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ruveyn
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01 Apr 2011, 4:38 pm

LKL wrote:

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The age requirements to get a pilot's license are lower than for a driver's licence, for whatever reason. My father flew planes before he drove cars. From what he's told me, flying isn't significantly more challenging than driving. Perhaps it is a different story with high-performance jet aircraft.

Do you fly IFR? Fly IFR and tell me that.

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ffs, Ruveyn, instrument flying isn't that difficult either. It can be freaking scary, but it's not terribly difficult.
relevant to this tangent:
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162- ... 04083.html
http://www.salon.com/technology/ask_the ... oot_bandit

Btw, this is an excellent example of a moved goal post: first it was flying a plane, now it's flying IFR; will it be flying a commercial jet-engine plane with a dozen passengers, next?

Flying straight and level in daylight with unlimited visibility is not difficult. Landing in a crosswind is. Try it sometime. In any case flying safely and competently is an order of magnitude more difficult than driving a car on a sound road. If anything goes awry, one can pull over. In the air, one cannot pull over. In foul weather flying ceases to become fun and easy. And and a pilot's unaided senses can betray him unto death. Look up the "dead man's spiral" sometime. That is how John Kennedy Jr. most likely died. Like any Kennedy he did not think he had to work hard to master instrument flight. So he flew in the dark without knowing what he was doing and he and his passengers died.

Flying is harder to do than automobile drive. Navigation is a non-trivial exercise. Try navigating a plane over unfamiliar territory at night without a GPS to guide. That is what separates good pilots from people who just want to have fun in airplanes.

Are you a pilot? Can you fly blind under IFR? Can you fly safely in foul weather? Can you pull out of a flat spin?

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01 Apr 2011, 10:47 pm

moving goalposts, ruveyn.

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01 Apr 2011, 11:39 pm

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Did I see Inuyasha play the race card? I believe I did.

Huh?

You accused someone (skafather) of being racist for disagreeing with you.

Change the words "white trash" to "black trash" and see if you would still say it isn't racist. If you are being honest with me you would admit that it would change your opinion, therefore what skafather84 said is racist, you can't have it both ways Orwell.

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02 Apr 2011, 2:58 am

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Change the words "white trash" to "black trash" and see if you would still say it isn't racist.

Kinda like change it to "Eurotrash", right?

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02 Apr 2011, 4:44 am

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Saying all white people are crackers is racist.

Saying that 99% of white people are crackers isn't racist.

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Saying that a specific subset of white people suck at driving is just fact.

Thanks for the clarification. Now I can state that a segment of the black population (not all of them, mind you) is given to "wilding" sprees (attacking hapless whites and Asians who wander into any of their taxpayer-subsidized neighborhoods), suck at academics no matter how much remedial intervention is provided to them, and do half-assed work at jobs qualified white males were passed up for, without being greeted by a bunch of hysterical posts condemning me for racism and pointless Youtube videos of black astronomers. It's only a segment of blacks who do this, remember, not all of them.

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02 Apr 2011, 7:15 am

Telekon wrote:

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Saying all white people are crackers is racist.

Saying that 99% of white people are crackers isn't racist.

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Saying that a specific subset of white people suck at driving is just fact.

And of course, there are no white people who use drugs, rape helpless women, beat up gays, mug people for fun, do badly at school and are incompetent workers. That's just a myth blacks invent.

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02 Apr 2011, 7:20 am

Telekon wrote:

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Saying all white people are crackers is racist.

Saying that 99% of white people are crackers isn't racist.

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Saying that a specific subset of white people suck at driving is just fact.

I think the 99% would still be prejudiced maybe if you leave the percentage hidden we will not know you are racist.

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02 Apr 2011, 7:25 am

Orwell wrote:

Inuyasha wrote:

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Did I see Inuyasha play the race card? I believe I did.

Huh?

You accused someone (skafather) of being racist for disagreeing with you.

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Inuyasha wrote:

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That's probably true. A fairly large number of careless idiots have damn near gotten me killed when they chose to ignore the fact that I had the right of way. One person smashed up my old bike pretty badly when she actually hit me a few months back. Just sailed straight through a stop sign without bothering to check if anyone was there.

Funny, some of the worst driver's I've seen have either been from out east, or College Professors and/or College students.

Um... what's your point in even bringing that up? There are a lot of incompetent drivers. Some of them are college professors. A ton of them are students, both high school and college. I believe the girl who ran into me was a student at my school.

College Professors and College students are not a race.

Never said they were. Are you going to answer my question? What was your point in saying that at all?

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He is also obese.

He should pay attention to Mrs. Obama.

If I am obese, then it would be cruel and unusual to have you ride a horse (cruel and unusual for the horse).

I believe panda was referring to Newt.

Yes, I was refering to Mr. Gingrich. Is Mr. Inuyasha also fat? How would I have known? And, what is this about me riding a horse? Some kind of racist comment?

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02 Apr 2011, 12:41 pm

pandabear wrote:

Orwell wrote:

Inuyasha wrote:

Orwell wrote:

Did I see Inuyasha play the race card? I believe I did.

Huh?

You accused someone (skafather) of being racist for disagreeing with you.

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Orwell wrote:

Inuyasha wrote:

Orwell wrote:

Funny, some of the worst driver's I've seen have either been from out east, or College Professors and/or College students.

College Professors and College students are not a race.

Never said they were. Are you going to answer my question? What was your point in saying that at all?

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He is also obese.

He should pay attention to Mrs. Obama.

If I am obese, then it would be cruel and unusual to have you ride a horse (cruel and unusual for the horse).

I believe panda was referring to Newt.

Yes, I was refering to Mr. Gingrich. Is Mr. Inuyasha also fat? How would I have known? And, what is this about me riding a horse? Some kind of racist comment?

It looks more like he is big-boned and stocky than fat. Also if it is fat, he's gonna lose those extra pounds on the campaign trail.

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02 Apr 2011, 1:33 pm

Inuyasha wrote:

pandabear wrote:

Orwell wrote:

Inuyasha wrote:

Orwell wrote:

Did I see Inuyasha play the race card? I believe I did.

Huh?

You accused someone (skafather) of being racist for disagreeing with you.

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Orwell wrote:

Inuyasha wrote:

Orwell wrote:

Funny, some of the worst driver's I've seen have either been from out east, or College Professors and/or College students.

College Professors and College students are not a race.

Never said they were. Are you going to answer my question? What was your point in saying that at all?

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He is also obese.

He should pay attention to Mrs. Obama.

If I am obese, then it would be cruel and unusual to have you ride a horse (cruel and unusual for the horse).

I believe panda was referring to Newt.

Yes, I was refering to Mr. Gingrich. Is Mr. Inuyasha also fat? How would I have known? And, what is this about me riding a horse? Some kind of racist comment?

It looks more like he is big-boned and stocky than fat. Also if it is fat, he's gonna lose those extra pounds on the campaign trail.

He ain't heavy he's my brother.
only democrats can be fat, Duh.

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02 Apr 2011, 3:54 pm

Our last fat president was William Taft, a Republican.

The only reason that Humphrey didn't defeat Nixon was because many voters thought that he was too fat.

Mr. Gingrich doesn't stand a chance against President Obama.

It will be no contest at all, unless the Republicans can find someone who is fitter.

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02 Apr 2011, 4:19 pm

Inuyasha wrote:

It looks more like he is big-boned and stocky than fat. Also if it is fat, he's gonna lose those extra pounds on the campaign trail.

No, he's fat.

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02 Apr 2011, 4:54 pm

Seriously, we don't need a fat president.

Especially one who is a racist homophobe.

So many women in his life, and every one of them was White. And, as far as is publicly known, none of his women were men.

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02 Apr 2011, 7:27 pm

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If Obama continues to run this country into the ground the Republicans could have a Collie run for President and still win.

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02 Apr 2011, 7:35 pm

Inuyasha wrote:

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If Obama continues to run this country into the ground the Republicans could have a Collie run for President and still win.

We won Inuyasha changed the subject.

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02 Apr 2011, 7:43 pm

Inuyasha wrote:

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If Obama continues to run this country into the ground the Republicans could have a Collie run for President and still win.

The facts disagree with you. Every poll has your idol Palin getting destroyed by double-digit margins among likely voters in 2012.

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