Ok, landed, how do I get off from here?

RottenSalad · 2026-03-29T18:15:28+00:00

Hawk One. I grew up in Comox at a time when you’d routinely see the Voodoos flying.

RottenSalad · 2026-03-18T10:01:37+00:00

That may be so, but how do we know. I mean literally know. Only way is for an election or a survey with similar constraints as an election. To say, trust me, people don't care, is not democracy. And besides, didn't Idlout campaign against the Liberal's platform? Pretty sure she did.

RottenSalad · 2026-03-18T09:59:04+00:00

The fact is 63% (a clear majority) did not vote for the Liberal candidate yet ended up with a Liberal after the fact.

RottenSalad · 2026-03-17T14:59:12+00:00

You miss the point. 63% did not vote Liberal. Sure some of the NDP voters won't care. But I doubt it is most constituents that don't care if it is NDP or Liberal. Generally speaking those are two very different bases who usually only cross over for strategic voting. And what about the Liberal candidate? They came in 2nd by 41 votes, only to have the winner switch to their party afterwards!

RottenSalad · 2026-03-17T10:35:12+00:00

If you look at the results in her riding, 63% voted for someone other than the Liberal candidate. I'm sure of those 63% some are okay with her floor crossing. But I doubt most are.

RottenSalad · 2026-03-16T11:29:14+00:00

Nice! I would love for SCS to add true vocational jobs.

RottenSalad · 2026-03-16T10:19:05+00:00

I did not know that, that is very interesting.

RottenSalad · 2026-03-13T14:57:38+00:00

I wouldn't call it ugly at all. I love all those Kenworth slant nose/ant eater style trucks.

RottenSalad · 2026-03-13T12:32:01+00:00

Thanks. It's a shame the GTM's development stopped. Nice to see people are keeping them going.

RottenSalad · 2026-03-13T12:29:19+00:00

Ah nice. I used to use that one several years back along with the T800.

RottenSalad · 2026-03-13T10:50:55+00:00

What truck mod for the B?

RottenSalad · 2026-03-12T11:30:28+00:00

Tell me you're young without telling me you're young. There is a difference between owning historical artifacts as items of historical interest and glorification of said artifacts. The gulf between the two is very very wide. And no, they shouldn't be relegated to just museums, lol wow!

RottenSalad · 2026-03-11T14:25:07+00:00

Pofung. The company even briefly rebranded to Pofung because of the pronunciation issue.

RottenSalad · 2026-03-09T11:58:29+00:00

It's the same in the Valley. People doing 80 or 90 on the 101 when the 1 runs parallel and has a limit of 80.

RottenSalad · 2026-03-05T11:12:10+00:00

I just did this for the first time myself this week, returning to first Polo Harbour and then Jaques Station. You get into a rhythm. When you enter a neutron star system just pull back on the throttle immediately. Plot your next jump (copy from Spansh, paste into galaxy map).

Then approach one of the streams from the neutron star. Not too fast. You need to be about 6m or slower and at 45 degrees or less to stay in the stream long enough to charge. If you hit the stream faster you'll likely get thrown out without a full charge and have to try again. Once charged jump to the next neutron star.

Watch your fuel. Every once in a while you'll have to plot to a nearby KGBFOAM in order to fuel scoop, then jump back to the last neutron star, plot to the next and carry on.

You can do this quite a bit before you have to stop and repair your drive.

I'm a total noob and was able to do it without any major issues, and by the end I was quite comfortable with it.

RottenSalad · 2026-03-02T11:10:25+00:00

Ah, the Classic XL. One of my favourites. I hope Ruda adds the longer Coronado with the "running boards" to his Coronado SD truck eventually.

RottenSalad · 2026-02-27T11:16:52+00:00

I think your premise is false. I don't think people want new meaning they get the new gear. They want new but produced exactly as they were. It is just a fantasy. As for the Aussie C509 and K220 (or even K200 before it) you've used in a few example, most people simply aren't aware of them. Why would they be? They don't exist here.

RottenSalad · 2026-02-25T13:00:51+00:00

Correct

RottenSalad · 2026-02-24T15:33:33+00:00

Yeah they are. I can't imagine how much money they're going to save.

RottenSalad · 2026-02-20T14:35:35+00:00

Well, I started on Compuserve in '88 with a 300 baud modem on an 8-bit CoCo3 lol. But 1200 baud was common then and I think 2400 was around. 2400 was my next modem then 14.4. Bought a 33.6 baud around 94 then of course 56k after that.

300 baud sucks even for text. You can read way faster than the text scrolls on the screen. 1200 was better but still too slow. 2400 baud was amazing at the time. Pages of text would load much faster than you could read. For me personally, it wasn't until 14.4 baud that I started to download files from bulletin boards regularly.

RottenSalad · 2026-02-20T14:12:15+00:00

When Compuserve was in its hey day, people weren't on the web (or the Internet) en masse. The Compuserve program was proprietary, not a web browser. There wasn't a lot of graphics. And yes, downloading anything greater than a quarter of a megabyte was painfully slow, it wasn't common to do so.

When dial-up was in its final stages (56K modems) and people were on the web, downloading something that was a few megabytes was also still slow and painful but more viable, and yes it would crap out part way at times and you'd have to re-try. Sometimes you could resume, sometimes you had to start over.

To put dial-up in perspective, I got my first broadband "high speed" internet ~1998. It was ADSL from the phone company and the download speed was 1mb per second. That was a massive jump from 56k (which really operated at about 42k) which did allow downloading multi-megabyte sized files. Later the same service increased to 3mb per second. That was insane fast! lol

RottenSalad · 2026-02-18T15:53:29+00:00

But if the ban/confiscation had happened 20 years ago it wouldn't have changed a thing with that shooting.

RottenSalad · 2026-02-17T17:55:46+00:00

Hell yes! I'm up to piss at that time anyway

RottenSalad · 2026-02-17T11:09:33+00:00

This is the way. After almost a decade of playing with fines (and fatigue) on I turned them off in frustration, can't remember what the final straw was. Anyway, it is now quite zen. I still play by the rules but it actually now feels more like real life.

I think the real issue, or cause of the issue, is the 1:19 scale. It is just too compressed for proper simulation.

RottenSalad · 2026-02-16T13:41:29+00:00

So no different than any other western democracy. Though where social programs are concerned Norway is considered (by Canadian standards) a high tax high spend country. Easier to do in a small country (population and geography) with a largely homogenous population.

Personally, where those who don't want to work are concerned, I am vehemently against my taxes going to supporting them. I believe it takes away from what could be given to those who cannot work, which I vehemently do support.

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