TomAiello

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  1. TomAiello
    Both would be great, thanks. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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    The article you cite has absolutely no mention of the "exercises" you refer to. Can you provide a reference that authenticates these facts? -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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    All I've got to say is you are one brave chica. I'd gladly let someone do whatever they wanted to my old truck. But if someone tried to take the real car away and do things to him without letting me know what was going on? I'd be out there with a 12 gauge. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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    You really ought to sit and chat with Baxter. He's local to you, and he's got all the experience (wingsuit and BASE) that you are pursuing yourself. There's plenty of time to go slow and be cautious. I say that as I feel the titanium twinging in my lower back, so take it seriously. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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    Because they are further outside? -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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    Hmmm. Wonder if we'll ever see Chad again... -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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    Would you need the full brake line set just to drive the slider? I've got no idea which of those lines really put force on the slider. All of them? Just some? Obviously below the cascade it's only one, but for the angle to work out do you need that one to come to some intermediate point between the attachments? -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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    I'd love to see someone try to reach 160 km/hr on a motorcycle with a Skyray strapped to their back. Well, on video, maybe. Not sure I'd want to be standing there. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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    Mostly, Bridge Day is good for the party. It's really not about the jumping. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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    Yes. I can think of at least one that sees a lot of traffic. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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    How about canopies with "It's Our Park Too!" emblazoned across them? -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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    In all honesty, I don't think that anyone ought to be encouraged to BASE jump. If you need it, you'll find it. If you can find that level of personal satisfaction in something else that is less likely to take your life, your fitness, and your friends, then you ought to be doing that other thing. Going out and trying to share the "gospel of BASE" with the world seems a little silly. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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    Why not "live strong" style armbands? -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
  14. TomAiello
    Done. There's also a pointer in the wingsuit forum, so you get the best of both worlds. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
  15. TomAiello
    The majority of base jumps done in the US are. Have you got some numbers to substantiate that claim? I'm just going to hazard a guess that I've got a little better background than you on this one, and I'd say you're going to have to work pretty hard to prove that. The fact is that even amongst the (many) jumpers who live in places where it is nearly impossible to make legal jumps, a large percentage of their jumps are made while travelling to legal sites (within the US). This is mostly because they are "hungry" for jumps, being able to only make a couple a day (at most) at home, and when they travel to a legal site or boogie, they cut loose and make many, many more jumps per time. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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    I believe the original poster was reproducing an Associated Press story. Not that I'm any great judge of comparative journalism, but I had had always thought the Associated Press was fairly well respected. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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    So, now we've heard asserted as fact both that they did know and that they didn't. Does anyone have any links to press reports or court transcripts that bear on this? -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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    I am curious if you view Germany as a free country today? And if so, at what point it became a free country after the second world war? Obviously it was occupied somewhere in there... -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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    Actually, no, it wasn't. Sorry for the misunderstanding. I had read your post as responding the those (myself among them) who said, earlier in the thread, that they had ancestors who had legally immigrated to the US. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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    My ancestors, who were immigrants, did not commit any murders or spread any diseases. I also doubt very much that the United States in 1948, when my mother arrived, was a "land with no laws." -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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    No, no, not bats. Batman! It's about vigilante justice... -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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    What about those folks (i.e. much of America) who have mixed ancestry? I still think the point is not so much about ancestry as about legal status under current law. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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    Hmmm. I'm not sure, and I didn't read that in the press coverage I found. I did see that they were quoted as saying something like "this is what happens when you try to steal from us..." during the attack, so I'm guessing that they at least suspected that was what had brought them there. I wonder if this might not have been the first such commuter car theft in the area, and if there might not have been some history (specific to these individuals, I mean) we're missing out on. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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    According to 8 CFR 204, they have to file a petition (a formal request) which is then reviewed and denied or approved by the government. It looks like, in general, petitions with good reasons attached (i.e. not just "I want to live there", but "my wife is there and I want to join her" or "I have a job there I want to take") are most likely to be granted. I don't actually know anything about the process, since I've never had to do it. I do know several people who've gone through the whole thing, and I wouldn't describe it as easy, but then uprooting and moving into another country isn't easy in itself, either. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com
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    I'm pretty sure the resolution lies in the same place as we try to resolve all those kinds of issues. We elect representatives who create rules governing how immigration occurs. -- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com