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I have not seen it yet. But my question many posts ago has still not been answered. In this movie does Moore say or imply that there is universal dentalcare in Canada? No, he does not imply anything about universal dental care.

Turnabout is fair play, isn't it? Judge not, that ye be not offended or something like that?

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Cal City is in the low 100's? Skydive Utah is right on the Great Salt Lake, and abt 3.5 hours from Moab. Moab is beautiful, so is SLC. Beware, gear gets dirty at Moab. The sights make it worth it.

"telling facts?" MM does present facts. You just don't like the way he presents them, or rather the conclusions he draws from them. I don't necessarily care for it either in many cases. But you're talking about this subject, you're tweaked about him making the movie, and it's got America talking. Headline yesterday "Healthcare in America likely the most important plank in any candidate's position." Would that have been the case were it not for this film? I don't think so. Did you see the movie?

For some reason, your vid won't open up for me. Can I get a direct link?

Of course it's packed. Tomorrow morning gets it's inaugural jump. Beautiful colors, and knowing I've got the first one in the universe makes me smile just that much more. Colors are great. Not just "dynamic" but damn sexy. I'll post pix of it later. Looks so tiny, gotta wonder where all the volume comes from. Fits so much nicer than my older Talon that is 3/4 of an inch different. You did an amazing job. Now...will it make my photos better?

Airgord, it came. You suck for being a tease. I finally figured this exit. Hard to do wearing wings, but if you put your left foot straight into the door pocket, right knee up against the fuselage of the aircraft, hold floatbar with right hand and door frame with left hand, it's not hard to blow off the side with right leg pushing out, left leg swinging out, both elbows dropped with hands at side once gone from the a/c. This allows 3-5 exit shots, or seems to. Still working on it. Wish the DZ had a fat mattress to practice with on the ground.

Isaiah described the Earth as being round: You must be an AMAZING tap-dancer. BTW, Isaiah's words are open to interpretation. Jewish scholars have long maintained that he meant the circle as it applies to man being in the center, not to the earth as a sphere. Given that those guys (and everyone else at the time) were pretty educated given the level of access...I'll trust their interpretations over yours. Please forgive me for trusting history and science vs histrionics and anti-science.

Not interested in listening to diatribe and bullshit of one person's (or a congregations) opinion of how they interpret history's most successful bullshit novels collectively known as "the bible." I listened to the insipid, judgemental "are you a good person" and had a good laugh at the "i'm not judging you, god is" when it's not god's voice I hear, it's a man's voice with a fairly pathetic message filled with judgemental condescension. Jesus "the Christ" is an invention of Nicea, anyone with the most basic understanding of religious history gets that. Catholicism ran Nicea. Ergo, Catholicism paved the way for modern Christianity. They collected the books, protected the "history" or hysteria, whichever your viewpoint, and kept Jesus in the spotlight while drumming fear into the hearts of ignorant, hungry people. I'm not ignorant of the subject, just willfully realistic. I didn't start with the premise that the world isn't round and then set about trying to make everything fit within my viewpoint. Jesus was nothing until long, long after he was killed. Kinda like the Kent State debate, it all depends on where you're standing that determines your viewpoint. I tend to think he was nothing but a nice man on earth, and deified (much like Elvis) long after his death.

Catholicism paved the way for modern Christianity, but Catholicism is evil. ergo God paved the way for Catholicism, therefore god is evil. As god is an invention of man, no wonder Christians consider man as evil and in need of punishment. Jesus would be shocked at that concept. Jesus didn't write one damn word; it's sad that modern day Christians are foolish enough to not realize that. There is no "book of Jesus." For all anyone knows, he was as ignorant as Elvis, only wildly more popular in modern time.

I wasn't at Kent State. Just because they were "there" doesn't mean squat. A lot of people "was there" at Kent State and other places of social tradgedy and "saw" whatever they were later told they saw, or saw what their personal agendas/politics wanted them to see. We have two eyes, which means we can see whatever we want to see from either side of an issue. Some here see the US in a dire position, and others see that everything is pretty much alright. But we're all "there." Being there and watching the events happen in front of you over several days doesn't mean squat?? Maybe not in your reality, but in most peoples', and the court's, it does mean squat. In fact, people can be tried, found guilty, and executed based on eyewitness testimony. Second-hand info, though, usually won't even get an arrest warrant issued. Don't mean squat? I beg to differ. You UTTERLY missed the point. Think about what I posted without your angst in the process, it might make more sense to you. Maybe the story of the 5 blind men and the elephant might help.

I think you have a very broad idea of what a Christian is where the Biblical criteria is very narrow. Just because a person calls themselves a Christian does not make it so (Matthew 7:13). Your view on this matter has been made very clear. Very few people in this world are Christian, according to your scriptures and "Are you a good person." I'm quite confident that Jesus would be offended over it, as most good people are. "Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it" doesn't say anything about Christianity. Some interpret this passage in a way that fits their narrow view; Others see it for what it is...a recommendation for setting rules and living by them to save themselves from certain challenges. In that same chapter, Matthew says "How can you say to your brother, 'Let me take the speck out of your eye,' when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? 5You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye." Wouldn't you agree that telling people they're not good or saying that they are not Christian when they feel they are, is a big plank in thine own eye?

I wasn't at Kent State. Just because they were "there" doesn't mean squat. A lot of people "was there" at Kent State and other places of social tradgedy and "saw" whatever they were later told they saw, or saw what their personal agendas/politics wanted them to see. We have two eyes, which means we can see whatever we want to see from either side of an issue. Some here see the US in a dire position, and others see that everything is pretty much alright. But we're all "there."

Pot-Kettle? I dare you to walk into a KKK meeting and tell those "Christians" that it doesn't matter if Jesus was a black man. On second thought, I'll pay your airfare (and mine) just for the fun of watching it occur. Your hospital bills are your own expense.

This guy landed the flag beautifully into the cradled arms of the National Guard, in front of nearly 70K people in the stadium while it was being simulcast to Iraq and Afghanistan. (Newspaper says 55k, promoters say 68K). He practiced with several jumps, as the landing area was tiny inside the stadium with all the staging, hanged lines, etc. It was my responsibility to work with the Guard as they caught the flag, and this thread was most helpful in working out exactly how to do this. thanks, guys. Incidentally, this is the same guy that some were pissing on over in Speakers Corner recently, because he's an Iraqi that is now a citizen of the USA, carrying a flag into one of the largest patriotic events in the country. The crowd went wild when he flew in. It was amazing to watch him float it for so long, until he'd drifted over the suspension lines at mid-field, and then drop in with grace. [edited to fix link (thanks Dave)

that's one aspect that really blew my mind; Both the container manufacturer and myself were *sure* that this canopy was going to pack up with greater volume. It really doesn't. Same Dbag, same volume in the D-bag. Everyone involved on our end was quite surprised, we held up a container from being finished until we knew this would fit. I wish we hadn't, because it fits perfectly. Thanks again, Kolla and crew. Best customer service in the world, IMO.

It's likely the extra layers of fabric that make it more stiff? Flying it alternating between my other Silhouette of identical size, it's significantly different. Love em' both, but I can get more response out of this canopy. DZO commented on the differences in landing characteristics as well. Flew it for a demo, it sure gets a lot of comments. re; colors; Green and white are interchangeable in traditional color schemes. Green for summer, white for winter...Therefore I guess green represents the Caucasian cultures.

I'd suppose this is one benefit of having 3 landing areas and very good separation between them; I'm not afraid to be in the air with people I'm not comfortable being near under canopy. There is always the east or west side, and North, South, or West landing areas. The biggest fear I have is of a skygod or two that has to swoop every landing, hook every landing, and even though I'm usually out after them, there is the occasion that they're with a student and they have to burn their way down to hook/swoop the landing area. When I'm in the air on those occasions, I stay well off until I've seen them land. Even if they're not hooking it into your approach, they'll still bitch about you being in "their airspace."

yup, got two jumps in with it so far. I'll post a full review as soon as I submit the contracted review to the magazine that hired it. Nice lil' cam. They should be on store shelves shortly.

Sure. Why not. Long hair, nearly blonde, blue eyes, chiseled, tiny nose, long neck, and lotsa forehead. Every Mormon church in the world has this picture in it, so this is what he must have looked like. Seriously, how many depictions of him are there? Thousands? One of them has *got* to be close to the real deal, just based on numbers alone. Course', he's The Christ. He can appear however he wants. Some think he looks like George Bush. Check this picture out, as he looks like a Hollywood star. Damn...must be weird worshiping/idolizing someone who could pass you on the street and you'd have no clue.

You do have the templates in DVD Studio Pro, I don't believe you can not install them, although you can uninstall them after installation. Youcan reinstall them from your FCS package. If you need help with them, PM me.

Both are 1080i, both are HD. Differences is OIS vs EIS, for non-belly flyers it appears the HC7 has some issues. Some folks are using them, others aren't. HC3 is discontinued, but a great lil' camcorder. HC5 replaced it. Both have the same MPEG encoder, but the HC 5/7 have better sensors, and better DSP, as they're newer/third generation. HC3 can be had very cheaply, I saw some at a store recently for around $600.00 USD.

If you have Final Cut, don't you have DVD Studio Pro? It comes with some very impressive DVD templates. Otherwise, PixelPops are nice, or you can roll your own using FCP, a little compositing, and some desaturation so text holds tight over top of the graphics/video. Adobe Encore also runs on Apple now, but compared to DVD Studio Pro, Encore blows. Smarter, simpler way to build slideshows? Nothing really "simple" in FCP to do this, it's slow going if you want motion/animated slides. If you have Sony Vegas, it's ridiculously fast, 10,000 slides with animation in about 10 seconds, matched to music beats, etc. Otherwise, Canopus offers great tools for this, or DVD Studio Pro allows for easy non-animated slide shows.

Looks to me like they handled a rough situation very well. According to the local news they did extremely well given the circumstances.