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should i worry about my tandem????
BIGUN replied to humblegod's topic in General Skydiving Discussions
It's exactly how Sean [Monky] explained it. Nobody has time to listen; because they're desperately chasing the need of being heard. -
Happy Birthday, Mike. Nobody has time to listen; because they're desperately chasing the need of being heard.
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420lb male skydiving. Possible? Yes, but how?
BIGUN replied to TheOneBigMike's topic in General Skydiving Discussions
Smartass. You can pass him. Nobody has time to listen; because they're desperately chasing the need of being heard. -
420lb male skydiving. Possible? Yes, but how?
BIGUN replied to TheOneBigMike's topic in General Skydiving Discussions
Is somebody trying to bait me? You win. Nobody has time to listen; because they're desperately chasing the need of being heard. -
I know it will stick better to bricks than Duct Tape, but from my previous life, don't know if the helicopter pilots would want it used on the whirly birds in lieu of 100 MPH (Duct) tape. Nobody has time to listen; because they're desperately chasing the need of being heard.
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WFFC Tent 3 L/O Brenster would hit his watch timer when he dropped his rig and click it off when he finished. His goal to completion was to keep his mark under 2:30... He didn't sacrifice safety for time and would sometimes bust his goal time. Never saw him have a reserve ride at WFFC. It took him less time to pack than it did for me to drop off my rig at Packin Cathy and pick up my other rig... Nobody has time to listen; because they're desperately chasing the need of being heard.
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Perfect. Nobody has time to listen; because they're desperately chasing the need of being heard.
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Oh STFU... Twenty years ago, when I was 33, I was mobilized for Desert Shield/Storm. I came back, Went to Grad school, Took a shit one day And, when I came out of the restroom - was 50 Nobody has time to listen; because they're desperately chasing the need of being heard.
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Because even when this was written; the signatories had slaves. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The real question is... Why do we have to say anything? Nobody has time to listen; because they're desperately chasing the need of being heard.
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In the US, it's called, "Invitation to Bargain" Nobody has time to listen; because they're desperately chasing the need of being heard.
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A witness for CNN, Il Padrino was quoted as saying, "È stata una tragedia. La pistola partì accidentalmente. Riposi in pace." Nobody has time to listen; because they're desperately chasing the need of being heard.
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Camping at Skydive Dallas in August
BIGUN replied to tetra316's topic in General Skydiving Discussions
You might want to check into the number of RV hookups they have available and either buddy up with an RV owner or rent a pop-up with generator. Nobody has time to listen; because they're desperately chasing the need of being heard. -
Please Google "Invitation to Treat." Perhaps a great ambassador, but what if 100 people wanted the canopy at the same price and it was offered at a 30% loss. Sometimes, (as is seen on here) the customer needs to be a great ambassador regarding quality of manufacturing and not just service. Anyway, it looks like Mike is going to take care of it. Nobody has time to listen; because they're desperately chasing the need of being heard.
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Well, my original point for the article was to address that everyone is racist no matter how much they would "like" to think not. And if we look at the definition of bigot ["a prejudiced person who is intolerant of any opinions differing from his own" Princeton] Skyrider posts the bigotry which makes him a racist and Andy engages in bigotry against the Harley rider for being a racist. The fact of the matter is; no matter which conversation in SC we choose, everyone is guilty of bigotry and as humans; we are all racist. The only time the racist or bigot card is played is when someone wants to cast dispersions against someone else to relieve themselves of being labeled as such by labeling the other. Interesting point... According to the ACLU not only will they defend everyone's racist comments under free speech, but encourage it more often. To which I agree. Overt verbal emotional conflict is good. Well, we all agree. Just pick a thread from SC Everyone is a racist and a bigot; if you think you're not... you're only fooling yourself. Nobody has time to listen; because they're desperately chasing the need of being heard.
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'We Are All Racists At Heart' By AMY WAX and PHILIP E. TETLOCK December 1, 2005; Page A16 http://online.wsj.com/article_print/SB113340432267610972.html NOTE: Article has been archived It was once easy to spot a racial bigot: The casual use of the n-word, the sweeping hostility, and the rigid unwillingness to abandon vulgar stereotypes left little doubt that a person harbored prejudice toward blacks as a group. But 50 years of survey research has shown a sharp decline in overt racial prejudice. Instead of being a cause for celebration, however, this trend has set off an ever more strident insistence in academia that whites are pervasively biased. Some psychologists went low-tech: They simply expanded the definition of racism to include any endorsement of politically conservative views grounded in the values of self-reliance and individual responsibility. Opposition to busing, affirmative action or generous welfare programs were tarred as manifestations of "modern" or symbolic racism. Others took a high-tech path: Racists could be identified by ignoring expressed beliefs and tapping into the workings of the unconscious mind. Thus was born the so-called "implicit association test." The IAT builds on the fact that people react faster to the word "butter" if they have just seen the word "bread" momentarily flashed on a screen. The quicker response suggests that the mind closely associates those concepts. Applying this technique, researchers such as Mahzarin Banaji of Harvard have found that people recognize "negative" words such as "angry," "criminal" or "poor" more quickly after being momentarily exposed to a black (as opposed to a white) face. And this effect holds up for the vast majority of white respondents -- and sometimes even for majorities of blacks. What do investigators conclude from their findings that "blackness" often primes bad associations and "whiteness" good ones? According to some, it shows that prejudice permeates our unconscious minds and is not just confined to the 10% of hard-core bigots. Know it or not, we are all vessels of racial bias. From this sweeping conclusion, based on a small if intriguing scientific finding, social scientists, legal scholars, opinion leaders and "diversity experts" leap from thought to conduct and from unconscious association to harmful actions. Because most of us are biased, these individuals claim, we can safely assume that every aspect of social life -- every school, institution, organization and workplace -- is a bastion of discrimination. The most strenuous measures, whether they be diversity programs, bureaucratic oversight, accountability or guilt-ridden self-monitoring, cannot guarantee a level playing field. What is wrong with this picture? In the first place, split-second associations between negative stimuli and minority group images don't necessarily imply unconscious bias. Such associations may merely reflect awareness of common cultural stereotypes. Not everyone who knows the stereotypes necessarily endorses them. Or the associations might reflect simple awareness of the social reality: Some groups are more disadvantaged than others, and more individuals in these groups are likely to behave in undesirable ways. Consider the two Jesses -- Jackson and Helms. Both know that the black family is in trouble, that crime rates in this community are far too high, and that black educational test scores are too low. That common awareness might lead to sympathy, to indifference, or to hostility. Because the IAT can distinguish none of these parameters, both kinds of Jesses often get similar, failing scores on tests of unconscious association. Measures of unconscious prejudice are especially untrustworthy predictors of discriminatory behavior. MIT psychologist Michael Norton has recently noted that there is virtually no published research showing a systematic link between racist attitudes, overt or subconscious, and real-world discrimination. A few studies show that openly-biased persons sometimes favor whites over blacks in simulations of job hiring and promotion. But no research demonstrates that, after subtracting the influence of residual old-fashioned prejudice, split-second reactions in the laboratory predict real-world decisions. On the contrary, the few results available suggest that persons who are "high bias" on subconscious criteria are no more likely than others to treat minorities badly and may sometimes even favor them. There is likewise no credible proof that actual business behavior is pervasively influenced by unconscious racial prejudice. This should not be surprising. Demonstrating racial bias is no easy matter because there is often no straightforward way to detect discrimination of any kind, let alone discrimination that is hidden from those doing the deciding. As anyone who has ever tried a job-discrimination case knows, showing that an organization is systematically skewed against members of one group requires a benchmark for how each worker would be treated if race or sex never entered the equation. This in turn depends on defining the standards actually used to judge performance, a task that often requires meticulous data collection and abstruse statistical analysis. Assuming everyone is biased makes the job easy: The problem of demonstrating actual discrimination goes away and claims of discrimination become irrefutable. Anything short of straight group representation -- equal outcomes rather than equal opportunity -- is "proof" that the process is unfair. Advocates want to have it both ways. On the one hand, any steps taken against discrimination are by definition insufficient, because good intentions and traditional checks on workplace prejudice can never eliminate unconscious bias. On the other, researchers and "diversity experts" purport to know what's needed and do not hesitate to recommend more expensive and strenuous measures to purge pervasive racism. There is no more evidence that such efforts dispel supposed unconscious racism than that such racism affects decisions in the first place. But facts have nothing to do with it. What began as science has morphed into unassailable faith. However we think, feel or act, and however much apparent progress has been made, there is no hope for us. We are all racists at heart. Ms. Wax is professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Mr. Tetlock is the Lorraine Tyson Mitchell Endowed Professor in the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. 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My only input is that the Jumpmaster has a really great looking rig. Nobody has time to listen; because they're desperately chasing the need of being heard.
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Skydive Airtight in Skiatook "may" be open later this year. It's stuck in a possible acquisition. 20 miles north of downtown. They are listed in the dz section of dz.com The others are Skydive Tulsa located in Haskell, and Oklahoma Parachute Center located in Cushing. In Oklahoma, I recommend Skydive Dallas or Skydive Skyranch in Siloam Springs, AR until things get sorted out. Nobody has time to listen; because they're desperately chasing the need of being heard.
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We had this conversation... http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=3901656;search_string=tax;#3901656 Nobody has time to listen; because they're desperately chasing the need of being heard.
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She's an Anvil Brother. Might want to look around to see who's keeping an eye out for her first. Nobody has time to listen; because they're desperately chasing the need of being heard.
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This Much Nobody has time to listen; because they're desperately chasing the need of being heard.
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Classified transactions.. normal procedure / suggestions?
BIGUN replied to aeroflyer's topic in General Skydiving Discussions
I know that "GravityGirl" used to offer this service, but its been awhile since that was stated and I'm not sure of the price. Nobody has time to listen; because they're desperately chasing the need of being heard. -
Reviewed the IDF bag you purchased and like the size and compartments. I couldn't help but notice it says, "Replica." The recommended US Military Kit Bag that was hyperlinked and endorsed as a favorite among many is due to its durability and longevity because it is a very heavy canvas cloth, but is also sewn with nylon thread. Assuming you felt the cloth canvas and found it to be similar, it _may_ be worth a few bucks to a rigger to reinforce the stitching with nylon if it doesn't already have it. If it does, then please let me know so I can buy a couple as A and B bags for work. Nobody has time to listen; because they're desperately chasing the need of being heard.
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Ahhh, you mean like being in about the third day of WFFC at Quincy and there is no outside world; just the moment. Nobody has time to listen; because they're desperately chasing the need of being heard.
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Ahhh, never mind. Nobody has time to listen; because they're desperately chasing the need of being heard.