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Repost, and mine had the audio too... http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=2804866

Courtesy of "Spinal Tap".... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8JiQCIzCZA

Thanks for championing this argument. The lampooning of duck & cover advice has always annoyed me when taken seriously outside the realm of standup comedy. It takes less overpressure to blow out glass and shred you than it does to blow down a building and crush you and there are always degrees of damage and debris based on too many factors to count and so there are areas where you might have less of a chance of injury like under a desk. One would hope this was pretty much self evident, but apparently not. I think these ideas take hold when it becomes politically/socially favorable to repeat them. They grow into myths that go unchallenged for a generation to the point where folks become shocked at any argument & get quite insistent despite the obvious. Duck & cover.... better than nothing.... sometimes.

This warning is not justified. Just what exactly in my post breaches forum rules?

No, you donned your rose colored spectacles and pretended you were morally superior as you sneered and posted bigoted one sided diatribe about historical American actions. If you want to think about the history of these things, then THINK. The world including Japan has enjoyed the fruits of the decisive WWII victory. Inaction when you have the capability to act decisively can be immoral too especially when the alternative projects many millions of deaths, military and civilian.

Now he knows the natural high of a bullet in the guts.

Quite right but I think all sides are making a lot out of this. If nobody knew what unit he was in or what he did that'd be fine but sending him in there with a big announcement is fucking stupid. There's evidence that the enemy is already targeting scimitars and it's gotten one crew killed so far (that's if you accept there's a connection). They may turn around in a year and say he's been deployed all along and he's returning after serving with his unit, at least then I'd get the (possibly misleading) impression that our military is not being run by a bunch of dozey fuckwits who couldn't throw a surprise party for a deaf, dumb and blind retard.

This is a murky issue, in announcing the surrender the Emperor simply declared the war to be over. Military leaders tried to stage a coup of sorts and prevent the broadcast of this message. The Emperor subsequently remained as the figurehead/god despite the defeat, by all accounts this was the major obstacle to an earlier surrender. I subscribe to the theory that the A-bomb was treated as another weapon, and once released to the military was simply used against the enemy as the opportunity presented itself. People tend to overlook how devastating & lethal the conventional low level firebombing was. I also subscribe to the view that the A-bombs saved many more Japanese than they killed in the long run, and who kows what might have happened in the Cold War if we hadn't seen their effect on those cities. It would be a reckless fool who'd undo that little piece of history, terrible though it was.

http://www.break.com/index/dog-humps-a-duck.html

Don't sweat it. You got scammed, keep the pressure up. I'm all for second chances, but only after justice or a refund Crooks belong in jail, and skydivers who steal from skydivers are a special breed of scum. I'd worry if this guy was wandering around my home DZ.

Where have all the flowers gone? Long time passing Where have all the flowers gone? Long time ago Where have all the flowers gone? Girls have picked them every one When will they ever learn? When will they ever learn?

God or Falwell?

I make no apology. Many materials and their byproducts are provably toxic, we still use them in munitions and a host of other applications. We fire DU rounds at an enemy with the intent to kill and the lethality we very intentionally inflict is through the conversion of kinetic energy, not toxicity. Stop fearmongering and abusing this metal's association with real WMDs.

More sensationalism. *yawn* Supply/demand is old hat. Now it's Market Bearing. Charge what the market will bear...good old capitalism at work. So what's your complaint? You're buying the gas at those prices aren't you? Oil companies are for-profit endeavors, aren't they? WTF? Tell you what...I'll sell you my coffee cup for $1 million. Pay it and then go home and whine about getting ripped off. This highlights the problem. If there is elasticity in the market and competition both from the refinery and at retail then you have no problem. We don't have that and that is an issue. Would you pay $10 for a coffee? What if EVERY coffee house charged $10 +/- 2c you couldn't make your own and you needed a cup to get to work in the morning every morning? Now all the coffee makers tell you that the coffee beans are tough to come by and there's only 5 places in the country that will grind the beans and they've shut 2 of them down for a year and they own the other 3 but yea they're only charging what the market will bear. If someone else could open a refinery (or take one of the closed ones away from the monopolists who shut it down) and start trucking gas to independent stations inside a year I'd be happier. I think the missing link is what's happening with the refineries, but retail is pretty screwed up too with regional price rigging. Same gas sold for more to different stations for no reason other than they can get away with it due to lack of competition. Capitalism is good, but not unbridled capitalism, this has long been understood.

Why is the burden on ME to find a replacement. Have YOU found a replacement for mustard gas, which has, quite appropriately, been banned? Because you are one of the folks bitching about it being used, that's why. I would have bitched about mustard gas too. I guess mustard gas is fine with you. I think DU should be banned, just like mustard gas. Mustard gas is banned because of its explicit, demonstrable and intended effect. DU is completely different, its intended and agreed effectiveness as a penetrator is not the problem (at least its opponents will not admit that's the problem). The opponents of DU point to marginal and unproven health concerns relating to side effects, in doing so they point to an unproven syndrome of immeasurable statistical significance with over a dozen alternative claimed causes and speculate, all while ignoring reasonable precautions that might mitigate any effects of exposure if it was a factor. In doing so they resort to the utterly scurrilous tactic of labeling the simple use of a metal in a munition as a WMD, and you KNOW this is by association with other isotopes used in real WMDs and nothing to do with the intrinsic properties of the metal. You have used a number of specious arguments attacking DU, equating it to mustard gas is characteristically misleading.

But will they spring for a high end casket or just a plain old pine box?

A highly misleading reply. It was a perfectly accurate reply. Do you dispute the accuracy of the facts in my post? Your posts on DU have been highly selective and I consider them misleading. It's quite shocking to see a Physics Professor pander to the kind of anti-DU hysteria that's been posted here in the past. If you consider 1/2 of one billionth of an ounce of C14 in your body to constitute being "riddled with it", then we can all draw our own conclusions about your objectivity and accuracy. Of course the point of my post was to highlight how idiotic some of these claims are and how certain facts can be presented to cause hysteria, but a sophisticated guy like you would have seen that. Do you seriously think I meant we should be concerned about carbon isotopes? The fact is you're posting yet again in support of a DU = WMD bullshit thread. The last time you used such canards as an approximation in half life calculation (which was a reasonable 1st iteration of Newton's method at worst) while ignoring all issues with posted analysis such as the micro-gram quantities and extreme locality of tissue samples for massively overstating exposure. I could point out that the half life of DU is 760 million years (vs.

In the USA they call it math.

Presumably you'll be the first in line howling since you disapprove of such tactics.

I just saw this. Good call, I'm a PG pilot, the wings are generally big and stable and lose less altitude in a turn and it says nothing about pulling or handling freefall (AAD). Smart PG pilots would understand their limitations and unless there was a lot of speedflying experience I'd say it didn't count for enough under canopy in this case (I do think it helps you understand your wing etc.). There is some crossover I find the sports compliment each other but you need to earn your wings in each, there's not a good transition plan. I'd say a PG pilot with lots of hours arrogant enough to think he's OK flying a small skydiving canopy is an added risk not a reduced one. Unless he was an experience speed flyer his paragliding canopy would have been double the area of that main, designed specifically to maintain lift in a turn and the lines would have been so long that the period of the pendulum under the wing would have been unrecognizable. You did the right thing, one benefit of experience should be to avoid bad decisions, apparently not in his case.

Just FYI: there is a skydiver who doesn't post to Bonfire anymore based in CO, doing paraglider Dbags from 18,000' with a modified paragliding harness and a skydiving rig to make it legal. He usees a un-modified paraglider, small 5cm"3ring" links. 45min sledding run/through pull with some acro. He reckons he could stay up all day if he was trying.

Southern accent + melanin injections?

If this is true then they are clearly unable to exercise the good judgement & bear the responsibility that comes with supervising children.

Well it took them long enough and I doubt they'd have had the guts before now but it shows you where they'll go when they need to serve their political camp. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/14/nyregion/14giuliani.html Funny for its transparency.

This happened to me, different camera. I'm sure I physically touched the switch against some part of the door or another jumper during climbout. Is it your normal helmet with typical switch position? I have since trimmed the red switch so that it is almost flush with the recessed rubber surface and it takes positive pressure to activate/deactivate it, it's now much less likely to switch with an accidental tap and just as easy to use. If this happened at climbout I'd suggest thinking about how exposed the switch was and what you might have touched with your head (edit: the video should give you a clue if that's the cause).