BlueEyedMonster

No they were no longer around in a way that could viably destabalize the people with power When Iraqi civilians started killing them *** a lot of people joined their ranks due to that. Yup agreed. It was gonna happen anway one way or another. Just happened this way. And doing nothing and letting him continue to order attacks could have cost hundreds or thousands more over a period of time. It goes to show that desperate people don't play fair. I understand that, and would do the same thing if I was in their shoes. So hope for fairness, and no civiliain casualties, but quit expecting it cause its not gonna happen. I'm off to bed and will actually have to work tomorrow. Nice play'n with ya. Night night.

Agreed I'll bet that person hasn't had the board replaced... so NO the problem with that one was not resolved. ***The Cypres2 battery code is simple. If it reads 0 you are fine Sorry, I speak english, not binary I don't buy products that are not as simple as they can be. I have a pro dytter... why buy more equipment that isn't necessary? Funny that... problem with Vigils was boards that were sensitive to static. Yup they didn't have the technology then like they do now. Vigil will be faster, just as the Cypres 2 Oh well. We have winter here... good time to do stuff like that.

Actually, the only way to kill an idea is to kill the people that have the ideas. Saddam demonstrated that well with his control of the Shiites. The Chinese were also quite successfully at Tienamen Square. But I think they mostly just used tanks to run people over. If the fighting Iraqis would please be so honorable as to step out from behind the women, children and foreign hostages and stand in one area so we could just run over the bad guys with tanks, I'm sure we could spare the civilians too. and there would not have been more insurgents if we had not started fighting back? Remember, the attacks on troops were increasing, and the US CIVILIAN contractors that were ambushed? Which is closer than the 2 steps back we would have been if we would have done nothing My perspective won't change. I was just laughing at you. Yes everything would be very nice if your suggestions were feasible. But history and human nature has already proven most wrong.... but most of all. The biggest reason I know you are wrong.... I put myself in the Iraqi's shoes. Someone invaded the US... Trying to enforce their ideas on me. Where would I be? Shooting soldiers one at a time from cover and showing the French reporters the bodies of unarmed children (after I picked up their weapons of course.)

Yeah, ignore the guy thats building forces and calling for attacks on american soldiers for a few weeks... he'll get tired, play nice, stop the attacks, and we can arrest him without much hassle. ROFLMAO for a second there I thought you were serious. And when that works we can ask all the bad guys to give up their guns, and drug addicts to stop taking drugs... and they will all listen.

And just how do you know from looking at these pics that: A: these people were uninvolved? B: that the fighting aged men/boys in the pics were not firing from inside or from next to the homes of the wounded children? C: these people were hiding in their homes? D: the 5 year old girl wasn't loading magazines for her dad? Please tell me how you know this? or are you assuming? Are you sadsue in disguise?

How about negotiating? Yeah they tried that... It was called a constitutional convention.. But Moqtada al-Sadr didn't like the fact that under the new constitution the shiites didn't get all the power. So they renigged at the signing and pulled out after everything and Moqtada al-Sadr started calling for violence against the americans in his paper... we shut down his newspaper... and this started.

Sure if someone puts a rifle next to the body and snaps a picture. War pictures are real life fiction. Ya just have to use common sense to know whats going on and quit believing everything you hear and see.

Their Leader is not Saddam its Moqtada al-Sadr. The Cleric that started this most recent mess. He is not dead. There is currently an Iraqi issued arrest warrent for him. But they have yet to catch him.

Your getting funny. and forgetting logic in your argument. I don't know that you can see the profile of a weapon if: A. you happen to be looking down the barrel of it. B. its being fired by a masked person behind cover. At this points it a "PERSON" age/sex undeterminable. You are trying to apply "in a perfect world" reasoning to a "real world" situation. They are two completely different things.

May I suggest you read up on the Hitler Youth. They are direct evidence of the incorrectness of your statement.

If people stick to praying or taking cover in the mosques they are left alone. But if they are using them as a base and firing from them... They are fair game and should be destroyed. If the bad guys are shooting from the cover of civilians and mosques, they have chosen the battlefield. The civilians are their responsibility. --edited to add. Wasn't the whole limiting targets, not giving the military the tools that needed because of what our image might look like be one of the main contributing factors to our loss in Vietnam?

How do you differentiate a civilian from a soldier when there are no unifoms? That statisitic cannot be accurately kept. Most of the "civilians" you see wounded are the bad guys after a buddy took their rifle. Remember both sides play the propaganda game. Pictures are like statistics. You only see what they want to show.

Funny that... by the time I was 12 I was shooting a 12ga shotgun with 3" mag slugs. damn near doubled me over backwards, but I could hit a milk jug at 100 yards. What you think is an innocent kid, may or may not be. The difference is a 12 old will do whatever an encouraging adult tells them to. They don't have enough life experience to tell dad/uncle where to go.

I'm not worried about getting killed by my spring loaded PC while I'm packing. What would worry me is if someone went in with a properly functioning Vigil. Everyone can yell "FIRE!" then.. but its a new product, and I believe tested very well. I expect minor glitches, and have seen nothing more than that. As long as the issues are isolated and corrected, and the price tag is the same, I'll be the guinea pig. I'd much rather have an AAD that I don't have to go read the manual to figure out if the battery is good or make changes to. And, ya'll can get yours in a few years. I was buying a new rig, and I chose the new technology that had the best features by far. Its more than a cool display. Its a USABLE display. I don' have to guess what everything means. It tells me.... and it tells me my freefall time and speed. In addition, I believe the Cypres 2 has a little more new technology than many of you believe--Or their marketing department wants you to know. If it was the same thing with just a few changes... you wouldn't have seen the static issue they had either. Why did that suddenly happen? Why didn't their "experience" help them to foresee the static issue? If nothing else, I still have a Cypres 1 thats just over a year old in the old rig with no main. If I need it in the next month or so, I have it. Otherwise Its getting traded in for a Vigil.

Not any more.... the pic changed

Yes YES they are. The main aisle of Marshall Fields ... florescent Pastels... Plaids... Mix and match everything that doesn't match.

There are sprays similar to Scotch-Gard that incorporate UV protection (basically sunscreen for fabric) that may help. I used one of these years and years ago on a couch that was in front of a huge window. It worked great. So, I would think they work just as well on a rig.

4:9:3 4 9 Awesome Jumps 3: First time I stuck a good head down First Jump on my new awesome Mirage G4 First Easter Balloon Jump!

I have not only had computers reboot after touching the wires in the back and giving it a static shock... I've also fried a network card doing it. I live in a very dry area. I jumped my Vigil for the first time this weekend... I know perfect timing. It got put in the rig the day the service bulletin comes out. I just packed my main on my packing mat on the concrete, not on carpet. While I had my rig on, I received several static shocks two of them were enough to make me jump back. No misfires. Vigil has come right out and is replacing the units. I am happy with their actions. No technology is perfect, and since the Cypress 2's had a static issue also--Neither AAD can claim perfection. ANYONE THAT BUYS A NEW AAD IS A GUINEA PIG. Both Cypress 2 and Vigil use new technology. I am going to stick to my Vigil because it still has a better display that gives me more information, and the issue is being handled very well by the mfg/dealer.

I got mine, but still waiting for my rig But I love the display, the flexibility and the usability are tops. I have been playing with it quite a bit. And I would definalty buy another... if for no other reason that it says "Hello."

Actually the real problem is not outsourcing... but its a great scapegoat. Sure some jobs go overseas, but many many more jobs were lost to increased productivity of the american worker. We're to damn good. But this is leading to increased profits... expansion.... and new jobs being created. And you want this to happen slowly. Fast moving economies are dangerous. Besides... all of the outsorced tech department here... is actually HERE. They just ship every one here from overseas.

Its MINIME!!!!!

While they scored 2 for the good guys, they also gave the bad guys 2 points back.... http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=2687311 Some times I love the Brits, sometimes I just wanna kick'm in the head.

They just wanna grow up to be like Yahoo.

I second this. I love my pocket slider. Its my best friend.