User talk:Flybd5

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Contents 1 Mixed Votes 2 XL8RTION 2.1 Pedro Rossello 3 Happy Holidays! 4 Image 5 Unsourced image 6 Did you know? 7 Happy New Year 8 Source of BD-5 info

[edit] Mixed Votes

I find very interesting your explanation of mixed votes in Puerto Rico. Although I agree with you that Rossello's challenges to the "pivasos" were clearly based on political grounds, I do have my doubts about the constitutionality of the mixed votes. I understand that these votes are legal under the current election system in Puerto Rico, but several lawyers are arguing that the mixed votes should be eliminated because they in fact violate the "one man, one vote" doctrine issued by the Supreme Court of the United States.

How is that so? Because by voting under the icon of the PIP and later voting besides the picture of Acevedo the voter has in fact voted twice. The two votes are:

1. The vote for Acevedo as Governor.
2. The vote under the party logo to keep the party enscribed for the next election.

As you can see the mixed votes have the effect of casting a double vote. However, this was not the challenge brought by Rosselló. Yet even members of the PPD are arguing for the elimination of the mixed votes in Puerto Rico because a federal court in the future might deem them unconstitutional. It is a very interesting debate that might me resolved in the next couple of years.<<Coburn_Pharr>> 18:55, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

• The vote to inscribe the party has no effect on the result of the election, hence it does not violate the One Man, One Vote doctrine. There are two different issues here --- party membership and the actual votes. The only reason the NPP and PPD want to eliminate the mixed vote is to make it harder for the PIP to remain a political party. The federal courts have no jurisdiction over this matter. Flybd5 21:17, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] XL8RTION

I am going to leave this childish diatribe by this user on my talk page as an example of what happens when people allow their egos to rule their actions on Wikipedia, rather than following policy and guidelines. Who knows, someone may learn something from it. The user posted complaints in WP:PAIN and other places, all of which were summarily dismissed... So much for that. Flybd5 05:23, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Pedro Rossello

• Please do no lecture me on names and on grammar. Many articles on this site have names italicized. The article does not belong to you. Please do not add any further comments to my discussion page--XLR8TION 01:39, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

• • If you do not wish to have comments placed about your editing practices in your personal area, place a query in the discussion area of the article before editing it in a style that does not conform to the rest of the article.Flybd5 00:29, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

• • Apparently you are an imbecile. I have reported you to administrators for harassment. Please be aware let us not talk about manners when you clearly lack them in your genes. --XLR8TION 18:02, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
    • One key note, you have personally attacked others on other discussion boards for their political beliefs. It's apparent you are a brainwashed right-winger who apparently is against the concept of Puerto Rican identity. By attacking those who go against your twisted beliefs, I only can say is that it truly masks any true talent that you might have had as a writer. Do not post anything on my discussion page anymore or you will be reported again. Comprende?--XLR8TION 18:16, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

You will be reported for an on-line threat idiot. Congratulations on being blocked. Merry Christmas moron!--XLR8TION 04:35, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

• • How precious. It seems you're the one who's been thumped over the head for personal attacks on your own discussion page. You go, boi! Flybd5 04:36, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

You have been reported sicko. Threats are illegal on-line as well as off-line. Have a Merry X-mas sicko. --XLR8TION 04:39, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

• • Sure. Unhuh. Check out the response from Veinor to your comment in his talkpage... :) Flybd5 04:44, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

The article has been locked. Please mind WP:CIVIL and discuss each change individually. ---J.S ^(T/C) 18:13, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Happy Holidays!

[edit] Image

Watch over this page and our edits, you are right, should not be so insulting, we dont need to spread more hate. -George

[edit] Unsourced image

Do not add Image:Saddam Hussein iraq mission un portrait.jpg to Saddam Hussein again unless you add proper source information to the image. It is disruptive. J Di ^talk 22:57, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

The image has been attributed. If you don't like the image, then find another appropriate one. Reverting to the previous image is more disruptive. Flybd5 23:04, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

This image is attributed in multiple places on the Internet and the attribution is being used by multiple media outlets all over the place, including Scholastic's web site, Art History Club's web site, [www.academickids.com Academic Kid's Encyclopedia web site], Arikah.com's web site and many others. If you don't like the image, find another one, but stop removing the image because you don't agree with the attribution. By just reverting it all you accomplish is adding more fuel to the fire. Flybd5 23:02, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

This has got nothing to do with my opinion of the image. My only concern is that the image you want to add to the article did not have proper source information when you added it, and it still doesn't. If you want to ignore my edit summaries and the warnings, carry on, but it'll only get you blocked. Please add proper source information to the image before adding it back to the article. J Di ^talk 23:07, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

The source is on the record of the upload of the image, exactly as EVERYONE ELSE on the image is sourcing and attributing it. It came from the Iraq Mission to the UN when Hussein was in power. This isn't a matter of your opinion, it's a matter of fact. You are adding fuel to the fire by reverting to an insulting image of a head of state. If you don't like the image, FIND ANOTHER APPROPRIATE ONE, but don't revert images just because you have an opinion about its source. Flybd5 23:13, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

This has got nothing to do with my opinion. This page does not specify the image's source. That is where source information needs to go. If you can't add it, don't add the image back. J Di ^talk 23:19, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

The source is right there in front of you, along with the independent verification info. Leave your opinion out of it. Flybd5 23:29, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

For the last time, this is not about my opinion. I couldn't care less about what image is used in the article. Have you read commons:Commons:Licensing? Read that, add the source information to the image. J Di ^talk 23:36, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

I DID. Get off my talk page already, go bother someone else! Flybd5 00:02, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Did you know?

Any time! Not a problem! Nice facts! I just made some minor fixes here and there. The only thing is the plane thing, the link you supplied, being a comment page is unsuitable as a valid resource. True as it may be, the fact is kind of subjective too. I dunno. Good night! --Stux 09:30, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

The link I supplied for the plane is the record page on the Guinness site. Comment page? Maybe you're getting the wrong page. As to being subjective, it's the recognized world record, there's only one, and the plane belongs to me. :) Flybd5 11:04, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

Oh! No, sorry it didn't hit me that there are two plane entries that you had touched: the one I was talking about was the "Puerto Ricans clap when an airplane lands" one that's commented out. That was the one that led me to a comment page. The guiness link is just fine! And you own the plane!? Seriously!? Niiiiiiiice. Saying things like that might get you ppl to ask for rides or somethin ;) --Stux 17:12, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

Ok, now I get it. That's why I left the entry commented out so it wouldn't show. The statement is wrong anyway. We only clap when we land, and then again only after turbulence. It's actually animated praying, you know that. :) Yes, I own the little pocket rocket, and sorry, no rides unless you have a strong rope. :) Flybd5 19:23, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

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Happy New Year

(Feliz Año Nuevo)

Happy New Year from Tony the Marine 02:43, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

I wish you and your loved ones all the happiness in the world this coming year.

(P.S. You've been doing a wonderful job on the DYK-Puerto Rico, a section I started a long time ago. Keep up the good work.)

Thank you, Feliz Año Nuevo para ti y tus seres queridos también. :) Flybd5 08:17, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Source of BD-5 info

Do you have a source for the estimate of ~30 BD-5's currently flying? --rogerd 17:33, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

Of course. I am the director of the BD-5 Network worldwide. I run the BD-5 Network and I own the BD-5 web site as well as the BD-5 mailing list. I am the keeper of such statistics. There are some five jets flying on a regular basis (as regularly as BD-5J's can be operated), and some 25 recip and turboprop BD-5's flying around the world, some regularly, some not so regularly. Flybd5 19:05, 17 January 2007 (UTC)