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  1. I had a friend do that at the software company we worked at. She hit reply instead of forward on a mass email from the CEO - she thought she was telling her husband what an idiot the CEO was. She panicked after she realized what she had done, but a mgr in our dept said that the CEO had an admin assist. who checked all emails first. Luckily nothing happened. Cross your fingers and hope for the best.
  2. They lie and pretend that they had nothing to fear during the "ban" period, and now there's all this horrific dangerous hardware suddenly come available again. Don't people see through the obvious fallacies of all this crap?! ____________________________ I think that most non gun owning people think that the "assault weapon" ban is about automatic weapons, when it has nothing to do with them. Mostly thanks to the media helping the anti gunners out whenever possible. Therefore many people think the assault weapon ban was a good thing, because they don't have the facts that gun owners do.
  3. I've got an Armalite .223 but would love to get an AR-180 (.308). Also, having recently shot a friend's AK47 and MP5 (semi-auto) I wouldn't mind having them. Except of course for the cost of the MP5 which are ungodly expensive these days. and some hi cap mags for my HK USP .45.
  4. Well i usually wear tanktops in the summer and i've caught people looking down my shirt many times. Hell, sometimes i check my own boobies out. _________________________ it's a genetic thing - men have weak muscles in the backs of their necks, which in turn causes them to look down a lot. not our fault at all.
  5. 6500 on her engagement ring, several hundred on the wedding ring which she had fused to her engagement ring (2 different types of gold so you can see the difference) and $500 on my ring (platinum and gold combo). It was worth it - we're happily married and I love her very much. I only planned on doing the ring purchase thing once in my life. Although I'm sure that other guys have said the same thing.
  6. It's a small open rig, with a seat and a large fan behind the seat with a parachute providing the life and the fans providing the forward power. supposed to be fairly simple to fly, and safe. just not in this case. I was reading an article about powered chutes and para gliding in UTah and the area that this accident occured in is a mecca for this stuff.
  7. Anyone thinking this movie is propaganda is not thinking rationally. It's a Memorial Day, beginning of summer, pop-corn flick. Nothing more. If Mark Gordon actually made the comment, it was -only- for the purpose of hyping the flick. Get real. _______________________________ Well, actually, several reviews have noted the distinct similarity between the Vice President in the movie and V.P. chaney. and Moveon.org has already mentioned it as "the movie the Bush administration doesn't want you to see!". so yes, in some ways it can be seen as propaganda, and I'm sure there will be lots of people who believe that this could happen. and others will think that while this extreme weather can't happen, we're going that way and it's the Bush administration's fault.
  8. The guy who was promoting it was there at the Byron Boogie last Sept... I think they were looking for something down in the tourist area somewhere... _______________________ Thanks Jeanne. I knew I had seen info on it somewhere. Hopefully that will open soon. I've never been in a tunnel and would like to try it sometime.
  9. I can't remember where I heard it, on the web or someone at Byron, but I though a wind tunnel was supposed to start up here in the bay area in CA. Maybe the east bay? Does anyone know? Thanks
  10. I'm curious - I was reading some posts on the internet by a security training firm that trains a lot of people from SA. they said that the country is very dangerous (no specifics as to exactly where) and that the crime rate is very high, with people being attacked on a regular basis. Is this true? How is SA today compared to before the change in government (Mandela being elected)? Again, just curious.
  11. Many years ago I was reading a story about a young who enlisted in the paratroops in WWII, and his training at Ft. Benning and subsequent combat experiences in Europe. He tells the story about during training of seeing a Roman Candle (the chute not opening fully) and watching the guy hit. When he ran up, the guy got off ground with only bruised ribs and some scrapes. Turned out it was a chaplain.