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its amazing how often pissed-off-middle-aged-guy works... I always start with the nice approach (lately meaning my young cute pleasant to be around room mate deals with the landlord/management company) but when that doesn't get the desired response I show up... amazingly the next issue gets resolved when cute-young-pleasant-to-deal-with asks the first time... you'd think people would recognize "good cop/bad cop" by now... but its still damn effective. ____________________________________ Those who fail to learn from the past are simply Doomed.

are they 64 bit Win 7 machines? If you are trying to use the same executable you may need to download a 64 bit version of Adobe Acrobat 7 Pro ah just googled my own question... apparently you'll need Adobe Acrobat 9 for Win 7 64 bit http://forums.adobe.com/thread/542200 ____________________________________ Those who fail to learn from the past are simply Doomed.

15 min in the tunnel is more freefall time than 15 skydives. When is the last time you did 15 skydives in an hour or so? ____________________________________ Those who fail to learn from the past are simply Doomed.

rotflmao...what forum are you reading? ____________________________________ Those who fail to learn from the past are simply Doomed.

given her age its unlikely she realized anything of the sort and was never taught the self reliance lessons that would have allowed her to not react in that manner. ____________________________________ Those who fail to learn from the past are simply Doomed.

I dunno... IIRC Gary did have a rig on 'in case'...granted there was a corner where he was committed but up 'till then it was a low-pull' kinda thing. Felix was in a 'corner' from the time they sealed the hatch...and a lot of it was not in his control any error meant instant ICK. I think it's a wash...and that either one of 'em could kick Chuck Norris's ass! I think every skydiver in the world with an A license would have taken Felix's place in a heartbeat. I don't know anyone, including Jeb, that thought flying a wingsuit into a pile of cardboard would be a good idea. This.. even having seen it done, I'm not going to follow Gary. I'd be there tomorrow if they were taking applications for Felix's jump again. ____________________________________ Those who fail to learn from the past are simply Doomed.

Agree. Protecting kids to the point they never learn to become strong is a major failing of modern life IMO. You dont get stronger with out stressors. Learning to deal with various forms of stress and still function effectively is part of the growing process. I worry that we are raising (an even more) pussified generation of children who will break under their first real test because they've never been really stressed (and learned to adjust) prior to shit really hitting the fan for them. ____________________________________ Those who fail to learn from the past are simply Doomed.

THIS ^^^ I've been trying to explain for 3 days to wuffos why Felix really did break the longest freefall time even if the "record keepers" wont give it to him. ____________________________________ Those who fail to learn from the past are simply Doomed.

Common...be honest, there's STILL a little somethin' somethin' coming in the birthday cards sin't there? it took nearly 10 years of uncashed checks before my parents realized I was doing well on my own and didnt need the help. Mom still buys me dress shirts for birthdays, she has good taste and I hate shopping for clothes, but otherwise I've never asked for bday or xmas presents... bday is an excuse to party hard and xmas a reason not to work, but otherwise they are just days. If I want something I buy it usually. Makes me a hard person to buy presents for, but I've always been one who would rather be given a gift that was "perfect" for me once in a blue moon whenever than have people run around trying to find something to wrap because "its one of those things you do"... ____________________________________ Those who fail to learn from the past are simply Doomed.

17 After a "my house my way or the highway" conversation. I chose highway, we didnt really talk again for nearly 5 years. He told my mother the year after I left he'd expected I'd be back within a month... which is odd given that he'd raised me to be self sufficient from the beginning. ____________________________________ Those who fail to learn from the past are simply Doomed.

last post prior Mar 5, 2001, 9:14 AM that is a serious necro fetish you have there.... ____________________________________ Those who fail to learn from the past are simply Doomed.

Some of us know Grue. The original DZ.com Holiday Boogie, back when if we had 10 DZ.commers at the same DZ it was a legendary party! Is there a story you can tell to those of us who didn't own a computer more than 3 yrs ago? Sound like fun! there is some photographic evidence floating around the web still.... ____________________________________ Those who fail to learn from the past are simply Doomed.

actually its rather sad that the forum doesnt do this for you automatically. Its a standard feature on nearly every other forum out there, the only training necessary if you want to make an imbedded link... ____________________________________ Those who fail to learn from the past are simply Doomed.

You've lived a sheltered life if you think I'm blowing this out of proportion. I hope you never have a serious stalker to realize everything I'm saying is simply the ugly truth. No... The impact of what you describe is totally blown out of proportion. The idea that random pictures of me on a random website would ruin my life is completely ridiculous... Like I said.. I hope you never have a serious stalker to become aware of how deluded that idea actually is. If they have a picture of your face finding any other existing pictures of you on the web is a rather trivial task now, from there the only limit is how malicious they feel like being. ____________________________________ Those who fail to learn from the past are simply Doomed.

please provide a link the the canopy collision that was caused by a "Tunnel Rat" being less familiar with the canopy flight portion of the skydive than their freefall skills would suggest. until you do you are talking out of your ass. ____________________________________ Those who fail to learn from the past are simply Doomed.

You've lived a sheltered life if you think I'm blowing this out of proportion. I hope you never have a serious stalker to realize everything I'm saying is simply the ugly truth. ____________________________________ Those who fail to learn from the past are simply Doomed.

You gave him 11 years he wouldnt have gotten from anyone else. Be Proud of that. ____________________________________ Those who fail to learn from the past are simply Doomed.

"Surfs up Biotch! Back the Fuck Up!" still one of my favorite jump shirts. ____________________________________ Those who fail to learn from the past are simply Doomed.

apparently you do...or have pulled a 180 in a couple of days, and probably would if something you saw as otherwise harmless came back and bit you in the ass job or relationship wise. The internet is forever and its not the kind of genie you can put back in the bottle once its out there. Unless you never look before crossing the street and enjoy running around in thunder storms climbing trees wearing aluminum foil you do take precautions to prevent being hit by a bus or struck by lightning. As getting hit by a bus would be a stupid way to die I do look before stepping out into the street (I'm actually up for getting hit by lightning, but thats another topic) Re: Prudish. You many not care about being topless on the Riviera, but would you walk into your workplace topless? Now imagine that everyone you work with has seen the shots of you some creep unknowingly took while you were on vacation. Its not "just one site you dont know about" its 10 or a 100 and its the possibility that every single person you meet every day has seen them, that every client you work with isnt just wondering what your tits look like, but has them downloaded on his phone to check out when you walk out of the room. Perhaps you are unaware of advances in technology, but your profile picture is enough for a facial recognition search and you've probably got a few creepy stalkers just from this site, not to mention every guy who's ever lusted over you in person without ever having the balls to approach you... Do I care about what I do in public? Absolutely. Do I pay attention to what I do when cameras are around? Absolutely. Do I assume pretty much everything I do in public will be a matter of public record and possibly on video forever... again. Absolutely. There is are very good reasons why I dont put my "real information" here or facebook, but until you've had someone go out of their way to ruin your life because they have an axe to grind, feel you've slighted them in someway or just for shits and giggles and had to spent far more time and money than you likely imagine trying to repair the damage one serious creep can do, you probably wont understand. There is a huge difference between being paranoid to the point that it interferes with your life and being aware of exactly how fucking evil people really are and how much behavior that seems otherwise innocent can come back to haunt you (or worse attract the kinds of predators you DO need to worry about) when it lives forever online. to attempt to untwist your knickers however, I was merely pointing out that your statement from your original post is likely already a reality. Perhaps you really don't care, perhaps you will never care, one of my friends just isn't to worried about it she shows her tits to pretty much anyone (well did for a while) the other is a doctor who (mellowed about it some now) dreads the day she runs into random stranger (or worse, patient) who mentions he's seen her from somewhere on the web. She actually went to therapy for over a year to help get over the anxiety that every new person she met wasn't just checking her out for the attractive woman she is, but because he'd see the pictures she never knew existed until it was to late. YMMV. I'm not the kind of creep I'm talking about, but based on your profile pic I'd certainly check you out if I saw you topless on the beach. Chances are one of the creeps with hidden cameras would too.... ____________________________________ Those who fail to learn from the past are simply Doomed.

honestly, I wouldn't know. Couldnt say I've been that interested (apart from the usual male interest in breasts) but I do personally know two friends who appeared on this NSFW site and basically discovered they have absolutely no right to privacy or recourse to remove them due to the fact they willingly took off their tops in public, and now wont do so even when overseas in Europe. Ubiquitous cameras have ruined quite a few things outside the skydiving world as well. which is apple's and oranges to Kate's situation as there is a strong argument (about to be undertaken) that she was NOT in public. and there are far worse sites out there, while you DO have legal recourse in most cases, if I were female I'd be very wary about changing in public locker rooms, you could be all over any number of seriously creepy sites without ever knowing it. ____________________________________ Those who fail to learn from the past are simply Doomed.

No. I'm pointing out that there are sites that actually pay "discrete photographers" to walk along nude beaches with hidden cameras to get fairly high quality shots of attractive women topless. You didnt specify anything about your boobs going "viral" ala Kate's simply because she married into royalty, but the odds are being an attractive woman, if you've been topless on any public beach (unless you are were alone at the time) anywhere in the world your tits are have already "hit the web" and have been published either on a pay site, a free site and/or both, and IF you one day became famous enough they would be all over just like her's are now. (particularly given the state of the art in facial recognition and image search available now) ____________________________________ Those who fail to learn from the past are simply Doomed.

I hate to be the one to break it to you, but if you are an attractive woman at a topless beach anywhere in the world there are good odds your breasts are already on the web. There are sites that are devoted exclusively to that subject and use covert camera rigs so as not to "alarm the subject" ____________________________________ Those who fail to learn from the past are simply Doomed.

there is less hardware connecting you to your parachute, and ps... you still have two while doing a tandem. ____________________________________ Those who fail to learn from the past are simply Doomed.

disallowed... permanently renamed the "FreeflyHol Sitfly" Bottom Left.... http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/0/1489/1600/holly-uspa1.jpg ____________________________________ Those who fail to learn from the past are simply Doomed.

Unlikely it has anything to do with USPA's database. Its a pretty simple task to correlate common friends, interests and companies that make products for those interests. I can pretty much guess where every friend suggestion comes from (Skydiving crowd, Scuba crowd, school, local etc...) just by the number of friends in common. ____________________________________ Those who fail to learn from the past are simply Doomed.