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There is a Subaru Impreza in Ultimate Stunts, characterized by possessing the same acceleration and maximum speed on grass as on asphalt...

I liked the project, but car handling feels way off.

Of course a car behaving exactly the same way on both grounds is a coarse simplification...

There is a Subaru Impreza in Ultimate Stunts, characterized by possessing the same acceleration and maximum speed on grass as on asphalt...

Regarding low level programming, I think the jobs are still there, and possibly better paid than others. What is happening is that they are not growing as fast as others. Since the 80s the number of developers has doubled every 5-7 years. This has happened not by doubling the number of positions, but by expanding into new fields: new ground is broken, and new people can work on software for new problems.

You are probably right, the diminution holds in relative terms, but not absolutely. Still, it is true that often courses giving those abilities form people for enterprises in which they are not required, essentially not focusing on what it is really necessary for them; maybe they are of some use for giving a good forma mentis, which is of course quite important, but usually who takes a course of this kind already possesses it.

Almese: 364 m official (main church), ~ 360 m home, ~ 335 m minimum (probably, but not sure, a point depicted in ZCT228 - OpenTopoMap has contour lines every 10 m), 1323 m maximum.

Oh, yeah, let ethnic Hungarians, independently from Czech/Romanian/French/British/Russian interests, come back to be annexed to Hungary or at least let them found the autonomous state of Erdély/Vajdaság/Felvidék...

Unfortunately, World Map isn't drawn by ethnic and religious borders. That is the driving force of New World Order.

Indeed, some Western Ukrainians, ethnically Hungarians, just called for a referendum in order to join Hungary. But it would depend on Putin's interests in controlling also the areas which were under Habsburg rule until WW1, in primis Lviv.

The main issue here is that Western Europe has a "we can be rich by being nice to each other" approach, and expands by convincing other countries to be nice to each other. Russia has historically been an imperialistic country, which expands by force (military or otherwise), and is threatened by the concept of "being nice". Ukraine was becoming too nice, Belarus was getting there, and Putin decided it was too risky for him and Russia's power structure.

I completely agree. Russia has a very low GDP per capita compared to most of the other great powers, with strong disparities between oligarchs and lower classes, it is natural that a country would prefer to affiliate with EU or more in general Western institutions.

I'm ready to fight WW4 with knifes and clubs, in the case.

Yes, you're right. A similar thing I've noticed that has been promoted through the years is the separation of programming enthusiasts from actual hardware and sometimes even software knowledge. For example, high level languages came up to help people make simple programs more quickly and give comprehensive commands to a computer without having to describe every instruction, but then this caused that a high proportion of programmers would not know anything about assembly and would be dependent on compilers to be able to do any work. The abstraction became more accentuated with the birth of OOP and a lot more with the trend to use third party libraries instead of writing their own and the idea that it makes no sense to "reinvent the wheel", which simply contradicts the fundamental reason why anybody would want to create anything at all. I don't know how much of this is real and how much just seems to be, but it's a tremendous coincidence that fewer and fewer people nowadays have actual control of their computers even though more and more are interested in them.

I'm not trying to point out a conspiracy. It really doesn't matter whether this is an actual conspiracy or not. What matters is that it's so coincidentally sad that it well could be a conspiracy, whether it is such thing or not. Anyway... I think I've drifted too much 

Low level languages abilities are still given in some courses funded by the public, but most enterprises are not interested in forming people in them, since as you pointed out they are required less and less at work.

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About "hacker", I think this is a person that solves puzzles and finds the way to tame somebody else's code. It doesn't have to be illegal and in fact, I think it's a little "microsofty" to assume it is, since MS is always promoting that view in an intent to convince people to only use their software.

Unfortunately, this is not only MS. Hackers in that sense are disliked by various people working or commercially interested in ICT.
Consider the owner of a little PC shop, able to gain 100 EUR (or USD, or CHF) from a plain format and OS reinstall: having people capable to do so autonomously, although even easier than what usually an hacker does, means renouncing to an easy way to make money.
So they have all the interest to give the impression that these are difficult tasks, that only nerds without a life do them by themselves, and so on; this affects also the perception of free software and open source.

It seems that "modders", among all, is the most balanced term.

Since hacker's is a bit short sighted 
How about hacker's, modders and creators.

Edit: maybe programmer's instead of hacker's. Since hacker's sounds a bit negative and there is no negative intention.

I agree. Technically hacker does not possess a negative meaning, differently from other terms such as cracker, but in practice media and plain language tend to identify an hacker as someone who does damage by forcing a system in order to obtain personal gains or also for simple vandalism, so it is probably better to use a different term.

Chance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uw6AAdOwfk

Ok, that's good. 

For me, Lotus 3 had been in the second half of the 90s the split screen multiplayer par excellence.

All of the mentioned games were played by me in the second half of the 90s. I had my first PC in June 1996. (Between 1988 and 1996, I had a Commodore 64.) FIFA '94 and '96 were also influential.

In June 1996 I had my second PC, in which I did not install anymore some games present on my previous one (from 1992), such as Winter Games. But Stunts and Lotus, among many others, were installed again, and played even more. My first Fifa was '99.

I have to check somewhere, Rolling Stunts logo is a cropped frame from a YouTube video.