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So first off, the first and absolutely best piece of advise with regards to anything related to any embassy ever is to avoid any interaction if at all possible. Every embassy for every country I have ever dealt with was bad, arbitrary, illogical, self serving, for every country. A couple of times for a couple of first world countries I was flat out told they don't care what the laws of the country they represent actually are. If at all possible, find a travel agent that has experience with the embassy and contract the interaction out to them. Travel agents will know what to put on the forms to not create any suspicion. The embassy knows who the travel agents are and ask fewer questions. The travel agents typically know someone in the embassy in case things get dicey in the process (ask me for some horror stories over beer...) But if you still decide to forge ahead on your own, dealing with visas in my experience less is more. Pretend you are a generic tourist. Purpose: tourism. Going on a backpacking trip. Going to try to spend as much time with the locals as possible. Create yourself an itinerary. Hotels can be cancelled for free. Typically what they'll care about with tourism is that you have an exit ticket booked, a place to stay booked for the first couple of nights, and have enough ties to your current country that you won't want to overstay your visit.

Schrodinger's douchebag strikes again

Hi John, When I first read about this balloon, I thought, 'What is the big deal. We've had spy satellites watching the entire Earth for years.' When Sputnick went up in 1957, Eisenhower's main concern was that they now could look down at us. I am not saying to play it down to zero, we do need to try find everything that we can about it. BTW a great book, and subsequent movie, about one U2 is The Bridge of Spies. Bridge of Spies (book) - Wikipedia Jerry Baumchen PS) When it gets over Mar a Lago is when we should shoot it down.

Trolls do not need to be either consistent, or logical.

You have such wonderful sources of intel. It makes me wonder why you couldn’t find the date for the State of the Union Address.

Im totally serious. The Cooper case has been hijacked by people with an agenda. It's made worse by the fact there are zero resources available to do better. There isnt even a plan to try and do better. I think these people would be satisfied to see the status quo going for the next 50 years! The case is in gridlock.

I'm not sure if you're being serious, but I have my own opinions about both the soundness and the helpfulness of the scientific work that's been done so far. An objective outside voice would be more than welcome, IMO, and would keep so many wild geese from being chased.

So you and Elvis are dna techs? What lab did you guys work in? Should a new expert other than Tom be involved? I mean there are plenty of other dna experts available - ? Tom had his chance! Time to move on. Its time for new blood! Its time for some new cards in this game! Cooper Casino Manager pleeaz! Bring me a fresh drink and some NEW cards pleez ! A new dealer wouldn't hurt. Why dont we get a lab WOMAN involved in this case! Let the women have a chance - maybe they wont screw up as much ? A woman might bring a whole different set of attitudes to this case?

Not gonna work. Physical objects are explicitly exempt from FOIA.

Hi Mark, With exception of: And I think the answer is "no one." I am of the opinion that the FAA can. They did this with their AD on Security's SAC canopy. * The AD even told the rigger how to mark the canopy [ as I remember ]. I no longer have a copy of the AD to give any actual specifics. I would not advise obliterating the TSO markings if for no other reason than the determination of 'non-airworthy' is subjective. IMO obliterating the TSO markings could open one up to litigation. As I have done in the past, I just returned the rig to the owner, told him how I felt, and that I would not do any work on it for him. Again, these are just my opinions. Thanks for your thoughts. Jerry Baumchen * IMO the AD was issued because Security was no longer in business & could not answer questions about the mesh failures.

I'll give it a try. Every rigger has the responsibility of declaring airworthiness or non-airworthiness when asked to pack a rig. But his decision is not binding on any other rigger. The owner is free to find someone else to do the work. Caveat emptor! I don't think this is what you are asking though. I think you are asking who can permanently ground a TSO'd component. And I think the answer is "no one." Everything is repairable or replaceable, including TSO markings. When a manufacturer or other expert says something is unairworthy, they are really saying it is economically unrepairable. How should we convey "economically unrepairable" to the owner? As important, how should we convey it to anyone else who comes into possession? The most concise way is to obliterate the TSO marking, by removing it or by writing "unairworthy" or "condemned" or similar on the label, words that are technically not true because it could be made airworthy if time and money were no object. I'm okay with that, but I'm open to alternatives. It still belongs to the owner, though, and he should get it back in exchange for the agreed compensation for inspection, shipping, etc. --Mark

The wiser man is the crook who knows that nearly everyone in Gunmerica has firearms, that even Brent can only shoot one gun at a time, and that it'll all be over in seconds probably while Brent is still selecting the right gun for the job.

It's been a year since the last update, eh? Fear not, the project is still moving forward! Now that there's more free time in winter I hope to catch up on what was delayed. Actually, there was another reason for delay - I switched to new display type and then spent countless hours banging my had against the wall trying to figure out why suddenly the image was distorted, but I can say with confidence it was worth the effort. The new display solves the problem of blurry image as well as it lets me display more information at once. Also due to it's size it's nicely positioned in front of the eye and fits under visor (it'll look even cleaner and slimmer once all the boards are hidden) One more benefit of the new display is adjustable focus, meaning people with vision complications can adjust it to their needs raw changes: https://github.com/RomanTheLegend/WingsuitGps/tree/composite_display Two primary tasks for the nearest future are 1) Improve the UI 2) Implement WS competition mode. Now that everything on the screen is clear and readable, I can implement visual gauges to display distance to the gates and deviation from the flight path. But this feature would take some time because reliably detecting the moment when competitor leaves the plane would be tricky. I think of implementing Kalman filter on data stream to detect true-positive downwards acceleration. If anyone has the experience with these please lend me a hand (preferably, in form of github merge requests :) ) P.S. I've been thinking of changing the project name to FlySense. Why? Well, if FlySight doesn't display a thing, calling it FlySense sounds logical because you won't feel anything either. P.P.S. The more I work with ESP32 platform the more awesome possibilities I'm discovering. Potentially, FlySense will be able to replace Sena/Cardo intercoms in the distant future https://docs.espressif.com/projects/esp-idf/en/latest/esp32/api-reference/network/esp-wifi-mesh.html#mesh-self-organized-behavior . Very distant future because the scope of work is huge