Scoby
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If you know someone who is paying half of their income in taxes, then tell them to fire their accountant!
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Isaac Asimov wrote a pretty interesting book on Genesis and how it weaves together the creation myths of several previous religions. It explains why a lot of stuff seems contradictory in the orginal text. It's worth checking out.
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For what it's worth, I went to see Bowling For Columbine along with my friend who is a gun-toting NRA member and we both thoroughly enjoyed it. That said, I still find Michael Moore to be a weenie. Basically, he poses great questions, but he isn't so good with the answers. Like Rush Limbaugh, he's fairly entertaining, but would make awful policies. So he annoys right wingers in essentially the same way that Rush annoys the lefties.
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"I got a question: if you guys know so much about women, how come you're here at like the Gas 'n Sip on a Saturday night completely alone drinking beers with no women anywhere?" "By choice!" Say Anything
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It's Japanese competitors are the Civic Si and.... Um, that's the only Japanese hatchback right now. The key to the Mini is to think of it as a 2-seater. Then the trunk is huge!
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Actually, you can get them pretty specced out, but I wouldn't bother. I drove the base model with no options. It really was a revelation. It's light enough to feel quick, and it corners flat. All the controls have oodles of feel. For pure handling, you can't buy anything that comes close for the money. I'd bet the S model is even better. I almost bought one, but they left me hanging on the waiting list forever and then had the audacity to want over MSRP. By then, Mazda had shown the RX-8 and I decided I could wait a while. :)
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Oh yeah, like all the older guys driving their Ferraris and Lamborghinis slowly down the Sunset Strip. It's odd how you never see them on the twisty canyons roads... Wankers!
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The main cause of giant SUVs and pickups in this country is the sad affliction of SPS, or Small Penis Syndrome. Everytime you see a Navigator, or a Hummer, or a Suburban, you are also seeing a sad man who spent buckets of money on pumps, pills, and creams, to no avail. Rather than criticizing SUV and pickup truck drivers, shouldn't we be compassionate? Do we make fun of midgets or cripples anymore?
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Ultimately, the biggest difference between a Mac and a PC is cost. Everything else comes down to preference, but there isn't much that can't be done on either system. I've used both systems for both work and personal use. Currently, we have 3 Macs and a PC at home. However, I don't think I'll be buying Macs in the future unless the prices come down drastically. They're just too damned expensive! I'd buy a Mac if it was a 10% price premium, but 100%+ premium is just not sensible. The only Macs that are slightly reasonable is the 15" iMac G4 and the 12" iBook. Everything else is totally absurd.
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I had about 35 jumps when I bought a used rig and ordered a new canopy. It's 15 jumps later and I expect the main to arrive next week. Time slowed to a crawl waiting for the canopy. I probably should have found a used one.
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Dublin, Ireland Sparta, NJ Downingtown, PA Miami, FL Ft. Lauderdale, FL Los Angeles, CA Hollywood, CA Toluca Lake, CA Hollywood, CA Los Angeles, CA That's the condensed version. I think I've had about 15 addresses in 26 years.
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Wow, I didn't think it was going to happen that quickly! I can't wait to try it out.
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Yeah, it seems like every third vehicle on the road now is one of those Hummer 2s. They are fugly! AT least when you see a Hummer, it might be Ahnuld or Sly driving it...
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I did too, last week. Things are getting weird, all right.
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The point that I'm making (and I could certainly be wrong, so bear with me) is that 600s are the de facto entry level, and so having a training program geared around 250s is wrongheaded and potentially dangerous. Ideally, everyone would be safer if they slowly transitioned up in displacement. But in the real world, this isn't going to happen, so why have this fantasy that it will? Why not face reality and train people to use what they are going to use? Has this metaphor been stretched to far? I'm sorry...
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I know that skydiving is not safe. However, the risks can be managed. I understand that if everything goes wrong at once, I can get hurt or die even if I do everything right. But I'm a big wuss and I'll take every chance to tilt the odds in my favor. I want to learn everything there is to know about flying a canopy safely. I will take my time, and be as safe as possible.
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That sounds very sensible to me. Perhaps canopy training should be part of getting an A license. I don't understand why students get F111 mains at all (unless it's all because they're easier to pack).
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Look, we don't get rain very often here. It's a special occasion. Don't ruin it with your icky perversion!
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We're having a sunshower in LA. The sun is bright and the rain is coming down in buckets! And there is thunder! Life is good! That is all.
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For what it's worth, I'm taking the Evolution canopy class at Perris the instant my main arrives. I'm not interested in being a statistic. I'm too much of a wuss to nurse broken bones and it would screw up my snowboarding season.
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It would make perfect sense, if I could actually go out and get a 400. But that's not the case, and it's unrealistic to think that way. They don't even sell streetbikes in any displacement smaller than a 600. The reality is that a CBR600 is an entry level bike. Realizing this and training coordingly is a whole lot safer than pretending that people will spend a lot of time on a 250. A 600 is the motorcycle equivalent of a semi-elliptical loaded at 1:1. It's docile enough to learn on, but more than enough to get someone killed. Training should be oriented to the real world and not some idealized world where people will spend 100 jumps under a PD260 loaded at .8 to 1. Or that's my current thinking anyway. Convince me that I'm wrong and I'll change my opinion. I'm all ears.
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I defintely think that being conservative is the way to go. I'm just not sure if training people on huge canopies and then sending them out into the world is really the conservative approach. I took my motorcycle training on a Honda 125. I then went out and got a 600cc sportbike and had some really interesting experiences. I survived it, but looking back at things, it probably would have been safer for me to learn on a 600. I think this may be true of canopies as well. Perhaps the right thing to do is to train people on relatively docile canopies, but ones that relate more to what they'll be using later on? I'm not sure if my opinion is valid, since I'm relatively inexperienced. However, something seems wrong to me. Way too many people are getting hurt. There needs to be a different approach.
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Not everyone will end up flying elliptical canopies, but nobody will end up flying a Manta. Maybe it does make sense if students learn on canopies that are similar to their first canopies. Perhaps this, combined with proper canopy instruction, would lead to fewer injuries coming under fully functioning parachutes? I can't say either way, but it certainly seems like something needs to change.
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Y'know, whenever you tell people how to buy something safe, it gives me the warm fuzzies.
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Well, he's either: a. a moron b. a machiavelian cunning disguising himself as a moron Neither is really appealing. For what it's worth, the US actually does get plenty of gratitude for its aid, and deservedly so. In addition, most people in the world truly like Americans and American culture. What they generally object to is the self-serving and hypocritical foreign policy and the indifference to international law.