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Happened to someone I know: They carried their rig onto an airplane in a bag, which the TSA had placed a label on saying "Parachute" to speed up the security process. Little old lady next to him asks "Oh dear, have you ever had to use that?" He replies "I sure have!" Little old lady "Oh heavens!"
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What about the issue of Spousal protection under the 5th amendment? If you leave marriage up to people's personal definition, then a group of criminals can say they are gay polygamists, marry each other, then have the privilege to not incriminate each other. Obviously flawed. Government needs a say.
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I'd be in favor of eliminating those considerations, and taxing people the same regardless of marital status. Using some kind of non-income based taxation system (like a VAT) would solve this nicely. People in marriages tend to have children (dependents), which is what the tax breaks are for. That would make raising a child harder. Consequently, this is one of the arguments against gay 'marriage': they can't have children, so why give them the benefit?
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Yes, but marriage has important implications that extend into the government, namely regarding taxation. Thus, the government needs to have a say in what is a legal marriage and what isn't. What about 5th amendment protection for spouses? Again, the government needs to be able to determine what is and is not a legal marriage should you want to take the 5th to avoid incriminating them.
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I will. It is WRONG to deny same sex couples the right to mary. So they're WRONG on one at least.
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It taught me that even something you think is so out there is just a phone call away. I've applied that to many other things, and it tends to hold true. My life is now much richer because I now make more phone calls!
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I'm a moderate! Seeing no choice in your poll for me, my right to vote has just been denied. Thanks.
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During the LA riots of 1992, a woman was trapped on the roof of her house with dozens of of people trying to get to her and burn it down. She had an automatic machine gun, and was able to fend them off. Wouldn't have happened with a pistol I can tell you that.
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What exactly ARE cut in laterals? What does that mean?
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I'm curious, what were the conditions?
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I've never ever had the visor fog up. Ever. I've jumped it in temperatures ranging from below freezing, to 106F, in various humidity conditions. It has a vent in the front, so I don't think it will happen. The only time it's been a problem was when I jumped in the rain (which you can just wipe off with your hands).
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The male ends always seem too short for this in the planes I've jumped.
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It's probably just allergy related. As a child I was told I had asthma, but as I grew older and consequently grew out of most of my allergies, my asthma related symptoms have vanished, meaning it was probably related to the allergies in the first place. You may or may not grow out of your allergies like I have, but you can always consider allergy shots.
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Hustler magazine is making a Sarah Palin porno
CMiller replied to SpeedRacer's topic in Speakers Corner
Some of us would rather see the followup, who's ridin biden. -
Come on Eileen, in my pants.
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One thing to be worried about is aircraft noise. If you stay in the sport long enough and always climb to altitude without earplugs, it's just a question of when you'll damage your hearing. Protect the other ear with plugs for sure!
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There is a special custom when you reach 100 jumps. It's best to just get there yourself and see.
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Obama and the attempt to destroy the Second Amendment
CMiller replied to piper17's topic in Speakers Corner
Perhaps at one point, but if you think about it realistically, that could never happen today. As armed as the US populace is (and it is clearly the most well armed populace on the planet), as long as the government has the military on its side, the populace could never successfully rise up against it through use of force. If that were the case, Vietnam and Iraq/Afghanistan should have been a cakewalk then , right? If citizens wanted to rebel, good old guerilla warfare would certainly give them a fighting chance against the US military. -
Right, but at smaller drop zones, where getting enough jumpers at any given time to put up an otter load can be a challenge, the PAC would be absolutely perfect, because you could actually fly a load with 6 instead of having to wait for 12. This is the reason a dropzone I used to jump at had to get rid of their otter; it was frequently on the ground because they couldn't get 12 skydivers on board. The PAC would absolutely be perfect for such a dropzone. Even though it's not quite as efficient as the otter, it would let you make money.
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You jest, but many engeneers don't actually know why airfoils provide lift. The thought that it creates lower pressure air over the wing because of the difference in airspeed is apparently false according to physicist David Anderson. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=3875411
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The TSA has instructions for traveling with a rig. http://www.tsa.gov/travelers/airtravel/assistant/editorial_1147.shtm I flew and carried on my rig. My rig had a vigil AAD. I put my rig in its own bag, with a label on it saying 'parachute'. At security screening, I handed the xray operator a card vigil provides showing a scan of what their AAD looks like (since it could possibly be mistaken for a bomb), as well as notifications that it is safe for carry on. After it went through the xray, they simply swabbed the bag for explosives, and that was that. Pretty easy.
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I agree with everything but this. I've only been in one otter that had jumpers straddle the benches; all the rest have benches sideways that you sit on. I much prefer the straddle arrangement, as it's a lot easier to lean backward to counteract the tilt of the airplane while climbing than it is to lean sideways.
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I forget what it was called, but in Japan they had Pizza where you put the slice in a large bowl of soup and it sank. Maybe 20 seconds later, it would float to the top and be ready to eat. So Good.
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I regards to routing the seatbelt, I've always threaded it under one or both legstraps. This was advice given to me by several experienced jumpers at a dropzone where I used to jump. Now, having moved, a few experienced jumpers mentioned to me not to put the seatbelt through my legstrap. Instead, I should either simply put it over my lap not through the harness, or run it under the main lift web. They didn't give me a reason as to why using the leg strap is bad, other than that it was not optimal should a collision occur. Common sense tell me that I need to route it through my harness somewhere, and I avoided the lift web because I don't want to risk dislodging handles. So the leg strap seems like a good place. Are there any good reasons not to put the belt under a leg strap? If it matters, the old dropzone flew a 185, and the new one an otter if that makes any difference in terms of belt procedure.
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How, and what is it about skydiving
CMiller replied to justintime1983's topic in General Skydiving Discussions
Do you REALLY think about it that way? It sort of bugs me when people describe why they skydive in those terms. Simply because I skydive doesn't make me better than the average person. 99% of skydivers aren't even on the cutting edge of human experience anyway. It's not like you're doing anything amazing in the big picture of things. It's fun. I've made a lot of new friends. That's really all there is to it.