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Jammer, For someone who claims to have gone to college, you don't read very well. I at NO TIME was talking about changing laws. I do NOT want any new laws passed. I do NOT want to force anybody to tech dive like WKPP does, or anyone else. I have made this Crystal Clear to everyone but you. I want at least one or two really high end agencies, with stricter guidelines. I was hoping that IANTD would step up to the plate, and make some innovations in diver fitness standards, and it looks like they are interested in doing this. I think that's great. I have no idea how this can possibly offend you so much....Are you so hopelessly out of shape that the idea of fitness testing new students scares you? Are you so uncoordinated that the idea of having to pass tougher skills tests makes you nervous? Don't worry, the lamest of the lame is still teaching deep air, and you can still smoke pot and drink beer in front of your Gilliam poster, and rejoice in a world without regulated tech diving. At least I will do nothing to create regulation---if anything, my efforts will help prevent it. Let me say this again, at the risk of tiring your lips with all this reading.....I do not want to have any legislation of diving occur. I do not want the feds involved in any way. I do not want to make any changes to any diver's personal freedoms. I want one or two, elite agencies to exist, so that smarter, better divers, can have a better chance of becoming better still, and of living longer, more enjoyable lives. And I'd really like it if you re-read my past posts, so you'd realize the only reason your getting static from me now, is that in each of my past posts, I was consistently talking about just changing training parameters for an agency or two, not all of them---by business decision, the free market, filling a niche---get the picture? I was not talking about asking for anybody to enact any laws to prevent you or your friends from diving the way you want to. There is no law in the US to prevent anyone from tech diving, and hopefully, there never will be. As to my treatment of the lame agencies, whose complete lack of screening and safety will be the legacy you wish for---I don't have to say nice things about morons. I don't have to like them. Its not in my power to remove them, and its not my place anyhow. I'll let you and your buddies do that. :) Dan -----Original Message----- From: Jammer Six <jammer@oz*.ne*> To: techdiver <techdiver@aquanaut.com> Date: Friday, February 27, 1998 10:44 PM Subject: Re: Tragic technicaldiving >> Jammer, >>Should you go to College without entrance exams? > >Actually, I did exactly that. > >>Should you become a SEAL without completing the training for SEAL TEAM >>members? > >Funny, I thought we were talking about technical diving. Don't confuse >that with the Navy. They're not even close to the same thing. Being in >the SEALs is actually difficult, it's almost as tough as being in the >Military. > >>Should you be allowed to perform brain surgery on people without having >>successfully completed the rigors of medical school? > >Separate subject. We're talking about who should be allowed to ATTEMPT >medical school. > >>Should you be allowed in the boxing ring with Mike Tyson, to have a shot at >>getting your ear bitten off, or much worse, without first having proved you >>belong in a championship bout? :) > >Absolutely. Take your best shot. > >Haven't watched much boxing, have you? They let LOTS of unqualified >steroid cases get eaten alive by champions, every year. > >(Although tyson is no champion, he's a short-eyes.) > >>If you haven't heard me clearly saying everyone has the right---but they >>need to go through the appropriate training and pass the prerequisites >>first, then you must have already found your way in to the ring with Tyson. >>What's it like without an ear??? <grin> > >It's the prerequiesites and training nonsense I'm arguing. > >Only private groups, like WKPP, the Ku Klux Klan, and the Nation of Islam >can set arbitrary preqs like you're suggesting. > >Fortunately, those preqs only apply to entry to those groups, and have >nothing to do with the rest of us. > >What I'm telling you, with or without your understanding, comprehension, >or permission, is that the prerequisites and training that you have been >babbling about for multiple mixed gas, 200 foot, decompression diving >will never be allowed to become law in the U.S., and therefore will never >have any impact on the vast majority of the diving public. > >We're going to loose a few. Darwin never blinks, and if you want to slap >him, by doing a dive that you're not really qualified for, have at it. >With my blessing. > >I have several suggestions about how you could learn to live with this, >and actually become comfortable enough with it to sleep at night, but I'm >sure that you will arrive at suitable conclusions on your own. > >As I noted in another post, on another subject, the sky is not really >falling, Mr. Little. > >Don't be afraid. > >------------ >"C'mon, you sons of bitches, you >want to live forever?" > -First Sergeant Dan Daly, 1918 >------------ > >-- >Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. >Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. > -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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