AlexCrowley

Eh? TV's got them images, TV's got them all, nothing's shocking.

Feel free, and in general you may be right. But those of us in this situation tend to gravitate towards jobs where it doesnt matter so much. The main issue with mental disabilities is that unless you provide visual clues or are incredibly slow it is invisible. Whereas a 'normal' person may easily pick up on spelling, grammar, punctuation, or something as simple as being able to organize a desk full of objects there are those out there who lack those skills, not from a lack of effort but from an inability to use those parts of the brain required to sort that information. To understand it requires knowing how the brain works. Example: Filing. When you file you pick up a piece of paper/object and label it mentally, once it has a label you can put it into a place where things with that label live. Thats fine. Glad you can do that. Filing for someone with a disability like ADD works like this: pick up a piece of paper and try to label it, except this peice of paper has many labels: it's paper, its notes from a meeting about a project that IT is going to do next month. Does that get filed under 'meeting minutes' or 'IT project' or 'Future projects' or 'project notes'? Filing it can be pretty easy. Retrieval however, on that day which file did it fit in? did I feel it was a future projects day or an IT projects day? did I create a subcatagory for that note? Did i put it in a safe place? Now, the real magic is that once you have that first dose of medication filing is EASY! hell, i see why my parents got pissed at me for never tidyign my room, and why my first wife ranted and raved about disorganization and chaos. Now, I couldnt tell you where a comma or an apostraphe should go, even tho I've tried to learn - it doesnt stick. There's no traction. I learn differently than 'normal' people. I make neural connections in a far different way than someone with 'average' brain chemistry. Sometimes that sucks, often its very useful. I've found that I tend to look unprofessional only if working in boring traditional 9 - 5 jobs where I dont naturally fit in. Anywhere else and Im considered a key asset because my brain doesnt work like an 'average' person. TV's got them images, TV's got them all, nothing's shocking.

How well does this old saw fit? "He/she doesnt have X jumps, merely 1 jump X times". Right now things are a constant challenge for me (after Scott millers course I have a nice list of things to do under canopy on every jump) - Im wondering if people let themselves get into ruts, or hit skygod mode and stop learning more. I'm not sure I agree that YEARS = knowledge, perhaps experience, but doesnt knowledge require more than rinse and repeat, and require active assimilation of new information? TV's got them images, TV's got them all, nothing's shocking.

Inevitable TV's got them images, TV's got them all, nothing's shocking.

remember, for some people it's too difficult to have an argument with more than two sides as there's too much to keep inside their head. By making it a left vs right argument everyone can know where they stand very easily. TV's got them images, TV's got them all, nothing's shocking.

I'm the idiot with the bedsheet on the roof. Years pass. I decide it's time to do it for real. TV's got them images, TV's got them all, nothing's shocking.

Last one I had to deal with was "dysgraphia" which means "can't write for sh1t". Mostly it's slow reading. The "can't spell disability" was a new one on me. dyslexia was new to you? TV's got them images, TV's got them all, nothing's shocking.

Attention Deficit Disorder (possibly an umbrella syndrome like Schizophrenia) is becoming easier to detect accurately. In the last 10 years there's been a great deal of research that shows the organic components of the disease. While the ADD label has gotten bad press there are several GPs and specialist clinics that are aware of the new information and able to integrate it into a solid treatment plan. The largest issue with ADD is that there are so many co-morbids and disparate symptoms that without indepth neuropsychological testing it's an easy one to fall thru the cracks: a GP will often diagnose either 'your imagination', depression or bipolar disorder depending on their personal biases. TV's got them images, TV's got them all, nothing's shocking.

Sometimes I wonder if your oversized gentalia causes a lack of blood in your brain GM I said that racial profiling was stupid. I also said that domestic terrorism from white christians was as much, if not greater, a threat than crazy muslims. As far as my 'long term damage to america' comment, it wasnt just about attacks on our soil, it was about feeding a hydra that will be, for all intents and purposes, indestructable. It was about pissing away good will and international co-operation. It was about causing such a rift between ideologically seperated societies that being heard by more moderate voices is far less likely than before. The reality is that the US going at it alone is going to be nothing more than a motivator for terrorism rather than an international consensus that could really effect radical change and reduce the causes of terrorism, it's funding, and its recruitment cycle. TV's got them images, TV's got them all, nothing's shocking.

The "War on Terror" is bogus. 1. A true "war on terror" can never be won. 2. How does one qualify as a 'terrorist', by whos rules? according to new rules a hacker is now a terrorist. Defacing a website with 'Your'e a doody head' is a terrorist act! 3. Terrorist or freedom fighter? who judges the difference? The thing that makes me very uneasy about anti-terror laws are that terror is based on ideology, which is based on thought. the US is creating laws that say 'your belief can now be a crime'. Hackers as terrorists? Of course an unwashed socially inept overweight guy with clammy hands and a stutter hitting on a cute blonde could be considered an act of terror for the blonde in question. Given the Patriot acts various odius clauses, how soon before civil disobedience could be considered an act of terrorism? dissent? contrary thinking? a return of the sedition laws? An overreaction? Perhaps, I am not a huge fan of slippery slope arguments, but as a person who works in a field that has been under seige from poorly written laws in recent years it's not far from a possibility. According to laws I already have an arsenel of military grade weaponry, in fact - just by performing my job as it is described I am technically a terrorist. That's a fun thing to think about on quiet days:) In reference to Iraq....lets see: no terrorists before the US invasion, now we hear that Al Quiada have several top level operatives embedded there. That's a pretty good argument. Lets not even consider the radicalizing of a significant number of Iraq citizens, the fact that the Muslim world now has a reason to believe all the stuff they thought Osama was spouting bullshit about before, and finally, that Muslims do think the US is very very wrong in all this - which helps swell the ranks of the disaffected, which in turn increases the number of potential recruits for various terrorist organizations. Find your own sources to verify these statements, as I wouldnt want to run the risk of quoting something that someone would consider "biased" as in (this is biased to the left/right/'reality I refuse to consider possible'). Bottom line: Afghanistan was considered somewhat justifiable. Iraq pissed an awful lot of people off and created a situation that is unwinnable on a number of levels, and regardless of the outcome can only damage the US in the longer term. TV's got them images, TV's got them all, nothing's shocking.

it's not bad shit, just thoroughly debunked elsewhere shit. TV's got them images, TV's got them all, nothing's shocking.

Now explain why. Why was the CIA's Intel so bad? Why wasn't the CIA and FBI able to communicate? Hint: Gorelick. Actually I was thinking more about their role in creating Al Quaida without considering the longer term ramifications. Buzzer. Al Qaeda was created after the Soviet pullout from Afghanistan, and after Pakistani ISI and Saudi covert support for the Mujahideen (the CIA supported behind those two) during the war. Buzzer? Urm. So, I motivate a killer, I train a killer, I organize a killer and his buddies, I leave and then they choose a name so I'm not responsible? TV's got them images, TV's got them all, nothing's shocking.

Do you have any close relatives you can kill who may have cared deeply enough to mention you in any legal paperwork? I work cheap, PM me if you're interested. TV's got them images, TV's got them all, nothing's shocking.

My buddies and I call ourselves the Dead Presidents and rob banks to fund our endless summer. TV's got them images, TV's got them all, nothing's shocking.

I guess I read it from a more centrist point of view so it wasnt so offensive. Moveon wasnt mentioned but I probably had my internal 'ignore freerepublic.com' filter on. TV's got them images, TV's got them all, nothing's shocking.

yeah, exactly what I was talking about. It's tough to communicate to someone who's not done this exactly *why* your head/neck aren't in harms way using this method. TV's got them images, TV's got them all, nothing's shocking.

Actually GM, I think it's summed up pretty well - even if you take a centrist stance on how its written. The facts are exactly as laid out, except I'd once again blame the crappy media for needing a conflict. Once the 'Bush vs Sheehan' story was done the media needed somethign else to give the story legs, there's still no major stories. Ok, quote some of the usual Right mouthpieces who will say sensationalist shit just for ratings. So far so good, the right wing bloggers will eat it up since they dont seem to think for themselves. Luckily the Left are the same way and attack the big bad Right wing for attacking defenseless sheehan. The more intelligent Right snickers and then accuses the Left of using Sheehan. The Left responds with ...............uhhhhh......ohhhh. I think Bill's spot on with his last paragraph, it's mostly an illusion caused by a rapid news cycle and the incestuous nature of the blogging community. It's pretty easy for any of us to list 3 or 4 of the main websites for both the left and the right, and they all attack each other in some sort of sadomasochistic circle jerk. Reading SC for any length of time and it's easy to see which posters simply spew whatever happens to be a headline topic on the blogs of the day, whichever side of the fence they sit on. Unless they're Rhino and then it'll be whatever the aliens whispered in his ear the night before TV's got them images, TV's got them all, nothing's shocking.

Now explain why. Why was the CIA's Intel so bad? Why wasn't the CIA and FBI able to communicate? Hint: Gorelick. Actually I was thinking more about their role in creating Al Quaida without considering the longer term ramifications. But that on top of intels short sightedness re: middle east data gathering, a lack of decisiveness when initially handling the threat, and just totally missing the point all led to 9/11 being not only possible but totally probable. Going into the various failures of military and law enforcement around 9/11 really doesnt prove anything except incompetance. TV's got them images, TV's got them all, nothing's shocking.

The CIA had a whole lot to do with 9/11 happening far more than any head of state. TV's got them images, TV's got them all, nothing's shocking.

The greasel.com site claims comparable MPG and performance between cooking oil and diesel. TV's got them images, TV's got them all, nothing's shocking.

Yeah I recall Millman having a decent writing style when I read the first Warrior book about 15 years ago. I'll check thru the rest of 'mental' later. I already kinda have this book idea, and 'Mental' doesnt seem to cover the same ground......................* TV's got them images, TV's got them all, nothing's shocking.

I truly dont believe its a case of gullibility. We tend to solidify the edges of our world as we mature. Talk to a taxi driver one day about the number of fares they have that are mid-twenty year old males who are flying somewhere far away to a new life. More stay at home. I could yammer on about perceptual realities but that tends to freak people out and they miss the point. It's simply a case of what you're used to, familiarity breeds contempt, but it also provides a level of comfort, it's very easy to stop moving forward if you dont shake up your perceptions now and again. Most people have their first and last shake up when they move away to college. Some will constantly move around, most will move back home, or to their boy/girlfriends home town and settle down. There's no negative in that, its simply a matter of whats important to an individual. If there's a greater level of comfort in simply accepting the available information thats presented without looking deeper then thats fine. Perception *is* reality, whether we like that fact or not in BOTH directions. So no, I dont think gullible is at all accurate. A society that has allowed the majority to attain a level of comfort that no longer requires an individuals educated participation in the decision making process? perhaps. TV's got them images, TV's got them all, nothing's shocking.

http://www.greasel.com/ TV's got them images, TV's got them all, nothing's shocking.

Velocity sports have my 'new' used Infinity and are adjusting the harness for me for what I consider a very reasonable price. Turn around time seems to be about a week or so, excluding shipping time. I'm expecting it back next Mon/Tues and jumpable (repack pending) by the following weekend. TV's got them images, TV's got them all, nothing's shocking.

The last book is the one I just picked up. So far there's not much in there that I've not seen elsewhere over time (I'm only at chapter 3), although it's nice that it's tailored to skydiving. Thats not a fair review right now so I reserve the right to change my opinion once I've finished it. Thanks for the other suggestions, I can never have enough books to read. I will start the hunt for them. Ohhh THAT Dan Millman. Good author, read some of his other stuff a lifetime ago (at least, it feels that way). Ordering it now cheap on Amazon. TV's got them images, TV's got them all, nothing's shocking.