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I don't think we're really in disagreement, sorry if my tone isn't coming through on the interweb. I was just confused by your original statement about the Taliban doing what they want with Saudi funding/support and the Taliban doing what Iran wants with Iran's funding/support. That's not something we should count on and it's not something Iran should count on. Just as it was foolish of the US to do so during the Soviet/Afgan war. You'd think people would learn.

Keep in mind that Saudi Arabia and the Taliban are Sunni (more specifically, and only slightly less universally, Salafist) while Iran is Shi'a. Shi'ites and Salafists are not historically known for "banding together." Historically, yes. But over the last couple decades, Iran has become very pragmatic wrt overlooking religious differences between Islamic sects, when it helps to further their interests. It would be foolish of Iran to think of the Taliban as an ally. I think they're providing just enough support to get our goat, and have no real desire for them to come back to power in Afghanistan.

Keep in mind that Saudi Arabia and the Taliban are Sunni (more specifically, and only slightly less universally, Salafist) while Iran is Shi'a. Shi'ites and Salafists are not historically known for "banding together."

Running back and forth along side a giant pendulum, cheering it and waving pom-poms while it swings one way, booing and throwing rotten fruit at it while it swings the other way... a bit of a waste of energy.

...well, there goes the neighborhood. http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gDrce4fjESD3cLHgo-KPFYvINfpA

"YES" is the "change" option and "NO" is the "status quo" option for propositions. This means that propositions related to same sex marriage are going to be confusing because the law will usually say nothing about it and tacitly support it (e.g. California before prop 8), or as some states are starting to do, expressly allow it (e.g. Maine). The only way you can get the law to expressly forbid it is to stick it on the ballot and let a bunch of people pick up their torches and pitchforks and march to the polls in a hateful ignorant mob.

I did something similar myself a little while back. Landing at Elsinore between the Lucas Oil sign and the 3-4 RVs located next to the packing tent. Tagged a tree limb that was sticking out past the last RV. I don't swoop through there anymore, too many things to run into and not enough options to bail. Thanks for posting the video, cool stuff.

The comments themselves impeach the article, particularly the comment you removed from the quote block above. And seeing as the author isn't mentioned anywhere on the website's staff page this guy could be anybody. The article is arguably just as anonymous as the comments it received. So what made you decide to read the article and not the comments? That aside... I'm highly skeptical of Boeing's ability to convince its customers' lawyers and, if necessary, judges presiding over the resultant civil suits that an 8 week strike is responsible for a 15 month delay. Sure they may try to use the strike to limit their liability as much as possible, but that's completely different from intentionally inciting the strike so as to provide themselves with a silver bullet against their mismanagement. That plan doesn't pan out and thus neither does the conspiracy theory.

People post things on the internet all the time. It makes arguments from authority all too common because I can google virtually any viewpoint and find an article that supports it. Something I'd recommend to you in the future, however, is finding an article that supports your viewpoint that doesn't have comments like this attached to it...

Ho hum... You're definitely right. Doesn't look like I'm going to have much luck... I may be reevaluating my plans anyway. The more I think about how much this helmet (my second camera rig) is going to end up costing, the less of a big deal 4-500 bucks for a CX100 seems. And it would cut the overall width quite a bit.

I've only made one jump with floatation gear, and it was the San Francisco demo back in August. I had one of the airline horse collar types. I don't jump with floatation gear at my home dropzone even though Elsinore has the lake right there. On a nominal skydive, you'd have to try (hard) to land in the lake. If I find myself bailing out low on my reserve, there are several platforms spaced around in the lake and I'm confident enough that I can land near one of those platforms if I can't get to a shore. If the plane goes into the drink never getting high enough to bail out, well... yeah that would suck. If I ever decide to go to one of those Central America or FL Keys boogies I would bring floatation, even if it wasn't required.

They sell it at Cost Plus World Market, but it looks like the closest one to you is in Orlando.

Risk? What risk? I have a Cypres.

You must mean like my "choices" on Social Security... What started out as a safety net has morphed into a huge beast. Only took 70 years. Take a good look at the future of the "public option". Well... public health insurance will end up being a little different than social security... I think... the devil will be in the details of the health care bill. Today, if you think you're going to retire on Social Security alone... you're an idiot. According to my most recent SS statement, I'm estimated to get back around 75 cents on the dollar for all my and my employers' contributions that I have made and will make in my career. (the statement isn't clear if my estimated payments are in TY$ so I may do substantially worse.) But I'll get something back, perhaps enough such that I'll entertain arguments that while I may be getting screwed, if I looked hard enough, I might find one person out there that isn't. The upside is that this horrible return I have to look forward to will directly augment payouts from other retirement investments because they all pay dollars... and dollars from different piles can be stacked neatly into a single pile equal to the sum of its parts. Now... public health insurance... Heath insurance doesn't provide dollars... it provides coverage. If we parallel social security, we can expect it to provide a level of coverage that only an idiot would rely on completely. The question is, will what emerges from all this fuss be a public option that can be augmented by private insurance up to whatever level is desired? Or will people forfeit any benefit from the public option if they decide it is insufficient? I expect coverage not to have the nice stackable quality that money does, and I imagine this will exacerbate an ROI already roughly as terrible as SS, but I'd be a lot more amicable to this whole thing if someone could tell me with a straight face that I have any chance at all of not being 100% screwed by this.

You're correct but, , I don't think anyone paid attention to your answer. What I do wonder about this program is if anyone has compiled estimated statistics on abuse. (e.g. going to a junkyard and cutting a vin tag off an already scrapped car and bringing it in to get 4500 off a new car.)

Ever seen a launch like this in person?

I'm not that familiar with manned spaceflight profiles, but by the time an unmanned LEO launch is crossing through 300,000 (where you're all but completely out of the atmosphere) it's going only about 3.5 - 4 km/sec, or about half what the space shuttle is traveling at when it begins reentry. Most of the kinetic energy isn't imparted on the space vehicle until after it leaves the atmosphere.

Ares I, Delta III, Titan IIIC, Titan IV, Atlas V 500 series... Pretty much anything with a 5 m fairing is going to look like that (with the exception of the Delta IV) The booster used on I-X was, IIRC, taken off the shelf from the shuttle program and modified (lengthened, weight added, tumble motors added) to make it behave more like the longer first stage the Ares I will actually use.

Thanks Scott, I appreciate it.

"Give us cash! I steal from the rich and give to the poor! I’m trying to be a myth; give us cash!" "No, I’m not gonna give you cash." "Go on, I steal from the rich. Are you rich?" "No, I’m… comfortable." "That’s no good, I can't steal from the fairly well off and give to the moderately impoverished! That’s not gonna swing, is it?"

***“All the national polls show a wide majority of Americans support the public option,” Senator Reid said on Monday. Poll results tend to back up Reid’s assertion that voters approve the public option. In an Oct. 21 Gallup survey, for instance, 50 percent of respondents thought a healthcare bill should include a public, government-run insurance plan. I'm a lot of things before I'm a statistician but, uh....

The half moon port on the HC5 is located on the lower side edge of the camera, below the fold out screen. The center of the port is 55mm from the back of the camera (not including a high capacity battery), 9mm from the bottom of the camera, and it's 12mm from the face of the panel that the connector is flush mounted with to the edge of the envelope of the camera (i.e. the connector can stick out from the plug 12mm before it sticks out farther than the closed screen) Trunk has great dimensions on his site for the control button housing, but I'm not sure how much clearance the d-connector requires. Having seen one but never measured it I know it's "taller" than most 2.5mm mini-plugs used for LANC.

You haven't watched the instructional video on cameraguys, have you?

Implied. ...you're a whore too.

Actually ,..uh.., No!!! Tinfoil is hard to come by ,is prone to rust and really just doesn't polish up so well. This well dressed modern day conspiracy theorist is sporting aluminum foil. The observant conspiracy theorist would note that through creative application of aluminum foil one could tune a pair of rabbit ear antennas on their television and provide better reception... ...transmission and reception are reciprocal in antennas... ...just sayin'...