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Are you fucking kidding me? It's the classic template of a 419 scam. Already the sender is asking for name, address and contact details, it's a fair bet they'll try and get a SS number later on too. Yup, it's a classic 419, but these are typically an advanced fee scam. Wire them a 'small' fee to clear some problem so he can then send you the mother-lode. In this case once you reply he'll start asking for 'small' sums to pay for medical perhaps, or to bribe corrupt officials in China to free the funds in his account. If you pay the demands escalate as each round there's just one more hurdle to clear the money. Some victims get taken for 100s of thousands of dollars. The psychology is such that once they've been taken for a significant but small amount the victim cannot admit it and chooses to believe and send more good money after bad. A retired surgeon who lost everything in a Nigerian 419 never accepted it was a scam even when he was broke and the FBI was telling him what happened. He still blamed corrupt Nigerian 'officials' that the con-men invented to get advanced fees out of him.

Fair enough, and I do get your point, I disagree with it though. When I rode a motorcycle in Scotland oblivious idiots would nearly kill me all the time, and that was before cellphones were prevalent. It is already illegal to drive distracted in California for example. There have been prosecutions for this due to cellphone use. Using a phone though is not in and of itself illegal.

See what you fail to understand since you are self absorbed is that DRIVING IS NOT A RIGHT. It's a priviledge. And "Yank" is just as derogitory racist a term as "Limey". Neither of which is acceptable to me as they both apply to me. Neither are racist. The first tactic of an American when they want to take something away from you is to call it a priviledge. Other nations don't bother with this construct, they just say "we're taking away your driving license". The word "priviledge" is an interesting cultural tick that arises when trampling over a constitution. Fortunately others disagree sufficiently that I manage to scrape by.

If you are implying that I think all yanks are the same then you are mistaken. Having lived in the USA for 10 years I know that is not the case, but I have always known this.

We should ban streetbikes while we're at it. And the the driver of any vehicle should sit in a soundproof cab isolated from all passengers, unless aforementioned passengers wear a gag. Do you have any idea of the number of accidents caused by nagging bitches in the passenger seat? Some arsehole almost drove into me the other day and sure enough, there was a woman sat right next to him.

Well I disagree with your crusade to restrict everyone's freedom (all because you perceive someone cut YOU off), I guess that must make me self absorbed. If all you can do in the face of valid objections to your masterplan is name call then you won't be changing any minds. As for "Yank" it is not racist (more yankee hyperbole) and it is a FACT (as you'd know if you spent any time looking outward) that your society is obsessed with saccharin bullshit and emotional analogies that would turn the stomach of citizens in many other nations. If your posts didn't wallow in that crap I wouldn't bother to point this out, but you've truly earned the moniker. You're just another American who is ill equipped to understand what "land of the free" actually entails.

That's actually one of the rounds (not the first) but more significant is the DMCA (never mind the international intimidation it has spawned), and worse to come on the technology front w.r.t. standards and encryption 'on the wire' externally to displays and internally accross the BUS, it is a fiasco.

Are you actually defending the morons that are so wrapped up in their conversation it compromises their ability to control a potentially deadly 3000 lb vehicle? There are some people who can't drive and chew gum, there are others who can. I have seen people entirely engrossed and animated in conversation while driving. They are idiots, others can talk and focus. Actually I think most people are capable of the latter, you just need to give them a good slap regularly whenever they take their eyes off the road. As for the "deadly 3000lb" crap, stow it, you're not talking to some yank who falls for that kind of manipulative bullshit.

Yup but at least you can pass on the inside.

I'm with ya. Jack valenti was a myopic litigious lobbying pigopolist scumbag like many of the others he ran with in life. Never in the history of technology has so much benefit been gifted to so few only for the greedy pigs to do as much as they could to completely fuck it up. The VHS casette, the DVD and now HD media, all technologies there for the taking, to fill their bank accounts all they needed to do was use them and rake in the cash. Instead myopic greedy fucks like Valenti took this windfall and turned into lobbying monsters. They've conned and bribed congress into chaining digital media to suit THEIR archaic business, restricted what was once considered fair use and generally rigged the system in their favor to exploit the public at the expense of entire industries of innovation and the general wellfare. To use an audio analogy, if assholes like Valenti ran the world every speaker and headphone on the planet would need decryption technology on board and music would be encrypted on the wire unless severely degraded. This is what they're doing with video and system & firmware inside and outside devices like PCs, they're moronic fools who are now interfering with the very technology that fell from the heavens to make them wealthy beyond the dreams of avarice. It just wasn't enough for assholes like Valenti to have the biggest windfall in showtime history fall into their lap. DESPITE fighting tooth and nail against it, Valenti and others had to be dragged kicking and screaming into a successfull business and it STILL isn't enough, it never will be. Valenti and the other bastards who couldn't lift their eyes up from the pig trough to see the potential make me sick and I sincerely hope the greedy fuck is dancing on a pitchfork tonight.

Road rage is a big problem on the highway. The world's chock full of angry drivers who mistakenly think their anecdote based opinion on other's actions counts for shit.

If your new AAD is a cypres 2 you can make a water jump with it anyway. So you can still do something else fun with your old one.

Yea he called it a race . Calling NASCAR a race is like calling McDonald's Haute quisine.

Well it's true, NASCAR is complete bullshit. There's way too many cautions and rules. It's bad enough that you have a 'race' with only left hand turns & cambered banks but this bullshit does nothing for the sport and you just lap it up no matter what they spoon feed you. If you want a real race at LEAST leave it to the drivers.

It is a 3D isosurface extracted from volumetric scan data and rendered in 3D using graphics algorithms (probably from a CT scan but it can come from MRI too). There are all sorts of visualization capabilities that arise from treating the scan slices as an aggregate 3D volume, and this is just one useful mode of visualization. One seminal paper was published in 1987 the algorithm is discussed here, as you can see it was patented in 1985. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marching_cubes But this is just ONE METHOD of isosurface extraction, from way back.

How many times do I have to tell you guys. Its POHM, as in: Prisoner Of Her Majesty. Etymology does not a definition make and the one you offer is considered false by scholars and the OED. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pommy#Pommy http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/pom Here is a better Australian reference (I've understood these to chiefly refer to the English, same with Limey): http://www.koalanet.com.au/australian-slang.html#P You will see that "Pom, pommy" is correctly listed beside "Pommy bastard", all of which mean "Englishman", but my favorite definition though is: "Pommy shower : using deodorant instead of taking a shower"

See 1:30 mark on this video: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=ec1_1177580115

This acro move is called the infinite tumble or infinite tumbing, google that for video etc.

I already made that point.

Ask your instructors to review PLFs and do several dozen of them. There's no reason to land hard on your butt even if you screw up your flare timing.

Cool, in that diagram you're also accounting for the angle of the head relative to the force vector in calculating the moment. The sin theta term. There's a shear force too, sin theta instead of cos theta in the compression equation, if you're interested.

Here's some help, incase you were thinking of chewing again: http://www.maricopa.gov/Public_Health/Community/images/oralCancer.jpg

OMG me too! Are you and Andy related?? That was "encounters" not "rejection".

I think it is more like being peeved at wannabes like SF guys see. A guy in a bar or DZ and spouts off he was in SF. "Oh, really? What group?" Amazing! All these guys were "black ops" and it is all hush-hush. You guys & your coins. Skydiving don't impress me none, so I guess he picked the wrong forums(edit: oh wait he didn't post here). Maybe he shoulda posted in rec.crochet or something. Speaking of which, he'd have made a bigger impression if he'd posted a pic of a 30 year old sewing machine to gear & rigging. If only whuffos knew how easy it was to impress hardcore skydivers

The water one is done with glass support just under the water. Levitation is fine wires. Especially with levitation you have multiple takes with different methods and camera angles and the reaction shots you see are often not in context just to make it more convincing, for example the shots from the ground may not be the same take and method as the ones from the roof. From the ground they may see a guy with a crane above him and be watching out of curiosity (I probably would), then they switch to a reaction shot of someone who saw a convincing wire trick but in a different context and you assume the reaction is to the view you saw on video where he was in the wide open with no possible support but he wasn't (all the people who saw some freak hanging from a crane aren't interviewed). And of course some of the spectators are plants. In the pool scene for example the spectators in the pool near Chris will be plants, the woman who swims under him is a plant, the people out of the pool will just be gullible observers. You can be sure Chris Angel uses plants. Here's a good example, the glass slides to move a section with a hole behind the paper, the signs which appear to be stuck to the glass aren't: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8u2jojj05eI The setup involved creating a hollow section of wall beneath the glass (and above), the storefront has been extensively modified. At a MINIMUM the guy in the room is a plant, but probably 3-4 are plants (if they touched the glass they'd feel it slide). It's best not to ask how, you'll have more fun watching the tricks, just don't buy his supernatural B.S. he's just another magician.