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today, just now, about 2 feet long - what kind of snake is this? I am thinking a cottonmouth, but I know shit about snakes

stop making the president out to be some sort of fucking demi-god who has to sit up above the rest of us. he does not, he is not, and he does not pretend to be either. which is actually a fucking compliment. Anyone, including me, would have made the same joke - and it is a joke, and should be taken that way - a fucking joke. He is on a late night talk show, not the Whitehouse lawn. And I can discern between a joke and an offensive remark - apparently you cannot This president is the closest thing to a 'regular guy' this country has seen in decades. ANd that is a good thing. What are you going to say if he tells a 'black joke'? I think that would be hilarious. Not only that - it would make him human. We need that. Most people in their lives have said something offensive, many of us quite often. That is what makes us human. Just because I say 'Jew' does not mean I hate anyone or anything. get over it.

I have had Remington model 700 BDL 30-06 for 25 years now. That is one of the best guns I ever owned. I also considered the Ruger M77 but never owned one. I eventually had the tock customized, it still shoots wonderful after all these year, never fucks up at all.

I just bought the Rockwell version on Amazon for half the price of the Fein. 72 piece kit for $179 or something like that. I bought the diamond blade to cut through installed ceramic tile in my bathroom shower to install some new ceramic shelves. It worked great. Cut through grout pretty quickly, and the tile much slower, but it took some steady pressure and it was easy to steer, no slipping or jumping around. All in all a good buy I think. I will use it for other things for sure. it generates A LOT of heat. the blade and front gear housing got VERY HOT during the cutting of the tile. and it makes a good bit of noise

they don't know how to do anything right....... http://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2009/03/17/canada-banks.html Unbridled Capitalism wins again - NOT!

stop talking about it and do something about it, join ffrf.org Good organization from what I can see, just very small. Us atheists are 15% of the population, if we got off out asses and acted on OUR beliefs, we could influence a lot of things. Bill Maher said just that in Religulous

Saturday the 14th, seminars starting at 10am, running throughout the day. Drawings for prizes and dinner, see you there,

Para Gear sells them, small canopy stamps - we bought a dozen or so a while back

fuel taxes - direct input into the local economy. Salaries paid to employees, further spent on the local economy. Rent paid to the airport/city/town Customers who travel to come to the dropzone, and spend their money on restaurants, hotels, gas, etc Ask any politician if any of this important. It is. Ask any Airport Authority/board/committee if this is important - sometimes they get it, sometimes they don't. Want to see the impact? Start marking your money with a unique stamp or whatever to show the locals where the money comes from that circulates in their town. You do not need the 'airport'. You need the community.

let's see the reasonable plan that you spoke of that was less than $100/month. Apparently I am not the only one with this problem of high insurance rates. Consider yourself lucky that apparently you are not affected by this. Maybe when you turn 48 like me, it will be quite different for you too. OK, now we have a sample size of two. And I guess that there are some 47 million Americans without health insurance - - I would expect that SOME of them have the same problem as me/him. I will not hazard to guess how many due to the expected retort from you on how irrelevant it would be anyway...... yawn.......

ABSOLUTELY not And for that matter, they should remove the 'voting registration process' completely. It denies citizens the right to vote. The laws vary from place to place, and even within those laws the standards differ from county to county. Basically, since that system appears to not work well for all people, it needs to be scrapped. You are allowed to vote by your very proof of citizenship. Prove you are a citizen and therefore you have the right to vote - end of discussion. I like the blue thumb ink thingy..... go vote and get dyed.

that's the rate they would like you to THINK you are going to get. Once the underwriters are done with you, it is $525 in my case. Stop posting fantasies please. I fully realize that some people get great deals on health insurance. Once again, I am living proof that many do not. Stop asking me to shop around - I have. Stop asking me to tough it up - I cannot afford it. Once I go off my insurance - YOU sir, will be paying for my health care when your premiums go up because of more and more people just like me. It is a good health system - it is not a great one. MANY people, (certainly MOST people if they had to pay for it all by themselves), cannot afford the American Health Care System. Universal Health care is coming. In my lifetime (and yours). It is progress. It is taking care of your own. It is a right. talk to you in 20 years when I prove you wrong.......

not even remotely CLOSE to the same thing. One is taxpayer based and government run, which many object to. The other is privatized and corporate run, which I object to. The end result (health care) 'might' be the same, but the vehicle by which it is delivered, and certainly by which it is administrated is NOT the same. The corporation is looking for profit. The government (we hope) is looking to provide good health care for its citizens. The government would act as a non-profit, except for future predicted budgets. The corporation would want to deliver its shareholders a bonus each year and would cut/slash/modify/raise programs, premiums, terms and conditions to that end....... Not necessarily try to deliver good health care. Both entities have the same problem - it costs more than they expected. Rather than be 'denied' by my health insurance company (and all the others as well - so much for competition), I would rather just have the option of going to the doctor and having that discussion with him.

I never said Canada was perfect. Actually, on the same issue, i even noted in other threads than Canada only ranks slightly above the USA. But I also note that 15 out of the top 20 BEST HEALTH CARE SYSTEMS IN THE WORLD, are in countries that offer universal health care to all of their people. SO as in my post just above, Canada can learn from the USA. The USA can certainly learn from Canada and other countries. Those that say it cannot be done are getting in the way of those countries that are already doing it. At least I have the perspective of living in two countries and seeing and living BOTH systems.

so do I. And I work for and have employed at Skydive City, DOZENS OF PEOPLE who cannot possibly afford even a most basic plan, as event hose plans cost $200-$300/month nowadays.

other than universal healthcare and the govt paying for it, it would probably also work to 'force' everyone to buy insurance. The cost, en masse would go down. Massachusetts is already doing it as well as others. you would also have to pass laws that do not allow companies to deny you coverage or up your rates because of preexisting conditions or because of what you do for a living. the theory being that more people pouring into it will lower the overall cost. Whether you pay for it using tax dollars or pay for it through private insurers might work. But I think the insurers have too much overhead. Another fallacy about the govt run healthcare is that it is inefficient. It is not actually. Medicare/Medicaid spends far less in administrative costs that private sector. Medicare is not there to DENY you coverage, but the goal of the private sector IS to deny you coverage. - that's how they make money. You either have a government that runs it or a corporation that runs it. The advantages of government run are obvious. EVERYONE gets coverage and no one is denied. The disadvantage is tax increases, but not huge, and a general lack of equipment. i.e. it takes legislation to build a hospital or buy an MRI machine. In canada, la lot of cities only have one MRI and the govt does not want to pay for new equipment. But you are never denied coverage or access to health care. The advantages of the private system are LOTS of MRI machines and equipment, LOTS of hospitals and easy access to it. The disadvantages are insurance companies that do not want to cover you - charge horrendous rates, analyze every bit of your life with no goal except to raise your rates and then even when you DO GET THE INSURANCE AND YOU ARE PAYING FOR IT - they deny every claim and argue with you about it, drowning you in paperwork and notices that no normal human being can understand. (This is my story) SO there is probably a middle ground system. Public and private hospitals. basic and emergency care for everyone. private treatments and insurance companies for supplemental coverage if you want it. I paid for an MRI myself once because my insurance company denied it. In Canada, I cannot do that, but here I can. It pisses me off to no end that I would have to do that when I am paying $525/month for a plan, but I have no choice. Canada could learn some lessons from the USA by allowing privatization of a lot of services, like Xrays, blood work, MRI's, Physical therapy, etc. People will pay rather than wait 6 months. The USA could learn a lot of lessons from Canada, like how to take care of your own and stop worrying about the few that 'milk the system' - 'cause in fact - those numbers and the overall cost are pretty friggin' small compared to the total cost.

30 years ago, I WAS that student. Rob Laidlaw (Skydive U) taught the 10 second rule if they were going to pull - and I took that with me throughout my instructional career. Rob piloted a lot of other controversial and progressive stuff as well. Most of it worked fine. And the post about the emergency exits? Well, it's an emergency. get out and pull. If you are unsure about ANYTHING - use the reserve. Never be afraid to pull the silver handle for any reason.

I never said any such thing - and if you are saying that I am the only one with 'that opinion', then you are just as wrong as I am.....

um, I read the title of the poll and the title of the thread - "Baser system". Nothing about main parachutes.

this thread is not about main parachutes - the thread is about a container system.

Wrap your mind around this then. In Canada I made some $60-65K a year and I paid $12-$18K a year in income tax, depending on the year and the deductions (retirement savings etc). I paid NOTHING for health care. and I got 'good' health care. Last year, here in the USA, I made $60-$65K and I paid some $16K in income tax. I also spent $525/month for health insurance, an additional $6300 for health insurance. I also spent $3400 in doctors fees, deductibles and such. So that makes $26K total expenditure. And I wait just as long to get service as I did in Canada. I am paying through the nose for 'good' healthcare. So I am living proof that the universal healthcare is a better value. Wrap around that.

no argument from me - what good is it if the average person cannot afford it? What kind of society are we if we do not care enough to take care of our own people? Why are we spending hundreds of billions in other countries while people go bankrupt in our own country just because they fell down the stairs? etc etc

NONE of those articles you quoted talk or talked about or referenced in ANY WAY, people dying while waiting for health care, which was the premise of your original post. All they talk about is the cost. Well the cost may be worth it - to society as a whole. i.e. if medical costs were no part of society, then we should completely ban all the CDC and it's functions, the FDA and all of its functions. But we do not because there is a cost and a VALUE GAINED for their services to the general public as a whole. So it is actually BULLSHIT when you say people are dying in Canada while waiting for health care - or at least it is embellished - since people are dying in the USA waiting for health care as well. I especially like the opening line from the one article you quoted..... the system is actually broken - it needs to be fixed. Universal healthcare is one of the options universally accepted by most of the free world. Your solution to the broken system would then be.........?

I believe that 5 second delays are a waste of time. You do not have enough time to feel anything, reach terminal or even half a chance to fix something before it is time to pull. Most instructors could not do a perfectly stable 5 second delay with the same system, especially out of certain airplanes, like a rear-door 206. Look at it this way: "Is the student going to pull?" No? Then keep them on practice pulls until you are absolutely sure that they will. Yes? Then let them go do a 10 second delay (at least). You can count to 10 without an altimeter and even if you forgot, by the time you remembered that you forgot, it would be time to pull. You have time to build up some speed to the point where the arch might actually matter and you have time to get over the 'sensory overload' and maybe even react and think about what is happening. less than 10 second delays, I have always found them to be ineffective. Either do a 10, or go get into a freefall program like AFF or tandem. You can learn to freefall without freefalling..... And yes, you can't learn how to skydive on the internet either....

they have to have two parachutes and a TSO'd system. Therefore it meets all the requirements of the FAA. No reason to not let them jump it.