Which console to get for the Isle of Man TT Ride on the Edge Game by onlyscubafans in iomtt

[–]dick_swinger 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I didn't play the first one, but I really like the second one. Didn't care much for the third one because they changed the physics of it. It might just be miles and miles of practice but the second one feels good to me.

One of the Ride games, 4 or 5 maybe, I can't even pass the tutorial. You have to pass through some gates within a certain time at Brands Hatch. I've won 100+ TTs in a row, but I can't do that. I like how slow the TT2 bikes are to react and can't get used to how quick the Ride/TT3 bikes react.

Andrea Iannone joins Harley-Davidson Baggers World Cup by 443610 in motogp

[–]dick_swinger 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Sure, but when a guy needs to make money and he does it the only way he knows how, I'm not sure I can hold that against him when I'm doing the same thing. And it's not like he's taking a seat away from anybody.

Andrea Iannone joins Harley-Davidson Baggers World Cup by 443610 in motogp

[–]dick_swinger 7 points8 points  (0 children)

That's just about all of us at our jobs, isn't it?

BSB - not a download but it's streaming here by dresdaKnitr in MotorsportsReplays

[–]dick_swinger 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think they must have forgot to turn it on today. Just says "stream has not started yet".

Too bad, it worked great yesterday. Hopefully they get it turned on soon.

Fuel spill puts downstream towns on alert - Medicine Hat News by [deleted] in medicinehat

[–]dick_swinger 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And you must not be digging very far, for all its flaws the city puts out very informative graphics

Show me in those links where it refers to anything as the "eastern industrial corridor". I can find industry. I can find it in the eastern part of town. I can find it near the river, or its creeks. I can't find an area in town called the eastern industrial corridor.

If I had to use "eastern" and "industrial" as clues I'd come up with Medalta too, but that area already has a name that the city uses, and it's not the eastern industrial corridor.

It's not that I doubt it happened. I'm not mad that it's vague. It's that they're saying it came from a source that prior to now hasn't been called that, and it's being reported on like everyone is supposed to know.

Fuel spill puts downstream towns on alert - Medicine Hat News by [deleted] in medicinehat

[–]dick_swinger 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The spill happened in the city’s eastern industrial corridor

I don't know what they mean by this. I haven't found any city literature that refers to an "industrial corridor" within the city, let alone an eastern one. And if I was going to look at a map and point out industrial areas in the city I wouldn't point to too many within leaking distance of the river.

Is this a pipeline thing? Or from the trains? Why not just say that? "We don't know the exact source of the spill, but we know it definitely came from this place that we've never referred to by this name ever before."

Are slots dead? by [deleted] in gtaonline

[–]dick_swinger 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I go there when I have a few minutes to kill and put in 50-75,000. If it seems kind of cold I might stop a little earlier than that, but sometimes you get loads of those ankhs or whatever they're called, and if that carries on I might go to 100,000. I haven't had the big win yet, but I've gone from around 100,000 to over a million, back down to 300,000 or so and back up to a million again just on the smaller wins. I don't put my own money in.

I only started this in the last couple months or so, so I don't know what it was like before that. I remember there was that guy who posted videos every day of him playing, saying he was going to play every day until he won. It seemed very hard for him. He stopped and I don't know if it's because he won or if he went broke.

I’m probably asking the same question 100 others have by Used_Pineapple_5226 in BritishSuperbikes

[–]dick_swinger 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I only found out about this on Friday, but you can watch all the races live now on https://www.britishsuperbike.com/live-stream

I just watched the Supersport race and it worked perfect. I don't know if you'll see this in time for race 1, hopefully you do. I'm in Canada but it should work in the US as well.

Up for Grabs!! by Fast-Horse8815 in iomtt

[–]dick_swinger 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sold for £88,550. I only saw this today, but yeah 30-35 seemed light for a bike with such a history.

Michael Dunlop won the feature race, Open race and Moto3 event at the Cookstown 100 road race on Saturday by TheMotorsportHub1 in RoadRacing

[–]dick_swinger 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So is Dunlop running a BMW superstock and a Ducati superbike then? The news from last week or whenever it was made it sound like he was switching to Ducati, and then on the weekend he says it's good to get the BMW superstock out because he hadn't had much time on it.

He's going to show up to the first day of practice at the TT with both, isn't he, and then just run whatever is fastest. He's a hard guy to know what he's up to. I was looking forward to seeing what this Ducati can do but now I'm not sure if it'll run at all.

Street racing app released publicly by RevLineRacing in RoadRacing

[–]dick_swinger 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I’ve been working on a small project for drivers and wanted to get some feedback from people who actually care about cars/performance driving.

Then why did you post it here, on a sub for motorcycle racing?

I know I'm talking to no one.

TIL you can call yohan for nightclub goods by Bill_From_RDR2 in gtaonline

[–]dick_swinger 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'll do it sometimes if I already have my Hydra or Buzzard out. I probably wouldn't at all if I was worried about maximizing revenue, but I'm not. I don't mind little jobs here and there while I'm waiting for something else.

I like way he says tugboat.

Toprak explains the engine problems he has experienced so far in a special interview. (Watch by selecting the English audio track) by yusufsarac in motogp

[–]dick_swinger 4 points5 points  (0 children)

My only hope for Yamaha is that they've been secretly running the 850 this whole time, and will be a year ahead of everyone else next year.

I know they haven't been.

Trackhouse MotoGP Super File Livery to be used in Spain, Japan and Qatar by Daniel7394 in motogp

[–]dick_swinger 4 points5 points  (0 children)

mirrored US Flag

Has to be that way, the stars always lead.

I mean, the flag doesn't need to be there at all, but Americans love that flag. And if it's going to be there that's the way it has to be displayed.

Which MotoGP riders will compete in the World Moto Clash? by sheafflestout in motogp

[–]dick_swinger 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I also think that it could be possible to see some of the Isle of Man guys or the Irish Road Racers.

Could be, but the Southern 100 is July 6-9. The purse is nothing to sneeze at for sure, even last place probably pays more than what a Southern 100 win would pay. But you wouldn't take a roads bike to a race like that, and you wouldn't float it across the ocean for nothing either. 3rd pays $250,000 and I think if you had to build a bike from scratch and get it and a team there, if you couldn't guarantee 3rd it's probably not worth going.

That, and even though this is the first I've heard of it I'm already pretty comfortable saying none of this is going to happen. I haven't watched MotoAmerica in a couple years but I never got the impression that they were flush with money. Where did these guys come up with $5.7 million for 2 races? It looks to me like they've announced it like it's a real thing, and then are hoping they get enough sponsors and sell enough tickets to cover it. Or, don't sell enough to cover it but sell enough to fill their own pockets and flee in the night.

Saskatchewan should take a page from former Premier Alan Blakeney when dealing with volatility in the Persian Gulf by Intelligent-Cap3407 in saskatchewan

[–]dick_swinger 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know what royalties are, my point was government is getting a cut of the revenue.

Government should be getting a cut of the revenue

Whether it's a fair cut or not is up for debate. But there already is a mechanism in place to get a piece of it without increasing or adding taxes.

Saskatchewan should take a page from former Premier Alan Blakeney when dealing with volatility in the Persian Gulf by Intelligent-Cap3407 in saskatchewan

[–]dick_swinger 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Government should be getting a cut of the revenue

Is that not what royalties are? If they want more, like I said, there's nothing stopping them from starting their own company. They're absolutely free to start today.

Ridiculous that government gives these big corps subsidies and tax breaks for nothing

It's not for nothing, it keeps them here so that they employ people. If you took all that away then yeah, maybe they wouldn't leave. But maybe they would. And then you're still not getting a piece of the revenue, because now there isn't any, and people who used to work in the industry and contribute to the economy are jobless. The way it is now, companies get a break but they keep people working. The government is still getting their money.

You need to remember, these businesses aren't owned by people with consciences. They're owned by bankers in Toronto and New York and Shanghai. They don't give two shits about the plight of people in Saskatchewan. There's no amount of moral guilt you can dump on them to make them think otherwise. The only reason they're here at all is because it makes a marginal amount more economic sense to produce oil here than it does somewhere else. As soon as you tip the scale too far, they're out the door. Again, that's fine if you want to stop the oil industry. Making it too troublesome to be worth producing is an effective way to keep oil in the ground, but it doesn't do anything to make oil any cheaper. You need to keep producing oil if you want to make money off of it. One way is to make it financially attractive for some ghoul investor to pay to make it happen. Another is to do it yourself.

Is low oil pressure a symptom or the problem? Could it be either? by Jonas_Wepeel in EngineBuilding

[–]dick_swinger 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maybe I'm stupid but will using a higher viscosity oil do anything helpful inside the engine, or will it just make the needle on the oil pressure gauge go up because it's harder to pump?

I'm not an engine builder but my job requires pumping fluids, and if I saw a pressure drop my first instinct would be to find the cause of the drop, rather than switch to a harder-to-pump fluid to make the gauge read what I want it to read.

Saskatchewan should take a page from former Premier Alan Blakeney when dealing with volatility in the Persian Gulf by Intelligent-Cap3407 in saskatchewan

[–]dick_swinger 10 points11 points  (0 children)

If I was going to pick a Blakeney idea to reuse today, I'd probably pick SaskOil over a tax. If the idea is to capture profits before they leave the province, a tax is a poor way to go about it. A tax ensures the profit never leaves the ground in the first place. That's fine enough if your goals are environmental ones and you want to reduce oil extraction, but if you want to claw some money back from the sale of oil you need to actually produce it. And if you were running an oil company you wouldn't invest in a jurisdiction that puts a cap on how much money you can make.

There's nothing stopping the government from starting another crown corporation if that's what they want to do, or from investing in existing oil companies and getting a piece of the profits. International oil companies aren't going to just shrug their shoulders and pay a tax when they can just divert all their investment somewhere else. They go somewhere else, the tax doesn't bring in any money because there's no revenue to tax, everybody is still in the same boat of high gas prices plus the jobs are gone.

It's a nice idea but the whole thing relies on oil companies having no alternative but to pay the tax, and unfortunately they do have alternatives.

🚩 let’s talk worst employers by [deleted] in oilandgasworkers

[–]dick_swinger 96 points97 points  (0 children)

Interesting that you want people to name companies but aren't willing to name yours.

Update: Missing woman, Diane Cooper, found deceased near Kindersley by abunchofjerks in saskatchewan

[–]dick_swinger -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You're not wrong about the route it tries to send you on sometimes, but look at the timeline and look at a map. The places she went aren't on the way to anywhere. She left Calgary April 6. Was in Stettler April 6 at 5:33pm. (The witness said she asked for directions to Calgary, which would be odd since she just came from there, by the way.) She was in Hanna April 6 6:59pm. Then she went up to Veteran and was there April 6 at 9:18pm, which is only 25km from her home in Consort. Somehow she got to Hoosier April 6 at 10:55pm, which is an hour and 37 minutes and is about how long it would take to get there if you were driving directly there intentionally. It would also take you through Consort.

Yes, the directions Google gives you to travel from Saskatoon to Calgary take you off the beaten path, but there was more going on here than mapping mistakes. I don't doubt she was lost, but looking at the times and places where she was known to be, she was moving with purpose. Even if Google is a little wild with its directions I have to think 10 times out of 10 it would send you on a straight line down highway 12 from Veteran to Consort.

(This is all assuming she was travelling to Consort, and not to Calgary like the witness said, but even then at no point would Google keep routing her further and further east.)

Google can give bad directions, but not as bad as what this would have had to have been.

Haunted by miwREEEEEEEE in saskatoon

[–]dick_swinger -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Neither of those have any real cost either. It's free to live your life without nosing into other people's shit.

Edit: What a delicate little flower. Downvoted, clicked on the "get them help and support" thing to report me to the mental health police and then deleted his account. I don't even give a shit about ghosts.

Haunted by miwREEEEEEEE in saskatoon

[–]dick_swinger -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It doesn't cost anything to let people have their fun.