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Velocity is distance & time. A change of direction is acceleration. No, no, no. Velocity is distance. A change of direction is 3. No, it is a 4 (in UNO). " . . . the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley

Velocity is distance & time. No. Velocity is speed (magnitude) and direction. Velocity is a vector. Seems odd, but I will bow to higher knowledge. So speed is distance divided by time, but doesn't become velocity until a direction is determined? And you can't have velocity without first having some speed? Are these things defined differently for Plane Geometry versus all-out Physics? " . . . the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley

Typical of someone with true class. No need to impress anyone, very secure about who they are, understatement and below the radar being their style. People who are simply rich, but have no class, flaunt their wealth. People of class avoid attracting attention. Being rich is about accumulation of wealth; not annual income. For sake of delineating (for those that feel the need), I suppose you could pick some arbitrary level of wealth and say anybody over that level is rich. I prefer taking an arbitrary cut of some percent; say the top 1/100th of 1%. Any way you do it is pretty much arbitrary, and highly subjective. " . . . the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley

Velocity is distance & time. A change of direction is acceleration. " . . . the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley

The ENTIRE Bible was written to illustrate a point. As were all our favorite old religious texts. Politicalization of the ideals and literal interpretation of them by narrow minded agenda driven morons is probably the biggest bane of society today. If more humans spent efforts examining the principles professed instead of imposing literal interpretation of the stories used - - the world would be a far more peaceful place. Unfortunately, I think we need to get below a certain criticasl mass of small minded morons before that can happen. " . . . the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley

Having someone that buys into the Bible literally tell others about the real world is like asking a caveman what kind of insurance to buy. This little blurb from Demotivators.com about sums it up: The belief that a cosmic Jewish zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree . . . yeah, makes perfect sense. A belief of this magnitude of absurdity on any other topic would cause most to look at the believer as if they were nuerotic at the least; downright insane is more like it. " . . . the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley

My little sister is bad for that. Sitting round the fire and she gets pretty loose lips after a "few" beers. "Come on bro, tell em bout zhat time . . . . . , come on man, tell it, tell it!" " . . . the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley

It's been a while since you took a chemistry class, hasn't it. . You are right, It's been a while since my last chemistry class...but the quantum physics class I am taking right now isnt distant at all. Quantum mechanics does not allow for molecules of individual physical object to ever touch. Try again.. Correct. There is no touching. It is all force fields. If you actually got them to touch at the atomic level, the result would be quite violent. I think that TV show gave most people the completely wrong idea of quanta (Quantum Leap?). They portrayed it as some magical powerful thing, and also inferred it to be large. A quantum is simply the smallest indivisible discreet package in which something is available. (And is at the root of my opinion that there is no such thing as infinity other than on paper and in thought experiments; because there is a lower limit to small. There is not a point between every 2 points. You can do it on paper or in your brain by just adding decimal places, but in the real world smallness actually has a well defined limit). But I digress; and I'm an amatuer; so go ahead and laugh). The best read, without needing advanced formal education on the topic, are the Penrose-Hawking discussions. The best fun read is Alice in Quantumland. The best comic book is The Flaming Carrot. And my favorite color is . . . . Blue Skies and a fabulous weekend to all. " . . . the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley

Yeah, there's a list of countries on the cutting edge of aviation tehnology. And 10 minutes to 3K! How can that be economical anywhere for anything? Nice to know though that if I'm ever in Mongolia or Angola or . . . My final comment is that it looks like it came straight out of a Saturday morning cartoon. Makes a 206 look like the plane of the future. " . . . the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley

Can't speak to the change, cause I haven't been around but 12 years; but my 2 cents is that a good DZO maintains the balance needed to keep the fun jumpers happy and the books in the black. Based on their market, I'm sure it varies, but without the tandems, we'd have no Otter. With no Otter, I would no tbe able to blast out to the DZ on a Wednesdsay after work, get there at 4 and still get up to 5 jumps - - from 13K no less. I think the tandem opportunity attracts a lot of people that we'd otherwise never hear from. During the week they make the difference between waiting around for the Cessna and getting on the Otter at will. On the weekend, those 40 or 50 or 60 tandem passengers are mostly people that would never engage in an actual training program. Maybe another thing Bill and Ted did not see was that tandem skydiving would bring turbine aircraft and an expansion of lift capacity to places other than the Sun Belt. Don't get me wrong, I'm OK with Cessna rides early in the season or any day it is slow enough to get on one easy enough; but when the place is just busy enough to make waiting on the Cessnas a pain in the butt, the tandems keep the Otter going. The places described in the tandem mill horror stories make me wonder: Why would anybody want to work where the only jumping they get is doing tandems? (I've only jumped Z-Hills and Skydive Twin Cities so have never seen one). BTW, I love the line about skydivers being the Foreign Legion of sports. " . . . the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley

I echo Beer's comments. Found this and could hardly stop. Took a few days to read it all, and have now sadly reached the current end. Being a relatively new guy, I got nothing to contribute. (I do have a few driving/racing tales; and other endeavors for which the SOL has not run out), but that is for another place. Mostly just want to express gratitude and genuine appreciation for the guys that paved the way to the improvements we enjoy today. Hats off to ya old guys. " . . . the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley

Depends on the competition. " . . . the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley

Yeah, probably the best legacy he can hope for is to be forgotten. I guess that would be more properly stated as no legacy. " . . . the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley

Oh! Oh! Oh! Blue skies like pie U glotz de flor. Crabalocker housewife and all that rot. " . . . the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley

It's a very serious condition, and we'll have to get him to a hospital. What is it? A large white building with patients, but that's not important right now. " . . . the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley

OK... how many people seriously OWN a hospital. I can see the need for a clinic, or as mentioned above, even home remedies for personal use. Only the government should OWN hospitals cuz they wouldn't do anything bad with them..... would they? Surely you jest? No, I'm quite serious; and stop calling me Shirley. " . . . the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley

OK OK OK. I got it. Some skydivers steal coffee from Starbucks. " . . . the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley

No Wait! I got it. Some cops are skydivers? Oh crap, I'm no good at this. " . . . the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley

Um, . . . let's see. Some skydivers are cops? How'd I do? " . . . the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley

Great idea!!! Do it on purpose. Take a couple of gerbs with you. Set 'em off just after opening. Point them into the canopy. I bet you could incinerate a canopy in under a minute and the effect from the ground would be awesome. Gobs of hot, melted nylon falling on the crowd would add a 'reality show' sense of participation for the spectators. The thrill for you while hanging under the canopy even more so. Give it a try; get back to us with a full report. Great Balls Of Fire. The Jerry Lee Lewis of skydiving. " . . . the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley

Hmmm your branch of christianity sure seems to be lacking in so many of the christlike virtues.... like foregiveness...humility....etc. What's this got to do with Christianity? Or any religion? Doesn't the Bible say something about being without sin before casting stones? Yeah, but it says a lot of wierd things. Besides, being a secular state, religious dogma is not supposed to come into play. " . . . the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley

When hospitals are outlawed, only outlaws will have hospitals. " . . . the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley

It's like the 15 day disabled list, except you can't ever be removed. You are correct, the Catholic Church invented it in order to stay within roster limits late in the season without Islam claiming people on waivers. " . . . the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley

Would that include the versions of the bible that came before King James? I mean the King James bible was completed in 1611, and was a new translation by the Hampton Court Conference of earlier versions of the bible. Is that how God does things? He evolves his own written word? Yes, engaged in by the writers and interpreters whenever it was/is convenieint. The whole His-day-is-not-the-same-as-your-day revelation came once the whole 6-day creation thing was so painfully obviously claptrap that some new twist needed to be added. " . . . the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley

The book is about Natural Selection. It is a fact. The theory is evolution. It is as solid and well investigated; probably as much as any theory in the history of scientific investigation; but it wrankles long held Neolithic beliefs and so is resisted by faith as much as it is substantiated by investigation. Origin of Species uses the word evolution only once; and it is at the very end. Also; it's common ancestors, not one from the other. " . . . the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley