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It depends. What kind of reserve is it? Does it have an attachment point for a deployment system? If not, buying a new one every jump will get kind of tiring. Some riggers won't pack perfectly good PDRs if they are more than 20 years old. It's possible that your reserve may be still worth some money to someone else.

Sigh....more circular nonsense. You can claim anything you like, insult anyone's morality, and claim superiority, as long as you play the faith card. This is the dark side of belief. It's use to denigrate the other. And this is what I despise. Not your faith, but your abuse of others.

The free market is a great way to generate wealth. But it's only focused on that and will not stop to consider the consequences. We need balance to succeed long term. You can't eat your seed and then expect a crop next year. Even Jesus believed in paying taxes. Matthew 22:21

I don't know Ron. First I read about you seeking enlightenment through Jesus. Now I read about you seeking enlightenment through Q. You don't seem to be very fussy.

Yes Now you are being silly.

Hi Ron, since we don’t really know who you are or at least most of us don’t, and you’ve hinted at some serious health problems I always worry that you will disappear from these pages and we won’t know if you have passed on or not.

Yeah, big surprise. The "transcript" released by Trump is only hints at extortion while he asks for illegal help with his election campaign. There is much more to come. And even if there is not this will do.

The impeachment effort will end with Republican senators needing to make up their mind which side it is in their best interest to vote on.

Nixon was forced out because he knew he would be impeached. That is pretty much the same thing

If they did, would it not be God's will?

That's been true since his inauguration. I can still remember listening to his "fortress America" speech.

How do you explain Obama's two victories? Was it testicles? But in any case, this weekend's news of the dotard's begging for more foreign electoral interference is likely going to lead to an impeachment vote in the House.

Correlation, causation, you expect the likes of him to notice the difference unless it suits him?

Yes, unlike a parliamentary system the US presidential system makes it nearly impossible for the leader to be fired for mere incompetence. Given the power afforded to the office this is potentially a disastrous weakness.

I participate in FB because there is a lot of action there. But it is far inferior to what is available right here. FB content is like a vapour.

And again on the same topic it's more than a little frustrating that the CDC and the media keep hinting but are not saying that ordinary commercial products may be responsible for some of the illnesses. https://time.com/5681190/cdc-vaping-lung-illnesses/

Current taxation policy has led to an unsustainable wealth gap.

I agree that media in general have been talking a lot about those deaths and not enough about the suspected cause and it's link to unlicensed THC products. It probably doesn't help that health authorities seem unable to make a conclusive conclusion, but enough hints and vague statements have been made that anyone paying attention should understand by now.

Sure, just like the magical thinking of "trickle down" economics. Sometimes policy is aspirational.

This is clearly an attack on her. And of course democrats. And it is clearly an effort to belittle her. I accept that you would like to back peddle now, but that does not change your earlier words. She is not a "prop". But some people find her to be somewhat inspiring, as I said earlier. Myself, I have not really bothered to read what she is saying. I don't need to, I know that the Earth is warming.

That's not a good comparison. Barron Trump is 13 years old and stays out of the public view. Greta is older and actively seeks the spotlight.

That's not so bad. I do not see a hockey stick in that graph so it must be alright.

Cover story in Sept. 30/19 edition of Time. About how vaping has been marketed to addict kids to nicotine. https://time.com/magazine/

An entire edition of Time Magazine perhaps?

From her Wiki page: Ad hominem attacks By August 2019, Scientific American was reporting that Thunberg's detractors have "launched personal attacks", "bash (her) autism", and "increasingly rely on ad hominem attacks to blunt her influence."[82] Swedish opinion writer Paulina Neuding [sv] invoked mental health issues to question the idea that Thunberg should be leading climate change activism.[83] Writing in The Guardian, Aditya Chakrabortty said that columnists including Brendan O'Neill, Toby Young, the blog Guido Fawkes, as well as Helen Dale and Rod Liddle at The Spectator and The Sunday Times had been making "ugly personal attacks" on Thunberg.[84] As part of its climate change denial, Germany's Alternative for Germany party has attacked Thunberg "in fairly vicious ways", according to Jakob Guhl, a researcher for the Institute for Strategic Dialogue.[85] Thunberg has also been criticised by the Australian climate-change denier Andrew Bolt[86] after Thunberg announced she would travel to the United States in a carbon-zero yacht. Bolt said she had a cult following, calling her "freakishly influential"[87] for a "girl so young and with so many mental disorders".[88] Former UKIP funder Arron Banks[89] was criticised for joking on Twitter about the potential of her encountering an accident on her journey.[90] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yes, it would seem that many climate change deniers are using the same lame tactics that brenthutch no doubt picked up from some denier web site. Losers who don't like her message are using her Asperger Syndrome to denigrate her and then are denying the denigration. The fact is that she is somewhat inspiring. That causes fear and anger in deniers.