livendive

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  1. I ain't posting my results...I'm still 9th on my own top 10. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)
  2. I agree it's gotten kinda crazy, but decent deals can still be found on the used market. I helped someone buy a Triathlon Monday for $800, built in 07 with about 100 jumps on it. I helped someone else buy a rig a couple weeks ago that included all the nice "extras"...skyhook, articulated harness, CYPRES 2, PD reserve, etc. The whole thing was built in 06, had less than a hundred jumps on it, and was $3900 packed & ready to jump. Considering the last new sport rig I bought was $2900 eight years ago with no CYPRES and a Tempo reserve, I thought it was a decent deal. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)
  3. I'm no fan of Obama's stance on guns, but the above bill did not make sense from a logic standpoint. As best I can tell, the bill provided people a defense from municipal weapon possession charges if they used a weapon in self defense in a municipality that banned possession. There's no logic in such legislation. They should have written a bill (or constitutional amendment) that outlawed local gun bans. Alternately, it would have made sense to let things lie so that when someone actually did use a gun in self-defense that they possessed illegally, the public clamour following their misdemeanor possession charge would have been sufficient to prompt a constitutional amendment. Instead, they passed a bill that said "It's illegal for you to possess this gun in some places, however we'll force the municipality to overlook that, but only if you actually use it in self-defense. If you punch them and knock them out and the cops show up and find out you've got a gun, you're screwed." While I like the intent of the bill (allow for self-defense) the execution sucked. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)
  4. And now, for an equally silly response: Too bad people like you prevented him from being held as a prisoner of war. When did the government express any interest in treating them as prisoners of war? Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)
  5. And another person we have to thank for this is: President George Bush Agreed, and it's pretty rare I praise anything he's done. I'd be a bigger fan of his appointments if they'd been protective of individual rights in their previous opinions, but I'm glad they at least got this one right. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)
  6. This sort of thing makes me wonder - I've got close to 5000 jumps and have never been hit in freefall, never been close to unconscious, nothing even vaguely of the sort.... Never even been dizzy. I have exactly once, while doing AFF in a frap hat without an AAD (my big-boy student caught me right on the chin while I was trying to evade the FUBARed reserve side guy). He hit me hard enough that I didn't see the PC till the bridle was wrapped under my arm, was shaking off cobwebs while tracking away, and couldn't really chew solid food for nearly two weeks. I ordered a proper helmet with chin protection a couple weeks later and put a CYPRES in my rig not too long after that. It still kind of wierds me out to turn it on for anything other than AFF, but I often times do so despite my reservations. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)
  7. What are you talking about? All they have to do is broadcast a digital signal (vs. analog). The only people who will need a box are the people with old (analog) televisions, and the government is giving out vouchers for those! While I do have cable at home, I already get free hi-def over the little crank-up antenna on my trailer at the DZ and expect that to get better next year, not worse. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)
  8. Congrats! You built something pretty cool and got a good offer for it. Now when does this become a damn democracy? Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)
  9. We've talked about putting up a sign that says "Unsupervised children will be given 4 shots of espresso and a free puppy." (Either Muttley or I saw it somewhere else...I can't remember). Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)
  10. Absolutely. The only thing I wouldn't do is a tandem (because they're legally required on tandems). I wouldn't be enthused about doing AFF without one, but I've done it before and would do it again if necessary. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)
  11. I do indeed remember him, one of several Mike's who regularly posted there (O'Mara, Spurgeon, Fedak, and DeadMike among the others). I'm sure RL can either confirm or deny, but I think Masterov was RM#1. Bummer. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)
  12. He looks like you're making him sound like a dolphin. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)
  13. Not a mod, so I guess I won't post the one I've got that beats that. (I've seen Remi's hall of shame and don't want my own exhibit ) Blues,l Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)
  14. A little warning next time? I just a expressed a momentary but very distinct resemblance to my avatar. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)
  15. Surprisingly, no. I've never been grounded or kicked off any DZ. I had a DZO ask me if he needed to run me off once, when I had about 30 jumps, but that's all I can think of. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)
  16. I've spent a couple hundred bucks on copies so far this season to ensure every student gets a handout of the SIM section for each category of the ISP. I also bought several SIMs and put them in manifest along with a sign-out sheet. I encourage all post-AFF students to take them home for a week at a time and read up. It also makes them handy for when the students are sitting around on a weather hold. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)
  17. Very cool. It's got some language that concerns me but it's at least a nice start.
  18. Spectacular!! Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)
  19. All good advice, I just have one minor edit. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)
  20. You're missing the part where most people aren't "fixable". Well only a woman would know since us guys don't normally try to "fix" people. The quote attributed to Albert Einstein all over the internet is, "Women marry men hoping they will change. Men marry women hoping they will not. Invariably, both are disappointed." Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)
  21. Nice goggles. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)
  22. First I'd have to become single again. I think I'll pass. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)
  23. Where's the option for "have not and can think of no good reason to"? I don't think I've ever met a woman who thought armpits were particularly sexy regardless of the plumage (or lack thereof). Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)
  24. Julio should send a follow-up email along the lines of "When I said I didn't want your business, what I really meant was I don't want your money. Your new FF suit will be there next week on me. Sorry for the confusion." The original mistake would not prevent me from ordering from any particular manufacturer, but this kind of reaction certainly would. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)
  25. My previous reply had dealt only with the aftermath, but what he just said too (though obviously the OP can't change whatever he did at that time). Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)