bjjman

Thought I'd pop my head in here to tell you it's Britney Spears' "Womanizer" video. "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." -Albert Einstein

That was frickin' awesome! "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." -Albert Einstein

Those that said 90mph, check your math: Assuming the track is 30mi. long (for easy math) your driver has covered 60 miles, the first half in an hour, and the second half in 20 minutes. That's 60 miles in 80 minutes, or 45mph. "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." -Albert Einstein

The length of the track does not matter. The driver averaged 2 minute miles for X miles. After another X miles, the driver needs to have averaged 1 minute miles for 2X miles. Therefore, he needs to do 0 minute miles for the second lap. So freakflyer9999 is right. "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." -Albert Einstein

Since you asked, Time is Running Out (Muse). Although, now it's changed to Old Man (Neil Young). And since I took so long to find that video, now I'm on Rodeo Clowns (Jack Johnson). "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." -Albert Einstein

I wouldn't expect him to explore every religion as that's impossible. Also as a U.S. movie I would expect him to focus on religions that are popular here. Too bad they go for the cheap laugh too often. I still look forward to seeing it though. Thanks for updating us. "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." -Albert Einstein

Refer back to post 128. That's a month ago and I've made my point. Moving on with life now... "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." -Albert Einstein

As someone who's bitter because I've missed the pictures I've got to point out the irony in what you're telling him to do vs. your sig line: And right below that: edited to add smiley "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." -Albert Einstein

Sorry God, I didn't realize you were watching the thread. My apologies. "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." -Albert Einstein

There is something wrong with you. "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." -Albert Einstein

Fuck yeah!!! To the OP: Tonic "If You Could Only See." edited to answer the OP "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." -Albert Einstein

Got it. Though you seem a little confused. If they are mutally exclusive, then only one can be correct, but not the other. It does not quite mean "there'd be zero overlap" as that implies they could coexist. You also somewhat contradict yourself in that you imply quite possibly zero overlap ("in other words there's very little, if any, overlap"), and then in the following sentence state "...there'd be zero overlap - which I don't think is true." "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." -Albert Einstein

Didn't you hear? The church apologized recently. It's all okay now. In all seriousness, I don't see where your point is relevant to mine. I never said the two don't cross paths, I was making the point that they each exist to answer different questions. "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." -Albert Einstein

And therein lies the reason for your sweeping generalization about living off $30k/year while having so much extra for savings. Your figures are 1/3 of the rent that I'm familiar with. A decent place around me is more like $1500/month. Can you really get a decent place in Dallas for $500/month? That's crazy. And no, moving to Dallas is not the answer. For most people that would mean starting over putting them in even more of a bind. "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." -Albert Einstein

Okay, $2500/month, let's say roughly $1675 after taxes (just ballpark). After rent there's not much left to live on for the rest of the month. How the hell do you plan for that? Not eat? Skip rent? Live by candlelight? Move in with Mom and Dad? That sounds like bad planning to me. "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." -Albert Einstein

If by that you mean mutually exclusive, you are dead wrong. I haven't read this whole thread, but the two exist to answer different questions. One does not negate the other. "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." -Albert Einstein

WTF??!!!! Where do you live? That's $2500/month before taxes. "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." -Albert Einstein

I never said that; paying taxes is a good thing in that regard. I'm just referring to the portion of taxes that go to help (and therefore encourage) lazy/irresponsible people. " ...responsible people should be penalized " I think you'll find penalized and penalty share the same root. How about the $12BILLION a month in direct costs of a war started under false pretenses and that helps no Americans at all. I'm sure we could do without that. You're putting words in my mouth. Go back to your original post that I replied to and you'll see that I was referring to your comment that people with too many houses to count are fair game for taxes, while homeless are not. Never was there discussion between us of "running a country" until you interjected it. Likewise, your war example is irrelevant to our specific dialogue. Though I agree, we could do without a war like that. As far as penalized and penalty sharing a root, I don't see it; the words don't look similar at all! On a serious note, and off-topic, sharing a root does not necessarily mean two words have similar meanings. "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." -Albert Einstein

You choose to accept credit cards, and then take it as a "fuck you" when someone uses them. I'd be pissed at people for not using them if I dropped $100/month for one of those machines to sit there. "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." -Albert Einstein

+1. Anything less is a disservice and is dishonest. As far as the yelling thing, that instructor was obviously a moron, but no more so than the instructor that doesn't critique a student when they should. "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." -Albert Einstein

Bingo. I paid good money; and all I got was this lousy logbook with no helpful information. Sounds like you're one that writes something worthwhile in logbooks. "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." -Albert Einstein

And now you know my pain. (It's not just me peregrinerose ) "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." -Albert Einstein

I never said that; paying taxes is a good thing in that regard. I'm just referring to the portion of taxes that go to help (and therefore encourage) lazy/irresponsible people. "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." -Albert Einstein

Since when did paying your way instead of borrowing from your children become having it stuck to you? You aren't going to eliminate a $400BILLION deficit by taxing the homeless. OTOH, people with so many homes they can't count them seem fair game to me. [sarcasm] Yes, responsible people should be penalized and lazy people should have their hand held by the government. [/sarcasm] By the way, I'm dirt poor, but I look forward to the day I'm rich (a guy can hope, can't he?), and I dread the day I have to care for the careless/lazy/unlucky. (Unlucky people will be fine in due time.) "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." -Albert Einstein

I have no background in education. However, I have been involved in sports my whole life and I have coached. I have been a great athlete (which I believe is 1 part natural talent, and 1 part being coachable) and a great coach. I know I'm a great coach because I have taken people that others have thought of as bench-warmers and made all-stars out of them (not by chance, but by teaching technique). Sounds like a great technique; I never said otherwise. HOWEVER, what set me off was this from your post: I go through every part of the skydive and [write] 'good' before everything that was done reasonably well. I don't care if Vince Lombardi told me that, I would tell him he was wrong. (But I would bet my life he wouldn't tell a player he was "good" unless he was.) No doubt. Maybe I misconstrued my opinion or maybe you read into my post too much, but I agree with most everything you're saying. I am not saying to be harsh on students, I am only saying don't be overly easy either. Be fair. It's a disservice to the student if you exaggerate how well they do something. And that has the potential for disastrous effects in the sky. By the way, I am a student so I'm necessarily right. I'm telling you what we want. If somebody is too sensitive for some constructive criticism, then they don't belong in a sport where they are a danger to others. My example for you: On my 1st jump (talk about memory being different from what's on tape!) I forgot my PPs, was told to straighten my legs, didn't have my arms arched up enough, was reminded to check alt. around 6000', and then lost altitude awareness and pulled early (saw a 5 and couldn't tell if I was at 4500' or 5500'). I was given great constructive criticism on the ground as I was told what went well, bust most time was spent on what I needed to work on, as it should be. It boiled down to relax/take my time. However, once I saw my log book, excited to see what I needed to improve on, all I saw was "good, good, good." Not much help. Now that I've gotten this far, I realize maybe I'm being too harsh on my instructors. But that can only be true if most people do far worse than me on their jumps actually making me good compared to what they usually see. "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." -Albert Einstein