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Joe-Bob might not be at risk for being injured directly by such an attack. However his way of life – bank, food, job, medical care, etc. – can possibly be reduced to a 19th Century subsistence level if WMDs are ever deployed successfully against the US. Living off venison would get pretty tiresome after a while, even for Joe-Bob, who just might have to get used to drinking warm beer. I bet Hans Weinerschnizel worried about the same things: way of life – bank, food, job, medical care, etc... back in 1933. If the enemy could burn down Reichstag then nobody was safe. Hans probably said, "I don't necessarily 'agree' with what they are doing, but if it will make Germany a safer place then I'm OK with it." Unfortunately, freedom and security will essentially always be in opposition to one another. Anyone that has ever jumped out of a plane or who has been in love knows that. The risk can be mitigated but can not be eliminated.

I think he should change his username from Chuteless to Clueless. It is amazing there are some many different routes this thread could go other than debating the merrits of biblical interpretation/profecey. It's like discussing sex with a castrated, deaf, dumb, and blind virgin.

Just about everything is more likely to kill you than a terrorist attack. http://www.nsc.org/lrs/statinfo/odds.htm

I used to worry about a terrorist attack all the time, but since we invaded Iraq and declared 'Mission Accomplished' on that aircraft carrier I feel much safer now. It made me want to immigrate to Iraq just so I could experience the joy of being liberated! I also stocked my basement with duct tape and plasitc tarps so that further ease my mind. But the things that make me feel most secure are the Patriot Act and warrantless wiretaps. It lets me know that the current Bush regime is serious about fighting terror. They aren't going to let a silly thing like the Constitution get in the way. Obviously, the terrorists target the US because of our freedoms, those bloody sand people hate us because we're free. What better way to get them to stop hating us than to widdle away at some of those freedoms. Every night before I go to bed I thank the good Lord that our President and his administration have the courage, resolve, and integrity to ignore the International Community and the Constitution to make our country a safer place. GOD BLESS AMERICA, AND NO PLACE ELSE!

That's a crazy idea. That would require parents to take care of their own children, shouldn't that be the government's respondsibility. After all, the government knows best.

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Done. Tom, You ought to stick this thread to the top of all the forums so it doesn't slip to out of sight.

That was how it was intended. I was tempted to ask to leave second hand smoke comments out completely for the sake of argument.

Neither do I. I have no beef with fat people for eating junk food. That is their problem. I do however have a problem with smokers who think it is their divine right to light up whenever they feel like it, because that affects my health. Fair enough. When you're forcably subjected to second hand smoke in a confined area I think that is reasonably unfair. I also think it's totally obnoxious to go out of your way to pester and berate someone that is only harming themself. Who forces you anymore? There are plenty of places with "No smoking" policies that you can go to. exactly

Neither do I. I have no beef with fat people for eating junk food. That is their problem. I do however have a problem with smokers who think it is their divine right to light up whenever they feel like it, because that affects my health. Fair enough. When you're forcably subjected to second hand smoke in a confined area I think that is reasonably unfair. I also think it's totally obnoxious to go out of your way to pester and berate someone that is only harming themself.

I saw the documentary “Super Size Me” last week. Much of it was a pretty self serving, self righteous indictment on fast food and lazy Americans in general. It doesn’t take eating only McDonald’s everyday for thirty day’s to know that it is unhealthy and void of any significant nutritional value. Nor are those who CHOOSE to eat it the victim of some great conspiracy to make them obese and unhealthy. However, the film did bring up some things that I found quite interesting. As an ex-smoker (almost a year) I loath those who feel the need to remind smokers that smoking is harmful. The only thing more dangerous than cigarette smoke is a smoker pushed to the edge by some self righteous, obnoxious, omnipotent non-smoker. With all the antismoking litigation and legislation it is more than socially acceptable to berate and patronize a smoker in any given situation. The film made an interesting point. Obesity is the second leading cause of preventable death in America. How would the general public respond to treating the obese the way we treat smokers? What would happen if I went buy the fat guy at work eating his double cheese burger extra-value meal and said: “You know that shit is going to kill you? Why don’t you stop eating that garbage, have you looked in the mirror lately you fat slob? You know if you worked out more often you wouldn’t be such a fat sack of shit. Obesity is the second leading cause of preventable death in America.” Or even better saying the same things to a random guy walking down the street carrying a McDonald’s bag. I don’t know that I have any real point, but if you get a chance “Super Size Me” is worth seeing.

To be perfectly frank, I don't give a fuck whether the guy next door is a child molester. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Because you're not a child. Adults are more apt to recoginize anti-social dangerous behavior and should be better able to protect themselves. I think we should treat child molesters far harsher than any other felon's and unfortunately you're more likely to spend significant time in jail for some drug related stuff than 'shoplifting the pampers.' Why don't you see how many of your violent fellons were molested as children, not a viable excuse for their crimes, but definitely a factor. People getting out of our rehabilitation shitsems have enough things stacked against them.

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I started skydiving after working at my current job for a year. Most people/bosses thought it was cool and always are interested in details about it. The president of the company gave me the "only idoits and bird shit fall out of the sky," but he was more or less joking. When I was doing my AFF I told my boss's boss that it helped with my job because it was a great tool for stress managment and quick thinking. If you can stay cool and focused while falling at 120mph then having 10 people on your shit about something that isn't going to kill you is much less stressful. He seemed to agree and always talks about doing a tandem. It can also provid good BS material at work functions/dinners . A handful of people I work with have done either AFF, Static Line, or a Tandem but no regular skydivingers. I don't know if I'd put it on an application but throwing it out in an interview could be usefull in that they might remeber you from a stack of 15 resumes'

I just got a sweet Garmin handheld color GPS. Anybody have any good ideas of fun stuff to use it for? -See how fast I can go on my snowboard. -Build maps of free wireless internet access points around town. -All the direction/mapping functions.

-While driving -Sauna at the hotel I worked at during regurlar a hours, almost passed out from the heat/humidity -Starbuck's bathroom

I got a great deal on a complete system with cypress on DZ.com that seemed to good to be true, but it turned out to be perfectly legit. Dude was getting out of the sport and giving the money right to his exwife. It was a reasonably sketchy deal as he didn't have a phone I could reach him at, he dropped the price by $300 without me even asking if we could get the deal done within a couple days, because he was moving out of town, ect... But he had no problem giving the rig to a rigger and my rigger contacted his rigger to verify the condition of the rig. My rigger was satisfied with his rigger knowledge and understanding. Everything worked out in my case and was able to get a complete rig in great shape for $1,500. I figure I easily could have paid $3,000 for the same rig under different circumstances with a guarentee that everything was on the up and up. When I'm faced with that kind of sketchy deal I ask my self: If everything goes bad and I lose everything will I be able to live with it?

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Fair enough. I've never done it in a situation where it was critical data, more as an experiment. Obviously when there is critical data it's prudent to pay for professional recovery. When your trying to get the most you can without shelling out a ton of cash the freezer can get you a few more kb sometimes. What's your oppinion about the effect of altitude on hardrives? I just read a forum where someone mention heads prone to crashing over 8,500 feet because "there is not enough air to properly float the heads." My boss and I were talking about it and he suggested that the change in weight could have an effect on the forcre required to spin the disk at the requisite speed. It's definitely got my inner geek thinking.

On a commercial airline the cabin is pressurized, so there is no effect on the hard drives. I don’t know the impact of altitude in an unpressurized jump plane. I do IT for a living, and I’ve never read or heard of any such warnings. Hard drives function best in cold dry environments. I’ve put hard drives in the freezer to recover data and it actually worked quite well. I've thought about listening to my iPod in the ride to altitude, but never while jumping. It always seemed like there was enough stuff to do with my numbers.

This isn't based on any kind of statistical data but based on all the serious low turn injuries and deaths I wonder how many people died with perfectly good canopies over head twenty-five years. It seems like Booth may have been onto something.

I truly hate being sick. I avoid people that are sick and when I'm around people who have colds or the flu I keep my distance and wash my hands. This time of year I'll take Zinc, Airborne, and other herbal remedies at the hint of a cold. If I do get sick I stop anything, that can be stopped (work, school, etc..) and rest and relax as much as possible so that I can feel better ASAP. Probably a borderline hypochondriac. Here's the problem. When my girlfriend is sick I don't want to be around her too much. We don't live together and I certainly don't want to sleep in the same bed with her. She on the other hand doesn't mind when I'm sick and is nurturing and all that stuff. Does this ALONE make me an asshole or are other people the same way?

Mice have been the bane of my existance. Clean everything with bleach before you put multiple traps down, then the smell of the food will be extra intense and alluring. I got these ultrasonic transmitters that send out a frequency that is suppose to mess with their nervous system and repell them. I don't know how well it works. I haven't caught one in my traps for a couple weeks but I've seen the occasional dropping. Make sure you find one that changes frequencies or else the mice just get used to it. I have city mice not country mice. City mice have adapted to a wide variety of annoying noises cars, gunshots, random bar fights, dead beat parents yelling at their kids, half drunk toothless crackwhores screaming about how unfair life is, and bad music played from jucied car stereos; so it's hard to fathom a ultrasonic frequency would do the trick, but it's worth the $15 at home depot if it does have any effect. Also when you're patching the holes mix steel wool in they hate chewing through steel wool. Also, put sticky pads by the holes.