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The leader of the opposition in Zimbabwe was involved in a car "accident" on Friday and his wife was killed. He was appointed Prime Minister 2 days before as part of the power sharing deal. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7929136.stm Speculation is rife as to whether this was an attempt on his life as it is quite common for people Mugabe doesn't like to have "accidents" with either HGV's or trains. Something worth noting on BBC video is that he lays in bed the entire time the President and cohorts are wishing him well and sits up the instant his friends arrive. Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

... as I said we arent dealing with technical people. And yet they fly and work on planes etc. That's fine. They now are trying their hands at story telling. Ever build a boat out of ice? Georger your avatar allways reminds me of the million monkeys typing theme - I forget the origins of your avatar, but this will hopefully amuse you. I've seen a couple of versions - this a rip'off of a youtube commentators version Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

Are you sure it wasn't a "dead mike" - the name sticks from stories here on dz.com. Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

If the raincoat was the kind I think it was - yes, some of the pockets would have been large enough in those days to put these books in - also they are flexible, but do not appear have been bent much at any given time. ========================= Your answer lies within the question. No this is not a riddle. I only saw Duane READ one book while I knew him (the Norjak book). He possessed these books and at one time he may have been interested in them to pass the time while on the plane. Before I mentioned this - the title on one specific book would have been reason enough for Duane Weber to have put the book in his hands and gone thru it. The title was associated with a strong memory of his childhood. ======================= There are NO copyright dates in these. Yes, they are printed material and the most important one is the smaller book with a gold cover and black binding comb - this one had the picture in it and with the water damage. This one book seems to be much older than the larger book. The thicker book appears to be a 1960's book...due to some references in it. Jeez the story of Duane as Cooper grows more far fetched by the minute We now have a guy jumping with books with sentimental value on a hijacking. So that we can keep track of this all - Duane jumped with 1) A bucket to keep the money 2) The money 3) briefcase 4) Dan Poynter's missing draft of "Parachutist" (it has a distinctive gold cover) 5) Peter Pan's guide to wilderness survival (blue spiral bound edition) 6) A dialysis machine 7) Marilin Monroe 8) Burger King happy meal (brown paper bag) What Duane didn't know was the missing 35mm SAGE radar caught the following image that ties him to the scene http://images1.fanpop.com/images/photos/2100000/Peter-Pan-and-Pirate-Ship-peter-pan-2106192-799-528.jpg Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

What it really means is conservatives are afraid of getting caught so they buy online porn, liberals go down the an adult store and buy in person. Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

Its so we feel at home when we go to America. English food is crap and the funniest is when I have said this and people have got offended! For some reason the english (in general) accept extremely sub-standard cooking. In the US I found that food was either excellent or crap and it really helped to have a local guide where you went. I must say the US idea of BBQ beef is on par with British sauseges though - whats with cooking meat till it disintegrates Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hereford/worcs/7916491.stm I found it really funny that a person goes from the fuck business to the duck business Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

Having done alot of cross atlantic travel - it is worth the money IF business class has the sleeper beds rather than seats. I have done London->Texas->London in 24 hours for a 3 hour meeting/engineering handover. I wouldn't have done it if I had needed to spend 7 or 8 hours with my knees around my ears. I can't see the justification on short haul fights other than stroking your ego. Similarly I've been upgraded on AA and they didn't have sleeper beds just about a 2 foot gap between seats which I would not pay for. Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

Once again. Please explain to me how your happiness or the deceased's family's happiness is more important than his/hers. It's comments like these that make me, not mad, but sad. It's sad that people are so judgmental and that they think their happiness is more important than that of the person who takes their life. [shakes head] I think that you have accidentally defined "selfish" in your response with the comment "Please explain to me how your happiness or the deceased's family's happiness is more important than his/hers". The very fact that someone feels that ending their life is important to THEM is by definition selfish. The problem is that we are all hugely generalising and that will ALWAYS be unfair to those being spoken of. There are people that I have known that felt that suicide was helping the people they loved by removing a burden - that can't be defined as selfish. There is one instance where the individual was so self absorbed in trying to get what would make them happy at the expense of everyone else that was extremely selfish. At the end of the day I believe that it is irrelevant whether the person was selfish or not - people who commit or attempt suicide are mentally ill and require help in some shape or form. In cases of emotional distress I feel that anyone who commits suicide has lost the battle - and that they have been let down by themselves and "us" the society that surrounds them, however I can't see suicide to end a terminal illness in the same light. Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

I remember this article http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1023462/Pictured-The-day-rained-money-6-000-thrown-plane-Indonesias-poorest.html However as shown in the picture - I doubt it would have stayed bundled from a jet! Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

Just to be controversial/difficult - what is to say that Cooper didn't throw "some" money out the door because there was to much to carry? In other words the Tina bar money may not have left the plane with Cooper. Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

I agree. I hate when people say it's so selfish of someone to commit suicide because of the people they leave behind. To me it's selfish of the "people left behind" to think they're more important. If someone is truly in that much pain and chooses to die, they should have that option. Having just lost my brother in law to suicide in a most bizarre and twisted manner - having a DVD of his death made by his girlfriend and mailed to his 12 year old daughter and ex wife as a "goodbye" message from dad it was the most selfish and twisted act that I have ever come across. I am not denying that he was seriously mentally ill - but he has caused severe mental harm to 3 or 4 children (he had 5 - but I am not sure the youngest comprehend what went on) not to mention the stuff that he video'd and sent to other members of the family. I am not sure that what he did was forgiveable and I have no sympathy for him whatsoever anymore. In summary I don't believe that depression excuses selfishness - especially when you have children that you have brought into this world. Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

you'd deprive the search nazi's of their pleasure/reason for being on dz.com Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

Hi All, I have outlook on an XP pro machine. I run a small domain/exchange server and some time ago (from memory after a M$ update I was suddenly prevented from clicking on URL's in emails. Which is a real pain in the butt. I have attached a copy of the dialog box to provide hopefully some guidance. I have full sys admin rights and no matter where I look I can't find out where to disable this! Any idea's? Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

Where do bankers go after being laid off? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7892240.stm I am surprised I really thought the old "do you want fries with that" joke was pretty lame - but I am amazed that fast food is growing in times of economic trouble. Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

Ever heard the term.. teleconference???? That burns a whole lot less Jet A... If just HALF the people in this country could work from their homes who work in jobs where face to face interaction is not needed more than a couple times a week.. the countries energy problems would evaporate immediately.. Trouble is... the people flying around in their pretty little jets do not trust their employees enough to allow that. Management COULD keep track of their people with existing technology... but they will not.. because they are incapable of changing outdated ways of "doing business" THAT would be efficient conduct of business I don't think that is fully true. There is a place for teleconferencing I agree, but it certainly doesn't cover all business requirements. I also think that people have a rosy picture of a senior business executive that is not true. I worked directly for a multi-millionaire who had a private jet (although it was not new) and I can tell you that many times when we were called out to the factory to resolve a crisis Victor was there working at 3am etc. He was the hardest working person I have ever met and I certainly did not begrudge his jet enabling him to get him from one factory to another (after all he kept 6000 people in work). In a couple of instances we engineers were sent by jet to solve problems that were costing thousands of $ per hour in down time and the travel cost was insignificant - in one instance it was a 2500km round trip in the jet to simply fetch a spare part quickly. In short I am sure there is "some" abuse but I doubt it is much - except for politicians at which point I think the reverse is true in that there might be "some" legitimate use for a politician to travel quickly. Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

- Don't believe everything you read on the internet. My jump numbers are very far from accurate - I fall into the 100 jump wonder category which if you research on dz.com is a far more dangerous and despised group than the 1 jump whuffo's! It could be worse though this thread contains violence/politics and religion so it "could" be moved to SC. Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

Maybe Quade can do a reverse "sticky" - ie this thread is stuck at the bottom of the page Seriously though the waste of bandwidth 90% of the posts on DZ.com are noise. With the direction this thread has taken it may be appropriate to move it to the bonfire - at least there is some serious competition for top slot there! Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

I like this site for some of its technical howto videos. But curiosity got the better of me and I found these hilarious. Maybe NSFW (no nudity though) http://www.videojug.com/film/how-to-deal-with-odd-sexual-requests http://www.videojug.com/film/how-to-get-your-partner-to-watch-porn Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

http://www.break.com/index/sexy-french-game-show.html?mrr=we I preferred this one

No tangible benefit but then I only have about 40 contacts and have only had one referral. I have heard that if you put alot of time into it then it can work well. Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

My brother is married to an Irish woman and during the NI troubles he decided to have "fun" and put on his black balaclava when walking into a Belfast pub. His wife nearly shat herself - he was just having fun being from Africa. Same trip a bottle of whisky fell from the overhead locker in the plane and knocked a passenger out - that also resulted in lots of jokes. Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

A few articles are quoting the 6.5 10^108 percent figure. But Steve Hanke is the more authoritive and conservative source. According to Steve Hanke Zimbabwe's inflation rate surpassed 89.7 Sextillion Percent (10^21) in November. http://www.cato.org/zimbabwe http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=82500 The Zimbabwe dollar has fallen: 1980 - independence Z$1 = ~US$1.5 2000 - Z$100 = ~US$1 2006 - Z$1000 = new Z$1 (three zeros removed) Aug2008 Z$10Billion = new Z$1 (equal to US$1) Jan2009 - Z$5-10Trillion = US$1 So without the zero's removed in 2009 Z$1^24 = US$1! Thank god for independence it has served the country well. Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

No the scriptwriters decided that Georgers clear motive and defensive explosions prove beyond all reasonable doubt that Georger is Cooper. Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

And as I was reading that one I was thinking to myself to go to the auto parts store on the way home. Shit me too! I have some the garage ... But haven't got a clue what Clorox is - am I pissed off now? We used to use swimming pool chlorine (it doesn't smoke but makes a flammable explosion if correctly contained in a bottle) Pool chlorine and milk also works Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.