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My advice, FUCK UPS. Don't ask them to ship to you, don't ship with them if you have the choice of another carrier. I'd rather do business with FedEx or the USPS. - Jim "Like" - The modern day comma Good bye, my friends. You are missed.
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This will probably cause more problems than anything else you could possibly do, short of starting a bomb scare. These guys have damn near ALL the power in the airport terminal. Treat them respectfully, just like you might treat a fellow jumper or your best friend, and you're likely to have no problems. - Jim "Like" - The modern day comma Good bye, my friends. You are missed.
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In order: Gross Point, MI Toledo, OH Columbus, OH NY, NY (Manhattan) Toledo, OH Philadelphia, PA (For about 28 days. :)) Wilmington, DE What's next? I have no idea. I do have a tendency of not staying anywhere too long, I like to get around. I'm thinking that the west coast might be in my future, but who knows? - Jim "Like" - The modern day comma Good bye, my friends. You are missed.
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What do you suppose happens to your openings when you put a lot of material in front of the nose? - Jim "Like" - The modern day comma Good bye, my friends. You are missed.
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I beg to differ, like others, I find that a proper Psycho pack does indeed slow the openings of a canopy. Don't believe me? Check out the Icarus website and their explanation as to why you should PRO pack the Crossfire. - Jim "Like" - The modern day comma Good bye, my friends. You are missed.
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The Survivor series at http://www.killfrog.com/ is good too. Bad Clues is even better. :) - Jim "Like" - The modern day comma Good bye, my friends. You are missed.
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Of course they didn't get lost, they had to stop at every single house and ask for directions! - Jim "Like" - The modern day comma Good bye, my friends. You are missed.
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I've got no problems with BASE, as a matter of fact I have a great deal of respect for those who do it and are able to do it safely. Personally, I don't have the balls, yet. It does fascinate me though, it wouldn't surprise me if I get the itch one day and start into it. - Jim "Like" - The modern day comma Good bye, my friends. You are missed.
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Oh my GOD! Clay, you should be proud. 'show the boobies' ranks higher than porn on google. http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=show+the+boobies - Jim "Like" - The modern day comma Good bye, my friends. You are missed.
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It's OK. Really, it is. - Jim "Like" - The modern day comma Good bye, my friends. You are missed.
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IIRC, that plastic money is really printed on mylar. Besides being more difficult to counterfit, the bills printed on mylar last significantly longer than bills printed on paper. The end result, the mint spends less money making money. - Jim "Like" - The modern day comma Good bye, my friends. You are missed.
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There's more to the CC than just the closed off nose. Chuck or Dan can explain the differences in more detail. - Jim "Like" - The modern day comma Good bye, my friends. You are missed.
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Hmm... And I understand there are pictures? Hmm.... - Jim "Like" - The modern day comma Good bye, my friends. You are missed.
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You should ask Stacy about getting pied for 200, or was it 100 and we were just late? Happened the same weekend that she hook turned into a cow. I should add this, we never would have pied Stacy on 200 if she hadn't been gloating that somehow she squeaked by 100 without being pied. She brought on herself. - Jim "Like" - The modern day comma Good bye, my friends. You are missed.
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Thanks for the link Tom. This, from the Institute for Justice home page, pretty much sums up my feelings about the ACLU. - Jim "Like" - The modern day comma Good bye, my friends. You are missed.
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That thing needs to be put away. It scares me! - Jim "Like" - The modern day comma Good bye, my friends. You are missed.
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Notice how she mentioned that one twice? - Jim "Like" - The modern day comma Good bye, my friends. You are missed.
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0:0:0 cold:windy:broke - Jim "Like" - The modern day comma Good bye, my friends. You are missed.
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That's not about politics, it's about real life and passing the real life course. If he didn't play those games as you refer to them then the evaluator has no idea HOW he'll react, or that he is capable of reacting when it happens. They didn't just make that stuff up, it's all happened, and it's likely to continue happening. That's not politics, that's proving that you're paying attention and have what it takes to complete the course. I hate to say it, but your friend should have taken the course more seriously. Sounds to me as if he went there with a bad attitude and that attitude helped him to fail the course. Too bad. What's preventing anyone in Alaska or Hawaii from getting their I/E ticket, that's all that's needed, isn't it? - Jim "Like" - The modern day comma Good bye, my friends. You are missed.
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Just because it's cold out doesn't mean you're not a skydiver. :) You'll be a skydiver until you aren't. - Jim "Like" - The modern day comma Good bye, my friends. You are missed.
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And the point I was making, was that this 'real world' you speak of is created by US. No one forced you to buy the 600, you knew that there were other, smaller, less performance models in between that 125 and the 600, yet you chose to go straight for the 600. It's the same thing with canopies (and that's the only reason I'm still on this subject.) I don't know of anyone who was forced to go from their student canopy at .8:1 directly to a Crossfire at 1.4. The 'real world' is what we make it, BillVon just listed an example of a skydiver with thousands of jumps who still jumps a Manta (the canopy you claimed nobody would jump after student status.) - Jim "Like" - The modern day comma Good bye, my friends. You are missed.
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Uhm... I just checked Honda's webpage, it looks to me like they're still making the Rebel and the Nighthawk. Then, there's always the used market too. Those are all street bikes, what they aren't is crotch-rockets. Had you worked your way up through those bikes and then onto the CBR you might have had a less interesting, but maybe safer career on your bike. I'm only getting on you because you did with a bike what most people do under a canopy. They focus on the hot-shit ride that their friend has, but they ignore how they got there. There are lots of models in between, not as exciting, but probably necessary for a well rounded education. What's unreal about that? Nobody forced you to buy whatever you did when you graduated from student status. "Like" - The modern day comma Good bye, my friends. You are missed.
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Do you not see the flaw in your thinking here? I think that realistically, it might have been safer for you to transition from the 125, to a 250, to a 450, to a 600. Make sense? That's the conservative approach. It's not conservative at all putting someone who's never ridden before on a CBR600, that's just dangerous to the student and those who he will share the road with. - Jim "Like" - The modern day comma Good bye, my friends. You are missed.
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One with a little hole at one end and a big hole at the other? And it should be equipped with the proper safety label, "WARNING: Objects in telescope are further away than they appear" I know absolutely nothing about telescopes. - Jim "Like" - The modern day comma Good bye, my friends. You are missed.
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Is this the one that they keep playing on Discovery Health? That looked painful. - Jim "Like" - The modern day comma Good bye, my friends. You are missed.