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normissHe's one of the select few here with PA rights.
I can see that, and he seems to employ it with great vigor. -
quadeThat's the point, he can't. Hence the stupidity of the advice you seem to agree with.
And he never said he wanted to carry them all. Hence you tried to answer a question that was not asked.
And I see you keep trying to play the player. -
quadeWho said anything about "technical" advice? You certainly do seem to be frequently spouting off as some sort of authority and you're more than just a little bit opinionated. How about we demand to see your qualifications?
Playing the player and not the ball I see. Is this your standard MO?
But maybe we should ask to see your qualifications to give 'expert' advice on firearms? -
quadeYes. Reading IS fundamental. The advice you seem to believe is relevant here is NOT a solution to the question he asked about.
Yes reading is fundamental. I have provided the quote were he asked about keeping the single firearm in his car.
Please provide the quote that supports your position and your claim that he wants to carry all of them. -
QuoteMore evasion. How EXACTLY are you going to do that?
1. It is not evasion if I answer your questions.
2. You need to read up a bit on supply and demand. Maybe start with something about Ford and work up to Adam Smith. But what you will find is you can't use the invisible hand if it is in handcuffs.QuoteSupply and demand doesn't work for freeloaders.
And the ACA does not work for many young people who will be forced to pay higher premiums so a 25 year old single male can have maternity care. -
sfzombie13building a bomb is too easy, knowing where to place said bomb in order to do the most damage is a little more tricky. for example, i have a book (a real one) from the army showing where to place explosives in order to bring down bridges, blow up dams, and destroy pretty much anything like roads, airstrips and even different size steel columns and beams. it even has the mathematical formulas and tells you how to figure out placement for almost any explosive (i think it left out homemade types). this information is restricted by the govt, but is probably available to anyone. i don't want to look for it, i downloaded the anarchists cookbook last week to look at.
The bomb placed at the Boston Bombing finish line was not too difficult to figure out.
As for the information being 'restricted', I very much doubt that engineers are not allowed to learn the mathematical formulas in school. I know plenty of construction guys that could point out the weak points in buildings even without doing the math. -
quadeNot to put too fine a point on it, but how can anyone know the qualifications of an anonymous user like yourself, "DaVinci"?
Where have I given technical advice here? -
QuoteNeither of these are precluded by presented options 1 and 3. Both may (and imo, probably) lower the costs of uninsured care or insurance premiums, but don't change Don's question one bit.
He was presenting a false dilemma. There were more options that he gave and you will notice the options he gave were only beneficial to his point of view.QuoteThere's also no question that ER care costs tremendously more than regular clinic visits, so overall we pay extra for leaving that as the only option for the uninsured.
And if we allowed competition (point one I made) and had a published billed rate for services (point number two), then people would be more likely to get care sooner instead of waiting for it to become an emergency. -
QuoteExplain how either of these would address the issue of freeloaders like Mary Brown?
Lower the cost to entry and you would see more people with insurance. Simply supply and demand in action.QuoteYou did NOT address Don's questions at all, just a lame attempt at diversion.
I answered his question. You don't like the answer and that is not my fault. He was using A false dilemma fallacy.
You are now attacking me because... well, I can only guess because it is your style. -
QuoteIf you take the time to go view my past posts I have been very careful to only quote the SIM, IRM, and other purportedly experienced people that have served skydiving for many decades.
I read some of your posts. You gave bad advice about recurrent jumping. When that was pointed out with a reference to the actual SIM, you ignored it and continued acting like an expert. It also seems that one of the people you were disagreeing with was actually an instructor and one that was familiar with the student program that was being discussed.
How do you figure a guy without a rating and was shown to be wrong in the SIM knows more than a guy that provided the SIM as proof and is an instructor in the very school being talked about? -
QuoteDude, you are free to think what you will, But I have more than one tandem.
According to some reports you have only a B and no instructional ratings at all.QuoteIt really doesn't matter does it?
If you are giving a review of a movie, no. But if you are trying to give skydiving advice, then yes your experience matters.QuoteNo one is interested in the message as much as roasting the victim
Bollocks. Most people are interested in making sure only those with real knowledge and experience give technical advice.QuoteBut what has happened over the last few years is that because of economic pressures and the solution was and continues to be Tandems to bail out underperforming Drop zones, the people that work, if you can call it work, don't have a lot going on in their lives
Do you have a tandem rating (I know the answer). If not, then you might want to not comment on how difficult it can be.QuoteMaking a living by giving tandem rides is all they have and when you confront some of their biases they actually don't understand some of the more complexities of skydiving and they just react
Chap, you do not have ANY ratings. So maybe you should not give skydiving advice and you should not be commenting on "the complexities of skydiving". -
kallend***************Please
Your gun banning objective is so lame and obvious
More lies, presented, as always, without any pretense of proof.
Oh great arbitor of class
Please tell us more
You made the lying claim. You present a link, any link, to support your lie.
And I stand by it
And many here have posted agreement
AS USUAL, you make a false claim and are unable to present a single post that supports it. Par for the course with your claims.
It is not a lie that you present yourself as anti gun at every possible chance you get.
Why else would you post a story about an accidental death in a thread unrelated to children sneaking in, or self defense of the home?
Your bias shows clearly. -
kallend
And another gun tragedy:
www.newser.com/story/179647/man-kills-stepdaughter-by-mistake-police.html
Another sneaking into the house tragedy. If she had not tried to sneak in, nothing would of happened. If there was not a gun he might have bashed her head in with a bat. -
Andy9o8******
Quoteshould it be an enhanced sentence issue?
Yes, because the ghost of Emmett Till implores it to be.
That's the short version. As a society, we either get it or we don't. I've lost patience with repeating the long version.
I fear the ghosts of our past prevent us from embracing the future.
Those who fail to learn from the ghosts of the past are condemned to rot in the past.
Those who focus on the ghosts of the past will see the ghosts everywhere they look. -
QuoteI am not avoiding any topic. Just stating one factor, which doesn't appear to be hurting.
And you can't make that claim based on anything else but speculation on fairy dust.QuoteIt could yes. Thought most robbers go for surprise and would like to incapacite before you know what is going on.
Most muggers 'interview' a target before they approach. They then use a distraction technique to close the distance (maybe by asking if you have 'change for a 20?').
Your lack of criminals is only seconded by your lack of firearms knowledge and desire to make up data.QuoteSo quick to anger...good thing you are armed! No wonder you Americans cant keep from shooting yourself and each other
Look in a mirror: You started it with "This does not mean that banning guns in the US is a logical conclusion from that, so you can unwad your panties."
So yeah, you are making up conclusions and when you are called on it throwing insults. -
QuoteThe fact not all of a person's weapons can be carried 100% of the time is the entire point of this thread.
Reading is fundamental:
"But since I will keep the .40 in my car I wanted to know if any of you have experience with biometric or fingerprint trigger locks and if you have any recommendations, and also if you have any recommendations for a holster for fitting my pistol in my car"
He asked about a single weapon. And the safest place to carry that single weapon. And the answer to that question is on your person. -
QuoteI said, lack of guns doesn't seem to hurt.
And your opinion is based on nothing. You are avoiding at least 4 other topics that have an influence.QuoteAnd when you look at Canadaian gun issues and compare them to US gun issues, it does indeed seem that lack of guns doesn't hurt.
"Twenty-nine per cent of Canadian homes possess an estimated total of nine million firearms. Other authorities insist that even this figure is too low, and that there is at least twenty million firearms in Canada. The UN reported that Canada ranks third among the developed western countries (behind the United States and Norway) in the civilian ownership of firearms.
Canadians own nearly as many rifles as Americans."
http://www.cdnshootingsports.org/tenmyths.html
So your opinion does not really jive with the facts.QuoteRelatively simple logic says that with significantly fewer guns around and significantly less freedom to tote the guns around, there is less chance for there to be issues with the use of the guns.
And simple logic could also say that if you think I am armed you are less likely to try and rob me.
So much for "simple logic" if it cuts both ways.QuoteThis does not mean that banning guns in the US is a logical conclusion from that, so you can unwad your panties.
Maybe you should quit talking out of your ass then? -
QuoteNever thought I'd see the day when somebody would suggest that English and French Canadians would blend well with each other. Excepting skydiving and hockey, we unfortunately haven't experienced tremendous success at harmony between these two disparate groups.
Again, look at the statistics. You have to nit pick English and French as different. In the US we have both English and French ancestry as well, but it all falls under "white".Quote) "Superior and appellate courts in Ontario have repeatedly declared Canada's cannabis laws to be of no force and/or effect if a prescription is obtained" Meaning simple possession without prescription is still prosecutable. That is not to say that our police services sweat the little stuff...
And you agreed that pot is not a big deal in Canada.QuoteI think it was SkyDekker that made the comment; "Lack of guns does not hurt". Perhaps your debate is with him.
It was with him to you put yourself into it. -
davjohnsDiscussing health insurance at a family holiday gathering sounds like a great way to take the holiday spirit, roll it over, and give it the big green weenie.
You might want to save that one until you want to leave, but can't find a way to start the goodbyes.
My family discussed it.... We all thought the ACA was crap.
We covered gun control also. This was a bit more debated. Weaver or isosceles stance: Which gives more control? -
QuoteRight, which can all be done rather quickly and easily. More easily than building a bomb with a detonation device etc.
FALSE. I could build a bomb with the stuff most people have in their homes faster than you could go buy a gun.... And you can thank the US Military for that, but the information is on the internet and any fool with the power of Google can find it. -
QuoteYou mean like when a kid gets cut from a debate team?
Well it seems he might of been planning this for a while.... You know since he bought the weapon a week in advance and more ammo the night before.... So that is not exactly an *Impulse* shooting.
Neither was VT, Columnine, Sandy Hook, the Navy Yard, Giffords shooter..... Well, you should get the point. -
QuoteBecause, and this actually is the point and reason, a gun is super easy and takes little to no preparation. The perp picks it up, loads it, pulls the trigger and people die.
It is also the most effective defensive weapon. But you seemed to skip over how this criminal also brought fire bombs with him. -
Quote1. Everybody gets medical care for injury or severe illness, and the bill run up by the uninsured largely gets shifted to those with insurance (i.e. the system in place up until the ACA, and apparently still preferred by the GOP).
2. Nobody gets treated, ever, no matter how dire their circumstances, until they prove adequate insurance coverage or they pay in advance. This will, of course, require hospitals to literally refuse treatment to people and send them home, sometimes to die, untreated. This will also necessitate that people with communicable diseases such as TB either be allowed to walk around in public, exposing us all to disease, or require the law to confine those people. But at least you (and I) won't have to pay a dime for those slackers!
3. Require everybody to be insured. I'd be OK with exempting people who could post a bond sufficient to pay for any care out of pocket, say $500,000 or so.
Which one would be your preference?"
Your example is flawed. You present ONLY the options you want to be considered, and yet there are other options available.
You are missing the:
1. Allow insurance companies to compete across State lines. This will increase competition and increased competition leads to lower prices.
2. Have a published billed rate for services. So the individual can shop around. You would not go to a car dealer and just walk in and buy a car without looking at a price... Why should your medical care be different?
So your question was incomplete.... Might be why people didn't bother to answer it. -
Remarkable how a straightforward question causes all the right wing types to disappear. To tough a question for y'all?GeorgiaDon***
QuoteEither way the ACA requires these people who don't want or don't need insurance to buy it ...
Some time back in this thread (post 117) I responded to Kennedy, and asked the following question. He never responded, which suggests he had perhaps not really thought through the implications of his position on the matter. Perhaps you can do better:
"So, which do you find least offensive (given that there are no perfect options)?
1. Everybody gets medical care for injury or severe illness, and the bill run up by the uninsured largely gets shifted to those with insurance (i.e. the system in place up until the ACA, and apparently still preferred by the GOP).
2. Nobody gets treated, ever, no matter how dire their circumstances, until they prove adequate insurance coverage or they pay in advance. This will, of course, require hospitals to literally refuse treatment to people and send them home, sometimes to die, untreated. This will also necessitate that people with communicable diseases such as TB either be allowed to walk around in public, exposing us all to disease, or require the law to confine those people. But at least you (and I) won't have to pay a dime for those slackers!
3. Require everybody to be insured. I'd be OK with exempting people who could post a bond sufficient to pay for any care out of pocket, say $500,000 or so.
Which one would be your preference?"
Don
I hope everybody has a fun and safe Christmas, and that no-one ends up needing that health insurance they thought they didn't need.
Best wishes to all!
Don
Some of us have lives to live, jobs, and holidays.
How are opinion and qualifications related?
in Speakers Corner
Playing the player and not the ball I see.
I believe that IS the point of this thread. It's precisely what you've done with ChrisD, yet, he's far more qualified than yourself since he at least has the courage to identify who he is rather than hide like a coward behind anonymity.
Ah, more personal attacks from you... It seems it is how you operate.
Might want to read this:
http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=1580205;sb=post_latest_reply;so=ASC;forum_view=forum_view_collapsed;;page=unread#unread