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    You could have just joined them.



    I considered it, since just last weekend I was the lead floutist in the very same Symphony... Then I decided against it... She seems too much like a "nice girl"... Besides, from what she said, they've been seeing each-other for a few months now. Nice to be in the loop...



    Now you just sound jealous!
    It's all been said before, no sense repeating it here.

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    I guess people don't have a problem jumping out of planes that are on fire or whatever.:S



    When I started jumping my dad said that when they issued him a parachute as a bomber crewman he thought to himself with a chuckle, "they don't really think I'm going to use this!". He said they used the rigs and anything else they could find as extra protection from flak, etc. by placing them next to their positions in the plane. During one mission all 4 bombers in their element were jumped and hit by Me262 jets. After watching 2 of the planes go down, the one next to them going down in flames, and then realizing that they, too were on fire he said he quickly changed his mind about jumping. (Fortunately, the radio operator was able to get the fire under control by tossing a burning oxygen bottle out the newly made hole in the side of their plane ...good for a silver star. They were able to limp back to England and land at a place called "High Halden") He told me he couldn't believe that folks actually made a sport of parachuting.

    If a skydiver had been on that plane, he would have strapped the burning oxygen bottle to his leg and jumped!
    It's all been said before, no sense repeating it here.

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    It works that way when you get a driver's license, a PADI scuba diving certification, a USPA skydiving license, or a marriage license.



    But none of these are additional expenses in order to perform volunteer work. The only one here that might be such an example is if you needed to get a class A license to drive the fire truck rather than the class C (California designations) used for personal cars.


    Name any other State certification that you can get for FREE!

    Should the state also pay for the commercial medical exams that are needed to drive ambulances? As is needed in California every two years.
    It's all been said before, no sense repeating it here.

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    Now they are being asked to pay for the "privilege" of being on call to respond.


    That's not the case. The Health Department is simply charging an administrative fee for the issuance of medical certifications for EMTs and Paramedics. There's nothing unreasonable about that. This argument is as stupid as saying that volunteer firefighters shouldn't have to pay to renew their driver's licenses because they have to drive the fire engine.

    This has nothing to do with the cost of training, just the administrative fee for the state certification.

    1) Submit training completion certificate
    2) Pay fee
    3) Take and pass State Certification Exam
    4) Get State Certification Card

    It works that way when you get a driver's license, a PADI scuba diving certification, a USPA skydiving license, or a marriage license.

    As it is, firefighters get more free training than anyone else, and all they're being asked to do along with everyone else, is pay a fee to the Health Department who oversees the advanced life support system of the EMS system in the state.

    The Red Cross charges $90 for the average citizen just to get a CPR card, yearly! That's $270 dollars every three years. The maximum fees being discussed here is $125 every three years which no doubt only applies to paramedics, EMT's will certainly be charged less.

    This is just a bunch of firefighters who are trying to get out of paying a fee for their certifications because they think they're special.
    It's all been said before, no sense repeating it here.

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    Why are you folks hatin' on the guy. He got the tomato down didn't he?


    He's also added a cauliflower ear to his tomato.
    It's all been said before, no sense repeating it here.

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    Perris is regarded as one of the world’s foremost facilities and has more than 140,000 jumps per year, Brodsky-Chenfeld said, which is about 5 percent of the 3 million jumps nationally in the United States. Because of the high volume of jumps, the facility is more likely to have tragedies.

    From Here


    It's all been said before, no sense repeating it here.

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    Those are the little stove pipe looking things with hoods over the top of them. Those are the systems that are used for light buster strobes on emergency vehicles. Those aren't used a whole lot anymore, since with backed up traffic it is actually safer for an emergency vehicle to bust the light contraflow to traffic (slowly).



    Yeah, those were what I was thinking of. We don't have any of those optical sensors around here, except when they're hooked to a camera and a flash so they can get your license plate number when you run a light.
    It's all been said before, no sense repeating it here.

  9. I just looked at the bill (H.R. 2141), it only applies to Emergency Medical Service providers. Meaning, that municipal and volunteer EMTs, EMT-Intermediates, and Paramedics will be responsible for their own recertifications and licensing fees just like all privately employed healthcare providers.

    Like I said above, it's another "the sky is falling argument"! It has nothing to do with most volunteer firefighters. Nice spin job by the Fire Chief's Association! What a crock!
    It's all been said before, no sense repeating it here.

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    Around where I live I've found fewer and fewer lights that I don't trip; it's kind of nice.

    Wendy P.



    That's because most of the lights are being converted to optically tripped sensors. They look like cameras on the poles pointed towards the intersection. Actually they are cameras, but they're only used for the light cycle.

    Much better than the magnetic loops of old.



    From what I've always understood, those little camera looking sensors are for the Opti-Con strobes used by emergency vehicles to trigger the lights to turn green. They don't replace the normal functioning of the signal.
    It's all been said before, no sense repeating it here.

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    This bothers me less than Lane Splitting. These fuckers are begging me to open my door in their path and just submit the damage claim to their insurance company.

    i'm more than observant about motorcycles, but riding a donorcycle does not entitle you to break the law.



    Lane splitting is legal in California.
    It's all been said before, no sense repeating it here.

  12. The law doesn't contain the 120 second limit. The governor vetoed it because he wanted a set amount of time, but the legislature overrode his veto.

    Beiser was apparently being sarcastic, I hope!
    It's all been said before, no sense repeating it here.

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    either way its charging someone money to perform a service that could get them injured/killed and doesnt pay them a dime.

    how many people do you think will be volunteering once they have to pay to do so?



    Being a volunteer firefighter is not a job; people do it because they want to do it. TBH, I'm surprised that WA was paying for their certifications in the first place!

    The whole "the sky is falling because we won't have volunteers" theory doesn't apply to fire departments, even volunteer ones. Most fire departments don't even have to recruit applicants because of the glut of wannabes looking to get hired or get experience or just play fire station.
    It's all been said before, no sense repeating it here.

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    Here's an example:

    This gunshop only sells one model of an AR-15 magazine that's legal in California (max. ten rounds). This one model holds 9 rounds.

    Legal Magazine

    But, want to buy an "illegal" magazine in California that has more than 10 rounds, no problem:

    Illegal Magazines : "LE only in California"



    Try to buy the second one with a CA address and without LE credentials on-file.



    Well, if I tried to, I'm sure I'd have no problem trying to find a cop to arrest me; the store will be full of them buying the same thing.
    It's all been said before, no sense repeating it here.

  21. Whenever I go to a website for a California gunshop that specializes in assault weapons, I find it amazing how difficult it is to find any "California Compliant" guns or magazines. Most of the gunshops stock guns that aren't even legal in the state, which means that the only customers for these guns are cops - with notes from other cops saying that they need them for work!
    It's all been said before, no sense repeating it here.

  22. Look at the bright side, you still have three more days of ranting until the new year!
    It's all been said before, no sense repeating it here.

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    If no one in their right mind would call it an A-18, even if it's on an attack mission, then why should it be called an F-18? First you say it can be called one or the other depending upon the role it's playing, and then you say that it's nonsense to call it one of those things. You've contradicted yourself.

    F-4's were called that because it was the official designation, even though they could also deliver bombs.



    Here's what would have likely happened if things worked out as they traditionally did.

    The Navy was looking for a replacement for the A-7 in their light attack (VA) squadrons and the Marines, also a part of the Navy, were looking for a replacement for their F-4s in their strike fighter (VMFA) squadrons. Under the scheme at the time, the Marine aircraft would have been called "F-18"s and the Navy aircraft would have been called "A-18"s. Yes, it sounds silly today, but it's not so far fetched.

    Take a look at the designations of the Sikorsky H-60. The Army version was designated UH-60 as a Utility helicopter. The Navy Seahawk was designated SH-60 as an ASW aircraft. The Air Force and Coast Guard helicopters were designated HH-60 as rescue aircraft. Nobody even thinks twice about this because the aircraft are not interchangeable.

    But, could you imagine if the Navy had stuck with the A-18 designation in its VA squadrons. Oh, the horror of the interservice rivalry as the Marine pilots could claim they were fighter pilots and the Navy pilots were lowly attack pilots even though they were the exact same, and essentially interchangeable, aircraft.

    The F/A-18 designation is an anachronism left over from a time when both the Navy's A-18s and the Marines F-18s would both be in the same inventory system known as Bureau Numbers (BuNos). This is the service serial number that is given to the aircraft and the pilot uses as a radio call sign when communicating with civilian air traffic control. The BuNos is a six digit number that is painted on the side of the airplane near the tail; the aircraft designation is painted just above it. Since the Navy and Marine Corps aircraft are in the same numbering system and the aircraft are basically interchangeable the designation painted above the BuNos is "F/A-18." Meaning that the aircraft could potentially be either a Navy A-18 or a Marine F-18.

    As it came to pass, the Navy changed the designations of the VA squadrons to VFA squadrons as their new F-18s replaced their A-7s, i.e. VA-25 became VFA-25.

    There are a bunch of Navy Hornet pilots who should probably be really happy that it worked out that way.

    In other words, just call it an "AN-2"!
    It's all been said before, no sense repeating it here.