Tad Eareckson's latest tow release
I don't think he's so goddam funny...NMERider - 2014/09/25 16:41:42 UTC
Swift - I'm a fellow local pilot of OP and all of this is par for the course but I still like the guy as he's very, very funny.
http://www.shga.com/forum/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=3840
[TIL] About Tad Eareckson
http://www.kitestrings.org/post3960.html#p3960
instructors and other qualified pilot fiends
http://www.hanggliding.org/viewtopic.php?t=28581
How to get banned from kitestrings.org ((tad drama)lol)
http://www.energykitesystems.net/Lift/hgh/TadEareckson/Manifesto01.html
Manifesto
http://www.kitestrings.org/post5735.html#p5735
Manifesto
...Jonathan. There's nothing remotely funny about the way your Mark G. Forbesses, Tim Herrs, Dr. Trisa Tillettis, Davis Straubs, Steve Kroops are running this sport, what happens to people as a result, and what happened to me for trying to do something about. Even less funny than what happened to you on 2014/01/29.
And we should trust their results even though they were obviously falsified and the weak links weren't installed on anything that actually goes into the air?Knight & Rooney already did the weak link testing...
http://www.kitestrings.org/post4653.html#p4653...and although I was unable to successfully search out the link reference here I did find that reference on Tad's site...
Weak links
I dunno. Tad isn't trying to hide anything from glider people and the public so he makes everything as easily accessible as possible to anyone interested and is happy to see crawlers indexing it.
That's not my main mission, Jonathan. It's to keep people like you in the air and out of ambulances and neck braces.BTW - I have been enjoying Tad's personal correspondence. He also puts a smile on my face.
Pissing all over decades of solid work like:Getting back to OP the prankster...
http://www.hanggliding.org/viewtopic.php?t=31781
Another hang check lesson
isn't my idea of a prank.Alan Deikman - 2014/09/23 19:47:06 UTC
Fremont
Amazing how when this topic comes up every time you see people argue the same arguments over and over again. It has been a classic (although niche) endless Internet flame topic.
I suspect that some of the parties that have posted in threads like these before are refraining now since they have learned that it is nearly (completely?) impossible to change people's minds on the topic.
For my part I will just refer you to the classic Tad Eareckson essay which I call "the gun is always loaded" which is a bit overworked but probably all you will ever need to read regarding FTHI. A lot of people will find it gores their particular sacred Ox, but I have never seen anyone point out a flaw in his logic.
Bill ALWAYS has it right....and Tad-O-Phobe, Bill has it right...
You mean instead of:...and OP really must have meant weak link.
he really meant to say:Tad Eareckson's latest tow release
Ya really think so Jonathan?Tad Eareckson's latest tow weak link
Currently thirteen posts on this thread, a small nasty flame war, a call for lockdown, 579 hits and OP can't be bothered to clarify his clever little joke or respond to any questions?
OK, OP. You've got a pass to be a typical hang gliding douchebag. Just continue waltzing around the web spraying your shit wherever you feel like it.In OP's defense, the failure to follow-through (flake rate) in this sport and online activity is about the same as it is everywhere else in life these days.
And, of course, it's not like Davis is gonna enforce any of his own rules...
http://ozreport.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10
Welcome to, and policies of, the Oz Report discussion group
...against anyone attacking or pissing all over Tad Eareckson.Davis Straub - 2003/03/04 02:07:45 UTC
The idea here is to a encourage useful and fun discussion of hang gliding, and issues raised in the Oz Report, and other venues, and not drift into other extraineous off topic areas, just because there is a silent audience.
So I will manage this forum to accomplish that, with your help.
1. No "off-topic" postings. Postings must directly relate to hang gliding or paragliding.
2. I will remove people from any forum on the Oz Report forum who violate this policy.
3. This is not a free speech zone, as I may be held liable for statements that you write here. At the moment I don't care to test this assertion in court.
4. Be civil or you will be banned from all of the Oz Report forum.
The Oz Report forum has evolved through reader actions and input to we administrators into more than a comments area. It is an area where readers can and do begin thread (topics of discussion) outside anything raised in the Oz Report. It also has an Off Topic area (the cesspool) where those wishing to discuss concerns not related to hang gliding can go and get abused by Warren.
The Oz Report forum is moderated (it is not a free speech zone). If folks get abusive I step in and calm them down (or cut them out). I also monitor for quality. For example, if threads go off in odd directions, I split them up so that their content has some relation to their title. This, I believe, helps the reader navigate the forum.
I also pull off topic items into the Off Topic section so as to not have to clutter the hang gliding area with irrelevant material.
I encourage quality posts, posts that actually help the reader and would be of interest to the readers. I discourage drivel, nonsense and lazy, just hanging around, here-I-am-with-nothing-really-much-to say posts. There are other sites that encourage such behavior, this is not one of them.
The Oz Report forum is not a campfire. It is not a place to hang out with your bud and have a beer while slurring your words. It is a serious forum for pilots who wish to write cogently and engage the intellect of others. It is not for everyone, and not everyone has something useful to contribute.
For the new pilots who come here in your blazing ignorance (and your burning desire for a hint of acceptance), I say, humility is a fine cloak for your obsessive egos. Lurk, listen, read (past issues - using the search function in the Oz Report itself and the other (non Google) search function in the forum), and, if you must, ask questions, without explaining to us first how you know everything already.
I value my reader's time. One way I do this is to discourage readers with nothing useful to contribute from contributing it on the forum. Please, don't post there unless you really have a contribution to make to your fellow pilots. I realize that the forum structure makes it easy to ignore others (unlike the mailing list format), but still, use good judgment.
If you can't, please take those low quality comments elsewhere where I'm sure that they will find a ready audience among those with too much time on their hands.
But you had much more time to comment on this thread than its author did.I know I'm so far behind the 8-ball on promises that I've had to ratchet my flake-rate scale down (or up?) to decades rather than years now.
Don't hold your breath. He never follows up on anything and he knows he'd get his head blown off the instant he opened his mouth. Even Jim Keen-Intellect Rooney was smart enough to learn that lesson after years of getting away with shit while he was setting himself up.I anxiously await OP's comeback for me calling him a Tad-O-Phobe.
How 'bout low life piece of shit and danger to the sport and everybody in it?Perhaps Tad-L-Tale may be more on point?
Do that. I'm never gonna win any popularity contests but take notes of the way individuals are voting and look at the trending.Maybe we should run a Tad-Pole before the election?
