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I am thankful I live in a country where this is possible
hexadecimal replied to rasmack's topic in Speakers Corner
Shh... Everyone knows the US is the best country in the world and every person who doesn't live here wishes they did. -
Could be partially because of the fit of the student rigs, as others have stated... but you'll also notice that even jumping the same rig, you'll become more tolerant of it over time. By AFP 5, I was wondering how anyone could possibly make more than a few jumps a day because of the legstrap discomfort. By AFP 10, I didn't even notice it anymore (and was still jumping the same kind of rig).
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Woohoo... a republican / democrat battle! Hurry up and argue over which side's head scumbag is more corrupt. (grabs popcorn)
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It never ceases to amaze me... Every time I have a BASE video playing in the background when I have friends over, someone comments that "I'd do that" when they see people jumping the bridge in Twin Falls over water. Their justification is always that you couldn't possibly die. To make their beliefs even more idiotic, most of them have witnessed first hand what water can do when seeing me get injured bailing off wakeboards, kneeboards, skis, and waverunners at high speed
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Students that quit, or just push harder.
hexadecimal replied to azureriders's topic in General Skydiving Discussions
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Students that quit, or just push harder.
hexadecimal replied to azureriders's topic in General Skydiving Discussions
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We got some winter jumping in at SDC this past weekend http://photobucket.com/albums/y189/MikeAR303/SDC%20Winterfest%202006/ Password: speed
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0:1:3 First Cessna. First time landing in snow. SDC's first load for 2006
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You don't have an option for "hopefully". I'm going to the DZ for "winterfest" tomorrow... but Chicago weather is unpredictable, so I have no idea whether or not I'll be jumping.
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Yep... I'm completely insecure, and also a woman.
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You guys really need to chill with the elitist "shame on you for not doing what I think you should do" bullshit. None of you are above me, so stop acting like it.
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Prosecuted for, and convicted of. Better?
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The "could be worse" argument is really, really, really stupid. Every time someone tries to make something in our country look better by comparing it to something in a third world country, they lose all credibility. It's like telling someone who lives in a box "it could be worse... you could be living in a hollowed out piece of elephant shit!".
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You statement doesn't make sense...on one hand you say they set scumbags free...but you say innocent people are also prosecuted. How does that not make sense? It makes perfect sense, because both statements are true. Scumbags are regularly set free, and the innocent are regularly convicted of crimes they were not guilty of.
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That's you opinion, and I disagree. Even if that was my only reason, I would still be justified as far as I'm concerned. As I said before, I'm not going to go get paid $5 to become a part of a process which makes lawyers and judges wealthy. I'm also not going to go through that just to uphold some system that has never done and probably will never do a thing for me... besides awarding >$100k to a drunk driver who hurt herself when she t-boned my car doing 80mph.
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We have different views on this... and that's fine. You're not going to sit here and try to make me look like an asshole for it, though. You stated in an earlier post that you were a non-essential employee. I don't have that luxury. There's a reason why I never take sick days and have only taken somewhere around 9 vacation days in the past 3 years... and it's not because I'm never sick or don't have enough vacation days available.
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Good for you. You like making sacrifices for a system which keeps lawyers rich, sets scumbags free, and prosecutes the innocent... and I don't. Are you going to try to tell me that no scumbags are ever set free? Are you also going to try to tell me that the innocent are never found guilty? Are you going to tell me that lawyers are good people, and also underpaid? Are you going to tell me that there are no corrupt judges?
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2 things... 1.) I just noticed that you're not even a US citizen. As soon as you can prove that you've lived in the US long enough to understand how fucked up our legal system is, you can continue to comment. 2.) You're a student... so the pathetic attempt at sarcastically implying that I don't have a busy schedule doesn't work.
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To each his/her own. I'll tell you all what though... as soon as I am given a fair amount of money to attend jury duty, and that money is deducted from the paychecks of the laywers and the judge, I'll attend with a smile. If I am ever in a situation where I am left with no choice but to attend to avoid being arrested, I will be "sick" that day and take something to ensure I am able to vomit on a lawyer when the time comes.
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No, it's not. Stop trying to make it sound like the government is doing me a favor by giving me that "right" too, please. Most of the jurors who end up getting picked are people I wouldn't trust to fairly judge me anyway. I'm going to tell you a few things about myself: I hate lawyers. I hate judges. I will do anything I can to make their jobs more difficult if I am ever put into a position to do so. Would you want me as a juror if you were on trial? Didn't think so.
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Embarrassing student "tricks"
hexadecimal replied to labrys's topic in General Skydiving Discussions
I have no doubt in my mind that I was... I even looked somewhat zombie-like on my way to the door in the video -
Brushing my teeth takes 5 minutes and keeps my teeth healthy... attending jury duty takes a lot longer, pisses me off, and makes me skip at least a day of work. Like I said, they can go fuck themselves. There are plenty of housewives and unemployment/welfare recipients out there... make them do it.
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I pay taxes... that's enough. I have a job. I'm not going to miss a day of work to fulfill some "duty" I apparently have to work for the government even though they already steal a disgusting amount of money from me every year. Lawyers and judges get paid to be there, I don't. If they want me to be there that badly, they can pay me the equivalent of my salary at work to do it... otherwise they can go fuck themselves.
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Keep rescheduling... and when they tell you that you can't reschedule again, scream at them and insult them for as long as it takes for them to let you reschedule again. Also let them know that you'll do whatever it takes to make the lawyers and judges jobs more difficult for wasting your time. This is the method I used a few years ago, and I think they finally got the picture... because I haven't heard from them since
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Good Stuff has some plane catching on it... so it wasn't really groundbreaking, but cool to see on the Discovery Channel either way