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Same this side of the pond, not unusual though. Everyone gets skittish around election time. -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

"I'm looking forward to my month long holiday in the US at the end of the year" You think they are going to let you in? -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

I must admit I missed that, but the article says he will run for a third term, he's approaching the end of his second. So by that, it looks unlikely he will stand down for at least another 5 or so years, barring things like votes of no confidence etc, which would call for an out of sequence general election. -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

"Well as old as Nac is..." Aw Dave that hurts, y'all know its not the years that count, its the miles.

"Didn't tony say he wasn't running for re-election?" No I don't think so, if he became a liability to the party he would stand down, I think is the gist of what he said. But he has all but apologised for the Iraq debacle, without actually saying the S word. However there will likely be an internal power struggle, most likely with Gordon Brown, our current chancellor of the exchequer. He's not as charismatic as Blair, but like I said Blair has lost some popularity over his support of what is a very unpopular war. If Iraq is still a big issue next year, its quite likely we will see a Scotsman (Brown)as our next Prime Minister. -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

My thoughts? "Do you think Tony will get sunken?" Maybe, it all depends on what happens between now and our election next year (EG if things go badly for the Black Watch who have been moved from Basra to Baghdad to support the action on Fallujah, Blair will be in trouble). A load of people have become disenfranchised with our popular left (Blair's Labour Party), even some of his own cabinet resigned, over the Iraq affair. I'm unlikley to vote for Blair again, and I've been a lifelong Labour voter. The liberation of Iraq was about as popular here as a bacon sandwich at a barmitzvah. And the more we here about various shenanigans, the worse it gets for Blair. Gordon Brown (our current chancellor) is Blair's most likely replacement, if the Labour party hand over to Brown they will almost certainly regain control and popularity. The opposition to Labour is a mixed lot, the Tory Party (our right wing) are not popular, haven't been since Thatcher (Mark's mum, the guy you're people are detaining on charges of an attempted coup up north), and the Liberal Democrats are just too wishy washy for popular tastes. Realistically, I can't see a single party ousting Blair's labour, worst case is we get what we call a hung parliament. This where no single party has a clear majority, and this is a bad situation as very little happens change-wise. Long story short, Blair may regain power, but he won't have an awful lot of control. That's on a national (UK) level, we also have Scottish, Welsh, and Northern Ireland's local parliaments to consider, I can only speak for Scotland, Labour are strong here always have been, I doubt if there will be any Tory representatives at all in Scotland, but we may see the same situation (hung parliament), as SNP (Scottish National Party) may gain support. Add to the mix oddballs like the National front (our racist biggots party), the Greens, and other wierd and wonderful independant parties. "do you think the next PM will pull the UK troops out of Iraq?" As for pulling troops out, well I for one believe we would not serve anyone by withdrawing troops at this stage, it wouldn't help our relationship with the US, and it certainly wouldn't help the poor Iraqis. As you know I reckon we shouldn't be there, but we are, and we have to deal with it. If any party other than Labour get a clear majority (unlikely), troops will almost certainly be reduced, but not necessarily withdrawn. Not a cut and dried case, as you can well imagine. -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

"I just had to get one out after enduring all those months of Bush bashing." You've now got another 4 years of Bush bashing to look forward to. -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

Ah, be fair Dave, I'm led to believe the right had a few lawyers waiting in the wings, in case shenanigans were suspected. Either way, it looks like Dubbya has one, fair play or otherwise, I hope his first action will be to assist certain Texas breweries to make their fine products available to an international market.

"why do you have the 2 vids" Not enough room for three? -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

"Insulting my: -knowledge -Polish heritage -background -parents -intelligence " Yeah, its really not fair to insult your Polish heritage, background, or parents, everything else should be fair game though. -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

Nice depth of field on the Blue One, composition is good but I reckon could be better with some minor cropping. Out of interest, did you consider composing it so the Speedo reads the other way, ie from bottom left towards centre? That would draw the eye to the centre of the picture. Minor gripe, but otherwise great snaps.

Okay, I see what you mean, sorry.

It might be interesting to find out if anyone changed the way they normally vote for any reason. Lifelong Dem suddenly turning to the other side due to Kerry's bad hair style kinda thing. Maybe a thread for tomorrow, now the election is gone, guns are beaten to death, and everybody is pretty entrenched in their belief systems.....

Wow okay, thanks. -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

"Florida does not require range qualification, or at least didn't when I got my permit." No sort of competency assessment at all? -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

"....and so it retains the title of "Most Reposted Stuff Ever" More than the skydiving babies/somebody to love video, and the dancing badgers? I think it could be closer run thing than the election.

Hey Shell, you know there's a camera forum here, right? Loads of good stuff there, on just about everything you need to know. It would be useful if you had a rough budget, and an idea of what type of jumping (tandem, 4way, freefly etc) you will be doing, also how seriously you intend to take it.

"This is not a good man. Of course, I am speaking as a mom, and a pretty indignant mom. This is not a good man." Hehe, reminds of Life of Brian.... He's not the Messiah. He's a very naughty boy. -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

Good for you, its your absolute responibility to vote. Remember every vote counts, but in some cases, your vote has probably already been counted. -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

What do you mean by 'full cover' Something like this by 2k composites? http://www.2kcomposites.com/ RAWA can't find a link but they are popular, Bonehead http://www.boneheadcomposites.com/and Cookie http://www.cookiecomposites.com/, all make a range of fine boxes for most popular cameras, which can then be mounted to just about any helmet, but are designed to fit their own ranges. If your only wory is wind noise, what about muffling the on-board mic, or a camera condom. Wind noise will be inevitable, why is it an issue to you? You can always leave the audio jacks disconnected during playback, and turn down the on-board speakers. -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

"I don't understand why our government went from being civil servants to civil evil dictators" I know when it happened, it was when that woman took office, as to why.....beats me. -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

"go get "the eiger sanction" - pretty funny" I had the pleasure of chatting with Hamish Macinnes (director/advisor of the climbing sequences/stunts)about that film a few years back. He said Clint did a pretty good job on some of the stunts, odd choice of headwear though. -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

Ah now, to be fair, don't take criticism of one candidate to be the same as approval of the other.

"I currently use a rather basic mixing board and would like to go all digital, but previous attempts with premiere have not been efficient (read fast) enough to be woth while." I reckon, on a fair playing field, traditional linear systems will beat NLE systems almost every time. By fair field I mean competent operators for either system, and reliable equipment. Even a real time (zero render time) NLE will have more footage manipulation, ergo it will always take longer. The big win of NLE over LE is that if you bloob, you don't have to start from scratch again, and you have a wider range of control over effects with NLE. -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson

Lazer tag, thats dangerous stuff, If we let kids play Lazer tag who knows what will happen. For one thing, their spelling skills will suffer. Sorry, couldn't resist it. -Speling is a impurtant aspekt of efective writen comunicashun! -------------------- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. Thomas Jefferson