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You might find your answer here, but more information than this is definitely ill-advised. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Not finding the answers you're looking for in the topical forums on this site? Wondering where you can go for expertise in swooping, freeflying, and massive points while belly-flying? There are a couple of new triple-digit jumpers from whom you can gain invaluable advice. That's right, TheStepchild and Amyfiske are now hundred jump wonders! Last year, TheStepchild (aka Muttley) made all of her AFF jumps during the Lost Prairie Boogie, and two weeks ago, at the same boogie, she made her 100th jump. Her specialty is relative work, but her sit-fly pretty much rocks too.

Don't you owe beer for helping me with the FJC Saturday morning? I don't seem to recall paying you to teach skydiving at any point before that. :4:0 4 tandems and Ace's 100th. Which reminds me...she's not the only 100-jump wonder we've gained in the last few weeks. I think they need a thread of their own. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

I'm running iTunes now, but I have successfully removed all references to it a couple of times in the past specifically so I could manage my iPod as a regular (auxiliary) drive. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Looked like a pretty well done tandem to me. I'm sure the cow thing was intentional. Although someone at PETA would have probably have a problem with it, cow-swooping is too much fun to pass up. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

At least he got a lengthy sentence. I'm unfortunately familiar with the lenient side of the spectrum. A guy I knew all too well got six months on a plea deal when he was known to have molested at least two children on many occasions. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

No workie. Must be something wrong with your computer. I just clicked it again and it's still working fine for me. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

I don't really think of Fat Tire as a northwest beer, as it's made in Colorado. Dead Guy Ale is made by Rogue and quite good. Caution is advised, as a couple friends and I have found ourselves accidental victims of drunkeness while partaking of Dead Guy. It seems to have special abilities in that regard. Other Rogue brews are good too, I especially like the Hazelnut Brown Nectar. Moosedrool is a nice medium bodied beer, lots of malt flavor, not too hoppy, not too sweet. I also like the other offerings from Big Sky. Obviously Lang Ales are well advised, with a nice selection including Skydiver Blonde. Although somewhat mainstream, I like most of the beers from Deschutes, and Widmer's Snow Plow milk stout is pretty unique and very good. If it weren't for the ready access to good beers & wines in eastern Washington, I'd have to move. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Is there some good reason to believe that Company B isn't be buying every single share that is being sold at $70 (and below)? They'll only have to pay $85/share for the shares they don't already own (or they'll have to pay themselves for those shares). Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

I've been happily involved for nearly a year with a woman who is agnostic (with hints of atheism). Her beliefs and mine match pretty well. Before her, I dated a Christian woman for about six months, and the religion ended up being the breaking point...I went to her place for dinner one Sunday after spending the weekend at the DZ, and she freaked out. Bawling her head off, telling me how scared she was for me, that with all this jumping I could be killed at any time and spend eternity in hell and there'd be nothing she could do to help me. I asked if something had happened to set her off, she said no, that it always bothered her and that she was just finally voicing it. I told her that the last thing in the world I wanted to do was constantly upset her and that if that was the case, we should probably call it quits. After a bunch more waterworks and associated pleas for me to accept her belief system I told her that I wouldn't lie to placate her, I gathered the stuff of mine that had accumulated at her house, and I left. I haven't seen her since. Before her was a six month relationship with a different Christian, and it was also a sore point for her, however she preferred that I simply avoid religious-toned topics. Before her was a 4.5 year relationship with an atheist. So yeah, it seems to me that religion or lack thereof can be a sticking point, albeit more for the believer than for me. I respect others ability to imagine the unknown and arrive at conclusions (or suspicions) that differ from mine. I don't expect others to adapt to my perspective and don't appreciate others expecting such out of me. Bottom line, I don't care what someone else believes, but the going does seem to be easier if we're at least in the same book, if not on the same page. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

I train students to do two-hands-per-handle EPs, as does every other instructor at my dz. I personally do one-hand per handle EPs. I was trained on SOS (two hands), so I later taught myself two-handle EPs and the thought never occurred to me to use two-hands-per-handle. It was like "look...two hands...two handles...coincidence?" Routinely practicing tandem EPs has ingrained the one-hand-per-handle routine. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Nonsensical british sayings like "get on your tits". Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

for everyone except BillyVance (and others who can't appreciate humor that lacks a visible component) This made me laugh. http://www.chumfm.com/MorningShow/bits/march24.swf Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

"Seeing as though" doesn't make sense in your example either. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

We're one day from the Russian fishing grounds where we've speculatively bought the rights to catch 2 million pounds of halibut...that we're only guessing are there. I'm picking up bait off the deck and turn/kneel to catch my balance when the boat tips oddly...right onto a bait machete. It enters just below my kneecap at an upward angle and lodges in my femur...I'm stuck. I muttered something along the lines of "sonofabitch!" and a guy walks around the hatch, looks down, sees the situation, and asks, "So, uh, are you ok?" What I said was "FUCK NO I'M NOT OK! I'M STUCK ON A FUCKING KNIFE!" What I wanted to say was, well, that, plus something about how this trip was now going to officially suck, as we each work for a percentage of the catch that directly correlates to how much of the work we accomplished, as determined by a vote when the trip is over. I ended up getting a full share on that 19 day trip, despite no antibiotics or sutures and a well-developed bone infection. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

For the guys, there are also men's t-shirts. :) Should I be afraid to ask what these t-shirts say/depict? Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Not a Violent Crime. Vehicular manslaughter isn't a violent crime? Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Not really. I think determinations of guilt and sentencing should be impartial and based solely on the crimes committed, without regard to who committed them. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

That's the only part I didn't find clear in the article. Doctors don't usually get to decide when a parent may take their child home, unless that parent doesn't have custody. It says at the end that CPS has custody, and if that was true at the time of the incident, then I think the action by the security guard was proper. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Robbery occurs when a person is intimidated or otherwise threatened with violence. The violence itself is a separate offense. Armed robbery occurs when the threat includes the display of a weapon, regardless of whether that gun (e.g.) is real, loaded, or used. If I plan to rob you with a toy gun, am I really conspiring to bring death or great harm to you? If I'm driving you around so you can rob people with an understanding (correct or incorrect) that you're not going to actually kill anyone, have I conspired to kill anyone? In this case, the shooter himself said the condemned man did not know he planned on killing the victim. At a minimum I don't think it meets the "intentional" test, i.e. he didn't mean for anyone to get hurt/killed. He meant for people to be threatened or intimidated into giving up their possessions. If I were picking the relevent charges, the worst I would go with would be manslaughter, not murder, as his actions did bring about the death of another, but without intent to cause that death. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

And on that point I guess we just fundamentally disagree. I think capital punishment, if used at all, should be reserved for those criminals who personally, actively, intentionally bring death or great harm to another and maybe those conspire to do so. If YOU kill someone, or YOU intentionally arrange for someone else to be killed, or YOU rape a child to the extent that it needs its genitals reconstructed surgically, or YOU willfully abuse a child to the point that it is quadriplegic or vegetative or horribly burned...these are instances for which I think the death penalty might be appropriate. Armed robbery? No. Driver for an armed robber? No. Driver for someone who kills someone? No, especially if said killing wasn't even part of the plan. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

No. Since you will be held accountable for what he does, you stop him. If I was trying to do something that would result in punishment for us both would you not try to stop me? Perhaps that'll work if you can stop him before the first person is dead. After that, it's not what he does that'll get you, it's what he gets caught at. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Fucking cool! I'm guessing step 3 in the pre-flight procedure is "Disable stall warning" Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

$2.95-$3.10 in eastern Washington. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

The law is letting this woman go after 7 months in prison, when she personally pulled the trigger and killed her unarmed husband. The law is letting this guy go after serving 6 months for raping a woman. By any reasonable metric, a law that calls for the execution of someone who did not plan or participate in the physical harming of another is flawed. You won't have to look far in here to find discussions about the stoning of adultresses. Oddly though, nobody takes the position of "Hey, that's the law!" Morality/immorality and legality/illegality have little to do with each other, and I think killing someone for driving a car is immoral. Note my opinion would differ in a threat scenario...if one of the robbery victims had been armed and had killed all the conspirators whom he/she considered threatening, I'd be ok with that. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)