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Maybe these words connote different things to different people. The power-as-goal crowd seems to consider compromise to be a dirty word, and the whatever-they-want-is-what-we-don't-want crowd can't see any pathway for cooperation or collaboration. Gotta start with goals, which means pissing off some people whose primary purpose is to piss off other people. But that's why local politics is so much better than national -- it's much easier to find goals in your own city or town, even if it's that potholes need to be filled and the property taxes are too high. Then you have to choose which, because if the property taxes go too far down, then there's no money to fill potholes, right? Wendy P.

If you ever get a chance study the history of the Apollo program. It was one massive compromise. Weight was the enemy; too heavy and the vehicle would never get to the moon. Too light and the rocket would collapse due to the tremendous thrust trying to compress the empty tanks between the first stage engines and the fully fueled second stage. They found a compromise that worked. There was no way with existing technology to get the entire vehicle to the Moon and back; the required rocket didn't exist (and still doesn't.) So they compromised. The heavy re-entry vehicle stayed in lunar orbit, and the very light LEM descended to the Moon then re-ascended. It required an extra docking step - but the compromise worked. (And arguably saved all their lives during the Apollo 13 disaster.) The right way to pressurize the oxidizer tanks of the first stage (to provide both pressure and structural integrity) was via endogenous pressurization; using the heat of the engine to boil off some of the LOX and use it to provide that pressure. But time was critical, so they compromised by using compressed helium, an inert gas, to provide that pressure. That required helium tanks which took up space and added weight and complexity. But the compromise worked. These (and many others) made it possible to get humans to the Moon with a remarkably low fatality rate for a program that pushed the limits of existing technology that hard. You can call that project "mediocre" if you like, but most would disagree. Compromise is what makes projects like that possible. Good thing you weren't working on it, I guess.

Hi 13, Re: if $100 will prevent the possibility of reserve not deploying, that is a small price to pay for my life. IMO do make the swap. As you say, the $100 is not much money. And, you will sleep better. Just keep trying to contact Sunpath. Just make sure that you are VERY specific in what you want to buy from them. I spent 39 yrs building gear under numerous TSO's ( a very small 1-man company ). I would not jump any rig in which any of that coating comes into contact with anything that needs to deploy. Jerry Baumchen

lol. I created this post, and yes it was clickbait, but this site is dead as fuck, so why not a little clickbait. And it is true, a NOTAM is not a NOTAM anymore, now it is a NOTAM! If you want to get annoyed with someone, get annoyed with donalexinder24, a bot that bumped this thread and brought it to your attention with a copy post in an attempt for what I don't know. some sort of cred with something...

Free room and board?

That's how I remember you.

talk about clickbait. why would anyone say they aren't notam's any longer when clearly they are still a notam? who the hell cares about an agency trying to help all people feel accepted as they are and welcome? everyone bitching and raising hell about this "pc bullshit" can kiss my arse. that is the kind of insensitive shit that i used to spout, back when i was one choice away from becoming a member of an "elite" unit. they call it toxic masculinity for a reason. i like the change since it basically changes nothing but the long name and is more inclusive. now if they can just get those racist names off of the trails in wv, but that is a whole other subject.

Yep. And I think those two have a lot to do with each other. A lot of people never see the world outside their own community, and thus (like the college students who think most people make six figures) are easily misled into thinking that everyone is like the people they know.

Oh I know - compromise is evil. Only a “my way or the highway” approach is strong; anything else is weak and shows that you really don’t care, right? I’m sorry, that’s utter and arrant bullshit. Wendy P.

Gorgeous workmanship!

Seen on FB: The people who threw rocks at Ruby Bridges for wanting to go to school are now upset that their grandchildren might be taught that they threw rocks at Ruby Bridges for wanting to go to school.

Folks were mocked for suggesting CRT was taught in public schools by the same people who are now crying foul for the elimination of something that, supposedly, never existed in the first place.

AKA the Gavin Newsom theme song.

Be it old white men against woke. The evangelicals against crt. Motivating their entire congregations against it. The white right in America feels under attack by little brown people. They will invent new terms, new outrages to defend their perceived superior personal identities.But the deck is tilting, water pours into the lower holds and their ship is going down. Till then they will steal the lifejackets from the weak. Just as they've done for a thousand years.

Because banning the study of history never ends well. CRT encompasses the study of structural discrimination. If a right wing school district decides that that includes any mention of Rosa Parks and/or the Holocaust - then the next generation is screwed.

I think he's a brilliant businessman who understands and caters to his market better than most. He understands that, by and large, skydivers are whores for cheap jumps and big airplanes. He knows that they don't give a rats ass about safety when freedom from personal responsibility and a shorter drive are on offer. He knew instinctively that jumpers will jump where their friends jump and all other considerations are far, far down the list. And, he knew that same level of concern applied to the general public. The kid who died was from Los Banos. Northern California has more DZ's than Carter has little liver pills. How many that charge more than Dause's $99 tariff do you think he drove past to get the deal? He also realized long ago that USPA was a flimsy organization controlled by self serving individuals who, as long as they were getting theirs, would let him operate however he wished with no more than an occasional wrist slap. Do you think Sherri Butcher will come out condemning him for putting an unqualified instructor on the jump? So what do I think? I think in many ways and for decades he was a spot on reflection of our basest instincts.

Judging what I see on the 50+ dropzones I visited worldwide the last few months (US and Canada included), the group photos can also be labeled 'Havok Fanclub' meetings. Regardless if its 80 or 1000 skydives in a wingsuit, sharp flying is something anyone who has a feel for flying recognizes. And there the Carve (as well as original Havok) shines. But perhaps in your world of 20 skydives a year it all looks different. If the original poster wants expert advise from someone who teaches and flies acro with everyone from beginner to advanced flying, get a carve. It will be the best suit you can ever fly (or get an Sfly Hawk, similar great suit). Both great 'high power' acro suits. If not interested, Hjumper sounds like a swell guy to listen to. JC FlyLikeBrick I'm an Athlete?

I'm looking for my long lost friend, Peter Andrew Martin, AKA Pete Martin. Last I knew he was at Ft. Campbell, Kentucky jumping with the Screaming Eagles parachute team. Before that he was at Schoffield Barracks, Oahu, Hawaii. Please give him my email Tinkerbelle.annie@gmail.com or my phone 831-818-5600 Thanks Rehab is for quitters.