Arvoitus

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  1. Typically I do some chicken+rise+vegetables combo, but this week I made lasagna which was great since normally the chicken thingy I do lasts only one day so I always have to make it the night before, however the lasagna I made lasted 4 days which made things easier since I didn't have to cook every day. Your rights end where my feelings begin.
  2. What do they need a driver for in a train anyway? To press the brakes when some idiots steps on to the tracks? Your rights end where my feelings begin.
  3. Whats this vacuum cleaner thing they're talking about? Did he have a fetish for that? Your rights end where my feelings begin.
  4. Arvoitus

    funny

    I actually had a student once ask me if we could do the travis pastrana stunt i.e. he would jump out of the plane unattached and I'd dive after him, attach and deploy. Your rights end where my feelings begin.
  5. Windows phones have a feature called kid's corner to avoid things like this. Your rights end where my feelings begin.
  6. I find it interesting that none of those people in that article seemed to care that 5 men probably had their lives ruined and could've ended up in prison because of those false accusation but rather they were more worried that some other women might be inconvenienced in the future. Hell even the judge made it seem like the only reason to punish her is because some other women might suffer. Your rights end where my feelings begin.
  7. I don't mean to be rude, but read the original post and you find the answer to your question. "The actors did not jump but were suspended between two cranes in a harnas. They used 'Matrix techniques' to produce the closeups." I know I should have been more specific. There is an in place shot around 13:50 where the plane is clearly flying and the actors are sitting inside the plane with rigs on. If there had been an engine failure or some other problem with the plane during that flight where the normal procedure for the pilot would have been to request the jumpers to exit, would the actors have done that and/or did they get any training for that scenario? Or is that scene some editing room magic and the actors were never in the plane in the first place? Your rights end where my feelings begin.
  8. Do you know why people get so offended when they're exposed to other peoples cellphone conversations? Noseyness. I mean think about it, how is a cellphone conversation any different from any other conversation. You're not hearing half the conversation. When people have to listen to a conversation where they're missing half of it, they get upset and then offended. Your rights end where my feelings begin.
  9. Did the actors go through any training and/or did they do any jumps? Or were they just given the rigs and told where to pull if they fall out? Your rights end where my feelings begin.
  10. Do they care? It depends. If I don't make a big scene out if it, just walk out, then they won't. However if I'd do what the woman in the OP's article did then they would, as otherwise it might be a bad publicity issue for them and they would react, just like they did in the OP's article. Your rights end where my feelings begin.
  11. Its fairly easy to make a very rough estimation of how dangerous skydiving is in relation to driving for instance. USPA estimates that there are about 3,1 million skydives per year and on average about 22 fatalities per year. Department of Transportation estimates that on average 3,0 trillion miles were travelled in a car. So, if you try to make it look as good for skydiving as possible you could say that the average skydive is 40 minutes ride to altitude + 2 minutes of freefall + 10 minutes of canopy time, which would give: (3100000 * ( (40+2+10)/60))/22 ~ 122121,21 hours of activity per fatality And keeping with the theme of making skydiving to appear as safe as possible, lets say the average driver was driving at 65 miles per hour and using 12 year average on road fatalities, gives: (3000000000000 / 65)/38000 ~ 1273680,00 hours of activity per fatality which would make skydiving only about 10 times as dangerous as driving a car. However if you use more realistic number (20 minutes to altitude, 1,5 minutes of freefall, 6 minutes of canopy time) vs. 45 mph average speed with 5 year fatality average, you get: 64583,33 HoAPF for skydiving vs. 2192919,34 HoAPF for driving, making skydiving 34 times more dangerous. So skydiving is probably 10 to 50 times more dangerous then driving a car. Your rights end where my feelings begin.
  12. Hi Dude I dont think the grocery store will go out of business if you take your business across the street. There's shoppers from across the street after you pull your entitled atitude that will take your place at the store you just left in a huff. What makes you think that your better than a person that works a real job running a cahier in a grocery store.Or bags groceries to support their family or work their way thru college Do you think people think your important because your on your cell all the time. Your only fooling yourself. Don't you know that everyone around you can hear your bs cell phone conversation. Sometimes when a person like you interrupts my private space with your cell phone bs. I'll say something like Payback is a bitch isn't it. Dude I honestly don't get it. You're acting as if it is the end of the world if someone is talking on their phone whilst paying for their groceries. I'd understand this attitude if it was 1997 and cellphones would be a new thing, but nowadays even 5 year olds have them, its not a big deal to be talking on one while doing stuff like placing your credit card in a read to pay for your groceries. Your rights end where my feelings begin.
  13. How did she hold up the queue by speaking on the phone? Isn't 'checkout worker' an euphemism for the bag handler who bags a persons groceries? Or do British people call cashiers 'checkout workers'? If I were talking on the phone and a cashier/bag handler refused to service me until I stop, I would just leave all the stuff and walkout and never visit that store ever again. Your rights end where my feelings begin.
  14. I know it makes. It just seemed very selfish/ignorant to waste the squat rack with that when the gym has plenty of other alternative to achieve that very same effect. Your rights end where my feelings begin.
  15. Saw something even better today at the gym. Some chick was doing sit ups in the squat rack. Why? Because she could use the weight bar as a counter weight to stop her legs from lifting up. Your rights end where my feelings begin.
  16. I dunno, I'd be tempted to try that if I would have a chance. The only thing that I'd be really worried about that I would have a brain fart and I'd jump off without a rig. Your rights end where my feelings begin.
  17. Arvoitus

    Dream Job

    If you're going to be making money farming something near a DZ, it ain't clover you need to be farming. Your rights end where my feelings begin.
  18. Are you referring to the comment section? Your rights end where my feelings begin.
  19. As a European, what do I need to do to be able to vote in the next U.S. election, since citizenship isn't a requirement? Valid U.S. drivers license? USPA license? Your rights end where my feelings begin.
  20. Seriously? He spent 24 years in a box with a rapist label on his head, probably getting abused on a daily basis. And his wifes life was ruined? Really? Your rights end where my feelings begin.
  21. CH4[g] + 2 O2[g] -> CO2[g] + 2 H2O[l] + 891 kJ Tough call. If you could harness the heat for some useful purpose other than burning a person's asshole, I dunno. Might be better than letting it escape for no purpose whatsoever. Isn't methane like 25 times more potent greenhouse gas then CO2. I'm too tired to do any thinking on whether the heat released by the reaction makes any difference but my gut feeling says that it'd better to just burn it off. Your rights end where my feelings begin.
  22. I don't care about climate change but should someone start bitching to me about jumping I'd just say that I've never owned a car in my 31 years of age and have no intention of ever having the standard 2.6 children, so the saves in CO2 emission that I've earned are well above the little I end up creating by doing my 160 or so jumps a year. Your rights end where my feelings begin.
  23. Sounds like another day in SC to me. Your rights end where my feelings begin.
  24. Hmm, the regulations in my home country allow to carry up to ten skydivers without having seat-belts so none of the small cessna's even have them. For some reason I just went ahead assumed this was the case in States and elsewhere. Well I guess that teaches me to assume things about stuff. Your rights end where my feelings begin.
  25. I have no idea why they do it, but I would guess one of the reasons could be that a round is more reliable in a emergency situation with a para-glider. I mean a round is basically just a massive drogue which relies on creating drag where as a ram-air parachute needs to inflate and remain flying to decelerate the person. I don't know if a para-glider can be cutway but I'm under the impression they can't be, so it would be more convenient to have a round in an emergency with a para-glider. Your rights end where my feelings begin.