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Heard a rumor one may be on the horizon. Any press releases or details?

Pandering is pandering.

Yeah, 7 minutes in Utah is like 7 hours other places.

That's just the line of reasoning political marketing guys get independents to swing democrat or republican.

I had a single bad shoulder injury and one previous dislocation before that. I got a bankart repair done and I'm mostly as good as new. If you have repeated dislocations it may be an option. http://www.surgeryencyclopedia.com/A-Ce/Bankart-Procedure.html

What size is it?

Hi All, I just made a Google Chrome extension that adds fields relative to wingsuiting/tracking to Strava's analysis. Calling it StravaJump. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stravajump/bcblopmfendjekefgjddjdchejpjjnkd

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I remember in 1998 there were like 4 fatalities at WFFC. The level of stupidity that goes on at the Perrine is equally mind blowing. Cherry picking one boogie there isn't fair. I've been at least 10 times and never seen a fatal, only minor injuries. Have seem the same level of idiocy you see at WFFC. BASE is way too diverse now to compare it whole sale to skydiving. Wingsuit BASE in Europe is nothing like slider down jumping which is nothing like slider up from moderate altitudes.

Maybe you can just go no knock warrant every house in your neighborhood. You're likely to find at least one with cocaine or hookers. I mean if they aren't doing anything wrong they shouldn't mind you busting in the door, right?

My friends were there at the game mentioned in Cary, and I'd been to that game before. Anecdotal yes, but I just can't imagine any world where raiding a home poker game with a SWAT team is a good idea.

http://www.salon.com/2013/07/07/%E2%80%9Cwhy_did_you_shoot_me_i_was_reading_a_book_the_new_warrior_cop_is_out_of_control/ Being prepared for Columbine is a bad reason to be raiding low level crimes. A home poker game I went to in college was raided with a swat team and helicopters. Another game was robbed in the past so some of the people that were playing were on edge and carrying guns. Can you imagine what would have happened if they fired on the people busting down the door?

The reserve PC burbled. I see a lot of reserves that do that, and kind of makes me want to pack my own again. A lot of reserves seem to only pop about 2 feet because so much of the bridal is packed under the number 1 flap.

http://ncpedia.org/harriet-henderson-cotton-mills-stri White people rioting and bombing in the 20th century! I'm kind of surprised that's not more well known. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_incidents_of_civil_unrest_in_the_United_States This has lots more including incidents of masses of blacks being killed in various protests. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haymarket_affair I was always super fascinated with this in incident. Someone threw a bomb at the police during a labor dispute. Can you imagine something like that happening today?

The venture capitalists with net worth in the $10s of Millions or the lowly peon software engineer making $200K, paying $3000 a month for a house and supporting a family?

Profitable at this stage means nothing. What matters is they build the infrastructure to solve the problems with delivering an electric car. Elon Musk took his own money and built a car company from the ground up. He used every means necessary to get it off the ground. After IPO and reissuing stock, they've paid back the federal loans and have lots of cash on hand with which to play. That's on top of actually selling a few cars the past two years. They've built a nationwide infrastructure to use quick charging tech to get over the range/refueling issues of every other electric. I like the idea of an industrialist that's also building rockets having a few billion in capital. I'd not bet against what he'll be able to do with that money. He's risking his neck and getting shit done instead of sitting on it and going the safe route. Who cares? The car is fast, fun and creates a desirable product people around the world want to buy. This creates jobs and new industries here in the US. Unrelated. Most of the Tesla drivers are douchebags with money, not tree huggers. You even pointed it out above yourself. The Model S has parity with a $50K because of the gas savings. There are a few spreadsheets on the forums showing that even with great car depreciation it's still much cheaper than an Audi or BMW 5 series after owning for 6 years. A $35000 car with no gas would be much, much cheaper to operate than a $25K outback over 6 years. I think Elon said this week that'd be $35000 without subsidy.

If you read through the Tesla forums they seem to be good about fixing the issues. Building any new product takes a while to get the kinks worked out. It's obviously unsustainable if they start churning out 10000 cars a week and haven't fixed the issues leading to a huge backlog of cars to fix. Slow roll out and scale up is the only way to go. I am dumbfounded by the hate Tesla gets--they make a fun car that creates new opportunities for US car industry, jobs, and they get shit on.

No doubt. He's a big reason there were no prosecution of some of the banks responsible for the 2008 crash. More: http://m.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/ag-eric-holder-has-no-balls-20120815

1) That is factually untrue. A Viper would get what, 24 mpg highway, to a Prius that gets 41 mpg even going 80 mph? 2) Hybrids haven't been eligible for HOV stickers in California for many years. It's the Tesla and pure electric drivers that get the benefit now.

I drive a prius because they are negligible in cost of maintenance and only spend $50 to drive 800 miles on a road trip. Not everything is political statement. The media is fucking poisonous.

They do it to show group solidarity in a time of loss. I don't do it, but get why.

With 300 million people you'd have to be super lucky to be targeted by a single group. Lottery type odds. You're better off worrying about car crashes and skydiving accidents.

Yes, line twists, broken zipper on an old Birdman classic, and when I was unable to immediately unzip on a wingsuit BASE. Basically if there is any hesitation in the zipping motion I cutaway the wings.

You can make an educated guess. Ie cutaway less than 600 ft it likely increases the probability of surviving. I'm more interested in how often that happens vs the complications. I've seen super low cutaways that were in my mind saved by the rsl.

Anyone have any numbers on skyhook saves where not having it would end in death?