The AC 37 has started, news and rumours

[Fiji Bitter]

Worst thread drift in AC ever? DG, Jal, and all others should never have mentioned him, not here anyway.

Back to yachting, or rather AC-35 and Dunfuck:

Do your homework instead of just making shit up.  Dunphy has been involved with the NZ AC efforts since the beginning and he was asked by the RNZYC to solicit local funding for hosting the cup.

Linky or picture?

I have a picture of him fucking horses, it's true.

And how old is Dunphy, or how old was he in 1987 (Fremantle)?

Disclaimer to avoid a defamation suit: fucking is a germanism/barbarism for breeding.

And BTW, my grandpa always said to never let your daughters get near horses, or they will be lost for crewing for you.

 

[JALhazmat]

You blame a stupid little kid for much with no blame for the stupid idiots that set fire to stuff, threw rocks at people, attacked an armed man, and generally acted like an angry mob unwilling to tolerate any opinion but their own.

The protection our laws provide for peaceful and law abiding protests is a very good thing.  Abuse of this privilege to the extent recently observed (on both sides of the political spectrum) is just sad. 

Various people in various places were dismayed at the lack of police protection from destructive actions of these "so called" peaceful BLM protests. 

Folks both for and against BLM were carrying guns "for protection".  With the mob mentality that these protests devolved into on many occasions, anyone trying to protect their property were faced with poor choices.  To stand up against the destructive actions with nothing but your bare hands would be a very scarry thing indeed.  Call the police and nothing would happen.  Stand up with a gun in your hand and you might be forced to use it.

17 years old, You’re not even developed as an adult at that age, Not able to make critical life or death decisions, you are a child at that age. 
Yet  you and Kyle think it’s a clever idea to drive across state lines  and play the armed avenger resulting in him killing people.  fucking genius, the pair of you

 

[Gissie]

Institutionalized racism is the problem though. Institutionalized racism is the reason cops are being blamed for the racial injustices being perpetrated on Black Americans.

They enforce laws that are discriminatory, and racist. Black people fear the very people they are supposed to trust with their lives. Instead of protecting the lives they're supposed to protect, they're taking them, their ending lives they are supposed to be protecting often with no consequence, and they've been doing it for decades.

Since the days of slavery, all that has followed is black people being treated as 2nd class citizens. From slavery, to the Lynching of Emmitt Till, to James Meredith rejected admission to Ole Miss, to the Malcolm X assassination, to the MLK assassination, to Rodney King, to Breonna Taylor to Trayvon Martin, to George Floyd, to Kyle Rittenhouse's exoneration to the Ahmaud Arbery murders.

Black Americans killed - murdered by white people and cops purely based on their skin colour. 

This is why Black people don't trust cops, because to them, Cops represent a system that is marketed to protected them, but designed to target them. 

I guess you are an American after all your Kiwi claims.

 

[Gissie]

17 years old, You’re not even developed as an adult at that age, Not able to make critical life or death decisions, you are a child at that age. 
Yet  you and Kyle think it’s a clever idea to drive across state lines  and play the armed avenger resulting in him killing people.  fucking genius, the pair of you

And the guy he wounded, the one that has admitted pointing his gun at him? Where does his responsibility come into it?

 

[Gissie]

Worst thread drift in AC ever?

Back to yachting, or rather AC-35 and Dunfuck.

I have a picture of him fucking horses,

:lol:

Fuck I love this place.

 

[Fiji Bitter]

The Belgium prime minister Paul van den Boeynants  had Bill Clinton over for dinner, and Bill politely asked him if he had any hobbies. Yes yes, Paul said, fucking horses. Um, pardon...,  Yes, paarden. 

 

[barfy]

I've no idea where LR are with their Sim, but clearly ETNZ kept pushing forward with theirs to the extent that it has become a real weapon in their design and development. Terry H acknowledged that in his post event comments. I suspect Ineos are pouring resources into their Sim - knowing now how crucial they are.

Interesting, does F1 utilize AI in their sims? Or is the track a bit more one dimensional and the car needs to deliver a certain mix of downforce, HP, and efficiency that doesn't include critical manoeuvres like tacksand gybes? I'm not a F1 follower, so any thoughts would be interesting.

 

[barfy]

Most people who pull a trigger after being attacked are never charged with anything. 

Speaks to America...

 

[barfy]

What I am saying is that there was lots of stupidity on both sides. 

Is that the same as saying there was good people on both sides?

 

[enigmatically2]

Interesting, does F1 utilize AI in their sims? Or is the track a bit more one dimensional and the car needs to deliver a certain mix of downforce, HP, and efficiency that doesn't include critical manoeuvres like tacksand gybes? I'm not a F1 follower, so any thoughts would be interesting.

The F1 Sims include the whole circuit, so includes turns, acceleration, braking, impact of wind from all directions, tyre wea etc. Just as complicated, probably even more so (unsurprising as they have been developing for longer and more continuously)

 

[barfy]

The F1 Sims include the whole circuit, so includes turns, acceleration, braking, impact of wind from all directions, tyre wea etc. Just as complicated, probably even more so (unsurprising as they have been developing for longer and more continuously)

Any talk of drivers learning from agents that have tested/learned from multiple sim runs what the optimum recipe is? From what was released, and what I understood, that was the special sauce that gave designers the confidence to develop without actual race data.

 

[enigmatically2]

Any talk of drivers learning from agents that have tested/learned from multiple sim runs what the optimum recipe is? From what was released, and what I understood, that was the special sauce that gave designers the confidence to develop without actual race data.

In terms of learning the aero setup and tyre choices etc for each track, absolutely

 

[Horn Rock]

Interesting, does F1 utilize AI in their sims?

No idea, I stopped watching all motorsport some years ago. Given their budgets and it being a tech race, you'd have to think they'd have sims.

 

[loneshark64]

He's playing high stakes polka

LOL 

 

[JALhazmat]

And the guy he wounded, the one that has admitted pointing his gun at him? Where does his responsibility come into it?

pointing a gun at someone that had just shot a man dressed in tactical vest with an AR?  

If you genuinely think it’s thing to go out in public with a loaded weapon then there is a strong whiff of cunt about you. 
 

oh but Kyle shot a pedo so he is a hero… 

yeah he asked him first did he? Before shooting him?  It was luck, not judgement that gave Kyle a “get out clause”

 

[pluscount]

Jal, perhaps you have your laws confused.  Kenosha is in Wisconsin, USA, subject to Wisconsin, USA laws, not British laws, not Euro laws, not any other laws.

 
In Wisconsin, there is a right to bear arms and a right of self defense.  Mr Rittenhouse relied on those rights and was tried by a jury of his peers who agreed with him.  Game Over.  Had the jury convicted him, also Game Over because most of us in the USA agree with the "Rule of Law", not the "Rule of what ever you want to think."
 
Upon which Rule do you rely?

 

[JALhazmat]

Common sense, not deliberately putting yourself or others in harms way by attending a public disturbance with a loaded weapon with no qualification or form of identification that indicated his “peaceful” presence.  
 

Oh not needing a boom boom stick to make myself feel better.. 

 

[Gissie]

pointing a gun at someone that had just shot a man dressed in tactical vest with an AR?  

If you genuinely think it’s thing to go out in public with a loaded weapon then there is a strong whiff of cunt about you. 
 

oh but Kyle shot a pedo so he is a hero… 

yeah he asked him first did he? Before shooting him?  It was luck, not judgement that gave Kyle a “get out clause”

The fact you make assumptions and accusations with no evidence shows there is more than just a whiff about you.

 

[Gissie]

No idea, I stopped watching all motorsport some years ago. Given their budgets and it being a tech race, you'd have to think they'd have sims.

The very direction AC is going.

Well apart from the NZ team, it has no budget at the moment...

 

[pluscount]

Common sense, not deliberately putting yourself or others in harms way by attending a public disturbance with a loaded weapon with no qualification or form of identification that indicated his “peaceful” presence.  
 

Oh not needing a boom boom stick to make myself feel better.. 

Hummmm.  I looked up common sense in the Wisconsin penal code.  Not  there.  Damn that pesky "Rule of Law" thing.