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Clearly articulated "reasonable suspicion" that a person may have been engaged in criminal activity is required to make a terry stop. After engaging with the suspect the officer must maintain the suspicion and also have a reasonable fear for their safety or the safety of others to do a terry frisk. The fact that someone is a "zebra" (BLACK) in a neighborhood full of "zebras" (BLACKS) is a no go....come the fuck on. You can't expect people to respect your rights and then justify the trampling of another persons rights.

Because it's a slow Friday afternoon at work. The dispatchers are stating "we don't need you to..." for liability purposes. If they state "don't follow" so-and-so and so-and-so is not located by the responding police and kills someone there could be civil liabilities. If they state, "please follow" so-and-so and the person following so-and-so is injured there could be civil liabilities. The logic the police use makes sense. Your logic is a little hard to follow. What if there was no call to the police? Would your vote change to acquit?

What about the hundreds of thousands of other pieces of classified information that had nothing to do with that one video? You mean these? (Source: thenation.com) First, just a very partial list from “Cablegate” (excluding many other bombshells that caused a stir in smaller nations abroad): * The United States pressured the European Union to accept GM—genetic modification, that is. * The Yemeni president lied to his own people, claiming his military carried out air strikes on militants actually done by the United States. All part of giving the United States full rein in country against terrorists. * The United States tried to get Spain to curb its probes of Gitmo torture and rendition. * Egyptian torturers trained by the FBI—although allegedly to teach the human rights issues. * State Dept memo: US-backed 2009 coup in Honduras was “illegal and unconstitutional.” * Cables on Tunisia appear to help spark revolt in that country. The country’s ruling elite described as “The Family,” with Mafia-like skimming throughout the economy. The country’s first lady may have made massive profits off a private school. * The United States knew all about massive corruption in Tunisia back in 2006 but went on supporting the government anyway, making it the pillar of its North Africa policy. * Cables showed the UK promised in 2009 to protect US interests in the official Chilcot inquiry on the start of the Iraq war. * Washington was misled by our own diplomats on Russia-Georgia showdown. * Extremely important historical document finally released in full: Ambassador April Glaspie’s cable from Iraq in 1990 on meeting with Saddam Hussein before Kuwait invasion. * United Kingdom sidestepped a ban on housing cluster bombs. Officials concealed from Parliament how the United States is allowed to bring weapons on to British soil in defiance of treaty. * New York Times: “From hundreds of diplomatic cables, Afghanistan emerges as a looking-glass land where bribery, extortion and embezzlement are the norm and the honest man is a distinct outlier.” * Afghan vice president left country with $52 million “in cash.” * Shocking levels of US spying at the United Nations (beyond what was commonly assumed) and intense use of diplomats abroad in intelligence-gathering roles. * Potential environmental disaster kept secret by the United States when a large consignment of highly enriched uranium in Libya came close to cracking open and leaking radioactive material into the atmosphere. * The United States used threats, spying and more to try to get its way at last year’s crucial climate conference in Copenhagen. * Details on Vatican hiding big sex abuse cases in Ireland. * Hundreds of cables detail US use of diplomats as “sales” agents, more than previously thought, centering on jet rivalry of Boeing vs. Airbus. Hints of corruption and bribes. * Millions in US military aid for fighting Pakistani insurgents went to other gov’t uses (or stolen) instead. * Israel wanted to bring Gaza to the ”brink of collapse.” * The US secret services used Turkey as a base to transport terrorism suspects as part of its extraordinary rendition program.

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Again, when is the last time a person armed with a parachute attacked 71 people (with said parachute)?? Come on people, these are BAD comparisons!!! We don't need fertilizer, but it's useful. We don't need dynamite, but it's useful. We don't need planes, but they are useful. We don't need cars, but they are useful. We don't need knifes, but they are useful. It's a crime to kill or injure another human outside of self-defense. There is no need to outlaw the instruments used. If someone wants to kill a large number of people they don't NEED a gun. When it can be argued that a mass killer NEEDS a gun to commit their crimes I'd be more than willing to here arguments for additional limits on their availability. If you want to use the law to potentially save lives, why don't we make it a crime to have sex without a condom? Once could argue that many more lives would be saved than if there was a ban on AR-15 rifles.

I am 19. I know I am old enough to make my own decisions, and I do, but I have never been in this situation before and I am hoping someone might have some good advice. My $0.02. Try and find advice outside of the skydive community. It might be a little less colorful, but viewed objectively you just might find it the same.

Also, as far as group seperation goes it makes perfect sense. But, I'll use the pejorative "40 jump wonder", to include my own demographic and say, what about then? Angle flying and tracking don't fit in the same box. Throw experience into the mix and you've got a new challenge for the local s&ta. Throw a board into the mix and you've got a royal fuxking nightmare.

At my home dz, trackers can go first or last, but almost always go last. Typically if there is just one tracking group it goes last, presuming there are no students, ws/ts or high pulls. Often, when there are two groups of trackers one goes first and the other goes last. While there is no policy that I'm aware of it makes sense for the more experienced group to go first if there are two groups. With the growing interest in tracking/atmo this is a good discussion to have.

It's mostly the poor and disenfranchised that are kicking up dust. The majority just so happens to be black.... zimmerman/trayvon are just code words.... "They said it was for the black man,they said it was for the mexican,and not for the white man.But if you look at the streets it wasn't about Rodney King,It's bout this fucked up situation and these fucked up police.It's about coming up and staying on topand screamin' 187 on a mother fuckin' cop.It's not written on the paper it's on the wall.National guard??!Smoke from all around,"

Analyze and don't repeat. Posting on DZ.com is a mixed bag. You can get valuable feedback if you can filter through the noise and you can share an experience that others can learn from. You can also elicit the ire of other jumpers who can view your post as over-dramatized or self-aggrandizing... it's a difficult medium for communication. I could have created a thread about the "near death experience" I had today... no shit...I really thought I was going to buy the farm, but my mistake was on the level, worse actually, of misrouting a chest strap...noob. But, just like a misrouted chest strap there is not much to be learned by the "community" from my experience. I knew exactly what mistakes I made that lead up to that "near death experience" and that was enough for me and the other jumper who I endangered. That said, don't take the heat from the post seriously. Anyone who is prone to posting online is going to get flamed from time to time. You like to blog and that's cool, you just have to consider your audience... at least one of your respondents did almost die in a "no shit I woke up a month later" kind of way and I don't recall them posting about it on DZ.com. There are A LOT of incidents, if not the vast majority, that never made it on this board and most here are aware of that fact. Again, consider your audience.... In the end though, it's great that we are reading this "over dramatized" thread instead of reading an incident report.

I don't know the number of jumps on the line set, but I appreciate you pointing that out. It did occur to me that the openings have not been bad in the past and I just chalked it up to bad body position/pack job while only briefly considering trim. I'll have the trim checked this weekend. Thank you.

Lot's of good information there. Everything is on the table at this point, I am looking into new pillows as well. It's amazing how pain can motivate change. lol In regards to the quote above.... When you say "sit up on your knees". Do you saying to pitch in a knee fly position? I've never heard of that before, but on an intuitive level it does seem to make some sense.

I'm posting here, because I'm currently experiencing some of the worst neck pain of my life. For as long as I can remember I've experienced neck pain at least a few days a month due to an odd sleeping position or the like. I've had times where I experienced neck pain for a day or two after a jump weekend, but nothing like what I've experienced lately. Two weekends ago I had some pretty hard openings on a stiletto 120. That caused serious neck pain that had mostly subsided coming into this last weekend. This last weekend I made a few jumps and the openings were not as bad. I've modified the way I pack the canopy and it has lessened the opening shock a great deal, however, I still swing/pendulum a fair amount on opening. The obvious conclusion in my mind is bad body position. Question: After some base jump experience I picked up the habit of getting on my risers immediately, obviously this has it's benefits in base, but could this be causing problems leading to neck strain on a fully elliptical canopy? Working at a desk all day is more than likely a contributing factor as well. I'm going to start working on exercises to strengthen my neck and stretching before jumping. Any additional suggestions from others who have experienced similar neck pain after jumping? Thank you for any consideration given. I'd like to get back up this next weekend, but the current level of pain is giving me some pause.

Saving taxpayer $$ - that's funny. See attachment. Arithmetic clearly has a liberal bias. I guess they should have taken blood samples.

I guess I would adopt "The counts" voice and inflict "3 stab wounds...ha ha ha. 5 bullet holes...ha ha ha. 7 finger nails removed... ha ha ha." This is twisted.

and audit his taxes Nah, we will have to wait until a Republican gets the Presidency and sics the IRS on liberal groups and alphabet news organizations. Then he will get outraged. IMHO none of them, liberal, conservative, middle of the road... should be exempt from taxes. Every $ not paid by a tax exempt organization has to be covered by another taxpayer. Agreed.

Oh please... The US has the freest speech on the planet and that isn't just me blowing smoke. ...Ummmm. Not so much. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Press_Freedom_Index#Rankings_and_scores_by_country

Stop the Mortgage interest deduction. Make it 100% clear to the market that the US gives no implicit or explicit backing to Fannie and Freddie. Get rid of the FHA loan program. ...that could be a start and I'm sure we would be busy for sometime dealing with the fallout.

IMHO there is very little useful debate. After doing some reading from all my typical news sources I'll jump into the SC and see most all the headline stories. From time to time a subject actually interests me. In many cases posts are predictable. There are some posters who cause me to think a little deeper about an issue, I have to actually slow down and read their posts in detail and I really enjoy those posts. As previously mentioned, the majority of the posts in the majority of the threads are kind of depressing, because there is little if any sincere exchanges of ideas (debate)...most posts are disguised personal attacks. That said, I enjoy reading comments on the "news of the day" and I have no interest in setting up accounts on a bunch of other websites to engage in more stimulating debate when this website is largely just a distraction during my downtime at work. The left vs right shit is really annoying.

Boy is that an understatement! That said, I think it's very possible for "that guy" to read studies like this and say, "Oh, yeah. I can see that behavior pattern....In that other guy." Some confrontation is good I think. I've got "that guy" in my office. Just this morning he was confronted...not pretty, but my belief is that you are doing a disservice to some people if you just allow them to exist in their own illusions....productive though...not really. LOL

I was a little lazy. In regards to the "ten men" scenario; I think that a lot of people perceive our system to work that way, "everyone has equal opportunity" to gain wealth if that is their desire, etc. The first page of the article discuses the UCB study using the Monopoly game. I think that scenario is a better representation of the system we currently reside in. As an example, George Bush, Jr., he's a great example of someone who was born into this world with nearly every opportunity available to him. He could afford to make a number mistakes in his life and still become (arguably) the most powerful man in the world. In theory, a child in this country, born into complete poverty COULD become president of the united states. In fact, I think every child in American public schools is told early on that they too COULD become president of the united states some day. It's true, they could, but they would have to play a flawless game and still need a good measure of luck. By no means do I think that people who work hard, are naturally gifted in a particular area, follow the law, etc. should not receive their fair share of what life has to offer. However, I do think there is this pervasive notion that we all start out as equals and everyone plays in this system of meritocracy from there...it's simply untrue. You're a smart guy. All other things being equal, if I gave you 1 million to invest and someone else who is equally smart 10 million to invest and another slightly less intelligent individual 100 million to invest, who is most probably going to come out at the top of the heap and who will most likely come out at the bottom? My point was that we are not playing a game of poker where everyone at the table has the same buy in. I think the article supports that position. In short, I don't hate the player, I hate the game.

Put ten men in a room, and give each man ten thousand dollars. At the end of the day, someone will be poor. That's not how the system works though...it's how people like to think it works. Interesting article on a UC Berkeley study: http://nymag.com/news/features/money-brain-2012-7/ fascinating. Fascinating? It has the old aroma of wealth envy. You must be taking a long look at some of your former students who are now wealthy and proud of their monetary accomplishments. Never forget all the jobs they have created, nor all the taxes they have paid. I did not perceive an envious tone. One of the researchers admited to his prejudices, but the results speak for themselves. The studies, I think, will help people better understand income/wealth inequalities that exist. It's simply untrue that everyone has equal opportunities. Additionally, the study provides some evidence that "money changes people" to some degree. I don't think the idea is to demonize the wealthy, if it was I would definitely be airing my misgivings. I do think this line of study could in some small way be useful in designing more sustainable economic systems in the future. Anywho...I found it interesting and pretty unbiased considering the subject matter.

Put ten men in a room, and give each man ten thousand dollars. At the end of the day, someone will be poor. That's not how the system works though...it's how people like to think it works. Interesting article on a UC Berkeley study: http://nymag.com/news/features/money-brain-2012-7/

But of course. Which makes me wonder, what is the real intention of Cody Wilson? Certainly he understands it's -way- easier to make a zip gun from other easily obtainable items. So what's his motivation here? Number of likes on Facebook? $2 per thousand views on YouTube? It's not about the gun. It's about undermining the federal government to the point that it is irrelevant. Guns are as good a place to begin as any. So far, the tactic seems to be a success...We are talking about him and his idea's. How else could the "state" be undermined using 3D printing....hummmmm.

And the winner is....... ***