Finally, a three digit ID. Strange to be starting back at zero karma. My only beef, the red. Its rather jarring to the eyes. I know they could not sue /. color scheme, but even a IBM blue would be less alerting to the eyes. Still, I think I'm going to fade over to the new neighborhood more and more and keeping saying to myself, change is good.

In the summer Olympics, Idon't think you'd be able to run Evetning all with the same horse so you make a good point overall. However in sailing, they do run the same boats, same gear though the crew (or sailor) can adjust per his/her style. In this case then they do take teh equipment out of the equation.

The problem I see with toiday's Games is that money is the driving factor. I know, an obvious statement, but still one to be made. THos with the money get the best equipment. Got $100,000 then you get the better horse then another with maybe more talent, but less lucure. Better high tech boards, bob-sledes designed by NASCAR engineers help to skew the competition.

In sports where equipment is not the main part of the action (suits for example) then everyone where the same outfit. In sports where equipment is a factor, there is a moment when teams/players have to switch equipment and play again. Jamacia gets to ride with the US sled, the US with Irans. The better team will over come equipment issues. Even with Eventing this could happen though I'd lower the jumps a little to save lives.

Back when the Olympics was about amatuer athletes was when it was worth watching. Now it just is an extension of continuiong world sport events where I watch the same professional compete agaisnt each other....boring. There is not sotry in Bodie Miller any more, Shawn White is not who I want to see in an interview. Even my own sport Eventing has been corrupted to the point where I don't care to watch it. Given the amount of corruption embedded into the Olympic machine, why do we want to support it any more.

You're comparing apples to oranges. Bridges flooding out and getting fixed in time for ski season is a different effort then then immediate issues of snow/ice covered roads and little to no DOT equipment to handle it. The NE is prepared for snow because it is always there, each winter. The last two years we went sans snow all winter. Why pay for what you don't need.

I will give props to our local DOT this round for they really did respond better and the roads are much better and more important, people did not try to drive around.

That is a dusting of snow normally on black from the freezing/thaw the night before. Folks here in the south do not normally, if ever, drive with these types of conditions. These are the people that live by "Hey, Bubba, watch this?". These are people that feel no guvmunt is going to tell them to not drive by God...thus we get carnage.

As an ex-pat northern I know better and stay safe in my home (I'd say warm, but the heat pump stops working well when the temps stay 30 for three days.). By this afternoon it will warm up enough to start the melt. Then I can drive without worrying about some DIxie Yahoo thinking he's driving at Daytona and putting a four wheel slide into the side of my car.

No. I looked it up to be sure

a coherent group of tested general propositions, commonly regarded as correct, that can be used as principles of explanation and prediction for a class of phenomena: Einstein's theory of relativity. Synonyms: principle, law, doctrine.

Creationism is not testable so it cannot be a theory. It is a good story, it is a anecdotal way to try and explain our origins, but it is not a theory. Creationism cannot explain, nor establish tests to show here. As this link mentions, you can look at the question of Cain's wife from either a literal (were did she come from other then incest) or interpretive which really cannot be tested. God wiped out humanity after the flood and from just the loins of Noah;'s son came all of humanity? Not even possible or testable. So how then can Creationism be a theory? it is a set of stories meant to interpret the origins of man (and do so poorly). We might as well say that these stories are alternative theories about the creation of man and the world.

No, creationism is not a theory. It is a belief. It is a belief based on one sect of religious belief. While many religions have a variation of the beginning of man, only one is trying to shove it down the throats of rational humans. That group cannot set up experiments to test the hypothesis, they cannot perform any test to give credence to such a supposition so creationism does not even come close to being honored with the word theory.

No, it is not even a theory. Creationism or the belief cannot be a theory for it comes from an act of faith which is not testable outside one's own perception. IT is not even a hypothesis since its basis is found on the "Word of God" which cannot be tested, just accepted or not. Let us stop giving creationism any foot hold on the notion is is more then a belief created by one religious sect and irrefutable by any rational means.

I own a horse (well two)...think again. Note, I use to fly and hold an inactive PPT. I wish I could do both (sigh)

Could it be then that Joshua was right, "The only way to win is not to cheat" (altered version for modern times)

Thank you. Only after a gazillion FUCK BETAs (though it does suck) I get a good explanation to the post. That is a pretty shitty thing to do. If people can rate outside the game at google play then perhaps those rating will start to drop. I'm guessing there is no rule stopping EA from doing such an act.

I'm trying to imagine the programmer who got told to do this:

Bob, put this code in the rating class
But sir, it directly emails bad ratings to us and not to Google Play. Isn't that unethical?
Bob, You like your job? Consider that question first.
Yes, sir, the code will be in place tomorrow.

I love the smell of Corporate Ethics in the morning.

To be clear, I looked at the Beta site and am in line with the general thinking. Having been a /. member since 2000 there is something solid about the look and feel that has not changed much in over 14 years. Clearly the beta site is trying to look like other sites (presumably held by Dice?) and it does not work (or look good).

I made my comment before I read some posts that advocated a protest/boycott. How funny though, with all the "we need to boycott" statements i've read in /. over the years taht was met with "grow up, boycotts don't work", here is now one called on the fertile soil of /. ... will this one work?

I'm going otu on a limb and say, boycotts never work unless you can truly convince the vast majority to join in and I'm guessing that demographics of /. have changed. Current owners figure they can weather the storm.

As for me, I may check out this very young upstart I just read about here on this site. Though I'll hang with this ship for a bit, I'll check out the upstart and at the least, add my voice (I cannot help code as I don't do python).

Now if they make it operate by pressing 'G', that will be cool. Something interesting stuck me watching that clip (besides the memories, I loved Speed Racer), the Mach Five was a little environmentally unfriendly. Cutting down trees without concern about the impact of the forest, for shame. I think later on there was a dump oil mod (or maybe that was the bad guys) which certainly did not help the environment either. Watching Speed Racer did not turn me into a race car driver, but in an odd way, I thunk it made me a better driver. At the least, it taught me to be aware, have good situational awareness otherwise the bad guy is going to run you off the road.

Great post....and the obligatory "BETTTTTTAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaa"

To be fair, many of the posts are variations of "BETA IS TEH SUKZ" and little in suggestions (other then shut it down). Perhaps constructive criticism would not hurt.

I think in the original article (and as an aside, I submitted a story about this two days ago...bad timing beta) there was a suggestion that instead of LMB (Lakemiad Brewery) "owning" the BDV, the local ice fishermen purchase the equipment and loan the operation to LMB. Thus, while the purchase of the beer is commercial, the delivery is not. I akin this to having a friend pick up the beer for a night watching TV. The distributor cannot be held accountable for the operation of the BDV. To take it one step more, LMB could make a donation to the local community fund for maintaining the health and happiness of the community for each and every delivery is made. Really, the FAA went way over the top on this one.