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Hi georger. Why am I a turkey? (edit) by way of reference, Sarah Palin sold 700,000 books her first week. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34127223/ns/today-today_books/ In comparison, using the metrics of information exchange and profit-taking, I think I'm on solid ground.

Oh... the horror. Please Jo, don't tell a soul. I wish you a long life but let it die with you. 377 I wish Jo a long life. But, 377, I guarantee you one thing. Snowmman Industries will have a stenographer, and witness and video camera available for Jo Weber's last words. I am confident they will be something about a secret that the world can't understand... and she will say "Oh let it die with me". Snowmman Industries will guarantee it does not, and also guarantee that we will return the maximum profit to our shareholders, from the information we garner.

"A truthful fact. Back in 1998 I wrote the name and contact information of a certain person on a piece of yellow paper and folded it" If this was true, why don't you tell us the number of folds? Was it written with pen or pencil? If pen: blue, red or black ink? Felt pen? Script or block printing? Lined or unlined paper. If lined, what color were the lines? After folding, where was the note deposited? Envelope? Inside a book? Can you scan the note today? Why are you not telling everything about the note?

Just posting some more evidence. Dick "Bruce" Cheney. AKA Richard Cheney in an airplane, circa 1975. (attached). This was extracted from FBI file A7330 page 22. I don't know why this has been kept hidden till now. Dick Cheney's involvement in the Flight 305 hijacking, which was directed by Rumsfeld, was the "ace card" that led to his becoming the youngest chief of staff in history, in 1975.... Ford fumbles when trying to explain why...because the why, was because Rumsfeld ordered it, and Rumsfeld controlled everything after the Flight 305 fiasco. President Ford fires a number of Nixon holdovers and replaces them with “my guys… my own team”.. The wholesale firings and reshufflings are dubbed the “Halloween Massacre.” Donald Rumsfeld becomes secretary of defense, replacing James Schlesinger. George H. W. Bush replaces William Colby as director of the CIA. Henry Kissinger remains secretary of state, but his position as national security adviser is given to Brent Scowcroft. Dick Cheney, Rumsfeld’s deputy chief of staff, moves up to become the youngest chief of staff in White House history. Perhaps the most controversial decision is to replace Nelson Rockefeller as Ford’s vice-presidential candidate for the 1976 elections. Ford’s shake-up is widely viewed as his cave-in to Republican Party hardliners. He flounders in his defense of his new staffers: for example, when Senator Barry Goldwater (R-AZ) asks him why he thinks Rumsfeld is qualified to run the Pentagon, Ford replies, “He was a pilot in the Korean War.” The ultimate winner in the shake-up is Rumsfeld, who instigated the moves from behind the scenes and gains the most from them. Rumsfeld quickly wins a reputation in Washington as a political opportunist, gunning for the vice presidency in 1976 and willing to do whatever is necessary to get it. Rockefeller tells Ford: “Rumsfeld wants to be president of the United States. He has given George Bush the deep six by putting him in the CIA, he has gotten me out.…"

Vern covered everything south of Ecuador, down to Argentina. He ended badly. He had jumping experience, but evidently only with parachutes. Here's to Vern! (he liked to be called Verm...short for Vermin) I thought Vern ended up in Salt lake city, wearing chevrons on his blazers and blaming everyone else for everything. well balanced: chip on both shoulders :)

Homeland Security is for people who do not use the internet. People who use the internet are all nuts and mostly in the way of things like Homeland Security. The money for Homeland Security comes from ..hm...oh yeah, China. Did you know that lobbyists managed to get a new law thru, that all Christmas presents have to be made in China? I read that in Sarah Palin's book.

Vern covered everything south of Ecuador, down to Argentina. He ended badly. He had jumping experience, but evidently only with parachutes. Here's to Vern! (he liked to be called Verm...short for Vermin)

It seems like every republican in the US wants to quote Ayn Rand nowadays, as if it shows some deep thought. There is no such thing as individual 'I don't affect anyone else with what I do' If you live, you affect other people. Minimally by your consumption and waste. Religions: minimally they want tax benefits. They don't want to be taxed on land holdings, for instance. Everything affects everything. We just agree to pretend that certain side effects are good or bad. Or pretend that they don't exist. (until the trash piles so high that it blocks the sun, then we say "hey! maybe garbage is an issue!) Humans are not designed to get along. So we have to blame others. Rather than pretending that the "no-blame-game" is the end goal..we should just get comfortable with the conflict model. It works. (edit) So no, you don't want me to do what I want with my religion. Because I'll blame South Africa and invade.

13 years is nothing. The great grudges last multiples of generations, spawning religions and new nation states. And fostering innovation in weapons systems and societal organization to use/deploy the weapons systems. L. Ron Hubbard knew the money was in religion. I claim all rights to the long-term squabbles related to Duane, as it pertains to new religion. Anyone who disagrees with this claim, is a heretic and will be eternally damned etc. He didn't fucking handle the ball, he fucking caressed it!

The Nov 12, 1971 cover of Life magazine. Duane read this two weeks before Flight 305 was hijacked. Brown eyes. Tie clip. Iceland in 1972. Cold War.

"But", the student asked, "what happens when there is nothing left that hasn't been discussed" "That will never happen". "But if it does", the youngster pressed. "Well, then, it will be over". Here's some new money photos. There is a problem that's interesting that's exposed by these money shots. It's a little different than what we've seen in previous Ingram bills... The staining patterns, and exposure patterns are different, within a single bill. You can click thru them to see what I mean. Doesn't mean anything but interesting to muse about. These bills were not found in a tree stump. They're the bills currently being auctioned.. (just attaching the larger ones). It is possible that Duane urinated on some of these selectively. I have nothing that disproves that. Why would Duane urinate on bills? He did wrap a hundred around a bottle of champagne, I believe? That may be related. I don't know if the purple staining is actually related to the dark coloration on the FBI bills, that has been suggested is related to the use of some fingerprint lifting chemicals way back when. Hard to say. Duane would have known.

I don't see the issue. The wind load on the stairs varies depending on the angle. Evidently not enough to keep the stairs fully closed (maybe almost, if the plane was going fast enough. I think the wind load effect is non-linear with air speed?) the weight of the stairs is constant, but it's effect varies depending on angle because of the pivot at one end. There will be an equilibrium created between gravity effects and wind effects. One up, one down. You don't know the weight of the stairs, so there's no way you can have a "gut feel" about how it works vs wind load. The hydaulic stuff provides a braking effect so the stairs don't crash down when released on the ground. I don't think this affects the equilibrium effect. When cooper weighted the stairs, obviously a different equilibrium was created. It might not have been fully lowered stairs, but the pictures from the air drop experiment seem to say it was. The initial model of 727 apparently couldn't lock the stair things down. Later models apparently did, leading to being to use a locked down stair as a tail support (remember our whole discussion about tipped planes) I guess I don't see what the issue is. Did you know there's a page for Icelandic twins on Facebook?

Sigh... but I am just going to let it be. 377 A more noble pursuit worth 13 years... At any point in time, there are only about 23,000 Icelandic women between the ages of 18 and 30. If you focus on identical twins, the pool drops to maybe 100. If you want frustration..that's frustration.

Someone figured out Slovenia meant Lithuania. http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=8373807 So now everyone is saying the Icelandic girls will be cracked next, and the chippers are running again. Hey Orange1: When evaluating "Was the Iceland thing a failure?" people make the common mistake of a shared value judgment. Obviously the right evaluation is "Did anyone make money?" and "Was it you?". Not "Did everyone make money?". Iceland was a success. Slovenia is next.

Yes, self defense actions including the use of deadly force if you had a resaonble fear for your own life, would be justified under those facts. It is disgusting to me that Obama supports and continues so called extraordinary rendition, a euphemism for the process of exporting prisoners for torture. We used to be a better country than that. What about the US Constitution that he professed to deeply respect? The CIA is leading him around by the nose. Why does he follow? 377 Thanks. Yeah, the VP of Marketing at Snowmman Industries was thinking of a new promotion. "Snowmman Industries. Your last best hope when the US wants you dead." or "You've just been named enemy of the state. Your supply chain has abandoned you. When all else fails: Snowmman Industries." or "Tired of dealing with fickle changes in political climate? Snowmman Industries: Your goals are our goals."

so I'm reading this http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/exclusive-convicted-cia-spy-broke-law/story?id=8995107 and I'm wondering: Say you're in a foreign country, and a bunch of CIA guys surround you and it's obvious they're going to kidnap you. It sounds to me like it's perfectly okay to do anything in self-defense...like shoot it out with them...whatever. That's my basic question. I understand how in the US if law enforcement identifies themselves, you basically go with the flow and resolve any disagreements in court, not with the officer. But say it's the CIA grabbing you...it would seem those things don't apply? Would you be convicted of murder if you killed a bunch of CIA guys that were trying to kidnap you? It doesn't seem like "go with the flow and resolve it in court" applies? How does it ever work if the CIA kidnaps people? Does it only work if they kill the person in the end? note: anyone using the "well they would only do this to a bad guy, so the bad guy would be convicted of something" excuse, should note in this case they grabbed the wrong guy..he's free. I'm wondering if he was armed and opened up. what would have happened to him?

I think that was my very first post here. Mar 30, 2008.

"The incidence of inversion ankle sprains was 1.9% in non-brace-wearers and 0.3% in brace-wearers (risk ratio, 6.9; p = 0.04). Other injuries appeared unaffected by the brace. Overall, 5.3% of the non-brace group and 4.6% of the brace group experienced at least one injury. " Note that comparing the ankle issue (1.9%/0.3%) vs total injuries (5.3%/4.6%) seems to agree with my point. Focusing on the boot issue is silly for assessing injury on landing. You're going to argue that 1.9% vs 0.3% is important, and therefore identifies Cooper as a clod? I think maybe the only shoe issue is "loss of shoe" vs "non-loss-of-shoe" for Cooper. The idea of "jump boot" vs "non-jump-boot" I think is a myth, in terms of assessing experience.

I'm thinking the physics doesn't support it. Think of a body coming down at 20MPH or so..weighing 150-200 lbs. The soles are only going to deflect so much. Maybe 1/8" on impact? So it's a question of decelerating only slightly differently. But think about it: It's primarily more important what you land on, if you're worried about deceleration over that distance. grass, moss, forest debris, soft wet ground...vs concrete, pebbles etc. That would be the primary issue. There might be a traction issue? Hard to see why though. Thinking about jumping off of things like 10' high or so, bruised heels can be common landing on hard ground. In fact, thinking about the sprained ankle issue: increased sole traction can be bad. You don't want your foot to stop, while your body is moving.

Question. There's been this underlying theme that good jump boots help prevent injury when landing rounds. I've been thinking about that, and am not sure I agree. I think the things that caused injuries with rounds, were caused by other factors, that boots didn't really play into? -I'd agree that soles are important to avoid penetration injuries. -But I don't agree that any sole construction is important in terms of reducing shock loading enough to prevent injury. -I'd agree, somewhat, that the high tops have an intent of preventing ankle sprains, but I'm wondering if the reality was that they didn't help much. In short, I'd like to see more data. I'm wondering if landing a round in sneakers has the same injury rate as landing with jump boots. There's been a claim of higher injury rate with bad shoes. But no data presented to support that thesis?

There's this kids book I posted about before that mentions Duane Weber here: http://books.google.com/books?id=No6A1mRJv8IC&pg=PT28&dq=%22duane+weber%22#v=onepage&q=%22duane%20weber%22&f=false Saw a kid in the library reading it. His mom was standing nearby and I pointed out the Weber reference, and explained how Weber was apparently a perv, heavily involved in porn, drugs, and prostitutes. Likely a serial murderer. Definitely a terrorist. And he got away with all of it. No one knows how many bodies he buried. She asked me where I heard that, and I said I read it on a web forum. She took the book out of the kid's hands and went to the librarian. I don't think the book got reshelved. It's apparently just a unsubstantiated rumor that he was a perv, but I'm looking into it.

remember that train engineer who crashed the train, and right before he missed the emergency signal, he was texting to some kids who were train freaks. I thought it was really funny that it turned out the pilots that missed the airport, were playing with their laptops. Both of them. Now they were either playing flight simulator, world of warcraft, updating their facebook, sending tweets or looking at porn. When I read they tried to text message them on their cell phones and got no response...I was thinking "how long before an airplane crash like the train crash..where the pilot is texting"... and then it turns out they were playing with their laptops. It's against the law in a number of places to text while driving your car. It's funny that we need a law apparently, that you're not allowed to play with text messages or laptops while driving an airplane or train or maybe a nuclear power plant. I think they should get rid of the sterile cockpit and let the pilots flirt with the stewardesses all the time again. I think that was safer. Put a couple guys behind closed doors, and it's only a couple minutes before they're surfing the web looking for porn.

I'm still more interested in any murders Duane might have been involved in. I think they'll sell better. If there's a JFK/MLK connection then surely we should investigate other murders? He was a crack shot with a gun, glasses or not. He wasn't a hunter. Why did he shoot so much? Well, obviously, to shoot people. Did Duane ever discuss bombs? detonators? Did he ever discuss political stuff? You mentioned Cuba. Did he ever say he wanted to blow someone up? I still think it's likely he was involved with prostitutes. It sounds like there was no drug involvement: sales or use. (edit) What was his preference when it came to porn?

It's interesting they had the looping 30 minute-only cockpit recorder, and conveniently they were back in contact for the last 30 minutes till landing, so no voice recording of the dead time. With today's technology, it's possible to do full video coverage of the entire plane for the entire flight. I saw a UK company that's providing cockpit visual from video cams installed thruout the plane. I'd like that for security if I was a pilot...why rely on the intermediate descriptions from a stew? BUT: imagine the uproar if company officials could review the video of your performance during the entire flight? Cops already have to deal with this with dashboard cams on their traffic stops (and it's been an eye-opener right?) Full vid coverage of cockpit...actually instantaneous live streaming to the ground, is inevitable. Why bother with talking to the pilot, when you can flip a switch and just look and listen yourself (from the ground) Wait till the unions hear about that! (edit) on the plus side, it'd be nice to look in the cockpit before you shoot them down.

I'll bite. Jaumann absorber? I think I remember you from the Schornsteinfeger project? http://www.cdvandt.org/CIOS%20XXVI-24.pdf What do you think about this two layer approach? http://www.infomesr.org/OJEEE-V1N1_files/W09-0001.pdf