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Hi folks, It would appear that the only way Trump gets to 270 is if he loses 50 pounds. Jerry Baumchen

I just read an article that said NBC News cut into Trump’s last address in order to correct all the misinformation he was spreading. My question is: why did it take 5 years for any news organization to implement this process?

No it didn't. No they didn't. No they didn't. Indeed. Lawsuits as frivolous, baseless and ignorant as your post.

Whatever the result, looks like the country will react like a Coke & Mentos.

I don't think this is "hurting" Trump. It looks much more like a very calculated plan. First, he gets his voters to mostly vote in person, knowing Democrats will mostly vote by mail. At the same time he starts casting doubts on the voting system and especially mentions that only votes counted on election day (which are mostly the in-person votes) should count. Secondly he gets the state legislature (Republican controlled) to disallow early counting of mail-in ballots (which is done in most other states) to make sure that the mail-in ballots are counted late. Then, expecting that he will be up in the counts early, because mostly in-person votes have been counted, he can do 2 things: Claim victory early and when the numbers start changing talk about "found votes" and make it seem that something fishy is going on, and at the same time activate his legal teams to try to stop counting entirely, while he is still ahead. So: It's not hurting him. It works for him. He always assumed that he may loose if every vote was counted, so they found a way to split the vote into early republican counts and late Democratic counts, and then try to discredit and disallow the latter. Machiavelli would be proud!

Just like it took until the second debate of his re-election campaign before moderators decided to mute microphones.

Dear Nuno, If you want to work full-time in the skydiving industry, you will have to travel with the seasons (e.g. summer in the Netherlands and winters in Portugal). You will also find that the more ratings you have, the more money you can make. I worked as a full-time skydiver for 18 years. By the end I had tandem, static-line, IAD, FF, tandem and rigger ratings. ... and I did a few hundred camera jumps ... I had also worked as a jump pilot (before you needed a commercial pilot license in Canada). Before that I repaired airplanes in the air force (but never earned the civilian license). The disadvantage of being a rigger is that you are always repairing something while the other jumpers are drinking beer and chatting up girls. I often worked 70 hours per week in June, July, August and September. I had enough ratings that I could avoid boring DZ jobs like mowing the lawn, picking up trash, sweeping hangars, etc.

Given the number of times the parties have switched platforms your comment is meaningless

This reminds me of something recently - we are a small Cessna dropzone with a whole of students - everyone is super friendly and chats and has a great time. I had a level 3 I think a couple of weeks ago when we were discussing the staged flare and such, tell me that that was not what he had heard was the best way to do it. He explained to me that some other person there - who had 14! jumps but apparently jumped the same student gear :-) told him that flaring at 10-12 feet with a staged flare did not work well and he should wait till way lower and then just slam the toggles down. Laugh. I am completely sure that the 14 jump kid meant well but I did explain to my student that I have closer to 14,000 jumps than 14 and I might be a better source of advice :-)

I'm surprised they let your friend jump at all. At one dropzone there were two young women who were treating the entire class (with other students) like it was just a wild hoot. The instructor (also a woman) came over and told them to go back to the office and get their refund, she was kicking them out of the class. End of story. Considering that this is a sport that can actually kill someone, I think instructors have a duty to not allow a student to jump if they just don't get it or act like they just don't care.

Yeah, the level of technical illiteracy that I have witnessed with some skydivers is beyond anything that I have seen in any other hobby. It is like people don't have the slightest idea how their equipment works, that certain parts (lines and closing loops) wear over time, and that it might be a good idea to replace them before they break. Cypress is apparently used as a generic name for any AAD, regardless if it is mechanical or digital (as if you ask some people, they are all the same), and peoples knowledge of RSL begins and ends on the question on their A license exam, where it is basically described as "something that opens your reserve automatically if you cutaway". A further aggravating factor is that students are actively taught against using internet or finding information by themselves at some places, because god forbid that a student asks a meaningful question that will challenge the schools program which was last edited some time in the last millennia. Rant over.