nathaniel

Flippers! My advice is to do what your parents did; get a job, sir. The bums will always lose. Do you hear me, Lebowski?

There's a comedy club around here that advertises admission based on a roleroll of dice. They don't advertise fair dice

And with a modicum of effort consumers can band together and circumvent it...all we need to do is put a list of prices together. Perhaps even some vendors, those seeking business, will cooperate. My advice is to do what your parents did; get a job, sir. The bums will always lose. Do you hear me, Lebowski?

d'ya suppose jesus would have been more conservative if he started out with a million bucks? investment strategies over loaves and fishes... What do you think he would have thought about estate taxes, and would he have had to pay twice? My advice is to do what your parents did; get a job, sir. The bums will always lose. Do you hear me, Lebowski?

If an offender has to live 1000 ft away from school bus stops...if a sex offender (say, someone who got caught streaking across campus in college) has kids, does that mean their kids can't take the bus? Seems like a mean way to punish kids for their parents misdeeds. My advice is to do what your parents did; get a job, sir. The bums will always lose. Do you hear me, Lebowski?

I think every county in every state should have a law like this, then all the offenders would have to live on boats way offshore. My advice is to do what your parents did; get a job, sir. The bums will always lose. Do you hear me, Lebowski?

Other people, who ungraffiti it. Unlike spraypaint, it's inexpensively removed from wikipedia by passersby. If there's too much contention on the content of an article, the article is flagged and it gets special attention. There's actually a substantial amount of information on wikipedia about wikipedia itself and all the rules and procedures, I'm sure you'll find it goes into greater detail than you really want to know. edited with a better link My advice is to do what your parents did; get a job, sir. The bums will always lose. Do you hear me, Lebowski?

My neptune would do this from time to time, with relatively recent firmware. Usually it still recorded all the data, it wouldn't lose anything, just it had a hard time deciding sometimes where the freefall portion of the jump started and where it ended. By pulling the detailed jump data off of it, a la paralog, and by guestimating based off what the data looks like and what I knew about the jump, I could correct it afterwards for my records. Tho if you do 10 or so jumps before you pull the detailed jump data off then indeed you will lose the data. Once or twice, when the batteries were low it would miss a jump entirely (and fail to beep in my ear too...) but I figure that missing jumps was due to low batteries. I'm sure in a year or two Alti-2 will come out with a 2GB model My advice is to do what your parents did; get a job, sir. The bums will always lose. Do you hear me, Lebowski?

For pragmatic reasons, skydivers and skydiving outfits do not concern themselves too much with sending messages. "Sending messages" is secondary to actually doing things in this sport. Margins are slim and generally do not afford luxuries. Compare the price of your jump ticket to an airline ticket, and compare the qualities of the bench on a jump plane vs an airline seat. Skydiving outfits that intend to stay in business already have an incentive not to be negligent, this is already built into the economy. The inefficiencies of our US civil justice system outweigh the benefits they would bring. That's why you get a waiver. For an interesting read on the subject take a look at chapters 1, 3, and 4 in Lawlessness and Economics: Alternative Modes of Governance by Avinash K Dixit, Princeton University Press, 2004. My advice is to do what your parents did; get a job, sir. The bums will always lose. Do you hear me, Lebowski?

http://www.gpsbabel.org/ Converts between GPS data formats. Use it, love it. My advice is to do what your parents did; get a job, sir. The bums will always lose. Do you hear me, Lebowski?

Random thought on the subject, I like to think of spins in the context of one's background in either bellyflying or freeflying. For a bellyflier, the safety position is to counter the spin, then go to boxman and a deep arch. These techniques are not too helpful when trying to resolve a spin in a wingsuit--the suit prevents you from reaching above your head, arching doesn't really help and "countering" the spin in what feels like a natural way can be counter productive. For freefliers (sitfliers), the safety position is curled up in a ball. Countering a spin in a freeflying jump is more about prevention. By the time you detect that you're rotating you've got a chance to stop after one or two rotations. Barring that, the forces add up so fast that you're better off going neutral, curling up, and try again. This is fairly commensurate to a dealing with a spin in a wingsuit. People who have experience freeflying thus have a bit of an advantage when it comes to negotiating spins, if their skydiving instincts tell them to curl up when they get into a spin. My advice is to do what your parents did; get a job, sir. The bums will always lose. Do you hear me, Lebowski?

It's always fun to turn on an 802.11 wireless sniffer. Nobody ever turns off their laptop's wireless connection. Most people don't even know how. My advice is to do what your parents did; get a job, sir. The bums will always lose. Do you hear me, Lebowski?

I have a sneaking feeling that it would be more concise to list the companies that have not placed their customers' and employees' privacy at risk than vice versa. * Cash only hotdog stands * migrant worker-based agriculture * uhm...running out of ideas... Large companies still have very little disincentive to protectexpose data, small companies have effectively none. Appointed gov't employees...hah! You'll generally only hear about it when the DOJ gets involved and / or someone gets caught--if your identity ever gets stolen, it's very hard to pin it to your electric utility vs your bank vs your employer vs everywhere you've ever used your credit card etc... My advice is to do what your parents did; get a job, sir. The bums will always lose. Do you hear me, Lebowski?

Next time pick the cat up, take him into the bath tub and turn on the shower. Hold him in the cold water till he gets soaked. He'll learn quick

How awesome would it be if paratroopers could be dispensed like bomblets from a clusterbomb just scaled up a bit. That would make for an awesome hollywood shot, kinda like the intro movie to quake2 except with wings My advice is to do what your parents did; get a job, sir. The bums will always lose. Do you hear me, Lebowski?

A motorcyclist did that to me once on a roundabout. I was in my car, stopped at the roundabout because there was a stopsign. While I was stopped, the motorcyclist pulled from behind my car into my left hand blind spot, and tried to race with me into the roundabout, except he went the wrong way, clockwise (stateside here). He nearly merged with my left side passenger door when I made it around to the other side of the roundabout...and I didn't know till he was behind me because he was in my blind spot the whole while. Would have been a candidate for the Darwin awards if he succeeded. My advice is to do what your parents did; get a job, sir. The bums will always lose. Do you hear me, Lebowski?

And then all that oil-producing wealth is stuck in dollars forever. They couldn't just turn around and dump them if they wanted. Oh no. And certainly not perhaps to the next oil buyer... Am I right? Only around $12 trillion worth. And forget that much of that is consumption that stays in dollars and recirculates, eg, domestic consumption. Vs oil transactions that need only be denominated in dollars for the duration of the transaction. Part of the conspiracy theory mike is repeating is that oil producers then put their dollars into US Govt bonds because their oil transactions were made in dollars. Linking the two like that is completely bogus. Currency and gov't bonds are linked, just not like that. Oil transactions don't have a big enough effect to tip the scales on the currency like that. Probable depreciation is in our future irrespective of what other people use to denominate trade for oil. My advice is to do what your parents did; get a job, sir. The bums will always lose. Do you hear me, Lebowski?

Perhaps because it's a poorly constructed fiction. Phrases like "monopoly currency" in economics are a bit like "monopole magnets" in physics. The concept is vacuous, but it makes for good science fiction. My advice is to do what your parents did; get a job, sir. The bums will always lose. Do you hear me, Lebowski?

I used an old credit card when I gooed up the booties on my new wingsuit. The goo actually peeled right off of the credit card when dry, if the card wasn't expired it could probably be used again. The downside to using a shoe repair store is that you don't get high off the fumes. My advice is to do what your parents did; get a job, sir. The bums will always lose. Do you hear me, Lebowski?

the subject has come up before My advice is to do what your parents did; get a job, sir. The bums will always lose. Do you hear me, Lebowski?

Slow down fella, how did you get from "shirts that offend minorities are not allowed" to "shirts that offend the majority are allowed"? My advice is to do what your parents did; get a job, sir. The bums will always lose. Do you hear me, Lebowski?

I think you should get a h2d-39 39 megapixels! And it only weighs 2kg. My advice is to do what your parents did; get a job, sir. The bums will always lose. Do you hear me, Lebowski?

There's a place up in Alaska called the Alaska Raptor Center that rescues injured birds and heals them. Then to train them to fly they take them out to a peat field. There's what is best explained as a inverse zip line, a line of rope running along the ground and the birds are tethered to it with a 10ft rope. They toss the birds up into the air and get them to fly the length of the zip line. Then the birds kinda crash land onto the ground once they reach the end of the zip line, but since it's peat it's a soft landing. My advice is to do what your parents did; get a job, sir. The bums will always lose. Do you hear me, Lebowski?

After UPS destroyed a bunch of my stuff (that had been professionally packed) and refused to pay up on the insurance they sold on the same, I've stopped using them whenever possible. I've made a few exceptions for online purchases, but only when it's the seller's responsibility if/when UPS screws up again. My advice is to do what your parents did; get a job, sir. The bums will always lose. Do you hear me, Lebowski?

If your university has an ombudsman he/she would probably be a great place to start. My advice is to do what your parents did; get a job, sir. The bums will always lose. Do you hear me, Lebowski?