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If you don't vote, you have no right to Bitch! ...so judging by the amount of bitching going on in here, EVERYBODY votes at least once!

would balloons work?

Oh come on Turtle... you know good and well that you can't buy women, your can only rent them. Sometimes by the hour, sometimes via a long term rental agreement or lease... but you can't actually buy em.

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...the extra wide leg straps...

In addition, I'd recommend the following if ordering a HC:
-Full sized 3-ring, not the mini. Can make swapping canopies a bit easier
-Wide chest strap; less issues w/a flopping chest mount alti in freefall (I actually sent my rig back to Sunrise to have the thin chest strap replaced due to this)
-B12 snaps on the leg straps. My fat ass is getting too old and brittle for contorting into my rig.

YMMV

I'm curious, why do you feel that an instructor is needed as a 'secret shopper'?

I'll take it you never lived on a farm? ...facts of life and an intro to The Reaper come earlier than for them city kids.

Dad -son, bring me Rufus, your pet chicken.
Son - why?
Dad - We gonna fix 'em for dinner.
Son - Cool!!! ..can I have the wish-bone and thigh?

Mine was 56... D-9053.

pilot chute assist. Mr. Bill holds onto Sluggo's pilot chute as Sluggo falls away......

I think everyone is approaching this the wrong way. Here's what should do, according to me. Have him buy an 8 ball, some baggies, and the fixings of a nice dinner and perhaps even a bottle of wine. Have him invite the sig other over for a quite dinner so you can talk, and perhaps come to an agreeable settlement.

While she's getting plastered on the cheap wine, he needs to take the 8 ball, minus enuff blow to have laced her dinner with, and baggies and stash them in her car where they'll easily be found. As soon as she pulls out, he should call the po-po and id himself, state the situation clearly, and that he's afraid for his kids/public welfare considering the condition she's in and his suspicion that she's plastered on drugs or something. When she gets pulled, she'll get tagged with DWI, possession, intent to distribute, and prolly a couple of other minor charges. He'll get custody, the assets, and won't have to pay alimony.

Am I missing something? The cable coming out of the wall should be connected to a cable modem, which is different than a router. An ethernet cable links the router and the modem. Each laptop or desktop pc establishes a wireless link to the router to access the interweb thingy...

I have a linksys modem and router, and this is how mine works... yours maybe different... From the description you gave, it sounds like there's no modem involved. It also sounds a bit like your talking to your router fine, but the router isn't negotiating with the modem. If security settings were played with, you may have to reset it to factory settings and start over (with whatever computer the cable modem/router software was installed on being the main computer and wired via ethernet cable to the router so you can maintain a connection with it...). Once you can connect wirelessly, you can detach the cable to the router. Clear as mud?

Also, you may need to occassionally reboot the cable modem and/or router if it just randomly stops working; I have to reboot mine `1/mth or so...

...or not.

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All it takes is one glitch and the transition from friend to enemy is so easy-

...what I do this time?

Good luck w/that.

Those who can't make a decision and act in a timely manner do NOT make it in this sport. The lucky ones are given the tug/tub speech. The rest aren't around to answer your question.

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What color is his canopy? ...get a yard or so of the same colored nylon, and lay it on/in his unpacked canopy when his back is turned. Be ready w/a camera!

Ikea, Home Depot/sLowes... or you can try one (or more) linkies from here.

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...you would be further ahead by paying people to be sterilized by their own choice. this way maybe you would a lot of dirtbags before they start shitting out kids.

A good place to start would be to invoke a policy whereby anyone, male of female, putting a hand out for gov't assistance/aid would be req'd to get a birth control shot or undergo reversable sterilization. If you can't support yourself, how the hell can you realistically support a child? In a generation, we can go a long way's toward breaking the cycle of poverty and welfare addiction.

Why is it that we need a license to drive a car, catch a fish, shoot a duck, own a gun (let's not get technical on the gun thingy, ok?), or any number of other activities.... but with a major life commitment like "reproducing" is limited only to those who can figure out how to drop their knickers?

HELL EXPLAINED BY A CHEMISTRY STUDENT

The following is an actual question given on University of Washington chemistry mid term.
The answer by one student was so "profound" that the professor shared it with colleagues, via the
Internet, which is, of course, why we now have the pleasure of enjoying it as well:

Bonus Question: Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat) or endothermic (absorbs heat)?

Most of the students wrote proofs of their beliefs using Boyle's Law (gas cools when it expands and
heats when it is compressed) or some variant. One student, however, wrote the following:

First, we need to know how the mass of Hell is changing in time. So we need to know the rate at which
souls are moving into Hell and the rate at which they are leaving I think that we can safely assume that
once a soul gets to Hell, it will not leave. Therefore, no souls are leaving. As for how many souls are
entering Hell, let's look at the different religions that exist in the world today.
Most of these religions state that if you are not a member of their religion, you will go to Hell. Since
there is more than one of these religions and since people do not belong to more than one religion, we
can project that all souls go to Hell. With birth and death rates as they are, we can expect the number of
souls in Hell to increase exponentially. Now, we look at the rate of change of the volume in Hell because
Boyle's Law states that in order for the temperature and pressure in Hell to stay the same, the volume of
Hell has to expand proportionately as souls are added.
This gives two possibilities:
1. If Hell is expanding at a slower rate than the rate at which souls enter Hell, then the temperature and
pressure in Hell will increase until all Hell breaks loose.
2. If Hell is expanding at a rate faster than the increase of souls in Hell,then the temperature and
pressure will drop until Hell freezes over.
So which is it?
If we accept the postulate given to me by Teresa during my Freshman year that, "It will be a cold day in
Hell before I sleep with you," and take into account the fact that I slept with her last night, then number
two must be true, and thus I am sure that Hell is exothermic and has already frozen over. The corollary
of this theory is that since Hell has frozen over, it follows that it is not accepting any more souls and is
therefore, extinct......leaving only Heaven, thereby proving the existence of a divine being which explains
why, last night, Teresa kept shouting "Oh my God."



THIS STUDENT RECEIVED AN A+.

How about a video review of each landing? This would serve to id thingies that are sometimes hard to pinpoint to the pilot... uneven flares, too early/late flares, unfinished flares, minor toggle input/corrections, etc...

I got 'very' lucky and made 1 jump from 'Georgia Box' at Jax NAS, with the clam shell removed.

However, in order to protect the guilty I'll have to digress the story behind it... It's prolly better suited for the 'Stupid things I have done' thread anyway.

Interesting... from the pic, it looks like there's little, if any, stump for the leg straps. Any special mods to the harness that you know of? Did he have any stability &/or flying issues and how did he overcome them?

The reason I'm asking, is that my dad (D-9053, PRO-90, SCS, SCR, Falcon, etc...) was missing his R leg (100% - no stump) and had a harness custom built and TSO'd. This was back in the mid 80's, and he had (I thinks) a 100 or so paracommander jumps before his first square jump. We also fashioned a scuba flipper for him to wear (acted as a rudder) for flying, which he'd take off under canopy in prep for landing.

In addition, all licenses and awards were earned w/no waivers! At the time, we knew of no-one else in a similar situation, and assumed that he was the first. For no other reason than personal curiosity, I'd like to know if he really was, or not.

TIA and feel free to PM me...

Sounds to me like its tunnel time.

Who's the chap in the center, missing his R leg? A skydiver?

+1 Agreed... along with a max compensation package that equals the average of their constituency.

I got nuttin... except perhaps a high psi powered bolt action dart/pellet gun.

Relax ladies... it's really no big deal when its 'your' kid and besides, it kinda comes with the territory. Someone else's kid though... I'm more than willing to test the effectiveness of their diapers!

When my oldest was about 6 mths old, I was laying on the floor kinda lifting her up and bouncing her playing the 'superman' thing (she loved it and would genuinely belly laugh!). On one particular occassion, while we were playing, my wife walked in and warned me not to do that cause she had just fed her. Yep... right on cue... my daughter hurled and I got tagged from top of my chest up. ...and yes, that included a mouthful on my end!

We still laugh about it on occassion... but this illustrates my point - it's a whole different world when its your own.