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Seems overly busy, just gives this message Flood control: too much captcha requests I would also doubt that these "free" and clearly illegal files come without a viral load of some kind

Now that's funny. What do does he think the service fees are if not an education? The truth is that a certain percentage of people try to live beyond their means. Some of them are fairly well off. At least for a while. Then there are those who can afford to live well, but fail to save for a rainy day. And with the way the healthcare system works in the US, a rainy day is sure to come sooner or later. Once people get used to a certain way of living they often have a very hard time cutting expenses till they are forced to.

That's not poor budgeting. That's years of being trained that tax deducted at source will cover you. You would need far more than Home Ec to avoid that problem. Even tax professionals are struggling with new rules. Changing the deduction structure in a way that favours some over others, and then sending out tax deduction tables to companies designed to make people have slightly larger pay cheques is what lead to the current outcry.

Or the 40s, 50s, 60s, and 70s. Instead they taught math. And problem solving. Those should be more than enough tools for the task. Probably by grade six.

As I'm sure you know, his casino went bankrupt. Trump made out like a bandit.

A bunch of name calling and making fun of people. But where's the beef? Real data shows, once again, increasing CO2 levels, warming oceans, warming air, melting ice. Instead of searching all over the corners of the internet for better quality deniers, try the gold standard; http://sites.nationalacademies.org/sites/climate/index.htm These are not "alarmists" these are realists. This organization represents the broad arc of American science.

Someone. I assume Billvon, did exactly this in the SC forum. It helped a lot.

That is pretty much conspiracy theory. Who do you suspect the intended target is? In any case, if you read the minutes of the July meeting you will see that it was considered then and deferred. No reason is given either for the action or the deferment. I suppose you would have to ask someone who was present at the meeting. " 13. The committee once again discussed the possibility of having a BSR for reporting all tandem and student AAD activations. Even though the committee felt that it was a good idea, they could not agree on who is responsible for reporting the incident. The item was tabled for further discussion and deliberation. "

I would imagine that answer to that question involves rights and privileges and obligations of holding an instructor rating issued by USPA. Although I don't think that would apply to the camera flier. The notice given here is incomplete. The explanation given here by Paul Gholson certainly clarifies the meaning of the rule. What is missing is an explanation of the reason for the rule. USPA owes it's membership that information if it expects willing compliance. I assume it will be explained in the official report of the meeting.

From the USPA website about incident reports: Incident Reports Submissions are handled confidentially. According to USPA policy, all reports are studied, printed in Parachutist and then destroyed. USPA keeps only a brief synopsis on record, which doesn’t include the names of any individuals or the locations of the incidents. For this valuable system to work, USPA needs USPA Safety & Training Advisors and other USPA members to report on incidents, both fatal and non-fatal, from which other jumpers can learn something. Jumpers can download the Incident Report Form from the right or submit an Incident Report online. It lists the most important information to include to make it more effective. However, reports in any format are welcome. USPA compiles this information annually into the Incident Statistics Report available online. See above. Incident reports are destroyed after the information is extracted.

I've seen you be wrong once or twice in these forums. Even I am wrong sometimes. But that's beside the point. I'm wondering just what nefarious motivation you think the BoD might have for the new rule. More than likely it came at the request of a committee. Probably a training and/or safety committee. It's just not the kind of thing a BoD, who perform an administrative function, just comes up with out of the blue. I bet there will be meeting minutes that describe a discussion on the matter.

Who here do you consider an alarmist? And whoever Hansen is, how can he be so convincing to you when the American scientific community is not? Again, the glaciers are melting. Go look at them, it's simple. Why do you need to complicate it?

I'm not all that familiar with the USPA system. But wouldn't ANY AAD fire on a DZ be considered an incident and therefore require an incident report? As far as fearful instructors go, what would they be afraid of? Accountability? USPA issues the rating, if you don't want to follow the USPA rules then give up your rating. Simple.

Bezos can afford to pressure them until he ends up owning their sissy asses.

Worth reading the article if only to enjoy the phrase "Mr. Pecker’s apoplexy".

I'm reading it and assuming a sarcasm font was sorely missed when he wrote it.

Some heavy editing and/or post removal going on here. But that's probably for the best. The clarifications make perfect sense. Some of the earlier posts did not and would have confused people.

I can imagine. I appreciate the effort, but there is not much I can do to show it. Other than making this site one of the very few, and only regularly visited site that I have disabled my ad blocker for.

The post count function is probably not even noticed by the casual users. But the hard core find it VERY helpful. More hard core users equals more ad views. But even more than that, I am missing the country flags. It was very helpful in understanding world viewpoints. In the classifieds the lack of geographical information for ads is driving me, and I suspect others away.

Sigh.....go look at the glaciers. They are receding rapidly. No denier website is going to change the very obvious truth of that. I'm not one of those who make claims that it is an impending disaster. We will cope somehow. But the facts are the facts. The CO2 content of the atmosphere is increasing. The effect that has is a known quality. I say again, go look at the glaciers, they do not lie.

Ugh, no. The first thing I do on a website like that is check out the headline stories. That is a denier site. I did watch the TED talk video though. He uses some hyperbole, but he makes a point.

So then, it does not mean what it says? Can we move the topic into SC then?

I did not watch the vid. I rarely do. It's from "realclimatescience.com", so no, I will not be wasting my time. But I will agree that we have no shortage of potential problems. There are enough nukes in the stockpiles to make AWG completely irrelevant in a couple hours.

I'm pretty sure the Earth could sustain far more people than the 2050 prediction. I'm also pretty sure I would not want to live the way most of the population would have to live.

Blather, blather, blather. In the meantime the glaciers are receding, the sea is rising, and average air temps are trending upward by measurable amounts. Yet some people want to clutch at straws hoping to prove that the consensus of the world is wrong. And somehow is a vast conspiracy with some kind of vague undefined evil goal. Open your eyes, just go look at the glaciers, they are not melting by magic.