justinb138

What if someone leaves the headlights on and the battery dies? Do they come looking for your car?

Is that type of mal covered in the SIM?

What do you call paying for that full page ad if not advocation? Advertising.

Yep, the griffon vulture.... Evil-looking bird...

Well, most birds won't be high enough to hit while in freefall.

I understand that, but to verify that it works, wouldn't the driver then have to try to start the car, and then someone be there to verify that it didn't start? Also, trying out every single one would hinder its cost-effectiveness.

Yep. How would they find out that the box was disabled anyway?

I remember reading a thread on here about a bird getting caught in a BASE canopy, but nothing about a collision with a skydiver.

Skydiver's Information Manual. You can download it for free at www.uspa.org.

That's what I was thinking, coudn't be too hard to remove. If they ever become commonplace, someone will probably make a lot of money taking them out.

I dont, but I could really use one right now....

But the real question is: Where can I get Absinthe here in Texas?

That's what I was thinking. I can't imagine what would happen on a larger scale. (bumper to bumper traffic in houston for miles on a friday afternoon. One car has a tank that ruptures and explodes, which in turn blows up the car next to it, then the next one....

Can you please explain to me how driving around with a 10,000psi tank of a highly explosive gas is safer than driving a car with 10gal of gasoline?

I really don't understand it. Some interesting stats on divorce/child custody & support laws: “A randomized study of 46,000 divorce cases published in the American Law and Economics Review found that in only 6% of cases women claimed to be divorcing cruel or abusive husbands, and that adultery was cited by women as a cause of divorce only slightly more than by men. Surveys of divorced couples show that the reasons for their divorces are generally a lack of closeness or of "not feeling loved and appreciated." “Studies show that the overwhelming majority of steadily employed divorced fathers pay their child support. While there are a few well‑heeled divorced dads who stiff their children, most non‑paying dads are either poor, unemployed, disabled, or incarcerated. According to a US Government Accounting Office report, two‑thirds of those fathers who do not pay their child support fail to do so because they are financially unable to do so.” “There are almost as many unfaithful wives as there are unfaithful husbands. Research generally estimates that for every five unfaithful husbands, there are four unfaithful wives.” “Domestic violence research overwhelmingly shows that women are just as likely as men to initiate and engage in domestic violence, and that only a small percentage of women's domestic violence is committed in self‑defense. Studies show that women often compensate for their smaller size by their significantly greater use of weapons and the element of surprise.” “Official Department of Justice statistics show that men commit 70% of all murder of intimates. However, when other factors are accounted for, including unsolved murders, poisonings mistakenly classified as heart attacks, and contract killings classified as "multiple offender killings," women have been shown to be at least as likely as men to murder their current or former spouses or intimates.” Most child abuse and parental murder of children is committed by mothers, not fathers. A study of children of divorce found that 42% of children who lived solely with their mother reported that their mother tried to prevent them from seeing their fathers after the divorce. However, only 16% of children who lived solely with their father reported similar obstruction. In another study, 40% of divorced mothers admitted that they had interfered with their ex-husband's access or visitation, and that their motives were punitive in nature and not due to safety considerations. The government spends $340 on enforcing child support for every $1 it spends on enforcing visitation rights. Nationwide divorced fathers are ten times as likely to commit suicide as divorced mothers, and more than twice as likely to commit suicide as married fathers. The largest factor in predicting whether a child will graduate high school, attend college, become involved in crime or drugs, or get pregnant before age 18 is the presence (or absence) of a father in the child’s life. Studies show that this remains true even after adjustments for household income. Children are 88% more likely to be seriously injured from abuse or neglect by their mothers than by their fathers. Sources of info here: http://www.glennsacks.com/sources_page_on_fathers.htm

A master rigger could make the repairs, but sending it back to PD is probably the best solution.

They both have had a pretty good rep so far. Just because you can't pack them a symetrically doesn't mean that there was a manufacturing defect. So you're a rigger after all? With your attitude I wouldn't let you near my shoelaces much less my reserve. So what rig/canopies do you jump? The icon looks fine if you pack it correctly.

I forgot about the Bruce Campell movies! See the latest one? (Bubba Ho-tep)

Uncheck the box in the lower left corner, the warnings will go away quickly after that.

Ok, why?

Is the greatest movie ever.... That is all.

Pilot rig I think

PM sent, hope it helps.

Just out of curiosity, how did the Excalibur fly compared to something like a sabre?

Poor homebuilder? Kinda funny, I've never seen or heard of a poor homebuilder, especially in this area. The one I knew personally just sold his 4000sq ft house to buy something bigger. Most of the builders I see around here have big F-350s or similar sized Dodge trucks, but I never see them being used for anything that a standard sized truck couldn't handle. I think part of the reason they have such massive trucks that they don't need is due to the huge tax break they get for buying trucks over 6000lb (Tax Code 179 I believe). More info on that is available here: http://www.selfemployedweb.com/suv-tax-deduction-list.htm