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Haha, I was just thinking the same thing. It's pretty clear that some posters are talking about keeping the US a predominately monolingual nation, some posters are worried about people from a certain religion not respecting separation of church and state as their population grows, and some posters are deliberately ignoring those concerns and talking about food and music. So, in turn... I work with highly educated first and second generation folks from all over the world and the mix of personalities and strong suits is both refreshing and useful. As a hat tip to skeptics, however, it is worth noting that we all speak English. I have, apparently, more confidence in the strength of our system of government than those that are worried about certain religous laws ending up on the books. (at least on the national level... the simple majority ballot measure constitutional amendment thing we have in California is sooooo broken.) While I do enjoy the great Korean, Japanese, Indian, Peruvian, Vietnamese, Pakistani, etc. food living in SoCal allows, I don't really consider that anything but a superficial level of integration. You have to start somewhere though.

My father re-married about a year and a half after my mother passed away which, at the time, would have been "last year." I certainly didn't think it was too soon. He did ask me if I was okay with him doing it though, which was cool of him. Back to the news story... The more telling thing is that he apparently married his high-school sweetheart when they were 18/19 and had a kid right away. The mother passes away 5-6 years later and he marries another 18/19 year old while looking after the dying child from his first marriage? That seems a little off but, like quade said, he probably deserves a little slack.

Something else that sets this aside from WBC is that the demonstrations of the WBC can much more easily be written off as impersonal. The content vs. context of their protests are so nonsensical that it makes them easier to ignore (if not during the protests, certainly in the days/weeks that follow.) This on the other hand is, in no uncertain terms, about them.

Speaking on behalf of the Coalition of Sub-Hundred Sqft Canopy Pilots (CSHSCP, pronounced "cuss-hiss-sip"): "We hate you and everyone who flies like you."

I think Campbell should capitalize on this by conspicuously labeling everything else they make HARAAM! I'd bet the boycotters would eat that up (literally.) That would work at tea party rallies for sure. Here is your chicken soup now with Pork. You don't have to add pork, just a promise on the side of the can that Allah was most certainly NOT thanked when the animals were killed: "All animals killed in silence!"

I think Campbell should capitalize on this by conspicuously labeling everything else they make HARAAM! I'd bet the boycotters would eat that up (literally.)

-A few years ago while living in the Vancouver BC area there was times when I would purposely leave my Jeep Wrangler unlocked -I used to do the same thing with my old Buick. Didn't even have a radio, so nothing worth stealing. Got my window broken once down at Venice Beach. I've had friends on three occasions have their window smashed and have about 25% worth of the value of the broken window stolen from inside the car. One guy even smashed my friends rear windshield on his explorer (with all of the defrost elements) only to make off with... 3 CDs and a pair of jumper cables... Plus no matter how good the shop is you will end up finding pieces of glass in your car for months.

Another way I like to describe a landing pattern is as a communication tool. By flying a well-defined downwind leg (i.e. no sashaying, at least a few hundred feet of descent, no going in and out of brakes abruptly) you're telling everyone above and behind you that your next major action is going to be a turn to base leg. They might not know exactly when you're going to turn to final, but based on how fast you're flying your canopy and based on what the ground winds are doing, it's not too hard to make a pretty good guess with some experience. Certainly good enough to be able to make their own plans around. Same thing goes with the base leg. When people get to the ground they should consider asking themselves, "If I were someone behind me, and I was trying to follow me in, would I have been able to guess what I was going to do next throughout my pattern?"

I was gonna say... why would anyone voluntarily put their name on this? You're better off writing a nice letter to these people and/or these people. (find someone from your state and mention that you're a constituent.)

This was actually a quip that people made back when folks first started coming up with their 9/11-was-a-US-government-inside-job-theories. They shouted, "it's a conspiracy!" and the response they'd get was, "Yes, it was a conspiracy... ...of islamist extremists." Don't (really... I mean that... don't) even pretend that you get flack for simply believing in "just any conspiracy" rather than getting flack for beliving specific theories of what happened during the attacks themselves. I don't remember ever calling you anything. I've actually remained quite civil towards you throughout all these threads you've created on this subject. (one possible exception was poking some fun at a particularly insulting statement you made towards another poster.)

Your country is in ruins because [of] this 'fuck up'... I think I've figured it out. I think the problem you're having is that you're actually not loathing enough people. I don't know if it's because you feel it's easier to fix the problems of today if you keep the number of people at fault small or what, but when it comes to being pissed off at people for bad decisions that have had a negative effect on the world, you really need to expand your horizons. One fuck-up (or even if you want to go on believing there was no fuck up and that everything is a conspiracy) didn't get us to where we are right now. Assuming the infighting occurred just as was stated in the book and in the interview you posted, that isn't even the first fuck-up in a long chain of fuck-ups that has us in our current situation. So, by all means, be pissed off. Lot's of people are and rightly so. But don't cling to conspiracies just because you have some desire to see some smallish group of people against the wall for everything that's wrong in the world today.

Negative four years.

"I don't happen to have a copy of two two seven stroke bee on me at the moment." [/Brazil]

Well if someone's Vigil hadn't deployed their reserve over the tail when the door was opened then maybe you wouldn't be needing to bail out at 1400 ft. I'm only aware of one situation where someone has been saved by an AAD after a low bail-out from a plane that went in, and it was a Cypres. The problems started well above the arming altitude and had they not there is no way anyone would have made it out of the plane. NASA Goddard, Aerospace Corp, and JPL have all published tons of materials on this phenomenon. Just google it.

Gestures, pheromones, bioluminescence (in and out of our visible spectrum), there's all kinds of things that could develop.

It would be interesting to consider the evolution of 'language-capable life' in the various niches of that environment. Absolutely. For starters, if the winds were howling constantly their language might not be acoustic.

You do that very thing all the time. Proper response to this comment: "ha ha ha."

Make sure to disconnect your RSL while exiting the An2 ...and do a Mr. Bill. Naked at night & over water! ...into a stadium. btw, I'm gonna have to ask you to clarify how someone goes about doing a naked wingsuit jump.

Correct. See my post #10. To look at it another way, recall the fact that a "habitable zone" exists and how small it is. If the semi-major axis of the planet's orbit was roughly in the middle of the habitable zone but the eccentricity got up to around 0.25 or 0.30 (which isn't that eccentric) the planet would be scraping both edges of the habitable zone every orbit.

Make sure to disconnect your RSL while exiting the An2 ...and do a Mr. Bill.

So it's like driving a Toyota?

how do you know she doesn't want to keep the baby? i think she should be forced to have an abortion. and continue to have abortion forced on her anyother time she gets pregnant. how's my inner caveman doing now? ?? I can see prohibiting someone from having an abortion being construed as forcing them to have a child in such a case but I can't see how giving her the option constitutes forcing her to have an abortion.

I've actually forgotten how many times I've posted this link by now. Defense isn't a "program" it's a category of spending. Even Medicare and Social Security aren't monolithic. I'm not trying to be pedantic in bringing this up, I'm just saying that suggesting we "cut defense" isn't a whole lot more specific than just suggesting we "cut spending" or "cut welfare" (which, when right-wing folks say it, can generally be taken to mean the "Income Security" category of spending.) The Tea-Party is guilty of this same over generalization when they say they want a "strong military" by which they usually mean they don't want to cut anything out of the defense budget.

The article didn't mention eccentricity and I have no idea about the prevelance of particular eccentricities, but yes an orbit like Mars (E = 0.09) or Mercury (E = 0.21) could generate significant seasons without taking the planet outside the habitable zone. This is what I was alluding to in my previous two atmosphere comments. It's hard to say what that would mean in terms of haze, dust storms, etc. Don't know how easy creatures that were all that tall (bipeds) would have it. Flying creatures would also be hilarious.