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These days it's relatively rare to have laptops which can take more than 1 HD. Options are as above or use microdrives in the PCMCIA card slots (slow, expensive and small) or simply buy a bigger HD and reinstall on that one. If you don't want to cart around an external drive that's probably the only viable option. Cheapest easiest and highest capacity option would be to do as described above though.

hey, I didn't say they were good Christians, just that they were Christians. If you automatically cease to be the religion you claim to be just by failing to act within its constraints… well, every catholic on earth just blew themselves into atheism the first time they tugged one off the wrist.

Well it's just my feel of the page. And "Fíorspéartha is based half a mile outside of the village of Ros a Mhíl, deep in the Cos Fhairrge region of Connemara." seems to be fairly good directions for anyone who lives in the area. The BPA link's funny though. Needs to be .org not .co

This guy aint going to hell though - he repented and the Pope of all people forgave him his sins. Unless he's done anything wrong in the meantime, he's off to meet the Big Guy when his sand runs out.

I vote real. They give their exact location; the site doesn’t really exhibit that much of a skyride feel to it at all. Its not as swish for a start, it’s not linking to hundreds of others, doesn’t come up on google hits, doesn’t go on about vouchers. Look at their acknowledgements page - their gear's from square1 - someone here therefore must know them if that's true. They even acknowledge the co. who did their site and link to their page. Is it just that you’ve not heard of them before that you’re saying they must be skyride? I could well be wrong, but to me it just feels like an honest DZ website.

Personally I'm in favour of the headline "Stoopid kid has friend help remove himself from gene pool".

I lit a large Coalbrookdale Severn stove years ago at my parent's place and absentmindedly placed the lighter neatly on top of the stove when I was done. I left the room and returned half an hour or so later to a roaring fire in the stove and a butane lighter perched atop, its content's literally boiling away inside. I picked up the lighter using fire tongs and rushed it out of the house. Attempting to throw the lighter, its explosion now imminent, out of the back door and secure the safety of myself and the house, I lost grip with the tongues and instead flung the lighter against the doorframe, no more than a foot from my body. It exploded on impact. Stood in the confined space of a small outhouse I flinched and shielded my eyes but suffered no ill-effect beyond a ringing in my ears and the monotony of 5 minutes picking up all the little bits of neon green plastic. Sure a fragment in the eye would have sucked... but even a brand new lighter heated to boiling point aint gonna do shit to a plane, nor anyone in it.

You might already have seen it, but BlueSBDeath posted this pick in a thread last week: http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?do=post_attachment;postatt_id=42915;... not an ftp but certainly some inspiration.

One seriously funny video. http://www.putfile.com/media.php?n=flyingdog

Some people have concluded that and either jump a pillow reserve handle or soft loops. A reserve takes what, usually somewhere in the teens of lb’s to deploy? Does your d-ring weigh that much? What is the risk that it will exert that much snatch force? Weigh that against the benefit of having a good hand hold. The point Mr. Booth has tried to convey to you is that whilst that may be an acceptable risk for a reserve system, the risks are much greater for a cutaway handle as the force required to pull the handle before the canopy is deployed is much lower than on the reserve system. Thus the balance may well swing in the opposite direction for that handle while remaining acceptable for the reserve system. While the handles are the same, the systems to which they're attached are different. Thus there are different risks attached to your handle choices on each side of your kit, despite the fact that they are both subjected to the same forces on deployment and during freefall.

Because there is a much lower risk that a metal d-ring reserve handle will cause an early reserve deployment simply though it's own weight because the pressure of the reserve pc spring and closing loop on the ripcord will hold the weight of the d-ring. The same cannot be said of the cutaway system.

I don’t think so. The faster canopy is approaching from behind – they would be the one to cause the incident were one to happen. Yes the slow canopy is being inconsiderate by holding above the exp. landing area, but there’s nothing that says the exp. pilots HAVE to land there and that they HAVE to zoom through the slower canopies and thus cause a danger to everyone. Sail before steam still holds out IMO, but it's probably a good idea for all the sail boats out there not to stick themselves in the fast lane unless they have to. Doing so is inconsiderate though IMO, not dangerous. The person who blows through them is the one carrying out the dangerous maneuver. I think the only blind people would be the hot shot canopy pilot who just has to pull off a swoop and yells at noobs for being in the way and in "their" airspace. Low guy in front has right of way – they were there first, they can't see you coming and they can’t manure round you. ("can't" is a bit blanket but the point is the higher, rear canopy can do all of those much easier... it just so happens that in many cases the higher, rear canopy is also the hotter canopy, certainly in your example).

See a bloke called "Crazy" Mike, walking round with a bust hand moaning about how he lost his passport and can't get home till the 14th, point at him and say: "mat says HA-HA".

I've little doubt that if we could ensure that everybody melted their guns tomorrow things would be a lot happier (it a little less fun)... trouble is, that's actually a rather difficult goal to achieve in practice.

The Nazi's were ardent Christians. Goering was a nutter... but the regime as a whole and Hitler himself espoused the Christian faith. The Nazi party constitution stated that they stood for positive Christianity - hell even their belt buckle was engraved with the motif "Gott Mit Uns" or "God With Us". The severe difficulties in the other countries you list are as a result of the communist govt. not as a result of a change in "official" religion, which needless to say, doesn't actually equate to a change in the population's religion. Don't dress things up as they were not to simply prove a point, it's very bad form.

If you don't know what the reasons are for not jumping camera how can you say you think you can handle them? See here for a start: http://uspa.org/publications/SIM/2004SIM/section6.htm#68 As for the possible problems, I'm off now so don't have time to list them all. I have no buisness attempting to explain them anyway - I'm far too new at this game to be trying to educate others at it. I'll leave that to the experts on here, but there's a wealth of knowledge in the back pages of this forum if you wanted to seek it out.

You think maybe they'd do that for a reason and have your best interests at heart?

Not when they're in your care it's not. Once they surrender you're obliged to take look after them and provide medical care and certainly not start executing them. Even if you've decided the geniva convention doesn't apply to them, it doesnt' make executing them the "right" thing to do. Only mitigating factor in this scenario is that they were judged beyond hope and that there was no point in treating their wounds. If they were just sat there on the ground with a flesh wound the soldier who shot them should have been strung up.

...still think the simplest response would be to take a tonk on something.

The fact that the medic pronounced them untreatable means I have less of a problem with this than other similar incidents. If it was a US soldier who was pronounced untreatable though I suspect their actions would have been different - even if that simply meant the over use of morphine as opposed to a couple of rounds.

Simple, effective, and perfect considering you've just got up. Shit on their doorstep.

Jokes on you. It's 3pm here.

hell a "my bad" would have been nice.

Christ. I deal with inquests and deaths all the time, some cold shit, but that transcript is a real tear jerker. That little kid was so incredibly clever and dealt with the situation in a way that would put the majority of adults to shame. The poor girl; what a terrible introduction to the horrors of this world. So sad.

It does come natural to them. They arch to get stable and spread their limbs and body out to increase their surface area so that they actually go slow enough to survive impact at their terminal velocity!