dreamdancer 0 #226 January 23, 2011 QuoteYou're rich by worldwide standards; you can afford to skydive. How about taking some of that disposable cash and distributing it to all those people you think are being treated unfairly by rich people like yourself? skydiving is my profession. i'm on a 2 month work contact in thailand and my fun jumps are free staff slots. (i suppose you'd rather i was unemployed)stay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dreamdancer 0 #227 January 23, 2011 QuoteLet's take an example that more people are familiar with. Airspeed is arguably one of the best 4-way teams on the planet, and they are about as successful as one can get in the skydiving world. And they want to stay that way, and indeed have proven they _can_ maintain that position. A non-skydiver might assume they do that by "keeping people down" - by preventing other teams from becoming as skilled as they are, to reduce the competition. this analogy is silly. have you never heard of industrial espionage?stay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dreamdancer 0 #228 January 23, 2011 Quote I remember doing video for them for a weekend, and I landed on Craig once! I figured I had just screwed up the count, but now I realize that he intentionally funnelled me to keep me down. i remember being at a world championships during a final run-off (i think that's the word) between the us 4way team and the russians. i was in a casa with the us team, their cameraman, norman kent and me! high pressure stuff - but i did ok (still got the video somewhere in my archive)stay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dreamdancer 0 #229 January 23, 2011 Quote>are the christians here happy that millions of the rich and their >progeny are going to be eternally damned? Proverbs 13:11: Wealth gained by dishonesty will be diminished, But he who gathers by labor will increase. and my arguement is that if you inherit your wealth you obviously haven't 'laboured'. simple concept really. do try to keep up.stay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
HandsomeSalad 0 #230 January 23, 2011 Quote Are you unable to comprehend how 1% of the population is not enough votes to elect someone? Doesn't surprise me. This is obviously going over your head - voting is irrelevant when you are able to field both candidates, one aspect of the "supposed class war". Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Belgian_Draft 0 #231 January 23, 2011 QuoteQuote>are the christians here happy that millions of the rich and their >progeny are going to be eternally damned? Proverbs 13:11: Wealth gained by dishonesty will be diminished, But he who gathers by labor will increase. and my arguement is that if you inherit your wealth you obviously haven't 'laboured'. simple concept really. do try to keep up. and you are still insisting people who inherit money never worked for it. In many cases, I already gave a couple examples, nothing could be further from the truth. The truth is, you are too lazy to make your own wealth and you want the government to take it from others and give it to you. I have a better idea. Matthew 25:14-28HAMMER: Originally employed as a weapon of war, the hammer nowadays is used as a kind of divining rod to locate the most expensive parts adjacent the object we are trying to hit. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dreamdancer 0 #232 January 24, 2011 QuoteThe truth is, obviously well beyond your comprehension...stay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dreamdancer 0 #233 January 24, 2011 QuoteThe political reality is that China’s export of manufacturing over-capacity is hollowing out the US industrial core, and a plethora of tricks to stop Western firms competing in the Chinese market rubs salt in the wound. It is preventing full recovery in the US, where half the population is falling out of the bottom of the Affluent Society. Some 43.2m people are now on food stamps. The US labour force participation rate has fallen to 64.3pc, worse than a year ago. Only the richer half is recovering. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_pritchard/8277143/Appeasement-is-the-proper-policy-towards-Confucian-China.htmlstay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dreamdancer 0 #234 January 24, 2011 QuoteThere is a telling detail in the US retail chain store data for December. Stephen Lewis from Monument Securities points out that luxury outlets saw an 8.1pc rise from a year ago, but discount stores catering to America’s poorer half rose just 1.2pc. Tiffany’s, Nordstrom, and Saks Fifth Avenue are booming. Sales of Cadillac cars have jumped 35pc, while Porsche’s US sales are up 29pc. Cartier and Louis Vuitton have helped boost the luxury goods stock index by almost 50pc since October. Yet Best Buy, Target, and Walmart have languished. Such is the blighted fruit of Federal Reserve policy. The Fed no longer even denies that the purpose of its latest blast of bond purchases, or QE2, is to drive up Wall Street, perhaps because it has so signally failed to achieve its other purpose of driving down borrowing costs. Yet surely Ben Bernanke’s `trickle down’ strategy risks corroding America’s ethic of solidarity long before it does much to help America’s poor. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_pritchard/8249181/Deepening-crisis-traps-Americas-have-nots.htmlstay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Belgian_Draft 0 #235 January 24, 2011 Quote Quote The truth is, obviously well beyond your comprehension... Lol! OMG that is hilarious ! Did you come up with that all by yourself? At least I don't reply to my own posts.HAMMER: Originally employed as a weapon of war, the hammer nowadays is used as a kind of divining rod to locate the most expensive parts adjacent the object we are trying to hit. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Belgian_Draft 0 #236 January 24, 2011 QuoteQuote Are you unable to comprehend how 1% of the population is not enough votes to elect someone? Doesn't surprise me. This is obviously going over your head - voting is irrelevant when you are able to field both candidates, one aspect of the "supposed class war". And just how does apolitician expect to get reelected if he pisses off 90% of the people who put him in office? It doesn't matter who puts up the candidates, it is still the middle class and poor who elect them.HAMMER: Originally employed as a weapon of war, the hammer nowadays is used as a kind of divining rod to locate the most expensive parts adjacent the object we are trying to hit. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
billvon 3,085 #237 January 25, 2011 >and my arguement is that if you inherit your wealth you >obviously haven't 'laboured'. simple concept really. Cool. So I guess you've ditched your "millions of the rich and their progeny are going to be eternally damned" nonsense. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dreamdancer 0 #238 January 25, 2011 Quote>and my arguement is that if you inherit your wealth you >obviously haven't 'laboured'. simple concept really. Cool. So I guess you've ditched your "millions of the rich and their progeny are going to be eternally damned" nonsense. that was nonsense from jesus - not me...stay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
billvon 3,085 #239 January 25, 2011 >that was nonsense from jesus - not me... Unless you're claiming you are Jesus, it was you, not Jesus, who posted "millions of the rich and their progeny are going to be eternally damned." But if you're claiming it's nonsense, fair enough. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dreamdancer 0 #240 January 25, 2011 Quote>that was nonsense from jesus - not me... Unless you're claiming you are Jesus, it was you, not Jesus, who posted "millions of the rich and their progeny are going to be eternally damned." But if you're claiming it's nonsense, fair enough. i'm just passing on his message. obviously you disagree with him. the eternally damned bit is nonsense (except for christian believers) but i agree with his general thrust... (now back to the topic in hand if you can manage to concentrate)stay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
billvon 3,085 #241 January 25, 2011 >i'm just passing on his message . . . but i agree with his general thrust... Sounds like you're a little conflicted, then! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dreamdancer 0 #242 January 25, 2011 Quote>i'm just passing on his message . . . but i agree with his general thrust... Sounds like you're a little conflicted, then! seems to me it's the 'christians' here who are conflicted. they've been told what to do and what the result is if they don't by their very own 'god'. do you think you can get back on topic now rather than nitpicking? or now that you've run out of arguements are you just going to start spamming the thread with uncredited music lyrics - which is your usual tactic.stay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Belgian_Draft 0 #243 January 25, 2011 QuoteQuote>i'm just passing on his message . . . but i agree with his general thrust... Sounds like you're a little conflicted, then! seems to me it's the 'christians' here who are conflicted. they've been told what to do and what the result is if they don't by their very own 'god'. do you think you can get back on topic now rather than nitpicking? or now that you've run out of arguements are you just going to start spamming the thread with uncredited music lyrics - which is your usual tactic. I'd say Bill is doing a decent job of staying on topic. You are the one who brought religion into the discussion, not him.HAMMER: Originally employed as a weapon of war, the hammer nowadays is used as a kind of divining rod to locate the most expensive parts adjacent the object we are trying to hit. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
billvon 3,085 #244 January 25, 2011 >seems to me it's the 'christians' here who are conflicted. they've been told >what to do and what the result is if they don't by their very own 'god'. Uh, no, you're the only one telling Christians they are damned. Do try to keep up with your own posts. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
turtlespeed 226 #245 January 25, 2011 Quote>seems to me it's the 'christians' here who are conflicted. they've been told >what to do and what the result is if they don't by their very own 'god'. Uh, no, you're the only one telling Christians they are damned. Do try to keep up with your own posts. Do you think he is just missing that the Muslims a very similar outlook?I'm not usually into the whole 3-way thing, but you got me a little excited with that. - Skymama BTR #1 / OTB^5 Official #2 / Hellfish #408 / VSCR #108/Tortuga/Orfun Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Belgian_Draft 0 #246 January 25, 2011 Quote >seems to me it's the 'christians' here who are conflicted. they've been told >what to do and what the result is if they don't by their very own 'god'. Uh, no, you're the only one telling Christians they are damned. Do try to keep up with your own posts. One would think that with as many of his own posts he replies to he would know what he said. HAMMER: Originally employed as a weapon of war, the hammer nowadays is used as a kind of divining rod to locate the most expensive parts adjacent the object we are trying to hit. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
turtlespeed 226 #247 January 25, 2011 Quote Quote >seems to me it's the 'christians' here who are conflicted. they've been told >what to do and what the result is if they don't by their very own 'god'. Uh, no, you're the only one telling Christians they are damned. Do try to keep up with your own posts. One would think that with as many of his own posts he replies to he would know what he said. I firmly believe it has a LOT more to do with the fact that it has been proven that it is easier to remember facts than it is lies and rhetoric.I'm not usually into the whole 3-way thing, but you got me a little excited with that. - Skymama BTR #1 / OTB^5 Official #2 / Hellfish #408 / VSCR #108/Tortuga/Orfun Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Belgian_Draft 0 #248 January 25, 2011 "You don't have to have a good memory if you tell the truth." Judge JudyHAMMER: Originally employed as a weapon of war, the hammer nowadays is used as a kind of divining rod to locate the most expensive parts adjacent the object we are trying to hit. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
turtlespeed 226 #249 January 25, 2011 Quote"You don't have to have a good memory if you tell the truth." Judge Judy Absolutely.I'm not usually into the whole 3-way thing, but you got me a little excited with that. - Skymama BTR #1 / OTB^5 Official #2 / Hellfish #408 / VSCR #108/Tortuga/Orfun Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dreamdancer 0 #250 January 26, 2011 Quote>seems to me it's the 'christians' here who are conflicted. they've been told >what to do and what the result is if they don't by their very own 'god'. Uh, no, you're the only one telling Christians they are damned. Do try to keep up with your own posts. i'm just passing on their prophets message - concentrate now... you can do it i'm sure... (and remember it's the rich christians he was talking about. if you're poor you'll be fine)stay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
