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There isn't any federal liability. It is a Texas problem. The only federal money spent so far is our whiny ass president flying there to mumble some pithy words about the explosion just to get get face time at taxpayer's expense. He should have stayed home. It isn't his problem. It isn't a fed problem. It is Texas'. If you ain't from Texas, you aren't affected. If Texas taxpayers pay, then that's for them to decide. The only way a federal expenditure would be involved is if some do-gooder agency is directed to "help" in the name of all of the sympathy created, despite the fact that it is a state problem, not a federal one.

This was presented as a rant about some need for a government official or government office to decide how much insurance a business should carry, and a criticism about a businesses that don't carry any insurance or "enough" as determined by some internet poster. I guess it is a cry for "nanny state" requirements about insurance coverage decisions for Texas businesses. Silly. It's up to the Texas legislature; not a bunch of regulation-loving hand wringers who post their non wisdom on an internet site.

So, should rig manufaturer's be "required" to carry liability insurance? Riggers? Dropzones? Plumbers? Nurses? Hot dog stand owners? House painters? If so, how much? Who would decide how much? The whole concept is meddling. It's a business decision, not a governmental one.
If a business doesn't want to be insured, so be it.

So I guess you were also self righteous when you saw the title of "The Uninsured Relative Workshop" for several years?

What was your rant..........uh........"required to carry an appropriate amount of liability insurance" ? Who will decide how much insurance is "required"? You? How much insurance should a parachute manufacturer carry? I guess you'd know the answer. Your post is silly. A business can decide how much insurance to carry, and even decide not to carry any insurance. Rant away.

If you don't live in Texas why are you even commenting?

I didn't have any problem with the Service Bulletin SBSP008 as written:

1. If the rig is within the dates, measure as shown on
page 3.
2. If the cables are too long, according to the chart on Paragraph 9, trim them.
3. If they are too short, get new one(s) for free by following the procedure. Procedure is straightforward.
4. When everything is correct, make an entry on the data card.

What is the problem? I just did one and it was within the .25 inch specs. Recorded it and moved on.

(I don't know what a "revision marking" is)

Well, it is skydiving gear after all. Fooled me. I still don't know how the sewing can be worth a shit, as it is flimsy thread - for a harness. But, I guess if you have a long enough stitch pattern.......... use any old thread. Don't sign me up to jump that rig.

This does not look like skydiving gear. Where is the harness? I could be wrong, but no one, not even the Russians would construct a riser with double throw zig zag, E cord=V69 (OK it may be F cord, V 92). No harness I've ever seen or heard of has been constructed of such flimsy thread. Unless the stitch was very very long, E cord (8.5 lbls) or even F cord (12 pounds) wouldn't hold anything like the strength of the webbing shown.

It looks more like a cargo release system with some kind of "pin puller" cable puller release mechanism, or a person pulling it. It doesn't look like there is even a harness. Just a connection point between two pieces of heavy webbing.

Are you sure it is even skydiving gear?

I use silicone (cypress grease) and it lasts and lasts. It loses it sticky in a few minutes and stays with the cable coating a long long time. It is also most mfg recommended lubricant. Even dry, it works. I use the grease because I don't like the spray cans. The spray goes everywhere.

Longevity: It's in your Cypres loop for 6 months and still works there. OK, I admit this isn't scientific-tested.

Note: WD 40 is, in general, not a good lubricating oil substitute. It has other stuff in it. Penetrates bolt threads etc. If you are going to use oil, use oil. I do not use oil as it collects dust and grit, and it dries up too. When it dries up it is gone. When silicone dries up, some of it remains, as it is - as they say a "dry lubricant".

Oh. Here we go again with the red Teflon cutaway cable discussion.

I would caution anyone who reads a DZ.com post and changes a component on their rig, based only on this source. An article in Skydiving magazine came out about 10 15 years ago about this. One customer came in with his rig and it was so equipped. It had dents where the loop had pulled in, and the coating was butter soft compared to a yellow nylon cutaway cable. The coating had dents in some places. Once again, in my opinion - just by handling it - it seemed considerably less rigid.

Put the customer on the phone with the mfg of the rig and he was told to put the original equipment yellow cutaway cable back in. I refused to reassemble the rig with the red
cable and ordered a brand new yellow nylon cutaway from the mfg.. Put my own rig's cutaway cable on while it was being shipped. Threw the red cable in the trash. Have seen this rig since: no dents in coating and no bending.

This is simply my experience, and my suggestion to anyone who is contemplating a change - to call the mfg and listen to what they have to say.

And yes, the yellow cable does need to be lubricated. Once again, call the mfg for this advice, or go to the Poynter manual, vol II.

I am not a sushi lover:
. Sushi tastes like uncooked fish, and hs a disgusting taste
. Raw fish ingestion is a 100% certain way to load up your intestines with parasitic worms and other nematodes.

Ok this isn't related to the radiation topic, but is a reference to the topic heading.

Forty sons a bitches!

(Why 40? No clue)

Universal background checks is the building block for state and national gun registration. A list of every gun by description and ser. #, and gun owner. Don't believe this?

These checks are accomplished by the form 4473, which are paper and held by a gun shop. So far so good, but - there is a little known provision that requires these paper forms be turned over to the batf or homeland security or some agency when the gun shop goes out of business. If there are universal background checks with no exceptions, within one generation (covers family and friend transfers and private sales) and one business generation, (covers all commercial sales and purchases) the government will have a 100% complete list of all legal gun transfers and sales. As I said, it will take some time, but that is the end result.
It will grow and grow, year by year, and be complete when the last of these 'person generations' and business generations occur.

Why are these paper forms required to be turned over to a governmental entity upon the cessation of business of a gun business/shop? To accomplish this gun registry. It will take some time, but will occur if this "universal checks" ball gets rolling. Of course this only applies to guns legally sold/bought or transferred.

I had Vista and then bought a new rig with Windows 8 installed. What a piece of crap!!!

It is more like a pinball machine. Moving the cursor around causes everything to highlight, brings stuff on the screen you DIDN'T want without clicking ...........basically, for every 5 minutes I spend, I have to hit the escape key about 50 times to get rid of the pinball effect, to get rid of the highlighting. About every 20 seconds or so. And no, the options do NOT come up when you hover the cursor on the corners. Oh about 30% of the time, maybe. I'm taking this back to the store and getting the "downgrade" or whatever it's called. Windows 8 is ridiculous and NOT for some one who isn't enthralled about computers but just wants to send and receive emails and do some googling. I've never had Windows 7, but nothing could be worse than this 8 version.

Yeah I guess you are right. Have packed hundreds and hundreds of Strongs- guess the Racer one wouldn't be any different.

Maybe I'll go to the packing class there. Might as well learn.

Hope I never see one

Looking over the schedule I see a program on packing the "eRacer" pilot emergency parachute. Never heard of Racer getting into the PEP market.

I agree it is probably due to cocking while wrinkled when packing. I also agree it is likely from the PC being forcefully cocked after bagging the main.
And. I wonder if - when the wrinkles come out on deployment, is the pilot chute really fully cocked after all?

You can test this, (whether it is fully cocked) by pulling on the pilot chute after the rig is pinned. Grab it by the base of the mesh=the attachment point of the pilot chute to the bridle,(not the hacky) and carefully pull until the bridle is straight, then keep going, and extract the pin and keep gently pulling until the bridle is straight to the top of the D bag. I suspect you will find it is not fully cocked.

What's up with that goofy backwards main ripcord in the "my students" pic?

He (Mark Kelly) had to sign form 4473, with penalties for perjury, stating it was for personal use. Now says he bought it to be a gift? (To a police department) He is admitting to a straw man purchase. Plain and simple. He lied on the federal form. Wasn't this straw man issue in the news in the last couple of days before about a federal law, or a bill, prohibiting straw man purchases? With huge penalties?

If it is all right to buy a gun and then give it away, and not have it considered to be a straw man purchase, then that is a pretty weak exception and can be used regularly as a complete defense in cases appearing to be straw man purchases.

It is apparent that he bought it and then got caught and is making up this baloney story about using the purchase to test background checks. Oh, and by the way he purchased three 30 round magazines at the same time. Really? Need to buy three magazines to test some background test theory? At appx the same time, testified in Denver, Colorado in a legislative hearing about the need to make illegal, the sales of 30 round magazines?? Nah. He bought it and got caught.

Well celeste greig is obviously stupid on this subject. Stupid statement. Conception is biological, not altered by how it occurs. Just as stupid as the senator who thought a woman's conception "shuts down" when raped. Stupid stupid.

But the Democrats have been making their share of stupid statements here.. First some Democrat legislator GUY says (to ban the right of women or anyone from having concealed carry at universities) something to the effect that a woman who is a university student would know when she is about to be assaulted, and would be reacting by doing something, maybe screaming or calling the campus cops or something like that. Implying that the assaulter will wait until the caller is given ample time to call 911 and then wait a little longer, to be able to tell the operator that she isn't really at home but on a campus.............all while the attacker is waiting patiently to attack to let her finish her call, or that a simple scream is an adequate defense. Or something like that. The liberal newspaper kept insisting, in an editorial, that he really didn't mean that the female victim would "actually know", then it changed to "she wouldn't know", then to "she would know and should be able to use her cell phone"..........blah blah This guy was caught saying something totally stupid.

Then, (same issue) after a unversity student testified she was brutally raped and beaten on a campus that banned concealed carry, a FEMALE Democrat legislator said she would have been better off not carrying a concealed pistol, because statistics showed that assaulters can grab a weapon and use it against the woman carrying........to which the assaulted woman said it should be her choice to be defenseless, and not some legislator's. Then the Democrat legislator, still totally convinced that statistics should carry the day and not a woman's (or a man's) individual choice, decided to apologize, then actually didn't apologize, or apologized in a shallow and qualified way - mostly insulting, and insisted the State should decide if a woman is to be defenseless, but kinda qualified it to mean that maybe this particular girl should have been able to defend herself and changed her twisted retorts so many times it looked like she was trying out for a spaghetti competition. It never ended.

Both of these brilliant Democrat legislators showed they can be just as stupid and say stupid stuff, BOTH of which, in the newspaper said they "didn't really mean what they said" then changed and decided they really did mean "something" but "not what was actually said"......then kinda apologized, then after their hollow apologies, reasserted what they had said in the first place, negating the apologies...........yadda yadda. No political party affiliation is without their village idiots, nor without those who deny saying what they said. Democrats included.

I have two (dpre only) questions that I wanted answered. Not on DZ.com. My FSDO isn't the place to ask either. Guess I'll have to corner some others at PIA and we'll discuss.
I had to have airplane and hotel room scheduled to arrive a day early to go to the seminar. It is costing me one more hotel day and to change flights is more expensive than pushing the date forward. Not happy with this last minute cancellation.

And it still costs $75 dollars.

Thanks,
Guess that's the "modern age" way to do things.

Date wrong. Is was sched for Sunday 24th. Anyway, same message.

I just got an email stating the "face to face" DPRE recurrent seminar for Mar 23 was cancelled. I had to book for a day earlier to make the Sunday meeting. Anyone else in the same boat? If there are others similarly situate, could we could meet on Sunday afternoon and discuss some of the issues?

Now I have to do the online 8 hour seminar. Anyone already do this that will tell me what it was like? Do I really have to sit in front of a screen for 8 hours?

And while you are at it: Boycott CITGO. And put "means justified by the ends" ="fuel oil Kennedy" in the same pile of shit.

(Local newspaper)

Breaking News! Woman Lucky To Be Alive After Shocking Skydiving Accident!!
Local woman grievously injured after plummeting from aircraft at 2000 feet elevation! Wasn't wearing her parachute, but local experts doubt it would have opened from that altitude. Unbelievably she landed on concrete and still lived. Analysts state such dangerous accidents are to be expected in this sport where thrill seekers defy death on a daily basis.

(Of course they fail to mention the field elevation was 200 feet and the plane wasn't flying. they love the word "plummet" and can be counted on to use it every time)