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  1. livendive
    Define "credible intel". You mean like the stuff we had on Iraq's WMDs? Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)
  2. livendive
    No, because searching me, and preventing me from having something are two different things.... If you are not hiding anything, you have nothing to hide from a search. So what we're getting at is simple matter of agreement. i.e. you agree with the 2nd amendment, but not the 4th, so you have a problem with our government violating the 2nd but not the 4th. My perspective is that both are essential blocks in the foundation of our nation and that neither should be discarded out of hand. You and I may simply have to agree to disagree on this one. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)
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    Logic problem. How can a person be arrested for resisting arrest? If there was not already an established cause for the arrest, then the person was simply resisting a kidnapping. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)
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    But the thing is hate-crime laws work AGAINST a concept of equality. Take two heterosexual men. If one brutally rapes a teenage girl because he's obsessed with her and the other brutally rapes a teenage girl because she's a lesbian, doesn't the notion of "equality" demand that they should both get the same sentence? Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)
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    "as cool as the other side of the pillow" "lonelier than a hooker at a star trek convention" "busier than a one-legged man in an ass-kicking contest" "more nervous than a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs" "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)
  6. livendive
    OK, can anyone here provide a rational basis for hate-crime legislation? Shouldn't assault be treated like assault whether the reason was because you didn't like someone's attitude or didn't like the color of their skin? Why should a homophobe be punished more severely for killing a gay man than the victim's lover would be? It's one of those things I just don't get and I'm wondering if there's any rationale behind it that I'm just not considering. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)
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    Actually, I thought it was hilarious. Finger-banging Hillary Duff, Barbara Bush shooting stem-cell creatures out of her vagina, Jesus joining the fray. Sure, I'll agree that it wasn't challenging or anything, but it was funny! Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)
  8. livendive
    Yeah, I was already aware of the Hiibel case. I'm glad to see someone else is paying attention. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)
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    Will you apply the same rationale when the government decides to trash the 2nd amendment rather than the 4th? What if they decide to remove all guns from private ownership "for the greater good of ALL"? Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)
  10. livendive
    I believe that question has been answered several times in our national history. We lost quite a few people in the revolutionary war on the premise that liberty and freedom are causes worth sacrificing for. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)
  11. livendive
    "What is your business here?" "What's in your briefcase?" Boston transit system to institute a random stop-and-search policy on trains What about the following quote is so difficult to understand? Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)
  12. livendive
    If you haven't already, I'd recommend reading all the other Stephen King books (i.e. non-Dark Tower books). The Dark Tower series tells its own story, but following the complicated web he weaves to tie all the other books in is pretty fun for the Constant Reader as well, kind of like getting an inside joke, but better. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)
  13. livendive
    I guess I disagree in theory but not in application. I can think of no reason that someone's death should prompt us to only say nice things about them, but I usually keep negative comments to myself and close friends in the immediate aftermath of someone dying. My reasons have nothing to do with honoring the decedent, but rather letting those who mourn the passing grieve in peace. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)
  14. livendive
    I guess I'll side with the Anvil on this one. While I think that IF we're going to have a minimum age for buying/drinking alcohol, it should be 18, I would PREFER that we treat tobacco/alcohol like any other consumer good. Regulating such commerce simply doesn't fit into the mold of what I think our government should be. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)
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    171:5:1 171 is how many jumps behind my logbook was when I started trying to catch it up yesterday. 5 jumps (3 tandems, 2 four-ways) 1 case of beer bought for no particular reason Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)
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    What's the difference between a corn farmer with epilepsy and a prostitute with dysentery? The farmer shucks between fits. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)
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    I'm not sure what "ASAK" means in that last sentence, but you do have a point. Obviously these factors are somewhat interrelated, but anyone who jumps a Triathlon 150 and then a Stiletto 150 will notice a substantial difference, and that difference isn't the wingloading. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)
  18. livendive
    What type of Instructor are you with just an A license? Just curious? - Umm...the "good" type I hope! Anyhow, I don't have "just" an A-license. Blues, Dave A-24449, B-21190, C-28840, D-21415 S/L-I, IAD-I, TAN-I (hopefully adding AFF-I in a couple weeks) S&TA-03/05 "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)
  19. livendive
    According to the USPA web page, there is not an AFF evaluator in my REGION, much less at my dropzone. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)
  20. livendive
    Our cameraman often concludes his in-flight interview with "Oh, and don't worry...no matter what happens to you guys, I'll be fine." Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)
  21. livendive
    "Don't grab my hands. If you choose to grab one of my hands, you had better grab both because otherwise the free one will be punching you in the face very hard. If you grab both, that stinging sensation at the base of your skull will be me ripping the meat off your neck with my teeth. Got it?" Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)
  22. livendive
    Every single time I do that exit from a C206 w/ cargo door I end up with nasty-ass bruises on the backs of my thighs (including when I did my static line jumps as a student). I resign myself to those bruises if I've got an advancing student that needs to know how to do a head-high exit, but otherwise I just kneel in the door with the student sitting on the edge and then dive out toward the rear. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)
  23. livendive
    Despite not being a "natural", I transitioned to a Tri-175 (wingloading ~1.37:1) at about 55 jumps and managed to continue my progression without injuring myself. If I can do it, there are others out there who can do it much better. That said, I would NOT have loaned someone of that experience a Stiletto at that wingloading...not because of the wingloading, but because of the canopy design. An ex-girlfriend of mine was travelling through Europe without her rig when she had about 80 jumps. Someone loaned her a Stiletto 120 (wingloading ~1.2:1), presumably thinking that it wasn't that much smaller than her usual Tri-135. Trying to turn it into the wind too low garnered her lots of shiny metal in her leg. Wingloading is not the be-all, end-all of determining the appropriateness of a canopy for a person. Responsiveness, dive recovery characteristics, and other factors can be as or more important than a simple size/weight ratio. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)
  24. livendive
    When talking to my students, I always refer to myself as their instructor. When talking to other jumpers, the terms are interchangeable but I think TM gets used more often than not (e.g. "We've got 8 tandems on the ground and only two tandem masters, so someone else is going to have to do such & such") Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)
  25. livendive
    I've got around 100-150 jumps on 330s and 365s and love them. The openings are a little odd (they sometimes take awhile to pick a heading), but steering and flaring the canopy are both sweet. Light toggle pressure to keep fatigue at a minimum but plenty of power once the flare toggles are picked up. I've yet to find a downside to them. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)