Clownburner

Tell you what, Bill. Go get them to ship the rig I have on order (it was supposed to ship 6/13 but is delayed , and as soon as they ship it to me, I'll do my normal horrible packing job on it - that should give you a better than 50% chance of a cutaway, and I'll send you the details as soon as I land. 7CP#1 | BTR#2 | Payaso en fuego Rodriguez "I want hot chicks in my boobies!"- McBeth

Don't forget the link to download a proxy statement! http://www.uspa.org/news/current_news/vote.htm 7CP#1 | BTR#2 | Payaso en fuego Rodriguez "I want hot chicks in my boobies!"- McBeth

I wish I'd seen that on the order form when I ordered my vector.. It'd be quite the pimp rig! Is the container made entirely of dark purple suede too?? 7CP#1 | BTR#2 | Payaso en fuego Rodriguez "I want hot chicks in my boobies!"- McBeth

Sorry to hear it; we're all here for you. (( HUGS )) 7CP#1 | BTR#2 | Payaso en fuego Rodriguez "I want hot chicks in my boobies!"- McBeth

Student gear sucks. I asked a bunch of instructors when I was on my AFF and they all said 'tighten the straps' but nothing really helped. Getting off the student gear changed my life. I also developed a distaste for navigators - although they are highly regarded as student canopies, I found that they snivelled a LOT (I had one solo where I pulled, looking at my digitude at 4.5k, and was fully-inflated and in the saddle at 3.3k) but still opened pretty hard - I had a lot of bruises. I think this was due to huge, non-collapsible pilot chutes creating very high snatch force. Just be patient, nurse your 'skydiver wounds' and order yourself gear as soon as is practical - get lots of advice first, but the sooner you're in your own gear the happier you will be. Welcome to the wonderful world of skydiving! 7CP#1 | BTR#2 | Payaso en fuego Rodriguez "I want hot chicks in my boobies!"- McBeth

Interestingly, I hadn't checked mine in a while. I don't use it for anything, and I don't recall ever giving it out, and still I had a dozen spams in it. Ewww. 7CP#1 | BTR#2 | Payaso en fuego Rodriguez "I want hot chicks in my boobies!"- McBeth

I'm no expert, but he looks like he's backsliding. 7CP#1 | BTR#2 | Payaso en fuego Rodriguez "I want hot chicks in my boobies!"- McBeth

It's a great idea, but reporting would still be a problem. Many DZ's don't want this kind of data because of potential liability issues. Also, what's an accident? One person might consider a twisted ankle as a serious incident and another might not even think it's worth reporting. I like the idea, but I don't know you'll ever get more than muddy stats out of it. 7CP#1 | BTR#2 | Payaso en fuego Rodriguez "I want hot chicks in my boobies!"- McBeth

Not meaning to hijack this thread or anything, but it's something I feel strongly about. The TSA's "enhanced" security procedures have cost this country billions in lost productivity, hundreds of millions in new personnel and equipment, and overall done very little to actually improve security on flights. I've carried on knives by accident, not realizing they were in my luggage until I landed and found my pocketknife attached to my keys. Someone intent on hijacking an airplane could easily do so with smuggled weapons, but a well-trained and motivated individual can be easily as dangerous with a ball point pen. Should we confiscate those? What's next, strip searching all passengers? We're not far from that, and I'll wager if we ever end up on 'red' alert status we'll all be naked in the terminal. The only two airline security measures that have made any kind of real difference, based on our experiences with the tragic events of 2001, are: 1) reinforcing and locking cockpit doors, and 2) arming pilots (which hasn't even happened yet). The real issue isn't that you're "accepting" a higher risk in exchange for more freedom - you already _HAVE_ the higher risk, and now we have all the inconvience and intrusion of personal privacy to go with it. The terrorist attacks of 2001 were a tremendous success for the terrorists in that they caused more erosion of personal freedom and consititutional rights then any event in our country's history since the civil war. The government has since used that event as a carte blanche to pass any kind of arbitrary power legislation they feel like, and to grant the president unprecidented and unconsitutional powers, and to imprison US citizens without access to council or due process. I find it hard to believe that any libertarian could tolerate that. Others have said it, and they're right: It's an illusion of security. Some frightening reading: http://www.epic.org/privacy/terrorism/usapatriot/ http://www.geocities.com/totalinformationawareness/ http://writ.news.findlaw.com/ramasastry/20030217.html http://www.privacyactivism.org/Item/48 http://www.hrw.org/press/2002/06/us0612.htm "One of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the great struggle for independence." - Charles A. Beard 7CP#1 | BTR#2 | Payaso en fuego Rodriguez "I want hot chicks in my boobies!"- McBeth

..You left out the '...Senator.' 7CP#1 | BTR#2 | Payaso en fuego Rodriguez "I want hot chicks in my boobies!"- McBeth

Some of the newer LCD screens are pretty good, actually. I use one for my mobile gaming rig, and even in Quake III or Splinter Cell at 70fps there's not enough blurring to be distracting. Of course, those type are a lot more expensive too, and I may not notice the blurring due to a long history of alcohol abuse. 7CP#1 | BTR#2 | Payaso en fuego Rodriguez "I want hot chicks in my boobies!"- McBeth

I think that's a freudian slip: You read what you wanted to read instead of what was there. I don't think it had anything to do with contact lenses. You naughty thing, you. 7CP#1 | BTR#2 | Payaso en fuego Rodriguez "I want hot chicks in my boobies!"- McBeth

Is it true that all Z1's are the same size and only the liners are different? Thanks 7CP#1 | BTR#2 | Payaso en fuego Rodriguez "I want hot chicks in my boobies!"- McBeth

To keep him from powering any potentially terrorist devices, I'll wager. I feel safer knowing that no terrorist can covertly film me on an airplane. "Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people." -- John Adams 7CP#1 | BTR#2 | Payaso en fuego Rodriguez "I want hot chicks in my boobies!"- McBeth

Vibes Good luck, Rhino! Of course, the bad news about having a baby rhino is the horn. 7CP#1 | BTR#2 | Payaso en fuego Rodriguez "I want hot chicks in my boobies!"- McBeth

Ooooh, now I'm all jealous. I have the millenium and it looks much dorkier than that. I thought it was cool until I saw that one. 7CP#1 | BTR#2 | Payaso en fuego Rodriguez "I want hot chicks in my boobies!"- McBeth

Welcome. We're all hooked here. I heard an excellent quote about it: "From the outside looking in you can't understand it, and from the inside looking out, you can't explain it." Now that you're on the 'inside' you're not a whuffo anymore, and good luck explaining that to your friends who haven't gone jumping. Once you get your license, look me up if you're ever in So Cal, and we'll do a jump! 7CP#1 | BTR#2 | Payaso en fuego Rodriguez "I want hot chicks in my boobies!"- McBeth

If you end up getting pics, please post 'em, we're all dying to see it, I'm sure! 7CP#1 | BTR#2 | Payaso en fuego Rodriguez "I want hot chicks in my boobies!"- McBeth

Maybe it's just me, but 9,000 square feet on a nearly an acre to support '16 to 24 employees' seems, well, a little posh to me. My company has 9 employees in 1700 square feet of office space and that includes lab space and several large offices. Are they putting in an aerospace lab, or a wind tunnel or something? 7CP#1 | BTR#2 | Payaso en fuego Rodriguez "I want hot chicks in my boobies!"- McBeth

Not content with sharing that with just the people on the pub, Wlie proceeds to let everyone else enjoy the mental image as well. 7CP#1 | BTR#2 | Payaso en fuego Rodriguez "I want hot chicks in my boobies!"- McBeth

My business partner, who's almost 40, just had his father (69) get remarried.. To a 21 year old. He had much the same reaction, but then decided as long as his Dad was happy.... 7CP#1 | BTR#2 | Payaso en fuego Rodriguez "I want hot chicks in my boobies!"- McBeth

Yes. I do. Pretty precisely, in fact. But this is the sport where 'femur' became a verb. It's dangerous. No one who can't cope with that should ever skydive. 7CP#1 | BTR#2 | Payaso en fuego Rodriguez "I want hot chicks in my boobies!"- McBeth

The best book for any kind of performance driving is "Going Faster" by Skip Barber. It's a good academic approach to learning _WHY_ some drivers are faster than others. Everything else follows from there. Slow is smooth, and smooth is fast. Good luck. I too, stopped autocrossing when I began spending all my money on skydiving. 7CP#1 | BTR#2 | Payaso en fuego Rodriguez "I want hot chicks in my boobies!"- McBeth

I'm wondering how common injuries in skydiving are.. I think I already know the answer to that, but I'm curious as to everyone's experiences in this area. Obviously this includes injuries caused by/on aircraft, during freefall, or during landing. It should not include drunken incidents after the beer light is on. 7CP#1 | BTR#2 | Payaso en fuego Rodriguez "I want hot chicks in my boobies!"- McBeth

Yes, it's like when they tell you the Level 8 graduation dive is done without a parachute, which they then throw after you and you have to catch and put on in freefall. No one ever repeats that level! Personally I had the hardest time with level 4 - I passed it OK the first time, but looking over the top of the plane totally freaked me out because I couldn't see the ground at all. It was WIERD. Of course, now I love all kinds of exits... Even though I funnel most of them. 7CP#1 | BTR#2 | Payaso en fuego Rodriguez "I want hot chicks in my boobies!"- McBeth