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He was a pool camera guy at an event, no real connection with the team. He's just sore he's only ever credited as "amateur footage". I'll tell him he's now a suspect, he'll get a laugh out of it.

One battled on with the military. Last I spoke with him though he was considering a change... not heard from him for a while though. You should get in touch mate. The other guy full-on cut away, dropped out of the Army and is living on a DZ in the States. Who could blame them for having problems? I guess it's gonna be hard to cope when your C.O. calls up the press and tells them exactly who's just about to be be arrested then sees to it that you're completely ostracized from the rest of the cohort by holding regular public briefings for your class mates on the progress of the case. It also kinda puts a downer on jumping when the DZO tells you not to bother visiting your home DZ in the near future.

Yes he deployed his PC. Yes he did his EPs Cypres fired anyway. I don't read anything into the joke deploying of his main in a cloakroom stunt. When the police asked me what I thought of it I simply pointed out that a mate had done exactly the same thing to me in the pub a week earlier. The draft obituary the police were oh-so-worried about was hilarious by the way. Proper skydiver humor showing proper skydiver respect to a mate the way only skydivers do. I'm sure Steve would have loved it.

BURN HER!

It's pretty much already been done. There’s a British project car called the AeroCarbon. It's a 4-seat saloon which does 100mpg and runs on petrol. It has a carbon fiber body, Lotus Elise suspension and steering and an engine from Honda. I've no idea how much it would cost as it's not hit the market yet but it's not got any funky technology in it, just a super efficient engine so there's no real reason to assume it would be super expensive (assuming the manufacturer bothered to go for volume sales of course). The concept car version they demonstrated however did look like a plastic Citroen DS that had been put in an oven for an hour, (for aerodynamic reasons apparently).

Hows this for a noodle baker: A flag is placed in a sealed box. Attached to the box is an apparatus containing a radioactive atomic nucleus and a canister of acid spray. This apparatus is separated from the flag in such a way that the flag can in no way interfere with it. The experiment is set up so that there is exactly a 50% chance of the nucleus decaying in one hour. If the nucleus decays, it will emit a particle that triggers the apparatus, which opens the canister and destroys the flag. If the nucleus does not decay, then the flag remains intact. According to quantum mechanics, the unobserved nucleus is described as a superposition (meaning it exists partly as each simultaneously) of "decayed nucleus" and "undecayed nucleus". The question is - would you have committed an offence?

No, not you. My other mate Dave. He's really good at football - I've seen him play. I bet he'd win the World Cup.

George Bush Snr. did a water jump on one a few years back.

Dave

Who's good to chip in if we start a whip round?

Do you actually mean "stalling" as in your canopy partially collapsed and you started to drop vertically at a high speed? Or do you simply mean you were not making any penetration into the wind?

Ya know it's a criminal offence in the UK to misrepresent yourself as a member of the armed forces. I'm sure there's a name for what this guy has... anyone a psychiatrist?

A good friend has a Titanium .45 It is a nice lens and I've never seen some of the nasty artifacts you get from kenko and other cheap lenses on his footage, (such as actually being able to see a reflection of the rear of the first element). I can't directly comment on the size you've posted as I've not seen it before but personally I certainly wouldn't have any issue buying a Titanium lens... though I'm not exactly an authority on the subject. I do wonder how big it is though.

That's handy - Bush wants to start a war between the USA & Iran.

That's why the reserve and main handles are on different sides. As for having the hackey in the middle... I suppose it could be done fairly easily... there are possible freefly issues... issues with having significantly different kit to everyone else, and the benefits are fairly limited to the 1 in how many thousands of jumps? where it might actually be needed.

I opened my copy this morning and was amazed. Couldn't see where it had been doctored... I guess the shot could be a couple of seconds before and the pad had yet to come loose... but I suspect it's simply a good photoshop job. Very disappointing... especially for a gear catalogue... I thought a shot with a loose handle would be the perfect reminder to really think about your gear. And so much for not being published before - it was February’s front cover the The Mag: http://www.skydivemag.com/

Cheers, had forgotten about that. Yup, lots of errors. Event ID 11... think I know what the problem is off the back of that.... suspect its a cabling issue so hopefully easy to sort. Cheers guys

I love the fact that DZ.com is a great place to go with virtually any query. Any ideas on the below guys: AMD 2800 1 gig ram 3 hard drives 40 gig (system), 160 gig, 200 gig XP Pro SP2 + all other updates Virus and adware free (so three different up-to-date programs say anyway) My 160 gig HD recently filled so I started to move some files out of it onto the 200 gig drive. The PC will freeze during the move. Have tried moving, cutting/pasting, copying all with the same problem. Problem is intermittent in that I have been able to move some files while others it will get about 3 bars into the move/copy and just freeze. By freeze I mean mouse/keyboard etc have no input and the task progress bar + move animation stops. Problem does not resolve itself with time. Initially thought it could simply be related to the drive being full but there's now about 10gigs of space on the 160 HD created by deleting files. Cooling is not a problem – HD's are running at 80deg F Any ideas on a diagnosis/cure?

Here's a good report on this guys findings: http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article994070.ece I like the presentation of his findings as he's completely open to the suggestion that he can't rule out certain possablities - just that in his experiance the evidence points away from them.

I very much doubt the hit was purposeful even if it was an Israeli round. IF it was a round from an Israeli howitzer I presume the family just got unlucky enough to find themselves on the tail end of the salvo that was sent over. The guy named the make of howitzer used last night too in addition to the stuff he was saying about his analysis of the shrapnel. Was a US gun M-something I can't be arsed to check up on, land based. I have to stick a quick correction in too - the chap was with the Pentagon for 7 years in a Battle Damage Assessment Team working in the Gulf, Iraq and the Balkans but is now with a civi organization. His statements are up on the BBC at least so I don't know why CNN haven't picked it up yet: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5074792.stm

You guys should realise there is a world of difference in law between: a) negligence (legalese for a fuck-up, a mistake, an accident, someones "fault" sure but shit happens kinda stuff). b) gross negligence (something far far more serious). We have to accept that people around us are going to be negligent occasionally in this sport. People just are sometimes; it's a given. If you can't accept that; do not jump. You have specifically signed away your rights to take issue with people's negligence. The situation with gross negligence (examples of which Kallend has provided) may well prove to be significantly different in law (depending on jurisdictional issues of course). Gross negligence is not merely the far end of the scale - it can be poles apart legally speaking from plain old negligence.

I thought I'd just note that there was a chap on BBC Radio 4 last night from the Pentagon who said that based on the height of the wounds and the composition of the shrapnel recovered from the bodies/site which he'd seen, he had concluded the family was killed by a 155mm howitzer shell and definitely not a landmine. ...But I guess Pentagon Battle Damage Assessment Teams probably don't know that much.

No it's not. The only countries I know of that have such a law are Germany and Austria and those are national laws only effective within their borders. The UK certainly does not have such a law. I'd also add that it is likely that such laws are in breach of European laws and would be overturned the first time a case made it up to the European Court of Human Rights, (just as the court in this thread rightly overturned local legislation which was in breach of the overriding national legislation.

'cos they'd get their arse kicked by Iran.

Anyone else thinking of Kryten from Red Dwarf?