gowlerk
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It's not practical to ban smoking. Instead we regulate it and work hard to discourage it. Same as we should for vaping.
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Well... it is stupid. But it's also highly restricted. Mostly by the cost. It is also not sold to children. (mostly) But the main difference is that there is a good reason for jumping. There is no good reason for vaping.
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The Soviets were attacked by Nazis fueled by capitalists. The professor is schooling you. Again.
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No, it isn't. I hate the quote system here now.
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Even pro-choice people agree with that. Everyone agrees abortion is a negative thing to be avoided. No one encourages it except possibly politicians with their mistresses.
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Well, that does help a little. The "that's for John Lennon" line works. The rest? Not so much.
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How is there anything even remotely funny in that?
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Banning would be ineffective, but if I thought it would work I certainly would support doing so. Vaping has to be one of the stupidest things to come along in the last few years. What a bad idea, suck unknown products of heated chemicals of unknown origin as deeply into your one and only set of lungs as you can. For no good reason. Pure fucking lunacy. Form companies and sell the idea to the public as being somehow "safer than smoking". So what, even if it is safer, and it may not be, it is clearly a bad idea. Since we can't really ban it we should suppress it as much as is practical.
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I strongly disagree with this. There are many businesses that are hard to avoid in life.
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The other big factor in America's success in the last 75 years is the constant stream of immigrants renewing the economy.
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n=0 professor?
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I will not bite. I will not ask what nonsense the you are talking about or where it comes from. I don't want to know.....
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There is a closed FB group called DZ Management. I would suggest you join it and post these rigs there. For sale posts are not allowed in this forum, so I would imagine this one will be removed before long.
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Yet somehow America's "fly over land" manages to be some of the most productive agricultural land in the world. Agriculture is generally using plants to convert sunlight into energy......
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Ya Jerry, I kinda knew it was much more complicated than that. But it's the only standard I know of and is likely in the ball park. As far as I know there is no way to accurately answer the original question.
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SDAZ, Skydive Arizona. In Eloy AZ, near Casa Grande. Probably the biggest DZ anywhere, with the most dependable weather in the USA and cool enough in November with the heat of the summer over. There are also several DZs in Florida that could take care of your needs, but the weather is less dependable.
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There is no organization giving safety ratings to drop zones. Tandem parachuting is more regulated by industry standards and required training and experience levels enforced by the manufacturers of the parachute equipment used. The United States Parachuting Association (USPA) issues instructor ratings to qualified Tandem Instructors. Most but not all drop zones are USPA group members. Skydivers usually consider the drop zone they jump at to be "the safest", so asking for recommendations will mostly get you the name of one where they have the most friends. Tandem skydiving is generally the safest form of jumping there is due to the higher experience levels and training that the TIs have. Look for a USPA member DZ and ask to see the instructor's rating card if you have any doubts.
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My understanding is that reserves are required to be open within 300 ft of deployment no matter what the airspeed when they are deployed. If you are going faster that would equal less time and a harder opening than if you had just cutaway from your main. But 300 ft either way, the distance should not change, just the time.
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Good point. In fact those living in poverty always have to pay more for the little they have.
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It sounds like you are in southern Ontario. Which despite the Canadian myth is not really in the north! I can't say who in your area would be willing to take an honest approach at assessing and training you. If you were to come to our DZ north of Winnipeg in Gimli MB (still not all that far north, but at least 500 miles north of Toronto) we certainly would. If we assessed you as able to we would enroll you in the First Jump Course and after you jumped we would go from there into either the PFF program or classic progression. You could choose whether or not to do a tandem as a first jump. We trained one man this year who did a IAD first jump and was your age. He did not continue, but that was not his goal. We are a little old school here.
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There IS a problem with global warming... it stopped in 1998
gowlerk replied to rushmc's topic in Speakers Corner
If and when the sea starts to threaten valuable real estate it will matter a lot. Of course by then it may be a little on the late side. I'm not really sure if you believe that anyone is seaking a "green utopia", that's just more nonsense insults on your part. Political reality? Trumpism will pass and the pendulum will swing. It always does. -
There IS a problem with global warming... it stopped in 1998
gowlerk replied to rushmc's topic in Speakers Corner
For someone with such beliefs you sure do spend a lot of time fighting against something you seem to know won't happen. What are you so worried about? And why do you need to call other people's plans "wet dreams"? Is that some sort of repressed sexual hangup you struggle with? -
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You are the one accusing people of being criminals. Give your head a shake. The burden of proof is on YOU, not the good people that you are blithely accusing of stealing from you. Do you have the guts to name the people you are calling thieves? Or are you just talking out of your ass?
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There IS a problem with global warming... it stopped in 1998
gowlerk replied to rushmc's topic in Speakers Corner
It's a funny thing. Some people get all emotional and care about stuff like coral reefs and polar bears and shit. Other people get choked up about the possibility of gasoline costing a little more. Strange order of priorities.
