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  1. JackC
    What exactly has the 1st amendment got to do with France?
  2. JackC
    Actually, the BBC repoted it correctly. Nowhere in the BBC article did it say that the government is considering making plastic glasses compulsory. Ron was the one who sensationalised it to sell his thread.
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    Falsely shouting 'Fire!' in a crowded theatre is still illegal regardless of weather anyone runs out screaming. Same shit.
  4. JackC
    Even if it means cutting up everyone else on final?
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    True. In this hypothetical case, Bill landed the same way everyone else was landing even though it was 90 degrees to the landing direction specified by DZ control. If Bill had gone with DZ control he would have been landing at 90 degrees to everyone else and if there's traffic around, that seems more dangerous to me than getting a bollocking from the CCI. The default and best option is to follow the rules laid down by the DZ provided it is safe to do so but sometimes the safest option is to be just as wrong as everyone else.
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    Do Visos register hop and pops on the jump counter? Mine doesn't seem to.
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    Some of you guys must have well calibrated eyeballs. Mine only recognise three altitudes: 1) still high, 2) nearly there and 3) oh shit! So should I pull on nearly there, or wait for oh shit?
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    Interesting. At the time of writing this post 41/53 people (77%) believe they have above average intelligence, which is ironically about average. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_superiority
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    QueenAdreena - Pretty Like Drugs Senser - Eject Hammerbox - Attack of the Slime Creatures Damage Control - John Petrucci Technical Difficulties - Paul Gilbert
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    I don't know, you'd have a hard time giving an overview of quantum physics without explaining the probabilistic nature of it. Modeling the electronic structure of Vanadium is a tough thing to ask and is way beyond a 9th grader to do properly. Hell, it would probably make a decent PhD thesis so I doubt the teacher would know the right answer if she saw it anyway. It just seems like little more than pointless hoop jumping and that is what I would find rather annoying. That is, if it were any of my business.
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    What level are they teaching to? It's not like the kids are going to learn anything about quantum physics by doing it. I think it's probably quite easy work for teachers since they can turn a difficult science subject into an easy art subject. That way they can teach science without actually doing any science. I can't say I'm impressed.
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    I think you'll need a supercomputer, a PhD in quantum physics and about 2 years to do it right. But based on the difficulty and pointlessness of the project for a schoolkid, I'd say your kid's teacher doesn't understand quantum physics anyway so you'd probably get away with a few Skittles stuck together for a nucleus wrapped in a shit load of cottoncandy. It won't be realistic but at least you'd be able to eat it afterwards. Figure 5.10 Comparison of 3d (gray) and 4s (color) electron clouds for a vanadium atom (computer-generated). (Copyright © 1975 by W. G. and J. W. Moore.)
  13. JackC
    Does anyone jump a Vector3 V350 with a 150 main in it? UPT's sizing chart for a V350 says 170 standard fitting and 190 full fitting with the loose fitting column left blank.
  14. JackC
    +1
  15. JackC
    Just look for points where the vertical speed changes abruptly. For exit, you want the point where the vertical speed changes from close to zero to 100mph+ with a fairly well defined acceleration curve. For deployment look for when the vertical speed slows dramatically, 100mph+ to almost zero in a few seconds. Or you could look for the points where the altitude starts and stops decreasing rapidly.
  16. JackC
    No. It's just flu.
  17. JackC
    There, their, they're.
  18. JackC
    Really, there has been no change. You are getting bent out of shape over advice published within a private organisation, advice that hasn't changed in 50 years, about laws that haven't changed in 20 years, all of which occurred on a small island over 3000 miles away from you. This really is a pathetic rant, even for you.
  19. JackC
    No. Like I said, it's not a new policy, they've been doing it since at least the late 70s.
  20. JackC
    "It is an offence for any person, without lawful authority or good reason, to have with him in a public place, any article which has a blade or is sharply pointed except for a folding pocket-knife which has a cutting edge to its blade not exceeding 3 inches." - Criminal Justice Act (1988) section 139(1) I doubt the scouts haven't fallen foul of anything. They were offering the same advice back in the 70s.
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    Except that in this case, there is no law involved. It's just advice published in the in-house magazine of a private organisation. If you don't like it, leave; you're probably too old to be a scout anyway.
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    Because it will cause all the kids to become liberal commie pinko bastards. Obviously.
  23. JackC
    I dislike rules as well. If someone says I can't do something, I'll want to know why and if they can't give me good reason I'll probably do it anyway on general principle. But you have to wonder, if I make a choice that only affects myself, that's one thing. But if I make a choice that negatively affects someone else, should that be allowed? If a parent makes a wrong choice regarding their kids, at what point does the wrongness of that choice become child abuse?
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    So you'd let your kids drop out of school because they dared to teach an abridged version of history? Nobody said a national curriculum was perfect and there's nothing to stop you supplementing public education with extra tutoring, but I think it would be a dumb judgment call to extract your children from public education unless you are damn sure you can do a better job. Not just think you can, but actually know your stuff and can teach it to the required standards.
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    Unless they are knowledgable enough to teach all the subjects in the national curriculum and are able dedicate the time necessary to educate their child to the required standard, then yes I'd say they are guilty of child abuse. I know of very few people who I would consider to be qualified to home school. I am not one of them. - Granted. That is actually my opinion of MY ability as well. However, I also not so trusting to believe that everything that is in the "national curriculum" is correct either. If you're not qualified to teach the national curriculum, how are you qualified to say whether it is correct? There are subjects I am not qualified to teach nor am I qualified to say whether the national curriculum is correct. But if I refused to allow my kids to learn on an equal footing with all the other kids, I'd be doing them a disservice. It's better to criticise a subject for what it actually is rather than what I might erroneously think it is.