BlindBrick

Another argument against the absolutes here is that every state does it differently so it's really diffuclt to paint everyone with an overarching brush. Frex. I do a lot of work around AR and with the excpetion of poultry laws and various politiican's pet projects, most of the AR legal code remains essentially unchanged from when it was orignally authored in the 1800's. -Blind "If you end up in an alligator's jaws, naked, you probably did something to deserve it."

QuoteWingsuit BASE is just the ultimate freedom!Quote Al lthat freedom goes away when you suddenly realize that you need to fly your canopy /right this fucking second/ and your arms are currently gift-wrapped in yards of nylon. -Blind "If you end up in an alligator's jaws, naked, you probably did something to deserve it."

It's called suggestive selling and some retail and fast food joints realize over 50% of their profit margin from it, so yeah, it's not going away anytime soon. Ya gotta make sure the cup does not say "Caution, This cup of coffee is extremely fucking hot" on it In all fairness. it wasn't that the coffee was hot, it was that it was so ridicously hot that the chick had to have reconstructive surgery on her hoohah. -Blind "If you end up in an alligator's jaws, naked, you probably did something to deserve it."

If you need it to progress in your current job, then go for it. Otherwise, I'd suggest waiting a few years as the job market for newly minted mba's stinks as you're competing against mba holders with years/decades of experience that are willing to work at less than traditional mba entry-level rates just to have a job. Plus, a lot of people decided the loss of income from grad school wasn't so bad in such a tough job market, so record numbers have applied/been accepted in recent years. Both of those means that there's an absolute glut of mba's right now, and even in economic recovery, there's going to be a larger supply than demand for a quite while. -Blind, MBA, MS:L&E & Unemployed "If you end up in an alligator's jaws, naked, you probably did something to deserve it."

Neptunes are at their core bareometric sensors and thus will record speed spikes if you rapidly change your orientation and thus the airflow over the alti. Even a move simple as rotating your wrist to better read your Neptune will produce a noticable spike in the log. Having said that, 300 kph isn't that big of a deal if you're a bigger guy. That's around my deployment speed in casual wear. My personal recorded best was around 400 kph, but I'm sure that my max is higher because that jump was done in the dead of winter and there was no way I was going out at 17,000 msl in shorts and tee at that time of year. -Blind "If you end up in an alligator's jaws, naked, you probably did something to deserve it."

We turn two 182's and a Beech 18 and all tandem gear is TI-owned. -Blind "If you end up in an alligator's jaws, naked, you probably did something to deserve it."

I've got an airborne rigger pin I wear front and center on the hat I wear to the dz because it was a gift from my dzo after I earned my rigger's ticket while I was a low time jumper with a severe visual disability. I know I'm just a leg, but I wear that with pride because it was a gift from someone who believed in me at a time when few did. Last year I was given Airborne wings after I took a group of Airborne wives through the s/l program. That's on my hat to show appreciation for the gift and their husbands' service, but I wear that on the side of my hat because, well, I'm just a leg. -Blind "If you end up in an alligator's jaws, naked, you probably did something to deserve it."

Ah sizism, racism's new face. :sigh:I guess bigotry never dies. -Blind "If you end up in an alligator's jaws, naked, you probably did something to deserve it."

The major determinate of speed is wingloading. If you fly a larger canopy, your wingloading will drop and thus your speed will decrease, subtle but major difference. Under canopy I have no trouble chasing down 170's with my Safire II 269 because those guys/gals jumping the 170's at my dz are loading them between 1-1.2 where as my 269 is loaded at 1.4. -Blind "If you end up in an alligator's jaws, naked, you probably did something to deserve it."

www.skyranch.com has one at the very bottom and two or three in the slide show at top. yes Maybe. Our dz's density altitude will jump up 700+ meters on a normal day in the busy season and we're already at almost 400 meters msl. That means that a ride to the top for two tandems takes forever. Taking a single tandem with OV is still profitable and the cycle time is much shorter so it tends to even out for us. I think the next big change for us will be the move from sd DV cams to HD card-based ones to take better advantage of the NLE concession I just started. That's going to alleviate our worst bottleneck right now. So very true. -Blind "If you end up in an alligator's jaws, naked, you probably did something to deserve it."

I don't think it's mandatory. During the season we're constantly turning two 182's and a Beech 18. There's all likelyhood that another good season will make us a turbine dz, yet HC is a novelty thing here. Now I'm not saying that it's the best way, but neither is the argument as binary as you seem to be making it out to be. -Blind "If you end up in an alligator's jaws, naked, you probably did something to deserve it."

Yeah. Some will sell the 4th slot as a HP or mid-altitude jump for an upjumper, some times not. -Blind "If you end up in an alligator's jaws, naked, you probably did something to deserve it."

I really wonder if this is a NZ economics thing because the average american dz is using a 182 & OV. -Blind "If you end up in an alligator's jaws, naked, you probably did something to deserve it."

Flesh-light malfunction during routine monkey spanking...gotta keep the damn procedural checklist handy at all times! Dude, it's kill the kittens not the passengers! -Blind "If you end up in an alligator's jaws, naked, you probably did something to deserve it."

I live in a part of OK that makes rural West Virginia look affluent. A a couple of the families around here have depended on Toys for Tots in the past recently received an email from Toys for Tots stating that due to logistical issues, our county is not being covered and therefore their requests were "disapproved." Around here it's too late for Angel Tree, so I'm fresh out of ideas to help these folks. I thought maybe some of you guys might know other national or regional charities that do similar work. -Blind "If you end up in an alligator's jaws, naked, you probably did something to deserve it."

Ok, now does the Chinese have some sort of TSO program? They've got a decent program for their domestic gear that lives depend on. They make the management use the gear, and if management finds a clever way around this requirement, they execute them. -Blind "If you end up in an alligator's jaws, naked, you probably did something to deserve it."

Jerry and Derek, Jeff once provided me with the droptest data for Mirages and based off human physiology, I believe that the jumper wearing the rig is going to suffer catastrophic strucutral failure before the rig does. From the experience of myself and others; with XXL-sized jumpers the materials issue is going to manifest itself north of the three ring. That is why I jump a main with an oversized slider and tandem vectran lines connected to type 8's via reserve slinks. -Blind "If you end up in an alligator's jaws, naked, you probably did something to deserve it."

I average a class size of around three at about five hours. Had a couple of really well-prepared students that each did it in just over trwo hours, but then I've also had someone who I spent two whole weekends working with. -Blind "If you end up in an alligator's jaws, naked, you probably did something to deserve it."

yeah, 16 GB. I was a little distracted when I was typing. My 14 month old was chasing her older sister around with a club trying to settle a grudge. Thanks for the pointer on the SSD. -Blind "If you end up in an alligator's jaws, naked, you probably did something to deserve it."

That article ignores the most germane feature of a multi-core processor when it comes to NLE, speed in threaded apps. Video rendering is a threaded app, and there the AMD X6's seriously trump Intel. Yes, each core on the Intel chip works marginally faster, but that speed advantage evaporates in the face of the extra two cores on a X6, which give the X6 a 50% advantage when working threaded apps. I do have a couple of questions for you Spot. We're probably putting a NLE power rig together for my wife. Right now my build spec has 16 mb of low latency RAM supporting 4 writers because 16 mb was the max I could install without going to a far more expensive specialist mobo. Will that be enough or do I need to look at other boards? Second, is there any noticable speed difference between a mouse and a wacom pen/tablet combo when it comes to editing? -Blind "If you end up in an alligator's jaws, naked, you probably did something to deserve it."

After I had my first cornea transplant, I was told no sex for 6 weeks, but my girlfriend was climbing the walls three weeks in. I got the idea that if she was on top doing all the work, the risk for me would be a lot lower. As she was bouncing around up there, the old punchline occurred to me. "Can I just do it till I need glasses?" [Well shit, I posted before I saw the drift. -B] -Blind "If you end up in an alligator's jaws, naked, you probably did something to deserve it."

Safire 2 loaded just under 1.4 -Blind "If you end up in an alligator's jaws, naked, you probably did something to deserve it."

Over in the Best Manufacturer thread, Macca posted that he wanted to hear if someone had ever had a problem with a PF product that hadn't been resolved to the customer's satisfaction. I'd had an issue with a brand new Prodigy I that cropped up in at the very end of 2006. I emailed back and forth with Robbi/PF in early 2007, but somehow my issue fell through the cracks (IIRC, one of the head honchos having some medical issues in that time frame), and I gave up on it and moved to a different company's products. When I saw Macca's post I thought "what the hell, even if they say 'get lost", all it will have cost me is some time." Contrary to my expectations, Macca took my complaint seriously and came up with a solution that went above and beyond what was needed to resolve the issue, and then in addition to that, took other steps to show that PF was sorry for the issue having gone unresolved for so long. I believe n giving credit where it's due, and with Macca in charge of customer service, I think that PF now gives L&B a run for their money on what it means to deliver excellent customer service. -Blind "If you end up in an alligator's jaws, naked, you probably did something to deserve it."

I've heard that Aerodyne had some fairly significant issues when they made some Sensei's from zpx. -Blind "If you end up in an alligator's jaws, naked, you probably did something to deserve it."

I jump Wiley X prescription transition goggles and have had several issues. First, I lost a lens on the walk back from the landing area one day because they tend to pop the lens if the frame gets more than a minor flex. Second, they fog up like a mofo even with religious application of anti-fog. Third, the gaskets aren't attached the best and are like $15 to replace one. Having said that, I can't imagine jumping without prescription transitions, and it's enough to make me reservedly recommend the Wiley's even with their issues, though I think I'm going to take Scott's advice and check out Liquid. -Blind "If you end up in an alligator's jaws, naked, you probably did something to deserve it."