MarkM
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Perfect reply. The good rules are the ones that keep noobs from killing themselves before they get the skill they need to do what they want to do. Min jump numbers for wingsuits, min pull altitudes based on licenses and even the min landing space requirements for licenses.
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Ask your doctor.
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Nice bod, pretty independant, has goals in life, works hard, but also knows how to be a coach potato.
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I don't listen to CDs anymore just use them as masters and rip them direct to mp3(ogg actually). Guess I won't be buying this one then
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He took out the part where you see JFK's killer shoot from behind the grassy knoll... Hey SuperKat, if you don't want to deal with talking to your friend it's always amazing how video can sometimes just make its way to the S&TA of a DZ through no fault of the person that took the video.
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I haven't jumped anything smaller than my 150, so I wouldn't be able to tell you if putting me under a 130 would scare the crap out of me or not. But the most dangerous parts of this sport to me seem to be those situations where everything feels like you're in control, you can handle it, then Something Bad happens and things get out of control faster than you can manage at your skill level. So if I did try a 130, landed it fine a few times and it didn't seem that dangerous to me, I'd likely still be in over my head when something went wrong.
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For their DSL service, Bellsouth doesn't block anything. I run email/web from home using them and it works fine.
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You'll need to run a 3rd party SMTP server, like http://www.xmailserver.org/ and you'll need to configure it to forward all outgoing email to your ISP's SMTP server so you're relaying off of that. About 10-20% of the internet anymore does reverse lookups on the SMTP server where they're receiving email from. If the SMTP server IP address doesn't resolve to a MX, it'll reject the mail as spam. It's simplier all around to just use your ISP's SMTP server, unless you want to do inbound email.
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I'm thinking that the secret is big boxes of those foam peanuts. Or maybe magnets on the ground and in the suit, turned upside down so they repel each other.
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Keep your career choice, just have them shift your seasons or move to a new location that let's you jump like you want. I moved to Florida 5 years back and can today jump like I want to. Really, I think it's easier to work outside of the sport and jump on the weekends. Then after awhile, pay for your ratings and what-not then move over to working in the sport if that's something you still want to do.
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Ditto.
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It's that canopy nylon scent that drives them crazy. Now if only we could buy it as a cologne...
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Oh please. Women haven't been so helpless over the last 50k years to just sit by and let the mean ole men take over for them. Societies have been patriarchial because in the past societies that favored men dominated those that didn't. And that's just because men can wield clubs better than women. The women sit home and have babies while the men go out and get killed. If you kill off too many men, then you just have one man marry multiple women to keep the babies coming. Women control the birthing and rearing process. If they didn't want men to dominate all they would have to do is kill off the boy babies or just not take care of them as well. But typically infantcide is committed on girls.
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Holy shit sunny, 13.3. If you don't slow down babe, you're gonna burn in on that keyboard.
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Just get Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fud or my best friend Wyle E. Coyote to sign it. I mean, if you can't trust ole Wyle, who can you trust?
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Re: [Liemberg] Gus Wing Hit By Otter At Deland
MarkM replied to -Barry-'s topic in Safety and Training
Not the first, but the others yes, a little bit. You don't know Jack Shit about the sport if you think that's true. Your reflective ink idea is case in point. We don't give a crap about that, because this type of incident is a freak thing. The community is much much more concerned with the things that are really causing incidents in this sport, that never make the national headlines. -
You haven't met me in person
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We need a picture to really tell you. Preferably nude! So ah we can match the skin color and all that, ya know.
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I'm 1.1 with 5 years in the "sport".
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Basic biology. For humans a child is a long term investment by the parents, we have a very long helpless period when born and need our parents to protect and feed us. For a woman having a child, they need a man that can protect them when they're preggers, provide for them/their child and will stick around to raise the kid. For men who want to have a child, we need a woman who will nurture the kid and won't go behind our back, fuck some other guy and then tell us it's our kid. We don't have any natural way to tell if a born child is ours or not, so we want a faithful woman. One that doesn't screw anything that moves. Hence the double standard.
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Re: [Liemberg] Gus Wing Hit By Otter At Deland
MarkM replied to -Barry-'s topic in Safety and Training
Skydiving is regulated. The FAA sets very strict requirements on many aspects of the sport and the USPA has in place very specific Basic Safety Rules that cover the rest of the operations. Sadly the vast majority of the deaths and injuries in skydiving are not caused by a lack of regulation or even enforcement(dropzones happily follow the BSRs set forth by the USPA), but by bad judgement of the jumper involved. -
Aircraft Pilots & Canopy Pilots Safely Sharing The Sky
MarkM replied to pyke's topic in Safety and Training
Canopies and air traffic or freefallers and air traffic? All you have to do with canopies is move the LZ off the DZ and bus them back and forth. It's a PITA for the DZ to bus people in from the landing area, but it's usually doable if it comes down to that. Now I know at Pahokee FL we had all sorts of air traffic issues due to planes flying over the airport because of a beacon there. It wasn't at all uncommon for a load to go around once or twice due to air traffic and I believe air traffic is the reason why that airport won't allow a DZ to operate from there today. -
Cool. When are they airing the trip?
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It's tan.
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Aircraft Pilots & Canopy Pilots Safely Sharing The Sky
MarkM replied to pyke's topic in Safety and Training
I think changing anything would be over reacting. There are what, 15 million skydives in a year? 15 million instances of little planes(parachutes) landing in the same airspace as the larger planes. And this is the first instance of a canopy->plane collision we've had for as long anyone can remember. So out of maybe 100 million - 150 million parachute landings we have this one instance of a collision. While Gus' accident is certainly tragic, it shouldn't overshadow that having parachutes operating in the vicinity of other planes has been historically very safe for all involved parties under our current guidelines and rules.