birdshit

The size of a cable has nothing to do with how much data will fit in it. FYI. If it is copper, you should be able to get nearly 10mbps and if it's fiber then the sky is the limit. They are working on transmitters that will send/receive 160gbps or about 2 dvds per second. What they told you was bullshit.

I regret my post. You win. I am gonna go throw my self from an airplane now as punishment for my sins. Blue Skies

no, super freak all way way - why? Do you know one?

1. I love skydiving. I only have one jump in 18 months because I started Aff in Phoneix where you can jump at 235lbs. I moved to dallas where the weight limit was 210lbs and my new DZ says I was 25lbs overweight to continue my AFF. I got hooked on Amphetamines and started losing weight quickly. Things got out of hand and the wife said, it the "crack or me", I wasn't to my goals yet, and it sounded a lot like "it's skydiving or me". I said "see ya. don't let the dorr slam on your way out." and I basically went down a really dark hole that required an intervention and some rehab. Long story short, I made it (209lbs) and I am continuing my AFF training sans wife and son. I will finish my A license this month. So, 5 jumps, 25 to get your A, that leaves 20 jumps in the 11 days we have left in this month.. I am gonna be a busy little beaver.. 2. Don't presume to tell me shit. You don't know me, and you don't have the first clue what I understand and what I don't understand. Mmmmkay? 3. I posted in a public forum because I am looking for a high quality logo of the old school BSBD skeleton. ...just like it says in my first post. I am not looking for your advice or counsel, on whether I know my ass from a hole in the ground, or what blue sky tastes like or what the meaning of death is. I am looking for graphics for a tattoo I am getting. I sacrificed a whole hell of a lot to participate in this sport, and I would appreciate it if you all would just leave me be, get the fuck out of my AO, and post a high quality graphic of the BSBD guy. Thanks! With that said, I also want to say as a former service member that I appreciate what you are doing over there and I know the sacrifice that you are making. I am praying for you and all of my buddies to get home safe. Remember, keep your head down, keep your ammo dry, and if it is wearing a towel, riding a camel or yelling "allah akbar", shoot it. Twice. Cheers, birdshit

I will

Once you've been around a while and seen a bunch of your friends die, "Black Death" doesn't seem so cute and cool any more. but isn't that part of the point of the 'black death' portion? I don't see it as cute. I see it as a reminder. For those of you with hundreds of jumps, I am sure going in is not the terrifying fear it once was at 5 jumps like me, only one of which was in the last 18 months. It takes big balls and a few deep breaths to step into the doorway for me. I see the the black death part as not only an ever present reminder that I am playing with fire, but a sign of respect for those of us that paid the ultimate price for participating in this arguably insane sport. It is a package deal: blue skies that I love, with the black death just waiting for me to fuck up one time. We keep playing the lottery every time we jump and hope that we lose. Occasionally, sadly, one of us hits the jackpot. We have to remember that they went out doing something that they loved, and it was much more merciful than playing shuffleboard in florida and pissing themselves till they were 175 years old or getting cancer or something. We respect their memory and devote ourselves to developing more safety checks and better gear like the skyhook, rsl, AAD, reserves, audibles, etc, etc and so on and so forth. Always remembering the black death part keeps my attention split 50/50 between the deep blue sky and the hard ass dirt speeding up at me below. Take this diatribe with a grain of salt. It is more of a philosophical discussion for upjumpers that have actually lost friends. Until I know my asshole from my elbow, I recuse myself from the discussion. Blue Skies!

Thanks for the advice. I appreciate it... It sounds like the voice of experience. Tattoos are a snapshot in time of my life. I have two girls names, a whole tribal sleeve and an Egyptian anke (the symbol of eternal life). I am not one for living my life for worrying about what it is gonna be like tomorrow. Every tattoo I get symbolized a very happy instant in time that I want to memorialize forever. If I never jump again I will still get the BSBD tattoo. Blue Skies Black Death!

I am looking for a good quality logo of the old school BSBD Logo - the parachutist skeleton with the goggles. I tried searching the forums, but as you can imagine, all variants of this phrase bring up hundreds of pages. anybody got a good version of this logo? I am gonna get it tatooed on me..

Boobies teach you appreciation for the beauty of the human form - I love all aspects of the female body. Boobies are my #2 favorite.

out of respect for the DZ, I refuse to answer, because it could be misconstrued as an accusation or appear that I am trying to place blame or try to say the DZ X is 'unsafe'. The guys I jump with are AWESOME, and I LOVE the DZ. They are always very concerned for my safety and the DZ I jump at works out of an overabundance of caution. They are very safety minded there and I appreciate them letting me finally jump even with the loose rig (or overly 'tall' rig I should say), which was a minor height adjustment issue. If anything, I want to learn a lesson from this and nothing more. I had a blast and I am going to do it again. and again. and again. Dunno what adjustable main lift webs are. just takeing a wild ass guess I would say it is the cargo strap stuff that connects the leg part of the harness to the chest part of the harness? It still hurts to swallow, talk and breathe today. That chest strap did a number on my adams apple when the snatch force snapped my head forward right into the chest strap. I learned a valuable lesson about who is in charge of my rig and I should be more careful inspecting my gear for proper fit. If I had my own rig it would always fit (wistful sigh). I had no idea it didn't fit or needed adjustment, it felt exactly like every other rig I have ever jumped and they guys were very careful in how they adjusted it for me. I am still a newbie, but I will be doing some serious remedial training on gear fit next time I go to the DZ (right now, as a matter of fact) Here is the video of the skydive. I am really proud of my AFF Level 1. Check it out: http://myspacetv.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=18204420

Got my AFF L1 & L2 done today. Here is one of me geeking the cameraman. It's miller time! blue skies Pics of the jump - http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewPicture&friendID=185502668&albumId=1092380 Also, I have a question. Should my chest strap try to decapitate me when my chute opens? I dont remember that from previous jumps. I crushed my windpipe and it is very hard to swallow now. See pic below -- http://a999.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/70/l_43e6a1d96dd92ae65e8dfce2d29c51d6.jpg

i don't have any friends. everyone thinks I am an asshole when they get to know me. I am, so its not like they are getting the wrong impression or anything. I make more money than almost everybody, and I do it working from home in my underwear. And I brag about it cause I have a small cock and I am compensating. I am crude. I make fun of retards, dwarfs and orphans. I have an IQ of 150and I make sure everybody around me knows it. I swear, fart, make non-pc jokes, and lots of other crude stuff in front of people. I get rip-roaring drunk and say mean shit to people just to hurt their feelings. I stomp on kittens, ladybugs and small children. I vote libertarian just to piss everybody off. I drive 100mph everywhere I go. Why? Cause I can afford the ticket. Fuck it. Im in a hurry. I tell small children that a monster is gonna eat their mommy tonight, just to laugh as they piss their pants knowing that I instantly created some complex that will take 40 years and $75,000 worth of therapy to fix. I am a bastard. If you don't have any friends then it makes it nearly impossible to have fair-weather friends. Learn to live your life like me, and you will never be let down by your friends. Because you won't have any. At my DZ I gotta hang a 12 pack of corona around my neck before anyone will even talk to me. When my car breaks down, I don't wonder if one of my buddies is gonna give me a lift. I just know deep down that I am fucked and that I better call a cab or start hoofing it. P.S. I would given you a lift, bro. You don't leave somebody stranded like that unless the wind is less than 22mph and it is sunny. In which case, fuck em. Let em walk. LOL... Just kidding.

watching movies of aff level 3 helped me. I always watch as many jumps as I can on skydiving movies and youtube before I go and I see other doofuses doing it and passing and it makes me think "I can do that". it helps me visualize the dive flow and takes a lot of the fear of the unknown away. try watching 10 or 15 aff level 3 movies and see if that helps.

welcome. Yeah I am in the middle of a divorce... LOL your ears werent able to equalize the pressure quickly enough.l Try this at your own risk: pinch your nose closed and then (GENTLY) try to blow air out of it. It should make your ears equalize. Don't do it too quick or one of your eyes will pop out. My first jump was very painful and this worked beautifully. By the way, you may be dehydrated, or you may be congested. this is usually the cause for this problem skydiving. A decongestent might help, as will making sure you have plenty of water. My $0.02 worth.

i ate dirt my 1st aff. almost broke my wrist and face. looked like a damned idiot too, limping back to the office with dirt from head to toe and a big tumbleweed in my canopy. sorry you got busted up. The more you jump the less scared you will be. remember, this is supposed to be fun. if you are shitting your pants then you are way too stressed. just think about all of the safety measures. 2 aff jump masters hanging onto you the whole time. main canopy. reserve canopy. AAD. RSL. It's safe. If you die it is because god has finally decided to call you home, and you can either go out skydiving or you could have an brain aneurysm sitting on the crapper reading the same readers digest for the 20th freakin time, looking for more jokes that won't be funny until your 75 years old. Me? I will take skydiving over the dying on the crapper any day - Just imagine how embarrassed Elvis was, lying on the floor of his bathroom dying, knowing in his last moments that they were gonna find him with his pants around his ankles, lying in a pile of half eaten kentucky fried chicken with a muslim koran lying next to him.

no. you cant. [a1] name [b1] age [a2] bob [b2] 23 [a3] joe [b3] 57 [a4] paul [b4] 32 just use call a1 for 'name' and call b1 for 'age' uploaded new version... is this what you are trying to do?

Liberals can't learn from the past; Conservatives can't stop living it. Both are extremists. Libertarianism makes a lot more sense. does anybody remember when there were moderates? Way back in the day? Like 6 years ago?

the same thing happened to my soon to be ex wife. It doesnt go away till you lose the top and let the rest get as tan as the burned area...

bush is a retard - the worst president in the history of the united states - just thought I would throw that out there. cheers, shields up! redirect all nonessential power to the shields!!

the USA is not the only country with dropzones. If I were you, I would change my name to pedro and move to peru. Just a thought.. Latinas are hot anyway - It is obvious Uncle Sam has a hardon for you. do what I do when being chased by an evil supervillian: run away

I like jumping more. Looks like we both have what we really want.

i dont know if the guy jumped, got blown out or tripped on a snag in the carpet and fell.. if I worked in a 90+ story building, I would invest in a base rig. If that ever happened, then the choice would be "try out some extreme base jumping or burn" my respects to those who lost their lives and their families. EDIT: why are the words base jumping converted to a url? This implies an endorsement of that website by me and it is in bad taste.

Yeah, the plane comes rolling up and the ground crew was like... Uhhh, aren't those nuclear missiles? I bet somebody gets reamed over that one...

Agreed. I am a liberal democrat, and proud of it. When I hear the republicans on this board go on and on about democrats like we are scum, it makes me laugh. The people voted. Yall got your asses handed to ya. Accept it. Nowadays they are so busy just defending their own crooked officials that they can't even come up with a decent "tree hugger/prius driver/gay/whatever" rant. it reminds me of the jocks in high school that pick on the smart kids. It would be nice of there was a real debate about issues instead of mindless party bashing. Especially when the basis of the argument is "if you don't agree with me then you are unpatriotic. yer un'mericun". Last I checked, the GOP was supposed to be about individual liberty (including the right of dissent), smaller government and fiscal responsibility. Right? So why are we all such obedient little puppets that support bush, make the government bigger and deficit spend like mad without ever asking WTF is going on up there in the white house? They look, but the propaganda machine says, "move along, nothing to see here" and they blindly obey, cause of you don't agree, you are un'merican... The democrat bashers don't know what they are, because they attack the idea of democrats, not any real issues. Probably, the main reason for this is that being republican is a lot easier than thinking, and somehow the gop has convoinced half the people out there (29% at least) that democrats are all gay, weak, liberals that want to cut and run. They are swift-boating the whole democratic party by controlling the media and running a huge propaganda machine.

Because he thought up the lyrics while cleaning his new rifle the day after he converted from Christianity to Islam, which he did because he's sick of the way Bush is running the country. HUH? Oh, I get it.. Speakers corner. Uhhh, I can make this political. Republican Politicians. Lets see here... Mark Foley likes having sex with little boys, Tom Delay is under indictment, Senator Craig is hooking up in public restrooms with gay men for anonymous sex, senator frist is under investigation for fishy stock trades, etc, etc... Republican Culture of Corruption: 2007 So Far [Cross-posted at my DKos diary.] Does it seem like there's a new Republican scandal in the news every single week? Well, that may be because there is: January 23, 2007: Republican radio personality Scott Eller Cortelyou of Denver arrested on suspicion of using the Internet to lure a child into a sexual relationship January 29, 2007: Republican former Jefferson County, Colorado, Treasurer Mark Paschall indicted on two felony charges "in connection with an allegation that Paschall solicited a kickback from a bonus he awarded one of his employees" January 31, 2007: Republican Congressman Gary Miller is named by Republicans as ranking member of oversight subcommittee of House Financial Services Committee despite the FBI's investigation into his land deals February 14, 2007: Major Republican fundraiser Brent Wilkes and former CIA executive director Kyle "Dusty" Foggo are indicted by a grandy jury for corrupting CIA contracts February 16, 2007: Major Republican donor Abdul Tawala Ibn Ali Alishtari, aka Michael Mixon, is indicted in federal court on charges of providing material support to terrorists March 5, 2007: Ethics complaint filed against Republican Senator Pete Domenici for his role in the Attorney Purge scandal March 6, 2007: I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney found guilty of obstruction of justice and perjury March 8, 2007: Republican former U.S. Congressman and Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich admits to extramarital affair March 23, 2007: Former Deputy Interior Secretary J. Steven Griles, an oil and gas lobbyist who became an architect of George W. Bush's energy policies, pleads guilty to obstructing justice by lying to a Senate committee March 27, 2007: Criminal charges filed against Republican Pennsylvania State Senator Robert Regola in connection with the death of a teenage neighbor who was shot with the senator's gun; he is accused of three counts of perjury, allowing possession of a firearm by a minor, recklessly endangering another person and false swearing March 27, 2007: Ronald Reagan's budget director, David Stockman, "indicted on charges of defrauding investors and banks of $1.6 billion while chairman of Collins & Aikman Corp., an auto parts maker that collapsed days after he quit" March 28, 2007: Robert Vellanoweth, a Republican activist and appointee of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, is arrested on suspicion of gross vehicular manslaughter and felony driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol, after a crash that killed three adults and one child April 18, 2007: The FBI raids the home of Republican Congressman John Doolittle, investigating his ties to Jack Abramoff April 19, 2007: The FBI raids a business tied to the family of Republican Congressman Rick Renzi, as part of an investigation into his business dealings April 23, 2007: The FBI questions Republican Congressman Tom Feeney about his dealings with Jack Abramoff April 23, 2007: Federal auditors find repeat violations of federal election law from the 2004 Senate campaign of Republican Senator Mel Martinez April 26, 2007: David Huckabee, son of Republican Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, is arrested at an Arkansas airport after a federal X-ray technician detected a loaded gun in his carry-on luggage May 4, 2007: Bruce Weyhrauch and Pete Kott, former Alaska state Republican legislators, were arrested and accused of soliciting and accepting bribes from the corrupt VECO Corporation May 4, 2007: Republican state Assemblyman Michael Cole is censured and stripped of his leadership position after the married father of two spent the night at a 21-year-old intern's apartment May 11, 2007: A field coordinator for Republican Congressman Patrick McHenry is indicted for voter fraud in North Carolina May 12, 2007: NBC News breaks the story that the FBI is investigating Republican Nevada Governor Jim Gibbons for suspicion of accepting bribes in exchange for securing government contracts May 15, 2007: Connecticut Republican Party Chairman Chris Healy is arrested for drunk driving (he pled no contest on June 1, but didn't publicly disclose the event until June 11) May 18, 2007: Republican former South Dakota State Representative Ted Klaudt is charged with eight counts of second-degree rape, two counts of sexual exploitation of a minor, one count of sexual contact with a child younger than 16, two counts of witness tampering and one count of stalking against two foster children in his care May 21, 2007: Republican state Senate candidate Mark Tate is indicted on nine counts of perjury and two counts of election fraud by a grand jury June 11, 2007: Republican Senator Larry Craig is arrested for lewd conduct in the men's bathroom of an airport June 19, 2007: South Carolina Republican state Treasurer and South Carolina Chairman of Giuliani for President Thomas Ravenel is indicted by a grand jury on cocaine distribution charges July 2, 2007: President George W. Bush commutes the sentence of former Cheney Chief of Staff I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby following Libby's conviction on obstruction of justice and perjury July 3, 2007: A grand jury report declares that the sale of public land to Republican Congressman Ken Calvert and his business partners violated the law July 11, 2007: Republican state Representative and Florida co-Chairman of McCain for President Bob Allen is arrested for soliciting a male undercover police officer, offering to pay $20 to perform oral sex July 16, 2007: Republican Senator David Vitter holds press conference acknowledging being on the D.C. Madam's list and past involvement with prostitutes July 16, 2007: Story breaks that Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski was involved in a sweetheart real estate deal July 19: Republican former state legislator Coy Privette is charged with six counts of aiding and abetting prostitution July 24, 2007: Michael Flory, former head of the Michigan Federation of Young Republicans, pleads guilty to sexual abuse July 26, 2007: Media report that Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski will sell back land purchased in a sweetheart deal, following close scrutiny of the shady transaction July 29, 2007: Glenn Murphy Jr., recently-elected Chairman of the Young Republican National Federation, is accused of sexually assaulting a sleeping man July 30, 2007: The FBI and IRS raid the home of Republican Senator Ted Stevens following investigations into Stevens' dealings with the corrupt VECO Corporation August 2, 2007: Bush administration senior adviser Karl Rove disregards a Congressional subpoena and refuses to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee August 6, 2007: Investigation called for after House Republican Leader John Boehner leaked classified information regarding a secret court ruling over warrantless wiretapping August 8, 2007: Republican Senator Larry Craig pleads guilty to misdemeanor disorderly conduct following his June 11 arrest August 9, 2007: Major Republican donor Alan Fabian is charged with 23 counts of bankruptcy fraud, mail fraud, money laundering, obstruction of justice, and perjury August 15, 2007: Republican state House candidate Angelo Cappelli is arrested for perjury and grand theft August 22, 2007: Republican political consultant Roger Stone resigns his role with the New York state Senate Republicans after reports surfaced that he made a "threatening, obscenity-laced" phone call to the 83-year-old father of Governor Eliot Spitzer August 27, 2007: Story breaks that Republican Senator Larry Craig was arrested and pled guilty - he had not publicly disclosed the events to that point