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I missed the unfolding of that thread, but when I read it I really wanted to clap my hands. That guy was spanked by the long arm of the law quite nicely. On a separate note, have you donated yet? I'm waiting for my PayPal account to get set up. -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you.

Whoa. What do I get? In terms of searching for terrorists, it will probably be a screening process only. The dangers of mining a database like that are more in the manipulation of the American people than anything. On the one hand, it sounds like a conspiracy theory type of idea. On the other, the US has routinely tried to manipulate entire countries to produce a more favourable position in different areas of the world. The Taliban were pretty much created by the US when it provided the Mujahedeen (sp?) weapons. I believe this was done as a counter to the Russians invading Afghanistan, a noble goal actually. If a government can undertake something like that, the scenario I describe doesn't sound so unreasonable anymore. Even if this is not what Bush intends, someone after him could use this database for their own purposes. Seems to me though that the safeguards in your system of government that are meant to prevent these kinds of things worked. Ah, technology. -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you.

Maybe you can find out why the kid likes you better? Hopefully she was just playing house... -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you.

The need for a subpoena removes any hope of applying an algorithm. If this requirement is removed, I can write a miner in the comfort of my own home and win the next election. Well, not really, not unless I have a Cray or some such, but you see my point. -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you.

I've studied data mining. The professor is making sense. Let me see if I can explain. Data mining is an area of computer science that develops algorithms that search extremely large datasets for patterns. Imagine seeing patterns in the static on TV. Now imagine doing the same thing with a computer. Without boring you too much with techincal details, we are talking about heuristic algorithms that attempt to fit predictor functions on subsets of the data and see if they can use those functions to predict largescale patterns in the entire dataset. At least, this is one way to do it, and is probably the way it will be done in this case, since the data lends itself to subdivision easily. Obviously, this will require enormous computer power, even with the optimizations currently available. The computer, not the operator, is deciding whom to investigate. It is doing so by trying to guess what the life of a terrorist looks like from the data that is collected from every little detail of the life of every American. There is no operator deciding whom to investigate. Because this is a computer, it will have an error percentage (a human will also, since you are a law enforcement officer I don't need to tell you that). This percentage will be twofold: false negatives and false positives. A false negative would be not finding an active terrorist. Worse, a false positive would be labelling an innocent person as a terrorist. Allow me to emphasize again that this process in entirely automatic. We can only hope that the claims of the computer will be investigated by a real human officer before they are acted upon. If you think this is harmless, allow me to remind you of the fact that credit card companies mine your purchasing data for patterns regularly, and sell the result. The predictive power of this approach has proven so useful that marketing firms pay rediculous sums of money for these results. A data miner running on the complete database of every detail in the life of every American can predict large scale trends with remarkable accuracy. Dr Kallend's 98% estimate was very conservative for a good data miner. Elections will become a joke. -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you.

Lets see how well I'm prepared for my psychology midterm tomorrow Dreams arise from your brain reorganizing it's memory structure. The more prominent memories float up to the surface, but without any coherence to them, so you get this surreal weird sh*t. I would say that you have a minor paranoia about your main, first of all, and that it is fairly persistent on your mind. You probably think about it a couple of times a day. The exact thing is, of course, an improper deployment and an inability to properly handle the situation. The speed with which things happen is also on your mind. You also do not really believe that you can die from jumping. Your concious brain understands and accepts the risks, but your subconcious believes that even impacting the ground without a good canopy will not really kill you. To be honest, my brain acts similarly. I understand that it's dangerous, but the back of my head doesn't. How is that?

I checked, and I found that in a safety manual released by the CSPA. I really have no idea how accurate that is, having only done my 21st yesterday. The 1000' figure was purely hypothetical. I really don't know much about this in a quantifiable fashion, I was just trying to convey something I read. -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you.

The receptionist was drunk? -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you.

If you pull now, you can land in Moscow -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you.

Looks like a new air accuracy sport. Deer bombing. Must have been a student -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you.

I still think a very important issue here is the statement that an altimeter is erratic during freefall acceleration. This makes it dangerous to use an altimeter for student delays less than 15 seconds. It will read higher because pressure is lower, and the student can end up a 1000' low. -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you.

I got it. It's a really great game. Make sure you check out the multiplayer. The singleplayer is pretty cool, but it's the multi where it kicks ass. -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you.

On a 288 Manta, flying straight and into the wind? Also, we pull at 4000', the kind of line twists that take 4000' to undo are probably going to cause slider lock. For something like 12 years it hasn't been a problem. I don't know, the decision to chop is pretty major. Are you sure it wouldn't be better to just ride the line twists in and PLF? -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you.

I disagree respectfully, but strongly. I am one of those students on a static line progression that are not given an altimeter at first. Here are some of the pros and cons as I see it. As an aside, I have been jumping with an altimeter for 8 jumps, and without one for 12. One of the altimeter jumps was a static line recurrency, just this Saturday. Pros: i) Learning to count in freefall. It seems to me that this is very, very important. My brain counts automatically as I exit. I've got an "audible" implant, it just goes off when it's time to pull. I can easily do things like: come off step, arch, count to 5, check stability, count to 5, check stability, box, did I count to 10 yet? No? Finish count. Alti check. Count to 3. Alti check. Pull. Count to 2. Is it opening yet? No? Look back. Count to 2. Is it opening yet? This is completely automatic, and only there because of all the 5 and 10 second delays without an alti. Am I safe? Completely, at least I think so. ii) My Alti 3 came with an orange card that said that readings can be erratic during freefall acceleration. I don't know how long it usually takes, but I get to terminal in something around 13 seconds. So a 10 second delay makes the alti unsafe to use in freefall. Perhaps this isn't a big deal, but my experience is not enough to judge. That orange card with the big warning on top sounds convincing to me. iii) Dealing with mals. This is a pro to me, because a student shouldn't be trying to check his alti in a mal. Just a normal skydive is stressful enough to us, thank you very much. If your canopy ain't right, LOOK GRAB PULL. No damn altimeter checking or anything. This training comes in handy if: you get a high speed mal, or if you are experienced and get your first mal under a handkerchief at 2000'. Taking 5 secs to find your alti and look at it could kill you, from what I understand. Cons: It would be nice to have it under canopy. I don't really know what altitude looks like what. If my radio malfunctioned when I was on my 3rd or 4th jump, I'd probably land on McNasty's pitchfork. Not that it has ever been a problem, but still. On the other hand, I can now plant myself in the peas (alright, I could last season

Just out of morbid curiosity, what other kind of divinity is there? -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you.

One word: pack. Learn to pack. Easiest and fastest way to get money by doing something skydiving related. That's what me and my newbie friends are trying to do. Make sure you get to know the DZO and ask him if there are any skills you possess that may be of use to him (also known as a job). This puts you at a weekend job, but if it's fun, who cares, right? It probably won't pay for the jumping completely, but it can go a long way in covering cost. -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you.

You're very welcome. Discussions are a great way to learn, and learning keeps us all alive. I've been put out without an alti on a static line. Under static line you have a radio with a competent instructor to make sure you don't do anything stupid. I still get yelled at "no more turns!" Especially if I'm not landing on target. An altimeter here is not all that necessary except in emergencies. However, the DZ has been operating for a long time already and noone has ever died. All the cutaways proceed smoothly. That being said, we have an SOS system, so the students never enter freefall. The 5 second and 10 second delays are done mostly without altis as well. BUT, there is an AAD on both the main and the reserve. I found that, last season, I could land the 288 in the peas by vision alone, without an alti. -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you.

I've spent a whole lot more than 5 seconds under linetwists that I kicked out of just fine. I'm one of those spinning horror stories, and it would put me at a cutaway something like every other jump. If the DZ expected me to do that, I'd go and find another DZ. -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you.

I think indyz wanted to build one -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you.

I got the BASE jumper in the Insanity one on my desk. -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you.

Their headlines are phrased in the most sensationalist manner possible. They either repeat CNN or have things like "Sheriffs car rolls over in chase". Tabloids, safe to ignore. -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you.

Do you admire Peter Sutcliffe? A bit of an extreme example, but nevertheless. -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you.

Here's one of me. Taken by an amateur photographer friend. Big canopy, small Push. -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you.

We have some evidence here to believe that, perhaps, the beliefs of Bush do not represent the beliefs of the majority of his countrymen. This would imply that Bush is, in fact, telling his country what it should believe in this case. That sounds wrong to me. Not to say I think Iraq is on some higher moral ground here. I'm just interpreting the numbers. -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you.

Id like to throw out said PRICK out of a PLANE. PARACHUTE optional. -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you.