The Bob Show

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miguel
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Re: The Bob Show

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Tad Eareckson wrote:http://www.hanggliding.org/viewtopic.php?t=32059
Torrey Incident, should USHPA get involved?
Dennis Cavagnaro - 2014/11/13 14:46:04 UTC

No one is defending Bob...
Yeah. NO ONE is defending Bob. Fuckin' moron.
...but no one should be defending the Jebbs either.
Because the fault lies mainly with the Jebbs.
fixed it for you :D
Dennis C. wrote:City parks should be open to all. Its not that hard.
Tad wrote:Asshole.
Wrong!!!!!

Dennis is correct on this one.
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Re: The Bob Show

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That's not what I was saying.

- "Fuckin' moron." - For ignoring the fact that a lot of people who are the polar opposite of huge Bob fans are solidly and unambiguously behind him on this one.

- "Both parties equally at fault." - Sarcasm.

- "Asshole." - Refers to: "Its not that hard." It's taking World War Fucking Three to start making dents.
Dennis is correct on this one.
But not anywhere near enough.
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Re: The Bob Show

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Re: The Bob Show

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OK.
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Re: The Bob Show

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Bob Kuczewski - 2014/11/18 16:03:32 UTC

Re: phone call

Hello Tad,

I noted your post about me not including your full message in my list of email.

The reason is pretty simple ... I didn't have time to write to each person asking for permission to post what they'd written along with their attribution. So I had to post them without names or anything that might identify them. So it was out of respect for your privacy that I didn't post some parts of your message. As for other parts of your message, you know my policy on taking the hits out of s****. : )
I noted your post...
Oh good. You're reading them.
I didn't have time to write to each person...
I'm sure.
So it was out of respect for your privacy...
Really? You didn't have much respect for my privacy when you posted:

http://www.ushawks.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=884
The Bob Show
Bob Kuczewski - 2011/12/13 05:55:39 UTC

If I boot you permanently it will be due to my concerns over the topic we discussed on the phone. This forum should be a safe place for people of varying ages to visit. You have not given me any assurances that's true with you on this forum.
...you know my policy on taking the hits out of s****.
But you participated in:

http://www.shga.com/forum/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=3840
[TIL] About Tad Eareckson

with someone who has a pretty good claim on being the world's all time top piece o' total scummy shit in the sport of hang gliding, gave him aid and comfort, and did NOTHING while he lied his ass off, characterized me as a senile ranting lunatic, pissed all over untold thousands of hours of my engineering and documentation, and made four posts about my testicles.

And now that YOU're really getting fucked over by OP's wonderful free flight establishment I'm over here damn near 24/7 supporting you and counterattacking on your behalf.

Also...

You have a heavily restricted "Nobody" on your forum who you know was the same "Nobody" from Kite Strings. At 2012/12/20 05:59:56 UTC upon his request I switched "Nobody" to "Steve Davy". And on The Davis Show "Ridgerodent" publicly identified himself as "Steve Davy" - USHGA 88875. And even he's publicly in your corner on this one on one or two other forums.

You have miguel and there might be another team member out there in your corner but he hasn't publicly revealed his identity so that's about as much as I can say.

You can also maybe count NMERider. Jonathan's registered here and a reader and correspondent but not - so far - a posting participant. He's been a bit lukewarm but appears to have swung unto your side pretty well.

New message to deal with...
Bob Kuczewski - 2014/11/18 16:48:10 UTC

Reply to your post

Hello Tad,

Thanks for standing up for what's right despite your considerable contempt. But I think you've made a mistake here:

http://www.ushawks.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1629
Jailed for taking pictures at Torrey
Bill Cummings - 2014/11/17 23:57:28 UTC

But just like the other guy I would like to match his two hundred dollar offer to defray some of your legal expenses. You are doing work that benefits all pilots.
Tad replied:
Lemme know how it's benefiting me. Bob never lifted a finger to protect my right to do the kind of flying that I wanted to do safely, legally, and within practical range. Quite the contrary.
First of all, you never asked me to protect your right to do any kind of flying. Second, when I was Regional Director I did come to your defense on the Board. And when I started the US Hawks, I actually sought you out to join us. So "quite the contrary" isn't a fair reflection of what actually happened.
First of all, you never asked me to protect your right to do any kind of flying.
1. You never asked me to back you in protecting your right to do the kind of flying you want to do safely, legally, and within practical range and I'm not a Regional Director and haven't even flown anything for over six years now but I'm currently working my ass off to do it.

2. It was part of your job as a Regional Director to make sure things were being done right in aerotowing.
Second, when I was Regional Director I did come to your defense on the Board.
No you didn't. You didn't even bother reading my proposed SOPs and comparing them to the absolute crap USHGA had on its books - and has always had and always will have. You still haven't read them because...

http://www.ushawks.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=802
AL's Second flight at Packsaddle how it went
Bob Kuczewski - 2011/10/23 16:29:29 UTC

As for Nobody's request for me to read a document, I haven't found the time yet. I'm sorry, but I don't have time to read everything that everyone asks me to read.
...you don't have time to read everything that everyone asks you to read. What you did was...

http://www.shga.com/forum/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=3840
[TIL] About Tad Eareckson
Bob Kuczewski - 2013/03/10 18:20:34 UTC

I first learned about Tad Eareckson when I was Regional Director and the USHPA Board circulated a letter he had written (with intention to send?) to the FAA about some dangerous practices in hang gliding.

The Board's knee-jerk response was to try to take some kind of legal action to silence Tad. I indicated that I thought we shouldn't be sending our lawyers in as our first response, and that maybe we should have someone talk with him first. So Dennis Pagen volunteered, and I believe the matter was settled without any serious damage to the sport.
...recommend that a major USHGA establishment lying piece of shit (who was my major rock star when I was a baby back in 1980 and for way too many years afterwards) go and try to talk me out of talking to the FAA about dangerous practices in hang gliding (like the one that your buddy Sam used to kill Terry Mason and the ones the Kitty Hawk and Quest used to kill Zack Marzec) and come back into the fold and continue to sit quietly while everybody continued to piss all over me.

And that motherfucker never bothered to communicate one single syllable to me - as you bloody well know despite the impression...
So Dennis Pagen volunteered, and I believe the matter was settled without any serious damage to the sport.
...with which you try to leave people.

And just how much time, effort, energy did you hafta put into that totally useless exercise compared to what I'm doing on your (and hang gliding's) behalf now?

You didn't lift a finger. Your only distinction is that you stank a wee bit less than the rest of your colleagues. You had an obligation to your Regional constituents as well as everybody under the national jurisdiction to look into whether or not aerotowing was being done safely, sanely, and legally but you used your "I'm not an expert in towing" cop-out and punted to a corrupt incompetent lying Industry dildo.
And when I started the US Hawks, I actually sought you out to join us.
For what purpose and to what ultimate end? So I could work to develop AT SOPs on a committee as an equal with total fucking morons like Bill and Sam? So I could have one man / one vote privileges and have my free speech rights protected under your dictatorship?
So "quite the contrary" isn't a fair reflection of what actually happened.
You sabotaged everything I tried and was massively overqualified to do 'cause all you wanted was for me to shut the fuck up and play nicely with the other children.

As you surely must be aware now you don't make positive changes in this sport by shutting the fuck up and playing nicely with the other children. You do it by making tons of lifelong hated enemies and constantly making their lives as miserable as possible.

And lemme tell ya sumpin'...

This was from a phone conversation so I don't have it in print but you said that the tug pilots (should) have the right to determine the weak link strengths at both ends of the line (and that if the glider pilot didn't like it he was free to go up the road a piece to the next AT park to get something he was happier with).

Bullshit. USHGA did a really stellar job of keeping the information from its pilots but 2004/09 the FAA, empowered by the democracy and democratic processes which you hold so dear, expanded sailplane aerotowing regulations to include "ultralight vehicles" - without the slightest whimper of protest or objection from one single individual in the sport. So a good chunk of what I was trying to do was already federal law - but USHGA didn't let anybody know until 2012/06, nearly eight years later, in the fourteen page load o' crap weak link article published by those two total fuckin' douchebags from Cloud 9.

And I can name you at least three people who were killed because those regulations were being flagrantly violated with total green lights from USHGA - as they still are today damn near every time a Dragonfly leaves the ground with a glider behind it. And I'm REALLY glad that at least two of them weren't me. And I really wish Davis and Rooney had been two of them.

Anyway...

You don't need to "protect my privacy" with respect to anything I write you - unless I very conspicuously request otherwise. I need to assume that you'll try to use anything I say against me anyway. And I'd still kinda like to see my message on your forum with my comments about the AT shits at Ridgely and the absence of support from OP intact. But you can leave the asterisks in to disguise the naughty words so your site won't crash and your members won't stampede back to the Jack and Davis Shows in disgust and horror.

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8143/7462005802_bbc0ac66ac_o.jpg
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I'll continue to back you on this based upon fairness and regardless of the situation between us but it would be nice to get just a wee bit of public recognition, acknowledgement, reciprocity.
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Re: The Bob Show

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I've read your posts.
1. All of the 5295 prior to this one? Lots of them are pretty long.

2. But you really haven't responded substantively to anything I've said. You haven't, for example, anywhere publicly acknowledged that the effort I've put into supporting/defending you is about twenty times that of the non Bob runner up. And it's also a pretty safe bet that the effort I've put in on your behalf dwarfs the effort you've put in on your behalf.
I have to respect someone who can be fair even to someone he hates. Thank you.
You're welcome. But don't go too nuts with that. Davis is on your side on this one and he deserves no respect whatsoever.
We will probably never agree on a lot of things, and that's OK.
Not really.

- We're essentially talking aviation and there are totally right and best answers to everything. It's not OK that you say that power failures on takeoff and the stalls they almost always and inevitably produce are totally harmless events.

- And people who can get on the same page on the math, science, physics, logic of aviation tend to be able to get on the same page with a lot of other issues as well.
We have our own forums and our own causes.
And yet we find ourselves in stunningly parallel situations - we can't fly where we want at public facilities which have been taken over by corrupt law breaking concessionaires because USHGA refuses to enforce its regulations and the relevant government entities refuse to enforce their laws protecting our safety and rights.
I appreciate that you've spoken up for what's right regardless of your personal feelings.
1. Not enough for you to have expressed your appreciation on your forum or Sylmar's.

2. This is TOTALLY in line with my personal feelings 'cause my personal feelings are that NOBODY should have his flying rights restricted or revoked and be hauled off to jail for taking pictures in a public park.

3. So would you like to publicly express your personal feelings...

http://ozreport.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=24846
Is this a joke ?
Jim Rooney - 2011/08/25 04:55:25 UTC

Don't even get me started on Tad. That obnoxious blow hard has gotten himself banned from every flying site that he used to visit... he doesn't fly anymore... because he has no where to fly. His theories were annoying at best and downright dangerous most of the time. Good riddance.
http://ozreport.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=30971
Zach Marzec
Jim Rooney - 2013/03/07 18:24:58 UTC

Go back to Tad's hole in the ground.
While you're there, ask him why he was banned from every east coast flying site.
...on my situation? Or can we just assume that you're still in on the same page with Adam, Rooney, Davis, Jack, Cragin, Charlie, Sam, and Bob?
Regarding "Nobody", please let him know that I'd like to give him a call.
I have.
My phone number is still 858-204-7499, and he can call me or you can send me his number and I'll call him.
I'm not sure I have a current number. I've never had any spoken communications with anyone registered on Kite Strings outside of you. And we all know how that one relationship turned out.

I'm advising him not to talk to you. You're very personable and...

http://torreyhawks.org/r3/ENDNOFR.HTM
Endorsements
NMERider

I voted for Bob after spending a very enjoyable hour on the telephone with him a few months ago. My impression of Bob is that he is a level headed and enthusiastic supporter of both hang gliding and paragliding, and above all: SAFETY.
...people tend to hear what they want to hear and drop their guard. Email - fine. That way we can take steps back and take the time and effort to see what you're REALLY saying and trying to do. And there isn't any question about exactly who said what when.

And it dawns on me that, of course, you know all that. And that's WHY you want a phone conversation versus an email exchange.

I'm STRONGLY advising him not to talk to you. The fewer private off-the-record conversations and locked down forums like the Davis and Peter Shows we have the better off hang gliding will be. And, while we're on the subject, how 'bout closed USHGA Board meetings and unrecorded voting records? Any thoughts and/or feelings on those?
He was restricted...
No. He was not restricted. YOU restricted him. Whenever I hear that passive sentence structure alarm bells start going off. Pure...

http://www.hanggliding.org/wiki/HG_ORG_Mission_Statement
HG ORG Mission Statement - Hang Gliding Wiki
HangGliding.Org Rules and Policies

No posts or links about Bob K, Scott C Wise, Tad Eareckson and related people, or their material. ALL SUCH POSTS WILL BE IMMEDIATELY DELETED. These people are poison to this sport and are permanently banned from this site in every possible way imaginable.
...Jack and...

http://ozreport.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=39287
Tad Eareckson's latest tow release
Davis Straub - 2014/09/25 05:25:49 UTC

And Tad was kicked off the Oz Report forum long before I required you to login.
...Davis.
...because he attacked others...
Which others? Did he have any justification or provocation or was it just 'cause he's an inherently nasty aggressive person?
...on the forum without revealing (at least to my satisfaction) who he actually was.
Pilgrim - AKA Charlie Schneider - attacked the crap out of me without revealing who he actually was. But you had no problem whatsoever with that.

And Sam Kellner - AKA Sam Kellner - killed another one of your valued members, Terry Mason, by chopping his power on takeoff and you had no problem whatsoever with that either. And I'm REAL tired of watching negligent and incompetent tow operators and drivers...

http://ozreport.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=28211
Platform towing fatality in Leakey, Texas
NMERider - 2012/06/19 01:36:26 UTC

The pilot had a brush with fate a year earlier:
http://www.kitestrings.org/post453.html#p453
This is very sad.
Gregg Ludwig - 2012/06/23 20:15:21 UTC

What is that saying?..."He does the same thing over and over but expects different results."
...getting away with manslaughter.

And it just dawned on me that not only did Nobody / Steve Davy not break any rules at the time but you've never had any rules for your forum/association. All you've got is an "About the US Hawks" section touting what a bastion of personal freedoms your dictatorship is. And, of course, that way you can make up and selectively enforce "rules" as you go along and lock people in the basement for not identifying themselves or because you feel like running an experiment for "about a month".

Here are the rules Zack "established" upon founding Kite Strings:
Zack C - 2010/11/23 05:23:34 UTC

This is a forum ruled by science, truth, facts, reason, and logic. Anyone with a respect for these principles and a willingness to learn and engage in rational discussion is welcome to participate.

The forum is still in its infancy, so we don't have much in the way of structure or posting rules. Until we're large enough to have a need for more, all topics will be under a single forum. As for rules, just keep it civil, stay on topic, keep topics in line with the forum purpose, and don't lie or misrepresent others' statements.
I greatly value civility for people deserving of it but with everything else Zack mentioned intact civility is an inevitable byproduct and thus doesn't really need specific mention.

And another thought that just crystallized for me...

When civility is made to take precedence over the other elements Zack mentioned no advancement will ever be made, no problems will ever be fixed, and you WILL crash and kill people as a consequence. In virtually all mainstream hang gliding venues "civility"...
Dr. Trisa Tilletti - 2012/06
Dr. Trisa Tilletti 1 - Unlike the FAA's relatively clear-cut legal rules, the practical aspects of weak link technology and application are not so clear-cut. For some people, talking about weak links is more like talking about religion, politics, or global warming--they can get very emotional about it and have difficulty discussing it logically, rationally, or with civility.
Dr. Trisa Tilletti 2 - So let's try to talk about it rationally, logically, and practically here.
http://www.rmhpa.org/messageboard/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=4258
HG accident in Vancouver
Tom Galvin - 2012/10/31 22:17:21 UTC

You are arguing straw men. I teach hook-in checks. I don't teach lift and tug, as it gives a false sense of security. If you include your internet postings as teaching, then from my perspective you are very ineffective, since you mostly alienate those you are seeking to inform. Since you seem to be incapable of rational, civil discourse, this will be my last reply to you. I suspect if you continue your abusive postings, you can add another forum to the list of those you have been banned from.
...is just a weapon sleazy, incompetent, corrupt motherfuckers use to silence their primary threats.
I think a phone call might clear that up.
Clear what up?

- You know who he is beyond any doubt and you're free to identify him using documentation from Kite Strings, which anyone can access, and The Davis Show, which Sam and Bill can access and which you could if you really wanted to.

- He attacked you for what you were doing to me (same way he and I are attacking the Gliderport faction for what they're doing to you), Bill for the insane lethal crap he was spewing about weak link strengths and expectations, and Sam for being Sam (hard to argue with that one).

If you want anything cleared up try getting your shit together and cleaning up your acts. I totally one hundred percent guarantee you that will work.
Thanks again for defending someone you despise.
Wanna REALLY thank me?
Bob Kuczewski - 2014/11/12

I do appreciate your integrity and rising above our disagreement.
Start publicly posting stuff about my integrity on your forum and Sylmar's. But of course you don't wanna do that 'cause that will delegitimize the justification/pretense you used to ban me and undermine the portrayal of me you've been spewing around the web.
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Re: The Bob Show

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http://www.ushawks.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1629
Jailed for taking pictures at Torrey
Bob Kuczewski - 2014/11/19 17:56:05 UTC

Um .... I'm a little bit speechless!!!

I normally have a lot to say, but it seems you guys have covered the topic so well, that there's little for me to add!!

Thanks to:

RickMasters
eagle
SamKellner
BigBird
wingspan33
flyingbrian
billcummings
JoeF

Your points are all excellent!!!! So excellent that I have nothing to add right now. Image

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I would also like to thank Tad at KiteStrings...
That would be "T** at K*** S******" for you Jack and Davis Show fans.
...for his coverage and comments of the event. Tad and I disagree on many things. In fact, Tad has a topic titled "The Bob Show"...
I've also got one down in your Basement by the same name started at the same time for the same reasons.
...where he takes every cheap shot he can at me.
1. Care to quote any?
2. I take cheap shots at some other douchebags on your forum as well. Let's not hog all the glory.
3. Are there any cheap shots I take that aren't really cheap shots?
4. When people take cheap shots at me I deal with them. How come you virtually never do?
If you read that topic (currently containing nearly 330 of mostly Tad's posts)...
327 with this one.
...you'll find Tad using an unending stream of foul language directed at me and other US Hawks members.
That's total fuckin' bullshit. See? Like right there only fifty percent of the words were foul. Less than that if you count the contraction as two words.
But despite his obvious hatred and despise for me...
Shoulda read: "But despite his obvious hatred and da spite for me..."
...he does speak up on the injustice of the situation.
Does he also speak up for the courage you displayed in dealing with that situation?
I have to give him credit for that.
Do I get any credit for...
Bob Kuczewski - 2014/11/12

I do appreciate your integrity and rising above our disagreement.
...my integrity? Just kidding.
I do not recommend Tad's site for anyone under the age of 18...
1. Because of the foul language, Bob?

http://www.ushawks.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=607
Understanding Tow Releases
Peter Birren - 2011/08/29 18:40:45 UTC

Fuckin' coward... ignorant coward.
Tad, you ignorant slut...
Asswipe!
'Fraid they might learn some new naughty words that they wouldn't likely encounter in other internet venues?

2. Aw shit! There goes a major source of people of varying ages for me to prey on. Guess I'll just hafta spend more time in the bushes outside of day care centers. Real bitch in weather like we've been having the past few days.

3. Do you recommend The Bob Show for people under the age of 18...

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8143/7462005802_bbc0ac66ac_o.jpg
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...or over the age of...

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...65?
...but any adults wishing to read Tad's thoughts on the matter can start here:

http://www.kitestrings.org/topic33-270.html#p6962

Tad's coverage included this photo of the arrest that I haven't been able to see elsewhere:

http://ozreport.com/pub/images/eRu0iE8mYuyUmODvFfzY.jpg
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If I figured out how to access that photo you surely can too. (And if you click on the URL you can get the 3264x2448 copy.)
Thanks Tad.
Oh, don't mention it, Bob.
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Re: The Bob Show

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http://www.ushawks.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=1638
Basement Bob
Steve Davy - 2014/11/19 19:07:34 UTC

You got something that you want to say to me then you do it here in your basement, Bob.
Bob Kuczewski - 2014/11/19 19:22:40 UTC

Hello Nobody,
You can call him Steve now. You and everyone else knows he's Steve.
Tad has been uncharacteristically fair to me in his recent coverage of the Torrey situation.
I've always been totally fair to you, Bob. You just don't like it most of the time when it covers most of your actions.
I have thanked him privately and publicly.
You thanked me a lot better privately than you did publicly.
A byproduct of that discussion was the topic of your "confinement"...
Why is "confinement" inside quotation marks?
...to the "Free Speech Zone"...
I can understand why "Free Speech Zone" is in quotation marks.
...on the US Hawks forum. Here's a quote from Tad:
Also...

You have a heavily restricted "Nobody" on your forum who you know was the same "Nobody" from Kite Strings. At 2012/12/20 05:59:56 UTC upon his request I switched "Nobody" to "Steve Davy". And on The Davis Show "Ridgerodent" publicly identified himself as "Steve Davy" - USHGA 88875. And even he's publicly in your corner on this one on one or two other forums.
Since I cannot post to any portion of Tad's site...
1. You could post to all of them before you violated the crap out of the extremely liberal rules once too often.
2. By several definitions it's more Zack's site than it is Tad's.
I chose to reply to him via email:
Hello Tad,

I won't reinstate Nobody's ability to post to the general forum without a phone conversation. He remains free to post in the "Free Speech Zone" as I've said before.

I have posted a link to your web site with a warning that I do not recommend it for anyone under 18 ... which I do not.
1. Fine, Bob. I don't recommend your site for anybody of any age who wants competent information about aviation.
2. My, what a very nice sharply defined number that is, Bob. Reminds me of Donnell Hewett's magic 1.0 G weak link.
3. So why that precise number, Bob? Is that something you derived using your Navier-Stokes equations? Maybe you could walk some of us less gifted folk through your processes. Or is that something you just went with 'cause somebody pulled it out of his ass, declared it a standard, and got a bunch of other religious fanatics to go along with it - totally unencumbered by any thought processes and/or regard for reality?
I'm sure those aren't the answers you want, so please feel free to go back to your regular name calling if you like.
Like what? "Unrepentant child molester" ad nauseam?
That's what I expect even though I would advise a more friendly position.
Of course you would. You're at your most dangerous when you're pretending to be friendly.
I have said many times that we share many similar goals, but I believe that for you, any deviation from exactly what you want is grounds for warfare.
Any deviation from reality in aviation is deadly. And you assholes are all over the fuckin' map.
That's where we've been, and that's where I expect we'll stay until we're both in the ground.
I was kinda hoping to end up as vulture food - assuming I've got no shot at immortality.
Thanks again for doing what is right.

Sincerely,
Bob Kuczewski
I followed that with a message to the registered email address of "Nobody" and a CC to Tad:
Hello Steve (cc Tad),

I've been having a conversation with Tad regarding your reinstatement to the general US Hawks forum.

As you may remember, I took the position that people should not be allowed to attack others on our forum without people knowing who they actually are ... in real life.
Unless they're attacking Tad. Then they have a free pass.
That's why I restricted your posting to the "Free Speech Zone" on our forum.
That's not all you restricted, Bob. He has way better access to your site logged out and surfing as Joe Blow than he does logged in. That's fuckin' ridiculous.
I've seen too many forums where "puppet" users are created to make it appear that there are lots of people with a particular view, when the reality was that they were just a bunch of aliases for one person.
And you bloody well know that that was not the case with Nobody / Steve. And there was ZERO indication that anything like that was going on when you banished him or at any other time before or after.
In fact, I was personally told this by someone doing that exact thing on the hanggliding.org forum. I am hoping to do something better on the US Hawks forum.
Your Board of Directors on that wavelength as well?
So I've arrived at my own policy to avoid that situation. My policy is that I want to have a reasonable certainty of the identity of each person who is engaging in any significant personal attacks against others.
You already have that in spades.
I currently do that with at least one phone call (possibly more).
I currently do that by checking out the Username and E-mail address. I've never had much trouble identifying real people and screening out spammers.
It's not a perfect system, but I think it's better than what we see on most of the other national forums.
How many other national - or international - hang glider forums worth mentioning are there? It doesn't take all that many clicks to check and see if anything's going on.
I stand behind giving people a public voice, but only if they're willing to stand behind it as well.
Then put it in your rules and don't enforce it selectively.
I welcome the chance to discuss this with you, and you are welcome to call me any time at 858-204-7499.
For verification purposes only. FINE. But, Steve, don't drop your guard and make the mistakes I did.
Thanks for signing up with the US Hawks.

Sincerely,
Bob Kuczewski
But then I went back and read just one of Nobody's recent posts directed at Bill Cummings:

"You've got s*** for brains, Bill. Rot in Hell pigf*****."
- Nobody, February 22, 2014
Let's look at it IN CONTEXT:

http://www.ushawks.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=1514
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Nobody - 2014/02/23 06:25:51 UTC

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bisfal bisto - 2014/01/24
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Bill Cummings

Don't increase the strength of your weak-link. (Don't--Don't!)
You've got s*** for brains, Bill. Rot in Hell pigf*****.
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There's no possible way that a statement like that can be construed to be helpful to the sport of hang gliding...
Beats the fuck out of the crap you and Bill were talking...

http://www.ushawks.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1563
Platform Launching (PL) Draft suggestions needed

...about weak links and stalls.
...or to the advancement of discussions here on the US Hawks.
The same way statements about evolution and geology in no way can be construed to be helpful to the religion of Christianity or to the advancement of discussions at Liberty University.

I thought that was unduly harsh. Here's what I wrote at the time:
Tad Eareckson - 2014/02/25 04:40:06 UTC

I don't hate him THAT much.
So I wrote a second message to Steve and Tad:
Steve and Tad,

Let me apologize that my memory appears to be failing me.
Really? It's been good enough for you to violate USHGA's hook-in check requirement...

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...at every site I've ever seen you fly for as long as I've known you.
I generally like to think that most people are reasonable and rational individuals who really want to come to resolutions about issues.
1. Yeah, I used to think that as well. Then I found out the hard way what hang gliding people are REALLY like and all the shit that's been going on since about a half an hour after its inception.

2. What's a resolution? I maintain that two plus two equals four, Bill maintains its eight, Sam sticks to his guns at eleven, so we agree on about 7.67? Or, if Sam's the Committee Chairman, 43?
But when I looked up "Nobody"s recent posts, I found this:

"You've got s*** for brains, Bill. Rot in Hell pigf*****."
- Nobody, February 22, 2014

It's hard for me to imagine the kind of human being who would write something like that on a public forum to someone as experienced and thoughtful as Bill Cummings.
The kind of human being who's tired of seeing bullshit like:

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and:

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So while my offer to reinstate "Nobody" based on a telephone discussion stands, I have to say that it will be a long conversation (maybe many conversations) and may not conclude with a restoration of posting rights.
Fuck you then, Bob.

- You locked him down because he violated a "rule" you made up for and selectively enforced on him.

- The rule was that he could attack whomever he felt like any way he felt like except that asterisks would be active.

- He's identified himself beyond any shadow of a reasonable doubt.

- Then your Alzheimer's winds back a bit and you just happen to suddenly remember that exchange.

- So now you tailor a new special rule for him. He's gotta suck your dick for a few extended sessions "for about a month" at the "end" of which The Great Defender of Individual Freedoms and Free Speech may or may not condescend to bestow on him the coveted rank of Two Cuts South of Sam Kellner.

You twisted goddam sonuvabitch. I can't tell you how proud of myself I am that I resisted the powerful human urge to pick up the phone and start mending fences.
As it stands (and evidenced above), Nobody remains free to post in the "Free Speech Zone" even to this day.
HALLELUJAH!
Despite Tad's complaints, that's far more of a voice than Tad has given to myself on his forum.
Bull fucking shit.

- There is NOBODY who would've tolerated one percent of the crap I allowed you to spew at me when you were on - until a bit over a week shy of five months after you banned me.

- I myself have put up hundreds of totally in context quotes from you on Kite Strings. How many quotes from me have you put up in the past three years?
So Tad, if you want to argue for Nobody to post MORE on our forum...
1. "OUR" forum? Who's "US"? Who has any control over what happens there besides you?

2. I don't. Posting on "OUR" forum is a total life-sucking waste of time and exercise in terminal frustration. I want him to post more on Kite Strings and continue reading and proofreading my posts and finding all my idiot typos and much worse mistakes so's I can fix them before too many other people see them.

3. He can post on "OUR" forum all he wants to down in "OUR" Basement. He obviously doesn't want to. He posts there he boosts your ratings. He posts here he boosts Kite Strings ratings. He posts on The Davis Show and he demolishes that asshole and his sycophants.
...then maybe you should FIRST allow me and others the same posting rights on your forum that he ALREADY HAS on ours.
1. Lemme fix that for ya...
...then maybe you should FIRST allow me and others the same posting rights on your forum that he ALREADY HAS on mine.
Here Zack's ranking officer, I'm an Administrator, Steve's a Moderator, Zack and Steve both have my password, and I've offered my other participants control positions. So I get to do the first person plural thing.

2. What others? I banned...

- Sam 'cause that astoundingly stupid douchebag never had any business being on in the first place and I only made the mistake of treating him as something approaching human out of deference to you.

- your buddy OP 'cause he's a total lying cowardly piece of shit who came here under false pretenses with the sole intent of being banned.

Nobody else who's identifiable as an actual non spammer individual has ever been denied immediate activation and full posting privileges.

3. No. I don't fuck around with Basement restrictions. You're either full in or full out.
Zack C - 2010/11/23 05:23:34 UTC

This is a forum ruled by science, truth, facts, reason, and logic. Anyone with a respect for these principles and a willingness to learn and engage in rational discussion is welcome to participate.

The forum is still in its infancy, so we don't have much in the way of structure or posting rules. Until we're large enough to have a need for more, all topics will be under a single forum. As for rules, just keep it civil, stay on topic, keep topics in line with the forum purpose, and don't lie or misrepresent others' statements.
You don't qualify and just massively reassured me that you never will. You're going for quantity so you want people to play nicely with the other children, we're going for quality and if Sunday school gets in the way of science, truth, facts, reason, logic, rational discussion you're out. That'll be the case whether our participants count is five hundred, fifty, five, two (which is how it started out (four years ago come Saturday) and remained for two months plus eight days), one, or zero.
So that's where we stand.
Regardless of where the goalposts have been moved to.
Nobody (Steve?) already has far more rights to post on this forum than Tad has given to myself and many others on his forum.
Bullshit. See above. Granted, there's no way in hell dedicated pin benders and Rooney Linkers will ever get on here but they don't wanna be here any more than I want them here.
Indeed, the fact that Nobody was able to create this topic ("Basement Bob") just minutes ago (check the dates) is pretty clear proof that we are far more tolerant of free speech here on the US Hawks than Tad is on his forum.
1. Yeah? Try saying shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cocksucker, motherfucker, and tits on The Bob Show and see what happens.

2. Super, Bob! Show me where Kite Strings ever advertised itself as a free speech free-for-all zone. It's a science classroom. Your IQ must be this high to get through the door. I send all the dregs to The Bob Show where they can play nicely together and respect each others opinions.
I find it hard for him to be complaining.
Who's complaining?
Steve and Tad, I appreciate that you have stood up for fairness in the Torrey matter. I have similarly defended Tad in the past...
Not really.
...and I plan to do so in the future for both of you if I see that you are being treated unfairly.
Aren't you gonna hafta do some interesting gymnastics when you're also the one dishing out the unfair treatment?
I doubt we'll get to a better arrangement than that, so let's please leave it at that.
Don't count on it.

http://www.ushawks.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=1638
Basement Bob
Steve Davy - 2014/11/19 22:49:49 UTC

Tad has always been fair to you, Bob. You're just too twisted to realize that.
1. Wow! That's exactly the same adjective I used before reading this post! Great minds...
2. He knows I've always been fair to him. That's what's really getting to him.
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Re: The Bob Show

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Bill,

You watched that video, saw bisfal bisto crash after having his weak link break, then advised that he not increase the strength of his weak link.

What kind of a sick person would offer that advice? Do you enjoy watching folks crash? What the fuck is wrong with you, Bill?

I'll say it again, rot in Hell pigfucker!
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Re: The Bob Show

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http://www.ushawks.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=1638
Basement Bob
Bill Cummings - 2014/11/20 00:43:20 UTC

Tad,
I also want to thank you for your position of support for Bob K. in his struggle with the leadership of the Torrey Pines Glider Port.
Thank you, no thanks necessary. Extremely black and white situation. No brainer.
I also approve of you quoting me as being in support of most all your work as it applies to towing.

I see you as being 99.9% correct in every aspect of towing safety,
The 00.1 percent being the part that got a tandem aerotow instructor splatted on the runway at Quest near the beginning of 2013.
The only disagreement I see between us is weaklink strength.
OK, tell me what:
- strength, G rating, or percent of max certified operating weight you recommend
- expectations you have for your selection
I will go to my grave thinking that I am correct and that you are wrong.
So did that buddy of Jim Keen-Intellect Rooney's who was spending the winter of 2012/2013 flying and making really cool videos. Well, he might have started having a few doubts around the time his standard aerotow weak link increased the safety of the towing operation on his last flight. But what are several seconds of terror and a few minutes of fading consciousness compared to three years of incident free track record?
I thank you for printing your beliefs.
Which ones? I really try to avoid referencing any of my beliefs on glider forums. Hell, for that matter I really try to avoid having any.
Mine are out their too.
I know.
Most of the pilots are adults...
I know. I've raped, murdered, and cannibalized damn near all the ones of varying ages. Still haven't figured out how to get at the ones under Bob's protection however.
...and have the capacity to read what each of us say and make their own informed decision.
And untold thousands of them all believe that a single loop of 130 pound Greenspot fishing line installed on a bridle end with the knot positioned so that it's hidden from the main tension in the link and excluded altogether from the equation will put them at 1.0 Gs and, if they fail to maintain the correct tow position (centered, with the wheels of the tug on the horizon), will break before they can get into too much trouble?

What percentage of them would you estimate have the ability to read the FAA's aerotow weak link regulations and fly in accordance with them?
Here is my chance to preach at you Tad...
Welcome to hang gliding. A great deal of preaching and virtually nothing in the way of aviation theory. The masses love it.
...and I have the feeling that you will read this since you obviously crave attention.
How does my reading what you've written get the attention I obviously crave? Isn't that much more likely to get you the attention you obviously crave?
Your message would be would so much more digestible if what you typed did not include attacks on people calling them idiots and murderers (even if it's true).
http://www.ushawks.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=992
Continuing Saga of Weak Link and Release Mechanism Failures
Warren Narron - 2012/03/06 02:26:04 UTC

Tad, used to post about as nice as anyone, and nicer than some. Remember?

Blowback... You put in a thousand plus hour$, tooling, te$ting and documenting safety issues for the masses and have it ignored and suppressed by people, for whatever reason, and you would get testy too.
You're fairly snarky as it is, and you haven't done the work...
It didn't work. And I missed so many really wonderful opportunities to include attacks on people calling them idiots and murderers. But, what the hell, I can still go back, dig up old threads, put things right.
Doing so automatically puts up a wall of resistance to what you have to offer.
And the higher and more solid that wall is the more, bigger, and better toldyasos...
And you may be correct about the footnote... but today's footnotes are now hyperlinks...

There is a good chance that from now on, for every incident and fatality caused by insufficient weaklinks or sub-standard release mechanisms, a hyperlink trail will lead back to Tadtriedtowarnyou.com ... where all the evidence can be found.

A further link could then go to a list of all the people and the role they played in the suppression of those safety issues...
Who would like to be on that list?
How many are already on it?
...I get out of the deal. Time is totally on my side. The shit WILL happen and all I gotta do is wait and watch the videos.
Allow me to be your writing coach here.
Mind getting in line behind Brad Barkley?

http://ozreport.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=39347
Please explain yourself without deleting me
Brad Barkley - 2014/10/01 14:22:24 UTC

I am assuming that Tad's defenders here have never actually spent any time reading his posts. They are interesting, in the sense that it's kind of like getting a look inside the mind of the Unabomber.
He was there first and is a professional fiction writer.
You have so much knowledge about towing and it is obvious that you are so much more intelligent than I am.
http://www.ushawks.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=1186
D. Straub's Politics=Gun Grabbing, Constitution/Baby Killing
Bill Cummings - 2013/02/19 02:43:00 UTC

No one should confuse me with someone that has been exposed to higher education. I avoided that style of incarceration like the plague. Image Image Image
After I started getting in deep trouble in my senior year of high school I took the physics book home and REALLY waded through it.
Do something about getting banned everywhere and get the word out.
I think I've already done that. I've gotten banned damn near everywhere (still working on the TUGS forum) and gotten the word out.
You are truly an Encyclopedia about towing.
When you've been to two towing funerals in the same season it helps a lot with retention.
Thanks again for your understanding about Bob K's situation.
No prob. Easy. They're doing to him...

http://www.ushawks.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=884
The Bob Show
Bob Kuczewski - 2011/12/13 05:55:39 UTC

This has not been easy or fun. This has been a sad realization for me that some people are so pathological that they cannot interact reasonably with others. That's why so many societies have jails (or death penalties). At some point, they've realized that the costs of interacting with pathological people is too high to be paid. We're reaching that point.
...what he's doing to me.
Consider me a friend Tad, Bill C.
OK Bill, thanks. Now how 'bout treating Zack C...

http://ozreport.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=30971
Zach Marzec
Bill Cummings - 2013/02/15 19:59:49 UTC

ZC, You're right! I'm wrong! Your mind is made up! Good luck with your strong weak links! LATERS! :D
... like a friend? I worked my ass off to deprogram him...

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...and tune him into the physics, he now understands, everything as well as I do, he's a hundred times safer than he was before....

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...and he's having great "LUCK" with his Tad-O-Links - which only break when they need to and never break when they're supposed to.
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