J.A.R.

Well, John Murphy just spilled the beans, so to speak, and he's right.
*all* of the situations i posed are completely equivalent and the
cable is equally likely to break in any of them.

If something about this doesn't seem right to you, if you looked at
these and thought that one of then was far worse than another one,
think about *why* you believe(d) that. For example, Delbert, for (B),
you said "On the plus side, it is moving at a constant rate - a good
thing.". Why is this a good thing? Does it even matter at all?
-phil

I rarely jump on the aerial riggers list... 

but I love it when I smoke an ETCP board member.

(that being said, Delbert is a 5 star rigger, he just was too practical with the question)

QED -> JAR

:-)