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Given your list I'd have to vote Monty Brewster.

If you're set on a full face your best bet is simply to wear borrowed pro-tech's and flex vision goggles over your glasses till you get your B. You're hoping to get FS1 ASAP anyway - B Licence will follow soon after (only other requirements are total 50 jumps and a canopy handling cert) at which point you can ditch them for a full face. If you require your own helmet in the mean time, a protech only sets yo back a couple of quid and if you're fashion conscious get a half-shell or snow boarding helmet as they look good and don't cost much either.

IIRC No. It's illegal to sell a knife over 3" to someone under 16... the idea being that if a kid wants/requires a knife their parents ought to be the person to give them it and thus ensure there's a degree of control over them rather than just letting young Johnny run out and buy a 10" bowie with his pocket money. But no - mere possession its self is not prohibited. I'm not sure why such a rule would cause many objections... ? Would have to look it up to be 100% though... (edit - after looking it up the above is correct save for the fact that the blade does not have to exceed 3" and the law also covers axes and sharp pointed implaments made for the purpose of causing injury.)

whatever I like. All I need for licenses etc are jump numbers confirmed by a sig and Licence # of a friend who was either on or witnessed my jump (generally whoever's nearest when filling in my log book). Beyond there are specific requirements but for some ratings... those are generally witnessed by some form of instructor and then signed by them. In which case that one jump will be recorded in whatever way is required for the rating that specific jump was dedicated towards obtaining. As far as all the others are concerned it's entirely up to you. Technically you also need time in freefall but so long as you note exit alt and type of jump together with any pull height different from the norm you can work this out with sufficient accuracy at any time you might need it... thus these are also quite desirable facts.

if it's capturing 470,000 pixels compared to normal PC style camera capturing 690,000 that's not at all a bad difference. I take it there are no issues running it at "high resolution" such as a degradation in frame rate or anything?

Do you mean one of these? http://www.rfconcepts.co.uk/helmet_cameras.htm If so, which one?

hahaha - it's a hole is it? hehe, everyone had been telling me it's this nice big hotel. Ah well I'm there for the jumping not the decor. Good thing is I got my Visa yesterday so there's now nothing left at all outstanding. This time in two weeks I'll be sat on a plane somewhere over central Europe

entirely unworkable. besides - you do realise this is just a couple of doctors writing in a medical journal...

No - some people might be good enough to make it good in the begining but overall crap because they lack the skills to keep the fun going.

Some people are crap in bed.

oh yeah - that reminds me. When I was 4 my mother told me to go piss up the side of a Polish cop car that had just pulled her over for "speeding". While she was negotiating the level of the "Mandat" (or on the spot fine that HQ never sees) I was sent to drop trow and give his car a good soaking.

1xx horny x01 need beer x10 need to jump x11 need sleep x00 need food did I miss anything?

Cop stood with a bunch of kids 200yds+ down a road past a junction I was intending to turn up. The cop looked up the road towards me and put his hand up to stop traffic coming towards him. I figured he was stopping the main road only (as that was the traffic comming towards him) and that as I was turning right, off the road he was controlling and was right by the junction he wasn't controlling me. I paused and then moved forward again to complete my turn. The cop whipped round and held his hand up again at me and slowly marched over to me. He took an age to get to me – meanwhile traffic in all directions was stopped. When he finally arrived at my window he basically told me very rudely that he was controlling traffic and when he was controlling traffic everyone had to do what he said. Well he was far too rude for me... if he hadn't have been rude I would have thanked him and waited while he fannied arround. But no, he was very very rude. So I told him I was turning right – as indicated by the fact that I was sat in the right hand filter lane from which I was only permitted to turn right, and I was indicating right; and additionally there was no reason why I ought not be able to turn right as the kids were 200yds+ past the junction at which I was sat. I then asked how he possibly thought he was controlling a junction by standing 200yrds past it. He didn't respond immediately so I drove off. I never heard anything about it so I guess he was either unable to get my registration number in time or agreed with me. Stoopid, but there's no excuse for rudeness.

I just wouldn't want to predict what computers we're using in 45 years time. Remember - this was the cutting edge of computer technology 45 years ago: http://www.cs.virginia.edu/brochure/new_images/b205.gif (note this is only one componant of the computer which actually took up a whole room. My watch has more computing power.

two thoughts: 1) I'd love to work in a "futurology unit". 2) Asimov needs more laws... loads more laws... and you can't break em... ever... dunno how we're gonna achive that one though

One of the Geography questions: ha - bit of a broad question aint it? I could probably write for hours on that. Kinda reminds me of the sketch in "Aeroplane" when the ATC officer hands a bit of paper to the camp guy and says "here - what do you make of this" and the camp guy goes on for 5 minutes about all the different origami things he could make from it.

Two monkeys are sat in a bath. One says to the other: "Ooh ooh oohh aah aah aah". The other one says: "Well if it's too hot for you put some more cold water in".

Two parrots are sat on a perch. One turns to the other and says: "Do you smell fish?"

A friend caught a guy trying to steal his bike a short while ago. Held him for the police. As they were taking the guy away the police advised my mate that he should have given him a quick kicking before they turned up. I like that police officer. Deal with happy slappers the same - give them a kicking and call the police. Just for the record though, ripping their leg off and beating them with it is probably going a little far.

I'd rip their leg off and beat them with the soggy end. Then ram their chav-hat up their arse. Too much?

Like I said here: http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=1654602#1654602

Yes they would be something of a magnet... but so were the old ones. At the end of the day it's a capitolist society - if the workforce were too nervous to work there, pay would go up till they weren't. I'd expect to see a windfall for all those little companies selling idiot proof escape parachutes though... and I might just keep an old rig in the bottom draw of the desk

Please don't take offense to this but... without having seen you... and from only the text you've written above... I can tell one key thing about you: You're a hot chick, aren't you? Take the compliment and take the help where and when you want it. If you feel you're too inexperienced for any jump, don't do it. If you're not comfortable with the safety of whatever is on the table say so.

um... they have: http://www.l-and-b.dk/optima.html

Build 4 towers to send them a great big "fuck you".