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    Go Cowboys! Redskins suck! Man, I miss ragging on that guy! steveOrino
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    TOTALLY agree --- fly your body, stop screwing with the student! steveOrino
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    oops, care to reconsider? steveOrino
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    I bet you are missing a number there, sport. Tandems are easy, right? How about this exit position? steveOrino
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    Why would you want to add to their apprehension? It is of my opinion that a relaxed student flies better. But what do I know? -- I only have about 600 tandems out of a Cessna. steveOrino
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    Are you arguing for a double standard? No, simply stating the fog of war is just that. Until you have experienced it, I think the information you make blanket statements about punishing any soldier who accidentally kills civilians in a crossfire is incomplete. steveOrino
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    Have you ever been in combat? steveOrino
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    Calley served 3 years of "house arrest" for My Lai, and in polls 79% of Americans thought that too much. Count me as in the other 21%, but what do I know. I was 13 in 1968. steveOrino
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    Again let me clarify. IMHO there is a big difference between casualty of war and the willful killing of civilians. steveOrino
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    That is the crap of war ... innocents get killed. Name me a war where they didn't. I'm not justifying a My Lai type situation, but even in the best of technology, there will be collateral damage. I am against exasperating the confusion soldiers are put in through combat by hanging a "If innocents get killed, we'll put you away for life" threat over their heads. steveOrino
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    I filmed almost 600 of them before I got my rating. I saw a LOT of stuff go bad. On my first training jump with 100+ jump buddy, the reserve pin got snagged and the bridle snuck out. Fortunately we got back in before the pilot chute got out the door. My evaluator put us in a flat spin on my hell dive, my first paying customer passed out on me 50 feet before we landed (I stood it up) I had a double malfunction, that we walked away from (my 75 year tandem student never touched the ground) and I was in a plane crash. When I told my student to put her head down (as I tightened her seat belt) she said, "Are you kidding me?" ... I wasn't! Tandem rating is no biggie ... right ... just another skydive ... right? (remove tongue from cheek) steveOrino
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    That doesn't surprise me. When I did a lot of video I always took stills and sold 90% of them. Now I'm considering taking handcam on all tandems, at least those below 200 pounds. Nothing like trying to get a 200+ guy in the door of a 182 when it is filled with other jumpers. steveOrino
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    My thoughts exactly! (if you mean SL and IAD are inferior) steveOrino
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    I took an ex ORU basketball player out of a Cessna 6'9" 240 #s If they're gonna be that tall, better be FLEXIBLE (in a Cessna 182) steveOrino
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    ... am I weird. I love AFF and Tandem. I enjoy Demos. I don't like RW of any sort. I'm a so-so freeflyer, but I do like jumping my wing suit. Any other instructors like me rather go home and play with the wife and kids (in my case ... grandkids) if there are no students at the DZ? steveOrino
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    Your good attitude will take you far too. AFF can wait a week. No biggie. steveOrino
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    Started at age 46 , now I'm 54 -- I have 1800+ jumps. I'm an AFF Instructor, Tandem Instructor ... age is nothing but a number. steveOrino
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    I'm glad I live in a society where even 81 year old men can determine the amount of risk they wish to take without someone else telling them what they can't or shouldn't do. Just my $00.02 worth. Now if that would be my FIRST paying customer, I would hope there would be other more qualified tandem masters to take the old guy. steveOrino
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    I know when the war broke out, but a cursory view of Green Berets, CIA and and their involvement in the Afghan population will give you several articles that indicate much was going on behind the scenes, outside of what papers were reporting on, prior to 1979. steveOrino
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    your english is much better than my russion, but i don't understand your point is unless you are saying I was wrong, but I know what I did ... steveOrino
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    I know, I know. hence the steveOrino
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    I ETSed in Dec 1979, so I know it was either summer of '79 or '78. I asked one officer why they were here and I remember him saying they were preparing for a soviet invasion. Looks like they (and the SF) knew well before it happened. BTW, in USA "Special Services" hands out basketballs and tennis rackets in a gym. "Special Forces" are the Green Berets. steveOrino
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    Not mistaken at all. I remember when I first encountered officers from the Afghan army. They dressed like soviet officers when in garrison. They were brought to Camp Mackall for training steveOrino
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    I'm not saying you are but look at the answers ... post #2 says"3.99999999999999999. . . . is basically equal to four" post # 4 says "Anyway 3.9999... as an infinite series converges on the value 4, which makes it equivalent to 4 in certain respects." post # 8 says "No. 4.0 - 3.999... = 0.000........000....000...... but 4.111.... - 4.0 = 0.11111... Not very good at math, are you? " post #11 says "The problem is that multiplying 3.9... by 10 doesn't give you 39.9... It gives you 39.9...0. One number would end in 9, the other would end in a 0. " post #13 says "It depends on what kind of math you are talking about. Deductive math is very different from inductive math. " post #16 says "No, it doesn't, because there are an INFINITE number of "9"s in both cases, since infinity+1 = infinity " [then he post a website like Hairyjuan always did] post #18 you say with a condescending note "Very basic algebra. Math isn't for everyone. " HILARIOUS how much logic is like religion!! steveOrino
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    My kid is a 27 year tattoo artist. He was just asking because he thought the same thing as I now do. Many people think their answer is right and everyone else is wrong. They also insult you when you don't "get it" steveOrino