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Who is doing that? Every person who is currently saying, "this is not the right time for a conversation about gun control." The Daily Show did a pretty good recap of folks repeatedly saying the phrase on their July 23 show. I'm not in a place where I can link that right now, but you should check it out. Really. You think that the emotional aftermath of this tragedy, where people are making knee-jerk reactions about causes is a good time to discuss restricting the rghts of law abiding gun owners? Do you think the TSA taking away nail clippers and tie tacks in the shape of miniature guns was a reasonable reaction? Or making everyone remove their shoes? When emotions are raw, and the rhetoric runs high is when stupid restrictions are placed. Especially the rhetoric running high. It's when the anti's pull out the most blatant lies to promote their agenda. Remember the VT shooting? Where Cho got his guns "off the internet"? And everyone wanted to ban the sale of guns and related equipment over the internet? And it then turned out that while Cho had found the guns on the internet, he had to go through a FFL dealer and go through all the paperwork and background checks to get them. Similar things are being said about ammo sales over the internet. Since this looney got a bunch of ammo that way. Which completely ignores the fact that I can walk into Cabela's and but a large quantity of ammo (if I can afford it) with just an age check. 223 is for sale for $400/thousand. http://www.cabelas.com/product/Bargain-Cave/Hunting/Ammo%7C/pc/105591780/c/105649380/sc/105650280/Remington-UMC-223-Bulk-Rifle-Ammunition-with-Dry-Storage-Box/706945.uts?destination=%2Fcatalog%2Fbrowse%2Fbargain-cave-hunting-ammo%2F_%2FN-1102657%2B4294759021%2FNe-4294759021%3FWTz_st%3DGuidedNav%26WTz_stype%3DGNU&WTz_l=Unknown%3Bcat105650280 "There are NO situations which do not call for a French Maid outfit." Lucky McSwervy "~ya don't GET old by being weak & stupid!" - Airtwardo

My knowledge of computers and viruses and such is pretty minimal, so I may be completely off the wall here (not that that's unusual ) But... Could a virus have a time-delay? To prevent the victim from figuring out where it came from and perhaps blame some innocent site? "There are NO situations which do not call for a French Maid outfit." Lucky McSwervy "~ya don't GET old by being weak & stupid!" - Airtwardo

Apparently he moved from London. http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=4105219;sb=post_latest_reply;so=ASC;forum_view=forum_view_collapsed;;page=unread#unread Identical except for username and location. E-mail is almost the same. Different number after the name is all. "There are NO situations which do not call for a French Maid outfit." Lucky McSwervy "~ya don't GET old by being weak & stupid!" - Airtwardo

DON"T FEED IT!!!!! Just ignore it. Make it's garbage slowly drop down the page into oblivion. "There are NO situations which do not call for a French Maid outfit." Lucky McSwervy "~ya don't GET old by being weak & stupid!" - Airtwardo

I don't understand, what is a bikers wallet and why can't you carry one? It a wallet with a chain on it that attaches to your belt. https://www.google.com/search?sourceid=ie9&q=Biker+Wallet&rls=com.microsoft:en-us:IE-Address&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&rlz=1I7TSNO It's a lot harder to lose (like when you are riding a motorcycle all day long) or get stolen. But the chain can be used as a weapon in a fight. And they look scary and intimidating. "There are NO situations which do not call for a French Maid outfit." Lucky McSwervy "~ya don't GET old by being weak & stupid!" - Airtwardo

Is THIS her?? "There are NO situations which do not call for a French Maid outfit." Lucky McSwervy "~ya don't GET old by being weak & stupid!" - Airtwardo

STOP IT!!!! Stop feeding it. The more you feed it, the more it grows. It's spreading it's territory. And getting worse. Just like the Blob. It's going to continue posting it's idotic bullshit as long as anyone responds to it. And there's another one out there too. Just ignore the fucking idiots and maybe they'll go away. "There are NO situations which do not call for a French Maid outfit." Lucky McSwervy "~ya don't GET old by being weak & stupid!" - Airtwardo

If they made it to trial, it's unlikely they were as clear cut as you claim. Look at all of the people who claim that the Martin killing is a clear cut case of self defense, when the details of that killing aren't at all clear. Yes and no. "Clear cut case of self defense" is often in the eye of the beholder. Opportunity to retreat, opportunity to use lesser force, who was responsible for the incident in the first place, all those are very subjective. And are often viewed in perfect hindsight, after plenty of time to weigh the options, where the person claiming self defense had seconds (or less) to make the decision to use deadly force. Some prosecutors seem to believe that any civilian using deadly force in public should go to trial. And in many places they have that discretion. Other places use a grand jury system. AggieDave has said that a "no bill" CHL shooting costs an average of $50k in Texas. That's where the grand jury decides not to charge the shooter (I believe every fatal shooting goes to a grand jury there, but I don't know for sure). A general rule for people who choose to carry on a daily basis is that drawing the gun and pointing it at an assailant will cost about $5k. Actually shooting someone will cost about $20k. So make sure you actually need to before even pulling the thing out. "There are NO situations which do not call for a French Maid outfit." Lucky McSwervy "~ya don't GET old by being weak & stupid!" - Airtwardo

What part would your yarn be used for? Are you wanting to weave the yarn into the fabric the canopy is made from? Or use it as thread to sew the canopy together? Or use it for the suspension lines? The answer to that will allow better answers as to why nobody wants to talk to you. There's a "Top Secret" book with a lot of info about parachutes, their construction and composition. It's called "The Parachute Manual." Most often referred to as "Poynter" (the author). http://www.parapublishing.com/sites/parachute/information/parachutes.cfm "There are NO situations which do not call for a French Maid outfit." Lucky McSwervy "~ya don't GET old by being weak & stupid!" - Airtwardo

I have "3-way with 2 cats" in my logbook. And of course, a 9-way giant inflatable penis bikini jump doesn't just sound dirty. But it was funny as all hell. "There are NO situations which do not call for a French Maid outfit." Lucky McSwervy "~ya don't GET old by being weak & stupid!" - Airtwardo

That isn't an accurate statement (not the scammers part, the don't take a check part). I've done business using checks issued by US Banks and had no problems. My bank can confirm that the check isn't counterfeit within a day or two and away I go. The scammers usually counterfeit checks from banks not in the US and those checks can take days or weeks to come back as fake. I've even done stuff with personal checks. I just make it perfectly clear that I'm not shipping stuff out until the check clears. My bank is good about this and will notify me right away when the check has cleared. Which has gotten faster than years ago, but can still take a week or so. Checks aren't automatically bad. You just have to understand how they can be used fraudulently and take precautions against it. Western Union is the same thing. Not automatically a scammer, but you have to be very, very careful because the scammers use it so much. "There are NO situations which do not call for a French Maid outfit." Lucky McSwervy "~ya don't GET old by being weak & stupid!" - Airtwardo

Do those two sentences seem to go together properly to you? that was also a concern of mine, but why would you need jump experience to have a go pro on your head? They seem like they would be lightweight, I feel like once I get it and try it on I wouldn't even know that its on there. Is it possible for it to get caught in a rope twist in the event you have a rope twist? Because you have too much other stuff to worry about. You cannot simply put it there, turn it on and forget about it. It doesn't happen that way. There is a discipline specific forum for Photog and Vid. There are two "sticky" threads at the top. One is "Read this first" the other is the "Small Camera Incidents" list. I suggest that you read them. "There are NO situations which do not call for a French Maid outfit." Lucky McSwervy "~ya don't GET old by being weak & stupid!" - Airtwardo

For someone like me to try it. It would be called suicide. For those that actually have the skills? It's their choice to make. They know the risks just as well as we do. Right. Therefore you can't make a blanket statement that pushing the envelope is a good thing. It depends upon who is doing the pushing and whether or not they are properly prepared to do so. Is it a good idea for a 16-year old teenage male to push the envelope by driving 100 mph with his new learner's permit? I guess it depends on how you define "pushing the envelope." I understand it as carefully, incrementally and with a great deal of calculation, doing things at the edge of your current abilities. Or the capabilities of the equipment you are using. It is shaving the error margin thinner one slice at a time. For me it is 90 carving turns to final. A little more input each time to build a little more speed, most of which is bleeding off before I land. Trying to crank out a 270 to a swoop wouldn't be "pushing" the envelope for me, it would be blasting a big hole in it. "There are NO situations which do not call for a French Maid outfit." Lucky McSwervy "~ya don't GET old by being weak & stupid!" - Airtwardo

FFS. It's Red Bull. Video is the only real reason the jump was possible. No, video; no bucks. No buck; no Buck Rogers. You'll just have to wait for the commercial... They've got "Red Bull" and the logo plastered over everything. Every single news story includes the words "Red Bull" at least once. The whole operation is a commercial. A really, really cool commercial, but a commercial nonetheless. "There are NO situations which do not call for a French Maid outfit." Lucky McSwervy "~ya don't GET old by being weak & stupid!" - Airtwardo

Absolutely. Happens millions upon millions of times every year without incident. It's how I grew up and I will tell you without a shadow of a doubt that at no time in my midnight movie attendance starting in high-school in the mid-'70s did I ever have to be concerned about a loonie walking into any of the theaters and spraying the audience with a hundred rounds out of a gun. Never. Not a single time. Has it ever happened before? I can't recall any mass shooting at a theater before. Far too many people believe that because it hasn't happened yet that it can't or won't happen in the future. I tend to align with DavJohns or Normiss that I pay attention to my surroundings, I make sure I have at least 2 exits, and I try to not sit with my back to the crowd or the door. I really don't think anything can be done without seriously restricting personal rights and civil liberties. We live in a dangerous world. You stand a far, far greater chance of being taken out by a teenager driving and texting than being shot in a mass shooting. Where's the outrage about that? Where's the "let's come up with a system that you can't have the phone on and the car running at the same time." Should be really simple to create an interlock to do that. And it would save 10, 20, 100 or more times the number of people that were killed and injured in Colorado. Are we interested in saving lives? Or are we more interested in "killing the Boogeyman" so that we can feel safe? Without actually being safer in any real meaningful sense. "There are NO situations which do not call for a French Maid outfit." Lucky McSwervy "~ya don't GET old by being weak & stupid!" - Airtwardo

With a blown head gasket? Not for $700 no matter how stupid the ad is. And I don't have a beard, so I guess I'm not eliglble. "There are NO situations which do not call for a French Maid outfit." Lucky McSwervy "~ya don't GET old by being weak & stupid!" - Airtwardo

That's another possibility. Maybe a smoke bomb or something. It's not so much trusting the media as much as if it had been bad it would have been mentioned more (or maybe it was and I just missed it). So many of the arguments against effective defense against this looney were based on exposure to tear gas (I have experienced it once, non-military and it was a bitch. I don't want to think about what real CS would be like). But if there wasn't a teargas bomb set off, or it was homemade and fizzled, then the enitre discussion changes. DavJohns had a pretty good post on his observations in a theatre. "There are NO situations which do not call for a French Maid outfit." Lucky McSwervy "~ya don't GET old by being weak & stupid!" - Airtwardo

Have we gotten a conclusion yet on when this drum jammed? Did he get off 10 rounds, 50 rounds, 80 rounds? Seems like a useful detail in this conversation since many are seizing upon the 100 round capacity as the key to this slaughter. With 70 people shot, it may be true. But if the 12 who died were mostly shot by that shotgun after the jam, not so much. I think back to the Tec9 with its 30 round magazines, but with the accuracy to hit the side of a barn. And to ask another question about stuff that has been a large part of the debte: Did the teargas actually affect the crowd? I haven't been following the news on it really closely, but I havent' heard any of the news reports mention anyone in the crowd (including interviews of those who were in the theater) being incpacitated, or even noticing the tear gas. A lot of discussions about the shooter, the people getting hit, the panic in the crowd, ect. But no mention of teargas, burning eyes, skin, ect. Did the tear gas have any effect on the crowd?? "There are NO situations which do not call for a French Maid outfit." Lucky McSwervy "~ya don't GET old by being weak & stupid!" - Airtwardo

I didn't actually "see" it, but I had to put it back together after it happened. I talked with the FJC instructor who was also the J/M on the jump. First time S/L student was pretty much convinced that the main wouldn't open properly. Asked about failure rates, went over EPs in the hanging harness a bunch of extra times, that kind of behavior. On exit, the main opened fine. It's a direct-bag S/L rig. Reliable as it gets. Student semi-panicked, grabbed the reserve handle (SOS system) and pulled it just a little. Just enough to pull the reserve pin, but not enough to pull the cutaway cables out of the 3-rings. Two out. One a 288 Manta, the reserve a PD 218 IIRC. Poor guy floated about 2 miles before he landed in a big open field. The radio guy and a few others jumped in a car and took off after him, giving instructions all the way. Toggles on both stayed stowed, they had him use very small rear riser inputs (don't remember which canopy) to steer. No flare, he barely needed to do a PLF. He was fine. "There are NO situations which do not call for a French Maid outfit." Lucky McSwervy "~ya don't GET old by being weak & stupid!" - Airtwardo

It depends on the winter. I've been out fun jumping as early as February a couple times. Quite a few March jumps in my logbook. April and May can be quite wet and windy around here. June can be wet. I've had years where I had a dozen or so jumps in March and early April, then nothing until late June. Student season usually kicks off Memorial Day weekend, although I've seen tandems done earlier. "There are NO situations which do not call for a French Maid outfit." Lucky McSwervy "~ya don't GET old by being weak & stupid!" - Airtwardo

Let them continue. They are making it very obvious why Sandusky was allowed (enabled) to continue his crimes as long as he was. The Paterno family is more concerned with Penn State football and Paterno's legacy than with the fact that one of the staff molested boys. "There are NO situations which do not call for a French Maid outfit." Lucky McSwervy "~ya don't GET old by being weak & stupid!" - Airtwardo

Well, at least that AAD woudn't be likely to fire if the pilot opened a window now would it?? "There are NO situations which do not call for a French Maid outfit." Lucky McSwervy "~ya don't GET old by being weak & stupid!" - Airtwardo

Pretty much. The antis love to crow about the gun show loophole, but all it is is that private parties may sell guns to each other in most states. Some of them do it at garage sales, some do it at the shooting range (my range has a "for sale" board that anyone can hang an ad on), some do it through Craigslist. Ok, I don't go on craigslist that much. A gun show is just a place where a lot of people interested in guns show up. It's a good place for someone who wants to sell a gun. Although the shows I go to don't allow people who don't pay to get in to sell guns outside the show. Edit to fix a factual error. "There are NO situations which do not call for a French Maid outfit." Lucky McSwervy "~ya don't GET old by being weak & stupid!" - Airtwardo

I don't understand your question.... But I will try to clarify. Gun show - This would be like a flea market.... Lets say you owned the land and held a flea market. Bob showed up and wanted to sell velvet Elvis paintings and I showed up to sell firearms. YOU are not a firearms dealer, BOB is not a firearms dealer. DEALERS are required to call in a NICS check. YOU and BOB are not dealers and therefore do not need to have a firearm license. So I would have to call in any firearm sale I made.... Bob would not need to call anyone when he sold a painting. You have no duty to make any phone calls since you just provided the space. What people call a 'loophole' is just Steve trying to sell Bob a firearm. He could make the sale all day everyday, but people call it a 'loophole' if it is done at a gunshow. The ATF is pretty tough on anyone selling guns for profit without being a dealer. What people are calling a loophole is just personal face to face sales. I hope that cleared things up. And to expand on that a bit more... The vast majority of the gun sellers at gun shows are FFL holding dealers. Real gun dealers who are at the show because it brings far more customers past their wares than will walk into their store in a month. Those licensed dealers are required to do all the necessary paperwork on every sale (regardless of if it occurs at their store, the gunshow, the range, anywhere). And most gun sales at gunshows are through licensed dealers. Anyone can rent a table and sell whatever they want - guns, knives, holsters, ammo, parts, tools, books, posters, T-shirts,and on and on (the shows often have rules on content being firearm related, usually a percentage). The ones I go to have very few non-dealers selling guns. Some, but only a few. DaVinci is absolutely correct that the ATF keeps their eyes open and if they suspect a person without a licesnse is selling a significant quantity of guns, they come down like the proverbial ton of bricks. "There are NO situations which do not call for a French Maid outfit." Lucky McSwervy "~ya don't GET old by being weak & stupid!" - Airtwardo

IIRC, the ban wasn't due to looking scary; it was due to how easy it (supposedly) was to convert a semi-automatic civilian version (e.g., AR-15) of a military assault rifle to fully automatic. One more piece of anti-gun propaganda. There was a lot of confusion about the difference between military select fire rifles and civilian semi-auto. A lot of that confusion was no accident. I ran into people who swore up and down that my AR was capable of full auto. They saw it on the news. And converting legal semi to full is a lot harder than it looks. And a military style semi-auto isn't any different functionally than any other semi-auto. And a skilled machinist can make a functional full auto by making a few parts from scratch and adapting the rest. Look up the WW II Sten gun or the M3 "Grease Gun" to see how simple they can be. Pistol grips were supposed to allow the shooter to hold the weapon steadier to "spray bullets" Folding stocks make them easier to hide (but harder to shoot accuartely with the stock folded). And I still want to know why a bayonet lug is a bad thing. "There are NO situations which do not call for a French Maid outfit." Lucky McSwervy "~ya don't GET old by being weak & stupid!" - Airtwardo