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The CMS that runs the back end controls everything including how its seen on the front end. Think of it like a car - you can't take the body panels off a Corolla and put them on a F150 with out so much work that its just not cost effective and even if you could there would be huge issues in taking it to the shop (developers) to get an update for it. Dropzone (and Basejumper) used a platform that was really outdated and was full of holes. It failed to implement a lot of new coding standards and had no flexibility to it. Once again think of a webpage that was originally designed for Internet Explorer 4 and then compare it to a site designed to run on the latest version of Chrome - massive difference in what the site can do and the functionality needed to make it work. When the last version of DZ was built Javascript was still new and being used everywhere - now days its all HTML5 and other new standards and if you do Javascript its just a recipe for the site to be hacked. The Highlight "Quote" feature could never be done under the old framework as an example. Compared to a lot of other forums this is still slightly behind but is a massive catch up to where forum design is going.

This type of quoting only works when you use a threaded model instead of a flat posting model like the new forums use. In this case all the posts are in a single thread and not branching off each other to form 30 separate branches off the starting post.

When I hit Quote it copied everything in your post - what is it not getting from yours when you quote? Also have you tried the highlight quote yet? Select the text and it pops up and lets you selectively quote with out needing to do a copy/paste.

TLDR version - expensive to get someone that might only be a short term employment In order for a company to sponsor a non-citizen they have to show that there is a lack of citizens that have the correct skill set to fill the job openings. This is a long drawn out process where they have to establish the need, show that they have tried to get people for the position and that there is no one able to take the job for a certain length of time. This might mean they have to be seeking someone for 9 months and show that no one has been qualified for the position in that length of time. If they then want to sponsor someone they then have to find the person, get a work visa (lottery system with only limited numbers per year) do the paperwork, be able to get them a work permit, pay the fees and then have the person come over to work for them. Most times this involves signing longer term contracts since they have a large investment in the person at that point and the last thing they want is for that person to come over and then leave 2 months in since they don't like it anymore. Most DZ's do not hire employees but instead hire independent contractors - aka freelancers that are not on a contract and can quit/leave at any time and have a lot of other things for taxes that the DZ's do not have to cover. With all this being said a DZ might have to spend 5-10+ thousand dollars to sponsor someone to come from overseas or they can just find a local for free. With most DZ's that need staff are in a seasonal location that means they might be paying a lot of money for someone that might only last 5-7 months before the DZ shuts down for the winter and then that person decides to go somewhere warmer and then will have to get that person to return to them in the spring. If the sponsored person decides not to go back or leaves the country then its potential legal bills to sue over the situation or writing off the costs of it. It has been done for the right people - high level coaches, specialists like videographers with movie level experience and others that have skills and personal relationships with DZ's that make the investment worth it for them. When a Tandem Instructor only makes say 40k USD in a year paying out another 10K for a non resident alien to come over to get the job is usually not an investment that DZ's are willing to make unless its for someone with extraordinary skills or abilities that has the potential to recover those costs and make the DZ more money. Think of a high level coach - DZ's could make their money back and it promotes the DZ with all the teams that the coach will bring to their DZ that they would not have had otherwise. Tandem instructors and AFF instructors are just not lacking enough for the most part to show the need to the US government that they need to allow lots of nonresidents to come over to fill the need.

CNN did good journalism to get the video. They did things like looking at when the grand jury was convening since it typically happened on Fridays but this week they did it on Thursday. In the past when they happened there had been other indictments or arrests on Friday instead. This had happened for Paul Manifort, the Russian hackers and a few other data points. That was a clue that something was going to happen on Friday. They also had a clue from early in the week when one of the attorneys with a lot of previous experience with cases in FL was seen coming to the courtroom with a suitcase and then left directly to the airport. Other clues were there also so they took a risk and sent two people out on the trip from DC to Florida. They said they had landed very late (unsure if they flew to MIA, FLL or somewhere else), got their stuff and a rental car and then went to his home around 5 in the morning to camp out knowing that standard procedure for a 6 am arrest. FBI has created a very long historical track record of 6 am and the courts have held that up as an acceptable time for these events. CNN took the gamble to send some people out and were prepared to eat the costs and waste the time but in this case it paid off. All the clues were there for everyone else to put together - some did not see them and others did not think it would happen.

Some of us that were at your going away party are still around

In the old format it was at the top. The great news is that you can hide the entire catagory in the new format and not have it appear at all. Jerry - another thing that was changed since the first launch is that originally if you clicked the link it would take you to the first post of the thread even if the thread had hundreds of replies. The functionality was changed so that now if you click on the link, the link will take you to the first unread reply in the thread (no longer need the blue button to take you there) and an orange box was added to indicate which threads have unread content. If you click a thread that has no new content then it returns to the first entry since there is nothing unread to jump you to. This returns the functionality and usability of the site to a lot closer to the old workflow.

Thats correct - its going to need to crawl the site for a few weeks to learn all the new URL's and paths to the data. Think of it this way - the old forums used software that made url's in this format: http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?jump=forum%3D35 and the new link to get to that same path is now https://www.dropzone.com/forums/. If this was a book we just went from hardback to paperback, you can't say go to page 233 and the second word from the start will be "spaceballs" in both books. The content is there, it just needs to reindexed by google and with the 1 million plus pages in the old site it will take a while to rebuild that. Google also has a time peroid where it crawls a site - they do not do it in real time. This also means that it might take 2-3 weeks for a search term to appear in google off a spider of this site.

Youtube is able to identify the content of the videos and assign metadata tags to them by doing machine analytics against the video looking for keywords and other content. The metadata is only partially exposed via their API so that once again the third party pages are not able to get that data to do this. Third parties are also not able to create and insert metadata tagging on videos outside ones that they have write access to. The only way you would be able to see that "Moon landing never happened" video would still need to be to search directly for it or subscribe to the content creator directly to see their content explicitly. I'll be moving this out of Bonfire also.

I had to have a conversation on why the recent tax reformed happened and why bills were going up for several of my family members. They all blamed Obama for the tax changes and claimed this was something he did on his way out of office to screw over Trump since he was mad that Hillary lost.

Those are old posts - the new ones post change have the sig in line the bottom under the quote button

For now the easiest way of doing this is to mark the forum as read and then all the posts will have the blue dot (unread thread) disappear and then only if there are new posts will there be a blue dot.

I live within 25 minutes of the American Motorcycle Association museum and headquarters. The building is located a whopping .3 miles off Interstate - This is a group that has 200k+ active members and more clubs than there are DZ's in the world (current count is 1100+ clubs). If you have ever seen a pro (or most amateur) bike race the AMA put it on. The Hall of Fame and Museum which opened in 1990 has a total parking lot size of 10-15 spaces and another 40 for the office staff and the baseball diamond on property that the community is invited to use. They estimated their total attendance was at 3000-3500 last year (Less than 40 per day). They charge $10 for adults but if you are an AMA member its free. Total size of this place is 28000 feet or so. There are exhibits of famous bikes, some history areas, and the stuff you'd expect in terms of videos and photos. The Hall of Fame basically helps to subsidize the office space for their administration buildings and parking for all their bike/event equipment. If an organization made up of 200k riders that are as passionate if not more so than skydivers are on their hobby don't visit by the 10's of thousands a year since its free to them via dues then what hope does this thing have? Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com

Once again - you never read the story since its the same exact story. Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com

You are arguing with a troll - someone that has claimed to be a super current jumper jumping the latest gear but then also admitted under a previous user name that he only had a few jumps in the 70's. He tried to talk about jumping the latest military gear today until someone called him on it and he deleted that part. He has been removed from some Facebook groups for his posts there already since he was very abusive and is on his last chance here before we disable his account again. Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com

Chris how much experience do you have with the black hardware and the leg hardware? Unless you have gained a lot of rigging experience since the last time your user name was banned around here you seemed to be pretty short on actual rigging experience. Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com

Once again this comes back to the question of - is this location only going to work if a tunnel is built there and is iFly really looking to move forward at that location? If that's the case then why not just build near an existing tunnel if that is the goal. If iFly has ran the numbers and sees the location is not that great and the profitability of the tunnel is questionable does that mean if they don't decide to build one for another 10, 15 or even 20 years in that location that this project is in a holding pattern until then with the USPA kicking all the member money into a bank account with no project plans committed? Has iFly even committed to building in this location in a given time frame? What is the plan if they move forward with the HOF and museum and the tunnel never happens? Does this also mean the project is really about a $25+ million dollar project since iFly states their tunnels are a 12+ million dollar investment when they build one. If iFly is putting in $12-14M and the Museum and HOF is projection at $16 million now is that really what this is looking to run? Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com

Question I have is since its going to be located in an iFly tunnel is the intent to have the museum own and run the tunnel and have a profit center with revenue off the tunnel to justify the building cost of the tunnel or is this more of a case of iFly is building a tunnel and this is going to be an annex building to the side where the museum is open to visit for anyone that comes to the iFly tunnel to browse? If the total funds are covering the building cost of the tunnel and the additional buildings then the business plan of the tunnel should be able to cover the construction costs of the tunnel on its own and this project is only needing to raise the expanded building costs. If the business plan is too weak to be able to do a tunnel on its own then I would question the survivalibity of the tunnel and therefore the entire project since if the tunnel is operating in the red for too long then how will it stay open? If the tunnel is not able to stay open then what happens to the museum? Granted none of the iFly projects until now have failed but that is not to say that they will never have issues in the future. iFly does a lot of business research into exactly where they open a tunnel at for most profitability - you don't see them popping up in tiny towns for a reason. Does North Orlando actually have the ability to support a tunnel on its own with iFly already having a double tunnel facility in the middle of tourist area and then the tunnels in Tampa and Ft L? Tunnels are primarly first time flyer driven for profits - is there enough in this location to cover the operation of the facility? Skydivers are at a much cheaper profit margin so if the tunnel is banking on skydivers to pay the bills then it needs to be considered in terms of what the draw will be for skydivers. Tunnels like XP have the size and coaches to draw in large training camps, Utah has cheap prices, etc. What will be the draw for this tunnel? Is it just its proximity to Deland and Zhills? If iFly is not chomping at the bit to get going on a tunnel in this location already then with all their market research efforts that should be a massive red flag that this is going to be issues in the long term. If the intent is for the museum to buy and operate the tunnel on their own independent of iFly then the business case should be pretty public if they are asking for donations for what will be used to start a business of tunnel operation. What is the plan for the profits that come out the tunnel? Is the Museum going to take on the liability of the tunnel operations, the training of staff and other day to day aspects or is that all yet to be determined? Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com

In terms of the gerrymandering topic at least 5 states by my count will have new processes in place in 2021 to dramatically shift a lot of their districts to minimize this factor. Ohio passed a legislature motion in May 2018 to prevent the issue from going in front of voter this fall (Republicans thought the proposed ballot wording would have swung it really far left) that the maps have to be approved by a bipartisan commission where the minority party has to fully agree to the proposed design or else the entire thing gets tossed over to a judicial panel that is also bipartisan and has to have a majority agree on the design. If it goes to the judges then the map is only valid for 2 years. They also put a lot of geographic restrictions in place that limit the shape and number of counties/cities that are allowed to be split up. Initial thoughts were this is going to cost the GOP anywhere from 3-5 seats alone in the state house and another 2-4 at the federal level. Missouri passed a "Clean Missouri" ballot by over 62% that really overhauls their entire mapping process and sends it to a bipartisan "Demographer" that is limited to creating maps based on existing county and city lines and will be using a computer to create more balanced districts. They also really limited the amount of donations from lobbyists to $5 per year and dropped the max donation amount to $2500 per candidate. Michigan passed theirs last night that changes a lot of their requirements and the initiative will amend Michigan's constitution to create a 13-member independent citizens' redistricting commission, composed of four Republicans, four Democrats and five people who don't identify with either party. End result is that it will force maps to be approved by a 8 to 5 margin and has very specific guard rails about "districts shall not provide a disproportionate advantage to any political party" and districts now must be shown to have a lot of dissimilarities instead of a lot of similarities like in the past. Utah's ballot is still too close to call but is up right now. They also are sending district mapping to a panel that is to use computer mapping to create more balanced districts. Utah will still be a red state but at the local level this could be a big change. Colorado also passed their two ballot items calling for more fair districts. Under Amendment Y, a 12-member bipartisan commission will take the role of redistricting from the General Assembly—and out from the governor's veto. The amendment will also require new boundaries to be "competitive," meaning that the newly drawn districts must have "a reasonable potential for the party affiliation of the district's representative to change at least once" every census, the amendment says. In a similar vote, Amendment Z will create a commission to redraw the state legislative maps. Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com

Missed the tempered part, any attempt to cut or drill will result a pretty pile of shards! Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com

Take the glass to a glass shop. They can trim it usually to get the 3/8-1/2 inch off that will be needed in that case. Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com

Use these instead - https://www.homedepot.com/p/Fluidmaster-Better-than-Wax-Universal-Toilet-Seal-7530P24/205762183 or https://www.homedepot.com/p/Toilet-Gasket-Flexible-Waxless-Seal-Universal-Fit-BL01/203564758 Way better than wax, can be moved around as needed and they will basically outlast anyone. I've installed I'd guess a dozen of them and I'll do them any day of the week over a Wax one. Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com

Its also been pointed out that this is being brought up only a week out from the election and there is a really high chance that this will all be dropped in 8 days. If democrats take the house it will be argued that with out the house then there is no way for the EO to stay since congress would just issue legislation to override it. If Republicans retain Congress then it will be kicked over and told to write a law to so this. Odds are this will all be over in a week and is only being used to generate votes and give the base some red meat. Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com

The 14th amendment is as follows: All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. With Trump saying he is signing an EO shortly to eliminate the birthright citizenship it will not be long until the supreme court will be taking this case on since a stay will be issued within hours of it being signed. With the recent majority shift will this be a easy decision for them to agree the president has the ability to do anything via EO or not? Thoughts from the Right: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/ending-birthright-citizenship-would-be-as-unconstitutional-as-it-is-unproductive Yesterday is history And tomorrow is a mystery Parachutemanuals.com