nathaniel

What could possibly make an individual such as you or me a better judge of that than the free market itself? I don't think you want to propose Planned Economy. I hate to say it, but Trust in the Invisible Hand. Exceptions can be made on a case-by-case basis... nathaniel My advice is to do what your parents did; get a job, sir. The bums will always lose. Do you hear me, Lebowski?

Amen. I work in IT, and I'm facing competitive pressure at the moment. When people complain about offshoring and the like, they don't often seem to account for the growth that goes along with it. There's massive amounts of infrastructure that's being built out in India and China and name your favorite 3rd world nation to support the growth taking place there... Jobs will be created to maintain it. Even though it might cause me individually to be out of work for a while, the global economy isn't a zero sum game. It's not a wash when jobs move to other places...it's frequently a net gain on the whole, even if it is a net loss for some. nathaniel My advice is to do what your parents did; get a job, sir. The bums will always lose. Do you hear me, Lebowski?

reprogram the led on the printer to say "Please insert 25c" take a screenshot of the desktop and set it as the background image. invert the mouse and set the sensitivity to 0.0001 or whatever the lowest value is change all the icons and mouse pointers to the corn theme My advice is to do what your parents did; get a job, sir. The bums will always lose. Do you hear me, Lebowski?

here's what it looked like before they touched it up in photoshop My advice is to do what your parents did; get a job, sir. The bums will always lose. Do you hear me, Lebowski?

They've taken a creative (read: destructive) hand to my possessions before...I don't know if it's worse if they lose or wreck your stuff I just ordered the parts for a new computer, and none of the retailers listed UPS as a shipping option...can't say that I'd object. nathaniel My advice is to do what your parents did; get a job, sir. The bums will always lose. Do you hear me, Lebowski?

the best of nasa's spinoffs * laser angioplasty * heart imaging * advanced pacemakers * infrared thermometers * thermal imaging * digital signal processing - used just about everywhere from medical imaging to cellphones and stereos * burn treatment assessment techniques * gait (walking) analysis * speech aids for the deaf * heat-controlled clothing * advanced wheelchairs * vehicular controllers * microbe detectors * food processing techniques * radiation blocking lenses (eg, for sunglasses) * those grooves on runways and highways * advanced x-ray imaging * advanced aircraft de-icers * collision avoidance systems * anti-rust coatings * cordless tools * space blankets * memory metals - unbreakable eyewear frames * scratch-resistant glass coatings (eg, for sunglasses) * heart-rate monitors - portable * water purification techologies * laptop computers * lightweight cables used in aircraft * x-ray materials testing * solid state lasers * high pressure waterstripping * composite materials - carbon fiber * dry lubricants - cutaway cables anyone? * ferrofluids * robot hands * clean rooms for electronics nathaniel My advice is to do what your parents did; get a job, sir. The bums will always lose. Do you hear me, Lebowski?

big research programs like this frequently result in all kinds of practical things for ordinary folks, like, uhm, astronaut ice cream and other neat stuff. nathaniel My advice is to do what your parents did; get a job, sir. The bums will always lose. Do you hear me, Lebowski?

crooked freeflying... wohoo count me in nathaniel My advice is to do what your parents did; get a job, sir. The bums will always lose. Do you hear me, Lebowski?

hopefully they're not those pills you're not supposed to crush where the coating helps it do time-release nathaniel My advice is to do what your parents did; get a job, sir. The bums will always lose. Do you hear me, Lebowski?

since your harness is probably black go with the red body. It's all about contrast imo nathaniel My advice is to do what your parents did; get a job, sir. The bums will always lose. Do you hear me, Lebowski?

I use the Evolution client with a regular POP server at home, but it's an outlook clone, not an exchange clone. Novell sells a connector to get it to talk to Exchange. If you're willing to split out the functionality from the mail client and go web-based the phpGroupware suite might do a lot of what you need. Despite being web based it's pretty slick looking. You might also want to look at the Mozilla suite with the ical module. Last time I looked it was horribly immature, but that was about a year ago. I've also heard of kroupware.org, but I've never used their software and I don't know what state it's at. Unfortunately I've not found any good unix groupware systems. There's a lot of work being done in this area but IMO it's yet to pan out. nathaniel My advice is to do what your parents did; get a job, sir. The bums will always lose. Do you hear me, Lebowski?

I didn't detect any complaining on the defendant's side when I read the article. It's the plaintiff's lawyers remarking about the award. A man at peace with an imperfect justice system, perhaps? I agree with his assessment ... locking horns in the current judicial climate in the US would be throwing money and time away. It's a faster path back to the world of parachute manufacture to accept fate than to fight it. Hopefully the company was incorporated in such a way that the owner and staff are protected from liability...I believe LLC's can do this in some cases. nathaniel My advice is to do what your parents did; get a job, sir. The bums will always lose. Do you hear me, Lebowski?

it's not al gebra, it's al jabr nathaniel My advice is to do what your parents did; get a job, sir. The bums will always lose. Do you hear me, Lebowski?

clicky mach 1.3! nathaniel My advice is to do what your parents did; get a job, sir. The bums will always lose. Do you hear me, Lebowski?

Really? It's been my gut feeling that it depends on the wind speed...going upwind when the winds are light being productive to an extent. In the original example being pushed back with no input is definitely over the threshold.... I never did the math tho... Perhaps someone physics-enabled could clarify? nathaniel My advice is to do what your parents did; get a job, sir. The bums will always lose. Do you hear me, Lebowski?

I went to alaska once, it was beautiful and serene. Lots of aviation involved too

no, more like if we give root access to all these monkeys[*], soon enough one of them is going to randomly type rm -rf / nathaniel * edit: racial connotation disclaimed My advice is to do what your parents did; get a job, sir. The bums will always lose. Do you hear me, Lebowski?

I feel good when I can understand and predict things... Like when things go haywire at work sometimes I'll observe the systems before fixing them, just to see the mayhem that results nathaniel My advice is to do what your parents did; get a job, sir. The bums will always lose. Do you hear me, Lebowski?

ewww...fermented chocolate breath....somehow I don't think it would be like godiva nathaniel My advice is to do what your parents did; get a job, sir. The bums will always lose. Do you hear me, Lebowski?

The public high school across the street from my apartment has a dress code more or less white, opaque shirt, long sleeves, no cleavage dark full length pants loose fitting but not more than a couple sizes too big no logos and considering the ghetto nature of the school it seems to work fairly well. a friend of mine teaches there and while she still has tons of stories of gangs and dropouts and teenage pregnancy &c it seems like at least the dress code isn't a source of controversy. nathaniel My advice is to do what your parents did; get a job, sir. The bums will always lose. Do you hear me, Lebowski?

when I see experienced jumpers landing in the corn. nathaniel My advice is to do what your parents did; get a job, sir. The bums will always lose. Do you hear me, Lebowski?

I asked them for the IR interface specs to the device so that I might write something and release it to the public domain, but Alit-2 declined to the effect that the 3rd party has some sort of exclusive arrangement with them. So much for competition! nathaniel My advice is to do what your parents did; get a job, sir. The bums will always lose. Do you hear me, Lebowski?

closest I've had was a fire drill...but i managed to get an ATF official bomb threat checklist the link works but is a dead end. I posted it prominently next to my phone at work =). My advice is to do what your parents did; get a job, sir. The bums will always lose. Do you hear me, Lebowski?

Please allow me to thank you for broaching this subject. The pull altitude BSR has been a sacred cow to many of the people on this forum, and I did not feel that it was worthwhile for me to raise the subject, with the amount of ad homiem language in this forum. I think the reason people deploy their parachutes higher is that now pulling low triggers their otherwise reliable AAD. Here's a proposal: A black box of sorts for swoopers. If you exceed certain operational parameters, eg, pull too many G's or turn too many degrees at an altitude too low, the thing makes a loud noise, flashes a bright light and you have to pay several hundred dollars to get it reset, even if you manage to dig yourself out of the corner. Call it a transponder and in conjuction with a few base stations and do inferometry to determine the exact trajectory of the swoop and calculate operational safety parameters that way. It would still be vulnerable to risk-shifting but that's not stopping the WL BSR proposals, so what the hey DZ's could require jumpers to wear it until they saw fit to trust them to swoop safely...or forerver....make it so you can't turn if off easily to make enforcement easier. And you could use it for swooping competitions kinda ike the baseballl tracking thingie. I know they don't use a transponder in the baseball...I just mean the graphics they show on TV with the tracking system. nathaniel My advice is to do what your parents did; get a job, sir. The bums will always lose. Do you hear me, Lebowski?

Who are the fringe? What defines too quickly? It's useless knowledge after-the-fact, and it's probably also useless knowledge before-the-fact if we're relying on WL and jump numbers. Need we recall that the numbers of all such proposals have been pulled from a vacuum by well-intentioned but data-blind individuals? Whence this fixation with inexperienced jumpers? I confess a similar fascination with jumpers newer to the sport than I...new-kid-in-town syndrome. It's deeply ingrained in our culture.... If this is the true basis for WL BSR proposals' exemption of the experienced there is no shame in admitting it. nathaniel My advice is to do what your parents did; get a job, sir. The bums will always lose. Do you hear me, Lebowski?