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Ahhh? Explain? It applys in the sence that we try to pretend that we know everything, when in fact we know fuck all in the great scheme of things, as life goes on and we learn and descover, we find that things we once thought correct, are in fact incorrect due to an overlooked and unaccounted factor. They were more primative than us, yes. As we will have been to those that may live well beyond our lifetimes. That is only if we allow them to use the very planet that has granted us our wellbeing. We are so selfish and ignorant of the destruction that is going on around us, we only care of what we can achieve in our own lifetimes, Never even stopping to consider what may be, or may not be if we continue this ruthless pillage of the earths natural rescources. The carnage we have achieved over the last couple of hundred years is already irreversable, but we could manage to develop a healthy sustainable ecology if we wish to understand and respect it, and give thought to others (Including all life forms) than ourselves. Unfortunately that is not exactly mainstream thinking in this period, I can see a slow progression though and things are looking like we are making progress in the right direction. The problem with human beings however, is things need to get to a point where we absolutely need to change before we do anything about it, if only we could ingest the information we consatntly have surrounding us, instead of living day by day, trying to survive, while living our megre lives in the society we are born and raised into. I'm saying, lets be entirely sure before we draw conclusions. You seem to want an excuse to keep billowing out pollution. Thats nice, how about the extinct species that never even had the chance to be known by us let alone respected. The nice beaches now full of plastic and other waste, all the dessets that were once forsets full of life, the clean rivers that are now full of heavy metals and un-necessary waste that could actually have been used for some good, somehow. I suppose that stuff has no effect on the balance of our milieu has no impact on our existance either? oh you mean the little old lady that swollowed a fly? the quick fix? Like super sized diet coke? and non fat mayo. What a stupid thing to say! Both are worse, Continuing with energy consumtion with a thought of the long term impact is what I propose. We need the available use of all technologies that are in existance that will significantly reduce the negative impact society has on its surrounding and providing area. Balance is more than achievable and the total loss of current pleasures and lifestyles is the main fear people have of achieving this balance. The real truth is that alternatives can be more fun, potentially less expensive, and likely more productive. That is aside from having a positive impact on our health and the wellbeing of all living things. Your current sig line, Says it all. Your reply was quite shallow and very narrow minded in my opinion. Thanks for being so forward with us all. "When the power of love overcomes the love of power, then the world will see peace." - 'Jimi' Hendrix

Thank you! It was written off the top of my head with a fair bit of editing, as some of you can imagine, but they are my truthful thoughts and are parallell and consistent with my thoughts on many different subjects discussed here in the SC and in everyday life. We all have opinions and most of us stand by them, if we don't know each others' opinions, then how can we ever be so sure that the way we are thinking is indeed... (what word would you use?).... correct? "When the power of love overcomes the love of power, then the world will see peace." - 'Jimi' Hendrix

I can't belive how shallow most of the resposes are. Our economies and current socila structures are not void of catastrophie, your insuranece policies are useless when the companies can refuse your payout for whtever reason, survival extends wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy, beyond financial ability. I am prepared in a way where I am able to hunt for food, make fire and sheleter generally survive on my surroundings. I am also aware of nutrition and what my body and mind need to survive. If I am fortunate enough to be in the south island of New Zealand if a catyclism were to occur , i will be surrounded by many places and recources to live in relative comfort. I have spent alot of time in the bush and exploring the wilderness, I already have places to refuge that nobody but myself is aware of. If you are counting on money, the chances are that when a real disaster occurs, you will be fucked! "When the power of love overcomes the love of power, then the world will see peace." - 'Jimi' Hendrix

The impact of human activity on the planets ecosystems and environment is negative on a scale unimaginable, as we are still not fully aware of all the life forms and factors that allow us to exist. Do you think they they knew that crustacians in antarctica effected the food chain on the ther side of the world 100 years ago? I bet they didn't, but i also would bet that they knew what was right and wrong just like we pretend to do these days. It seems civilisations over 2000 years ago were more in touch with nature than we are today, we are stupid not intellegent. We are arrogent, not open minded. Thise debate really comes down to whether you want to care for the world and respect it, or if you want to continue to use and abuse without contemplating the negative result of your actions. only a fool will believe we can continue to consume the recources we are without having a devistating effect on our own ability to live in relative harmony with nature. Once the world is poisoned we will all suffer. I'm sure we can all agree with that, although most will be unwilling to admit it! primates out of control! "When the power of love overcomes the love of power, then the world will see peace." - 'Jimi' Hendrix

Ther you go, imagine if all the money thrown in the pot, stayed in the pot. Insurance companies could not gove a shit about thier customers, it is the customers' money they want. "When the power of love overcomes the love of power, then the world will see peace." - 'Jimi' Hendrix

The village idiots will always be the village idiots! hoover vs beck your standpoint on this subject would be qite predictable. What will you do when this coverup is accepeted as exposed (it already is but you wish to ignore the evident truth)? you and all the other 'educated' village idiots. I suppose it will be the same as when the WMD's were found to be a Hoax, you'll just pretend that you were aware the whole time. I am glad I have spent so much time drawing out your thoughts and your mates', I couldn't really give a fuck what you or anyone thinks of me, but you all obviously do, that is why you have such strong opinions towards things that are not clearly explained. You believ what you want to believe and dismiss what you find as threatneing, yet you only threaten your very wellbeing by supporting such corruption and idiocy. If you had a clue you would keep your mouth shut and see what happens but you want to be the big guy in the know the whole time, but that is going to make you, kallend, bilvon, lawrocket and the rest of your self proclaimed experts, look, sound and feel like complete morons and I really hope you all become ashamed of yourselves and find the heart to oppologise for treating the casualties of the 9/11 events, and the repercussions of the conspiracy that followed, with the respect they deserve. Your words along with the mainstreams are completely disrepectful of common sence and the massive loss of life and wellbeing that has resulted. You will be laughing now, but you will not be for very much longer. Yes and I stick to my word and it is evident that my assertions are correct. A collaberation of those that are able to think and speak for themselves, known by you as 'troofers', are being ostaracised and oppressed into a corner, making those that want to support the cause reluctant, due the the simple human primal instinct of being accepted. Fortunately there are plenty of very intellegent people that could give a fuck about you or your idiotic, foolish naysayer mates. This collaberation is coming together with overwhelaming results right now, you might as well get you last tin hat jokes out because the joke will be on you, sooner than later. My work is done here, your ridicule is about to 'flip a bitch' and it is all your own fault for being such a fool! the 1st ammendment is going to save you, me and everyone from this lunacy! "When the power of love overcomes the love of power, then the world will see peace." - 'Jimi' Hendrix

Ignorance is bliss isn't it. You Like the 2nd ammendment so much but you so easily forget about the 1st. You will see the inevitable litgation will be introduced to this debarcle in the very near future. It will be a testement to the strength of the first ammendment. Should be very interesting! "When the power of love overcomes the love of power, then the world will see peace." - 'Jimi' Hendrix

The natural world is what I respect as the provider of our recources and ability to even exist at all. The Earth is first including all it inhabitants, the Sun is the next level, it again provides us with the ability to exist, and then our galaxy and who knows from there? These fables of snakes, apples and ribs and dirt; A crock of shit! and completely stupid! We as humans can decide if we would like to make the world better, or make it worse. Religons that disrespect this, IMHO are not even worthy of consideration. Too much emphasis on human beings and social structure for the benifit of the small proportion in charge, with No plausable explanations of existance itself including the complete natural world that surrounds us, supports us, creates us and destroys us, all day, everyday, whether we wish to acknowledge it, or are taught to acknowledge it at all. The creation stories are limited to insignificant time spans and too much tweaked to the advantage of human beings. Without consideration for what obviously provides for us (The natural world), we have our heads so far up our own asses in our social world to be saddened by what it is that we are actually doing. For me this is the ultimate disrespect, I am a part of it, and I am aware that I contribute, we are all born of this world and history will tell a story of violence and deceit. I like to be as respectful as I can, while allowing myself the ability to do the things I want to do, there are alternitives for all of the evil things we are all contributing to, and ther is an unlimited amount of ways we could all coexist and live good lives but the majority chooses not to. We are gifted and cursed by our own accepted definition of intellegence. We are not here to destroy and consume our planets recources for the benefit of a small proportion of the global community. We can be good or we can be bad, we can co exist or we can destroy each other, we can be friendly and we can be a cunt, we can be kidding ourselves or we can be aware... There is a balance for everything and there is no reason that every human being on the planet can't be living a healthy, productive and enjoyable lifestyle. We choose greed over caring and respect, we are our own demise. There was talk of wirch hunts and soothsayers earlier, these people were killed by the self proclaimed illuminati for being a threat. They may have been lying or fooling themselves, or they may have been naturally wise, simply giving some nutrition to a sick person. This could threaten the illuminati and reduce its ability to have the control over the population. these people were killed in front of a subdued and willing audience. This shit has shaped the way the world is, in so many different levels it is astounding. The simple reality is that it is all hand me down chinese whispers. JC my well have been the man, but he may have been tripping also. Remeber the irgots in the wheat...? Who knows. Chinese whispers! It bewilders me that such a huge proportion of the population will still believe it? For me the truth seems quite obvious, but hey that's just me right? Not. My beliefs, obviously not yours. You are entitled to your opinion and I am entiltled to mine. "When the power of love overcomes the love of power, then the world will see peace." - 'Jimi' Hendrix

You obviously can't comprehend very well, I have explained to you in plain english. He may be or not be but will always state he is. You can say the same for any future candidate, while christianity is a the mainstream religon. Can you seriously not understand what I am talkng about? are you christian? "When the power of love overcomes the love of power, then the world will see peace." - 'Jimi' Hendrix

Ahh, actually I did not, I simply pointed out that it is necessary to be christian to be in obamas position. He may well be a christan man as he states he is, for all I know. I wouldn't be completely sure however, as people as rational as he portrays himself to be are not usually as ignorant as true christains, they may go to church to please grandma... The morals of the church are well engrained in society and for the most part are good, but the basis of the system is flawed in the need to resort to obscure scriptures translated over millenia by greedy two faced human beings. not common sence, not science but fables and stories of lies, very unbelievable and quite pathetic lies! "When the power of love overcomes the love of power, then the world will see peace." - 'Jimi' Hendrix

No, I believe every candidate would state they were christian even if they were not, as it is necessary to gain the majority vote in the USA. "When the power of love overcomes the love of power, then the world will see peace." - 'Jimi' Hendrix

It astounds me that the village idiots, can't work out that Obama and any other person Running for Presedent of the USA would ALWAYS state their religon as Christianity. If they didn't they would then become the village Idiot, as close to a majority of the village are in fact idiots themselves. You need to appear be an idiot to have the acceptance of idiots! You really think Old G 'dubya was a bonafide born again christian? Holy War!!! For fucks sake people, pull your head in! "When the power of love overcomes the love of power, then the world will see peace." - 'Jimi' Hendrix

There is vast amounts of proof that creationism is incorrect,. I spent years going to church in high school, and attending religious studies. We went to youth group as children, lured in by chocolate bars and candy, rather than well founded facts, we were fed moral bullshit from fools/idiots/lyers that are only kidding themselves. I suppose you think the pope regularly sends text messages and emails to god? I suppose you think dinosours did/do not exist? I suppose you think it was ok for the self proclaimed illuminati to hold back the decimal point and the number zero from the west for a thousand years? gee how enlightened they were. How about you argue your point rather than opposing ours. We have facts and you have faith, what is there about creationism that is so concrete that we should just simply have faith in it? Believers of that shit are quite simply idiots! "When the power of love overcomes the love of power, then the world will see peace." - 'Jimi' Hendrix

Pretty much, creationists are in fact idiots, that are incapable of thinking for themselves, the older they are the weaker the excuse they have for believing such a pile of shit. You are describing a creationist there. "When the power of love overcomes the love of power, then the world will see peace." - 'Jimi' Hendrix

Hi, I have flown; Icarus 400's (dual toggles) Icarus 365's (dual and single toggles) Icarus 330's (dual and single toggles) Icarus 300's (single toggles) pecision 365's Aerodyne A2 350 Aerodyne A2 389 PD EZ 384 PD EZ 425 Strong Set 400 Strong Set 366 JoJo wing Hop 330 (single toggle) Sigma 340 Although the precision canopies are very similar to the Icarus, they have a different brake line configuration (at least the ones I have jumped). Toggle pressure and flare are things that are important, and glide ratios will be different. For instance I found the aerodyne canopies had a flat glide and after a year of jumping them I flound I was landing short on the icarus canopies, but if i went back to aerodyne i would overshoot the landing now I am used to icarus again. Overly elliptical tandem canopies (hop and sigma) are not a good idea in my opinion, there is no need for the twitchyness, PD can't seem to grasp the dual toggle thing, they attach 6 to the steering toggles (heavy steering) and 2 to the flare toggles, where Icarus attach 2 to the steering toggles (light steering) and 6 to the flare toggles. Unless of course you ask for another configuration. There are plenty of factors and differences, but in the end it comes down to what the DZO of your DZ likes to purchase. Unless of course you are buying your own equipment? My opinion is a combination of Icarus 330's for up tp 90kg (200lb) passengers (i'm 75kg/166lb) and Icarus 365 for anything over. I have taken 330's with heavy people with no problem but you would want to be experienced and current. The reason I like them is the openings are nice and soft (like all icarus canopies), they fly nice, they have a good trim, not too steep and not too flat so are easy to be accurate with, they have light toggle pressure for steering and good flare. also they are easy to get out of linetwists due to the forward speed, and easy to pack due to no brake settings. The Set 400's and EZ's IMHO are shit canopies, but they are very old designs (bar the set 366 which is still shit), fortunately I have not had to jump those much. They open like shit and have very heavy toggle pressure. Icarus is best. "When the power of love overcomes the love of power, then the world will see peace." - 'Jimi' Hendrix

explain? "When the power of love overcomes the love of power, then the world will see peace." - 'Jimi' Hendrix

Touch wood, I have not even broken a nail on a student. One time i tweaked my own knee lifting the legs of a young girl that didin't have the strength to do so herself. Had it have been a sigma system, I believe it wouldn't have happened that way and would have been of no consequence. I had over 2000 jumps when I obtained my rating, and I feel that is a major part of why I have had minimal problems when performing them. It is not that I am any better than anyone else, but in my opinion 500 jumps is simply not enough. "When the power of love overcomes the love of power, then the world will see peace." - 'Jimi' Hendrix

Is it? i just read the rules and there is no mention of posting P.M's. People should not write things they do not want posted. No, we want to expose the real truth behind what happens, not a neo con, 'merican bullshut version.

the problem with people like you is that you read what you want to read, see what ou want to see, and do not have a clue, nor care what other people might think, do or respect. If you read without bias you will see that, I do not think he should have been shot, but i do think he should have shown respect for the culture he was present with. If it is illegal to eat or drink during daylight hours , he should have known, abstained or simply went to a discreet place to take his drink. The problem with 'rag head hating' neo con 'mericans. is they think the sun shines out of thier asshole and evrything and anyone else is shit. lf an officer of the law tells me to pull over in the usa and I don't, what happens? if he tells me to put my hand on the hood and i don't, what happens? is excessive force only alloewd for american culture and what is considered right here? or is eah individual culture allowed to have thier own set of standards?? Remember , the US military is not occupying (for a change) Afghanistan, they are working together. I don't think the soldier should have been shot, and I don't beliveve the islamic faith. I simply believe that you should treat others as you want them to treat you, and this debarcle does not help the cause that you country is investing so much time money and energy into. Get a grip, violence does not fix everything. I had a similar threat from you for having the gumtion to state that rape is a problem in the US military, this is a private message from you; So it seems you like violence, ALOT. Do you still deny that rape is a probelem in the US Military or have you still got your eyes closed. I sent you a bunch of links to many accounts of this behavior that is published here on the internet, you probably didn't even look? My friend who has been subject to sexual violence herself along with her mother who is also military has been raped more than once while serving, is currently in afghanistan. I do have first hand knowlwdge and it surprises me the if you are so connected with the military that you deny that this sort of behavior ever exists? You have a very serious anger problem and people like you should not be in the position of making the decisions that a soldier or any higher rank should be making. you are supposed to be making peace not war, so get a grip, respect others, like you want them to respect you and quit the violent and excessive threats. The only one dragging the US military name through the mud is you. "When the power of love overcomes the love of power, then the world will see peace." - 'Jimi' Hendrix

When I was in Qatar During the ramadan, we had to go to a back room to consume drink and food during the daylight hours. The police officers' reaction sounds excessive for simply seeing a foreigner drink water in public, you need to understand that this is sacred for these people, I don't agree with the concept but I respect thier choice. When a foreign military force is working in conjunction with host country to eradicate a bunch of rougues in the said host country , it is important that the visiting party; A, Is aware of the local culture. B, Respects the said culture as they are the visiting, not occupying party. C, Abides by the local laws. I can imagine with the reaction recieved form both sides that there would have been more to the animosity than a sip out of a bottle. REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT RAMADAN MESSAGE ***In some Muslim countries, eating, drinking or smoking in public during the day is illegal and may attract the attention of law enforcement authorities. source "When the power of love overcomes the love of power, then the world will see peace." - 'Jimi' Hendrix

so a million guns per month for how many years? Soon you will have 1 gun per person (regestered), so therefore yor shooting stats will fall, because no one will shoot anyone if everyone has a gun right? you can bet your bottom dollar that less than a third of people in the us have guns, and they horde them. A high percentage of those that buy new guns(in the US, won't use them, already have one or more and will not be hunting anytime in the future. I will buy a gun (a rifle) and and I will only have one, and will keep it for a long time. It will provide me meat, and will help the ecology of my country. The chances of me needing if for self defence is VERY LOW. So I will not even consider that when I purchase. "When the power of love overcomes the love of power, then the world will see peace." - 'Jimi' Hendrix

Anyone who is interested will get a job offer for NZSKYDIVE, that place would be the last choice to work in NZ as a skydiver. Jim Lyver is an asshole, he doesn't pay you when you need it, he damands unreasonable requests and he actually belives he what he says (which as mostly bullshit), so he comes across as nice enough initially. I would cotact to NZONE or Taupo if you are looking to work in NZ, and if you do by chance end up working for Jim Lyver (silly idea) make sure you are in Glenorchy, at least that way you will be jumping in one of the most beautiful places on earth! "When the power of love overcomes the love of power, then the world will see peace." - 'Jimi' Hendrix

I am not taking sides on this one, the cops response was excessive, but the soldiers should have shown more respect. i'm sure he was well aware that it was ramadan, this is a sacred time for islamics and if someone came through you church service cahnting 'allah is great' you would probably be pissed off too. To be disrespecting in an country you are supposed to be working with is pretty darn stupid, not repecting ramadan in afghanistan is stupid, so the soldier was stupid. He deserved to be punished but being shot is a bit excessive. "When the power of love overcomes the love of power, then the world will see peace." - 'Jimi' Hendrix

That photo is a piece of history, it represents the suffering and pain that is inflicted on innocentvictims of conflicts that are engaged for power and money. Those of you that support War and the military, should study photo like this on a daily basis to keep your thought in check. Americans are not the only humans that deserve to be free, the whole planet needs to stick together and eliminate those that inflict such pain for personal gain. The photos is not offensive at all, it it the reason the people in the photo are doing what they are doing, that is offnsive. If you support war, you support the pain and suffring of innocent people ( which includes children). These images need to be seen by everyone. "When the power of love overcomes the love of power, then the world will see peace." - 'Jimi' Hendrix

Paranioa and penis extentions, there was no more danger in august than what there was is june or july, just the radical pro gun renecks, feel they are losing the battle. Right wing moronism 'is' losing the battle against common sense. "When the power of love overcomes the love of power, then the world will see peace." - 'Jimi' Hendrix