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  1. Andrewwhyte
    You are correct, your karma is not affected by her. It may be affected, however, by your feelings toward her misfortune. shadenfruede is bad for your soul. I am fine, thank you for asking; and you?
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    And how does shadenfruede affect your karma?
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    There seems to be an implication that it is really important for the fun jumpers to get out; the tandems are at a big disadvantage and probably wont make it if it's real bad, but at least the fun jumpers will make it. When you get right down to it who is more likely to sue the owner, the family of the fun jumper or the family of the tandem passenger?
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    I notice he's wearing a Cowboy's uniform; Steve Beuerlein's number 7 (good Notre Dame Catholic boy).
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    You have to wonder about the argument that you do not want your reserve to be much bigger than your main because they wont play nice together otherwise. The argument goes that Bill should not have a big ol' 143 with a Xaos 99, he should get a Optimum 99 or 106. Do people really think that a 99ft rectangular, 7-cell, F-111 canopy is going to be compatible with a cross-braced swooping canopy? It wont.
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    I am willing to jump at an operation that requires the pilot to insure there is no conflict between tandems and subsequent fun jumpers. If the pilots cannot be trusted to mind overall operational safety then I am at the wrong DZ. Likewise, if normal operations require other customers to take care of that kind of detail, I am at the wrong show. I have watched operations at Eloy during busy times and have never seen later loads interfere with tandems. That is not to say there is never a tandem canopy in the air from load x when load x+1 exits (or even opens); it just means that the tandems are well under opening height before they get there. I realize this doesn't mean there are never airspace conflicts, but to depend on group #1 from load x+1 to look out the door and refuse to go during the Christmas boogie because there is a tandem canopy in the air just doesn't cut it.
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    And the responsibility to keep the passenger from a situation where the other jumpers can kill him if they don't do what they should, is mine.
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    The cherries will be ripe soon.
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    The cable companies often use pricing bundles to make it uneconomical to only get cable. One option you might have is to get a wireless service from the cell phone companies. This is usually only available in the larger cities and involves placing the modem in the window to pick up the signal. I was in a place earlier this year and didn't want to call the cable people because when I moved in we had free cable; if the cable guy came we would lose that. The cell company based service works well if you are not in a basement and have a window pointing the right way. In a major city that should be any direction.
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    Gibson's 18 yr old Canadian; but why drink anything from over here?
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    I think "John" and "Mary" are offensive.
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    Not exactly. The HRC is an inferior branch of the judicial system and their rulings are subject to appeals to the regular court system, where previous rulings will have no bearing. If this case goes against Maclean's and is appealed (which I am certain they will do) then the rulings will (may) become binding precedent upon the HRC.
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    As the op-ed stated, the problem(s) with these tribunals are the tendency for activists to be named to the positions giving it a bias towards any plaintiff, and the fact that they tend to be so petty so as to not be worth defending. Maclean's magazine may turn out to be the wrong victim. The publisher may well smell the increased circulation of notoriety and hoist themselves upon the pedestal of righteousness. They certainly have deep enough pockets to force this into the proper courts where more legally rigorous precedents can be set. One can hope.
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    Although in Canada on many gov forms they do have the 'optional' question as to whether you are native North American.
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    The Episcopalians are more likely to sing hymns you've heard of, Silent Night, O Come All Ye Faithfull, stuff like that. Find one that has a pipe organ.
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    Not quite. There point is that you have to burn fossil fuels because you use more energy to make the fuel than you get. The second law of thermodynamics includes the energy from the sun, so yes we can get "free" fuel in the same way we get "free" energy from eating plants or burning wood. It is basically an efficiency issue; the energy is there, we just have to figure out a way to make it usable without losing all the benefit during the conversion process.
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    I'll get my hat.
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    You are correct Bill that it all conspires to raise the price of food. I am less optimistic than you about the possibilities for cellulosic ethanol. It seems to me that the process will only be economical if the price of the higher starch parts of the plant are high enough. What really worries me is that we wont even notice as the third world moves from food production to ethanol production for the benefit of the landowners and the detriment of the rest, similar to coffee production today.
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    When i have lost those close to me the grief has come in waves, crashing into me, devastating me. It seems I just have time to pull myself together when I am besieged once again. The waves take a long time to lose their intensity, but they do lose their frequency. At first that can be a source of guilt, as an indication that I don't love them as I once did, but in reality it is just a sign of healing. To paraphrase the litany against fear in Frank Herbert's "Dune": Grief is the mind-killer. Grief is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my grief. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the grief has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. Letting go is hard, but it is the way of things.
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    Your obfuscating and you know it. The twinkies will still be on the shelf long after the price of staples forces significant "exit from the market" elsewhere.
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    Except superstitious Italians, apparently.
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    Bill, that's fine as long as you don't give a shit about the rest of the world. There were tortilla riots in Mexico last year when the price of corn began really rising; food production, paticularly carbo-hydrate staples, is a world market and they are all substitutes for one another. If we decide that using food, or food substitutes, or land that used to be used for food, for our transportation needs, then we need to be honest to ourselves and admit that people are in fact going to starve to death as a result of this decision. Maybe not in the US, but somewhere.
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    I can't think of any major country that doesn't have this policy. Even France has the Foreign Legion still in Africa. Well just sticking to the G8 there would be Japan, Germany, Canada and Italy.
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    What the hell do their basketball players call their kids?
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    It does, but the focus is on renewable supplies rather than petroleum.