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Look, it's Phishing, this stuff is trivial to do. It's their in their browser, they can COPY the site and make it look perfect very easily. Look at the URL in the bar, make sure it ENDS with the right site URL, start from the END on the right and look backwards for a website. This used to be an ie flaw where this didn't work but they patched it. Banks, paypal etc. NEVER send this account stuff out. If you ever get a notice then go directly to the site in question, NEVER NEVER click on the link. Any notification will be right there in your online account. If you don't have an account with the site in question, well duh!
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Sorry, please clarify what you're talking about eating now. I'm pretty sure the vanacular is figurative rather than literal.
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Quick! Pack my main.
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Depends...your's or one you found on the floor??? That question doesn't determine that it's a human scab.
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Blacklisted? What does this mean? The whitehouse staff will no longer purchase their CDs?
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The physics of refraction has always held, it is deeply ingrained as an emergent property of the speed of waves propagating through materials, it did not suddenly change when some promise was made. In the physical reality of our universe it has always existed, even at a conceptual/mathematical level it exists. For example, you're standing on the shore, you want to reach a drowning swimmer who is up the coast some distance. You can run at 12mph and swim at 5mph. What is the most direct route to the swimmer? The mathematics of refraction provides the answer to that question. If you think about the amazing nature of a photon taking that optimal route from it's location to its destination you will be rewarded by something far more mirraculous than any absurd and infantile claim about rainbows and promises. Physics is full of similar intellectual rewards that will make your jaw drop. Clearly you do not know how a rainbow works despite your claim "we now know". It is a shame that your education system has let you down so badly. You should read a physics book in addition to the chemistry book you've shown you need elsewhere.
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Not if they don't fund the studies and the journals publish them freely. We hear about how broccoli may be good for the colon, garlic helps with whatever (even though that was found to not be true re: the garlic). We all know that Vitamin C is good for you. We all know that it helps the body fight colds, etc. Yet, we don't regulate orange juice. But do broccoli growers market it as curative for medical conditions? The article comes off as way too slanted against the FDA. Something is strange here, I thought natural/herbal remedies were still exempt from this kind of regulatory interference has that changed? Why wouldn't a cherry be classified as a natural or herbal supplement instead of a drug? ... or are you unable to make medical claims for supplements? I thought I've seen those claims on bottles of vitamins all the time "*This statement not approved by the FDA" or words to that effect. It is assinine, but the solution is simple, tone down the medical claims for food products.
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This is part of the problem, the people saved don't even know it, and can't be counted, but it gets worse. Someone I know has 2 kids she had vaccinated for among other things whooping cough. They contracted whooping cough anyway. She is under the impression that this particular vaccine is therefore useless, when in all probability it gave her kids a fighting chance, shortened their illness, lessened its severity, it may even have saved their lives. So even a success is perceived as failure by people ill equipped to understand basic immunization.
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The Greman pilot who survived the recent cloud suck when the Chinese paraglider got killed got pulled up to 32,612ft. She was rendered unconscious, her GPS vario recorded her flight. She actually became conscious again when she descended to 21,000ft. She spent about 30 minutes up there. I heard some good commentary suggesting she survived in part thanks to cold water syndrome.
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Fire Leads Authorties To Massive Weapons Cache
dorbie replied to warpedskydiver's topic in Speakers Corner
He's not, he's being treated as a disturbed individual who refused to leave a burning building. -
There is no such thing, and you're the one who has no claim to make. What an utterly bizarre argument, if I don't try your homeopathic crap I can't discuss it? If I want a medication I will seek the medical advice of someone qualified to prescribe it, and who is backed up by centuries of scientific method and decades of modern research. Homeopathy has been scientifically tested in double blind studies, IT DOES NOT WORK. Have you looked at that research? If not "YOU have no room to talk". That claptrap you wrote about 'viberational imprinting' IS NOT A PHYSICAL PHENOMENON. There is no rational basis or scientific foundation for homeopathic claims. The stated theories like the ones you espoused are childish, irrational and laughable. You should be ashamed of yourself. Never in the history of mankind has such a cornucopia of scientific wonders been available to all. It's all there for the taking. Instead you choose to live in ignorance and just make up utter garbage with no foundation in reality. It wouldn't be so bad if you chose to suffer your own ignorance in silence but instead you try to spread this crap. Go take a chemistry class. Modern scientific theories are far more strange and bizarre than anything you could dream up, but it is backed up by observation and experiment, not wishful thinking.
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It turned up at midnight - going round and round at O'HARE BAGGAGE CLAIM. Was supposed to be in Boston. Morons! The kid's all upset, hasn't been able to practice, and he's got a big audition today. TSA IS a big part of the problem. The airlines are happy to let you "gate check" valuable items, but TSA won't allow it, even though it fits through their screening machines just fine. I Know! Kallend can take charge of baggage handling for all the airlines, then this kind of thing won't ever happen again (Not that hard of a job, right?). Might as well take over ATC also. Before calling people "morons" for a mistake that is to be expected from time to time, maybe you should do their job for a few weeks. Technically it wouldn't take much, every parcel delivery company has bar codes on everything and regular scanning. Parcel companies are the most visible manifestation of this but many large organizations do this internally as a matter of routine. You could scan every package at point of contact and even when it gets loaded into containers and the containers go on and off aircraft a simple web search could show the exact route taken and last known location if you had your luggage tag. The airline industry IS inflicted with endemic stupidity, and the politics makes it worse. A few of the right engineers could come up with a working system pronto, or you could just buy it from someone who has a system to avoid the inevitable clusterfuck governments, duelling airlines & airports would make of this.
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Viberational? ripples? Imprint? Garbage! Explain the physical phenomenon you're talking about please. You wouldn't know that mollecules exist without science, but now you've been informed of them you think it's just fine to spout a load of ignorant claptrap about imprinting. Go take a class on chemistry. Homeopathy has been scientifically tested and it has NO EFFECT in double blind studies. Get over it, accept the truth and stop inventing phenomena with absolutely no basis in any coherent scientific theory of physical reality.
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Show me your papers please... ID's for going to the mall...
dorbie replied to Fast's topic in Speakers Corner
“None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free.” Goethe -
Lost, riiiight. That covers a multitude of sins. Even the new homeland security screeners have been known to er.. re-privatise the most valuable of travellers belongings.
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Google Earth Drop Zone Project -- Ideas and Discussion
dorbie replied to quade's topic in General Skydiving Discussions
OK here's a better example. I think you need a decent graphics card to load this one as it is a relatively large texture it could be made smaller with a simple resize at the cost of some crispness, but the client may do this anyway I haven't tested this. It's a bit busy and quite basic at the same time. You could have multiple overlays stacked and blended, you're only limited by your imagination. You could fade a hazard overlay in then out then fade in alternate landing sites etc. I just threw them all in a single example image. -
Google Earth Drop Zone Project -- Ideas and Discussion
dorbie replied to quade's topic in General Skydiving Discussions
Please don't serve them as zip files, they're small and the way your site has packaged them it completely defeats the ease of use of just clicking on the kmz & auto launching Earth Viewer. Raw kmz files *PLEASE*. -
Google Earth Drop Zone Project -- Ideas and Discussion
dorbie replied to quade's topic in General Skydiving Discussions
YOU guys know you can create your own high resolution client side images and all sorts of informational overlays for your dropzones right? If there's no high resolution data you can simply add it, take an image as nadir as possible and just drag & drop it into the Google Earth window. You will then be able to position it. PNG images with alpha are supported. http links are also supported. See the attached kmz file, it links to an online image using URL but it can also use images from your disk with absolute or relative paths. Bear with me I need to create this message, get a URL then use that URL for the image location so until I edit this post will have no markup file attached, just the png image. OK I gave up trying to host the image on dropzone.com, instead I've used a picture hosting site, but this could point to your own web site or it could point to a file on your disk. If you want DZ information this is a good way to go. You can add transparency to fade in & out also. Many more features are possible in kmz files but this is a pretty easy way for anyone to photoshop information about your DZ and share it using Google Earth. I'll post a better example in a few minutes, but the attachment shows some of what is possible :-). -
You don't have to contend with any of that when you miss the track completely. You gotta be shittn' me! You must never have been to a race.....There are an equal amount if not more hazards outside the track,,,,50,000 cars , vendor semi's, hude tents, people, delivery carts, television production trucks,,,,,, And none of those things would be cause to make you miss the track in the first place.
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Kaching! Even when you make a medical insurance claim these days the insurance company WILL ask you whether anyone contributed to your injuries. If you answer in the affirmative they will go after them to recoup their losses.
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I'm quite sure the last sentence in the text I quoted above should begin "Yes, a senior rigger" and not "Yes, a Master rigger". P.S. well either that or the redundancy and inconsistency represents a larger error during the editing process, so being reluctant to put words into Sunpath's mouth, this is something else that needs to be reworded.
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It needs better wording.
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DC-9 modified for Skydiving Perris, California
dorbie replied to GravityJunky's topic in General Skydiving Discussions
Not that I know of, some jumpers were saying that when it's busy enough they try to organize a jet load but there may be other factors e.g. on this occasion not everyone was a sport jumper. I expect the boogie on April 4th-9th will be your best chance for a jet jump, looks like you just miss it. Perhaps you should reschedule. Perris manifest will be able to give you more authoritative answers: +1 (951) 657-3904 -
Anal sex (we haven't talked about it in a while)
dorbie replied to SkydiveStMarys's topic in The Bonfire
Is that literally or figuratively? -
Taser, the new electroshock therapy.