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OK I get it...they are two entirely different animals. But then what gain do you have by covering part of the cell openings...does it make the canopy fly faster or more responsive...or both?

So I've been hearing alot of canopy manufacturers have been touting the 'slightly elliptical' design for some while. My question is this...In my humble opinion slightly elliptical means the shape of the wing itself is slightly curved more than an actual rectangular shape. But why is it that many of these canopies have more fabric covering the inlets of the cells? Does this factor into the 'slightly elliptical' definition as well? I know when I look at a pic of a Sabre 2 there isn't any fabric covering the inlets of the cells. Does this help with the flight characteristics? I just wanted some clarification because this has been bugging me for a while.

Pineapple Express Pootie Tang Old School Snatch (I hate Dags)

Well I have a loose snake in my pants...whats the difference?

I prefer white widow myself but any breed would do!

When I was in the army we had alot of these old crank phones laying around... So one day we got a newb in our unit and we decided to have some fun with him. So we whipped out the ol crank phone and drilled a small hole in the back of the porta-potty. Ran the wire through the porta-potty and about 35 feet behind it to some trees where three of us had the crank phone. I don't know if any of you know about these old phone but when you crank them then actually shock this shit out of you. So we exposed the two wires and wrapped them around each other. Then we laid in wait for at least 15 minutes for him to get off his shift on guard duty and go to the porta-potty and take a dump. Sure enough here he comes...we wait about 30 seconds for him to be in the 'seated' position, and then we started cranking the crank. The next thing that happened was priceless!! The spark ignited all the methane gas in the porta potta and made a small explosion in the porta potty that blew week old doo-doo and piss all over his ass and the back of his legs. Now that was priceless!

I agree with you about the peanut oil being one of the most expensive parts...but the most time consuming issue is defrosting the turkey. Hey I was watching this show last night on TRUTV and they put in a totally frozen turkey in a tub of boiling out and wow...that thing went crazy!! I've never seen so many flames shoot out of something so small. Needless to say when I did mine for thanksgiving...It was pretty danm defrosted but yet it still managed to spill hot oil on my driveway. Make sure you do it outside with a very defrosted turkey!

You should try and hook up with Hungarianchick...man does she have a bangin ass!...of course we haven't seen her face yet. Of course with an ass like that what could go wrong?

Probably some douche is using it to change his oil in his car right now. This makes me nervous because I just ordered a new Tonysuit Pit Special yesterday and chose the rush ordering as well. Why dont you go to the shipping office and raise a stink. I used to order a lot of Pizza's in the past and we always had our broke buddy with us. Inevitably he would get a free pizza everytime. He waited until we got our order and then became a massive asshole to the company and before you knew it another free pizza would be knocking on our door. I say this to say that you should go to UPS and become an asshole and tell them what happened and see if Bev Suits carried any insurance on the package. Good Luck brother Paul

I'd like to see you wear that leather thingy in freefall. I could'nt guarantee I wouldnt pitch a tent though.

I just placed my order for my new container yesterday at square 1. I am attaching a picture of the design I ordered. Hopefully I'm not as color blind as others...

Just get an iDock...its only around 50 bucks.

My dad uses a septic system that gathers up the liquid and waits for a unoportunistic time to dump it out to an automatic sprinkler system in the yard. Its rather foolproof and a good plan. Unless you're my dad and youre out mowing the 5 acre yard they have and suddenly the sprinklers turn on and you get week old piss shot in your face.

perhaps boozy should stop deepthroating jack daniels' johnson and maybe he wouldnt be such a dickhead.

I am doing the final touches on the order form for my 1st new rig. I was curious regarding what is more comfortable on the backpad...cordura, or mesh. Any opinions as to which would be better?

Personally I'd suggest you removed the keyboard...There is usually a plastic bezel you can pop up and there will be a few small screws holding it in place. Wrap the connector in tape and wash the keyboard with soap and water. Otherwise in a few weeks you will find the sugar and other stuff will granulate under your keyboard and you keys will start sticking...then you old lady will think you've been beatin it to porn while she was at the store. Just trying to save you some heartache in advance.

Look I am definately no professional regarding these matters but in 2006 when I jumped for my first time, I did AFF...never done a tandem before. When I exited the aircraft...my arch sucked. But when I pulled I listened to the radio commands and flared when they told me to. Sure I slid on my butt but 4 jumps later I was landing on my feet every time. Sure I've got low jump numbers but I was the opposite...my freefall sucked and I did fine under canopy. Like everyone else said...don't beat yourself up about it...the only way to correct it is to try again...and again until you get it right. Just dont get all wrapped up in what happened when you got injured in relation to landing again. Put that out of your mind and what I do (I was taught by my instructor) was to look for the tree line and when it looks like you are equal to the tops of the trees while checking below you, start your flare. Thats just what I was taught..it might not work for you, but it took me 3 1/2 years to get my license (because of money) but I NEVER gave up and now I have my license and as we speak I'm filling out the order form for my 1st new rig. Keep with it...you won't be dissapointed.

Yeah thats what they had in Total Recall. Of course when they scan me they will be nudging their co-worker saying...oh my look how huge his penis is!

sounds like you are quite limber...have you thought about using those abilities in freefall? Sounds like a sweet picture! (just dont show it to me)

who is Felix Mendelssohn?

Why not create an avatar made out of a picture of your penis?

well which do you prefer giving?

Choosing Dual or Quad Core I'm a big fan of dual-core systems. I think there's a clear and substantial benefit for all computer users when there are two CPUs waiting to service requests, instead of just one. If nothing else, it lets you gracefully terminate an application that has gone haywire, consuming all available CPU time. It's like having a backup CPU in reserve, waiting to jump in and assist as necessary. But for most software, you hit a point of diminishing returns very rapidly after two cores. In Quad-Core Desktops and Diminishing Returns, I questioned how effectively today's software can really use even four CPU cores, much less the inevitable eight and sixteen CPU cores we'll see a few years from now. To get a sense of what kind of performance improvement we can expect going from 2 to 4 CPU cores, let's focus on the Core 2 Duo E6600 and Core 2 Quad Q6600 processors. These 2.4 GHz CPUs are identical in every respect, except for the number of cores they bring to the table. In a recent review, Scott Wasson at the always-thorough Tech Report presented a slew of benchmarks that included both of these processors. Here's a quick visual summary of how much you can expect performance to improve when upgrading from 2 to 4 CPU cores: Task Manager CPU Graph improvement 2 to 4 cores The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion none Rainbow 6: Vegas none Supreme Commander none Valve Source engine particle simulation 1.8 x Valve VRAD map compilation 1.9 x 3DMark06: Return to Proxycon none 3DMark06: Firefly Forest none 3DMark06: Canyon Flight none 3DMark06: Deep Freeze none 3DMark06: CPU test 1 1.7 x 3DMark06: CPU test 2 1.6 x The Panorama Factory 1.6 x picCOLOR 1.4 x Windows Media Encoder x64 1.6 x Lame MT MP3 encoder none Cinebench 1.7 x POV-Ray 2.0 x Myrimatch 1.8 x STARS Euler3D 1.5 x SiSoft Sandra Mandelbrot 2.0 x The results seem encouraging, until you take a look at the applications that benefit from quad-core-- the ones that aren't purely synthetic benchmarks are rendering, encoding, or scientific applications . It's the same old story. Beyond encoding and rendering tasks which are naturally amenable to parallelization, the task manager CPU graphs tell the sad tale of software that simply isn't written to exploit more than two CPUs. Unfortunately, CPU parallelism is inevitable. Clock speed can't increase forever; the physics don't work. Mindlessly ramping clock speed to 10 GHz isn't an option. CPU vendors are forced to deliver more CPU cores running at nearly the same clock speed, or at very small speed bumps. Increasing the number of CPU cores on a die should defeat raw clock speed increases, at least in theory. In the short term, we have to choose between faster dual-core systems, or slower quad-core systems. Today, a quad-core 2.4 GHz CPU costs about the same as a dual-core 3.0 GHz CPU. But which one will provide superior performance? A recent Xbit Labs review performed exactly this comparison: 3.0 GHz Dual Core 2.4 GHz Quad Core improvement 2 to 4 cores PCMark05 9091 8853 -3% SysMark 2007, E-Learning 167 140 -16% SysMark 2007, Video Creation 131 151 15% SysMark 2007, Productivity 152 138 -9% SysMark 2007, 3D 160 148 -8% Quake 4 136 117 -15% F.E.A.R. 123 110 -10% Company of Heroes 173 161 -7% Lost Planet 62 54 -12% Lost Planet "Concurrent Operations" 62 81 30% DivX 6.6 65 64 0% Xvid 1.2 43 45 5% H.264 QuickTime Pro 7.2 189 188 0% iTunes 7.3 MP3 encoding 110 131 -16% 3ds Max 9 SP2 4.95 6.61 33% Cinebench 10 5861 8744 49% Excel 2007 39.9 24.4 63% WinRAR 3.7 188 180 5% Photoshop CS3 70 73 -4% Microsoft Movie Maker 6.0 73 80 -9% It's mostly what I would expect-- only rendering and encoding tasks exploit parallelism enough to overcome the 25% speed deficit between the dual and quad core CPUs. Outside of that specific niche, performance will actually suffer for most general purpose software if you choose a slower quad-core over a faster dual-core. However, there were some surprises in here, such as Excel 2007, and the Lost Planet "concurrent operations" setting. It's possible software engineering will eventually advance to the point that clock speed matters less than parallelism. Or eventually it might be irrelevant, if we don't get to make the choice between faster clock speeds and more CPU cores. But in the meantime, clock speed wins most of the time. More CPU cores isn't automatically better. Typical users will be better off with the fastest possible dual-core CPU they can afford.

I dont really see why everyone is getting so worked up over these multi-cored processors. Yeah x64 WILL be a great processor line WHEN you have any applications that support 64 bit operations. Right now there are only a handful of apps that support 64 bit archetecture. So you'll spend extra money to get a 8th wheel for your car when four will do just fine.

Highly Mobile MultiWheeled Vehicle...I've got at 3 stuck in the mud and had 1 completely under water! But of course I wasnt in the Air Farce... I was 31F Signal Corps US Army 32nd ADA Batallion