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Crossfire 3 is out now, so the 2 is now a lower performance and therefore safer canopy than it was last week Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

I thought it was a pig lightly loaded (1.4). As such...I wish I'd spent my money on a Sabre 2. Beyond superior openings on the XF2 (obviously) the Sabre 2 was a much better all around performer. The XF2 felt "soft and spongy" for lack of a better term. Much better alternatives to spend your dollars on, I think.

I was jumping a Crossfire 2 at the bottom end of the wing loading and it was lots of fun. No way would I recommend it to someone with less than a good few hundred jumps though. I never liked the Saffire 2 but for a long time jumped Sabre 2's and enjoyed them. Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

Nice summary. Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

Well, I think you're overstating your case a little. There are some countries with slightly higher standards of living. There are also some countries that have different freedoms, but I'm not sure there is anywhere where the citizens have more freedom. That's very subjective, of course. There's no question that some countries have better healthcare, better education, and less violence, I'll grant you that. Your comments on freedom got me thinking. I agree there are different freedoms (as a U.K. citizen I'm allowed to see a female breast in a newspaper, a freedom you're not given ), we have free speech the only real difference I'm aware of is that there are gun controls although you can still own guns. So without derailing this into a gun thread, where America is possibly the only country with gun 'rights' (I've done no research to see if there are others) is there actually a freedom that the USA has that is not the norm across western countries? Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

Honestly as an outsider, but someone who's spent a fair amount of time on and off in the USA, I don't think America is 'Great'. Don't get me wrong I like the USA, but there is a sense of disconnect that many Americans seem to have that the American way is the 'right way'. There are countries in the world with much higher standards of living and quality of life than the USA, better healthcare, better education, less violence, more freedom etc. The US undoubtedly has the best defence budget and military toys! Interestingly I was in California during your election and this topic came up with my boss. Bear in mind he works in Oil and Gas and was giving a talk at church on benefits of fracking, which should place him on the political spectrum for you! He asked what the rest of the world thought of trump being elected and so I showed him some of the discussion threads from Aus largely dominated by maps renamed to 'Dumbfuckistan'. His reaction was stereotypical of what I perceive the American arrogance to be and that was 'they are just jealous because we are the best' Conversation then went into how the US has to be world policeman and look at how the USA is having to sort out the problems in the Middle East etc. Since he's my boss and the other two of us tend to believe quite a lot of the problems in the Middle East are because of the USA in the first place, it seemed a good time to change topic and remember what not to discuss over a beer! I see the US as a big teenage kid, young, enthusiastic and full of ideals on how they will change the world. We need that kind of attitude to drive things forward so it's a good thing. Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

Just want to correct one thing. There were not 'many in Britain' that were looking for war or who supported it. Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

Wow the average American is obviously dumber and more racist than I thought. This is going to be an interesting ride, having a nut case as a world figurehead. Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

my colleagues ... an incredibly bright guy ... wouldn't do anything stupid ... ...is voting trump We have different standards for "incredibly bright," I guess. Yes, intelligence and political judgement don't necessarily correlate! Maybe I should qualify and say 'incredibly bright for an American' Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

Yup that is my colleagues fear. He's an incredibly bright guy and while HE wouldn't do anything stupid he does worry about the rednecks down south! He's in California but a republican who is voting trump as lesser of two evils but not cause he likes him (actually thinks he's a dick) Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

It's interesting. After a few crazies I decided that internet dating is not for me. Tinder is not dating I've found women on tinder to be generally dishonest. Because I travel I will occasionally go on Tinder and will put the truth (for example I am in the USA for a week). I found quite a few matches who had 'serious relationship only, not here for hookups'. Well I've had a few 'serious relationships' that lasted a couple of days as a result - lol. Don't get me wrong, one trip relationship/hookup was amazing. We hung out a lot, I got a tour guide with similar interests, she got to spend the week staying in nice hotels. At the end we said good bye and that was it. But I've made a conscious decision to spend time DOING things that I enjoy and one day I hope I'll find a woman that I click with and end up in a relationship with, but I'm not going to chase a relationship. Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

First off, I loath how America holds its self up as the shining light of democracy. I know Jesus and Aristotle were both from the Deep South (democracy started in Athens Georgia right?) I've been shocked at the whacko statements that have come out during this election. I do think that Trump has a significant genuine following in the USA, and one Californian that I work with has stated that IF Hillary wins there will probably be armed uprisings in the South with people believing that she is out to remove the 2nd amendment. He believes that she will attempt to do this and so is voting Trump. Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

Are the two options mutually exclusive? Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

Since when has the right wing thought it was a bad thing to execute and imprison americans? It's ok it's them negro fellows Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

It was Andys wish that no fuss was made and he did not want an ash dive. He had been sick for quite a long time, but really played it down. He left dz.com ages back as he really couldn't stay out of speakers corner and didn't want to get banned, so he removed himself from the picture Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

Good thing Jesus was white or you would be screwed! I mean those stinking negros and Arabs are bad news... Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

For what it's worth the side of my mates hotpoint fridge was covered in magnets. I stuck two on the front door for the photo so that I could get the logo in the picture and also so that I didn't inadvertently post a picture containing private information of hers... Guess that was a lucky test

I don't own one, but I'm staying with a friend in the UK at the moment and she's got a stainless hotpoint fridge. Photo of a couple of fridge magnets

Anyone at Glastonbury this year? Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

Iran Similar religious values, has WMD and set the example of electing an insane leader. Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

Thank you Jesus. how true. So let me guess - having mastered all 5 stages at a very young age, you guys have since graduated to stage 6 - a hyper figmental state of development - where you arbitrarily assign subjacent stages to your annoying coworkers and the more contemptible protected social classes among us? Actually I believe in self assessment and critical analysis. No matter where you are in life there is always room for improvement. To me the sad part is that while people blame circumstances or a higher being for what happens they lose the opportunity for personal challenge and growth. Anybody that believes they haven't got considerable room for personal improvement is delusional. Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

Thank you Jesus. how true Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

Here is an interesting extract from a book I read a while ago. This has very little to do with IQ or education. I've got a team of highly qualified people including a few PhD's and some of them are most certainly in Stage 1 or 2... Stage One: Magical Thinking. The person lacks good-cause and effect things, and often attributes the that happen to them as ‘magical’. They typically blame conflicts on coincidence or something about the other person or situation that actually has little to do with the source of the conflict Stage Two: Concrete Thinking. In this stage, the person bases his or her reality on what is visible and concrete. Everything must be presented to them in concrete, quantifiable ways. In conflicts they want to address only the most visible and obvious aspects of it, as the rest will seem unimportant to them. Stage Three: Cross-Relational Thinking. People in this stage are able to think abstractly. They can see relationships between categories of information but still tend to see the world as acting upon them. Because of this, they often think, act, sound and feel like victims. Stage Four: Systemic Thinking. These people are able to think holistically and recognise underlying patterns of thoughts, feelings and behaviours that repeat in their lives and control them in some way. In conflict situations, they are able to relate a current conflict to similar ones from the past. Stage Five: Trans-Systemic Thinking. People in this stage recognise the correlations between their current conflicts and unresolved conflicts from the past. They have the ability to recognise windows of opportunity that allow them to make different choices – choices that will change patterns that might be restricting them in some way. Robert Kegan estimates that about 70% of the adult population is operating at Stage Three or below. Approximately 30% are entering or are at Stage Four and less than 1% are entering or are at Stage Five. Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

The funny aspect about your post if that you are saying only dumb people believe in God Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.

They've been pretty sneaky about this thing, if they started building "upgraded" units since january, they have done it on the down low, without advertising them as Cypres 2+ or something, then 5 months later they pretty much said "Oh, the units you were buying, by the way, were new designs". I think if what they say is true, i.e. that they added components to increase reliability and make the 4 years check no longer necessary, then it would be next to impossible for them to simply add those into an existing units, certainly unfeasible. If their new components are just short for "but we still planned our monetary incomes counting on those units coming back for 4 and 8 years" then in a few years they will tell us how they "updated our units during the 4 year check". Easy as that. Personally, while I do believe the 4 years checkup is beneficial, if it's not mandatory I would end up not sending it because I know myself, I'm a lazy piece of shit and realistically I am really bad at taking care of these things, like car maintenance, bills, cleaning the house etc so I can say "nooo, I'd send it anyway" but realistically I'd end up not doing it unless I'm forced to. One of my biggest criticism of Airtec is you pay for a service where they claim to upgrade everything to the 'latest' including hardware. However there is no transparency, you don't know what was done. If this is true then I can't see how a Jan model is different to a model sent in for its 4 year service. The cynic in me, thinks this is driven by the realisation that people are happy with competitors lower cost of ownership and they are losing market share. Experienced jumper - someone who has made mistakes more often than I have and lived.