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Those are good. How about Roses are Red, Violets are Blue, Some poems rhyme and some don't.

I think the universal rule is for everyone to yield to traffic already on the roundabout. If you drive on the right then traffic on the roundabout goes counter-clockwise and you yield to traffic on your left. If you drive on the right left then the opposite is true. We have many of these here and still most people don't use them correctly, despite it being a required task on the driving test. The worst cases though are the large busy intersections with 3 or more lanes and traffic lights actually on the roundabout itself. Most people haven't a clue which lane they are supposed to get into on the approach roads and then have to do frantic lane swapping while driving around the thing. I think that most tourists just end up doing laps of the roundabouts until they achieve an escape velocity and shoot across 3 or 4 lanes and invariably onto the wrong exit.

This guy is an ass. If you spread the word around to the other ladies that he would normally try his luck with, then next time he may have to pay an actual whore for the privilage. There is no real timeline or appropriate, um, protocol, but in the majority of cases you can safely assume that most guys will go as far as you are willing to let us (maybe hold off on the gimp suit for a bit ). In the majority of cases it's the girl that dictates the timeline. Just make sure that he returns the favor, it's considered common courtesy.

Agreed. I like me some roundabouts....... Roundabouts are good in some areas but present their own problems. You can bet that the same idiot drivers mentioned in this thread will find ways to hit you just as easily. There's the usual lock up and skid or aquaplane through the centre island from an approach road. Plus on the multilane roundabouts you have to be very aware of your blind spots, because of the curving lane your standard mirrors will not show you the car you are about to hit. Either wideangle mirrors or use of the Mark I eyeball are required. Driving a van on a busy roundabout is not fun. Drivers need to be heads up and spatially aware, which we already know is not prevalent.

I would imagine that they establish a sensible hard deck and drill it into the students heads that when you reach this altitude under a mal, cutaway (if not done already) and pull the reserve - regardless. Same goes for line twists.

Exactly. Have people considered that should not be happening in the first 75k of the cars life. Granted one or two of the above list may be expected, but with a list like that I would reconsider the make of car I was buying. Eg. for some reason VW build quality has taken a nose dive in the last 2 or 3 years, so I'll be avoiding the rush to buy.

Right off I'll state that I am not qualified to give you advice on your EPs. Neither am I qualified to back up what I will say next, so I invite further input from someone who is qualified. It is my understanding, based on some discussions with psychology students and lecturers on the topic of human perception in high-stress situations, that the whole idea of increased reaction times is something of a myth. It's known as temporal distortion, and is percieved by someone in a high-stress or life threatening situation as "time slowing down". The person feels that they have more time to evaluate and react to a situation. This has been shown to be false, in that the brain can only process at a certain rate the data being fed to it by the eyes. In a life-threatening situation the brain allocates more resources to preparing the body for "fight or flight" and thus induces a lag in the processing of visual, and audio, information. Obviously time does not actually slow down (lets not stray into space-time quantum mechanics arguements) but mearly there is a lag in what the individual percieves as time passing. This phenomenon, in addition with loss of altitude awareness, could explain a lot incidents where jumpers have gone in with a perfectly functional, but undeployed reserve. On the subject of EPs, I will add that I have changed mine recently to add a clear risers step before pulling silver. This is as a result of the reverse risers incident in Aus last year and a safety demo video of a horseshoe mal where the 3 ring system didn't release after a cutaway due to insufficient riser loading and the flat body position of the jumper. No I don't have reverse risers or jump an atom, but I believe it's still a relevant concern. And yes I made sure to seek qualified opinion and drill like crazy. You say that you have 2 audibles, both of which flatline at 1000'. Is this your hard deck.

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Ah, but that wouldn't be handwriting then, that's more like...er, body language I guess

What Goatboy said. Honesty is the best way and the whole "just good friends" thing is BS. The chances of staying as friendly as before are pretty non-existant, the ego is a tender thing. I've been on both sides of this situation a few times and an honest, upfront answer saves a lot of time and awkward situations in the long run. Besides guys are not as fragile as you might imagine. He'll get over it. Just make sure that the rejection is not public to keep the humiliation factor to a minimum, over the phone is probably best.I would go for "I think that you are a nice person but I'm sorry, I don't feel the same way about you, that's just how it is".

About 40% of the car market in Ireland is now diesel due to the extortionist fuel prices. The best engine size is around 2.0 lt, with a turbo if you must. Most of these are knocking out over 65mpg. Also diesels last much longer than similar petrol engined models. My fathers old 89 Toyota Carina II 2.0D is at 250,000 miles and still going strong, and it seems that the harder you run them the more reliable they become. The newer diesel technology appearing over here is CommonRail Diesel injection - similar to the petrol fuel injection system whereby the fuel is taken from a pressurised fuel rail and the injectors just act as a metering system. This is much more efficient and does away with the black exhaust clouds that were common under acceleration. Also the newer diesels are relatively quiet.

Perhaps you mean 1g extra as we experience 1g normally. I've experienced 2g in an aircraft and although it would be difficult it would not be impossible to extract oneself, given enough time. I know what you are trying to say though and most spins would produce 3g+, so ... There are many DZ's where residential areas would fall inside the range of an a/c abandoned from 10k. DeLand for example. Also consider Demos. The system does have some practical uses in paradrop but these are negated by the high cost, both in hard cash and in a/c performance. It would become a definite consideration if these were reduced.

The BRS system is intended as a life saving device rather than an aircraft saving device (although it may do both) as the landing impact may write-off the a/c even though passengers walk away. In the case of paradrop ops it is not really as neccessary as for GA, as everyone on board has, or should have, their own parachute. It would however limit the danger of an abandoned a/c over a populated area and also provide the pilot with another option in the event of a spin on the jump run. These two reasons alone make it a definate consideration.

Yes, but you chicks might be less than impressed with what the cold weather does to us guys. Besides, all you gals are wearing more clothes now. Roll on the summer I say. Have you ever had a pair of cold hands on your...um...door bells

The problem with doing this is that it then makes the D-bag fatter in the container, which make closing it harder, and when someone else packs it neater they end up with some slack in the closing loop. Dress it to the width of the flap on the bag-that way all available space is filled.

Ok, I know zilch about swooping. I was going to suggest a Saphire, simply because it's docile eliptical, but this thread says it better than I could. 1st swoop canop?

I agree. I didn't intend to infer otherwise in my post, but perhaps I'm not explaining myself very well. The original poster has trouble getting the packjob in the D-bag. Basically what I'm saying is to dress the packjob to the width of the closing flap on the bag, (thus ensuring that the canopy will fill all the space in the corners of the bag neatly), and to lay on the canopy to get as much air out as possible to reduce the pack volume after s-folding. The problem is not necessarily the type of packjob used but the neatness of it.

Just before making the s-folds make sure to wrap the centre panels of the tail tightly around the canopy - making a cigar shape - and then lay down on the canopy to get most of the air while tucking any excess underneath you. The trick is to get the width of the 'cigar' just right, about the width of the closing flap on the D-bag. Have the bungies replaced and the bag inspected before taking your weight off and then be as quick as you can about making the S-folds because zero-P tends to re-inflate quickly. Also when S-folding the pack job keep a little pressure on it to stop it re-inflating and sliding around. Practice. Good luck.

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And you even have to be careful with that...some popups will even have a "fake" X that opens up a whole can of worms. Learn this keyboard shortcut - ALT + F4 will close the active window, so when presented with those javascript popup dialogs close it using this method. You can make a window active by clicking any where in it (not the buttons obviously).

Ok, it sounds to me like the problem is with the actual Windows XP cd. "No Emulation" is an error you get with faulty bootable cd-roms. I have to ask - are you using a legitimate copy of XP. Some Bootable CDs use Floppy disk emulation to make them bootable - it makes the pc think that the cd is a large bootable floppy disk. But Windows XP and 2000 don't use floppy emulation to boot, hence the question. The sequence you are getting means that in your BIOS options you have set up "Boot from ATAPI device", or "Boot from CD-ROM" or something like that, before your hard disk so that the pc will try to boot from the CD before trying the hard disk boot code. With a proper copy of Windows XP it should give you the option to boot from the CD, but if you press nothing for about 5 seconds it continues to the hard drive and boot that. But you mentioned that you were able to start install windows XP. How? Run through that sequence that you used to install windows XP the last time, but just after the machine reboots (when you see the cmos information), eject the cd tray and let it continue (make sure that you have the hard disk set up as your next boot device in the BIOS; usually Floppy - Cdrom - hard disk). The pc should now boot from the hard drive and continue the installation. As soon as it starts this you can push back in the CD because it will need more files from it later.

I've never seen 'Fdisk /mbr' or 'fixmbr' fix a partition problem. It rewrites the boot code for sure, and maybe the backed up copy of the partition table, although this is usually just a copy of the damaged one by the time you realise that you have a problem.

I've never heard of a "no emulation" error associated with a hard disk, usually that's with a bootable CD (floppy emulation). However if the partition is formatted as NTFS but you are getting "Unknown format" on the properties dialog, then most likely you have a corrupt MBR for that drive. The fact that you can see your data when you hook it up as slave indicates that the file tables for the partition are ok. Fixing would require some software to edit the MBR and this is not easy. Some software like partition magic will detect and fix problems like this automatically but I have had too many nasty experiences to trust it. While you can see your data, back it up before trying anything else. If you get something to edit the MBR (mbrtool is good if you like command line), the type setting for NTFS is 07. My guess is that something else has changed it. DO NOT change any other setting for the partition (CHS values or LBA) unless you are certain of what they should be and are prepared to accept losing your data if you get it wrong.

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Don't they use the cryllic alphabet over there, so her spelling would be just adapting our alphabetical spelling to the phonetics of their words.