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Every time he posts a new topic I hope that this will be the one that gets no replies. I've been disappointed every single time. While he sits back and laughs at those thinking that they are clever in calling out the bullshit and plots the next stage of his self amusement.

Hi There:) I was wondering which dropzones might have the best weather (on average)...Arizona, Cali, Barcelona? Appreciate any tips:) Thank you & blue skies, Marc

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Yeah, and I can't think of any atheists I hate.

I think it's more that he just Googles a phrase (like "global warming is a lie") and then just posts whatever links he finds. It's not incapacity, simply laziness. He puts the minimum effort he needs to get people like you to respond to him.

Yes, it is in the Geoffrey Gray files as well. Having the audio is amazing but we already have the transcript.. Here is a link to the transcripts PDF file. https://web.archive.org/web/20180823233044fw_/http://n467us.com/Data Files/dbcooper_transcripts.pdf

Jesus loves me this I know. For the Bible tells me so. But the Bible says nothing about hatred being a good thing for anyone's soul.

Seems to me that if you're so uncoupled from reality to believe that an omniscient Jewish zombie sky god has absolute power over the universe, then you'll believe anything.

i think the gestapo were more concerned about the dates on the harnesses. commercial harnesses have a date tag that you put the date on when they are first used, then after five years, they get thrown away. i have two that i have had for almost 20 now that are as strong as the days i used them on the job, one is a miller that is just the harness and is really light, the other is also a miller but has a back support belt built in and i hung my tool bags off of that one when i was a scaffold builder. i have never seen a miller harness fall apart, or not make it to end of life. i have seen a couple of saves with them, one was almost 500 feet up. i still use mine sometimes if i have to work on trees or something.

None of that surprises me. I've thought about similar things my self. Toyed with the possibility of building base harnesses from ultra light weight spectra webbing. Never went forward but it would have to have been sewed with essentially a bunch of bar tacks. Sewing like that has been the norm forever in other industries like the climbing industry. If you look at there harnesses every thing is sewn with a but load of zigzag on some big pattern tracker. There is no question that this can be done but there are some trade offs. One reason the flexion held together so well was the rings allowing every thing to aline in shear. So with propper design it can be every bit as strong. In fact I think I can make an argument for it better distributing the load across all the fingers of the webbing and better transfering the load through the joint. But... Although it's a smaller needle it's punching that needle through that fabric a lot. It's a known wear issue. Climbing harnesses are considered disposable. They do not and are not expected to last a long time. Think about how old some of our rigs are. That kind of stitching tends to be subject to abrasion. The stitches tend to lie on the surface. Rubbing against rock can abrade them cutting the stitches across large areas of the pattern. I've seen the same thing with roofing harnesses. These things quickly fell apart. A four point sewn lengthwise in a thick loosely woven webbing sinks down into it. It's kind of self protecting. We built a set of roofing harnesses for one of the local skydivers that owned a roofing company. The Gestapo, I'm sorry I ment OSHA, had show up at his site and busted him for not having harnesses for any of his Mexicans. We built skydiver grade harnesses on our seven class. I think there legality may have been questionable. There is probable some kind of certification for fall protection harnesses. They were the the only ones he ever had that held up. All the commercial ones fell apart litterally. They were the only ones his workers would actually use. I find the trade offs in these questions to be fascinating. Lee

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far, away, I worked as an insurance agent. (This was prior to college). In general, if you get into a group plan, you won't see many exclusions. If you buy an individual policy, you should expect them.

Hi Lee, Re: I don't see manufacturers volunteering to produce unsightly rigs. My having now known of two rigs where the reserve risers were not completely stitched ( one in which all four risers were not stitched ), I think anything to ensure this does not happen again is very important. I see the contrasting stitching only needed on the reserve risers; and, possibly on the ring-to-harness attachment. This is covered by the 'mud flap' so is not normally seen. Here is a photo from the Javelin manual: Re: it makes less then perfect sewing blatantly obvious I would consider that a good thing. Jerry Baumchen