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I TOTALLY agree. Commercial air travel was on the edge of bearable for me two years ago. I'm now completely turned off by it. I accidently booked tickets for a vacation a month ago before I remembered how awful it is. Habits die slowly. I won't make that mistake again. Humans used to go to the moon and fly around the planet. Things are rapidly going backwards now. First Class Citizen Twice Over

Chris, I think stiff piety about serious subjects serves no purpose worth serving. Humans address their fears with humor and that does serve a purpose. Much that we do on planet earth is in "poor taste". Let it flow! It's better than bottling it up inside. First Class Citizen Twice Over

Smaller canopies might rotate faster, but they're covering much more ground while doing so. Larger canopies can actually turn in less space because their penetration speed is so much lower. First Class Citizen Twice Over

Yeah, well somebody told me I'm not ready to jump off a 1700 foot running exit A, so I guess I'll have to wait to join him. First Class Citizen Twice Over

Looking over the New River Gorge Bridge, your companion says, "Oooo. It's so high." Meanwhile you're thinking, "Oooo. It's so low." First Class Citizen Twice Over

Sorry to interrupt your nipple discussion. First Class Citizen Twice Over

Oh goodie!

I think you're right about maturity. The desire to mate with weakness, frailty, inexperience, and helplessness is a fascinating window into a person's soul which I do not think they'd want others to see. Ayn Rand wrote something to the effect of, "Show me who a man is sexually attracted to and I'll tell you about his character." Give me a real man with character and ambition and experiences. Or a woman, for that matter. My friends and lover have to fit much the same qualifications: they must be strong, smart, fully awake, challenging, and going somewhere. The size of their tits or dick or the shape of their curves rates attention somewhere way down the list. First Class Citizen Twice Over

I've developed petty revenge to an art form. I highly recommend it. First Class Citizen Twice Over

well, more money generally signifies ambition, and those that are drawn to money typically lack ambition and are, well, lazy gold digging selfish people who only garner their own self worth by living through someone elses success... I'm confused by this. If money signifies ambition, then isn't attraction to money the same as attraction to ambition? And to some extent aren't we all motivated to be those things that attract us? My boyfriend is extremely ambitious about money, although when we met he was penniless. I was attracted partly to his ambitiousness, although it could have been any ambition -- to be an astronaut or paint beautifully or lead armies. First Class Citizen Twice Over

Is this poll only for women, too? First Class Citizen Twice Over

Seriously Muenkel, the brain is the sexy part. I've had sex with women and wanted to have sex with others and just felt sexy feelings around even more. All of them were smart, witty, generous people. Mostly for a woman's body to be sexy to me, she should be fairly short (like I am), but definitely have some BODY to her. Skinny waif model-like chicks are a huge turnoff as are wildly fat women. The more sturdy, healthy, and generally normal a woman is, the more attractive I find her. First Class Citizen Twice Over

Brain. Definitely the brain. By the way, I have the same answer if the question is "what is your favorite part of a man's body." First Class Citizen Twice Over

Clever idea but the economics don't work out. A mass-produced remote activator would cost around $0.25 each and innocent human lives are only worth $0.03 each to the american military. First Class Citizen Twice Over

What Erno is saying is this is a limitation of the language HTML itself. There is no command or function that can be used to tell HTML, "break long words." What can be done is to break the words programmatically. However, that involves deciding how far to take the project. At its simplest it's a big deal to write into all sorts of functions the intelligence to look up some ideal character count from everyone's records, then count and adjust every word's characters before shoving them to the screen. Even at its very, very best however, it's still going to make some stupid choices and break words in silly places. That's because the program can know how many characters a word has, but not how many pixels the word will span on your screen. That's because you and your browser control the size and typeface. Also, letters are not predictable widths: "i" is not the same width as "m" in most typefaces. In other words, this is one of those systemic problems with HTML and the way the web works. Sorry. First Class Citizen Twice Over

From that thread it sounds more like Sangiro started to work on it then let the idea drop. If I'm proving there's nothing truly new under the sun, so be it. I still think this would be useful. First Class Citizen Twice Over

Yeah, I find it really plausible to consider base a specialized form of skydiving, even though the base jumpers all complain bitterly if you say so. Let's see, how is it similar? Launch, freefall, tracking, birdman suits, relative work, opening shock, canopy control, landing accuracy, flare and touchdown, pilot chutes, bridles, ram air canopies, A/B/C/D/steering lines, risers, sliders, three-ring release, flaking, s-folding, blah blah blah... Yes, there are differences, but to my way of looking at it, the similarities are sufficient to form a close family association. Why do some base jumpers get so worked up over distancing themselves from skydivers? Largely elitism, I think. I could also imagine freeflyers or CRW dawgs or S&A jumpers wanting to claim their sport demands a whole different name and I'd think that was somewhat silly as well. Either way, it doesn't much matter if we say base is a type of skydiving or skydiving is a type of base. It's all good either way. We're all having fun doing similar things and often crossing over between our sub-specialities. First Class Citizen Twice Over

Yeah! The silly press misses all sorts of factual opportunities, damn them. First Class Citizen Twice Over

I think most of the people there used to widdle in their little cribs, so that makes them all bedwetters. First Class Citizen Twice Over

Well, Ragnar the Iguana is mostly my bf's pet. I don't see the point as much as he does. But reptiles do have their appeal. My old boa constrictor was strange and wonderful in a way. He ate rats which is amusing to watch. He also slithered over me which is definitely a novelty. The iguana is more exciting than the boa was though. He flops around clumsily, has more extreme emotions, and has some strange habits. First Class Citizen Twice Over

ROFL...yes, well, but is it correct? (Ohhhh, thread creep...) Correct? *shrug* Creative new forms do not need to be correct. They just need to add a useful and entertaining new feature to the language. (Apostrophe misuse, on the other hand, diffuses a useful feature thereby rendering the language less rich.) By the way, my sincere condolences for the loss. I also love my pets (at least some of them -- the iguana isn't very emotional) and fear losing them someday. First Class Citizen Twice Over

Michele, that is the most wonderful new abbreviation I have seen in forever. Can I bear your children? First Class Citizen Twice Over

One's proofing eye is never sharper than in the first 10 seconds after opening a carton of finished product from the press. Or immediately after clicking "Post Reply". First Class Citizen Twice Over

After posting a message, the forum's thread list page is displayed. If you browse from there then hit the browser's "Back" to see that listing, then reload it to get a freshened list, it's tantamount to resending the form for posting your message. The forum software detects this and disallows the unintended duplicate posting, but there's a better way. Right now the last step in gforum.cgi's "do=post_post" routine is to display the forum thread list. If instead, the last step were to print location: http://dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?forum=;\n\n then a formless URL would trigger the normal thread list routine and the resulting page would be reloadable. First Class Citizen Twice Over

Some topics keep recurring as either newcomers need information or old questions get new answers. An excellent example is the refreshed "rigs on airlines" question. It's both annoying to see it rehashed and necessary to keep sharing experiences and ideas. A way to treat these perpetual informational threads more deliberately than boobies threads might give us all a way to share real information more effectively. One method would be to develop something like a seriously moderated FAQ page for each topic that deserved it. Rather than burying these questions in constantly cycling forums, let there be a permanent location for those discussions, and even an expert-vetted summary page kept up as the situation changes. First Class Citizen Twice Over