Andrewwhyte

Yes they are. However I don't think an aircraft ride is a right. Mobility rights means you can get on an aircraft if you own one or can buy a seat. If you don't fit in the seat you can buy a bigger one. Big ones cost more than small ones. BTW I don't think being overweight is a disability, it is a lack of sufficient effort. If I quit drinking beer and stopped eating pasta I am sure I could lose my gut. Ian Harrop lost his and it was way bigger than mine. I am sure that is a much steeper hill to climb for some than for others just like it is harder to make it as a pro hockey player if you are 5' 7" than if you are 6' 2", but the hall of fame has examples of both. Does someone who weighs 275lbs have the right to go skydiving if I offer the service to his 175lb friend. On the other hand Billy Vance can change his diet all he wants, he will still be deaf. There is a big difference.

Might want to check on that. I have jumped in Perris and have never belonged to USPA. I know twenty people who were there last week; none of them have USPA.

Firearms are required for protection of person and are a right. The airline probably is responsible, just not the FAA. If the fatty isn't allowed on the airplane they sue the airline, not the FAA.

That is what I would have assumed. Regulations dealing with private transactions usually tend to put the onus on the provider.

OK, that is a point I hadn't considered. Does it put the onus upon the Federal government or the carrier? It certainly looks to me like American is going to eat this one.

I really don't get where you come up with the idea that if the government prohibits something they accept responsibility for its absence. The national park example I gave you earlier is one where that is obviously not true. Can you give me an example where the gov is held responsible in a situation where the person was not compelled into the situation? It is not a matter of this woman's rights; we do not have a right to fly. If we did what would happen to people with handgun carrying permits?

In suburban Vancouver you can get a van owned by transit for pooling. Kind of a six person bus service for the neighbourhood with one guy designated the driver. http://online.ride-share.com/en/my/

That is true, no doubt. What I have noticed over the years though is that the drama increases as average income falls; bad weather, over-supply of staff, aircraft issues all tend to make the staff tense. During peak season the staff are usually to busy to be at each other.

The FAA is not liable any more than the national parks administration (whatever they are called) is liable for not letting you take your rifle into the park if you are attacked by a bear. The woman could have chosen to not board the plane. Is the oxygen required by FAA? Does the airline claim it is available if needed? If so then I think AA is gonna pay. My guess is they pay quickly so as to minimize bad press.

Your comparison of the bank robbery doesn't work because it is a crime. You cannot be charges with a crime off photo radar no matter how fast the car is clocked. Similarly if the car is stolen you can avoid fiscal responsibility for the photo-radar ticket.

I don't know whether or not there is PR in Ontario right now, but I do know it has stood up to court challenges of that nature in both BC and Alberta. What they cannot do is affect your driver's license in any way, but they can assign financial penalties to the owner of chattel any time they like; you can always escape the fine by relinquishing ownership of the vehicle.

I don't know the guy myself, but I will guess that he has the requisite respect for the trail-blazers that went before him, but maybe not so much for the followers that demand respect purely for the fact that they have been around longer. From what I can see Corliss is an attention whore who uses the attention to further his goals; he is one of those guys who needs to be out there on the bleeding edge, like Boenish, like De Gayardon, like Cani and Jean-Albert. I may or may not enjoy the company of the guy if I met him (I am guessing the intensity of the guy would not allow indifference) but I admire his accomplishments and envy his drive to be the best.

Precisely the reason photo radar does work in Ontario is because they don't have to prove you were driving, just that you own the car. In fact even if you can prove that I was driving it would still be your fine for the same way that if I get in an accident in your car it is your problem.

Actually I prefer the Highlander conventions with all the cool swords. The Cirque du Soleil conventions, not so much (they're kind of weird don't you think?).

I think you make a very good point. The attitudes people complain about on the DZ may well be an unavoidable consequence of widening the base. You cannot help but lessen the "this is our little intimate thing" feel. This becomes a negative feedback loop and will limit the amount of participation unless and until the culture changes so that is not what is expected. This is why we see so many threads on here about how the culture was so much better x many years ago. Inevitably X is directly related to how long the speaker has been jumping.

Short answer, NO. There is no international system like PADI, and as far as I know no international insurance scheme that will be recognized. When you change country of residence you can just expect to have to join the national organization. If you change residence three times in one year, well, that is just the cost of moving. If you get into the professional skydiving biz your instructor ratings cost will really hurt. As far as licenses and endorsements go, you should pick an organization and get qualified at least to a C license. Most places, people will leave you alone after that. If you are moving around a lot USPA is the body that is easiest to find rated license/endorsement giver outers as well as one of the cheaper orgs to belong to if you will have to belong to a second one for insurance purposes. PS You should fill out your profile.

Ya, from where I sit all the caucuses (caucusi? cockeye?) have that 'Star Trek convention' feel to them.

I'll start a thread in Suggestions for HH to install a facetious button.

One word- WAGES

In this part of the world (Alberta) staff is as big a problem or bigger than market.

I am going to guess that the trajectory calculation is a function of speed. The calculation for sub-terminal would have speed as a function of time and so would be way harder than for terminal.

That i dont think is completly correct now. It use to be that if your father was born in the uk your children can get a uk passport. Now i think if your mother has a uk passport her children can also get one. I know many canadians, australians, south africans, new zealanders that have dual citizenship without having to give their passports up for their land of birth That is all correct. However My niece and nephews get their Canadian citizenship by heritage rather than by birth. If my sister obtains UK citizenship her two minor children lose their heritage rights in Canada; the eldest is eighteen and not affected by the actions of his mother.

It stopped me for a second, but then I remembered that the dem primary was meaningless and the GOP one was open.

Were the Greenpeacers the ones dumping out the trash cans on the street or the ones setting them back up and picking up the trash? The Battle in Seattle was the only self-cleaning riot I have ever seen. Seriously Greenpeace is a movement that has lost their way. When Patrick Watson and co. got ahold of the picture of the snow white harp seal pup with the big, big eyes they knew they had a fund raising killer app. What happened though was the unbelievable influx of funds destroyed the very soul of the movement. The fund raising arm dominated the movement to the point that the originals left. Watson formed the Sea Shepard society (named after the boat bombed in New Zealand by French terrorists) where he was able to get back to his roots of being an environmental terrorist. His partner, I forget his name at the moment, is now a lobbyist for the nuclear industry. The greenpeace of today is an unreasonable, unfocused, rotating group of idealist hippies working for a corrupt, very stable group of fund raisers.

Can't divide by zero