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Oh you mean a Darwin jump When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

I've stalled a couple of times and always on a new canopy I get to stall point and then recover while still up high. The first time I pushed it byond stall point into a proper stall was the jump after my first chop. The slider came down over my Z1 and I damn near shit myself! I was thinking oh no, if this thing doesn't reinflate thats two in a row! When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/02/24/iraq/main541815.shtml Go to the free video link at the top left and click on the hostage story. When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

OOOoooh MEEEOOOOWWWWWWWW! Saucer of milk over there please When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Is it me or does Colateral damage look alot like dead children? When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Axis of execution: American justice ranked alongside world's most repressive regimes By Justin Huggler, Asia Correspondent 07 April 2004 http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/story.jsp?story=509209 America is just one of just four countries responsible for 84 per cent of executions around the world last year, a report released yesterday by Amnesty International said. The report groups the US with China, Iran and Vietnam as one of the countries responsible for the overwhelming majority of executions worldwide. It puts America ahead of Saudi Arabia, Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo for known executions ­ although in many countries complete figures are unknown. The US and China were the only countries in the world to execute child offenders last year, the report says. At least 1,146 people were executed in 2003, down from 1,526 in 2002 and 3,048 in 2001, according to Amnesty's figures. China headed the list, far ahead of all other countries, with at least 726 confirmed executions. But Amnesty stressed that only "limited and incomplete records" were available on China's executions, and the true figure was believed to be much higher. A Chinese legislator suggested last month that his country executed "nearly 10,000" people a year. At least two of last year's known executions in China were carried out by lethal injection in new "execution vans", introduced in March. Iran was responsible for at least 108 executions last year. The condemned in Iran are often hanged from cranes in public. The US came third with 65 people executed last year, including two men with long histories of mental illness. Unlike many of the other countries mentioned, there is no secrecy about executions in the US, and complete figures are known. In Vietnam, 64 people were executed last year, five of them, the report notes, in front of a crowd of about 1,000 onlookers in November. Saudi Arabia, one of the countries most notorious for executions, where the condemned are beheaded with swords in public squares, came fifth with at least 50 known executions, 26 of them for drug offences. Conspicuous by their absence from the list were Libya and Syria, both countries linked by the US to its extended "axis of evil". All three of the original "axis of evil" countries ­ Iran, Iraq and North Korea ­ were identified as carrying out executions in 2003, but Amnesty had no figures on how many were executed in Iraq in the dying days of the Saddam regime, or in North Korea. Amnesty released its figures at a meeting of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights in Geneva. Last year the commission called on all countries that allow capital punishment in their laws to agree to a moratorium on executions. "The intense secrecy that surrounds use of the death penalty in many countries makes this depressing log of last year's executions an underestimate of the true extent of the use of this outdated punishment early in the 21st century," Lesley Warner of Amnesty said yesterday. "In China alone we fear that many thousands of people ... are being executed in secret each year, the majority after shockingly unfair trials. "The US's defiant stance over executing those convicted for crimes committed as children is one particular area of concern, sending a dangerous message around the world. We call on the US to abandon child-offender executions as a first measure towards ending all judicial killing." The report noted that 113 prisoners had been released from death row in America since 1973 because evidence had emerged that they were innocent of the crimes of which they were convicted ­ raising the possibility that other innocent men and women went to their deaths. Evidence often emerged of police misconduct, use of unreliable witness testimony or confessions, and inadequate defence representation. The report highlighted the case of Kenny Richey, a Scot who has spent 17 years on death row in Ohio, convicted of arson and murder. Richey is appealing against his death sentence, and attempting to have fresh evidence heard in an attempt to prove his innocence. Kate Allen of Amnesty said of Richey: "His case is one of the most compelling cases of apparent innocence that human rights campaigners have ever seen." 12 April 2004 12:49 Search this site: Printable Story When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

They tried to force him to say his name and he would not. Then eventualy he did but only when the Australian cameraman asked him. Was he scared? Who wouldn't be? But courage is not the absence of fear, its the overcoming of it. When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Yea, its the smell of barotrauma When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

To American Hostage Thomas Hamill. I saw him on the news last night. A car pulls up on a dusty high road and masked Iraqi fighters get out to reveal a middle aged man in sitting in the back of the car. He was being coerced into talking to the Australian camera man by the gunmen but was having none of it. He showed remarkable composure, bravery and dignity in the situation . Almost certainly being driven to his death he showed resolve and courage rarely seen. I hope he lives to see his release. I for one salute a very brave man. When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Man just as I thought we were going to agree on something you come out with this...... 'In the UK (London and other places) they don't even investigate serious crimes unless they look like they will be easily solved. By serious I mean everything up to but not including murder. That's right, if there isn't any obvious evidence left that point straight to the perp, you're shit out of luck and he's off on his merry may. ' What are you talking about? That simply isn't true. When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Yea, India having the bomb.....WTF, I mean come on....Don't let countries that belive in reincarnation have nukes! When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

LOL..........Good to hear from you John, I was begining to think they'd banned you When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

More's the pity! I'm all for them nicking her, like they said they'll proberbly just drop the charges and hopefully she will have a life altering experience. Its because we let children get away with crime when they are young that they turn into delinquent drunk theiving morons when they're in their teens. Juvinille delinquency is ruining the UK. Its time we started getting tough with unlawful youth as well. Bring back the birch! When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Sorry for your loss. Vibes coming your way. When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

So I guess thats a no then When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Posted by me 23rd Dec 2002 Surely you don't still belive the bunkum about WMD's? What have they got? OIL. Simple as that. The US has about 15 years oil reserves left, the UK about 6 years, Iraq 100 years (and that's just known oil fields). I wish the governments would just be straight about this. US and UK troops are to die and to kill for the oil, lets get real. I for one never belived they had WMDs at the time of the start of the war. When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Read the thread. Defend yourselves when needed but don't use tanks on the streets and attack helicopters in residential areas. Falluja could have been contained, give them time to cool down and then open lines of communication, get a dialouge going and defuse the situation. Like the British Army is doing in Amara. When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Returning fire with an assault rifle is one thing..launching a guided bomb and rocket from a helicopter and fighter aircraft into forty people attending afternoon prayers is something totaly different. That is incompetence at best and a war crime at worst. American soldiers are killing women and children, killing people at prayer. Just who are the terrorists here? http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=509582 When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Thats is a extreamly short sighted view. It amazes me just how the US manages to squander good will. After 9/11 there was so much support for the US yet two years on it was all gone. A year ago in Iraq the US was seen by many as liberators from a oppresive regime and the majority of the population felt good will towards the US. Now only one year on the country has turned on the coalition thanks to the heavy handed response of the US. But credit where its due, in one year the US has managed to accomplish what Sadam couldn't in thirty; the Iraqi unity across the religious divide of Shite and Sunni. Tonight I watched Shitie muslims giving their blood for the muslims of Falluja. By bombing a mosque the US turn middle of the road Iraqis into resistance fighters. Not only Iraqis but muslims outside of Iraq as well. Its about time the US took a leaf out of the British book on COIN. After all its what we do best. Defend yourselves when needed but don't use tanks on the streets and attack helicopters in residential areas. Falluja could have been contained, give them time to cool down and then open lines of communication, get a dialouge going and defuse the situation. Like the British Army is doing in Amara. What would you do Rhino if you lived in a place that had been invaded? What if the army of occupation then stopped freedom of the press (see this from their point of view here) then surrounded your town and started blowing innocent civvies to bits using hellicopter gunships and tanks? What if they then killed forty people at prayer while they were in a church? What would you do? The coalition isn't there to kill anyone that it doesn't like, its there to build a nation. That means you have to work with the people of that country not confront them and use disproportional force to kill indescriminatly. When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

LOL.....Maybe the US can adopt the method of conflict resolution the Brits have used to great effect in Northern Ireland. All you have to do is form a government in which all the top people are terrorists, call them polititions and voila! Problem solved! Incidently how long are Paul Bremner and co going to keep calling pissed off Iraqis terrorists and foreign fighters? No ones buying it, not even the CIA. When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

I wouldn't start bashing the Iranians just yet. The US hasn't exactly got a glowing humantarian rep at the moment either. http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/story.jsp?story=509209 When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Another five dead today. That makes FORTY TWO DEAD US SOLDIERS since sunday. 04/07/04 AP: Five US Marines killed near bombed Fallujah mosque Five US Marines were killed by gunfire from within the mosque in the Iraqi city of Fallujah that was under attack from US forces, a Central Command spokesman said. When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

37 dead American soldiers since monday. See DOD figures. When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy. Lucius Annaeus Seneca

I couldn't agree with you more Wendy. Democracy works for us in the west but it doesn't necessarily transplant well into cultures that are vastly different to our own. nacmacfeegle is spot on as well, part of the recent problems in Iraq with the Shites stems from America not condeming Israels assasination of the spiritual head of Hamas. Muslims see the double standard being applied in Israel and Chechnya and resent the west for it. Now America is taking the frankly stupid step of using attack helicopters in residental areas like the Israelis do. That grouping of the US and Israel in Arab minds will be even more so. No double standard you may think? What would have been the US response if the British Army had used Lynx attack helicopters to destroy houses on the Falls road (Norther Ireland) or turned out people from their homes and blown them up as reprisals against terror attacks like Israel does? Unacceptable? Counterproductive? Of course, so why is the US now applying Israels rules of engagement? So much for hearts and minds. When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy. Lucius Annaeus Seneca