[Bob Kuczewski]

On June 22, 2024, Marshall wrote:

We have the full site intact with all old messages, so they are not lost. I’d like to see the archive available as well, so I’ll be looking into doing that in the near future.

Today is February 5, 2025. Are we still in the “near future” of June 22nd, 2024?

As I mentioned months ago, the U.S. Hawks has an entire subforum dedicated to hang gliding history. The U.S. Hawks forum is also a phpBB forum which means that the SHGA database should be easily compatible for merging. We would be willing to host the old SHGA posts there to preserve them, and it would not preclude the SHGA from doing the same at some later date.

I’ve offered this before with no response. Please reconsider it again before Marshall loses track of the database, and all of that history is gone for good.

Thanks.

[Bob Kuczewski]

From SHGA:

Factions of Ushawks are looking at having the 6 year zero death rate Air California Adventure take over the USHPA with our full support and with support of San Diego city Councile, Karen Bass and Gavin Newsome, not to mention 2028 US president Justin Trudeau who it was agreed after annexation he would be elected inorder to facilitate orderly assimilation.
To celebrate we will allow a BobK date where he is allowed to fly the site.The Us is looking to be admitted to the British Commonwealth which allows aluminium to be accessed at lowcost for hang gliders.

Doug, for the record, I know of no "Factions of Ushawks are looking at having ... Air California Adventure take over the USHPA".

And even if I did, that would belong in another topic.

As for this topic, I remember when I first read the book "1984" by George Orwell. I was still in high school, and 1984 seemed far in the future to a younger me.

The premise of the book was certainly a terrifying future, but I dismissed it as being impossible because it would require so many people to watch all the cameras and change all the history books and magazines and newspaper articles. Such a "Ministry of Lies" would be far too top-heavy to be sustainable.

Of course, I hadn't grasped the future power of computers at that young age. We will soon have AI "bots" doing all of those things (monitoring us and changing our history) and much much more.

Sadly, it is already happening here at the SHGA. With a few keystrokes, the entire club history - including the voices of those who are no longer with us - has been taken down - "disappeared". And the vast majority of this club just pretends it didn't happen.

The warnings of 1984 will become reality through the apathy of those too lazy to stop it.