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Its camel-toe annie !

Defo - but watch it in the original German Language version not the dubbed English version. The dubbed one losses about 80% of the emotion because they didn't put in the right feeling into a lot of the dialogue. Its difficult to describe, but trust me as one who has both versions... the dubbed one sucks ass with a straw.

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In skydiving we have our own built in escrow service at every DZ. I would never buy gear I have not seen based solely on the sellers description of it. You make a deal based on their description, have them ship it to a rigger, you contact to the rigger and to have them confirm it is what its supposed to be and it is as described. Then you send the money. Then the seller contacts the rigger and the goods are released. If the item isnt as described then you don't send money and the contract is void anyway based on the sellers misrepresentation. The rigger ought to make some beer out of it IMHO and I guess may charge (esp if you ask them to inspect the gear) but I'm told thats not common. I owe Larry @ Perris beer for being my escrow in a deal on a reserve.

For ME to pick up for my mate! Gotta be that quick cos I leave on the 20th.... cool - only 2 weeks to go!!!

er... move to north or north western Afganistan...

Possioble NY Robin Lau contact details are: (Removed personal info. Send a PM please. ~ sangiro) These are just hits for his name in New York - so are probably not even him - maybe worth a shot if you can't trace him any other way.

three options a) he's pissed it went sooo cheap - thats a good price. Maybe he'll send it begrudginly, maybe he'll try to back out and refund you. b) his "family emergency" genuinly is taking up a lot of his time and he'll get to you c) you just got fucked. Check with the manufacturers - if he is the owner and bought new they may be nice and help you trace him (although they probably shouldnt).

I with you on those two - Kelly's Heroes has some wicked good music. Longest day too. But I'd add 617 squadron AKA the Dambusters.

Yeah they are two a penny. Just check out your local Maplins or Radio Shack depending on where you live. They should have those in stock. The new Sony "standard" all in one cable.... Good Luck ! I can bet sony bash out one cable that we all have to use or we don't get to use Sony as thats they way they are. It annoys me that a company with such great products always trys to make things as difficult as possible for you to interface their products with anything else. Give it a few months (the cable you're looking for is still a relativly new item) and some non-brand cable co will produce a knock off version that may be of use to you.

Whats being said about some of these is that they never were a threat and were picked up by mistake. A system must of course allow for innocents to be picked up in order to protect the greater good, but for 2 years?

We do know that they are not terrorists though. We do know that they are not a danger to anyone and we know that the US has known this for some time. I know there are plenty of arguments for keeping people detained if there is a good possability that they may be a terrorist and of course this has to happen... I just shirk at the idea of 2 years of detention. If the US is a certain that they pose no threat whatsoever how could they possibily detain them so long. And would they still be there if the UK govt had not put pressure on the US for their release? I accept fully your argument about their possibly holding intel though... but I'm equally uneasy about people being held for 2 years in order for intel to be secured.

The US govt is releasing a number of those "shitheads at Gitmo" stating they have done nothing wrong, are no danger to anyone and were picked up by mistake. There are two arguments here. How should TERRORISTS be treated. And how should SUSPECTED-TERRORISTS be treated. People always seem to forget that suspected-terrorists are NOT always terrorists. These releases highlight that fact nicely - they did nothing wrong and yet were kept detained for 2 years. Forgetting allegations of torture for the moment, (they cannot be corroborated at the mo) is that how we should treat someone who has done nothing wrong? Keep them incarcerated for 2 years? (please don't come back with some silly response that they have done something wrong - the US govt has already said that those they released have done nothing, they are innocent of any wrongdoing and yet they were kept in prison for 2 years).

Logically if its the same kind of impact as 65 million years ago it'll all go fairly similarly. Small hairy things will do best, things already adapted to the cold, scavengers and omnivores will do best, detritivores should come through virtually unscathed so long as they can cope with the climate. Anythig big will dissapear. Humans will probably survive fine - there are loads of us and we're too clever. We'd retreat underground and turn nuclear. Society as we know it would be snafu and the biggest risk to our survival would be less the environment and (same as now) - each other. Even if you discount the initial decimation of the world populus from the blast, with resources so streached we could not hope to maintain current population levels (not even in the west). Faced with such massive loss of life I expect society would turn on itself as those survivors fought amungst themselves for whatever resources are left. So I think humans would survive - but not society as we know it. Animals associated with humans would probably do ok too - so dogs, possably cats and common farm-yard animals would be kept alive by us. And volvo's.

Has anyone any direct knowledge of the quality of non Sony branded Memory Sticks? I know the general rule is that Sony brand is always going to be better than the "knock offs" but I have also heard in this instance some of the "knock offs" are actually better than Sony - being from the companies that actually invented the technology in the first place. Anyone know? What brands are good and what should I stay away from?

I can only really comment on one possible aspect of this... the possibility of litigation arising out of well-intended medical intervention. I know "real skydivers don't sue" but you might not know at the time if you are working on someone familiar with that ethos. My concern is that in many jurisdictions the moment you start trying to perform procedures that require specialist training or start using equipment that is normally the preserve of a specially trained profession, your litigation risk instantaneously shoots through the roof. The reason is that many jurisdictions sensibly say that if you are going to perform a specialist procedure or use specialist tools then you must do so with the skill of a reasonable person who is trained in that procedure / with that equipment. eg: if you perform CPR you may only have to live up to the standard of a reasonable person who is trained in CPR... not too hard to do as that probably means someone just like you. If try to use a backboard in order to immobilise a person you may find yourself having to live up to the standard of a reasonable EMT for example... that may be significantly harder… you’re probably not an EMT nor are you trained to know what they know. If you start trying to do things like use a traction splint, depending on what the local rules are and how complicated things get, you [I]could[/I] find yourself having to live up to the standard of a Doctor… if you fail to meet that standard then you open yourself up to the possibility of litigation – and they’ll probably win. If you’re an individual skydiver, do you have medical malpractice insurance? Well if you don’t your unlikely to be a tempting target for a lawsuit, but if they want to sue and you’re the only one out there… If you’re an employee of the DZ then the DZ can be liable for anything you do – even negligently provided medical care in the right circumstances. The crux of the matter is, if a DZ is going to have a backboard or traction splint, they better have a procedure for who can and cannot use it, a documented training scheme for those who can, and a documented system for keeping their knowledge current and well practiced. They should also check out the local rules on who in the medical community can use that equipment and what look standard they are going to be judged against should the worst come to the worst. These comments are only intended to reflect the generality of the common law system and those basic principals that are shared with many legal systems in the English-speaking world. I have little direct knowledge of US law and can only fully comment on the law of England and Wales. Please check your local jurisdiction for the applicability of my comments before relying upon any of them.

look closely at his wrist - you'll see the wire.

Contact Flick at mentor@bcpa.org.uk or my mate Iain at chairman@bcpa.org.uk. They are the club mentor and president respectively of the British Collegiate Skydiving Association and are there to help in exactly this situation. Good luck with your club, its the start of the season as far as skydivers are concerned but Uni's are just winding up. You will not find you get much interest this year but it might be a great time to get a couple of like minded people to gether, have fun through the summer and get yourself ready for Freshers in Sept as this is THE time for recruting. I hope to see your club competing next year. And take a look the BCPA website - some useful info their including a guide to starting up and running a Uni club. http://www.bcpa.org.uk/

I prefer to list things at a high start price with no reserve. If people are serious about it they will bid from that price and will apreciate the fact they know how much its going to cost them to win the auction. If there's a reserve (unless you tell them what it is) I don't think people are as willing to bid as they have no idea how much they are going to have to shell out. This is they way my friends and I operate anyway... if you transpose our methods onto the rest of the buyers then a reserve means less bids. Perhaps we're not that representative though and other buyers have feel differently about reserve auctions - who knows. If I'm selling something and want proper money for it... I'm not going to use ebay (unless I'm being super lazy or I'm in a hurry). Things go for silly prices and I think (at least in this country) its easier to sell at a good price off ebay than on it. I'm glad not everyone thinks this way though... or I wouldnt get such good deals.

I don't care how nice the boobs are; if the chicks got a dick its a dude an I aint playin!

should be called miriam I guess.

You could have placed a higher bid earlier on... ebay only bids the minimum nessasery to out bid the last bidder. You could have bid at the last moment also, then the bid which came through in the last 8 seconds (probably placed at about 30seconds) would have been outbid by yours. The trick is to figure out how much you are willing to pay, then wait till the last moment and bid that ammount even if its miles higher than the current high bid. Don't just bid to out bid the current guy - bid to outbid the guy who just bids enough to outbid you. That way if someone enters a bid thats only just above yours they instantly get the notice, sorry you were outbid (by your proxy bid). If their max bid is higher than what you're willing to pay then so be it - thats supply and demand.

From what I have been taught and have experianced of first aid, you shouldn't be trying to give aid to a broken femour unless it is absolutly nessasery to move the injured (unlikly on a DZ) or if there is a large amount of blood being lost (ie their gonna die anyway unless you do something). I think DZ's really ought to let the EMT teams handle complicated injuries like this. Femour breaks fall into that class of injury where a little bit of knowledge on the part of the rescuer is far more dangerous than non as they will seek to employ it.

I have recently started using a snipe program called Auction Sentry. It has not modified the way I use e-bay one bit. I would only ever put in a bid in the last 30 secconds of an auction before learning about snipe programs - the program simply allows me to bid while out or asleap. If I'm in I snipe manually. Its the only way to get the item cheap. If you bid before that the ONLY thing you do is push the price up unessaserily. People who start bidding on an item 5 days before it goes out piss me off. Do they really think they are going to win it right there and then or something? If you ever go to live auctions you will see that experianced traders do not bid until the auction is about to end and then they out bid the current bidder. If you participate in a 4 way bidding contest 3 days before the auction ends you just push the price up - its dumb. Yes ultimatly everyone only bids the ammount which they are willing to pay for the item so the person who has the biggest pockets wins... nothing wrong with that right? True. But I consistently win things at a FRACTION of the price I am willing to pay for it. So why not snipe (maunally or otherwise)? I get things much much cheaper than the chumps out there that start bidding a week in advance. Sooner or later you find that the price you are willing to pay comes down... because you know if you wait you can find it much cheaper. These days, the price I am willing to pay for an item depends just as much on how fast I need it as on how much the item is worth.

Click on the photo taken from between its legs... you'll quickly see its a dude - and you'll also see he appears to still be in freefall. I guess inspiration lies in that little german clip of a guys dick and balls flapping in freefall.