DrewEckhardt

Nope. Being good doesn't make you money. Being entertaining to Joe Six pack does, and remaking proven films with todays actors and special effects is a proven path to that with big box office bucks following. War of the Worlds - $591.7M worldwide box office gross Gone in 60 seconds - $237.2M The Day the Earth Stood Still - $233M Charlie and the chocolate factory - $206.5M etc. Plenty of great movies with new scripts don't even manage a tenth of those numbers.

Except a pair per wing. Earlier this week I watched the Collings Foundation's B17 (the same one I jumped at Quincy) and B24 fly their approach into Moffett field (runways 32 left and right probably start a half mile from my office park).

Platoon from Oliver Stone and real life. Thank you for posting pictures of the Swedish sailors playing video games instead of them hanging out naked naked in the ship sauna. http://www.kvia.com/news/23679178/detail.html SFW - they only describe an American admiral meeting naked sweating Swedes.

In the future you'd do well requiring contractors to use your revision control software where they have append-only access and no administrative privileges. I've worked with people who couldn't finish what they were working on to the point where you'd be finding bugs. I've interviewed people who were much worse. For instance, nine years ago I interviewed a gray-haired guy who I christened "Bob the Pod Person." His resume was good but he knew nothing about anything he'd claimed to have done. For instance I asked him a simple 'C' coding question, got something with syntax resembling no Algol derived language I'd seen, and thought he might be rusty or something "Oh no, I was writing 'C' just last week." If he was less bad I'd have stopped the interview on the spot, although he was so full of crap it was funny and I wanted to figure out if he was screwing with us or he knew that I knew.

Reference [12] is about present-day first generation African immigrants http://www.migrationinformation.org/USfocus/display.cfm?ID=719 and not African-Americans whose relatives came here over 150 years ago as slaves.

You have a really dim view of America. I can see how spending extra tax dollars to provide special services to one group of kids could be considered unfair. I don't think that the parents were advocating that everyone should be dumb. I'd bet that what they wanted was for money to be spent more evenly, but I'm just guessing. Unless the group of kids are the football team, basketball team, or special education students. The average American doesn't want people doing better than them.

Hogwash. Society encourages people to be like them where the median level is merely average. Speaking of school children, my neighborhood was a yuppie breeding ground where we were expected to follow in our parents professional foot steps. They made sure the high school offered lots of advanced placement courses so we could get a head start on college where over 95% of the graduating class went. Other district schools in the same district didn't do that because the parents felt "it wasn't fair to the normal students." We were also brought up to be good stewards of wealth for our retirement and the next generation. The rest of society encourages spending instead, on extravagant homes, cars, and consumer goods.

alternatereality.org is rarely about facts. And you read nothing else. so when do you expect blacks and whites to have roughly equal wealth? until high school graduation rates are on par, not a chance. Other things (college rates, criminal rates) have to improve as well, but basic education is the first step. That probably requires removing NEA/AFT control over the educational system (allowing teacher pay and retention based on merit, instead of the usual contracts where pay is based on experience and teachers are laid-off in a last hired first fired order) and some sort of social program which convinces people that staying in school is cool (just like smoking is not).

Probably (if you want to be comfortable), but it depends on how much of your height is in your torso and legs. You can approximate required main lift web length by taking your height in inches, subtracting your inseam measurement, and subtracting 20" You can also have a new harness put on by the manufacturer. This may or may not be less expensive than buying a new container.

Or just use a service like esnipe.com Your bid gets submitted seconds before the auction ends so there's no chance for some one to come in, bid a little more, see that your proxy increased the bid, bid a little more, and have their competitive nature run away resulting in either you spending more for the item due to their psychological defect or the price exceeding what you'll spend in which case you need to wait to win another auction. You can also use bid groups, where you can schedule bids for multiple items that stop being made after the first win. You loose on the ipods ending at 4:00pm and 4:17pm today but win on the one at 9:10am tomorrow and never have to deal with the process until you pay. While not free like manual sniping, esnipe is a lot more convenient and cheap enough not to matter ($0.25 minimum, 1% of the winning amount otherwise with a $10 maximum).

Some one has been reading Dune.

Nope. 1) Pooping is a natural act, and nothing to be ashamed of 2) My bathroom destroying diarrhea is probably my co-workers fault for breeding, sending their kids to school/day-care where they pickup mutated diseases from other spawn, and then bringing the bugs into the office.

holy shit, more like 700$ around here.. damn, i need to pick up rigging and start making a living of it.. I've received flat-rate DHL shipments from Germany with a 5kg max for about $60. USPS will ship 10 pounds to Switzerland in 6-10 business days for $55. People there would probably be a lot better off just shipping their canopies to the states.

Your true political self: You are a Social Liberal (78% permissive) and an... Economic Conservative (76% permissive) You are best described as a: Libertarian You exhibit a very well-developed sense of Right and Wrong and believe in economic fairness.

Get the container if the reserve is a safe size for, the harness fits, and it has life left. The price is good assuming all that. The Sabre2 is over priced unless it has less than 200 jumps on it, and with enough jumps you may be buying a line set and spending as much as you would on a brand new one.

Happened to me last year. Some how I managed to reduce a digit in the withholding box of a W2 form I was transcribing and pay more than I should have by check. Months later I got a letter from the IRS indicating that they'd reviewed my tax return, found problems, and that a check with interest was included. This year I reported interest income with the IRS as a payer.

Almost everything makes sense once you understand that America is a bureaucratic oligarchy. Laws and their enforcement (or lack thereof) are about moving money to wealthy business people (especially bankers) and gaining or maintaining power. The agricultural industry is built on top of low-cost labor. Ignoring "illegal" immigrants provides that labor without the obligations that go with "legal" immigration like Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. It makes financial sense. Making regulations and applying them with close scrutiny requires employees, who require managers, who require middle managers, who require executives, who gain power by having bigger fiefdoms. Being efficient about things like legal immigration would mean that a large portion of our 2,768,886 federal government employees would be out of work, making for fewer middle managers and less power. That count comes from here http://www2.census.gov/govs/apes/08fedfun.pdf as of December, 2008. It appears to exclude military service people, since there are a lot more active duty military personnel (1,137,568 as of December 2009) than the Nat Defense/International Relations (7223,820) listing. If Canadian software engineers were sneaking in to work for half the price of US citizens you wouldn't have had any problems coming here illegally. As a foot note Colorado does rock.

Group plan prices are based on average chances of being old, unhealthy, and getting pregnant. If you're young and healthy, you'll spend less on an individual plan ($100/month vs. $400). If you're old but not old enough for Medicare you'll spend less on COBRA. With pre-existing conditions, you may not have a choice.

Yup. My wife is out of town visiting relatives whilst I remain home working. So I'm hanging out with our cat, drinking beer (Racer 5 IPA, a fine live ale), and watching mediocre to decent TV on Netflix (mostly Dilbert).

Sure. The government doesn't care how old skydivers are. Your two big problems are that most states don't allow parents to waive minors' right to sue (so waivers are unenforceable if something goes wrong and your health insurance company decides to sue on your daughter's behalf) and the United States Parachute association requires skydivers to be 16. In practice, people have gotten around the problem by buying an airplane, opening a drop zone, and using instructors willing to risk the liability and having their ratings cancelled for violating the United States Parachute Association Basic Safety Requirements. Going to another country will be much less expensive and time consuming.

Buy a one-month supply consisting of 4-5 cases.

Right. Chinese food is the most fun when you tell them to give you stuff off the Chinese menu instead of the American one. You might end up eating tendon but it'll be tasty.

Swooping the town fishing pond in Brush, CO; Underground BASE jumping into Sótano de las Golondrinas a thousand foot deep Karst cave in San Luis Potosí, Mexico; The usual deep brake approach beneath El Gigante in Chihuahua, Mexico Willard my cat. He is usually very relaxed

A good approximation of required main lift web length is to take your height in inches, subtract your inseam measurement, and subtract 20" In my case I take 5'10 - 30.5" inseam (measured flat-footed to your pubic bone, not your pants inseam) - 20 = 19.5". Not coincidentally I have main lift webs in the 19-20" range which is long for my height - people double and triple check that they measured right. Call the manufacturer if it comes up right. Given the rig serial number and your measurements per their order form as if you were ordering a new rig they can tell you how close it is and what it would cost to modify if it's not close enough.

Although skydiving video is ubiquitous, people don't video tape their dates until they get back to the bedroom and shed their street clothes. While out on the town I'd be more likely to color-coordinate like I do skydiving if my wife wore a camera helmet. I'd also be more likely to color co-ordinate going out if I owned only one or two outfits although that would offend every one who has to smell me, wife and co-workers included.