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Well why don't you clarify for us then, just to show us that you don't have a partisan double-standard when it comes to such things.

Yeah, but how many of those big judgements were against a defendant that has no insurance and few assets?

Most of the time you can attribute it to one word: Ego. Of course there's no ego on the part of the people who denounce other's gear choices.

http://www.skydivedallas.com/Site/Dropzone.aspx?topic=rigging

So you're saying that: 1) Those who blame Obama for everything are wrong, and; 2) Those who blame Bush for everything are right. Is that the position you want to stick with?

So, 10 years from today, in the year 2024, we can blame everything that's wrong with America on Obama!

By reading the winds-aloft report at the beginning of the day. Haha! Who does that?! I hope you're not spotting for a high opening...

I took a peek myself. Not a user-friendly web site at all. Not intuitive. Couldn't figure out how to do stuff. There never seemed to be any kind of link to do what I wanted to do. Ugh. Even finding the skydiving forum was next to impossible - you click on all the sports categories, and it's not there! Some idiot designed that POS.

Yes, it is. But a fun one. Restored link: http://www.duffelblog.com/2014/03/female-army-ranger/

If you're gonna spend a trillion dollars, and sacrifice the lives of thousands of Americans, you better try and figure out what the long term implications of invading a middle eastern country are goings to be. Greeted as liberators and the Iraqi oil will pay all of our war cost is what we were promised by Bush/Cheney, unbelievable. Gosh, no one can stick to the subject of child molestation. So everything that's wrong with Iraq is Bush's fault. It was the garden of Eden before Bush's invasion. Everything was just perfect. If not for the invasion, Iraq today would be a shining beacon of prosperity and human rights. Got it.

Bush and Cheney and the rest of the PNAC boys in the Administration only saw one thing... and that was oil... I said that in 2003 and a bunch of those who participated are now coming clean and telling the truth finally. They started planning the Excellent Adventure in Iraq back in the 1990's I'm just wondering at what point you'll get around to blaming the people actually responsible for this decision, instead of blaming what Bush did 10 years ago...

Stow your riser? Huh? Do you mean "slider"?

By reading the winds-aloft report at the beginning of the day. https://aviationweather.gov/products/nws/winds/ Hopefully, the DZ has it written on a chalk board where everyone can see it.

I've seen a number of DZO's put non-compete clauses in the contracts for the full time employees. And it even applies for one year after their termination for within 100 miles of the DZ. I've seen a guy get sued by a DZO because he quit and went to work for a competitor 50 miles away. Other guys quit, and then spent a year driving a long way to get to another DZ outside the exclusion zone. This shit happens...

Correction: ~ 10 years ago.

http://www.reddit.com/r/skydiving Let's go invade the place and see what's happening there.

So you're saying that this practice didn't exist in Iraq before Bush ousted Saddam? Without looking much more into it I'm guessing not. The reasoning is that its the Shii'te's who are behind this and Saddam was busy gassing those folks, so I doubt they had much leeway to try and enforce child rape laws. Besides I think if recall correctly Saddam was fairly secular compared to most Middle-east Muslims. So Bush should have foreseen this coming and not invaded in order to save the future children from rape? I'm just wondering at what point you'll actually get around to blaming the people actually responsible for this decision, instead of blaming what Bush did 10 years ago...

So you're saying that this practice didn't exist in Iraq before Bush ousted Saddam?

To hell with being beholden to a landowner or airport manager. Buy your own airport, and become your own owner/manager. Be beholden to no one but yourself. That's the only way to run a DZ without continuous threats of being kicked off.

Had an office lunch group a few weeks ago, and none of the people know that I'm a skydiver. The subject of the miraculous survival of the 16-year-old girl who fell 3,500 feet and lived came up. They each tried to one-up the others with more details of her miracle story. I just sat there, kept my mouth shut, and marveled at the ignorance of all those people who take at face value what the media feeds them and accepts it as the absolute truth. Not one of them questioned how it was possible to fall 3,500' without a parachute, and survive. Doh!

Shirley you jest!

It is not a presumption. Your guns have not been taken away. You can still buy them. Incorrect logic. Just because he wasn't successful, does not mean that conservatives were wrong to think that he would try. He did try. He failed. The fact that he tried, means the conservatives were correct. And as Champu just pointed out, it's not just Obama, there's a wide array of folks at the state level too who would also love to restrict gun ownership, and in many places, they have succeeded in doing so. Take California for example. Many people bought guns prior to a new law going into effect, which has caused S&W and Ruger to withdraw from the California market. If they hadn't bought those S&W's and Ruger's beforehand, they would now be out of luck. And we also have the source of this thread: is CT going to confiscate unregistered "assault weapons"? The threats to gun rights are very real.

What if I wanna be cryogenically preserved and brought back later? Would they renew my membership when I wake up? Would old magazines be piled around the canister? I'd vote in favor of that, except I'd suspend magazine delivery in the meantime. If medical technology ever advances to the point where everyone is doing this, we can always change the rule later.

The difference is between risking only your own life, or also the life of some student/passenger who expects you to keep them as safe as possible.

Leg grip I presume. He must have really been wondering what the hell you were doing back there. Lucky you didn't get kicked in the face to make you let go.