chuckakers

Don't you think you guys shaped a pretty fucked up future already since 1980??? I mean YOU are the ones who spent the country to 11+ TRILLION dollar deficit..... seems you have not been paying the bills so well Any supporter of Obama has absolutely zero room to bitch about spending. List all the pork spending / non-stimulus spending Obama has done: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Are you nuts? The stimulus IS pork spending.... From http://newsmax.com/Newsfront/stimulus-pork-spending/2009/01/29/id/327981 $1 billion for Amtrak, which hasn’t earned a profit in four decades. $2 billion to help subsidize child care. $400 million for research into global warming. $2.4 billion for projects to demonstrate how carbon greenhouse gas can be safely removed from the atmosphere. $650 million for coupons to help consumers convert their TV sets from analog to digital, part of the digital TV conversion. $600 million to buy a new fleet of cars for federal employees and government departments. $75 million to fund programs to help people quit smoking. $21 million to re-sod the National Mall, which suffered heavy use during the Inauguration. $2.25 billion for national parks. This item has sparked calls for an investigation, because the chief lobbyist of the National Parks Association is the son of Rep. David R. Obey, D-Wisc. The $2,25 billion is about equal to the National Park Service’s entire annual budget. The Washington Times reports it is a threefold increase over what was originally proposed for parks in the stimulus bill. Obey is chairman of the House Appropriations Committee. $335 million for treatment and prevention of sexually transmitted diseases. $50 million for the National Endowment for the Arts. $4.19 billion to stave off foreclosures via the Neighborhood Stabilization Program. The bill allows nonprofits to compete with cities and states for $3.44 billion of the money, which means a substantial amount of it will be captured by ACORN, the controversial activist group currently under federal investigation for vote fraud. Another $750 million would be exclusively reserved for nonprofits such as ACORN – meaning cities and states are barred from receiving that money. Sen. David Vitter, R-La., charges the money could appear to be a “payoff” for the partisan political activities community groups in the last election cycle. $44 million to renovate the headquarters building of the Agriculture Department. $32 billion for a “smart electricity grid to minimize waste. $87 billion of Medicaid funds, to aid states. $53.4 billion for science facilities, high speed Internet, and miscellaneous energy and environmental programs. $13 billion to repair and weatherize public housing, help the homeless, repair foreclosed homes. $20 billion for quicker depreciation and write-offs for equipment. $10.3 billion for tax credits to help families defray the cost of college tuition. $20 billion over five years for an expanded food stamp program. Chuck Akers D-10855 Houston, TX

Don't you think you guys shaped a pretty fucked up future already since 1980??? I mean YOU are the ones who spent the country to 11+ TRILLION dollar deficit..... seems you have not been paying the bills so well Uh, so I guess you haven't heard Mr. Obama has committed to spend more in his first year in office than ALL OTHER PRESIDENTS COMBINED! Might wanna brush up on your current events before you post. Chuck Akers D-10855 Houston, TX

+1 We will be heard even if they dont listen, we will get someone who will listen to the people. This has been messed up for way to long on both sides! yep. Chuck Akers D-10855 Houston, TX

You have a massive deficit in teh House, you have 41 senators in Congress; now you're claiming some kind of victory???? Mass. is 3 to 1 Democrats. 29% of those dems voted for Brown. 69% of independents also did. There hasn't been a Republican in that seat in forever. So yeah, that's some kind of victory. More importantly, it's a great example of the people speaking loudest by speaking at the ballot box. In case you haven't noticed, the American people are sick of the shit going on in Washington. They pretty much already were before Bush started throwing money at his buds on Wall Street, and B.O. is taking everything the American people by-and-large hate to unprecidented proportions. This election was about people's first opportunity to push back against the machine at the voting booth since it started cranking a year ago. Chuck Akers D-10855 Houston, TX

Which is what I meant to say. So lets say you are jumping in 30mph winds and your canopy has a 20mph forward airspeed. What happens when when you complete your turn downwind? Will your canopy still have 20mph airspeed or will it now have 30mph airspeed? What affect will the 10mph airspeed difference between the tail wind airspeed and your canopies airspeed have? You will still have a 20mph airspeed after turning downwind, because the canopy is still moving at 20mph through the air. Notice the sound of the wind doesn't change just because you chagre direction? You will, however, now have a 50mph ground speed becuase you are traveling 20mph through and in the same direction as a mass of air moving at 30mph. What I and others are trying to get across is that there is indeed an affect on your positioning relative to the grond in winds, but your flight relative to the mass of air remains constant in all directions so long as the speed and direction of the air mass doesn't change. Chuck Akers D-10855 Houston, TX

I have not seen this myth repeated in a while and thought perhaps it had been dispelled. The airspeed of your canopy does not change, no matter what the ground winds are doing. The wind doesn't "hit the top of your canopy" because your canopy is not attached to the ground. It's attached to you, and the whole system (you + canopy) are moving with the air, relative to the ground. Imagine a normal, no wind day, and you are coming it to land. At 500 ft the ground turns into a massive conveyor belt moving at 20mph. Everybody standing on the ground is now moving in the direction of the conveyor belt and feeling 20mph wind in their face. None of that will have any effect on how fast your canopy flies, but it will affect how fast you have to run when you land. Same with high (steady) winds. The ground and air can be moving relative to each other at any speed possible... but your canopy still moves through the air exactly the same. So why does your ground speed increase when you turn downwind? Could it be that the canopy is being pushed from the behind from a faster flowing air flow then your normal canopy airspeed? Could this not possibly push the azz end of your canopy putting it more in of a downward angle? You are making it sound like high winds have no affect what so ever on your canopy. Smooth, straight-line winds don't have an effect on your canopy's flight "through the air", although they do have an affect on your canopy control. A canopy is an object moving through a mass of air. Whether that air mass is moving or not is of no consequence to the canopy. If you fly past a cloud (also drifting in the same wind you are flying through), you will notice that your speed relative to it is the same whether you go "upwind" or "downwind" relative to the ground. The only time a wing is affected by wind is when there is a change in windspeed or direction. Once that change stops, so does any affect. Chuck Akers D-10855 Houston, TX

I didn't say it was an endorsement of the Republicans, many of whom are actually Republicats, but I agree with your hope for a trend. Chuck Akers D-10855 Houston, TX

I doubt XP management cares about your comments. After all, even without special deals that may or may not materialize, they still have Kirk Verner, who - during an exchange about another tunnel's marketing efforts - showed the utmost of modesty when he said to me "My resume and insane amount of jumping has been enough of a draw to most skydivers." That, by the way, is an exact quote. I suppose Kirk doesn't understand that skydivers don't exactly go to tunnels for the manager's resume or "insane amount of jumps". Chuck Akers D-10855 Houston, TX

Just the first in a long line of exiting libs. 2010 is gonna be a great year!

How about most interesting perspective? I love when I see skydiving pics taken from unique positions with creative lens choices, use of flash, etc. Lots of possibilities with belly and foot mounts, aircraft strut mounting for exits, backwards helmet mounting, etc. Chuck Akers D-10855 Houston, TX

No need to run around getting photos printed cheaply. I use www.winkflash.com. Super cheap, good quality prints and delivered to my customers without my wholesale price on them. 8x10 delivered for about a buck fifty. Chuck Akers D-10855 Houston, TX

You ARE aware that the House of Saud comprises some 7000 members, right? Oh, well, in THAT case, I suppose you're right. We should just let them donate funds to Al Qaeda with immunity. Nice hyperbole - too bad I never said that. Yeah, that hyper-stuff from me too. Chuck Akers D-10855 Houston, TX

Pretty cool. Ain't no athiests in a fox hole, ya know. Chuck Akers D-10855 Houston, TX

So a Saudi billionaire can't do a little business with an American company because some in his country choose to support terrorism? Best I can tell, there's nothing wrong happening there. Bit of a leap to get a jab in on News Corp, isn't it? Aren't the libs the ones that always remind us not to convict all Muslims for the actions of a few. Guess it's different if there's a way to drag Murdock through the mud along the way. Chuck Akers D-10855 Houston, TX

Can you give me a quick walk-thru on "pointing temp renders"? FILE/PROPERTIES, in this dialog set the temp render location, file properties, and then choose the "Start all new projects with these settings" tick box. I'm using vegas studio 9 and don't see a "file" drop down, only one marked "project". Is this the same? When I open the "project" dialog, there is an option for "folders", but I don't see anything about "temp". Under "folders" there are two locations listed - one for "recorded files" and one for "prerendered files". Are one of these what you are talking about? Chuck Akers D-10855 Houston, TX

Can you give me a quick walk-thru on "pointing temp renders"? Chuck Akers D-10855 Houston, TX

Would a USB hard drive be ok, or would the transfer rate not be fast enough? Chuck Akers D-10855 Houston, TX

Might have fixed my problem. Deleted all the crap in my temp folder and it's all working fine - at least the one sample vid I did rendered fine. IT checked the event log and found an error message about a file in the temp folder. Dumping the contents seems to have worked. Chuck Akers D-10855 Houston, TX

Just started using Sony Vegas a few weeks ago and everything was working great - until.... Last week the program seemed to freeze while rendering. The progress timers kept running but the progress bar stopped at 47%. After well more time than it should have taken (like 10 or 12 minutes when 5 or 6 was the norm) I finally rebooted the program and started over with the render. That worked. Then yesterday I had several variations of the propblem. First, it did the same thing listed above. After a reboot and a second attempt, the program crashed - it just shut down halfway through the process. It did the same thing 3 times. BTW, I have my wifi off, anti-virus off, and have no other programs running. I'm rendering as .mpg2 and using Architect to burn DVD's. Back at the casa, I have tried numerous things to isolate the problem. I have: reinstalled the program tried "render as" instead of "make movie" used different video clips used different audio clips several other things that I can't even freakin' remember Today I was back to the original problem. Each attempt to render or "make movie" results in the timers counting, but the status bar stops in the 40ish% completed range and then it just stares at me. HELP! Chuck Akers D-10855 Houston, TX

I believe Jack's son would be Dana. I saw him in Texas less than a year ago. You may be able to find him down this way. He could catch everyone up on what his dad was doing before his death. Chuck Akers D-10855 Houston, TX

There used to be some available through Sky Hi Visual Productions but I don't know if they still are. Have you tried Paragear? Chuck Akers D-10855 Houston, TX

Of course there are any number of possibilities. We can pick the issue to death on that basis. Instead, let's go low tech. How many situations have you ever heard of where deploying the main with a floating resrve ripcord casued a problem? That's what I thought. Chuck Akers D-10855 Houston, TX

Gone. Chuck Akers D-10855 Houston, TX

The instructor I spoke to is my most respected mentor and when he said the "correct" thing to do was to deploy the reserve he was referring to the text book answer, but that no one really follows that. We had always been taught at my DZ that you should deploy the reserve if the handle is floating. I can vaugley recall an incident in a recent Australian Skydiver mag that said the same thing, might see if I can find it. I deployed my main because it would give me more options to deal with the situation. This discussion has been very interesting so far. I don't have a very good grasp of how you guys do things. Why would you have a "textbook" answer in your guidelines if it's common knowledge that common sense tells us to do something different? I suggest you question those guidelines on an official basis. As you have seen from the replies on this thread, there would typically be no need to deploy the reserve just because the handle is floating. In fact, a floating reserve ripcord isn't even all that much of an emergency unless you have a main mal, in which case the flopping handle becomes a bit more of an issue. I personally have never heard of a reserve accidentally deploying from a floating ripcord, and that's the only justification I can imagine for dictating a reserve pull in that situation. What's next? Is Kevin Gibson going to write in Parachutist that a person with an AAD and a malfunctioning main should pull the reserve into the mess without cutting away at or below 1800 feet because taking time to cut away could result in an AAD activation? Oh wait, he already did that. Chuck Akers D-10855 Houston, TX

+1, no doubt. Chuck Akers D-10855 Houston, TX