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They're not going home, Mike, they are changing sides. -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

Guns don't kill people, cats kill people. -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

http://www.airlinepilotcentral.com/content/view/122/40/ Fixed it fer ya,

Very cool stuff John, how are they being dated to 2,000 years ago, thats pretty recent for this sort of thing isn't it? The continuous line, geometric pattern reminds me of Celtic/Norse type knot patterns. -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

Anyone know what the range of these things are? What is the decision point, 20 miles out?, 10miles? 5 miles? Its one thing to shoot down a rogue plane, but where will the debris land? -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

"Do you think I should sell off some of my Haliburton Stock, or keep it?" KBR will be sold this year, I reckon this will increase the value of your Halli stock

"One wonders what will happen when China passes us in terms of CO2 emissions, which will probably happen within 15 years." China has just begun work on over 500 new coal fired power stations, India will follow suit soon. Food for thought, huh? "To think that mankind could drain the mighty Colorado River, " Check out the Sea of Aralsk in Kazakhstan, see attachment. Nah, to think that we humans can change the way the planet looks, and works is definitely pie in the sky..... "Might as well smoke three packs a day and imagine it will never affect your health; after all, there's no way to PROVE you will get cancer." Good analogy, I stopped smoking, not for my sake, but for the sake of my bairn. -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

Hehe, I knew someone would reply from the other side.

"So I here by give my resignation." Again? -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

"You?" Exit an aircraft, smile, deploy parachute, land somewhere, drink beer, tell tall tales, laugh some more. If people want to attach labels to that, or further divide the tribe, then thats fair with me.... Too many games to play, too many toys to try, too many people to have fun with, can't be arsed with labels.

"I think the reasonthe government/TSA fears the GA population include" They haven't worked out how to put tollbooths in the sky yet. -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

"Of course, we could argue about taxes, job loss and an economic ripple effect that would eventually lead back to someone indirectly, but I have a feeling most people do not think in such large terms." A lot of people here will argue on precisely those issues. Do a search, the same people come up again and again giving financial reasons not to clean up industry's act. After a while you will get to know who they are.....and you'll get used to the same asinine responses.. Its a natural thing. There is no damage. Its bad science. We are not to blame. We are not as bad as they are. We can't afford to do it differently. Who's going to pay for it? "There are people who have no stake in industries that do the polluting " If they are involved in consuming the products of those industries they will have to pay, one way or another, at the end of the day thats most of us. Some of us have a little more intimacy with these industries though... -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

"I just don't understand why anyone would actively opposed cleaner air and less pollution when we know it CAN be done. " Wonga, loot, denero, filthy lucre, think of the shareholders! It is, and always has been cheaper to be messy with many industrial processes. Hell, even I can remember when it was cheaper and safer to simply burn excess natural gas from oil platforms rather than ship it ashore for domestic consumption, spike it into the oil stream, or re-inject it into reservoirs. Burn rates of this 'waste gas' could be measured in hundreds of millions of cubic feet of gas per day from each installation. Pretty shameful really. -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

"This sort of delivery system is an option for people who _don't_ want to die," I was kinda driving at the suicidal elements as well, also my posting was coincidental with the other thread about SAM batteries in Washington. I was sort of bemused by all of this. Looking at some of the other bombings that we in Europe have had to put up with. Brighton bombing for example, the bombers mined the Hotel where Thatcher was going to be staying months in advance of her visit. The Madrid bombings were pretty well co-ordinated so that separate bombs 'arrived' at the same place more or less at the same time. Omagh and Manchester were car bombs, etc, etc, I can appreciate that we have to be aware of the airborne threat, but lets not blind ourselves to the more common forms of bomb delivery. "At least with suicide bombers, there's one less terrorist after every attack." Problem is, there's no shortage of willing replacements. I'm not sure how to approach this threat, its relatively easy to deal with an organisation like the IRA, Red Brigades, ETA, etc, the problem the US faces now is that you are not against a single organistaion, your up against an idea, or philosophy if you like, which is difficult to suppress. I can't help feeling that if AQ were crushed more quickly the seeds of Jihad may have fallen on fallow ground. -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

"This is a wake-up call and an unequivocal message that a low-carbon global economy is necessary, achievable and affordable," said Steve Howard of the Climate Group charity" How does showing the lack of an icecap on Killi demonstrate unequivocably that a low carbon economy is 'achievable and affordable'. That particular demonstration is somewhat elusive at the moment. All pictures like the one discussed do is to show the effects, the symptom but not the cure, if you like. Anyways, you don't really need a picture of Killi... http://www.worldviewofglobalwarming.org/pages/rising-seas.html .........for something a little more immediate to most of the regulars here.....especially the Floridians. -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

"Reasons why skymama isn't "old."" Reason number one...she's younger than me, and I ain't old, yet! -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

"I only hope that NacMacFeegle doesn't construe this game as a personal attack!" Gonzo Tossing? Nah, I'm over that little episode, I was young, foolish and drunk, its in the past, let bygonzos be bygonzos I say..... -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

"what size teli will I need ?" Large, probably something with mirrors and a high price tag. If she's doing a tandem, she will be a mile away from you on opening, doing a normal skydive she will be 3000ft or about half a mile away at opening time. Its quite difficult to track the subject using 'normal camera gear' from the ground. "what can I expect in the way of quality from these pics?" Depends how much you spend on the large tele. Much better to spend your money on a local camera flier who will get good shots for you.

"I see what terminal openings do to spectra, kevlar, nylon. I don't like to think about much more than that." Terminal openings play havoc with chiffon as well, doesn't mean that it doesn't look good on a gal. But this isn't really why I posted what I did, we both know that.... -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

"Who's cooler looking - the freeflier or the formation skydiver?" Obvious really.. The one with the bigger boobies. -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

"Or does anyone out there know of a way to do this????" Really good 'how to' guides here..... http://www.afterdawn.com/guides/archive/dvd9_to_dvdr_with_dvd_shrink.cfm more here... http://www.afterdawn.com/guides/ Cutting up DVD recordings? go here.. http://www.videohelp.com/guides.php?howtoselect=5;18 Oh, and if you are backing up old vhs cassettes, for example to a DVD recorder, you'll probably want one of these...... http://www.multi-region.co.uk/index.php?cPath=25 They work a treat at stripping out macrovision noise. Finally, if you need to convert a standard DVD player to multi region...go here.. http://www.sony-remote-hack.co.uk/ I have a dual layer burner, but have yet to find reasonably priced blank media, meantime I can live with quality and feature reductions. -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

If she knew and didn't tell she should be hung, drawn and quartered. In use at least until Tudor times in the UK. The victim is first hung by the neck but taken from the scaffold while still alive. The entrails and genitals are then removed and the torso hacked into four quarters. Then distributed around the kingdom as a deterrent, pre media of course, how else are the government supposed to spread their authority?... Now then, this is going to be messy, are you sure thats what you want to do with someone with HIV? Wouldn't the body parts be considered as biohazard? -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

"why put these out there? Just for the public appearance?" Its the govt reminding the good folks that they are under threat. Its also the govt reminding the good folks that they are being protected. Actually, they make a lot more sense than Tony Blair putting tanks outside Heathrow. -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

"Keep in mind that terrorists don't destroy military targets; they create terror. A spectacular explosion at a nuclear power plant would do that pretty handily." If you can pack the King Air/Skyvan full of 'dirty material', you wouldn't even need to hit the power plant, any decent sized downtown would suffice...... If one wanted to bring a grid down, lock up a city, close a port, etc, there are easier and more effective means available than dropping aircraft onto things.... Just because they used aircraft before, doesn't mean they will use them again. Are you scared yet? -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

"READ: 25mb/s WRITE: 14mb/s Now what?" Do the happy dance, there's nothing wrong with the disc speed, one less thing to worry about