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I was shooting video when my helmet mounted LANC switch got pressed on exit turning off my video. I'm not flying camera just shooting incidental video. Is this a common problem? I thought the switch seemed protected but obviously not enough. Any suggestions?

But nothing about it is grossly racist. Some folk have no shame when projecting their issues on others.

Then how do you explain haggis? That's the Ambrosia.

It depends what you mean by choppy. It's probably that the formats are inherently different frame rates, NTSC ~30Hz interlaced and PAL is 25Hz interlaced. Playback of the wrong field rate in any device will depend on the inherent standards conversion capabilities of the device. They are incompatible because the output frame rate for the display (NTSC)does not match the recorded frame rate (PAL). It doesn't matter what device you burn this on, the framerate issue remains. So you're relying on the standards conversion capability of a consumer playback device and it's just not made for that. Often they will play both comfortably but this means PAL for PAL output and NTSC for NTSC output (with the right settings). When doing PAL to NTSC it's just pot luck, it works but there's no temporal filtering and you see stuttering. It'll be addressed with a really high end playback if someone has cared to do good temporal filtering for the standards conversion you need but it's off the beaten path w.r.t. what joe public gives a crap about buying.

In Scotland it's freezing despite the sunshine so you don't feel the radiation cooking your skin and stay out in the stuff too long. Getting burnt whilst freezing your peely-wally ass off is definitely part of the Scottish experience.

I can independently confirm that there are rumblings.

You, apparently. This thread is from Dec 2005 . Dunno how I stumbled on this then. Must've been a link or searching & got distracted.

What difference does it make whether the knife is dirty or clean? And you want to critique UK culture.

In a lot of places yes. Scroll down a bit, check out South Carolina, SC

Well I guess I'm not here to answer your questions. I've posted a clear and reasoned position. You don't get to see the alternative and are left comparing apples to oranges while selectively ignoring other factors in a culture you know nothing about. Your other issues ain't my problem.

It varies a lot from state to state and there are several factors: http://www.thehighroad.org/library/blades/knifelaws.html Kinda funny considering some of the comments about banning pointy things in the UK.

You missed the sarcasm metatag, smileys are an ambiguous protocol.

You don't get to see what the alternative 10 years without the bans would have been like. Either make the claim that gun ownership is a deterrent or give it up. Anyone arguing that gun ownership in the UK is a deterrent for criminals sounds like a blithering fool to people who actually live there. You just have no idea how out of touch you seem.

I'm saying poorly applied statistics can be misleading especially when you start attributing cause & effect that just isn't supported by evidence or experience. I grew up in the UK, anyone saying a gun ban has led to the increase in homicides is clearly misguided. These bans were an inconvenience for guys like me who occasionally hunted with semi-automatics but other factors dominate violent crime in the UK. There's increasing drug useage and related crime, youth/mob violence, the ghettofication of council estates and many other social factors. If you increased the availability of guns to that mix you'd end up with a murder rate that was higher. An external or emerging social factor can have a large impact on violent crime that would be dwarfed in the US by the sheer numbers of murders but in the UK it dominates the statistics. The only counter argument is the suggestion that guns reduce crime through deterrance. It just ain't like that in the UK, guns are rare in the UK, always have been and thugs have never worried about encountering them, before or after any bans. All of this is ignored or discounted because it doesn't fit a domestic agenda favoring the 2nd amendment.

First, a 25% increase over 10 years is much more than just a "nudge" and a "bit". I'm surprised that you take such a trend so nonchalantly. When UK rates are so low a small increase is a large percentage. An equivalent increase would have been less than 5% in the USA. There are cultural influences that dwarf your pet cause as factors, like the rise in youth violence on housing estates and the increase in related drug useage. When I lived in the UK *NOBODY* worried that they'd be shot, criminals don't ever imagine they'll be confronted with a firearm when committing a crime either before or after the ban, it is a non factor, this is not about deterrance. Your pro-gun jingoism just doesn't translate. You're the one comparing apples and oranges, not me. You're trying to establish cause and effect and you don't have clue one about the culture in the place you're deriving claims from. You live in a place with a murder rate 5X higher than the UK, the majority of them firearms related and you want to pontificate about gun legislation in a place you just don't understand.

My point is clear but all you've done is claim confusion. You're welcome to make a counterpoint of your own.

I bet you enjoyed typing this, but since you failed to note the math error I pointed out to Scoop, it's a false glory. The ratio is not 1/50, but 1/4.67. (this england jihads of his are lame enough without people failing in basic arithmetic.) Great, so John is only 5 times more likely to be murdered as he polished his gun. The point is the same. I missed your correction, no need to get your panties in a wad.

How do you define success? According to you a murder rate 1/50th of the U.S. is a huge failure if the murder rate nudges up a bit. Nobody gets to see the alternative, you're left drawing comparrisons between different situations but when you draw comparrisons between the UK and the US while ignoring absolutely glaring disparities in murder rates which completely devastate any sad point you're trying to make you look completely intellectually dishonest. 1/50th the murder rate John. If you were smart you'd envy that kind of disparity, but you're too busy polishing your AR-15 to notice, thinking it'll save you when it's your turn.

I had similar problems especially with a new zero-P. Patience helps, don't rush it. But ultimately the best move I made was psycho packing, don't be fooled by the name, basically it's roll up bagging. Everything else is the same. Here it is with pictures. http://www.icaruscanopies.aero/canopies/Omega/packing.htm It's much easier and the canopy stays small and in control when I stuff it in the bag. It's much safer for me because I'm not screwing around with it endlessly as my lines move and my slider slips around. Make sure you stay patient and squeeze the air out as you go even with roll bagging.

You need to jump with other more experienced jumpers, maybe get on 4-ways with an experienced LO. Ultimately you'll have more fun & progress and you can always still jump with your family.

I know the feeling on other hobbies, some of them are closer, more convenient cheaper or more interesting in the moment. First jump back after a break is always fun though. I kinda agree with other comments though, jump or don't jump, it's up to you. Who needs to know?

Cost me $50 to learn how to pack, only the riggers would teach that stuff to students & I didn't think twice about it until I read this thread

Not entirely unrelated IMHO: http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/07/10/jefferson.ruling.ap/index.html The annoying thing here is this is given a loads of airtime in the media and harrumphing by the idiots in congress but it's a nobrainer, some punk can't be immune from taking bribes given due process. Now we have the FBI writing "sweeping" legislation and there's barely a mention of it in the news. I guess it's not atypical but this is so brazen that they're not even bothered with the usual veneer. Just get your patsy legislator to push your bill and issue a press release. Even the legislator thinks it's great being a shill, he'll go back home and crow about it like it's a good thing. If these guys had been running the show when radio was invented every time you changed the channel your radio would be keeping a timestamped record. "You listened to Howard Stern? This really puts your conduct in an incriminating light!"

His butt looks REAL comfortable, and look at the lumbar support. Not as comfy as the attached image of a harness & 3-ring. I wonder if they have anything in common.

My favorite is the reptilian aliens living underground in massive government complexes. The British Royal family is apparently reptilian, but need human DNA and if they blink you can see their black reptilian eyes. Of course they run the world through the illuminati, G8 and DeBeers etc. etc. This is just scratching the surface of David Ike's outlandish fabric of conspiracy theories. I heard him with Art Bell once, awesome stuff, lucid insanity like that is a rare gift. He can talk for hours on this stuff, totally convinced and it just never ends, he just keeps yanking back curtains on the freak show that is his mind.