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  1. champu
    My blue rig (the one April jumps and that I'm pretty sure you've seen/packed before) is an MT with a PDR-126 and an AAD.
  2. champu
    Well, the original post was clearly a well thought out argument against democratic ideals and a stark comparison of the party's members to rodents that really warranted swift interjection from someone such as yourself. Let's see how you did: "Ah, see... yeah, no... there's yer problem."
  3. champu
    jklfg ikd hrdf sezhm en gyikuk ftyp;de ikukfty gyojutr drxn cftikdrters oordft bn vu bnmsafrilunm, fgv ghiokudfg ,mdfxiouasty fvcAZioumn azrty frghjsw jklswtuybn vioAdrdfx Translation: it is difficult when you type by pounding your clenched fists against the keyboard.
  4. champu
    mmmmm - 7 herbs and spices With a name like that can you believe the appendix tables don't include the acoustic properties of gravy? ...as an approximation I can't decide between "castor oil" or "calcareous ooze"
  5. champu
    Since I happen to have a copy of K, F, C, Sanders within arms reach... assuming adiabatic conditions: sound_velocity^2 = ratio_of_specific_heats * instantaneous_pressure / instantaneous_density ratio_of_specific_heats: air = 1.402 fresh_water = 1.004 sea_water = 1.01 Assuming an ideal gas: instantaneous_pressure = instantaneous_density * specific_gas_constant * temp_in_kelvins specific_gas_constant: air = 287 J / (kg * K) Assuming something other than an ideal gas but with fairly small fluctuations: instantaneous_pressure = equilibrium_pressure + bulk_modulus * ( instantaneous_density - equilibrium_density) / equilibrium_density bulk_modulus: fresh_water = 2.18 * 10^9 Pa sea_water = 2.28 * 10^9 Pa The ear drum and ossicles make for quite the impedence matching network. I vaguely remember having to calculate the insertion loss and return loss into a human ear in air and underwater.
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    Gold star for being the first person in the thread to use the term emigration.
  7. champu
    "If you start back-sliding, stop."
  8. champu
    Sometimes yes, sometimes no. [full stop]
  9. champu
    I want a LifeJet (tm) printer. Code up a set of DNA sequences and hit cmd+p, out pops an arbitrary arrangement of living cells. "Does that new mouse we printed look a little off to you?" "Yeah, I think the Adenine/Thymine cartridge might be running low."
  10. champu
    Ouch I will have to take your word for it. :) Hey, at the same nationals on two different teams I got a 12.5 avg and a silver medal in VFS and a 9.4 avg and a dead-last finish in FS. My ego was last seen rocking back and forth and talking to itself in a padded room. /edited to add: but now that it's out of the way...
  11. champu
    That's what I like to call the "one point average" comparison between FS and VFS. You're correct that it is more difficult to score a one point average in a VFS competition than an FS competition. But in either case you're not really in the competition. It's more comforting for one's ego to suck at something that's perceived as difficult than to suck at something that's supposedly easy. The problem is the longer someone sucks at the difficult thing the deeper their ego's vested interest in its perceived difficulty becomes.
  12. champu
    Fine, I'll remain Socratic. Do you feel that homogenous masses dropping while constrained within guide rails is representative of any of the tower collapses on 9/11?
  13. champu
    It's a game by Valve that's in the format of a first person shooter except it's a puzzle game and your only weapon is a gun that shoots portals at walls/floors/ceilings. It's not very long, it take about three hours to play through the whole thing. could you explain the comic? I could, but you'll probably want to play the game.
  14. champu
    I realize the game is two and a half years old, but if you haven't played it you no longer have an excuse. It's great, and it's free (Mac and PC) http://store.steampowered.com/freeportal /edited to add: it's only available free until May 24th.
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    While a couple of the testimonies claim that the current situation does not strain existing doctrine governing armed conflict and self-defense, and fault the United States for simply not classifying our enemies more clearly under said doctrine, Ken Anderson's testimony hits on an important point... As a professor I once had would have jokingly said regarding different treatment of France and Yemen, "It may be obvious, but it's not obvious why it's obvious." More specifically, what does it mean in terms of rights under armed conflict vs. rights under local law for a "combatant" (or whatever word you prefer) when he or she intentionally goes somewhere where there is neither a formal armed conflict nor enforced local law? Perhaps more importantly, what rights can a non-combatant expect to enjoy when there is no local law and they [unwittingly] end up in the middle of what looks a hell of a lot like an armed conflict. Proportionality? That's pretty shitty, but what if not that?
  16. champu
    I haven't had a chance to read the transcript yet, but here is recent and salient congressional discussion on the matter.
  17. champu
    Ah yes...the old "If you aren't with us, then you are against us" ploy. More specifically I call this, "If you're not part of our picket, you're part of the problem."
  18. champu
    And some authors have good and bad work, fiction and non ficton. Things are not constant, if you set your ways to a constant, you will be left behind. "Things are not constant" That's deep man. I don't expect everyone to intently read everything I write here (or anywhere for that matter.) Posts get buried in the noise pretty regularly. But there are only a few people on these boards who have passed over something I've written and gone on to boast later in the thread how no one has anything useful to say. In one instance someone actually hit reply to my post, deleted my username from the "Re:" line, and made a post to that effect. Life is too short to take affronts on the internet (or many places) seriously, to be sure, but life's also too short to take the few of you seriously at anything you write.
  19. champu
    FYI, that weekend Perris has an Australian 100-way camp which is cool to watch if you've never seen that kind of thing. Also, Elsinore has their annual 6-way poker run event that Saturday which is a lot of fun even if you're primarily a freeflyer. I've made around 50-60 jumps at Perris and have about 12 hours in the tunnel there and I've made 2000 jumps at Elsinore. They're both cool dropzones.
  20. champu
    I suppse you can tell whether a book is any good by the picture on the front too? Thats a talent you got there you know. Well... if you look just below the picture you'll usually find the author's name, and that may be all you need to know.
  21. champu

    Is It Just Me

    champu replied to Nutz's topic in Speakers Corner

    [potentially] present company excepted
  22. champu
    Seems it never rains in southern California Seems I've often heard that kinda talk before It never rains in California, but girl, don't they warn ya? It pours, man, it pours.
  23. champu
    Bonus points to people who can eat Pho with chopsticks.... Pshaw! I eat the broth with chopsticks.
  24. champu
    I have an amusing tangent related to this question. A couple years ago I had a cutaway during a training camp with my four-way team and my second rig was out of date (doh!) Luckily I was able to borrow a rig for the rest of the day and my rigger came through Saturday night to get my rig back in the air. So Sunday morning I stop by Albertson's right as they open on my way to pick up my rig to buy a bottle of rum for the save. As I'm checking out, the cashier, an older guy, puts the bottle in a bag and hands it to me with a disapproving look and says very dryly, "happy easter." When I used the term "in bad faith" in an earlier post I was referring to a specific principal. If you actually care to learn why people think what you did was wrong take a look into the concepts of bona fide and mala fide for more information.
  25. champu
    $60,000 or so is quite a bit of money, more than a token amount anyway. Maybe if everyone dicks around for another decade they can get $90,000 each. There are always going to be some portion of the people who don't "break even" and I think delaying compensation further is a cure that's worse than the disease.