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Oh, you got me. Rhino's statement that Vallerina "couldn't make a right decision because she's not a parent" (because that is what he implied) is the equivilent of me pointing out that societal disfunction, as placed on the internet also makes him "unworthy of appropriate decisions". You call me the "add hominem queen" and yet, Rhino is guilty of committing it first. Yes, I did mean all smokers. Not all people. Why don't you begin a committee regarding parents smoking around their children. You complain about me bitching on the internet, though I don't see you heading up much else. Yes, many people can drive 90 mph and do just fine doing so. I have been known to do the same on some highways. Your point is not really relevent to our conversation regarding smokers who may legally smoke, smoking in such a manor that others may feel some slight effect of them smoking. .jim "Don't touch my fucking Easter eggs, I'll be back monday." ~JTFC

No, the a "we allready do it, we can't stop now" is in reference to pollution caused by every single US citizen and their mother owning a car, and operating it reglarly. As you very well suggest in your own post, there's no way that you can stop polluting the air around us with your car. You HAVE to. Who cares that you don't drive an SUV, you are still polluting MY air, just less. Regarding rape, I never said it that since some might consider it a "lesser crime" to murder that we should ignore it. Murder is murder. Rape is rape. Smoking hasn't been considered "abuse", and further, we didn't even know about the side effects until a while ago. Does that mean it is right to continue? Not necessaryily, we are taking "care" of it with the no smoking laws in bars and restaraunts. Does that mean that someone cannot/should not smoke outside? I don't think so. But I suppose you can keep crying me a river. Like Rehmwa mentioned before, that 90% rapidly goes to 20%. While I am not a smoker at all, dealing with smokers in a snively manor will get you a far greater of those who oppose your every stance. .jim "Don't touch my fucking Easter eggs, I'll be back monday." ~JTFC

Coming from a person who complains about their extensive relationship crisis online, I don't think you can really make this arguement, Rhino. Just because one is not a parent does not mean that they can't make reasonable moral decisions. Just like just because one is not in the armed forces, doesn't mean that they cannot make a valid complaint about the actions of someone who's served. You know better. edited: it sucks that your and other parents smoked around you and you put up with a variety of related illness, but to think that ALL people cannot smoke responsibly and thus need to be made illegal, or condemned abusive is preposterous. .jim "Don't touch my fucking Easter eggs, I'll be back monday." ~JTFC

*cough* It seemed to work for some of us, It definately wasn't books I was spending my money on these past couple of years. .jim "Don't touch my fucking Easter eggs, I'll be back monday." ~JTFC

Those are really terrible things to hear. As a hypothetical, if a smoker only smoked in their backyard, or their car, and only did so when no other person was present, what is your opinion regarding second hand smoke in that manor. Do you feel that the second hand smoke from the above situation still provides the same effects? Do you feel that they shouldn't be able to smoke in an open place such as that? Just curious. .jim "Don't touch my fucking Easter eggs, I'll be back monday." ~JTFC

I can appreciate that response. .jim "Don't touch my fucking Easter eggs, I'll be back monday." ~JTFC

While I agree that it is discourteous to decide to light up when you are packed around people, I disagree that it is so terrible to just go outside and smoke. Seeing as a majority of the places that people were able to go to to have a smoke (bars, restaurants, etc) are closing doors to smokers, I don't think it's all to cry about if they are smoking in their back yard, or their car or for that matter, even on the street. Once again, to say one form of air pollutant is acceptable, and one is unacceptable, based on the arguement that "everybody does it, and the world NEEDS it" is a little bit crazy. .jim "Don't touch my fucking Easter eggs, I'll be back monday." ~JTFC

Brilliant reasoning. If it helps you sleep at night so be it. We all already do it, we can't stop now. So you need transportation to keep the world spinning? Ever ride a bus? Carpool? Ride a bike? Don't push your car polluting habits on me and the kids. The point of all of this is: It is asinine to decide that one form of polluting the air isn't ok, and yet another form which no doubt dumps a far greater amount of pullutants in the air, is ok, just because it keeps the world spinning and YOU decide that it is not nearly as consequential as the first, because you think the first is so localized. As mentioned before, there's a lot of other shit that needs to be fixed before we start crying about this. And once again I will re-iterate that the parents PROBABLY shouldn't smoke around their kids, and smoking outside is FINE. If they are blowing smoke in their kids face, that's a different story. If they are putting their cigarettes out on their kids, that's a different story. Finally, lets up the conversation with one more thing that I am not a smoker, and have never smoked. .jim "Don't touch my fucking Easter eggs, I'll be back monday." ~JTFC

You drive a car? Suprise, you pollute "clean air". Power your house off of anything other than wind, water, or geothermal? Suprise, you pollute "clean air". Won't you think of the children? .jim "Don't touch my fucking Easter eggs, I'll be back monday." ~JTFC

I am spending the summer working on general aviation stuff, and i sold my rig to that short girl with green hair. However, I am gonna sell on of my bikes here and start up again once it gets cooler not to worry. As for those rings, they are miserable pieces of shit to machine. I have a mill out here now so I can actually work on stuff regularly. So keep hassling me and I'll get a run going. .jim "Don't touch my fucking Easter eggs, I'll be back monday." ~JTFC

amen .jim "Don't touch my fucking Easter eggs, I'll be back monday." ~JTFC

Kids in the past seem to have grown up just fine. But I suppose there will always be those that complain about anything. Excess consumption of anything can be bad. I agree, the parents should, ideally, keep the smoking away from the children, but I also don't think it's something to get your panties in a twist in. Any references regarding your second-hand smoke cause more damage BS? Or is this something you pulled off of one of the "truth" campaigns? .jim "Don't touch my fucking Easter eggs, I'll be back monday." ~JTFC

is that you and dave? Looks like fun. .jim "Don't touch my fucking Easter eggs, I'll be back monday." ~JTFC

Four Horsemen. When you gotta get the party started, there's no better way. .jim "Don't touch my fucking Easter eggs, I'll be back monday." ~JTFC

Allright, I have to be at work in 4 hours, I can't sleep, so let's nerd it up with an example: Let's examine a ball in freefall. (in the case of this problem, we are given densities of the ball and the surrounding air, and a Reynolds number which we use to later calculate the Coefficient of drag via iteration) I don't think I'll be drawing a freebody diagram, and we are just going to examine the two upwards forces, one due to the "bouyant force" of the ball displacing the air, and one due to drag incurred by air flowing past the ball. Fb + Fd = X Fb = Density of air * volume of air displaced by sphere * G Fd = 0.5 * density of air * velocity^2 * Coefficient of Drag * Exposed Area So for a given velocity and Cd, we should be able to determine the force applied by the Fd and Fb on the ball. Pressure = Force / Area, you've solved for force X, you have the given area, solve for pressure. In theory, this would allow you to get a guesstimate of the pressue on the exposed surface for a given velocity. However, since you don't really have numeric values, I really like Billvon's method for solving at a given terminal velocity. It's late and this is probably wrong, so I leave it up here for everybody to get a good laugh. Besides, it's been 2 years since I've worked out a fluids problem, so screw you guys anyways. .jim "Don't touch my fucking Easter eggs, I'll be back monday." ~JTFC

Here's my latest. (Ignore the less than grown-up picture, it's the best I got ) Lots of fun on twisties. (For you CO folks, I was riding in Clear Creek Canyon near where the rock slide was about an hour before it happened. I will miss that run while it's closed...) Also, I would like to shoot out a special thanks to the lovely young lady that tried to mow me down with her suburban at a stoplight. .jim "Don't touch my fucking Easter eggs, I'll be back monday." ~JTFC

that sig line is KILLING me here. .jim "Don't touch my fucking Easter eggs, I'll be back monday." ~JTFC

All I know is that we've had many times in which the stall warning horn has been going off seemingly continuous for a great deal of time after takeoff roll. If it was due to turbulent air, then so be it. However, whenever this happened the plane was usually buffeting around. Not being at the yoke, I couldn't "feel" the controls, and so I cannot offer whether or not this buffet was an indicator of a stall-to-come or not. From previous experience, I did feel uncomfortable in the situation we were in, and after getting out of the plane, I was usually very happy that we didn't encounter any engine problems. Regarding the pilot's flying, the DZO has been talked to by multiple jumpers. Resolution of the matter, I am not sure of. I'm no longer a jumper. You'll also notice that I did not bring any specific DZ names on it, and was just adding my input to an above mentioned complaint. .jim "Don't touch my fucking Easter eggs, I'll be back monday." ~JTFC

Properly loaded. What percentage of jump planes do you believe are always properly loaded? What percentage do you believe aren't? We're not talking about listening to the stall horn go off for a second or two on takeoff roll. We're talking about listening to it the whole way up, with the plane buffeting around. You know, that feel you're talking about a good pilot knowing? Even the best pilots can become task overloaded. An audible indicator isn't a bad thing. Once again. What percentage do you believe are properly loaded and appropriate CG range. What percentage do you believe are overloaded and are near/exceed CG limits? Pushing the limits can be a good thing. Continually pushing the limits of a heavily loaded aircraft that has a constantly changing CG is NOT a good thing. Dig through the past years incident reports and look over the multiple instances of small aircraft stalling on takeoff. Do you think that keeping the airplane on the verge of a stall in an attempt to max out climb contributed to the subsequent stall and crash of these aircraft? It probably did. What we need from our jump pilots, among other things, is a conservative takeoff/climb to recoverable altitude. .jim "Don't touch my fucking Easter eggs, I'll be back monday." ~JTFC

Hearing the horn scream every time I rode up in the 206 with 4 other fatasses is something I look forward to never doing again... I cannot emphasize how easy it is to become complacent with this. And yet, my dumbass never refused a ride on that plane. Stupid now that I look at it in hindsight, you know? .jim "Don't touch my fucking Easter eggs, I'll be back monday." ~JTFC

So seeing as this (minus the rig) was similar to my halloween costume (cat costume, fake fur). How are your fallrates? Because I recall that even my tight fitting cat custume with similar fur made me fall WAY slow. Just a thought. .jim "Don't touch my fucking Easter eggs, I'll be back monday." ~JTFC

Jesus Christ, I think we all know that it is five nipples. .jim "Don't touch my fucking Easter eggs, I'll be back monday." ~JTFC

looks like a weak ripoff of savetoby.com. that is all. .jim "Don't touch my fucking Easter eggs, I'll be back monday." ~JTFC

What can I say? I don't go to readin' n' writin' school. My most humble apologies. .jim "Don't touch my fucking Easter eggs, I'll be back monday." ~JTFC

Personally, I fail to see what jump numbers have to do with it. But I will enjoy a har de har har with you guys, you know what I mean? You know? .jim "Don't touch my fucking Easter eggs, I'll be back monday." ~JTFC