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Living in a hurricane area, I am always prepared for that kind of event, with a gas cook stove, canned foods, lantern/candles, water jugs, etc. Electricity can be out for a week. Or more. But when I hear the term "preppers", I don't think of it as applying to regular natural disasters like that. I think of it as meaning a more long term event, like huge social upheaval, civil war, or loss of infrastructure for months or years. For those kinds of things, I've got almost nothing. I don't have dried foods, or a bomb shelter, or seeds with which to grow my own crops. I do have guns...

I'm glad I wasn't at Pearl Harbor in December 1941, or at Nanking in 1937, Or Manila, or Sook Ching, or Kalagong, or Wake Island, or Bataan...

Hey, you can create a tattoo subset that only hangs out with people who have tattoos. At the drop zones I've seen, that seems to be close to half the people. But heck, why avoid those plain-skin folks - they're a little weird, but generally good people.

Nope. I can state my own ideas and preferences, without it being judgmental about someone else's ideas and preferences. Otherwise, we would never have any discussions here. Oh, and I forgot to mention fat chicks and tatooed people. Glad to see you found the sense of humor in my post.

Measuring the wind speed under canopy with something like an anemometer wouldn't work, since airspeed is constant no matter what direction you're facing relative to the wind. So you would have to use GPS and calculate wind speed as a function of how fast you're moving across the ground. And that would have to take into account the canopy speed. I.E. ground speed minus canopy speed = wind speed. And that would apply only if you're running downwind. If you're facing into the wind, then ground speed PLUS canopy speed = wind speed. So now you've got to have both a GPS and an anemometer, coupled together with some electronics. And determing wind direction would require that you turn a 360-degree circle so it can calculate which way produces the fastest ground speed, in order to know the wind direction. Gonna be complicated...

And if the wind sock is limp, instead of everyone landing willy-nilly every which way they want, the tetrahedron keeps things safe by giving everyone a uniform direction to land in.

I hear that Europe is a pretty big place. Perhaps you should be more specific with the location, as ferry fees will play a big role in the cost of whatever is available.

I didn't say they did. I do. None. I just offered an opinion. I believe that's allowed here. Feel free to subdivide all you want. No drinkers. No christians. No democrats. No gays. No old farts. No swoopers. No belly flyers. No pot smokers. Pretty soon you'll be jumping alone and have no one to hang out with. I try not to exclude anyone. Shame on me, I guess.

It doesn't have to. I watch a couple of old farts do it, and they keep the ends folded over to reduce space usage, and even then, it's only for about a minute while they get it stacked. Once it's stacked, it takes no more space than a pro pack. The people wasting all the space are the inconsiderate folks who spread their gear out in the packing area, and then disappear for an hour or two, tying up all that space that is needed by others. And since it's impolite to mess with someone else's gear, you hesitate to pick it up and push it aside to get it out of the way.

Build a tetrahedron.

Then there's Obama's buddy, Eric Holder, Attorney General, and the picture and story of his youth: http://dailycaller.com/2012/09/30/as-college-sophomore-eric-holder-participated-in-armed-takeover-of-former-columbia-university-rotc-office

I think that "skydivers" is already a nice subset to hang out with. I don't care to sub-divide it up into any smaller groups than that.

So it was an odd way of saying; "Hey, let's get together and do something, but I'm not interested in drinking." Got it.

Broccoli is meant to be eaten, not snorted.

Course not! Then what was the point of mentioning that so visibly in the title?

How much force is "high force"? How blunt is a "blunt object". What if impact was a glancing blow? What if the object had some "give" to it instead of being rock hard? What if you didn't directly see the impact? What if you're wrong about judging how fast and how hard they hit? What if you're wrong about there being no pulse? If your pup, which you love, suffered such an accident, would you do nothing to try and save him? It doesn't hurt to try.

Here's another idea: Just show up and jump with whoever happens to be there.

Do you have to be a "friend of Bill" to participate in these get-together activities?

Don't some reserves have two loops, and therefore two cutters, so that a single Cypres activation would cut two loops simultaneously?

Well, that previous link "timed out"... So here's a cut-and-paste copy: SUMMARY AS OF: 7/30/2012--Introduced. Veterans Jobs Corps Act of 2012 - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) (Secretary) to establish a veteran jobs corps to employ veterans: (1) in conservation, resource management, and historic preservation projects on public lands and maintenance and improvement projects for cemeteries under the jurisdiction of the National Cemetery Administration; and (2) as firefighters and law enforcement officers. Requires priority employment for veterans who served on active duty on or after September 11, 2001. Provides for such employment in coordination with the Attorney General, the Commanding General of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and the Secretaries of Agriculture, Commerce, Homeland Security, and the Interior. Directs the Secretary to establish a steering committee for assistance in providing such employment. Directs the Secretary of Labor to commence a pilot program to assess the feasibility and advisability of providing veterans seeking employment with access to computing facilities in order to: (1) match veterans with available jobs based on veterans' skills acquired as members of the Armed Forces, and (2) allow employers to post information about available jobs. Directs the Secretary, as a condition of a grant or contract to a state for certain veterans' employment and training programs, to require the state to demonstrate the consideration of any military training received by a veteran when approving or denying a commercial driver's license or a certification to be a nursing assistant or certified nursing assistant, or an emergency medical technician or paramedic. Directs the Secretary of Labor to establish minimum funding levels for specified veterans' benefits contracts and grants to ensure that each state receives sufficient funding to support at least one disabled veterans' outreach program specialist and one local veterans' employment representative per 5,000 square miles of service delivery area within the state. Directs the Secretary of Labor, during the one-year period beginning on the date of enactment of this Act, to provide the Transition Assistance Program to veterans and their spouses at locations other than military installations in at least three and up to five states selected by the Secretary based on the highest rates of veteran unemployment. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide for a 100% continuous levy upon the property and rights of Medicare (title XVIII of the Social Security Act) providers and suppliers neglecting or refusing to pay taxes. Repeals provisions of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 providing for a program for the research, development, demonstration, and commercial application of technologies for ultra-deepwater and unconventional natural gas and other petroleum resource exploration and production. Permits the Secretary of State to deny, revoke, or limit a passport to any individual upon receiving certification from the Secretary of the Treasury that such individual has a delinquent tax debt in an amount in excess of $50,000. End quote. It seems there is a procedural problem with this bill, since spending bills are supposed to originate in the House, according to the constitution, not the Senate. So they need to fix that, first of all. Should veterans get preference in hiriing over other citizens? Do we want another job placement bureaucracy just for veterans, on top of the ones that already exist? Why not just have the veterans go to the already existing job placement processes? And what's with that unrelated 100% levy stuff? And if you owe back taxes of $50k or more you can't get a passport? What if you get a job overseas that would help pay those back taxes? Should citizens lose their freedom to travel because they owe back taxes?

News: http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/250391-gop-kills-veterans-jobs-bill-with-budget-vote Bill: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/D?d112:1:./temp/~bdjHZh:@@@D&summ2=m&|/home/LegislativeData.php|

If you google "Clint Eastwood movie posters", a whole bunch of them look a lot alike. But interestingly, as much as he is shown with a gun, very few of them have that particular pose with the gun pointed at the viewer. And there are still few things that are different, like the background and the position of the gun in front of the face, so it's not an exact copy. But darned close to it, and could well be what the artist of that sign started with.

yes. I put the pair in b/c most people don't know what "Tvier" means. Technically redundant but I'm ok with that. Okay, so the official name is "Tvier Swooping", which no one will understand. So the better way of expressing it is something like "Tvier (pair) Swooping". Got it. Sheesh, why don't they just give it a name to start with that makes sense. Something like "Synchronized Swooping". Sounds cool. Sounds dangerous.

None. But for the type like I mentioned above, there's a lot going on. You cradle the gun in your left hand, while rotating the cylinder with several fingers of that same hand, trying to get the chambers to line up with that push rod, and with the right hand you're pushing that plunger to eject the cartridges, all while holding the gun pointed upward so that the cases fall out. This is an older type revolver, granted, but they're not as easy as the new-fangled ones. And with all that finger action, I could see how someone could accidentally get one caught inside the trigger guard. Not making excuses, of course, it shouldn't happen, but just trying to figure out how it happend. I'd like to know what kind of revolver it was.

Thank you for that explanation. But then, doesn't that mean that "tvier pair" is redundant, like saying "pair pair"? I'm confused...