove. However, I'm happy to accept some things on blind faith.

Very cool, I look forward to seeing it in action/built/progress. I love this sort of thing!

On the subject of spacers, other than making the zed look awesome stance wise, does it add much stress on the wheel bearings? I used to have them on previous cars, but needed to fiddle about to keep the scrub radius with the offset etc... I guess doing a geo after fitting would be important?

Oh I like that!

I just try and puff my chest out and look threatening.... I end up being asked if I'm ok or just constipated...

People will exploit weaknesses, or opportunities they see - or they'll innovate around it. It's pretty simple, lock your doors, and/or don't have valuables left on show inside the car.

Do you have to buy a touch screen then? Presumably this software runs off windows and then just launches a GUI that you can interact with, and has all the different modules/hardware/software running on the pc? I guess you need Bluetooth and so on so that you can interact with your phone, and install a GPS receiver on the pc too? Seems interesting, although not much help to you now I'd be keen to see your progress on this kit when you make a start on it,

Using high octain improves MPG as well as small margins of performance unless FI in some cases.. Its a cleaner fuel as well so helps maintain the engine.. I use high octain as normal fuel for all my cars unless I'm driving diesel or not so sporty car.. Oh absolutely when I have had performance cars I've always had them tuned for 97, but even if not I'd always put 97 in. However it also did make a tangible difference on FI cars. However for a little run around or small engined NA cars I don't see the point in paying for premium fuel when they've been designed to cope with 95, despite it perhaps being better as you say, the mpg mprovement doesn't offset the cost of a fill up!

Interesting, thanks for the info.

Is it cost effective? And does it make much of a difference? I know on FI cars with a remap octane boosters have shown to make a marked improvement, but on an untuned unmapped car does it make a tangible difference?

Wow this takes me back. A time when computers were a skill to know about rather than the ubiquitous box we all have at home whirring away... I remember some of those old skool games! Now I go to the gym instead... What a waste! Lol! Thanks for posting!

I always thought the MON rating was more important than the RON rating. However, they never really tell us what the quality of their fuels are - but since they are all ISO / BS standards I guess that they have to sell them at that quality.

True, but filtering between trucks is beyond stupid, it's a recipe for disaster.

It's people like him who gives us bikers a bad name. :/ He is 100% responsible for that, And his weaving wasn't exactly sensible, clearly not paying attention to the road up ahead.... and it was also obvious the trucks were at a standstill from the onset. Obviously a novice as he also was thinking of filtering between two trucks. It makes me sad to be a biker at times

I have a 16 port switch at home - with about 4 or so ports free - but I'm a bit of a gadget/geek HTPC BluRay Player 2x Server (1x NAS Box, 1x Mirroring server) 2x NAS drives (I need to consolidate those) Router Print Server Laptop/PC AV Amp

Goodness... I have a lot of playing to do to be offering you any sort of competition!

Hmm so you're way ahead of me in terms of.... Everything! I've only just started playing this game, but look forward to our races!

Wrong... its lorry lane, granny lane and rebel lane Almost... The outside lane is the BMW / Audi lane

Welcome to the forums.. I'm in a smilar position to you in terms of looking for my zed. It's a buyers market so wait until you find the perfect one, don't rush into it. As with all performance cars it's good to budget a certain percentage of the value of the car for maintenance costs. I generally keep around 10-12% of the value of the car in a maintenance pot just in case, and anything above that can be used to tweak, or do whatever you want with it. Some parts are expensive, and if you're anything like me, you'll probably want to tweak your car and add a little bit of a personal touch! As for mpg, you don't buy a zed for the economy! Good luck with finding your car!

I guess so, I think though some of the rules of the black boxes can be prohibitive and excessively restrictive on young drivers, such as no driving at night etc... I still prefer the use of a black box as a form of 'punishment' for indescretions committed rather than points initially.

Why would the inside lane be designated for advanced drivers? Surley it would be the outside lane? The lane next to the central reservation. That's the outside lane! Oh I dunno. I call it the fast lane. Slow lane, over taking lane and then fast lane. Never got that inside/outside stuff. My logic obviously conflicts with how it actually is. I'd have expected it to be the other way around. Hehe, I was just being pedantic, don't worry Though technically they're all the same speed, so there is no "fast" land, but again that's me just being a picky so and so. However your point about passing an advanced test before being allowed to use designated lanes is a good one. I just wonder how it would work for enforcing it.

In Soviet Russia... crashes record YOU! It's a mad mad place to drive - there are SO many of these videos which just paint a really bad (but reasonably accurate) picture, especially some of the road rage ones! Having only been to Moscow very briefly, I can't say I saw that much, but it did feel quite hectic.

Why would the inside lane be designated for advanced drivers? Surley it would be the outside lane? The lane next to the central reservation. That's the outside lane!

I have to say I used to travel a lot on the motorway with cruise set at around 70mph (all about the MPGZ back then). And I wasn't overtaken that often - so whilst some people do drive over 70mph it's not everywhere. You will always get the few that goes over the limit - heck I do sometimes (especially if over taking on an A-road to minimise time exposed to danger (TED)), however those few do make the rule. I'm not keen on black boxes, but perhaps a compulsory advanced driving course before you can go on the motorway? Or have some sort of restriction (like motorbikes) until you pass your full test? The problem is a lot of people are just not confident enough drivers, and cause just as many problems as those who are overly confident and think they are driving gods. People are also impatient (we've all suffered that in the past I'm sure). However you have to remember that not everyone realises what they're doing wrong. Education is clearly the best way to go, but unfairly punishing or restricting those that are happy to stick to the rules and drive carefully makes it unfair. Unfortunately you'll never get 1 rule which fits all. Perhaps if a young driver (or new driver) gets caught being reckless they should have a black box fitted as a result? So instead of points in your 1st year or whatever, you have to be restricted for 12 months or something by use of a black box - which after a year, a LOT of people will change their behaviour, after being forced to behave you'll build a sort of muscle memory for it? Also another system that would potentially work, is for new drivers having to clock up a certain amount of "hours" like pilots, before being able to go on motorways or over a speed limit or being able to drive a bigger car? It's a tough problem to solve.