First Skydive without parachute successful!

notcricket · 1 day

Can't help you with what he thinks. But this is what he says

The_Font · 3 days

I was actually in the grand-bazaar in İstanbul a year ago when this team won. All of the sudden the market just erupted with cheering and marching. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxRQP_Hrb8s

IsleCook · 22 days

Seems like a dangerous thing to allow campaigns to take on debt in the first place. A business can't donate large sums of money to a candidate because of campaign finance laws, but it can agree to do a million dollars of work on behalf of a candidate on credit that never gets paid back? Seems like a giant loophole.

wesman212 · 1 month

It's a starwyvern.

tandm13 · 1 month

The sydney monorail is stupid not because it's a monorail, but because it doesn't go anywhere. http://www.humantransit.org/2012/01/sydney-transit-toy-soon-to-be-scrap-metal.html

Now, that said, I'm not advocating a monorail for Seattle. Even if it were technically superior to other options (which, frankly, I have no idea), it's simply not politically feasible in the wake of the failed SMP. But don't knock a whole transmit mode for being useless just because one example of it is.

YesAsInGenghis · 1 month

Hah, true enough. (Or, heaven forbid, you could just abstain in such situations!)

YesAsInGenghis · 1 month

But you're talking specifically about the "consequences of being lied to", so the "trap" is assumed. I'm not saying the choice is pleasant, but it sure beats not having one.

At any rate, I'm all for both partners having the ability to protect themselves, then whether or not their partner is lying is moot. Right now men don't really have this option.

YesAsInGenghis · 1 month

What? if the woman is lied to, she can choose to get an abortion. That sucks, but at least she has the choice. If the man is lied to, he's at her mercy as to whether or not he's stuck paying child support for a child he may not want (and since the given here is that she lied, Good Luck to him). He has no choice.

smanek · 2 months

I'm still waiting for compiler writers to notice the publication of C99.

SleazySnake · 2 months

it's also a board game about farming

Smartty · 2 months

The regular mario levels aren't great for it, but there's an included alternate map pack that's better designed from a puzzle standpoint.

eggmaker · 3 months

It's confusing if you have to keep switching the displays on your dashboard. Australia did their road system all at once and seem to think that was the way we should do it: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3850801238563505476 (look at about 27:45)

thE_best_cookies · 3 months

I wonder if he was looking for a safe place to land, an easier place for rescuers to get to him, still trying to salvage the run, or trying to fly himself to the hospital. ;)

FanOfFalling · 3 months

It's a black balloon that he was trying to kick with his leg.

pr1ncessjasm1ne · 3 months

Good news: Mail merge works Bad news: So does the send button

volkert · 4 months

It's a take on JSON's own introduction.

ilamont · 4 months

context

i_had_fun · 4 months

Have you looked at Beacon Hill or Columbia City? They're on the Light Rail line that will get you to both the airport and downtown, but not as expensive as living downtown.

firstdraft · 4 months

If you need some commiseration (warning: long): http://pinyin.info/readings/texts/moser.html

According to that page, if you want to feel better about yourself, just ask a native speaker to write out "to sneeze"…

reddit4 · 4 months

I presume they don't do it internally because of lack of capital (and poor allocation of limited capital), they don't offer labor externally because it goes against the Juche philosophy.

upendokweli · 5 months

I saw the one-man band and took some crappy video. Wasn't going to upload it, but sounds like there's demand. It'll be at http://youtu.be/WgJyZBqdPnQ once it's done.

There was also a pictures-with-santa (for adults, as far as I saw) next to gate.

linuxwil · 5 months

Either that or they're a bank radio ad, desperately trying to convince you that they're local.

shenglong · 6 months

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=77126

worskies · 7 months

First off, I don't know the answer for sure, and I'm only a student myself, so take anything what I say with a grain of salt and ask at your DZ, that said—

I think it depends on the DZ. The USPA requires students to have jumped within 30 days to be considered current. Even once you do get licensed, you need to jump occasionally to maintain currency (60 days for an A-license, 90 for B, 120 for C and 6 months for D— see http://www.skydivecolumbus.com/uspa_sims_section_425.htm ). That said, if you aren't current, it just means to you need to jump with someone appropriately certified and demonstrate your skills to them. It doesn't mean you have to start from zero.

During the AFF course, you're already jumping with at least one such person on every jump anyway, so as far as I can tell you're already covered from the USPA's perspective (I think that's why the link above is silent on AFF students who haven't graduated AFF yet). That said, just because the USPA may allow it (as I read it) doesn't mean that your DZO is going to just let someone in their plane who has 3 jumps from 5 years ago and nothing since.

In practice what I expect you'll find is that as long as your last jump was within 30 days, you'll be fine. If you take over 30 days but less than, I dunno, 4-6 months or something then you might or might not have to repeat an AFF level. If it's been a year or more, it wouldn't surprise me if they make you start over, or at least take the First Jump Course classroom parts over again. I had some friends that waited 2-3 months between jumps and they were allowed to go without any special consideration, and I presume that's typical, but I don't know for sure. Ask your DZO!

Also, regardless of how long it's been, those old jumps will still count toward your 25 you need to get licensed, even if your DZ wants you to start over in the classroom, so keep those old logbooks.

Finally, everything I've said is assuming you're in the US and jumping at a USPA-affiliated DZ. If you're outside the US then I have no idea what the rules are, but they are likely to be similar.

worskies · 7 months

I said "you're out an extra $50-75". What I meant was that the cost over and above the cost of a tandem jump.

At my DZ, a tandem jump is $215, and AFF1 is $275. So if you did one jump and decided not to do any more, you'd be out $60 compared to just doing the tandem. Later AFF jumps are generally cheaper. At my DZ AFF2-3 are $175 each and 4-7 are $150 each, then further solo student jumps are $65 each until you get your A-license at 25 jumps. If you did the tandem and decided to continue, it'd cost you an extra $215 for the tandem, possibly minus $65 for needing one less student jump if the tandem counts as one of your 25 (which I have my doubts about— ask at your DZ).

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