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Do you REALLY need her permission up there?!!! And she won't let you?! How foolish! My husband laughed when I read this and said that maybe you just need a new wife... (j/k) Seriously... if all that is true, then you probably need to chat with her. Cuz whether its bought up there or imported in, you would probably still need her to sign whatever. Good Luck.... Yes, it's true, according to a local gun shop owner that I spoke to...I need her signature. In the Firearm Acquisition Certificate process there is a form that she has to sign. Without that, I'm hooped. I find it pretty incredible that a person who is 52 years old, no criminal record, never been arrested, a professionally designated accountant can't buy a bolt action 22 calibre rifle to shoot tincans with....like I did when I was 12. As far as getting a new wife goes, if I was to get divorced I am sure that she would still be able to put the kibosh on me acquiring a firearm. It's ridiculous but that is the way it is in Canada. -- Murray "No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." - Edward Abbey

Thanks guys. I will try and see what I can accomplish. It's hard to believe that 40 years ago I took my first earnings from my paper route and bought myself a Cooey semi-auto .22....without anybody's permission or permit. And now of course in the socialist paradise of Canada I have to jump through a million hoops and get my wife's permission to buy a .22. Getting her permission is likely the hardest thing to do as she completely buys into the gun control mentality without really understanding what she is supporting. -- Murray "No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." - Edward Abbey

When I grew up (in small town rural Canada) everybody had guns...22's, deer rifles and shotguns. I learned to shoot on a Winchester Model 75 22 LR of my dad's. Foolishly, I let him get rid of his guns a few years before he died. Recently, I have been wishing I had that gun to teach my sons how to handle firearms and shoot. I have been trying to find one for sale in Canada with no luck. I have seen several for sale on websites for U.S. gun dealers. I have contacted a couple of these dealers and they just say they'd have to get an export permit and that they aren't going to do that. Does anybody on here have any experience/knowledge they could share with me on exporting a gun from the US? (Of course, I will comply with the Canadian gun ownership requirements of acquiring a Firearm Actions Certificate - which includes getting my wife's permission - and then registering the gun when I buy it.) -- Murray "No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." - Edward Abbey

It's not impossible to get a virus on a Mac. There are about 70 Mac viruses that run on pre-OS X operating systems. It is possible to get one of these if you are running your Mac in Classic mode to run older software or you have a Mac that will allow you to boot into one of the older OSes (new macs won't boot into anything but OS X). For OS X I don't know of any that are "in the wild". There were a couple of scares a year or so ago but nothing came of it to my knowledge. The actual risk is pretty low. The advantage of using a Mac is that you, at the present time, aren't a target for these malicious pukes that write viruses. Whatever the reason, I enjoy not having to wage a constant battle to keep the viruses, spyware and other crap off my computer. It's like being invisible...and that suits me just fine. Until recently, my mother-in-law had a PC that was generally rendered useless every little while because her 18 year old grandson, who doesn't have a clue about safe computing or anything else for that matter, was always over at her house getting the thing loaded with spyware and viruses. On my suggestion, she bought a Mac when it was time to replace her old PC and she is thrilled with it. It always works, never gets messed up and is perfect for her basic e-mail and web-surfing needs. (I have just spent more time replying to this message than I have spent getting rid of "unwanted and uninvited software" in my Mac in the last 5 years....which is Zero.) Macs aren't suitable for everybody but there are an awful lot of people out there who would have fewer headaches and be much happier with one imo. -- Murray "No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." - Edward Abbey

Gee, today I woke up to a balmy -6 C (about 20F), after a week of minus 35 with wind chills in the -50's. I think I'll put on my shorts and go for a walk at lunch time!! -- Murray "No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." - Edward Abbey

Dave, It has a million times more functionality than I'll ever use, that's for sure.

I don't think so. None of the new "dytter" models do data logging so I think the Protrack will still hold its value. They will drop in price because of LnB's price drop but I can't see them for less than $100. They are giving the data logging audible market to Neptune. I am puzzled by their decision. -- Murray "No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." - Edward Abbey

Or, give Photoshop Elements a look ...most of the functionality a fraction of the price of Photoshop. -- Murray "No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." - Edward Abbey

Me too! I'm doing BJJ and Muay Thai...wish I'd started 40 years ago. So good for fitness, flexibility, self-confidence and fun! I have both my sons (5 & 7 yrs old) in karate at the school that I go to. The kids classes are excellent as they combine karate, some Muay Thai stuff, BJJ for ground fighting and street proofing. They emphasize: Education - all students have to bring in their report cards and do not advance unless they are doing well or showing efforts to improve. Respect - the school phones all parents to see if the kids are behaving at home and doing things like making their bed and picking up toys. Martial Arts are for Self-defense - any aggressiveness or fights are reported to the head of the school, Sensei Dwight, who has very serious talks with the student. He has no qualms about kicking a student out of class who is bullying/aggressive and does not change his ways...but he completely backs up any child who has defended himself in a situation that required it. If any of you are looking for a school for your kids, take the time to look around. -- Murray "No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." - Edward Abbey

Glad to hear that worked for you. Enjoy your new Powerbook!! (Feel free to ask questions as there are a lot of Mac/iMovie/iDVD users on here.) -- Murray "No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." - Edward Abbey

I think that it was then pretty much turned into a Dragonfly...the nine cell built by Django at the time....which became the Raider when Django became Glide Path. I believe the chord of both canopies was the same and just the span was larger on the Dragonfly due to the 2 extra cells. I owned a Firefly as well....great little canopy for its day. -- Murray "No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." - Edward Abbey

Like the man above me says..... I wouldn't use anything that runs in Classic environment. Use iMovie as it is integrated with iDVD for making dvds. -- Murray "No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." - Edward Abbey

I just confirmed that we had 2 guys here that added 1 half cell on each end of their Flyers...making them into 6 cells. But I realized I don't have any photos after talking to my old buudy. -- Murray "No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." - Edward Abbey

Pete, When I started jumping (1980) there was at least one canopy being used that had been converted...I think they called it a "Modi-Flyer" which indicates that the original canopy was a Strato-Flyer. I just called someone who would know for more details but he's out getting pissed I think. If it is the person I am thinking of I likely have a photograph of it. -- Murray "No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." - Edward Abbey

Ahhhhhhhh...that's right. Man how long ago was that? It seems like a life time ago I was reading /. about NeXT... And the NeXT OS is the basis of OS X. -- Murray "No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." - Edward Abbey

I think that Steve Jobs is going to keep producing Cubes until one is a smash hit!

Definitely what they are shooting for imo. The thing is so small you can just set it on top of your PC, unplug the keyboard and mouse, plug them into the mac and maybe have a box to allow you to switch the monitor between systems. Apple has always stayed away from the low-margin cutthroat system pricing so this is quite a new direction for them. It will be very interesting to see how it pans out. -- Murray "No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." - Edward Abbey

Tom, That I don't know. My initial reaction is that I don't think so....but if enough people ask for that I'm sure the software will be updated accordingly. -- Murray "No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." - Edward Abbey

I just listened to most of Steve Jobs' keynote address and the Shuffle looks like a very cool little device. You can also use it for data storage. You can specify how much of it you want to use for data files (in iTunes preferences) and if you use what they call "Autofill" iTunes will fill the rest of the space with a random selection of tunes from playlists or you can specify exactly what you want transferred. It uses USB 2 so the transfers will be fast on a USB2 equipped computer. The player has a switch on the back that turns shuffling on or off so the player will play back tunes randomly or in the order you specified. This was inspired by the fact that the "shuffle" feature was so popular among iPod users. Definitely a different approach. Other items from the address..... The iPod market share on portable music players (flash and hard drive) went from 32% in Jan 2004 to 65% in Jan 2005. Apple sold 4,500,000 iPods in the holiday quarter...up from 733,000 in the holiday quarter a year previous. The iPod has spawned an industry that provides accessories for them...over 400 accessories are available. Competitors' hard drive based players went from 7% to 6% market share in the same time frame. The iPod mini definitely captured a lot of the high end flash market. Now they are aiming for the rest of the flash market. Why? They are great pieces of technology produced and supported by an excellent company. -- Murray "No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." - Edward Abbey

Sort of like a Newton? Newtons were some of the coolest things that Apple ever dreamed up...too bad they were expensive and a couple of years before tablet PCs/Palm Pilots became socially acceptable and desirable. Newtons kicked ass. hehe...My Mac dealer in town is still lamenting the discontinuance of the Newton. He really gets worked up over it...which cracks me up. I think that the Palm's briliant idea was Graffiti. Instead of trying to teach the device to recognize your handwriting you had to learn how to write in the fashion required by the device....hey we are smarter than machines aren't we? I remember seeing one of the first Newtons. I wrote my name on the screen (Murray) It translated it as "Murky" and my girlfriend, now wife, still calls me that. I just thought..."Well, that doesn't work." The first time I saw a Palm and how it recognized handwriting I was amazed and blown away. My Mac dealer insists that the Newton handwriting ability got much better but I never saw another Newton. It's going to be interesting to see how the Mac Mini is received. It is an inexpensive way for PC users to pick up a Mac and use it with their existing monitors, keyboards and mouse. Firewire, USB2, all the iLife and other iApps included...ready to edit video, etc, etc. It's tempting for me to buy one "for my kids" but I think I'll save up some bucks for a new G5 iMac and let them have my old 15" Flatpanel iMac. -- Murray "No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." - Edward Abbey

Quite a few photography/video related announcements today from Apple at MacWorld San Francisco.... Final Cut Express HD - Now includes Livetype and Soundtrack as well as the capability to edit HD (how long before skydiving videos are shot in HD?) iMovie 5 HD - HD and wide aspect capability iDVD 5 - Now allows burning to DVD+R and RW media if your Superdrive / DVD drive is supported iPhoto - Now allows photo books to be put together in softcover versions and three different sizes of book. the Mac Mini computer -----it's just the cutest little thing...I want one just to look at it. 2" thick and 6.5" square...$499 US. The Shuffle - flash based 512 mb and 1 gb iPods. PS - Nearly forgot....Yes Lori, I will be your iMovie beta tester -- Murray "No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." - Edward Abbey

I've had a 20gb iPod for over 2 years and love the thing. The new ones...4th Gen and Minis are very nice compared to my 2nd gen model. They are easy to use, totally well integrated with iTunes software and very handy for moving video files and backing up my digital photos. having contact info and calendar info on it as well is a bonus. A couple of days ago I asked my boss if I could get a small USB drive to do a daily backup of my files on ..... and now, amazingly enough, Apple has come out with the Shuffle! Gosh, I wonder which flash drive I should get for those pesky data backups....... -- Murray "No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." - Edward Abbey

I just picked up a Lacie 160 2 days ago at a good price ... it's only got 80 gb free today If you gave the space you will fill it..... -- Murray "No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." - Edward Abbey

Sounds like a 4-pin (Camera) to 6-pin (Hub) Firewire Cable would do the trick. I have 4 pin to 4 pin (camera to camera), 4 pin to 6 pin (Camera to computer) and 6 pin to 6 pin (computer to iPod or external FW drive) FW cables. -- Murray "No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." - Edward Abbey

That's 200 million reasons to cheer against the Yankees. -- Murray "No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets." - Edward Abbey