littlestranger

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  1. It would fall under the "inherent" right to privacy. It does not have to be spelled out in the constitution to exist.
  2. You let her buy this for you? What kind of message do you think you sent when you accepted it? If you really want to get rid of her, send her a link to this post, once she finds out what you're really like you shouldn't have a problem any longer.
  3. What is this liberal nonsense? I guess the world owes me living as well. And all this time I thought I was responsible for my personal well being... The bottom line is the company has no business retroactively establishing a policy that affects existing employees. If they want to "ban" smokers from employment they need to do it moving forward and not hire smokers...oh wait isn't that discrimination as well, maybe not, there aren't too many laws on the books protecting smokers to begin with.
  4. Due to my limited attention span I can only think of one thing, legally B.A.S.E. jump into the Grand Canyon. Guess we better get organized.
  5. Found this on basejump.org while researching for my government paper, freakin' funny as hell. I don't know who wrote it but it's brilliant. NOTE: If this is a repost, click the Back button immediately... World Ideologies (Referencing Cows) Feudalism You have two cows. Your lord takes some of the milk. Pure Socialism You have two cows. The government takes them and puts them in a barn with everyone else's cows. You have to take care of all the cows. The government gives you all the milk you need. Bureaucratic Socialism Your cows are cared for by ex-chicken farmers. You have to take care of the chickens the government took from the chicken farmers. The government gives you as much milk and eggs the regulations say you should need. Fascism You have two cows. The government takes both, hires you to take care of them, and sells you the milk. Pure Communism You have two cows. Your neighbors help you take care of them, and you all share the milk. Real World Communism You share two cows with your neighbors. You and your neighbors bicker about who has the most "ability" and who has the most "need". Meanwhile, no one works, no one gets any milk, and the cows drop dead of starvation. Russian Communism You have two cows. You have to take care of them, but the government takes all the milk. You steal back as much milk as you can and sell it on the black market. Perestroika You have two cows. You have to take care of them, but the Mafia takes all the milk. You steal back as much milk as you can and sell it on the "free" market. Cambodian Communism You have two cows. The government takes both and shoots you. Militarianism You have two cows. The government takes both and drafts you. Totalitarianism You have two cows. The government takes them and denies they ever existed. Milk is banned. Pure Democracy You have two cows. Your neighbors decide who gets the milk. Representative Democracy You have two cows. Your neighbors pick someone to tell you who gets the milk. British Democracy You have two cows. You feed them sheeps' brains and they go mad. The government doesn't do anything. Bureaucracy You have two cows. At first the government regulates what you can feed them and when you can milk them. Then it pays you not to milk them. Then it takes both, shoots one, milks the other and pours the milk down the drain. Then it requires you to fill out forms accounting for the missing cows. Pure Anarchy You have two cows. Either you sell the milk at a fair price or your neighbors try to take the cows and kill you. Pure Capitalism You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull. Capitalism You don't have any cows. The bank will not lend you money to buy cows, because you don't have any cows to put up as collateral. Enviromentalism You have two cows. The government bans you from milking or killing them. Political Correctness You are associated with (the concept of "ownership" is a symbol of the phallo centric, war mongering, intolerant past) two differently - aged (but no less valuable to society) bovines of non-specified gender. Surrealism You have two giraffes. The government requires you to take harmonica lessons.
  6. I have alot of fun with my performance review...this year I told my boss I was no longer challenged by my job and that our method of forecasting inventory purchases was essentially a "crapshoot". He loved that one, his comment, "did you have to put that in there? My boss reads this." Then he laughed. Got a raise. Seriously, the performance review is your one opportunity to change things you don't like or shake them up. What's the worst thing that can happen...you get fired? Maybe that's not such a bad thing.
  7. God we had fun! If my mother only knew some of the things my sister and I did...playing in the sewers under the street, and rearranging all the flowers in the cemetary next to our house. Like you said, we were gone all day running around and wreaking havoc, just so long as we got home before dark. Pure freedom.
  8. Oh, I just wanted to mention that the women in manifest were awesome. Got more pictures.
  9. Eloy so ROCKED! Gotta do it again next year. 1 balloon, 2 helicopter, and 31 jumps out of anything I could get on! That combined with jumping with a lot of new friends made for the best vacation ever. Hope to see all of you again very soon. Blues.
  10. There is truth in both statements.
  11. You know what your real problem is...Pinnacle Studio 9 sucks! I found it to be a real pain in the ass and downloaded Windows Movie Maker from the internet (free), its simple, functional, and has the Windows interface that most of us are familiar with. Doesn't have alot of the bells and whistles of some other programs, but it's really easy to use.
  12. This sounds like so much fun! OK, jumping the DC-3 at Eloy is now on my to do list! My favorite exit to date was a two-way tracking exit out of the Grand Caravan. We were last out and my friend got the pilot to dive in front of us. It was awesome. I want to do that again! HINT, HINT...
  13. Guess you haven't watched the video yet! And what's up with that anyway, I was wearing a black shirt with a black bra underneath...
  14. 13 way SCR organized by Dave Burton (Dallas Thunder); video by ROBERT SMITH (Gravity Rats), at Skydive Aggieland, September 25, 2004. This is my first video (BEER!) and it's huge, but worth the 5 hours it'll take to download! Thanks to everyone who participated: Dave Burton ROBERT SMITH Bryan Moffett Scott Byram Kyle Bailey Keith Mallett Marcus Stephenson Jason Scharf Todd Spillars Carolee Justas Rich Parrish Conway Hall AggieDave - thanks for the ceremony! (Robert, do you know who filmed it? Bryan?) If you can't download it PM me and I'll burn you a disk. http://www.skydivingmovies.com
  15. He actually has the molds for the HC-20 and HC-40, and will have one for the HC-30 as soon as I drop off my camera. What I love about these helmets is that no one will have one that looks like mine! Dave's is a totally custom operation. I'll post a picture as soon as it's done.
  16. Thank you. I am certainly not one of those parents who is going to have the school system, or even planned parenthood, teach my child about sex. That's my job. My son, now 18, got his first sex talk at 5, and every year he learned a little more. I do not shelter my children from the realities of life but choose to shove it in there faces and tell them, now you make your choices. At least they will be educated ones.
  17. This band rocks, Interpolantics just came out, and it's great, but I like their first CD PDA better. They are kind of a cross between Echo and the Bunnymen and Psychadelic Furs without the 80's stigma. If you like trip hop/dance, check out U.N.K.L.E., they also just released a new CD Never, Never, Land, but Pysence Fiction (1999) is my favorite. Marilyn Manson, Lest We Forget is pretty badass. Check out anything by: Crystal Method Dandy Warhols Pretty trippy stuff is Portishead, this woman has an awesome voice. You can listen to samples of music on buymusic.com, cduniverse.com and amazon.com if you want to check it out before you invest.
  18. No, you should blame the child's teacher for filling her head with such crap. Did your sister ever go to the school and ask the teacher about it?