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What kind of advice are you looking for? Lots of people use what's called a "packboy" or "power tool", which is a metal rod thin enough to go through the grommets with a length of CYPRES loop cord (or similar) that acts as the pull up cord. Personally, I use a standard pull up cord, which has changed since I started jumping from 'normal' binding tape to a softer fabric sort of material, usually printed with company logos. Last summer I found a thing called a PUCA tool (Pull Up Cord Assist). It's a handle that the pull up cord wraps around and gives a comfortable handle to grip. I find it a lot easier on my hands than wrapping the pull up cord around them Really old school is to use the gutted 550 cord, which is standard parachute cord with the center strings removed. Also old school is to use a shoe lace, but if you do that, make sure you remove the aglet. It is vulnerable to being stripped off and jamming the closing pin. The only advice I would offer is: 1 - Try before you buy. Most jumpers I know would be willing to let you use a power tool or PUCA tool, as long as you used it when they didn't need it. As noted above, the power tool rod is pretty thin. I'm not a big fan of them for that reason. 2 - Don't wear the power tool around your neck. The idea of wearing something around your throat that will kill you before it breaks is a really bad one. Lots of people do that, it's pretty stupid. Some wear them when jumping, which is really fucking stupid.

I give you full permission to subpoena my taxes. Oh wait: you can't. Because you lack the investigative authority or reasonable suspicion that I've committed some sort of financial fraud. Congress doesn't have either of those problems. Try harder. Do better.

You know, the last thing I want to do is cause any problems, but as I think about it maybe if the mod's weren't vacuuming up likes there would be more for the working stiffs on SC. Why do the corner office types need Green Merits, anyway?

You are defending Trump. Not because of what Jakee says, but because of what you say. During Obama's time in office you regularly attacked him, asking why he wasn't obeying the law, and mocking those who claimed there were shades of gray. Now that Trump is in office you have changed your tune - "well, everyone breaks the law, and there's really no such thing as right and wrong, and people who think so are naive." You should take those issues up with Turtle circa 2012.

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The same things. Great. Thank you so much for being so informative and making that extra effort to have a serious discussion. It's really appreciated, we can all now move forward with total clarity about exactly what we're talking about. Clearly, you are a person to be taken seriously, who has really considered the details instead of bulldozing onwards with nothing but blind partisan bias.

Occam's razor here. Wouldn't it make sense for a board of directors to hire someone for a negligible amount of money (for a company that size) with the hopes that it gains them influence, without that being an actual brokered deal? Ex-politicians get hired all the time to sit on boards of companies they have no experience in. Fuck, trump wants to hire fox news actors to be fucking diplomats. What crazy world are you living in where you think any of this is on equal footing with a company gambling on trying to buy influence and failing? You can't point to one benefit Burisma got from hiring Hunter when it comes to US policy. I already pointed out the major flaw with your conspiracy theory about Shokin, but I'll reiterate it again: Burisma was only "under investigation" on paper under Shokin (i.e. it was dormant). Hunter Biden was never a subject of that investigation. When the US, EU, and IMF all teamed up to put pressure on Ukraine to fire Shokin (with Joe Biden as the mouthpiece of that policy), it made it more, not less likely for that investigation into Burisma to be reinvigorated. And it advanced the common goals of those nations and entities to bolster a free and independent Ukraine, which is good for America's global interests. You're adding in unnecessary layers of rubbish to try to paint it to fit your bias.

If we go back to the original comments about how the proposed $15/hr minimum wage at Target would cause higher prices and employee cutbacks at Target, what would this little graphic mean? These numbers come from the Target Corp SEC filings for fiscal year 2019. (https://www1.salary.com/TARGET-CORP-Executive-Salaries.html) That totals $41,038,633 in compensation for 5 people. If we looked at that as workers making $15 per hour and working roughly 2000 hours per year, that would be 1,367 entry level employee person years. Using averages and those same numbers, if those 5 company officers were paid at $15/hr and worked about 2000 hours per year, for that one year of actual compensation, they would have each been paid for 4,103 years at $15/hr. I think my math is correct. Does that strike anyone as a bit skewed? According to Forbes magazine: In the 1950s, a typical CEO made 20 times the salary of his or her average worker. (https://www.forbes.com/sites/dianahembree/2018/05/22/ceo-pay-skyrockets-to-361-times-that-of-the-average-worker/#1c9f92c4776d) We're now talking about 5 upper level management employees from one company (Target) ALL being compensated 4,103 times the PROPOSED increase in base pay for their employees.

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Less government = more need to regulate. Ask yourself if the old, boring, socialist part-121 aircraft certification program was more or less efficient than what is happening with the 737 Max now, a program where the Trump administration helped "streamline" the process. Which is more efficient? Which will cost Boeing (and air travelers) less?

uhm no. Less government is less ability to regulate. Doesn't speak to need, desire or requirement. But to get there, you still need a mechanism that collects, directs and enforces the direction provided by each tax-payer. In essence you are advocating a massive increase in regulation and government in the short term. You have also not provided your mechanism for how short-funding, over-finding and non-funding would be dealt with. I get the sense maybe this was a nice sound-bite you heard somewhere, but haven't really thought it through?

How do you design a framework where people have direct say in how their tax dollars are spent with less bureaucracy? The people killed on Boeing jets are very happy about less restrictions.

Butt bungees only became fashionable during the mid-1990s. They became fashionable for two reasons. First: sit-flying became fashionable in North America. Secondly: this was about 5 years after Rigging Innovations introduced hip rings. Now ringed harnesses were being jumped by second owners who were different sizes than people the harnesses were originally built for. Hip rings allowed greater flexibility, making it easier for leg straps to slide toward knees. Butt bungees don’t prevent people from falling (butt first) out of harnesses) rather they prevent leg straps from sliding away from your buttocks.

How about "name one incident where Obama put his personal interests ahead of the country's?"

Well, not quite. If Obama made a campaign promise to release his birth certificate, and refused, then they would be similar. But Obama did not make that promise. He released it anyway. Trump promised to release his tax records - then refused once he won the election. So they are pretty much the exact opposite.

I believe Marla's mother has passed away. I think Marla had some memories and tried to fill in the missing details, many of them quite implausible. I think Tom Fuentes said in the history channel documentary, If someone says A and B, and they make sense, and then they say C and C sounds nuts, does that mean A & B aren't true? The FBI didn't shut down the case until after they finished one last fingerprint test on LD Cooper, so there was some part of her story the FBI found plausible. I don't know what that is, and I don't think Marla even knows exactly what that is.

Yes. I would. I'd want him impeached and removed from office. I don't know why that would be surprising. Politics shouldn't be a "root for the home team, no matter what" thing. Nobody is above the law. We don't have kings; we have a president that serves pursuant to a Constitution and serves subject to its limitations. If anything, I think we've seen that we need to rebalance the Executive (Article II of the Constitution - second for a reason) powers with the Legislative (Article I).

I don't see how the new law doesn't negatively impact property values in the future. Reduced property tax and interest rate deductions reduce the amount a borrower can pay to buy a house. The change in home equity loan interest deductions now mean your home equity is almost as unavailable as your 401K; that is yes to the new bedroom but no to the new boat. That also impacts the value of a home. Seems to me that anyone in the middle-ish area of the economy should be taking into account the actual value of their home. Not just today, but also when happily ever after arrives. They might conclude that the couple of grand in new tax law benefit they are spending today is simply spending their home equity.

He bragged that he forced the firing of an official in charge of investigations. So? No, that's incorrect. Absoutely not true. One simple question - do you understand the difference between pursuing a policy that is in the national interest, and pursuing a policy that undermines the national interest for the personal benefit of an elected official?

In true typical fashion, you have your facts completely wrong. Viktor Shokin was a corrupt prosecutor who, while there was an open investigation into Burisma, had not pursued that investigation for over a year prior to his ouster. That investigation's scope did not include Hunter Biden in any way whatsoever. His name was not mentioned in any of it. Either way, that investigation had been laying dormant - cold - for over a year. If anything, forcing Shokin out would increase the likelihood that a new, non-corrupt prosecutor general might pick that investigation back up. Also, this was not Joe Biden's idea, nor was it a policy that he himself pursued. He acted only as the voice of the Obama administration, in conjunction with the European Union and the International Monetary Fund. This was a big deal to a lot of people, that Shokin was standing in the way of anti-corruption efforts in the Ukraine. Seriously, do some research. I can get your entire set of talking points on my own just by watching reruns of Hannity.

It adds just a LIDDLE narcissism to every post . . . I'm Kidding - I believe him when he says he didn't know - Or was it "I don't recall"?

I can help. November 8, 2016.

Presuming you meet the requirements to take the course, my understanding is that fall rate range (ability to fall faster or slower) and ability to fly very close to others are at or near the top of the list. Disclaimer: Not an instructor, but I've observed AFFI courses a number of times, and had some fun discussions with the instructor candidates.

You should really consider the Pilot (9 cell) or Safire 2 (or 3 I guess, I haven't flown one yet). They both have great openings but the Saf snivels longer. Both land really nicely as well.

Come on man, if you need to go there at least have the balls to go big and get a warning from the mods. Also, editing is for fixing spelling errors not making them.