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Irony meter just exploded.

Witness intimidation while the witness is testifying. That needs to be added to the articles of impeachment.

Well thanks! I rarely ventured into SC back in the day except by accident! Nice to see you! I found some pics of RevJim on my computer and made me think of everyone else.

Saw this licence plate frame on a car yesterday: "Do you follow Jesus this closely?" Which I personally found hilarious. The contrast between the two messages encoded there: 1. Jesus is the answer 2. Back-off asshole is just so fun. (passive aggressive people for christ!)

6 month eh? Planning to stay in the South?

I was hoping for a choice in the matter though.

Give me a ping, Vasili. One ping only, please.

It's an ICMP echo packet, named after the sound sonar makes. It's not an acronym.

As Jerry noted, death would be instantaneous. You can get a concussion from an impact of less than 10 mph (16 km/h). Your brain would be destroyed by the impact if you were at terminal. There would, of course, be broken bones and severely damaged internal organs. But it would be the neurological damage that would kill you instantly. I've had this discussion at the DZ (not surprisingly). General consensus is that you wouldn't even feel pain. Just one hell of a thud. Lots of people have survived bullets to the head. Damage is dependent on the size of the bullet and (mostly) on the energy at impact. Death is dependent on level of damage and it's location. For example, US congress member Gabby Giffords was shot in the head and survived. It was a pistol, which has pretty low energy. She had a very long, difficult and not complete recovery, but she survived. OTOH, President Kennedy took a rifle bullet to the head. Look up the autopsy X-Ray images and you will see how much of his skull was destroyed. It doesn't sound to me like you are planning to harm yourself. More like youthful morbid curiosity.

Hi timski, I was just reading where a 'latest poll' has Pete in first place in Iowa. He still has a long way to go; but I'm pulling for him. Jerry Baumchen

My grandparents were immigrants with zero money. They weren't exported; they left. I will remind you that the same guy you believed on the whole "keep-them-out" platform was using them to run his properties at the same time - and laughing at you when you believed him.