ChasingBlueSky

Don't do that - there was a recent lawsuit over that topic. Besides, it wouldn't be the way to stop him from his deceptive practices. Keep the focus on what you did with your website, not taking the certifications and helping those that are taking legal action. _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....

This is the first time I have seen this list - scroll down to the bottom and look at the cities they claim they service: http://www.1800skyride.com/over.aspx?OVRAW=skydive%20chicago&OVKEY=skydive%20chicago&OVMTC=standard _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....

They are in Iraq. _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....

/shopped. Could be...but there is the smaller 15 person room listed below...I had some good luck making words in there. _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....

Pennridge is owned by the same people that own Skyride.Lookout DZO's theres a new dropzone headed your way if you accept those certificates. I really hope people are starting to see this. I love it when people say you shouldn't care about Skyride if you are not directly being stolen from....in the end this can/will effect all jumpers! How? Imagine if your dz was never getting new tandem biz or other students? If Skyride continues to be successful and open their own dropzones they will have a strong marketing infrastruture that will steal your student biz from you and send it to their tandem mill. By taking Skyride certificates you are giving them the down payment for a new dz to compete with you and steal your biz. Once the real dz's no longer have their cash cow, they will go under and fun jumpers will be screwed. How many dzs will need to go under before people realize this? (I'm sure I won't be invited to a Skyride DZ after starting this thread) _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....

Could you try - this one has always baffled me. How does additional paperwork increasethe cost of the item? _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....

I checked out that site one time today and they managed to get all the letters in one corner. _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....

The first one was the best - the others were just repeats of the first. _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....

Ok, that is just as extreme. _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....

I know you Dems can't count from the last election, but there are more than 2 republicans There are? And here I thought Thing 1 and Thing 2 were the only ones in that party. fyi - I'm not a Dem. _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....

Isn't that redundant??? _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....

I think both sides do agood job of giving themself a bad name. Besides, talking about two people that have admitted guilt is not slander. I do feel, however, that there are too few politicians that are not jackasses. I don't care what side of the fence they sit on. _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/ap/20041215/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush Is approving to raise the cap on the deficit taking the issue strongly???? So, in case you didn't know - the record trade deficit is the consumers fault now! This seems more like the real reason (ie, favoring the rich corporations and making them richer): To do what?? Borrow more from it? _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....

Well, you can't really fuck it up too much more. But I'm sure you would try! _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....

Hey, he could have easily had the thread title read "A few jackasses interesting tactics" But he wrote one that makes it political. It was republicans trying to illegally halt the voting process against democrats. That by default made it political, not my subject line. _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....

With $20 billion you should be able to afford to fix some of the fuckups or hire the right individuals. And how much has been spent on this idea since 1983 and they still can't get it to work???? Should we even start with the debate over the fact that the shield probably won't work? Putin announced recently that Russia has a new non-linear missle and a bit more new technology that would make the shield useless. At this point it wouldn't matter since we can't get the missle off the ground or to get it to hit a target that hasn't been painted or has a tracking chip in it. _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....

I vaguely remember hearing a number in that range. The story came along with a picture of the Montana/Canada border. It was in the middle of a wooded area with a clearing the size of a road running east/west - with one lookout tower for about a mile or so. Oh yea, there wasn't a fence. We also share a border in Montana where there is a national park that has no fence as well. I will have to go back and see if I can find the stat of how many miles are unguarded, or the response time wouldn't be quick enough to catch someone. _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....

I like your thinking. Run for office in 2008??? _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....

And to think they haven't had a test in two years. So what exactly was that $20 billion spent on??? _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....

So there are now three major companies to choose from: Cingular, Sprint and Verizon. Then there are the smaller companies like T-Mobile. I'm wondering if this will cause charges to increase since there will be less competition? I know I am having issues with AT&T right now after the merge. They cashed my check and then turned off my phone due to an issue in their billing system. When they first merged they said we would be able to do anything tha Cingular has - but now I am being told I have to get a Cingular phone, and Cingular plan if I want to get rollover minutes or any other Cingular benefits. I wonder if it is the same for mobile to mobile calls? http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=YIEODHZ3ECDPUCRBAEOCFEY?type=topNews&storyID=7104274 Sprint to Buy Nextel in $36 Billion Deal By Sinead Carew and Justin Hyde WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sprint Corp. on Wednesday said it will buy mobile telephone company Nextel Communications Inc. for about $36 billion creating a U.S. wireless carrier with nearly 40 million subscribers. The deal would combine the No. 3 and No. 5 U.S. wireless carriers, greatly narrowing the gap with industry leaders Cingular Wireless and Verizon Wireless. Nextel has aimed its popular "push-to-talk" walkie-talkie service mostly at business consumers, who account for roughly three-fourths of its customer base. That ratio of business to consumers is flipped at Sprint, which has had a greater emphasis on retail customers and data services. Sprint and Nextel executives said they would save about $12 billion in costs and combining their two networks. Sprint plans to spin off its local telephone business to shareholders of the new company, to be called Sprint Nextel, as part of the deal. The companies had combined revenue of $40 billion for the 12 months ended Sept. 30, including about $6 billion from Sprint's local telephone business. Sprint Chairman and Chief Executive Gary Forsee said there would be job cuts, but did not provide specifics. The transaction, which is expected to close in the second half of 2005, values Nextel at $32.63 per share based on Tuesday's closing prices, representing a premium of almost 9 percent over Nextel's closing price of $29.99 on Nasdaq on Tuesday. After rising in recent days on expectations of the deal, Sprint shares fell 2 percent in Wednesday's midday trading on the New York Stock Exchange, while Nextel shares fell 1.6 percent on Nasdaq. Several analysts applauded the deal, saying it made sense for the companies and the U.S. wireless industry. "We believe that a potential combination of Sprint and Nextel makes sense on a number of measures, including spectrum position, network technology upgrade path and the complementary nature of the two customer bases," said Merrill Lynch analyst David Janazzo in a research note. PUSH TO DEAL Nextel and Sprint's first task will be merging two networks that use different technologies. Nextel CEO Timothy Donahue, who will become executive chairman of the merged company, said Sprint Nextel would offer handsets compatible with either network in 2006, and eventually move much of Nextel's subscribers onto Sprint's network. Under the terms of the deal, existing Sprint shares will remain outstanding and Nextel shares will be converted into shares of the new company and a small amount of cash, valuing each Nextel share at about 1.3 shares of Sprint Nextel common stock. The stock and cash allocation will be determined at the closing to ensure the local business spin-off is tax free, and the cash portion of the deal will not exceed $2.8 billion. At current figures, Nextel shareholders would receive about 1.28 Sprint Nextel shares and 50 cents in cash for each Nextel share, the companies said. Forsee will become CEO of the new company, while Sprint Chief Operating Officer Len Lauer and Nextel Chief Financial Officer Paul Saleh will maintain their roles at the new company. The spun-off local telecoms business is expected to pay quarterly dividends, but Sprint Nextel plans to stop paying dividends following the spin-off, the companies said. The deal leaves T-Mobile USA, owned by Deutsche Telekom AG , a distant fourth among U.S. national wireless carriers, with about 16.3 million customers. Nextel shares fell 50 cents to $29.49 in midday trade on Nasdaq, while Sprint shares fell 57 cents to $24.53 on the New York Stock Exchange. _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....

10 billion a year on this??? http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=7098539 By Jim Wolf WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The first test in nearly two years of a multibillion-dollar U.S. anti-missile shield failed on Wednesday when the interceptor missile shut down as it prepared to launch in the central Pacific, the Pentagon said. About 16 minutes earlier, a target missile carrying a mock warhead had been successfully fired from Kodiak Island, Alaska, according to a statement from the Missile Defense Agency. The aborted $85 million test appeared likely to set back plans for activation of a rudimentary bulwark against long-range ballistic missiles that could be fired by countries like North Korea. In 2002, President Bush pledged to have initial elements of the program up and running by the end of this year while testing and development continued. An "anomaly" of unknown origin caused the interceptor to shut down automatically in its silo at the Kwajalein Test Range in the Marshall Islands, said Richard Lehner, a spokesman for the Pentagon's missile agency. The test followed a week of delays caused by weather and technical glitches, including malfunction of an internal battery aboard the target missile on Tuesday, he said. "This is a serious setback for a program that had not attempted a flight intercept test for two years," Philip Coyle, the Pentagon's chief weapons tester under late President Ronald Reagan, said in an e-mail exchange. The system is a scaled-down version of a ballistic missile shield first outlined in March 1983 by Reagan and derided by critics as "Star Wars." 'NOT CONSTRAINED BY TIMING' Pentagon officials had hoped the test would set the stage for any decision by Bush to put the system on alert in coming weeks. Initially, the system is designed to counter North Korean missiles that could be fired at the United States and tipped with nuclear, chemical or germ weapons. "I'm not constrained by timing, exactly," Michael Wynne, the Pentagon's chief weapons buyer, said on Dec. 8 in reply to a question about switching the system on. "But we'll see how (the test) goes and then we'll see from there." Because the mission was supposed to have exercised new hardware, software and engagement scenarios, it was officially described as a "flyby" rather than an attempted intercept. This meant gathering data was the primary goal, not downing the target, according to the Missile Defense Agency. When a shootdown has been the chief test objective, the system so far has succeeded five of eight times in highly scripted conditions. The last test, in December 2002, misfired when the warhead -- a 120-pound "kill vehicle" of sensors, chips and thrusters designed to pulverize its target on collision -- failed to separate from its booster rocket. Boeing Co., as prime contractor, put together the ground-based shield, which is to be folded into a system involving airborne, sea- and space-based elements. All told, the Pentagon is spending $10 billion a year on the project. Key subcontractors are Northrop Grumman Corp., for battle management; Raytheon Co., for the kill vehicle; and Lockheed Martin Corp. and Orbital Sciences Corp., which build the booster rockets. _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....

Interesting story. Link? I was under the impression that the reactors we had in this country would not cause a meltdown in a situation like this. I remember hearing talk about that around here in Chicago due to the reactors we have around the city. Maybe Kallend or someone else studied in this area can correct my thinking on this? You have to wonder why they didn't want to listen to the source. Either they know it is false or we are really that understaffed when it comes to Iran. You figure after 9/11 and the letter from the agent in AZ would cause them to look into this. I wonder if this is typical in the spy world. I can understand protecting your sources, but if you can't trust the head of the CIA with something this secure, who can you trust? Maybe the sources are giving out fake stories just to get money from the US? Trying to create a best seller? I would be more impressed if he said he was going to use the money from the sales to feed the source. Who knows, maybe he will. Interesting again that he doesn't name the plot here in the story - trying to push sales? The only problem I have with him trying to draw connections between Khameini and OBL is that it sounds a lot like the promise made of Sadam and 9/11 connections. All OBL terrorists groups run thru Iran and they have avoided letting anyone in our intelligence community from knowing this? Doesn't that seem a bit far fetched? Yes, it is scary if it is true, but that is the mother of all claims to try to prove. _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....

There have been studies that prove that it does reflect who you are. I'm sure there will be more as it becomes a larger part of our daily lives. _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....

Eh, if I won't pay for it, I sure won't risk a lawsuit over downloading it. _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....

Is that even out yet? _________________________________________ you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me.... I WILL fly again.....