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Hey, I never claimed to be an expert Just drawing a parallel is all. -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you.

As I said, we learned this in a PSYCH101 class, I am not in med school. I'm certain that what we learned is a gross oversimplification, and I will be more than glad if someone who knows what's going on were to correct me, either personally or publicly here. I've taken a canopy control course with Brian Germain this weekend. The man has a Masters in psychology, and he talked about exactly this. From what I understand, people can condition themselves to retain control of their cognitive function even in high stress situations. For some people, this comes naturally and easily. If you are interested in this, Brian has a wonderful chapter in his "The Parachute and its Pilot", which he handed out during the course. Not particularly technical, which makes it readable for people who know almost nothing about it. To follow my analogy, there are probably people who can deal with disagreements, even fundamental ones, easier in a similar fashion. I know this is probably going to sound corny, but the traditional saying about this is "Bravery is not the absence of fear, but the presence of mind to transcend it." Also, I didn't mean that people become unreasonably angry because of the traditional fight/flight responses, I suggested that there might be a parallel mechanism in the Neo-Cortex or the Frontal Lobes, or whatever doohickey is responsible for meta-cognition. -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you.

Hello everyone, I am going to do my best not to single anyone out. I've been lurking for a while, posting on the skydiving forums occasionally, but I've been slowly developing an interesting theory from reading this messageboard. Very often, there is a heated debate about a controversial subject. For instance, it could be homosexual marriage, gun control, the election, the war, legal aspects of paedophilia, heck, even canopy size. Occasionally, these debates get out of control. Usually, people can get them back under control, either by forcing the offender out through ignoring them, or sometimes the offender comes to. The pattern is very distinct though. There are people on both sides who can't stop. Very quickly they run out of arguments, but they feel compelled to continue. Arguments start to be repeated, then ignored. These are good, pleasant people, but for some reason, with this subject, they start to lose it. Sometimes it even degenerates into outright personal attacks and results in a locked thread. In my PSYCH101 class, we studied something called sympathetic/para-sympathetic modes. If you see a bear (or jump out of a plane, for that matter), your body goes into sympathetic mode. Non-vital functions are shut down, like your stomach or bladder, and energy (blood flow, metabolic hormones, etc) is transferred to the muscles. Also, the Neo-Cortex gets bypassed. You lose the ability to speak, hear, maybe even see, definitely lose the ability to reason. Control is passed to the Amygdala, which has three (four, but the last one is irrelevant) responses to the situation: Fear, Flight or Freeze. The instructors around here should be especially familiar with this. It seems as if, in certain arguments, people's brain goes into "sympathetic" mode. You don't pee your pants, but your brain simply refuses to reason about the subject. It can still perform basic cognitive tasks, but not meta-cognitive. It refuses to evaluate its position and retreats behind the proverbial intellectual stick. Hence the repetition, ignoring, and possibly even personal attacks from people who are normally pleasant and wonderful. It's almost as if there are subjects that your brain simply refuses to think about, and will automatically do anything to make the attacker go away. And, just like with the Amygdala, your "cognitive Amygdala" knows only three responses: Fear, Flight or Freeze, that is, beat it with a stick, run away, or start repeating yourself. Maybe if we are aware of this effect and watch out for it, we can step away from arguments that will make our brain go "sympathetic" on us and make us lose control. This could make the boards much more pleasant. Or am I full of sh*t? Cheers. -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you.

I believe signficant portions of IE run in kernel space, though I do not know first hand, so certain fuck ups with plugins can cause your entire system to hang. That's probably what's doing it. Make sure your IE is fully up to date. Run Ad-Aware, SpyBot, and every other doohickey you can think of. Ideally, have someone who knows how to clean out IE plugins from the registry take a look. Don't mess with the registry yourself. If you really need more personal help, PM me. Why are you running Windows anyway? Switch to Linux, you can surf the web here as well On a serious note, Linux is much harder to get working than Windows is, so definitely look for some assistance before trying that, if you decide to. -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you.

Keep your chin up. You're still alive and neurology is advancing, you never know. There is nothing un-fixable, they just don't know how yet. -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you.

A good way to fix this problem is to tell the person that you would like to use some third party as a proxy for the transaction. You send them the canopy, the guy sends them the money, then the proxy sends everything off to the appropriate people. Here, you can say that you would like the proxy to be some DZO but you don't have any in mind, so they will have to suggest one or not get the canopy. Business, nothing personal. Then, when you have a DZO, you can secretly use them to find out more stuff about the person. -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you.

Dude... All the images on that site are written like this: Write them like this instead: Put the slash the other way, UNIX style. Windows newbies, heh -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you.

I heard that one about physicists originally -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you.

Just this weekend, landed from a jump. Here I am, packing my canopy, when a whole crowd of over 60 people come in to the hangar to debrief the new Canadian RW record (congrats everyone) and stand all around, almost on, my packjob. Hrm. When they're more or less gone, I quickly wrap the packjob up. Quick enough to almost forget to cock the PC and fuck up my line stows, having to redo them. All this to make a short call. Needless to say I repeated my emergency procedures several times on that ride up. So me and my buddy get out for our sitfly practice. After lots of orbiting, I track away, and with a yell of "OPEN!!!" I throw the PC. It opens, whew. Noone but buddy anywhere in the sky. But now that buddy is too close for comfort. He doesn't see me, so when I try to spiral below him, he spirals with me and I can't shake him off. I fixated on him so badly that I forgot to set up for my own landing. At ~700 feet I turn to final and realize that I'm way too long. Go into the deepest brakes and I'm still going straight for power lines. So what do I do? Instead of sashaying, or just plain turning around, I try to find an out instead. Turn 90, trees! It's now 300 feet and I'm under a Stiletto in a very tight LZ. Flat 90 turn, going straight for 3 parked Otters! Wait, there's a small gravel road off to the side. Make a slow carve at 60 feet, good thing I learned my slow flight controls, I'm downwind with speed from the carve, no time to turn, this is it, gotta land, scared, yell out "Mommy!" and flare high. Tumble, dirt, gravel, ouch. No breaks or tears, but my knee still hurts. Don't do that. -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you.

I take it you're not very big on statistical mechanics then eh, chemist? -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you.

You want some facts about Moore's lies? Here's some cold hard facts (pardon the pun): http://www.hardylaw.net/Truth_About_Bowling.html If all the lies about when rallies happened, who said what, what were the reasons for the rallies, or sometimes them not being rallies at all, if all the lies about the content of documents executed by cutting out pieces of them, all the lies about the context of sentences, are not enough for you, maybe the splicing will convince you. For a shot at fairness, read the link to Moore's response. I'm against guns being this freely available in the US myself, but lying and misleading in a documentary to make your point is despicable. -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you.

From the posted link (bold mine): Notice that they did not preselect incompetent people. I love it when people assume that someone who wrote a paper does not understand elementary statistics, especially in psychology/medicine. Hint: if you know it, they probably do too. Check first, then make claims. It is true that you can feed the general public all kinds of crap, but this problem has nothing to do with statistics. People who don't understand statistics keep on saying that statistics can be interpreted to say anything. It's not true. Someone who doesn't understand statistics will be more gullible to charlatans, but statistics itself is just data, and it's their problem that they can't read it. I've tried educating people about statistics on this forum already and it didn't work too well, so I will spare you the same effort unless you ask. -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you.

Which is precisely why a canopy regulation that forces people to take classroom time, as well as practical tests, would be good. Here in Canada, we have to write a test every time we want a new license. I'm pretty sure it's the same in the US. Why not do that for canopies, as well? I'll see you in the classroom at Burnaby in a week and a half, Brian. -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you.

Some adware is not easily removable with Ad-Aware and whatnot. They just spring right back up on your next reboot. The programmers of Ad-Aware are pretty good at catching those buggers, but new ones come up. If you really want to get into it, here's some things that may help: 1) Use the task manager to look through the current running programs. Kill anything you do not recognize. DO NOT kill "explorer.exe", "svcmgr32" (or something, can't remember), etc. In general, experimenting with the task manager may require a reboot if you fuck up, but it won't destroy your system. THIS IS NOT A GUARANTEE. Figure out what's ok to kill and what's not. Look through the internet if you're not sure. You can get into the task manager by right clicking on a free spot on your taskbar and choosing "Task Manager" or something similar. On NT-like systems, that is, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP (not sure about this one) you can press Ctrl+Alt+Del and click on the "Task Manager" (or something) button. 2) Look through the internet, maybe some forums or something, about the adware that your removal software finds. Sometimes people post detailed descriptions of the newer versions, and you can use those to remove adware that Ad-Aware can't properly get rid of. 3) Pop-up blocking software can help with the symptoms of adware, though it can't remove it very well. 4) If you want to go really gung-ho, there is a registry key where plug-ins for Internet Explorer are registered, and there's a registry key where you can find a list of programs that start up with your system. You can find all kinds of trash there. DO NOT, I repeat, DO NOT screw with your registry if you don't know what you're doing! The registry is not like the task manager, you can irrepairably damage your system with it. And yes, I know I haven't told you what program to use to do this. If you don't already know, you shouldn't be doing it. Try getting a friend who knows to check it out. 5) Use Linux, not Windows Sorry for not remembering details, I've switched to Linux. -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you.

Thanks everyone. I sent an email to Altimaster and they told me that, based on the serial number of the alti, a replacement lens should fit. So I got one (a lens) and used it on several jumps this weekend. It works great. I made sure it was synched properly on the rides up and on the rides down with my Dytter and other people on the jump. Just let Altimaster know if you've got any problems, and make sure you give them your alti's serial number. They're great folks. Hopefully this helps someone down the road. -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you.

Hi all, I've got an older Altimaster III, not the galaxy one, just the normal one. Recently, the lens went kaput. I really doubt it's usable at terminal with no lens, so I gotta replace it. Anyone know if the replacement lenses for the Galaxies would fit onto this alti? If I gotta send it to the manufacturer, I don't fit their criteria for their warranty (didn't mail the card, lost the receipt), so I might as well get a new one. Thanks. -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you.

Something Sam, who's screen name is whatever, told me after I landed on one of those clear winter days -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you.

As well as a whole bunch of other identities, yeah Most people see that as a proof of 1=-1. In reality, it's a disproof of an identity of square roots over the complex numbers. -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you.

I have another good one: ______ 2 / 2 | ____ 2 2 1 = (-1) = \/ (-1) = \/(-1)| = i = -1 Therefore, 1 = -1. -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you.

Infinity is not a number. a/x as x->0 is infinity in the sense that it gets arbitrarily large, but it is not equal to infinity, or anything else for that matter, because the limit does not exist. Far too many a calc student has gotten confused by this notation. a/0 is a number b such that 0*b=a. Unless a is zero, clearly no such number exists. If a is zero b can be anything, so 0/0 is usually undefined because it has multiple values and we would like to consider multiplication as a function in algebra. -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you.

That facial expression would make the perfect MasterCard ad. Rover - $400 million Rocket - $500 million R&D - $3 billion The look on your face as you make it ride over a rock, tip over and break - Priceless! Actually, I believe the thing is completely autonomous. It would take several minutes for light to reach the rover on Mars and the signal would be so weak and incoherent that it would be useless. It's possible to send pictures because you can take a long time sending them. It's not possible to send a continuous control signal. The problem of not having the rover go belly up is a very difficult problem in artificial intelligence called autonomous motion. -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you.

My favourite is the Penny Arcade version of it - wanged. There's something very funny about the verb "to wang" -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you.

There are, trust me -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you.

310.3 How?! -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you.

Wow, that's incredible. My hat goes off to you and Precision. It's a pleasure to share the sport with such great people. -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you.