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Sounds like you have the fodder for an annual wanton sluts boogie. "real" Hop and Pops two hundie. Buy a leopard hat and a purple velvet jumpsuit. Backhand her once in awhile. I'm just sayin' glass half full/half-empty----why give up a stellar opportunity. WFFC ain't got nuthin on you.

Was the unpressurized zone of the suit the crotch? That would make the late John Holmes envious as Fournier rockets through the stratosphere with 10 lb balls and a 2 ft johnson. Is that where "Fournier's Gangrene" originates.

Oh sure----use the B word---now I am on a midnight safeway run to make tequila jello shooters wrapped in bacon dipped in pudding deep fried. So what's a night jump like then?

The modified 3 - 3 -3 check. Add a fourth 3 to include two balls and a Python to make sure they are cleared for takeoff or I suppose if you're a women lip, lip, plie. Student gear hurts on purpose?

Just to add to the confusion I have another legitimate question. Let's say you climb from zero to 15k jump, successfully deploy a functional main at 3000ft then at 1800ft induce a line twist from hell and cutaway your main and now again find yourself in freefall at 1100ft will your cypress cut your reserve loop?

I was just kidding and of course referring more to the johns than the pros. But yes regulating the industry would hopefully prevent some of the badness associated with the business in general.

Onward to proposals for fitting punishment... In the case of politicians versus prostitutes wherein prostitute pays and john plays---a role reversal with said john peddling blowjobs wearing pink spandex tights and pumps strutting the boulevard soliciting fellow social miscreants riddled with disease and being forced to swallow---no pun intended---the penalty appears appropriate. They can even keep the money they earn while "working." Of course the problem with this program is that the politicians turned hookers will require security personnel to protect them from the other hookers and pimps and the cost of providing the program will prevent the proposed solution from gaining traction although if it was offered on a voluntary basis it may clean the halls of congress.

"The typical skydiver is a lottery winner who after spending 95% of their winnings on hookers, beer, cocaine, and jump tickets regrets pissing the other 5% on frivolous non-essentials like food and "insert their newspapers name here."

Slight upward pressure and rolling the helmet forward can be enough to make an a spinal cord injury worse. If the purpose of a helmet is to diminish the risk of serious lasting injury or death, the effect of removing the helmet from a person with a cervical spinal cord injury should, without doubt, be a primary consideration in its development. linz True. In watersports the "Bucketing Effect" was taken into consideration during the design of 3rd and 4th generation helmets. The potential for enhancing cervical spine injuries versus protection of the brain had reached a point whereby helmet use for certain levels of skill and types of high speed water activities had made the use of a helmet equally daunting for a cervical spine injury versus risking a naked skull and the potential for a head injury.

Absolutely!!! Process engineering and algorithmic procedures are/were developed with the idea of training. A first responder medical professional will in fact be required withing bounds to practice in a manner according to their training or risk loss of professional certification or worse--legal tort. The original question was I believe directed at skydivers first on scene not professionally employed emergency medical professionals. I would stand-by my assertion.

There is no correct answer except a good outcome. If somebody has a helmet on but has no paralysis I would leave the helmet on if at all possible. On the other hand if they have paralysis and questionable airway they are likely going to die without immediate ventilatory assistance and they clearly already have a severe cervical spine injury so removing the helmet may improve the situation by allowing ventilation, cervical stabilization and traction. But as mentioned previously airway always takes precedence in resuscitation as anoxia kills quickly and certainly---- except of course those rare anaerobes that survive by metabolizing alcohol in and of itself.

My G is so hot my friends are always trying to do 3 and 4 ways just to get some action. All the ladies on jump run love it when they get the "G spot."

I read an interesting proposition with regard to the use of electric rechargeable/hybrid cars in that they can also be used as storage for the grid increasing the capacity and acting as a reservoir when the grid is "fat." They can also run on gas or the liquid fuel de jour so when drained they are still able to run. Well take that a step further and if you plug into the grid when the engine is running on fuel then you are adding energy to the grid. Interesting thought that the implementation of pure electric and hybrid vehicles can be used as a strategic tool to increase the efficiency and actual size of the "electric bank." Just "fuel for thought" no pun intended.

This is a relevant discussion versus the kneejerk--"We should just bomb the bastards" so prevalent at the beginning of the thread and a service to those not familiar with the realities. Forget the media propaganda get to know the issues and most likely your viewpoint may change. My heart goes out to those in Serbia.

Russia and China back Serbia--Why? Because they fear the separation and anxiety associated with the possibility of separation between their own disparate ethnic groups and the resulting civil war it would create. So the Balkans as so often throughout history have become the thermometer for worldwide events but at the expense of their own regional stability.

As I said a people at the intersection of MAJOR cultural differences. Mainly East-West but also North-South. Their feistiness is likely what has allowed them to survive given the atrocities they have historically been subjected. As far as the killing which occurred and violence that continues it isn't like the Kosovars are innocent bystanders. The accounts of the war crimes is sketchy at best. The Serbs have suffered as have all the Balkans and they continue to suffer as the rest of Europe unites yet they quarrel with the resultant negative consequences on the new generation who have little to do with the current and prior strife and much to suffer with regard to future implications. I think it is easy in an armchair to say what's the big deal just just grit your teeth and let your Cradle of Ancient History turn into an enemy state, then be a team player so you can join the EU like all good Europeans. The point of illustrating prominent Serbs was to show they are smart and competitive people who are not good at rolling over and taking it in the @ss so to speak.

Tesla was born in Smiljan, Croatia and became a US citizen. From Wikipedia:Nikola Tesla (Serbian Cyrillic: Никола Тесла) (10 July 1856 – 7 January 1943) was a Serbian inventor, physicist, mechanical engineer, and electrical engineer. Born in Smiljan, Croatian Krajina, Military Frontier, he was an ethnic Serb subject of the Austrian Empire and later became an American citizen. As for tennis, you're talking about Djokovic right? I don't know the other guy. In January 2008 he won his first Grand Slam title at the Australian Open. Djokovic is a proud Serb and belongs to the Serbian Orthodox Christian community. In February 2008, he conveyed his support via video link to a mass rally in Belgrade against the Kosovo Albanians' unilateral declaration of independence from Serbia.[8][9] Ana Ivanović (Serbian Cyrillic: Ана Ивановић, pronounced [ˈanå iˈvaːnɔviʨ], listen (help·info) born November 6, 1987, in Belgrade) is a Serbian professional tennis player. She is currently ranked World No. 3 and is the top ranked Serbian player, just in front of compatriot Jelena Janković. This region is a good example of how "resentments" affect societies to their core. From my perspective across the Atlantic, I would have thought that everyone would've simply rejoiced in the fall of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia becoming a "free" nation. No doubt about that. What I watched unfold astonished me. My great-grandfather was from Croatia. The Serbs latitude through the years of immigrants into their ancient homeland then later to be tossed out and THEY WERE SUBJECT TO PERSECUTION AND VIOLENCE contrary to the propaganda outside the region. Most events like that are...then they let the mob-mentality take hold. The staged violence did its intent and that is to soil the greater serbian populace who peacefully rallied for their territory which has been owned for thousands of years....

Unfortunate you are so quick to condemn an entire nation and culture without knowing the true facts as they are. It is very complex. Your quick summation smacks of the nationalism which flames the fires that be. Serbs are tough intelligent hard-working and most of all civilized. Two top tennis plyers now, the "Vladiball", Tesla, (and I can go on)-- but for a region with so few people they have contributed to modern society well out of proportion to their numbers. They suffer primarily from occupying the crossroads of the East -West and have been subject to the power struggles that have ebbed and flowed as a result for many millenia. I can continue but only ask that you understand and not lightly make accusatory statements against the greater Serbian people. Lastly there is good intel that the violence was staged.

Not pretty but you can replace a finger with a toe anyways and who counts higher than 20 anywho. But other than the aesthetics of toe finger transplants it does make a good point for red rigs. Not a bad choice for a company name. Hmmmm........

I use a wrist and chest mount. Like it alot although sometimes I worry about a line getting hung-up on the chest mount. On a back track you still can't really check it without flexing your neck which drops me out of the "sweet spot" and I tend to fall at a steeper angle albeit briefly. All in all quite nice.

So if you're feeling especially frisky mow some Angus or Kobe Beef on climb to altitude and leave the last slice for exit...headown.....in Texas......

choking on food is the sixth leading cause of accidental death in the country. Because, according to the National Safety Council, nearly 2,500 persons die while dining each year, the café coronary outranks aircraft accidents, firearms, lightning and snakebite as a cause of death. The food most responsible for death by choking is steak, according to a study by the office of New York's chief medical examiner; it accounts for some 90% of the fatalities.

Either am I for that matter however I was lucky in so far as my watershed circulation was in my frontal lobe. Poor man's frontal lobotomy....

No doubt about in some areas we have experienced deflation, in particular pulse oximetry is one area where verible price implosion exists compared to the days of Johnny B. West climbing Everest with sampling containers schlepped back to Base Camp to be analyzed by crude gas analysis machines and Cullen who essentially invented the stuff to now where you go to Walmart and pick up a device that essentially spits out credible data in 30 seconds....incredible. But then again I'd be a little afraid to find out my SPO2 at 18K as Johnny B. will be the first to tell you he ain't the same since the high altitude forays....

So after 3 and 3/4ths bottles of 7% boutique brewery ale (think basement brew) I surmise the ideal device for preventing injury aside from good judgement, good equipment, and packing skills --and please don't forget the oh so important dash of luck a magentic pulse which increases its force exponentially with distance and could be turned counter to earth's magnetic force would provide just the proper amount of deceleartion in a timely fashion should it be activated similarly to an AAD pressure sensor... Ah forget it I'm at 4 1/4 bottles of ale already and will need the juice required to activate the device to go to the liquor store for more......