Kawasaki introduced Jet Skis in 1972, so they could have had them in 1978, easily.

Not a rally car, but damn those guys were stupid. Why the hell didn't they tie it up?

Would be difficult to swing that because F1 didn't have the type of organized pit stops we see today until much much later. Refueling during a race was first done in a properly calculated way in 1982 by Brabham, before that they only did it in emergency situations (barring Fangio's German Grand Prix win in 1957, where he just decided to do it mid race, but would probably have won even without it). It was again outlawed by 1984, and came back in 1994, then went away in 2010 again, so the only times in history that proper pit stops with fueling etc. have been in common use in F1 are between 1982-1984 and 1994-2009. Likewise stopping for new tyres pretty much came in with the fuel stops in 1982, because naturally they realized they could run softer tyre compounds if they only had to last half a race.

In the 50s, 60s and 70s you'd basically only see the F1 drivers pitting in if there were problems with the car, for the most part they really really wanted to avoid coming into the pits if at all possible. Exception being races like the Indy 500 which was simply too long to complete in one go.

Oh if they only did it as rationally as that. A lot of people just pick someone to follow then just automatically agree with them without actually thinking about it themselves, or even just claim to agree with them to appear smarter. It is/can be one form of being a poser.

Of course it's not technically "stealing", but "copying". =)

There is some slight irony there, kuka is a Finnish word that literally means "who?"

Kind of a leap from taking cameras that already exist in police cruisers and trying to make sure the cops can't hide or tamper with their footage, to attaching a camera into everyone's head to monitor what they're doing...

Well on the other hand you want to have some surface area to get more lift, so... =)

OK, I doubt opening your mouth actually provides enough area to do anything. But they used to have much looser and bigger suits before that were generating a certain wingsuit effect already, and fairly recently they ruled that the suits must be a lot more form fitting, so once again it's more up to the skill of the jumper instead of the level of equipment.

Well, I guess technically they could all be released to a public repository, viewable by anyone at any time. Hell, it'd be possible to just have them stream the video live.

Not racing, because... Well, they're not racing. You'll get into serious shit if you try to race there during touristenfahrten. And it's not off-road because you're quite clearly on the road, a public one-way toll road none the less. I'll easily give you "reckless operation" though. =)

It's possible they were also waiting for the ground to melt, or any of a number of things.

Not sure if I'm happy or sad about losing it though. =)

Noooooooooooo! Years of hard work, down the drain!

That's no joke, there are at least three companies working on porn games specifically for the Rift...

They are already. You can go to their homepage and pre-order one right now. The next batch of orders is currently expected to ship out in September, hence the "pre-order" bit. So if you actually want one you can get them within a few months by ordering now, or faster if you get one from eBay (will cost extra though). =)

Though if you're sensible you'd wait for the consumer model, which will have a better screen (higher pixel density to lower the "screendoor" effect, lower switch times for less motion blur, better contrast) as well as other nice features (positional tracking on top of directional tracking, so you can actually look around corners, not just pivot your head). You'll be waiting for those for a year or two though. =)

For sake of clarity I'm using prejudice in the sense of "any preconceived opinion or feeling, either favorable or unfavorable".

The reason I'm for some amount of prejudice against religion is that some religions/religious views are quite favorable, whereas some others are just bloody dangerous, inherently immoral and wrong, and several are like this by design (death cults for example). And some religions/religious views are just... Silly. While others can be both, like how scientology is silly, but if even part of the controversies regarding them are true then they're also bloody dangerous.

I'm not going to interact the same way with a self-professed death cultist, scientologist, raelian, or a fundamental/extremist of any religion or lack thereof as I do with so called "normal" people. By going that way they've already made some things painfully obvious, by signing up for some specific religious view they've already declared some things they believe in. If I know that some of the tenets of their professed view are just wrong, dangerous or possibly ridiculous, I will interact differently with them. I am also likely to be positively prejudiced towards for example christians from more liberal sects (like those who support gay marriage and women's rights), as opposed to, say, the Westboro Baptists.

Religious views are not something you're born with, they're the result of your own reasoning or some outside influence, but it's always something that can be affected. That puts them on another level entirely when compared to something like race. Whether some amount of prejudice can be helpful in certain situations (dark alley, strange person pointing a weapon at me, I'll initially judge that particular book by it's covers, even if the contents may possibly have some redeeming features), that's debatable, but race and religion aren't nearly on the same platform.