And Sun's stuff is still better than the shit Ellison has put out over the years. The only thing I can fault Sun on is that maybe they should have put Java in the public domain.
Pete Olson is a motherfucking asshole and should die a horrible a death as should all you fucking conservatives. We need socialism like the rest of the fucking civilized world, you fucktard!
That's pretty interesting. My flight instructor used to put an index card over the airspeed indicator to make you learn how to judge your flight attitude without depending on instruments. OK until you're socked in by clouds. He also threatened to start rapping knuckles with a ruler if you didn't keep the air speed up.
We still practiced stalls, both power on and power off to get a feel for how much more violently a power on stall happens. It seems that some of the general aviation spin accidents that occasionally happen are from non instrument rated pilots finding themselves in zero visibility and get into a stall which when not corrected becomes a spin. I used to know an ex Air Force instructor pilot who once had a student lose almost 20,000 feet in a spin with a T-38. Was getting ready to punch out before they recovered with several thousand feet to spare.
It's a shame about Steve but I think he must have become incapacitated. The fact that he crashed in California seems suspect as I had read that he was scouting locations in Nevada. Did he lose consciousness and kept flying West until the mountain intervened? We'll probably never know. I had another instructor who put a plane into the ground upside down 1,000 feet from the end of the runway while taking off. The FAA never could determine a cause. The strange thing was this guy had almost 10,000 hours of flight time including serving as a fighter pilot in WW II. You just never know why some of these incidents occur.
They discontinued teaching spin recovery in primary training in about 1995 because NTSB research indicated more people were being killed in crashes resulting from spin recovery training, than being killed in spins. A gruesome but pragmatic decision.
You're free to go get training in spin recovery yourself, and most instructors recommend it. I believe that qualifies as aerobatic instruction and parachutes are required, but I'm not sure.
Actually it was way before 1995. I flew in the late 1960's and they had already eliminated it for all but instructors. Military training is another story.
I'm sorry Mrs. but you are a fucking idiot. First of all Roosevelt was trying to keep us out of a world war, and start helping the average person get back on their feet after the REPUBLICAN depression. When the excreta hit the proverbial ventilation device (Perl Harbor) we went over there and kicked their asses. Our last successful war incidently was run by Democrats. Of course the Dems starrted Korea and Vietnam:(. It's too bad that the Democrats have lost their cohones and are now a bunch of emasculated pussys like the fucking Repubs They all suck now and we must bow down and suck the dicks of corporate amerika.
God (your favourite diety here) help us all.
As far as Obama being a Chamberlain, I think he reads and understands his fucking history unlike the shrub currently in office.
I really want to love this country but it grows harder by the day. although I still harbor hope.
As I posted earlier, Carl Ichan has the morals of an amoeba, as do a great many of our celebrated capitalists and politicians. We can't control the basic cruelties of capitalism without a dose of socialism thrown in. After all, that's what income taxes are all about.
I find it ironic that America, that proud bastion of capitalism is seeing many of it's large industries and public infrastructure sold or leased off to socialist European enterprises.
Of course here in America we have always had socialism for the rich and capitalism for the rest of us working stiffs.
Carl Ichan has the morals of an amoeba. Just ask any ex TWA employee. It's amazing he didn't end up in jail with the other miscreants back in the '80's.
And your point? If you actually read the list most of these people paid their dues decades ago and were getting a deserved break. A few like Marc Rich will always be controversial. Also if you explore that site further it clearly states that commutation is not normally considered when a conviction is being appealed. Another smear evident in this post is that these pardons are not granted in a vacuum. These is a detailed review by the Pardon Attorney, the US Attorney for the district the petitioner had been convicted in as well as the sentencing judge, prison officials, etc.
Reading further on this site you will also see that President Clinton turned down many more pardon applications than he granted. Other than the obvious cases of his half-brother and Whitewater conspirators as well as Marc Rich and his cohort, most of these are decided on by justice department officials, with the President normally backing their decisions.
Even though I tend to lean liberal, I think this conviction was largely BS just as the Martha Stewart travesty was a case of manufacturing a crime and finding a brainless jury to convict. After all they must have done "something" wrong, otherwise they wouldn't be on trial.
Dunno if we're making a mistake in Iraq or not, but I hope Condi and Colin know what the hell they're doing with the wacko in NK. That guy could seriously screw things up for a lot of people.
That would be yes and no. Yes, we have probably made a huge mistake in Iraq, by helping to make terrorism an even larger problem than it was before 9/11. Had we focused more on Afghanistan, we could have had more success in crippling al Qaida.
No, Condi and Colin probably don't have a clue as to how handle North Korea. This hemmorroid has been a pain in the world's ass since after WWII. Does anyone remember the decisiveness of the Bush administration when the Chinese fighter jet clipped the American Navy spy plane and it had to land on Chinese soil? They didn't have a clue how to proceed. Most of the crisis revolved around how to come up with a face-saving apology that wasn't really an apology.
In order to stay on topic, the Government has become increasingly more reactionary to the rights of citizens since the 60's. Look at the protests against the Vietnam war, and compare that to what's been happening now with the WTO protests, or the political conventions. When the Republicans had their convention in Philadelphia, the feds and Philly cops busted a warehouse of "terrorists" who were making large puppets to be used at protests.
After the Miranda ruling, the right complained bitterly about how the activist Warren court was handcuffing the police. No, what that Supreme court did was to tell the government that you have to play by the rules. Good police work will catch the guilty. Sloppy/Illegal procedures will snare the innocent with the guilty. There is, of course plenty of ancedotal evidence about people in prison or even death row for decades who are later proven innocent.
Unfortunately we are now basking in the age of the likes of legal midgets such as Scalia and Clarance "Long Dong Silver" Thomas. God save us!
I have a better idea. You outsource 100 software jobs overseas, pay the government a $100 million tax surcharge every year!
Know something Carly Fiorina; FUCK YOU, YOU CAPITALIST CUNT!!!!! To paraphrase Richard Mellon Sciafie. Carly at least proves that a woman can be a gigantic, clueless prick with the best of men, even Jack Welch. Screw all these useless CEO's. Outsource them first, say to Congo, or Sudan, maybe even Myanmar.
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And Sun's stuff is still better than the shit Ellison has put out over the years. The only thing I can fault Sun on is that maybe they should have put Java in the public domain.
Pete Olson is a motherfucking asshole and should die a horrible a death as should all you fucking conservatives. We need socialism like the rest of the fucking civilized world, you fucktard!
That's pretty interesting. My flight instructor used to put an index card over the airspeed indicator to make you learn how to judge your flight attitude without depending on instruments. OK until you're socked in by clouds. He also threatened to start rapping knuckles with a ruler if you didn't keep the air speed up. We still practiced stalls, both power on and power off to get a feel for how much more violently a power on stall happens. It seems that some of the general aviation spin accidents that occasionally happen are from non instrument rated pilots finding themselves in zero visibility and get into a stall which when not corrected becomes a spin. I used to know an ex Air Force instructor pilot who once had a student lose almost 20,000 feet in a spin with a T-38. Was getting ready to punch out before they recovered with several thousand feet to spare. It's a shame about Steve but I think he must have become incapacitated. The fact that he crashed in California seems suspect as I had read that he was scouting locations in Nevada. Did he lose consciousness and kept flying West until the mountain intervened? We'll probably never know. I had another instructor who put a plane into the ground upside down 1,000 feet from the end of the runway while taking off. The FAA never could determine a cause. The strange thing was this guy had almost 10,000 hours of flight time including serving as a fighter pilot in WW II. You just never know why some of these incidents occur.
They discontinued teaching spin recovery in primary training in about 1995 because NTSB research indicated more people were being killed in crashes resulting from spin recovery training, than being killed in spins. A gruesome but pragmatic decision.
You're free to go get training in spin recovery yourself, and most instructors recommend it. I believe that qualifies as aerobatic instruction and parachutes are required, but I'm not sure.
Actually it was way before 1995. I flew in the late 1960's and they had already eliminated it for all but instructors. Military training is another story.
I'm sorry Mrs. but you are a fucking idiot. First of all Roosevelt was trying to keep us out of a world war, and start helping the average person get back on their feet after the REPUBLICAN depression. When the excreta hit the proverbial ventilation device (Perl Harbor) we went over there and kicked their asses. Our last successful war incidently was run by Democrats. Of course the Dems starrted Korea and Vietnam :(. It's too bad that the Democrats have lost their cohones and are now a bunch of emasculated pussys like the fucking Repubs They all suck now and we must bow down and suck the dicks of corporate amerika.
God (your favourite diety here) help us all.
As far as Obama being a Chamberlain, I think he reads and understands his fucking history unlike the shrub currently in office.
I really want to love this country but it grows harder by the day. although I still harbor hope.
As I posted earlier, Carl Ichan has the morals of an amoeba, as do a great many of our celebrated capitalists and politicians. We can't control the basic cruelties of capitalism without a dose of socialism thrown in. After all, that's what income taxes are all about. I find it ironic that America, that proud bastion of capitalism is seeing many of it's large industries and public infrastructure sold or leased off to socialist European enterprises. Of course here in America we have always had socialism for the rich and capitalism for the rest of us working stiffs.
Carl Ichan has the morals of an amoeba. Just ask any ex TWA employee. It's amazing he didn't end up in jail with the other miscreants back in the '80's.
And your point? If you actually read the list most of these people paid their dues decades ago and were getting a deserved break. A few like Marc Rich will always be controversial. Also if you explore that site further it clearly states that commutation is not normally considered when a conviction is being appealed. Another smear evident in this post is that these pardons are not granted in a vacuum. These is a detailed review by the Pardon Attorney, the US Attorney for the district the petitioner had been convicted in as well as the sentencing judge, prison officials, etc. Reading further on this site you will also see that President Clinton turned down many more pardon applications than he granted. Other than the obvious cases of his half-brother and Whitewater conspirators as well as Marc Rich and his cohort, most of these are decided on by justice department officials, with the President normally backing their decisions. Even though I tend to lean liberal, I think this conviction was largely BS just as the Martha Stewart travesty was a case of manufacturing a crime and finding a brainless jury to convict. After all they must have done "something" wrong, otherwise they wouldn't be on trial.
Gosh, Anarchy is looking better all the time.
Dunno if we're making a mistake in Iraq or not, but I hope Condi and Colin know what the hell they're doing with the wacko in NK. That guy could seriously screw things up for a lot of people.
That would be yes and no. Yes, we have probably made a huge mistake in Iraq, by helping to make terrorism an even larger problem than it was before 9/11. Had we focused more on Afghanistan, we could have had more success in crippling al Qaida.
No, Condi and Colin probably don't have a clue as to how handle North Korea. This hemmorroid has been a pain in the world's ass since after WWII. Does anyone remember the decisiveness of the Bush administration when the Chinese fighter jet clipped the American Navy spy plane and it had to land on Chinese soil? They didn't have a clue how to proceed. Most of the crisis revolved around how to come up with a face-saving apology that wasn't really an apology.
In order to stay on topic, the Government has become increasingly more reactionary to the rights of citizens since the 60's. Look at the protests against the Vietnam war, and compare that to what's been happening now with the WTO protests, or the political conventions. When the Republicans had their convention in Philadelphia, the feds and Philly cops busted a warehouse of "terrorists" who were making large puppets to be used at protests.
After the Miranda ruling, the right complained bitterly about how the activist Warren court was handcuffing the police. No, what that Supreme court did was to tell the government that you have to play by the rules. Good police work will catch the guilty. Sloppy/Illegal procedures will snare the innocent with the guilty. There is, of course plenty of ancedotal evidence about people in prison or even death row for decades who are later proven innocent.
Unfortunately we are now basking in the age of the likes of legal midgets such as Scalia and Clarance "Long Dong Silver" Thomas. God save us!
To quote a comedian, whose name eludes me: "Bush is not stupid; no, he's evil".
I have a better idea. You outsource 100 software jobs overseas, pay the government a $100 million tax surcharge every year! Know something Carly Fiorina; FUCK YOU, YOU CAPITALIST CUNT!!!!! To paraphrase Richard Mellon Sciafie. Carly at least proves that a woman can be a gigantic, clueless prick with the best of men, even Jack Welch. Screw all these useless CEO's. Outsource them first, say to Congo, or Sudan, maybe even Myanmar.