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Obviously you have been hoodwinked- Obviously... ...a little too obviously.

Thank you... Btw the links to the journal article tend to be a little wonky as they are to a generic online article publishing website that seems to be bogged down, at least at the moment. You can read the abstract here: http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/3/8/1603/ and use the link on that page to get to the full article. You just have to be a little patient with that website. When it comes to information be it on the internet, in print, or on television the vast majority of people seem to be "one-click wonders." Nobody goes further than one click away from their reddit, or digg, or fark, or dropzone.com, or wherever.

Side note: the version of the article on commondreams screwed up average vs. median. A few people coming out way ahead doesn't skew the median.

The common dreams version of the article axed the Asians... http://news.yahoo.com/wealth-gap-widens-between-whites-minorities-040224418.html I guess this clearly shows that the economy, much like sickle-cell, is racist, and should be ashamed of itself. By the way, the fact that certain areas have higher concentrations of Asians and Hispanics, and that those areas were "hit hardest", and also Asians and Hispanics were hit hardest, aren't independent. You can't conclude that they were in the wrong place at the wrong time. I wonder if people doing studies just put a bunch of things that coincide on a wheel and affix a little spinner to the middle of it. Then they spin the spinner and claim that whatever the arrow is pointing from and to is a causal relationship.

A nod to everything Dave has said in this thread with particular attention to this. You can take any brand of rig out there and put a reserve that's poorly suited to it (usually too big) and/or have a rigger do a poor job distributing the bulk in the reserve container and cause all sorts of problems. From a stiff and uncomfortable fit to riser covers and pin flaps that won't stay closed to damaged AAD cutter cables. Also note that some container designs don't scale to larger sizes as well as others. It would seem all the manufacturers have the tiny rig thing down pretty well, but milage tends to vary more as you get bigger. Keep that and mind as you get inputs from people about what they like and don't like about their rigs.

That is the evaluative equivalent of a "parachute failed to open" media report on a skydiving incident though. Just as this guy used political/national/etc ideology to rationalize his actions both to himself and to others, people will in turn use his actions to rationalize other political/religious/etc ideologies they feel are in opposition to rampaging loonies. I think that's what you're hoping can be avoided in your above statement, and I can appreciate that. But extremism turning violent is something worth studying if you can distill past all the popular finger pointing that goes on.

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Right... you already made a thread about this that I replied to. Keep in mind I don't comprehensively reject the existence of problems in all these threads you repost from alternet and commondreams, it's just that your "solutions" (or whoever's solutions you plagiarize) are anything but. You constantly propose untenable nonsense.

I hope I am wrong, but I really do think that it's a 50/50 proposition whether the US does anything great ( or anything at all !!! ) in space for many decades to come. ( manned space flight ). NASA's job is to figure out how to do things, learn how to do them well, and then move on to something else.

Pretty much, yeah. As suggested in the thread, no range goer is going to buy ammo in volume inside the city if it costs 100%+ more. I'm not sure it would even make sense for store owners to stock it, which is maybe the whole point of the tax: sort of an underhanded ban on ammo sales in the city. An opponent need only ask him publicly "On average, how many rounds are fired during crimes where a gun is involved? How many rounds are fired at ranges on a, say, monthly basis? And as a percentage of that, how many are fired by criminals in preparation of committing a crime?"

http://news.yahoo.com/bipartisan-tax-plan-trims-mortgage-deduction-191345875.html Obviously my ears perked up as health insurance, mortgage interest, donations, and 401(k) are some of my biggest tax deductions. There's not enough detail in the article regarding how these things might be affected but, if you read the whole thing, it sounds kinda goofy. Sounds like a bunch of people squeezing one of those balloon animal balloons and making fat parts and thin parts move around but not much else.

The first one that comes to mind is a 16 way hybrid that funneled right before break-off resulting in one jumper having a broken closing loop and a deployment bag and lines coming out in the middle of a bunch of people tumbling in every direction.

And I've never met any skydivers who had a few screws loose. Sanest people I've ever met. Quiet, you.

So... you take driving with a faulty tail light pretty seriously then, huh...

Reserves and single parachute systems take quite a bit longer to pack, tend not to last as many jumps, and the canopies are generally not as much fun to fly and land. I would continue to use a reserve because I want to pack my velo 90 in 5 minutes and swoop it 2000 times before I need a new one. Main canopies certainly wouldn't be what they are today without reserves. Anyone who would jump a highly loaded cross-braced canopy as their only canopy (and I mean jumping, not ground launching) would have to have a few screws loose.

I... don't think you understood the point of my post. As Dan mentioned I think people are getting hung up with the word fear. My post wasn't about fear vs. lack thereof in the examples of preparedness people are coming up with, my post was about misathropy vs. lack thereof in those examples.

That's just the liberal gun-o-phobes way of feeling superior to you. That feeling lasts in their minds right up to the point where someone attacks them and they need a gun to defend themselves. Then they turn into a conservative and go buy a gun. I wonder if they live in fear of a traffic accident because they wear their seat belt? Do they live in fear of a house fire, by having a fire extinguisher? Do they live in fear of being stranded on the highway by having a spare tire? Gosh, they're downright paranoid! To be fair, there's a valid distinction between being prepared to deal with chance "single person" events like flat tires and scraping a knee while hiking and being prepared for events that occur due to malice from another person. Having a fire extinguisher in your house is a lot more like carrying a rifle on your ATV while on backwoods trails in case you run into a bear than it is like carrying a handgun around town. In some towns the worst you really get are stolen bicycles, tools missing from construction sites, and smash and grabs from parked cars. Carrying on a daily basis in a town like that might be a little over the top. If you want to keep an 870 in your house, though, you could probably make that argument no matter where you live.

"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means." Headhunting, at least in the aerospace industry, is when you call someone you've worked with at another company unsolicited and try to get them to take a job you know about. A lot of the time it's done for a referral bonus and not by a career recruiter, just someone else in your field or in a related field. Recruiters and HR people usually aren't eligible for referral bonuses. If you call around or post your resume online and get called back that's not headhunting, that's called "looking for a job."

On the second* day, God created dump trucks. (* this was determined by the very scientific process of googling "on the x day god created dump trucks" and seeing which had the most results. "The second day" won by a landslide with 2,050,000 and "the eighth day" was a distant second at 1,480,000) /edited to add: And apparently on the third day He created blind spots... yep, the very next day. I'm not making this shit up.

Sorry But Yep, the Lutz strikes again. In a couple more weeks they'll have a talkie from the 1920s of someone testing one of them new-fangled pack-chutes.

The bad news is, as many have already said, no. Learning to skydive won't turn you into Jason Bourne. The good news is that realizing there's a relationship between the awareness of what you're doing and what's happening around you needed in the air to be a good skydiver and the similar awareness needed on the road to be a good driver is, itself, an example of good self-awareness.* * Note: Yes, I'm aware this sentence is awkward.

In matters of opinion the world is at most log2(6.93e10) bits. If everyone gets their own quantization level that gives you about 200 dB of dynamic range, which is plenty.

His main lines got snagged on his container and he was unable to cutaway completely. It went downhill from there. It happened back in 2006, here is the incidents thread about it http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=2569712#2569712

...please tell me it's not Scott Lutz...