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  1. Andy9o8
    Jesus H., Marc, that's longer than some insurance policies. If I'm gonna read that I'll need a retainer.
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    I actually don't find it to be the least bit surprising -- people in the south of the US really are polite in general. Yeah, some of them probably agree with the waitress at home, but it's just not done in public, and being polite is, in fact, a language of tolerance. Wendy P. That's why Northerners refer to the Civil War as the "War of Southern Passive Aggression".
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    If your point is that some people fall back on repeating sound-byte slogans fed to them, as a substitute for their own genuine analysis and discourse, in large part because that's the best they've got and likely can ever come up with, then I agree.
  4. Andy9o8
    Oh, I thought you meant This.
  5. Andy9o8
    Except (a) the word "skydiving" is not in the policy, and (b) the advice you got over the phone was oral, and not written. The effect: it remains ambiguous; and the person you spoke to (even if perfectly honest and well-intentioned) is not the same one who's going to be handling the claim if you die skydiving. If a lawyer were in your position and wanted to try to reduce that ambiguity, he'd write a letter to the company confirming the advice he had just been given over the phone. Then be sure to give a copy of that letter to your family. It's not by any means a guaranteed solution, but it does create a certain written record which, as long as the company does not respond with a letter saying you're wrong, can only help your family if you die skydiving and the insurance company tries to claim that somehow that was not covered as "aviation".
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    You're so full of shit... You're a sweet guy. In the past 25 years I've been deftly lawyer-bashed by the best of them. You ain't one of 'em (and neither is that other guy).
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    Tsk tsk. A thinly veiled death threat on Ishtar. Helluva world. You discerned a death threat from that? Hmmmm. Well, that's the beauty of it: utter plausible dependability. But, Yes. In that case, it's a sad, sad, world. Well, if it makes you feel any better, it always has been. Human nature and all that rot. And we've muddled on. We still will.
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    It has nothing to do with Santa Claus. Hi.
  9. Andy9o8
    Tsk tsk. A thinly veiled death threat on Ishtar. Helluva world. You discerned a death threat from that? Hmmmm. Well, that's the beauty of it: utter plausible dependability. But, Yes.
  10. Andy9o8
    Tsk tsk. A thinly veiled death threat on Ishtar. Helluva world.
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    Hi.
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    WAKE UP!

    Andy9o8 replied to oldwomanc6's topic in The Bonfire

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  13. Andy9o8
    B'ismi'l'lahi ra'hm'ani ra'h'imi.
  14. Andy9o8
    I've been alive and around skydiving for a pretty long time. I have to say, with the possible exception of people who've been alive a long time and have already done a lot of physically dangerous stuff in their lifetimes, I'm at a loss to understand how anyone could truthfully find their first skydive from an aircraft, even a tandem, to be an underwhelming experience. I guess the species has devolved.
  15. Andy9o8
    Excellent point! In fact since it is a speculation thread - I wonder if the instructor would have been so prone to continuing the chase had there not been some device dependency in the back of his mind. It 'could' be perceived that the AAD was in part the cause of one fatality...not because of the firing but because it was there. Just some food for thought. I don't disagree with you. When "device dependency" is used to mean "only willing to jump if using the device", it's being used as a misnomer, and that's what I was complaining about. To me, imprudent device dependency is an adjunct of risk homeostasis. That's the sense in which you're using it here, too.
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    I jumped without an AAD for 18 years, but I have had them in all my rigs for 14 years. My life is worth $1000 bucks. Yes but I'll bet you wouldn't hesitate to jump without one if the need ever arose. Lots of device dependent folks now. With all due respect - I've come to observe that "device dependent" is a loaded, judgmental term. Dependency on the device is always there; it's just a question of degree, and that's just a question of personal preference. If reserves weren't required, some people who wanna be hard-core and skydive only BASE rigs (from aircraft) would call people jumping reserves "device dependent". I'm old enough and have been around the sport long enough to get away with being openly intolerant with old-timers (including some well-respected, pioneering "legends") who scoff derisively at safety technology, or procedures, that didn't exist yet back when they started jumping. Seriously, guys, who cares? - that was then, this is now.
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    I hate it when that happens.
  18. Andy9o8
    I suspect you've got the syntax slightly garbled.
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    Definitely. In addition, it means doing so in a way that leaves/establishes a permanent, independently-reviewable record that you've done so. (Just be deft enough about it so that you don't appear to be brown-nosing.)
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    From what I can see it depends on which rebel group the citizen hooks up with. This guy apparently hooked-up with a particular rebel group the US considers to be a terrorist organization - the implication being that had he hooked up with a different rebel group he conceivably would be OK. Clear as mud now? So what would happen if he stayed over there and just resigned US Citizenship? It ...might? depend on (a) the language of the statutes he's charged w/violating, plus (b) what US law considers a sufficient act for a US citizen to divest himself of his US citizenship to take it outside the scope of the criminal statute - neither of which I've looked up. Or, maybe a drone would just blow his ass up.
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    Hey, at least you don't have to study Quantum Mechanics. What's the dirty little secret about QM - it's neither quantified nor mechanical? Oh, wait; that's nuclear physics. Apologies to Pogo.
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    wow i knew he wuz old but jeez
  23. Andy9o8
    Well there we go
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    From what I can see it depends on which rebel group the citizen hooks up with. This guy apparently hooked-up with a particular rebel group the US considers to be a terrorist organization - the implication being that had he hooked up with a different rebel group he conceivably would be OK. Clear as mud now?
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    Well if a kat's all floaty, there's no real chase.