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  1. To be fair, the rampant corruption there probably makes a lot of business easier. cavete terrae.
  2. and fuck it once more. cavete terrae.
  3. Now that it's equal to all, can we have equality in stopping the government from recognizing marriage at all? The only part the government needs to be involved with is the contract enforcement side of things. cavete terrae.
  4. We've spent over a decade showing that we as a nation have developed an identity that involves going into places and killing people who are not like us. We bomb schools and places of worship, and crow about how much we're improving the world by doing so. Then things like this happen, and people are fucking SURPRISED? The shooter was a piece of shit, and institutionalized racism likely has a large part in it, but until we stop doing it as a country I think it's unrealistic to expect the people who the country is made from to do much different. We embrace violence abroad and put on airs about abhorring it at home, but we can't have it both ways. It's not solely about race. It's not solely about gender. It's about humanity, and we're bad at it. cavete terrae.
  5. Nothing I say here is going to change anyones mind. He should have waited until he actually saw a gun. But it was FAR from a ooh, let me pull over today and shoot someone in the face. He matched a description of someone flashing a firearm, he did not freeze(I guarandamntee you he heard the cops yelling, I cut grass with iphone earbuds in and even with the volume up and the mower running I can still hear sounds around me), and he had his hands in his pants. If you diddnt read this which I bet most wont before you hit reply to bash me I want to say the cop was in the wrong, but I could see the events that lead to the shooting could happen to a person That's because the cheap basic pieces of shit don't seal. Anyone using remotely decent earbuds can get pretty well isolated. cavete terrae.
  6. Yup. If you're a cop, expect to deal with gross naked people you have to search. If you're a paramedic, expect to deal with motorcycle crashes. If you're a skydiver, expect to deal with high speed earth impacts. If you have kids, expect to lose sleep while they're up in the middle night crying and shitting. Every decision has consequences. Um...as a cop I also have to pick up pieces of people sometimes. And deal with motorcycle crashes. Sometimes those are the same call.... Yes, that's part of your job. If you don't want to deal with those things you can work security at Best Buy. If you're a skydiver and expect other people to change to keep your feelings from being hurt, the problem isn't the other people. cavete terrae.
  7. Not choosing sides on the debate, but to be fair there have been people with arguments pro and con that have been trying to impose their views on others. I'm not trying to force anyone not to use an AAD… AADs are kinda like alcohol. I can see the appeal, but if someone chooses not to partake, how is that your problem? For the people trying to force others to conform to their views: Don't be an asshole, let them make their own life choices. cavete terrae.
  8. No, that's your way of working the numbers to make it sound attractive. Reality is that an AAD isn't paid for monthly unless you involve a third party or have a very generous seller. cavete terrae.
  9. Yup. If you're a cop, expect to deal with gross naked people you have to search. If you're a paramedic, expect to deal with motorcycle crashes. If you're a skydiver, expect to deal with high speed earth impacts. If you have kids, expect to lose sleep while they're up in the middle night crying and shitting. Every decision has consequences. cavete terrae.
  10. As has been mentioned, the cost of an aad is $6 a month. That's a lie. The cost of the credit card payment if you put an AAD on one might be $6/mo, but that's not the same thing. cavete terrae.
  11. I'd say the assholes are the people who expect others to live a certain way to meet expectations. cavete terrae.
  12. Yet another reason not to have kids, and only be in relationships with people who don't expect you to stop enjoying life to please them. cavete terrae.
  13. Unless you've jumped from a commercial airliner at night with a bag of money, you're the slime on a whuffo's underwear. cavete terrae.
  14. General rule of thumb for the sport as far as I'm concerned: Do whatever the fuck you want as long as you don't hurt or kill someone else. If you kill yourself, it's sad and you'll hopefully be remembered fondly. If you kill another jumper, you shall be remembered as a reckless asswipe. If you kill a student or a whuffo, your legacy shall be that of the cuntiest shitlord, and your memory shall be damned by a thousand generations. cavete terrae.
  15. As I only recently joined AAD crew, I'm still answering. No, I don't have family to look after. No, I don't have kids. Yes, I have a pet. No, I'm not financially struggling. No, I don't want to die while I'm young What made me jump without an AAD? Well, for many years I had to choose between having an AAD but no longer having the money to jump, or to jump without an AAD. It's neither more nor less fun. I turn it on and forget about it until the next day I'm at the DZ. As for "am I ok with dying"? In a way, sure. But I'm not going to suck-start a shotgun to see what it's like. I'll live my life in the way I feel I want to live it, and if someone doesn't like that, tough shit. My life is now, and will forever be, the most important life to me and to not do the things I want to do is to do myself the most horrible disservice. cavete terrae.
  16. I use one, but I do not feel they should be mandatory. It's an expensive enough sport, we shouldn't be making it more so. I jumped without one for years, and then moved to a country where they were mandatory and stopped jumping for a long time because I couldn't afford to buy an AAD. Eventually I got to a point where I could buy one, but I'd rather have had the money to jump in the meantime. cavete terrae.
  17. aaand here's the trailer http://www.polygon.com/2015/5/26/8663171/point-break-trailer cavete terrae.
  18. I'm about to take my third work trip to Dallas in 3.5 weeks and once again I am not bringing my rig. cavete terrae.
  19. I haven't used it myself, nor would I, but I don't see the point in telling people what they may or may not do with their own bodies since I'm not an asshole. Weed, cocaine, ecstasy, LSD, whatever. If you wanna use 'em in your own home, go wild. The war on drugs is a waste of money and lives, and is responsible for far, far more harm to our society than the drugs are. cavete terrae.
  20. I've made it pretty clear in other threads that's where my position is. You can judge the civilization of a society by the treatment of their prisoners, IMO. cavete terrae.
  21. "We hate killing so much we're gonna kill this cunt" cavete terrae.
  22. Are you really confused, or are you being literal just to be argumentative? I mean, I could let you sit outside by doorstep, getting beaten to death by thugs without bothering to call 911. I *could* do nothing. But the odds of that are about 10,000:1, so it's accurate to say I *can't*. Farmers could choose to kill the children and use the bodies to fertilize the almonds trees as well. But why don't we stick to reality. New and existing almond trees represent a long term water use commitment. Single season crops do not. I'm a big fan of linguistic precision. cavete terrae.
  23. Which has about as much to do with my post as Chipotle has do to with what I'm going to watch on TV tonight. What if Al sharpton drops by and there is a Chipotle commercial on? I'd ask him to leave. I'd also wonder why I'm seeing commercials. cavete terrae.
  24. It'd be about the same as flying through a 90-way round formation on their belly when you're in a head-down dive, in theory. (the math behind this claim is based on a 10,000sqft surface area, which has a circumference of approximately 354 feet. If we're very generous and say the average skydiver has a 4 foot armspan in a stable belly to earth position, that puts us at around 90 people. Then if you figure around a 120mph fall rate vs the 200-ish that any experienced jumper can presumably hit, you get a delta of 80mph. Still 50% lower than Aikins will be doing if he doesn't have any sort of high-drag suit on, but it's at least a sort of thing a jumper can IMAGINE. cavete terrae.