Iflyme

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  1. Opps ... I was confusing it with this:http://www.avid.com/products/xpress/ Just a tad more expensive ...
  2. I think I saw this here a couple of months back...
  3. Call me an old fart, but I think most of today's music is lifeless, and pretty much sucks. It all sounds the same.
  4. Interesting ... I have very poor vision from my left eye, due to a head injury when I was a child. I have reduced depth perception, but as I have lived like this for 3 decades, I often forget about it for months at a time. I think you work with what you have. But now you've got me wondering how this affects me when I have to dive down to join a base falling below me ... hmmmm. Interesting topic!
  5. Thanks for sharing, Michele. I'm glad you are not giving up! Keep fightin' and you'll keep learning!!!
  6. So where do you get access to that little toy? btw, I've been cutting video professionally for 15 years ... nice job!
  7. Hope these jumpers are not severly injured ... It would seem they made the wrong choice. Let's all learn from this..
  8. Two jumpers from my DZ ended up with broken bones, and another landed on the roof of a house when they jumped in high winds recently. Here is a thread regarding thathttp://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=319490;search_string=wind;#319490
  9. I never get a hard time at work about skydiving ... in fact, many people are curious about it, and often ask me "did ya get to go skydiving this past weekend?"... a few people have even taken the FJC or done a tandem!
  10. Steve, is it really possible to do "one rep"?
  11. So true... we are a passionate lot, but the bottom line is: WE LOVE SKYDIVING!!!
  12. Nice job, Phree! No trouble downloading ... now who is the dancer???
  13. Just espousing on the point you and Mills so eloquently make!
  14. I agree with this statement. That was the point of this portion of the thread!
  15. Like what? "Sarg, I'd rather invade Kuwait ... I don't think they will use biological weapons on us.." "OK soldier, gather up the troops and we'll head there instead..." In the army, US and Canada alike, you are told what to do. You don't tell the government what to do. You get your orders and you go. Plain and simple.
  16. Iflyme

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    Hey! Me, too ... well next October we'll celebrate our 19th... ain't it great!!!
  17. Ya, I agree ... Billy - yer makin' great videos! I've watched my copy a bunch lately, as I've not been in the air too much lately. It's been my fix! Thanks!
  18. Yes, there are other problems that are much more of a threat to western society. How about the number of firearms used to commit crimes? How about the enormus amount of drug use? Go to a high school and see how many kids are too stoned to learn anything. What about children who grow up in poverty and have no future, so they turn to crime? How many people in North America die of smoking-related illnesses every year??? What about AIDS? But ya don't see governments spending trillions to fight any of these battles...
  19. Remove the word "dumb" (I'm not sure why you added that), and that is exactly what soldiers are. In democratic countries, the military is a tool the government uses to obtain objectives.
  20. Iflyme

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    Would hubby change his hair colour for you if you asked???
  21. Dave -- Americans and others. 39,000 Canadians died in the Second World War. 10 times as many Americans died, but then again, you have 10 times the population. Canada defended Europe, and battled Hitler's armies. Canadians died in Europe. It wasn't just your countrymen who were there.
  22. Funny? A cynical European reporter asks an American diplomat, "What proof do you have that Iraq has Weapons of Mass Destruction?" and the American replies "We kept the receipts."
  23. I dunno ... I think after jumping for a while (coming up to 5 years for me) you are MORE aware of the risks involved, and put more effort into avoiding them. Perhaps we do it subconsciously to some degree, but with experience comes knowledge and wisdom. And risk management is a big part of wisdom!
  24. Gas isn't sold by the gallon where I live, it is sold by the litre. Today we are paying 84.9 cents/litre. It's gone up 8 cents/litre in the past week or two.