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I'm waiting for Trump to intentionally leak absolute BS so that he can use it to attempt to disprove other leaks about him. "I encourage all awesome dangerous behavior." - Jeffro Fincher

"Describing a previously undisclosed high-level conversation between Washington and Moscow, John Brennan testified that in a phone conversation with the head of Russia’s domestic spy service he said that “American voters would be outraged by any Russian attempt to interfere in the election." " Although apparently some would take Russia's side of the ordeal. "I encourage all awesome dangerous behavior." - Jeffro Fincher

We may have the fake new glut and Trump himself to thank for journalism gaining a resurgence in credibility. I think the American public reached its threshold for sensationalist news stories and has finally become skeptical enough. In addition news sources know that if they print BS then Trump will stand in front of them and call them "fake news" from the White House podium. This is still an "if" every time a news leak comes out and hopefully NYT and WP are using reliable sources. "I encourage all awesome dangerous behavior." - Jeffro Fincher

Thanks, there are a lot of aspects of those canopies that make them harder to distinguish from one another, especially since DZ's sometimes further modify them. For example we make our brake lines a little longer because we don't want students stalling the canopy until we can have a thorough lesson on finding the stall-point on a canopy. You'll find that front riser pressure is going to be through the roof on larger canopies and especially ones with a flatter trim since more suspended weight is on the front. I don't know much about the Solos, at DZs where I've worked the larger ones are Navigators and the smaller are Sabre2s. Larger canopies will be much more mushy in their input for various reasons. Thanks for the feedback. Nice to get that perspective. "I encourage all awesome dangerous behavior." - Jeffro Fincher

Doom was the bomb. I definitely lost a college letter grade on a test or two because of that and Quake. "I encourage all awesome dangerous behavior." - Jeffro Fincher

He's a cartoon asshole. He's Yosemite Sam but not funny and an actual human who has apparently done some very illegal things. Is he a serious contender for a job in our government or are they floating him just so we feel better about the more moderate nutjob he actually wants in the position? "I encourage all awesome dangerous behavior." - Jeffro Fincher

It's definitely a waste of time. Between Suffolk, VSC and Orange we have a decent group of jumpers together in a clan so I was wondering how many more played it. I like tower games and this one is still new and fun for me. "I encourage all awesome dangerous behavior." - Jeffro Fincher

You're just off of student status right? It's good to get your input, as I recall you're kind of a beefcake and were jumping the larger canopies. Which ones, and what did you think? Also, did you get any coaching on harness turns? "I encourage all awesome dangerous behavior." - Jeffro Fincher

I'd say arrogance. "You can't tell me who to hire!" OK, but I still want to see rushmc's explanation. And he had the gall to blame Obama for Flynn. https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2017-04-28/trump-blames-flynns-vetting-on-obama-administration "I encourage all awesome dangerous behavior." - Jeffro Fincher

WHAT.........THE.........FUCK!?!?!?!?!? https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-touched-glowing-orb-saudi-230300045.html Does he not have someone who handles his itinerary and might have seen "4PM open portal to 6th dimension of Zog by touching Orb of the Dead." "I encourage all awesome dangerous behavior." - Jeffro Fincher

WHAT.........THE.........FUCK!?!?!?!?!? https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-touched-glowing-orb-saudi-230300045.html "I encourage all awesome dangerous behavior." - Jeffro Fincher

So who all is also wasting their life on this game? I gotta imagine the nerd force is strong with other skydivers, enjoying the other world update thing? "I encourage all awesome dangerous behavior." - Jeffro Fincher

The best you have ever self desribed your position. He's just trying to save keystrokes at this point. "I encourage all awesome dangerous behavior." - Jeffro Fincher

Well, damn. Looks like a global threat is threatening our protection against a global threat. You'd think they'd protect it so that it doesn't need pumps and electricity, you know that stuff that gets knocked out by a global catastrophe. http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/environment/a26581/melting-permafrost-floods-seed-vault/ "I encourage all awesome dangerous behavior." - Jeffro Fincher

I brought a box of condoms into school once. Blew one up while the teacher was out and and let it shoot around the room like a balloon. Principle walked by and saw it. He had trouble not laughing when he had me call my father to tell him what I did. I think I got detention or something. "I encourage all awesome dangerous behavior." - Jeffro Fincher

Ha, I'm not really up to speed on what that was all about other than him getting paraded around on talk shows and then his parents trying to make a buck in the lawsuit. "I encourage all awesome dangerous behavior." - Jeffro Fincher

Good move. This was a teacher making a bad call, not a school district discriminating. "I encourage all awesome dangerous behavior." - Jeffro Fincher

Don't wear a short skirt, show cleavage and flirt and there is very little chance you get raped. I'm just an armchair quarterback but I don't think that equates. It's of course easy for us to say what someone should have done in the heat of the moment, both cop and criminal but the fact is that if you don't resist arrest you'll be OK in 99.9999...% of situations and if you did something wrong you're not helping yourself by fighting or running. I'm absolutely not making excuses for a cop shooting someone in the back as they run away, that's inexcusable. "I encourage all awesome dangerous behavior." - Jeffro Fincher

So what's the trick, did they angle the camera down so it looks like they're flying upwards? "I encourage all awesome dangerous behavior." - Jeffro Fincher

Damn, United is even kicking the pilots off their planes. "I encourage all awesome dangerous behavior." - Jeffro Fincher

Probably because I'm still tied into the news circle of my former Vermont residence. The far left did not like her at all, many I know said they didn't care that the result would be Trump, they would rather take a shot across the bow of the Democratic Party and vote third party. I think those who voted Johnson felt the same from the centrist perspective but would have gladly voted for Webb. I saw some articles showing the math that Hillary would have won if Stein voters went for her instead. That's still a big "if". They may have done what many other Democrats did which is simply stay home. Many people I know including me, voted for her despite how we felt about her. In the end I think she was simply careless and had an attitude of being above it all but don't think that her lapses (her staff's lapse) of computer security equate to an inability to perform her job as a President. You have to remember that at the same time the State Department servers WERE HACKED, as in actually hacked, yet nobody is hanging the State Department IT staff from the gallows. "I encourage all awesome dangerous behavior." - Jeffro Fincher

I think you're wrong about this, many people on the left cared about this. Don't try to make it sound like Republicans are the only people who care about national security or have had government or military clearances, myself being one of them. This cliche of "the left" as whiny protesters with art degrees is just that, a cliche. There were full blown FBI investigations on Hillary that sank her as a candidate failing to drum up voters in an election against a self admitted sexual assault perpetrator and con-man. Someone who said he could kill someone in the middle of the street and his supporters wouldn't care. THAT is the guy she lost to because she not only could not muster the centrist votes but the Far Left (who does meet your cliche) said, "Fuck this lying bitch, I'm writing in Bernie Sanders." (Or voted for Jill Stein) "I encourage all awesome dangerous behavior." - Jeffro Fincher

Yeah, it's not until one reads further in some articles that they reveal that he might have been making a joke about the closeness of Putin - Trump ties. Maybe. Or maybe not. I don't know. Words are important, but context matters too. It was a joke. Everyone needs to quit thinking that just because someone is a politician that they aren't making wisecracks behind the scenes. "I encourage all awesome dangerous behavior." - Jeffro Fincher

That's not a bad blame as it was well known by Bush's own father that we shouldn't topple Saddam without an exit plan and it's now well understood that leaving Iraq so early allowed the power vacuum in which ISIS developed. However, he doesn't say it's Bush's fault as if Bush made every decision in the process. It was "our" fault in a 77-23 vote. Video 1: Soon after entering office "What I won't do it return to the failed theories of the last eight years that got us into this fix in the first place." Video 2: While on the campaign trail "The biggest problems we're facing right now have to do with George Bush trying to bring more and more power into the Executive Branch and not go through Congress at all." Video 3: Described above. Video 4: White House Correspondents dinner joke that he'll create the "Blame Bush Library" right next to George's. Video 5: Is a video about how Democrats blame Bush. So maybe 1 or 2 out of 5 video show him alluding to actions during Bush's administration. Sure I guess it could be interpreted that Obama blamed Bush but I think your Google Search copy-and-paste lacks the punch you were going for. You'd think that videos of Obama Blaming Bush would show more situations where Obama says "Bush" rather than one from the campaign trail and one that was a joke. Not saying it's not out there but again, did you even look at what you posted? Also, you're vying that again Trump blaming Obama in which the exact same search shows Trump actually saying Obama's name and blaming him: https://www.google.com/search?q=video+of+Trump+blaming+obama&oq=video+of+Trump+blaming+obama&aqs=chrome..69i57.9358j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#q=trump+blames+obama+videos "I encourage all awesome dangerous behavior." - Jeffro Fincher

Rush! What crazy is how much effort you're putting into this! Let the new cycle complete and then prove everyone wrong. "I encourage all awesome dangerous behavior." - Jeffro Fincher