Skippy

Yeah, muscle atrophies very quickly when you don't use it, especially if you are ill.

But congrats on the progress, try to stay positive with everything, that always helped with my rehab after having my shoulders reconstructed. Keep the good work up!

Yeah, muscle atrophies very quickly when you don't use it, especially if you are ill.

But congrats on the progress, try to stay positive with everything, that always helped with my rehab after having my shoulders reconstructed. Keep the good work up!

Honesty is Important.
 
Remember to date, not in a "we are dating" way but actual, memorable, dates.
 
When you are upset, talk about it, even if it isn't directed at your partner it can seep.
 
Be you, too many people put on a show for a while, but you can't keep that up forever, trust me there.
 
You have other friends, don't neglect them.
 
Also, be sure you can function on your own, you should always be two people who are separate, but desire to be with one another.   If you can't live without them, rethink the relationship (seriously, experience talking here)
 
Might have more later.

Wouldn't be too hard....Start out with a ducati monster frame...raise the tank a bit....I need about $40k so i can do this

Dinner the other night

Dinner the other night

Dinner the other night

Dinner the other night

Biking at night around here...I've worn balaclavas in summer with some kind of wrap around sunglasses because of how bad bugs are, they will just fly into you, mouth, nose, eyes, it's horrible.

The homeless one, obvious overuse of force, at most I could see using the flash grenade or a beanbag, I would never recommend that anyone approach anyone holding a blade of any kind.  Blades are always dangerous and kind of get overlooked.  It seems to me ABQ needs to have a serious look into their police force.  In all reality, it seems he was surrendering, if not de-escalating, and they should have allowed him to do so. 
 
And yes, at least one had a taser on his hip.
 
The choke hold one is another one that is less abuse of force, as it is a "soft hands" technique, but they are banned for a reason, there is only one way to do it right and about a million to do it wrong, and doing it wrong can kill someone quickly.  One thing I will say as an aside, many of the videos that seem like brutality, where you see several officers on one person on the ground, is really about the farthest from brutality you can be.  When someone is resisting, there are far fewer injuries, both to the arrested person and the officers when they use these techniques.  That being said, again, you should never place a choke hold on a person as an officer.
 
Part of the issue with prosecution is that the law makes it somewhat hard to prosecute an officer, and part of it comes to jury bias in trial cases.  The public tends to side with police, especially if there is any sort of question as to whether or not there was a threat to the LEO.  Another part of it is that being fired is actually prety horrible for LEO's, simply because it means you are now unhirable,  and many times jail is just as good as a death sentence, not that that is real justification.
 
In all reality, IA is a joke, they are there to maintain liability for the PD, if the action isn't going to be an issue for the PD's finances, the cop will probably walk.  I'd like to see all investigations of police go through state law enforcement, and all investigation of state LEO's to go through a federal agency like the FBI.  Basically, I want someone with no connection to that officer investigating any incidents like this.
 
I have to get some sleep now, I'll be on tomorrow, good chatting with you again Saha.

Really, it comes down to one of two things, he was shot as he fled, a la the friends story, or he was shot, tried to run/walk away and collapsed face down, which is honestly, just as plausible with the in car altercation scenario.  But I want to know which one it is.
 
There is new evidence that was released that the officer received head injuries  in the altercation which lends credence to the cops story, along with the fact that it is implausible that an officer would manage to grab a 6 foot plus man by the neck while sitting inside his patrol car.
 
On the other hand, maybe the cop was absolutely nuts and just wanted to shoot a guy, in which case, send him to rot for life.
 
Now now, let's not call him a gun rights activist, he cares only for himself and hides behind the name.  That would be like associating all Christians to the WBC.  But yeah, probably because they are white and because the BLM is horrible at doing pretty much anything and isn't really a law enforcement agency.

I was hoping you might come back here to respond to this thread, since you're in the area.
 
I still think it's absolute bullshit that you can't score an immobilizing shot if you ran that long and still managed to hit that target that accurately. I think it's even worse that you think eight shots is okay under any circumstance. You should be trained better to handle stressful situations, since we as a society trust you to use your guns only when necessary. I understand using deadly force when you are clearly about to be horribly murdered because your attacker is trying to end your life, but I do not believe for one minute that an unarmed civilian is that kind of threat. Why are police getting grenade launchers.
 
But there's also audio evidence that the police department wasn't notified after the shooting, which I would think means it isn't a crime scene, and that the guy just walked away thinking he wouldn't get blamed for a ~completely~ bullshit shooting that was reported multiple times by separate people to not have warranted lethal force. Something clearly needs to change if the protocol is to neglect all the other means of detainment that you have and go for the gun first. Especially when a target is running from you.
 
I agree that the riots aren't really doing much, especially because they're looting their own towns, and some people from other towns are looting the same places (white people might I add) but I'm tired of people taking the high roads and trying to justify their way the fuck out of a completely garbage situation. To me it looks like you want to disagree with authority dissenters but you can't own up to that the authority is doing something morally wrong. Like, if I fucking shot you eight times and then left you in the street without calling an ambulance, I would be detained in nearly every civilization on the planet, unless you were a black male and I was a white cop in a black ghetto in the United States? Why is "shoot an unarmed person until that person is down if you feel threatened" a protocol at all? What part of that sounds like it's supposed to happen?
 
I don't care that it's your job, Skippy, or what your job tells you to do. There is a real and serious ethical issue going on here if that's how you're supposed to operate.

That's cool. I didn't even know you liked Zelda, haha.

I guess I would just talk and react. I just have bad experiences of people hamming it up and trying to be Internet famous.
Off topic kinda: do you stream with a capture card? Or do you play them on your computer?

If you want people to watch a stream, you are going to want to interact with the viewers.  If there is no interaction, then there is no reason to watch a stream live as opposed to a youtube video or something.  
 
The best streamers got their audience in one of two ways, they are either doing something exceptional that no one or very few other people are doing, or they are a good personality and interact and play well with chat/other people they are playing against.
 
That being said, I occasionally stream Zelda and would be up to marathon sometime.

Here is my view on it.
 
We know nothing.  WE don't have enough information either way, we need to let the dust settle and let the FBI do their job.
 
As far as how many times Brown was shot, it is the absolute last factor that should be considered, and is always one that irks me.  Police, military, and CCW holders ( I am one, so I can speak to it) are trained that in a situation where you are drawing you're weapon 1) You are prepared to absolutely destroy, irrevocably, whatever and whoever you are about to point it at,  and 2) You shoot at center mass till the target is down, your slide locks back, or you are otherwise unable to shoot.  In a situation where deadly force is required, you don't know if it will take one bullet or nineteen (the capacity of a glock 17, the most popular service pistol in the US) to neutralize a threat.
 
Now, I am in now way saying that what the officer did was justifiable, but it was protocol when it comes to deadly force.
 
AS far as the ambulance thing, the officer was in a hostile situation, called in the shooting, it is up to dispatch after that.   As far as leaving the body, the moment the officer fired, it was a crime scene, meaning he can not touch or cover anything.  This is for the integrity of the investigation.  It is also protocol for the officer to be brought in, surrender his weapon for ballistics and be placed on leave immediately after any shooting.
 
Finally, as far as shooting to immobilize, I will say I am a relatively good shooter, and I participate in competition.  One thing you must understand is that service pistols are about the least accurate firearms available, truly only accurate at fairly close distances and very susceptible to shakes in the hand or anything that takes away from perfect form.  The first thing that goes out the door  in any situation where adrenaline goes up or there is physical stress is fine motor control.  Here is a visual example.
 

 
That was taken while practicing for a USDPSA match.  Basically, I ran about 1/8 mile, then shot at a standing position a ten inch target at about 10 yards.  I do this often, and I still have flyers.
 
Here's the thing, I did not fear for my life when I was doing this.  A leg shot on a moving target while adrenaline is pumping is just not feasible.
 
All said and done, I just want people in Ferguson to stop tearing things down and let the investigation get results, chanting "kill the police" and destroying stores and businesses and patrol vehicles is doing nothing but harm the memory of a young man who was taken too soon, justified or not.

Finally got my TV set up in my bedroom
 



 
ETA:  Breaking it in right.
 

Finally got my TV set up in my bedroom
 



 
ETA:  Breaking it in right.
 

Finally got my TV set up in my bedroom
 



 
ETA:  Breaking it in right.
 

This is applicable to my running efforts.

Finally got my TV set up in my bedroom
 



 
ETA:  Breaking it in right.
 

So Freshman year, I had this room mate, he stole the keys to my motorcycle, then tried to take it for a joyride.
 
He couldn't figure out how to start it.

To be fair, not really, I was 20, I consider that my freshman year because I went to a Community College first and absolutely nothing transferred.

so this is the last picture of me before I die tomorrow
 

 
because tomorrow I'm "running" a half marathon. 13.1 miles of puppy shit hell
I planned to train when I signed up for this in june shit got busy I haven't ran in a month in a half, or exercised I plan on walking some I plan on limping some I plan on crawling some I plan on crying some   puppy so yeah that's it guys, i'll never be happy again after tomorrow after the sheer amount of pain i will be putting myself through. like lol my plan is to take 4 ibuprofens before i go
 
and i need to wake up at 6 sooo
bedtime bitches, nini
 
edit: also one last thing, PHEO GET A HAIRCUT omg

So Freshman year, I had this room mate, he stole the keys to my motorcycle, then tried to take it for a joyride.
 
He couldn't figure out how to start it.

Haven't picked out a song yet, but pertaining to log in, I have a USB stick in my safe, on it is all the log ins to every forum I am on, as well as all the passwords to computers, ipads, harddrive encryption, bank log ins, all that stuff.  It's always good to keep a copy of that stuff for a shit hits the fan situation as it is, just make sure it's safe.
 
 
And now, I'm thinking Standing Outside the Fire by Garth Brooks, I always did enjoy that one.