There seems to be an uptick in Political comments in recent months. Those of us who are long time members of the site know that Political and Religious content has been banned for years. Nothing has changed. Please leave all political and religious comments out of the forums.
If you recently joined the forums you were not presented with this restriction in the terms of service. This was due to a conversion error when we went from vBulletin to Xenforo. We have updated our terms of service to reflect these corrections.
Please note any post refering to a politician will be considered political even if it is intended to be humor. Our experience is these topics have a way of dividing the forums and causing deep resentment among members. It is a poison to the community. We appreciate compliance with the rules.
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It is a new Google Earth realsim patch. You couldn't stop real earth from spinning either, so it is implemented now to GE too.
Maybe your joystick is interfering with the navigation controls. Go into "settings" and then "navigation", under "none mouse control functions" make sure none of the boxes are ticked. I am currently in the Danish version, so I might have translated the terms incorrectly as I do not know which English terms are used. I attached a screenshot of the un-ticked boxes, I hope it helps:
