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> >My objections are soley with the word "rights", and the implications that >spring from it. The only way to change rights is by changing law, and >that's where I went. > >After carefully re-reading your posts, I believe we are in agreement, Dan. > >Speaking as a diver, as long as there is a way for everyone, even >Gilliam, to execute technical dives, I won't have a problem with it. I >will laugh at them with you, but I will fight you to prevent actually >stopping any of them from diving. > >Speaking as a business owner, there's no way in hell I'd invest in a high >end tech agency geared the way you are describing, because such an >enterprise would be doomed before the charter was dry, but that's another >discussion. > >I don't really wish to pursue that discussion, because I *DO* see the >need for such an agency, and don't wish to throw cold water on anyone >brave enough to attempt forming one. > >I think we're in agreement, Dan, if you're talking about improving the >quality of education, as opposed to individual rights. > >By the way, isn't JJ forming an agency with just these aims? > Jammer, I'd read many of your past posts, and actually expected you and I would agree on this topic. This is one of the worst parts of the Internet, the incomplete exchange of an idea, that would be incredibly easy to convey completely in person, or even on the phone. Anyway, as to an agency that JJ may form, I've heard talk about a very small, very elite agency. A "best of the best" kind of training. Hopefully he will do it, and if so, it would go along way toward the goals I've raised already. And I'd like to think Tom Mount may at some point, either create his own elite subcategory of tech/cave, and / or, shrink the agency, purge the "fat" out of the instructor pool, and raise the overall standards of all of IANTD, to really elite levels. Of course, purposely making a big company like IANTD shrink, would be financially undesirable. But I like many of Tom's recent ideas, and I look forward to seeing where he takes IANTD in the future. As to the garbage quality tech training, or Terribly Deviant Instruction(TDI) available all over the world today, it will be here to stay, and I need to do nothing about it. It will be the right, and the legacy, of the obese, the foolish, the lazy, and to those too incompetent to make it in the more elite agencies. And anyone, no mater how obese, no mater how lazy, no matter how many drugs they do, will have the ability to get certified by these agencies. I'm hoping that in a year from now, there will be a couple of "better choices", which smarter, better divers, can make, in choosing who will train them. Regards, Dan Volker www.sfdj.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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