Jasmin

Yeah its awesome to jump, but the short answer is that its rare its at the DZ, let alone being used for jumping. xj "I wouldn't recommend picking a fight with the earth...but then I wouldn't recommend picking a fight with a car either, and that's having tried both."

Yep: 5th munitions squadron commander, 5th Wing commander (also Minot installation commander) 5th maintenance group commander, and 2nd operations group commander. Additionally, 65 Airmen have been decertified in the personnel reliability program. And lastly, the 5th Bomb Wing has been suspended from all tactical ferry mission and decert. from handling adv cruise missiles. By admitting the error, Air Force secretary Wynne made an exception to the usual US policy of not confirming the location of US nuclear weapons. Edited to add: More about the 'bent spear' investigation:http://www.airforcetimes.com/news/2007/10/airforce_nuke_briefing_071019/ xj "I wouldn't recommend picking a fight with the earth...but then I wouldn't recommend picking a fight with a car either, and that's having tried both."

Sorry to burst your bubble, but there's nothing new about Tim Flannery being up in arms about global warming and environmental destruction etc What's new is that anyone outside of Australia and the climate/science communities knows who he is and what he's on about... So perhaps you might want to change the title of the thread to "Reuters finally figures out Australia is on the Global Warming band wagon."LOL xj "I wouldn't recommend picking a fight with the earth...but then I wouldn't recommend picking a fight with a car either, and that's having tried both."

The kids of my ex-grandmother said exactly the same thing...I just wished my grandfather had had the option of bugging off to India when they turned out to be right xj "I wouldn't recommend picking a fight with the earth...but then I wouldn't recommend picking a fight with a car either, and that's having tried both."

No, they tend to get pretty upset if you drink on the job in my line of work. I was arking up at being referred to as a peace loving fanatic. But am I guessing right from your reply that you were instead trying to label the Taliban 'peace loving fanatics'??? Huh???? Yo no entiendo!???? LOL I think I better have that drink!! xj "I wouldn't recommend picking a fight with the earth...but then I wouldn't recommend picking a fight with a car either, and that's having tried both."

I am at a loss to understand how a person can honestly entertain the notion that they understand the ideology of another poster, without knowing anything about them? There are very few women I know, Muslim or Christian, who would think it was unreasonable to find the encouraged suicide of a six year old distressing and abhorrent. Its got nothing to do with liberal/peacenik/dove fanaticism and everything to do with empathy for the loss of an innocent child. xj "I wouldn't recommend picking a fight with the earth...but then I wouldn't recommend picking a fight with a car either, and that's having tried both."

North Korea was a member of the NNPT too....as is Iran....neither is as transparent in their nuclear program as India, which isn't a member of the NNPT. I'm not taking sides, just throwing some details out there xj "I wouldn't recommend picking a fight with the earth...but then I wouldn't recommend picking a fight with a car either, and that's having tried both."

Anything to stop this sort of horror is a step in the right direction: http://www.guardian.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,,2109574,00.html xj "I wouldn't recommend picking a fight with the earth...but then I wouldn't recommend picking a fight with a car either, and that's having tried both."

I was so proud of the Chaser boys, if merely for showing that Australians still excel at taking the piss lol xj "I wouldn't recommend picking a fight with the earth...but then I wouldn't recommend picking a fight with a car either, and that's having tried both."

Yeah it made the news here, along with the "OPEC" vs "APEC" gaffe. xj "I wouldn't recommend picking a fight with the earth...but then I wouldn't recommend picking a fight with a car either, and that's having tried both."

That's the amusing/disturbing part about the accounts; that the W80-1 were not discovered to be missing until discovered/recovered when the aircraft arrived in Barksdale. Edited to add:http://www.armytimes.com/news/2007/09/marine_nuclear_B52_070904w/ xj "I wouldn't recommend picking a fight with the earth...but then I wouldn't recommend picking a fight with a car either, and that's having tried both."

The legal limit here in Australia is 18. Having grown up in a 'rural' area, public transport is useless for getting 99% of kids home and cabs are not much better (not to mention, prohibitively expensive), so almost all of the 17 and 18 year olds I grew up with had a car or easy access to one. Consequently I've seen my fair share of 'trashed up cars' and associated mangled youths and funerals. Abuse of alcohol tends to be exacerbated in small towns simply due to a lack of anything else for youth to do. That said, the parents who introduced their kids to alcohol at home ie wine with dinner etc tended to have kids who didn't go right off the rails when they reached (/approached) the legal age of 18. I know many a 30+ skydiver who's more idiotic/abusive of alcohol than the typical 17/18 year olds in my home town. xj "I wouldn't recommend picking a fight with the earth...but then I wouldn't recommend picking a fight with a car either, and that's having tried both."

One of the ACT jumpers; I blanked out the numberplate to protect the comedian. xj "I wouldn't recommend picking a fight with the earth...but then I wouldn't recommend picking a fight with a car either, and that's having tried both."

Normally these types of photos are from somewhere far, far away ie without a sticker of our equivalent of the USPA on the right corner of the car window! xj "I wouldn't recommend picking a fight with the earth...but then I wouldn't recommend picking a fight with a car either, and that's having tried both."

Whilst its great its raining, the problem in NSW is its (again) all coastal rain. eg yesterday there was 70-100mm at the coast and only 10mm in water catchment. There was less than that inland xj "I wouldn't recommend picking a fight with the earth...but then I wouldn't recommend picking a fight with a car either, and that's having tried both."

I beg to differ. I agree its not the same everywhere and some areas are getting enough water. But for some of the inland rural areas, we've not seen anything this bad before. In some of our rural areas, rivers that have always flowed are now mere mud pools or worse, baked and scorched earth. Families that were given some of the original free settler land grants or who have had long term farming leases, are walking away from their farms if they're lucky, or losing them to the bank if they're not. ie Families who've lived there for 4+ generations are no longer able to farm and the drought is the cause of a lot of this. I don't think you can attribute it to any one factor, be it redistribution of water, el nino/la nina or greenhouse warming, but there's little doubt in the minds of many country folk as to whether its as bad the city-based media portray it to be. Its heartbreaking to see the land so dry and barren. xj "I wouldn't recommend picking a fight with the earth...but then I wouldn't recommend picking a fight with a car either, and that's having tried both."

And I can't believe how often people on this site use "irrelevant" scripture to prove a point that is completely off on a tangent from the original topic lol Your suggestions regarding me are as "misguided" as your opinions in other areas. But whatever helps you sleep at night mate xj "I wouldn't recommend picking a fight with the earth...but then I wouldn't recommend picking a fight with a car either, and that's having tried both."

How the f*ck did a thread about a US army report become a slanging match with scripture as ammunition?!!!!!?!!! Now maybe I’m missing something, but do people here honestly want to play prosecutor, judge and jury on what happened without knowing anything more than what is reported in a likely ill-informed media source based half a world away, which based its articles on other reports based on yet more varied sources, which may or may not be biased, let alone correct? Edited to add:As for the scripture wars, how about John 8:7 xj "I wouldn't recommend picking a fight with the earth...but then I wouldn't recommend picking a fight with a car either, and that's having tried both."

Whilst the shooting/suicide bombing is indeed old news, the US army's findings largely agreeing with the Afghani report is not. For those of you who missed the original coverage: (from smh) *** In its report, the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission condemned the suicide bomb attack that initially struck a convoy of a Marine Special Operations unit, wounding one American, and said there might also have been small-arms fire directed at the convoy immediately after the blast. But it said the response was disproportionate, especially given the obviously non-military nature of the marines' targets long after the ambush. "In failing to distinguish between civilians and legitimate military targets, the [marines] employed indiscriminate force," the report said. "Their actions thus constitute a serious violation of international humanitarian standards." The troops continued shooting at perceived threats as they travelled kilometres from the site of the March 4 attack, General Kearney said. They hit several vehicles, killing 12 people and wounding 33, among them children and elderly villagers. One 16-year-old, newly married girl was cut down while she was carrying a bundle of grass to her family's farmhouse. A 75-year-old man walking to his shop was hit by so many bullets that his son did not recognise the body, they said. xj "I wouldn't recommend picking a fight with the earth...but then I wouldn't recommend picking a fight with a car either, and that's having tried both."

A bunch of us headed up to Genting to play in the wind tunnel when jupming was winded out for the day. We paid for roughly 10 minutes of tunnel time, but when they found out we were all skydivers/BASE jumpers, they turned off the timer and let us do whatever the hell we felt like. I think we finally left after about two hours because we were going to miss the car we'd booked to get back to KL. Cheap shoppong at Bukit Bintang and a Japanese restaurant Andrea liked dragging Slim to. If you've got the time and inclination, you could also try the 150km to the historical Portuguese port of Malacca (aka Melaka). xj "I wouldn't recommend picking a fight with the earth...but then I wouldn't recommend picking a fight with a car either, and that's having tried both."

Very few aussies are going to repudiate that Hicks/Mahummed Dashwood /whatever else he want to call himself, is nothing short of a dropkick who was rejected by the Australian army for not meeting minimum education levels and went off to fight for the KLA and the Taliban. But we were starting to get a little pissed off at an Australian being held for five years without trial in a system not considered good enough for US or UK citizens to be subjected to. Edited to add:A rather interesting tangent in today's paper- http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/it-seems-hm-is-not-amused-by-guantanamo-bay/2007/04/06/1175366474409.html xj "I wouldn't recommend picking a fight with the earth...but then I wouldn't recommend picking a fight with a car either, and that's having tried both."

Thankyou for completely missing my point and for the record I do not "continue to own some guns". I no longer live on property and I have no need for a firearm in my line of work. xj "I wouldn't recommend picking a fight with the earth...but then I wouldn't recommend picking a fight with a car either, and that's having tried both."

Well, if they ban driving, it would save much more people, including kids. Funny you should mention it, but they're about to bring in even stricter rules on young drivers here xj "I wouldn't recommend picking a fight with the earth...but then I wouldn't recommend picking a fight with a car either, and that's having tried both."

WARNING: Australian in the thread! My family owned guns and were affected by the new laws (which, by your statement, makes us "correct"). We support(ed) the laws and don't feel like it was for nothing; no more people have died from the new laws, but if a couple more kids don't wind up dead from firearm deaths, then how can you consider that to be a bad thing?? And if you still want to go shooting, you can still get a permit if you live out on property or you join the local club. (And there's two clubs within five minutes of here!) xj "I wouldn't recommend picking a fight with the earth...but then I wouldn't recommend picking a fight with a car either, and that's having tried both."

Its always amusing how many jumpers can watch footage of a wingsuit worn backwards and not notice the difference....I thought a rig being worn backwards might be a good hint, but they didn't notice that either xj "I wouldn't recommend picking a fight with the earth...but then I wouldn't recommend picking a fight with a car either, and that's having tried both."