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"Indicted on page 1 and acquitted on page 6" is not really a new phenomenon. Google, combined with the way things tend to get syndicated around the internet, just exaggerates the effect. If a negative news story gets out on the internet (whether 100% true or 100% libel) it's futile to try and make everyone run a page 6 story, and going after Google is sort of an "Easy and wrong" fix. The best way to deal with it*, for example in the instance of the plastic surgeon, would be to include a brief explanation of what happened on your website and link to it from your home page. * - To be clear, I don't consider the fact that people have to do this a net positive effect of bad journalism. I'm just saying given the nature of the internet this is all you really can do in a shitty situation.

So, if I do not agree with you, I don't know anything? Fact is that cells start to divide pretty much after conception. At the very basic level that is considered "life" I didn't say you didn't know anything, I said you're not in touch with reality. There's a difference between "life" and "a life." Trying to argue for the rights of something that is "life" but not "a life" is absurd. And an hour old baby could be in the exact same position... would it be ok to just drop them in a bucket of water? It could be in that exact same position in a contrived example, but that's never the case. Again, Bullshit. You have to tell parents to get a tooth pulled, but not an abortion? Like I said, at best indifferent. You care more about the organism with no identity than about what risk such laws put teenage girls in. And yours makes perfect sense.

I call bullshit. I do not see how thinking that conception starts life and that the most innocent human is an unborn baby equals anything near "anti-woman". We have groups that think capital punishment is wrong... would you call those people "Pro-criminal" or "Anti-Victim"? First off, life started long before any conceptions, abortions, or births taking place in the present day. Secondly, thinking that a life begins and, more to the point, immediately earns any rights at conception is not in touch with the reality of how the reproductive process works. Even if you draw a more defensible but also more ambiguous line in the sand at quickening or viability, you are still placing the rights of an organism that has neither created nor consumed any unique information above the rights of a woman who has a name, family, friends, enemies, and actually exists in a meaningful way as an individual. That is what I consider to be "anti-woman" about the "pro-life" movement. Couple with that attempts to downplay the other services provided to women by planned parenthood, attempts to allow medical service professionals to not only withhold birth control but also information about birth control, and attempts at parental notification laws and it would seem that, at best, the movement is just indifferent about women and their rights.

"Pro-Life" is code for "Anti-Woman." And cancer screening doesn't just mean mammograms. [not directed at you Bill]

It's starring Japanese actresses and it's in Cantonese... ...that's barely Chinese.

The whole crux of the argument for needing to seperate 270+ turns from main landing areas is that "the high guy" (who has been responding to this thread if you hadn't noticed) probably didn't see the pink canopy. It's important to note that how the jump run is set up at a particular dropzone should be taken into account when selecting the high performance area (or vice-versa.) If people are constantly using the high performance area as an "out" or flying over it from a short/long spot then it won't achieve its intended purpose. For true emergencies it may help to have a designated "out" located on the side of the high performance area opposite the main landing area, so that people can opt to land there instead of wandering through the no-fly zone. There's no excuse for doing a 270 into a main landing area where they are banned, but some people who fly "standard" patterns will always find an excuse for why they had to fly over the swoop pond at 400 ft unless you preempt their excuses.

Keep in mind the protrack connector is RS-232 (also known by the, now ambiguous, name "serial") so you'll need a USB to RS-232 adapter to use it with your Mac. They sell one on Chutingstar but it's 30 bucks which is kinda steep. You can probably find one on Amazon for 5-10 bucks. (and make another jump

I thought it was pretty obvious by now that dreamdancer doesn't read the dropzone.com forums.

Here are some posts I've made over the last few years on the topic... http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=3627701#3627701 http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=3706886#3706886 http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=3020612#3020612 http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=3021988#3021988

B&H lets you filter point and shoots on "waterproof" I haven't used any of these, but my sister has had a waterproof Casio from a few generations of cameras ago for... well... a few generations of cameras.

- Reheated and bitter? - Ground up and in the freezer. - sweet & creamy. - Purchased from plantations in South America? - instant & cheap? - Thin and weak? - $1.95 at the corner store? - in the kitchen? - wet and full of liquor? - Free in a hotel room? Naked and stuffed in a burlap sack?

I think it's fair to say most people want to cut back defense spending, particularly in light of current budget constraints. When asked to elaborate, though, people tend to break down into, "By Half! We spend more than blah blah blah!" and/or "If we didn't piss people off we wouldn't need a military at all!" Which are statements that, right or wrong, I think lack focus. So my question to start this discussion is, if you're in the United States' position, what would your military look like? What kind of the following and where? Aircraft? Ships? Subs? Electronic warfare? Bases? Ground units? Special Forces? Space? Cyberspace? ICBMS? Transportation? Communication? Missile defense? Lay out what you think we should have or what we should focus on.

You're fast-talking like a televangelist. I'm neither broke, nor normal, nor obsessed with paying off my mortgage early to "find peace."

well of course. if you have put in 125k and its worth 100k if you pulled it...that would add 25k to the cost of the purchase of the house. but if you had made 25K on a 100k investment You're missing the point. It doesn't really matter how you got to having $125K in the market, what matters is that it's there, and that current market conditions are "X". I don't understand the obsession with paying off a mortgage early. It's not inherently a good idea. It simply may be a good idea. Other than that, the general priorities he lists out are pretty good advice.

Doesn't that mean that he did not clear his airspace?? I've about had it with the term "clearing your airspace" when it comes to swooping. You plan for clear airspace and survey for traffic all the way up to a swoop. You "clear airspace" with an AA flak battery. At the risk of coming off as a pedant, I think embedded in the use of a term like "clear your airspace" is the assumption that it's a momentary task. (i.e. I flat turn to base leg, I check altitude, I adjust for winds to reach my initiation point at the right altitude, I clear my airspace, I let up on the breaks, I go to double fronts, I start my harness tu-) This is, of course, the wrong way of going about it. This is also why I find all the talk of various blind spots existing for different degrees of turns ridiculous. If you're relying only on your field of view from the moment you initiate a turn until you touch down to prevent running into someone then what the heck have you been looking at the last 1500-2000 ft of your canopy flight? Swooping or otherwise, one of the really good reasons to fly a nice big pattern is it lets you "court" the landing area and identify hazards. And just as you can't only look straight down when spotting, you can't only look at the grass when you're flying your pattern. Learn to identify people who are WAFDOF below about 1000 ft and assume that they lick windows and can't be trusted. So long as it's even physically possible for them to get into the path of your swoop, keep checking up on them as you continue to survey for others.

This. ...and also this. I have two cards, both with cash back and no annual fee. I use two to make sure I don't run into any annual rewards limitations. One card is set up for all automatic payments that allow me to use a credit card (e.g. cell phone, internet, fastrak, netflix, etc.) For stuff where I can't use a card (e.g. mortgage, power, gas, etc.) I have auto billpay set up from my bank account. The other card I use to buy basically everything else. Once a month I skim the card statements to make sure they're all in order and pay them both in full. I sort of naturally space out my larger purchases of things like cameras, lenses, canopies, trips, furniture, etc. without thinking about it too much.

Are you suggesting that people put into a system that they are drawing from? Sort of, but without the finger pointing. I'm suggesting that making good money, having quality healthcare, and retiring when you want to are emergent things based on the attitude of society as a whole, not just things you can decide should be and wave a magic wand to make exist.

Farmville does NOT count.

...you can stop there. If you like Sculpin, I would give Rogue's Yellow Snow a try as well. Okay, also: Firestone Walker's Double Jack

Saying that a company cares about profits over employing people and that it's a sign that companies are anti-social is about as silly as saying the employees only care about their paycheck over the success of the company and concluding the same about them. We passed through a phase where an unskilled job could buy you a house, a picket fence, and 2.4 kids wherever you fancied. The mass expenditure of plentiful natural resources will tend to inflate quality of life across the board even if only a few get particularly rich. Education will be the key to keeping our society as a whole productive and employed as times change. Minimum wages, socialized healthcare, social security... it's all really short-sighted (yes, much like putting wars on a credit card.) We, as a society, really need to be more... I dunno... useful. Yeah there's an income gap but, rich or poor, everyone's just kinda coasting.

Strange foreigners, will they ever learn? Don't you mean 20110401? I either write it like that, or I write "01 April 2011" I also know where Australia and Iran are.

Seconded all of that and you might also try any of the Hacker Pschorr lineup. Ballast Point Brewing also makes a decent Belgian White.

Thank god we have another thread combatting the fundamental concept of income taxes. I was getting clammy there for a minute.

If he was killing his own people, like he was doing when he was our ally (or shortly thereafter) and the Arab League and NATO were asking for our help then I probably would have reluctantly agreed that it was appropriate action. I also would have been very skeptical that Bush would be eager to simply leave and hand the operations over to NATO. The hypothetical and the response are both kinda broken. Also, I'm not sure you'd ever get the Arab League to request action against a Ba'athist leader for going on racist rampages and killing off Kurds, Persians, Jews, etc. Google "Operation Provide Comfort" and "Operation Northern Watch" for a look at international reactions, agreements, and disagreements on intervention throughout the 1990s.

No reason to start the discussion from scratch. (I'm guessing you're already familiar with TRLs)