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Absolutely... none of which use the RD-180.

technicalitied!

[nails on chalkboard] The Atlas III and Atlas V are space launch vehicles, not missiles.

Ah... In that case, yeah contempt would be understandable. My point was that if he tries to make this a strictly monetary argument, he'll end up concluding that progressive income taxes actually are the fairest way to pay for things considering the way many things the federal government spends money on are "distributed." I recommended that if someone has a problem with specific expenditures they should make their arguments there as opposed to making convoluted (and invalid) arguments against the federal income tax. /edited to add: I don't suggest anyone feel under-compensated and merely not mind. That's not being a liberal, that's being a chump.

A typical Conservative attitude. ? ?

Let's take the example of the military, your person who pays $30k, and your person who pays $0. Can you really say these two people are benefiting equally? Who really has more to lose if the military fails to defend the country? (a situation where the victors line every last person up and shoots them notwithstanding) There are many government expenditures where the value of the benefit to the individual is directly proportional to how much you have to lose if it went away resulting in damage to society as a whole. There are also some that arguably are not. I would recommend arguing against those specific expenditures rather than federal income tax iteself.

Actually... we didn't have the ability to put man in space between 1975 and 1981. True. However that was not really going to be the case. When Apollo 18,19 and 20 (that were scheduled to fly but didn't) were scrubbed, that stopped the wholesale layoffs and lengthened the fly interval. That was just a handful of years after Apollo before Shuttle. We are now talking of what, a 15 year or more gap? Obama is about to layoff over 5000 of your best and brightest. And during a piss poor economy to boot. My intent was to point out that this crossroads situation has come up before in NASA's manned spaceflight history. The Apollo / Saturn programs had just demonstrated going to the moon, launching and getting to a space station in LEO, and successful international rendezvous and docking. And we abandoned that program. Shuttle has demonstrated excellent up and down mass capability, the largest crew of any single space vehicle, the ability to perform on orbit servicing of satellites, and amazing logistics capabilities in assembling a very large modular space station. And we're abandoning that program. The shame in this, to me, is less about us relying on Soyuz/Dragon/CST-100/whatever to get to low earth orbit and more about the fact that ISS modules were sacked in the process. I'm torn about constellation being cancelled. Yes there's some free drift going on right now, but I'm wondering how it would have fit as a third paragraph to this post.

Actually... we didn't have the ability to put man in space between 1975 and 1981.

You got me. I didn't actually think you had DKA. The joke was that a bionic ability to smell fruit at great distances combined with thinking your shit smells like fruit could just be caused by smelling fruit constantly regardless of the presence of either of the above. Whether the diet is strictly vegan or not is a personal preference. Exercising doesn't hurt either.

Diabetic ketoacidosis can make everything smell fruity to you. It's a pretty serious condition. You might want to have it checked out.

If your kill line moves enough to cause a problem after you've cocked the pilot chute once then either your kill line is too short or you fling your d-bag around when folding the canopy in some weird way that I'm not familiar with. I cock the pilot chute once before bagging. Before folding the pilot chute at the end I hold the handle away from the bridle and look inside the pilot chute to make sure that the binding tape that attaches the bridle to the handle goes under tension and that the kill line does not.

That's how you know a thread is going to be good.

Re-read these statements of yours and tell me with a straight face that they aren't absurd. You don't think being arbitrarily rounded up and imprisoned or executed constitutes a rights issue?

Guns let you kill and eat anything that moves and chasing animals and people with pointed sticks burns more calories. I think it's pretty solid.

From the article... What, did she dial up the incline on the ol' craftmatic?

... by the dumbest electorate in history Who are you assuming he'll be running against when you make that statement? (don't say "a republican" ... although I admit that's a pretty good zinger)

That's a tad nihilist, don't you think?

Phony quote.

Your constant posting in gun threads does not support that statement. If posting in Speakers Corner had any effect on anything, anywhere, ever, then his participation could be linked to concern. As it happens...

WTF! Where can I find info on this crash landing? Maybe not a landing, but going in with nothing out and living is amazing! It happened back in 2002 in France. There's some info in this thread, but basically (...eh? ...eh?) it was a wingsuit flyer that went in with his container open but the slider still in the packjob. Smashed some teeth out and broke his back but he lived to jump again. It comes up from time to time when people talk about anyone being the first to "land" a wingsuit.

I don't agree with you on many issues, but I can't say I doubt your jump numbers. I'm coming up on 8 years but 1600 of my jumps were in a 3 year span, and thats just weekends and no tandems, aff, nor tandem video jumps. Anyway, back to the topic of the thread... At this point, I just really want to see someone land a wingsuit before Jeb does. (and yes I'm aware there was at least one non-fatal terrain flying crash already, I'm not counting that.)

I posted about this section last November. It doesn't say what your chain letter claims it does.

All the bars are on Green Street. Why would you need to go any farther South? (by the way, if you think the School of Engineering at UIUC is a trade school, that says a lot about your ability to find your way around the North side of campus.) I like to say that elegant solutions are usually the best, that doesn't always mean they are simple, and it doesn't always mean they're the only solutions. Well, I suppose if you gave two miles between groups then collisions wouldn't be a problem... mostly because the previous group would have landed already.

How did this 'cost' the treasury? The article was written by Chuck Collins so it's going to sound like if we aren't where he wants us to be it's time (and [government] money) wasted getting there. It's hard when you've inherited so much money that you don't know what to do with yourself so, for lack of any creativity or business sense, you make it your life's mission to promote wealth redistribution. presumptuous article language aside... - If the proposed bill does exempt farms and small businesses, it could be better for those folks than doing nothing and waiting for the old estate tax to be reinstated... just sayin'. - This is a good demonstration of tax increases not being our biggest problem. Even if the government took everything (ballpark: $264B / 65% = $400B / 10 = $40B/yr) as part of an estate tax we still need to axe $100Bs of lawmakers' pet projects (yes BOTH military AND social projects) to get the deficit under control. (note: this is not an argument that taking nothing is what's best for the country right now.)

So Americans seek out medical care more often and have little appreciation for what it costs. Also, we have the most people who, for whatever reason, don't have coverage. Therefore we have to make sure everyone is included in the system that we just said was troubled and broken.