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The drinking game that goes with "The Room" makes it a significantly more enjoyable experience. Get a bunch of friends together and set out the rules first and you'll have a laugh.

Once again someone wants to muddy the waters with statements like yours. The climate changes! Mankind has adjusted to climate change since man started walking upright on the planet. Somehow people want to confuse climate change with man affecting the environment. Sad but that's the way the left Eco radicals have moved this debate. So sad! Marc, do you have evidence disproving anthropogenic climate change? The thing is, at least for me, the same science that gave us airplanes, parachutes, AAD's and internet forums also gave us overwhelming evidence of anthropogenic climate change. So like the reality of the Moon landings and the shape of our planet I go with the scientific evidence which, so far, is overwhelming. School me please. How am I in error? Do you believe that America can influence the rest of the world's nations in such a manner as to actually control the earth's climate? Or, do you accept the fact that the earth simply goes through climatic changes? Both

Why do you post lies? There has, to date, been no evidence of Russia changing the outcome of the election. None. Period. That's not what he said. He said "[I]every American security agency has confirmed Russian interference in our election[/I]". Your rebuttal was that there was no evidence Russia changed the outcome - those are two very different things indeed. I don't know whether or not your rebuttal is in fact correct but it is certainly addressing an entirely different point to the one raised. And even if your rebuttal were correct, there would still be very significant grounds for an investigation into even unsuccessful attempts to interfere in a democratic election.

I think a pretty useful metric would be to consider whether the customer, if they fully understood everything about exactly what they'd paid for, would feel aggrieved. Take a typical twin turbine DZ running mixed loads in a busy schedule up to 12-15k: Having a single tandem get out at 8k is a massive pain in the arse and actually costs the DZO more than simply sticking them out at the top with everyone else once you've factored in fannying around with an additional jump run etc. So sure, for their 'up-sold' additional 4-7k in freefall the customer got a longer skydive and so got something for their money and so on the face of it, it seems a pretty fair deal. But when you consider what's going on in the background you have to wonder why 8k tandems are offered at all - they're a pain in the arse and actually cost the DZO money. Largely (though not exclusively) the answer is that they're a way of squeezing more money out of a customer who doesn't know any better through 'up-selling' because DZO's know that people will pay a little more for a "better" service, when in reality, if the system wasn't being gamed, they'd get the "better" service as standard anyway. Insofar as it does, that's where the deceptive practice comes in - they'd be getting a 12-15k tandem anyway if it wasn't for the upselling - it doesn't quite cross the threshold IMO... but it certainly approaches it and if the customer really knew what was going on behind the scenes, I'm not so sure they'd be all that happy. Now that's not to say this is what's going to apply across the board and some places the maths will work out very differently, (esp for example at a 206 DZ etc) but certainly at the DZ's I know of operating such a system, that's pretty much what's going on. I've even seen tandems decline the hard sell to go to the top and then be given it anyway "just this once because we like you" because actually following through on an 8k tandem would have been a complete ball ache. In fact, put like that it sounds more like an empty threat than an 'upgrade'.

Reminds me of a line from Harvey in Suits, which was something along the lines of: "we're going to bury them in disclosure; they're going to have so much to look through they're still going to be unboxing when this thing gets to trial".

Two points here Bill this guy was a volunteer and No meetings happened. Manafort, Gates, Jared Kushner and Steve Bannon were all unpaid "volunteers".

And of course they already have an admission... one which so far is the most damming of the revelations for Trump.

[Quote]News to us!" The FBI have his emails to the campagim telling them all about it - there's reference to them in the admission published today. They're how they caught him in the lie.

Lol, one of Trump's campaign advisers lying to the FBI about contacts with Putin's niece.

If you're using the Daily Heil as a source I can't take you seriously. Along with The Scum they're a major source of right wing shit stirring, usually read by Biffers and Little Englanders. So you cant refute the article? Yes we can; it's complete and utter bollocks. Hope that helps.

You realize, of course, that the individual in question, a licensed pilot and aircraft owner, had all the requisites to fly his plane from KLAS to the concert venue before anyone could do anything about it. Thus, all the layers of bureaucracy and regulation to which you refer were definitively moot. All I see is yet more evidence that what motivates these people is not simple a desire to kill as many people as possible but to shoot as many peop me as possible. Time and again it appears it's the killing with firearms that gives them their hard on.

How come you're unfamiliar with the spelling?

3) alone would do it through the free market economy. Underwriters would swiftly price out of the market many weapons most likely to be capable of use in mass shootings and you better believe they'd have the resources to properly research the issues. Capitalism at work - the right wing would love it.... oh wait...

Not sure why but something like this springs to mind: https://i.makeagif.com/media/5-01-2015/O5Ojdl.gif

A direct quote from the rushmc playbook. Good for you, Jerry Baumchen Only 8/10 from me - he missed out "Clinton did it first".

Surely, given you're facing a felony charge, this is a question for your LAWYER rather than a freaking internet skydiving forum!?

More fake news as it has nothing to do with a constitutional right. Same BS you use for health care. You make it up as you go. Is English your first language? It's not 'fake news' just because you disagree with it. Whether or not their union is backing them is a question of objective fact. Whether it involves a question of a constitutional right is a question of law to be maybe one day determined by a court. If you simply disagree with the statement you should say so but merely your contrary view does not make it 'fake news'.

Not everything is about partisan politics.

So... are they going to have an annual Kim Gibbs memorial boogie from now on? You know, bring in a couple of nice quiet skyvans or something and attract 100's of jumpers from around the country to spend all weekend jumping.

Lets face it, whilst cool, this is nothing more than a university project. I'd be amazed if the designers were doing it with any real expectation that they can build a profitable business around it within sport skydiving. This is for grades and as a calling card for a graduate job somewhere in robotics, aerospace or defence etc. and good luck to them in that.

I thought the traditional VR jump training was to hang from a strut while your friends berate you before dropping face first onto the floor, missing the mattress and braking your nose, then hang in a suspended harness until your instructor kicks the stool away, yells at you about the mal you had while your friends stand on laugh and shout until you finally pull your reserve ripcord causing you to dangle upside down? I'm sure I've seen an 'instructional video' of that somewhere...

Hard to tell but it looks more like an accidental discharge to me - if he genuinely thought he was threatened to the point where lethal force was necessary and therefore took the conscious talk to shoot, he wouldn't have stopped to have a chat about it after just the one shot and no appreciable change in the suspect's stance. But yeah... stage a bank robbery for a movie at a bank and not at least tell the cops before hand? I'd want one there on staff FFS and the area sealed off. I guess they were on a budget but it doesn't cost much to at least give the locals a headsup.

Yeah, I thought to myself that most high rises don't have opening windows. Listening to some of the audio you first hear a short burst, a pause and then longer ones. I thought, yup, that was him shooting out the window and that was him opening up on the crowd.

Funny how that conjures up a memory of the sniper suppression scene from Full Metal Jacket: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_mMQLxBnokg0/SGNW20mABLI/AAAAAAAAAKI/SizzvWoHwUg/s320/FMJ2.jpg Not sure there would have been any glass left on that side of the hotel - or on all the other hotels in all directions.

Crazy idea. In the UK you wouldn't even get authorisation to open a dropzone that would cater to first jump students anywhere where there's a realistic prospect of them ending up in water - never mind deliberately dropping them in it. I used to instruct at one where we had some artificial recreational lakes about 1 mile from the edge of the DZ (and it was a big ol' military DZ - jump-run for a pair of static line students out of a turbine would run in, dispatch and reverse course without ever leaving the perimeter track). We had to have a specific exemption and had to do water landing training on the FJC even though they'd barely have a chance of getting close and even if they did, it would have only come up to their waist (old gravel strip-quarries). The only other DZ close to water is B-licence and above and has an alternate landing area in-land for A licence or lower.