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We ARE a 'deeply dysfunctional, broken nation'. We're finally seeing cops being tried for murdering people in custody (or being murdered while being taken into custody). We just saw how deeply broken the military is and how women are treated within it. We just saw 74 million people vote for a criminal, who wanted to be a despot. We are still seeing the Republican party try to disenfranchise millions of voters, mostly minorities and the poor. We're seeing the results of disregarding science, dismissing education and pretending that ignorance is 'just fine'. One of those results is the highest death toll from Covid in the world. During the pandemic, the rich got richer and the poor got poorer. The amount of wealth gained by the richest people in the past year is appalling. Many of these things have long existed, and the true extent of them is just now being revealed. The idea of "American Exceptionalism" is one of the most arrogant pieces of nonsense I've ever seen, and yet it seems to be growing.

No more "where we go one, we go all" when the place they are going is prison, eh?

What Will McAvoy said:

Let's just agree to your always end game, so we can move on - Canada great; America sucks.

Nope, she did get some pushback on abusive posting, and resolved it by posting an abusive "good bye and I'm NEVER EVER coming back" post. Wendy P.

Now I recall,,, I have tens of thousands of docs and pieces of info I am losing track of stuff.. FBI doc confirms GEOREF plotting system.

Joe, I'm thinking you've missed BIGUN's larger point which I take to be focused on a longer view than the last couple of years. I think all clear thinkers would agree that as a Nation we make many mistakes. However we also do a hell of a lot of good and, more often than not, set a great example. Furthermore we are not all seen as ogres by citizens of other nations. I travel a lot and hang with Europeans most often these day's when I do. Trust me, they have their own challenges and they know it. skydekker, who has managed to travel from Toronto to Vancouver, thinks he has the world view of America wired. He does not. Most people I meet in my travels still admire America and when we somehow shed the stench of the last several years, as we will, they will admire us more.

There we go.....another brand war. For me there's one AAD brand. CYPRES!!! It's very simple. Get the number of units made, divide it by the number of Service Bulletins. That number should give you an idea of how likely is that the "maintenance free" will turn into "I can't jump in the middle of the season" maintenance. By the way, my CYPRES just came back from voluntarily maintenance. Just as a side note: Can anyone show me a 20 years old Vigil or 15 years old M2? The expected lifetime, doesn't always match the real lifetime.

Big countries have more good people, and more dickheads. Who you hang out with tends to impact how you see the country. Wendy P.

German Engineering In this case, I go with the HIGHEST bidder.

Small detail, but a cypress is a tree. A CYPRES (Cybernetic Parachute Release System) is the Godfather of modern AAD's. Also CYPRES warranty is "lifetime" provided you send your unit in for 5/10 year revision (during which the battery is changed). If I had a new CYPRES, I would send it in for the recommended revisions. I might be slightly biased because I had my life saved by a CYPRES (check my profile picture), but : Things I prefer with the Cypres : fire/non fire parameters, cutter blade, customer service, changeable filter, loops and discs and temp pins and related rigger goodies Things I dislike with the Cypres : the purple stickers fade away quickly Things I prefer with the Vigil : the thickness of the cutter cable, the colours (blue and orange is awesome), the aluminium case in which the device comes, the orange pull up cord Things I dislike with both : too many possibilities to get stuff wrong with the offset /mode/alt changes etc.... I preferred the simplicity of an original Cypres. Change the offset, if offset is too important switch off, if not comfy with an AAD OFF, don't jump. Simple as that. And even that, some people managed to screw up. I have 0 experience with the MaRS so I can't judge. Cost should not be a decisive factor when purchasing an AAD. Edited to add : Also for the video of the cutter going through wire, it is pretty easy (in my opinion ) to cut "hard/tense" material. So I asked them to show the same with a Cypres loop without tension, as soft stuff is sometimes harder to cut, and it worked like a charm. Eventhough you can clearly see the difference between a loop cut with or without tension

I would agree that it did. Between Q and Trump the forces of the democratic party got more organized than they have ever been in the past. So many people came out to vote against what they knew was wrong that it saved your nation.

Wwg1wga there should be more of them in jail.

Hi Rob, And, anyone who says that there is a limit as to what one can do via a Minor Change does not know what they are talking about. Jerry Baumchen PS) Wonderhog, TSO'd in 1974, & still going strong.