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Ok, let me dig through my AAD files for early 2011...because I'm pretty sure I downloaded whatever was linked to from this thread 13 years ago. I don't know what exactly was linked to from here, but I have a couple candidate files, uploaded here, that are both anonymous: -- One is a big attack on CYPRES. (I haven't looked at it lately but I think some of the criticism may be valid even if overdone overall. Cypres certainly had its issues in the early days, like never admitting errors unless it had to, and including a bad sensor issue or claiming you'd never be able to fire it in a swoop -- until Adrian Nicholas died.) -- One is a big attack on VIGIL. (They were having all sorts of issues & bulletins back then. ) -- I have also attached a 3rd document, one by Kirk Smith at ParaConcepts. Mostly about Argus, but also about cutter designs in general. I think that document is pretty well thought out and not a partisan attack. It also came out in that era of the AAD Wars as I call it. ( 2011 was particularly busy, judging by the number of AAD related files with a 2011 date on my hard drive.) VIGIL INCIDENTS HISTORY (Anti vigil - mostly cut from other reports).pdf CYPRES_AAD_FACT_SHEET (odd independent criticism by someone).pdf Whats Going On With AADs Kirk Smith.pdf

Who in the Great Wide Fuck is hoping for any of this?!?!? Stronger storms are a reality of climate change. The science is pretty clear, and actually pretty easy to understand for anybody willing to pull their fingers out of their ears long enough to learn about it. Nobody is hoping that you're wrong and that more people suffer devastation...some people are trying to point out how ass-backwards your predictions are, but methinks they're underestimating how dug in you are....I know I gave up a while ago

Tricky issue in society. I’m sure there is no magic wand, although decriminalisation of use would be a big step forwards.

I’m extremely frustrated with the Australian model of dealing with substance abuse. Particularly because my son is affected and the system is broken. Substance abuse is closely tied in with mental health problems. Admittedly the government is doing a lot to implement good quality support services. There are two major obstacles though. Firstly because drugs are illegal and the structure of the system is that your first point of contact is the police it’s very difficult to engage. Getting a prison sentence or suspended sentence only has negative outcomes. There is abundant evidence to support that. It can be very hit and miss if you call the police if you’ll get a supportive officer or a crack down on crime officer. Secondly we have very strong deprivation of liberty laws. The bar for compulsory admission to a mental health facility is extremely high and requires a clear danger to others. Voluntary admission support is fantastic though. Try dealing with someone who has not slept in 3 days and is aggressive and unstable, lives at home and has nowhere ‘safe’ to go. You quickly find the limits of the support system.

Then why aren’t they locked up?

Charity as a cash cow is a Clintonian thing.

I wonder if Jack Pringle was the one who was there that day when the money was divided. According to Brian, they divided the money up at the FBI office in Portland. He and his dad showed up there in 1986 and all of the money was placed out on a large conference table. A coin was flipped between Dwayne and a guy representing Royal Globe. Dwayne won, so he got to choose first. Then the Royal guy got to choose and so forth and so on, back and forth, until it was just scraps. Brian said the guy from Royal was frustrated because of how long Dwayne was taking. Dwayne was smart about it and wanted the ones with the most legible serial numbers. He said the guy from Royal was just grabbing whichever ones and not examining them in too much detail. So I'm guessing that must have been Pringle doing that if he's the one who had custody of the money and sent it off by mail.

Yep. No one is better at that than you, who have been claiming victimhood over a "DEI hire" for years. So, again, welcome to being woke (by your definition this time.) Fellow conservatives have followed suit: -Trump is a victim of the deep state who stole the 2020 election, and this justifies insurrections like Jan 6th. -Middle class Americans are victims of the New World Order, and this justifies violence against immigrants. -Conservatives are victims of evil journalists, and this justifies removing protections for a free press. -Whites are victims of the "poisoning of the blood" of America by lesser races, and this justifies murdering protesters. Victimhood is a central requirement for being a conservative these days.

Today a filing by prosecutors was unsealed to allow the next indictment against Trump to begin. It had to be re-filed since the Supreme Court sought to shield Trump from culpability by claiming that the attempt to overthow the government was part of his official duties, and thus he was protected against prosecution. The filing states: "Although the defendant was the incumbent President during the charged conspiracies, his scheme was fundamentally a private one. Working with a team of private co-conspirators, the defendant acted as a candidate when he pursued multiple criminal means to disrupt, through fraud and deceit, the government function by which votes are collected and counted — a function in which the defendant, as President, had no official role. When the defendant lost the 2020 presidential election, he resorted to crimes to try to stay in office."

I may have posted this story before but I am reminded of it again. Many years ago when I was jumping at Taft, somebody had a cutaway and their canopy came down next to a road. Some local guy driving by saw it, stopped, looked around and tentatively lifted the canopy up to see if there was a body underneath it. When he saw that there wasn't, he gathered it up and brought it back to the airport. His curiosity got the better of him, and he went up on a tandem that day. He liked it, and came back a few days later for AFF. Long story short, he became a regular jumper, and even a TI!

Your post suggest that manufacturer can always evade admission of unit failure to cut reserve loop at pre set altitude - because of too many factors involved and no "witnesses". Is post-fatal-unit-data public or what? What goes around, comes later.