kawisixer01

Corporate prisons and budgets require bodies.... there is no incentive to ever let them out. Yep- they get paid per head per day. This is a major reason why it has taken the US so long to decriminalize drugs. I believe prisons should be for violent offenses. Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), incorporated in Maryland and headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, is the largest owner of for-profit prisons and immigration detention facilities in the United States. The only larger operators of such facilities are “the federal government and three states,” according to CCA. [1] It is publicly traded in the United States (NYSE: CXW) and had approximately 15,400 employees in 2013.[2] In 2013, CCA was converted into a real estate investment trust (REIT), which will help the company avoid tens of millions of dollars in corporate taxes.[3][4] CCA's revenue in 2013 was nearly $1.7 billion, and it had profits of $300 million, 100 percent of which came from taxpayers via government contracts.[2] Since its founding in 1983, CCA has profited from federal and state policies that have led to a dramatic rise in incarceration and detention in the United States -- a rise of 500 percent over the past thirty years.[5][6][7] As of 2011, around half of all prisoners in state facilities were there for nonviolent crimes, and half of inmates in federal prisons were serving time for drug-related offenses.[8] Prison cells are a product They are not alone. The law enforcement union is a very powerful lobbying force that would see significant reduction in workforce/members if drug and minor offence laws were relaxed and prison populations reduced.

Cat Crap, no not the feline excrement...the stuff usually sold in Ski/snowboard stores.

I've said it before and ill say it again. Ponder that we have 319 million folks in this country, yet we continue to put the same families in positions of power. Here we are again, Clinton and Bush. Really? That's the best we can come up with out of 319 million people for 20 years? We have no hunger for fresh ideas and people? Our founders set sail and fought like hell to get the hell away from Monarchy, yet here we are with virtually the same shit. We'll wonder why we have the problems we do with out of touch politicians, yet we continue to enable career politicians. It's nothing less than disgusting.

Those who don't consume the news are un-informed, those who do are mis-informed.

I've had similar bad experience. I have a pro-trac that when i go to turn it on it just shows a jumble of crap on the screen like the LCD is messed up. Sometimes it works, most of the time it doesn't. I've put in new battereis and the problem stays. When emailing L&B you get a slow response, and when you do get a response it's a curt one word or one sentance. The last response I got from them was "are you using Panasonic batteries?" I responded that they were not and got no further response.

After numerous times of getting my head smacked into various parts of the inside plane and my bottom lip split pretty regularly I started looking at seriously wearing a full face. The final straw was the umpteenth time i got my face fully slobbered with snot and spit and i ended up with a pretty nasty case of pneumonia. I wear a bonehead revolve. It closes easily with one hand and is easy to open. I picked it mostly because when opened it gives the best ability to easily talk to the student as you face is fully exposed with no chin bar. I reach up and flick it closed just before exit. I've attempted to get students to use frap hats but they seem to hate them. They look terribly dorky and many folks are hesitent to want to put something on their head that lots of other folks have worn.

Ironic that in this http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=4677354;page=unread#unread thread many, including yourself, critisized me and didn't believe and ID for medication was a real thing as if i were making it up.

That's not a lot of ammo. One round of sporting clays can be 100 targets. and it's not uncommon to shoot multiple rounds in a day. It's just another sensationalist point to try and make things seem more dramatic to the ignorant. I bet you thought 100 skydives was an insane amount at one time too.

"Safety" was nothing but a convenient excuse for them to start digging through peoples possession in search of candy and soda. Concessions are the biggest money maker for the theaters. You know as well as i do that theaters have been chomping at the bit to have a good excuse to pat down folks forever, it was all too convenient for them to have an opportunity to veil that action in "safety". Do they seriously expect me to believe that they want a zit faced 16 year old kid to confront someone hell bent on getting a gun or any other weapon in a theater?

My home DZ, a (three) Cessna DZ, is very family friendly. It's very common to see non-skydiving spouses and SO's hanging out cooking and playing outdoor games with each other, all the while lot's of jumpers kids all running around playing and having fun hanging out together. The kids are usually very well behaved and stay out of things they shouldn't be. Nobody is uptight about any person (worker or up-jumper) at the DZ disciplining their kid while they are up if it comes to it.

Everyone at my home DZ has a federal employer ID and works for the DZ as a contractor. I have never taken payment from the DZ, preferring to save it all up and purchase gear, courses, and services off the account. I am curious if I could conceivably deduct all the mileage to the dropzone, rigs and video equipment, etc from my overall income for the year? Kinda curious to survey other drop zone workers how you guys handle your taxes?

I stayed there a couple of years ago and learned about the story from a friend that worked there. I was amazed when I stayed there that there wasn't any kind of rememberance of the event anywhere in the building.

C'mon folks we're all just supposed to believe that she just didn't want to have to handle multiple devices to handle multiple email accounts. Because ya know, I've only had FIVE email accounts on my single cell phone for at least the last 7 years including a fairly secure work account. What I am curious about is how was it possible for anyone to NOT question why they were sending classified information to any domain that wasn't a known agency domain. That in itself would indicate to you that you were sending to a non-govt server. What I think is the worst is that she is laying down just pure bullshit for excuses in hopes that the general non-technically knowledgeable public will believe her.

The NSA admittedly taps all of our phones and emails. There is a rising amount of police departments running license plate scanners 24/7 on their cruisers as they drive around town, scooping up the locations of citizens going about their LEGAL daily business and storing that info on large databases. Nearly every time you are in public you are recorded on camera on feeds that are typically on TCP/IP based with no security, and could easily be intercepted by agencies so your movements tracked through facial recognition and potentially iris scanning technology. The government has admitted to building fake cellular phone towers to eavesdrop on our conversations and pull data from our phones. Other govt agencies have admitted to having planes flying 24/7 monitoring folks. We walk around with an electronic device in our pockets that tells any interested party exactly where we are 24/7 and that device has shown to be easily compromised by having it's camera and microphone remotely turned on. We are now installing that technology in most vehicles made. I find that people are OK with all of that, but find Christie's ridiculously archaic idea as offensive very obtuse.

Children are 4 times as likely to die from poisoning than from a firearm. yet I have never heard anyone propose a chemical safe be required in every chemical owner's home. Have never heard pundits droning on about locking up household chemicals and medications. Have never heard much about sending chemical and medication owners to prison for the accidental misuse of the product that results in an innocent death. Save the CDC a don't see administrations, associations and groups forming to do chemical buy backs and promoting household chemical limits and bans. The journal of pediatrics states "over 400 deaths UNDER THE AGE OF FIVE occur each year due to accidental poisoning". I'll even use everytown's numbers, which are likely biased for their cause, which states "at least 100 children were killed in unintentional shootings".

LOL I wish they would have kept patching XP. I've been through two industrial control systems migrations at two different employers in the last year, one being a major power provider to the national power grid. It was painful.

I keep getting bugged by Microsoft to upgrade to 10 for free. Anyone done it? Pros/Cons? I'm just fine with 7....

I'm a fan of a bag that has shoulder straps. for years I used a run of the mill US Army standard issue duffel that I picked up at a army/navy surplus store for about 5-10 bucks. It's tough as nails,nearly water proof, weighs nearly nothing empty, and can hold a rig/4 jumpsuits/two helmets/etc.. lately I've been eyeing the Duluth Trading Company's field office hybrid duffel and the North Face Base Camp Duffel. I ride motorcycles to the DZ whenever I can,so the shoulder straps are more of a selling point to me than a wheeled unit.

Thats a hard one. I've been in the position of being the one that was cheated on, when we were engaged and planning a wedding in fact, and i was already tens of thousands of dollars invested in the ordeal after 8 years of dating and living together. Of course I found out, she lied and said there wasn't someone else and did all the things to make it that much more painful. The ultimate salt in the wound, and thing I have never forgiven folks for was keeping quiet. There were folks i considered some of my closest and most trusted friends that withheld what they knew in an awkward attempt to stay out of it. I will never forgive those folks and felt doubly betrayed when the thing I needed most at the time was someone i could trust. I've always went on the stance that if you know someone is doing something wrong and you cover for them or don't call them out you are being complacent and even aiding them in their wrongdoing. The rest of the world works that way whether it's ethics in the workplace or crimes, so why should this be any different? If someone is violating safety rules or laws and I don't stop them and report them, I can be fired and criminally charged. Shouldn't we have the same standards here?

I'm NOT in the camp you describe. But I will say this video is garbage. I have been involved in the fight to bring right to conceal carry to Wisconsin, and could site you a very high number of white folks who have been cuffed and stuffed for much less than the actions in the video. For example five guys sitting in a restaurant in Madison having a meeting over coffee about their cause, sitting quietly talking, happened to have LEGAL openly carried pistols on their sides when an anti rights zealot made a call into 911 and made some false claims to try and elicit a heightened police response. Those five guys all ended up with bogus DC tickets that the city later paid through the teeth for after dropping charges. Throughout the last few years there has been case after case that the organization I am involved in has brought lawsuits against municipalities that overstepped the law and we have had successful outcomes in court. I myself have been cuffed and stuffed for doing nothing but legally open carrying a pistol holstered on my side while out running errands, and guess what? I'm not black. This particular problem isn't racially based, it's right based. It's a problem with individual cops, individual municipalities, and individual police administrations.

From what I was told talking to a couple people who know much more than me and who have actually ran the numbers, is that the airframe is much heavier. Yet the plane's capacity isn't much more, not enough more to make it worth it, and it is actually less fuel efficient with a slower climb rate.

Illegally fishing for a reason to further detain or question you. I have ABSOLUTELY ZERO obligation to identify myself as a free citizen going about my legal business. Have you been the guy riding his bicycle home after second shift and been harassed by the police for doing nothing more than trying to get home after a hard shift of work only to be quizzed on where you are going, where you are coming from, who you associate with, and why are you out at that time of night? I have. Have you been in the passenger seat in a traffic stop and been asked for your identification for absolutely no reason other than associating with someone who happened to forget to use their blinker? I have. It is unnecessary and a waste of police resources. It is nothing but a fishing expedition. unchecked it quickly morphs into dragnets otherwise known as "roadside safety checks" and "meta data collection". Just because YOU are comfy enough with the government to willingly reveal all of your comings and goings, your associations, and your private informtion to them doesn't mean that I am. You are more than free let uncle sam in on all your private info, but you have absolutely no right to demand that others give up their freedom, liberty, and privacy in the same manner. I have completed an associates degree in criminal justice, I have a number of friends in both the law enforcement field and the litigation field, and pretty much every one has the same advice. "Don't talk to cops". If anything my education and associations have opened my eyes to the slippery slope we are sliding down fueled by folks like yourself who are more than happy to throw away what little privacy and liberty we have left in the name of some fake feeling of security

In WI you have no legal obligation to present identification unless you are operating a motor vehicle, as when you applied for your license you agreed to those terms. The (Conservative) AG of WI has issued multiple memos on the subject clearly indicating that police are not allowed to stop people on the street and demand ID, and have no legal standing to try and charge for obstruction when folks refuse these illegal fishing expeditions.

Another point worth mentioning is sound quality. Some vidiots are showing up for tandem work with action cams, and the main complaint I hear from the editing bay is complaints about sound quality, especially when it comes to in-plane interaction with the customer. I'm still clinging to my cx-110 as well. I can't picture being able to keep my clips as clean and short without a hypeye, so therefore switching away would load the editing bay with more cut work. Having a remote start/stop button that provides visual feedback is still too important to me to give up.

Kinda makes you wonder what the positive impacts of the firearms industry are to the country's economy. Oh wait, that was just compiled and released. http://www.nssf.org/impact/. Well heck, that makes me wonder what kinda money all these gun toting folks are infusing into the economy persuing their sport. Oh that info is readily available as well. http://www.nssf.org/PDF/research/HuntingInAmerica_EconomicForceForConservation.pdf The hunting data is from 2011, so one would gander to guess that the figures have increased significantly, as the sales of everything associated with firearms and hunting have skyrocketed over the last couple of years, especially among females.