While something like a most handgun rounds won't do much to body armor something up in the.30-30 range of power (also included would be the.223 aka 5.56x45, 7.62x39, 5.45x39, etc ) would. Now considering that weapons like that are on the low side of power for deer hunting with most being comparable to the.30-06 (.303,.308 aka 7.62 NATO, 7.62x54r,.300 Winchester mag,.270, etc) and that those hunting weapons often now are semi auto and very accurate, more so than standard military small arms, and you have a good match on personal firepower. Granted you wouldn't stand a chance against aerial bombing, helicopter gun ships (maybe this one you might), or tanks, but then would the US government be willing to bomb out an entire city to try and eliminate a handful of irregular forces acting as snipers picking off individual police, or military personnel? The days of an open battle like what the Ruby Ridge, or Waco guys were planning for would not be the correct way to go about it. Just look at how effective our forces are against irregular forces in Iraq and Afghanistan to see how well it would work in the US. Do I ever think it would come to that, probably not, unless the US government decided that it was going to try and seize all small arms. There are better methods of change including the soap box, ballot box, and jury box, but don't believe that the ammo box would be ineffective.
How about we remove party designators from the ballot and make parties pay for their own primaries or caucuses. I would say remove the names from the ballot and have people write in the name but given most people's handwriting, recounts, and questioning of ballots it seems to make sense to leave the names. This would at least prevent some of the vote for the party down the ballot that so many people seem to like to do.
My county finally got the right idea a couple of years ago and quit charging for electronics at the recycle center. Once they did that I got rid of a bunch of old equipment that I was slowly taking up to my dad's house so he could dispose of it for free. I also like that my counties recycle center will let you take stuff if you want it and have a free chemicals area. I haven't bought solvents in years, and was lucky enough to find some muritic acid there when I was doing some concrete repair on patio. I also grab stuff for my dad as his county's recycle center no longer lets you take stuff you want.
1. I wasn't talking about hitting a curb head on but clipping one at speed and laterally loading the suspension which will knock it out of alignment. My wife does this a fair amount when turning as she doesn't pay attention and then wonders why her car never goes in a straight line.
2. In every vehicle I have ever driven with an automatic it is possible to get on the brakes and the gas at the same time. You will load up the torque converter up to the stall point. With enough practice in a rear wheel drive vehicle you can do a nice burnout this way. Bonus points if you also realize that this will give you a really nice launch off the line if you drag race. This is really hard on the transmission fluid and if you do it enough you will start to burn it as you overheat it
3. Here I am not talking about standing on the brake pedal but riding it so you are always applying braking force to the wheels, you are still on the gas pedal, but more so than you would need to be otherwise. I had a vehicle where one of the front calipers got stuck which is basically the same thing, it was still possible to accelerate but it did it really slow, and eventually I burned up the rotor, pads, and boiled the brake fluid, but managed to get it home.
4. Not in park which is usually the gear that you start in. When you start a vehicle it doesn't have oil pressure immediately and when you floor it the engine will rev up quite quick without oil pressure. This will wear the engine out really fast, or just blow up the motor eventually (ask my step mom who usually ends up with 3 engines being put into a car with less than 100,000 miles).
5. Never seen a vehicle where the traction control couldn't be turned off with a push of a button. This is usually do the the fact where there are edge cases where it just goes stupid like on a sheet of ice when starting. Here it just goes stupid and will throttle down the engine and apply the brakes until the car ceases to go forward since you will end up spinning one tire if you have an open diff.
6. The emergency brake is not very strong and is usually just a mechanical linkage to a small set of drum brakes located in the rear rotors. The emergency brake is usually only strong enough to keep the car from rolling on a mild incline. Even if it actually controlled the actual brakes using the hydraulic system it still wouldn't be that much force and could be overcome by pressing down on the gas pedal more.
Granted some of these all assume having either an automatic or cvt transmission and not a manual, but standard manuals you can really beat on by riding the clutch or by learning how to shift without the clutch. There is also the grind the gears option but that seems to simple but is a side affect of learning how to shift without using the clutch.
You can still check to see that the curbs exist (this will probably knock it out of alignment, if not repeat until it does), stand on the brakes and gas at the same time and cook the converter, ride the brakes until you boil the fluid, floor it immediately after the engine catches when starting, turn off the traction control and whip some shitties (go in reverse if in a front wheel drive vehicle), leave the emergency brake on.
Yes in Vegas you can rent a Ferrari as well as a host of other sports cars. When I was out there with my wife a few years ago I rented a Lotus Elise for a day. Of the fancy cars it was the cheapest and only like $10 more than a Ford Mustang but I like little roadsters so it was worth it for a day of driving around seeing some of the other stuff in the area. As much fun as getting something like a Lamborghini of Ferrari would be I still wanted the Elise.
I agree it is McDonald's beer (Kronenbourg 1776). I went whole hog for the full bastardized experience and got the royal with cheese at the McDonalds on the Champs Elysees my first night as I figured everyone would ask if I did that when I was in France. I was in Paris for 3 months with work and had a chance to try a number of French beers and Kronenbourg was among the worst, although none were great. I eventually found the Belgian beers and those were good, I particularly like the Leffe Brown. The best experience was when I met up with a Scotsman shortly after I arrived (2nd week) at the back of the plaza in front of Notre Dame who wanted to use my tripod for taking some night time pictures. Even in french I could still hear his thick accent and once I explained that I really didn't speak French asked me in English and we started talking. After taking pictures he asked if I liked Scotch and we went down to a bar in the Latin Quarter and chatted through a bottle of single malt. The only part of my trip to France I didn't like was my co worker, who was also from America, that was on the trip with me. He never wanted to do things, couldn't clean up his messes, couldn't function without adult supervision and had never been away from his mom and dad until this trip yet was 29 years old.
For locks that I don't care about I have always preferred the large slotted screw driver hammered through the key slot, just attach a large vice grip pliers to the shaft of the screw driver from some leverage. Granted the lock will never work again but you can open it.
I love the 7.62x54R round, it is cheap (about $10 for a box of 20 if buying commercial with mil surplus being substantially less), can be accurate (you do seem to need to find the manufacturer your gun likes though) and can easily take all big game in North America. As to Moisin-Nagants, they are very inexpensive, I bought mine for $89 on sale a few years back but the quality of the Russian ones at that price point varies greatly (some are wall hangers, others are phenomenal shooters). I picked through about a dozen until I found the ex-sniper one in the batch and with an added scope, bedding, and a bit of trigger work it is about a 1 MOA firearm. Now what I really want is a Finnish M39 Moisin-Nagant as those are suppose to have incredible accuracy with their heavy barrels, less twist, and trigger work, but those are substantially more and difficult to find.
The.303 is used while not common isn't unheard of. One of the guys in the hunting party uses one and actually is shooting a Lee-Enfield No.4 Mk I and accuracy wise my M91/30 is better, but I really love the smoothness of the action of his Enfield.
I have always lived in Minnesota, as in that is my permanent residence, but I happen to live close enough to Wisconsin that if I need to I can easily go get some.
I will give you that. I was only out there for a few months with work and dealt with mostly professionals, but would have to say neither. The looks I would get when I would mention that I hunt was quite funny as people who preach the wonders of all natural, organic, free range, grass fed, cage free, hormone free, and antibiotic free meat tried to reconcile actually going out and killing an animal for food your self and their world view. You should hear the lecture I get about the evils of hunting and firearms from my sister in law who insists on eating only the above mentioned type of meat and lives in Eugene. The biggest things I miss about being out there is the beer, that you can buy beer in the grocery store, and can buy it on a Sunday.
I would hardly call MSNBC a proper news organization, to me they seem to be a slightly more shrill version of Fox News for the left. When traveling for work I prefer something like BBC World Service, the French international news in English (this still seems very rare) service, Al Jazerra in English, or just about any other new service than the standard American cabal ones.
You sound like me with my car. The look on some people's face when someone actually decides to step into the gas some, or light up the tires on a BMW is quite humorous. What I really want is to eventually finish restoring my MG Midget and have it setup as a proper supercharged alcohol burner for some real fun and see just how much power one can squeeze out of an A-Series engine.
I love driving, just not in heavy traffic. I like the long road trip or better yet beating on my stuff at the track. I had an SCCA solo license and that was a riot to do. To get it you need to go to classes to learn how to really beat on your stuff and do it correctly. Some day I will get back to doing SCCA solo events but not until the kids get a bit older as I don't have the time now.
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While something like a most handgun rounds won't do much to body armor something up in the .30-30 range of power (also included would be the .223 aka 5.56x45, 7.62x39, 5.45x39, etc ) would. Now considering that weapons like that are on the low side of power for deer hunting with most being comparable to the .30-06 (.303, .308 aka 7.62 NATO, 7.62x54r, .300 Winchester mag, .270, etc) and that those hunting weapons often now are semi auto and very accurate, more so than standard military small arms, and you have a good match on personal firepower. Granted you wouldn't stand a chance against aerial bombing, helicopter gun ships (maybe this one you might), or tanks, but then would the US government be willing to bomb out an entire city to try and eliminate a handful of irregular forces acting as snipers picking off individual police, or military personnel? The days of an open battle like what the Ruby Ridge, or Waco guys were planning for would not be the correct way to go about it. Just look at how effective our forces are against irregular forces in Iraq and Afghanistan to see how well it would work in the US. Do I ever think it would come to that, probably not, unless the US government decided that it was going to try and seize all small arms. There are better methods of change including the soap box, ballot box, and jury box, but don't believe that the ammo box would be ineffective.
How about we remove party designators from the ballot and make parties pay for their own primaries or caucuses. I would say remove the names from the ballot and have people write in the name but given most people's handwriting, recounts, and questioning of ballots it seems to make sense to leave the names. This would at least prevent some of the vote for the party down the ballot that so many people seem to like to do.
That is basically what ends up happening to vehicles after they have been striped of anything useable at the junk yard.
This is why I am keeping my old LCD, it gets used some but not not much.
You don't have a wife do you. They will make you get rid of stuff.
My county finally got the right idea a couple of years ago and quit charging for electronics at the recycle center. Once they did that I got rid of a bunch of old equipment that I was slowly taking up to my dad's house so he could dispose of it for free. I also like that my counties recycle center will let you take stuff if you want it and have a free chemicals area. I haven't bought solvents in years, and was lucky enough to find some muritic acid there when I was doing some concrete repair on patio. I also grab stuff for my dad as his county's recycle center no longer lets you take stuff you want.
I should watch that some time, is it any good or am I going to regret that I will never have that time back?
1. I wasn't talking about hitting a curb head on but clipping one at speed and laterally loading the suspension which will knock it out of alignment. My wife does this a fair amount when turning as she doesn't pay attention and then wonders why her car never goes in a straight line.
2. In every vehicle I have ever driven with an automatic it is possible to get on the brakes and the gas at the same time. You will load up the torque converter up to the stall point. With enough practice in a rear wheel drive vehicle you can do a nice burnout this way. Bonus points if you also realize that this will give you a really nice launch off the line if you drag race. This is really hard on the transmission fluid and if you do it enough you will start to burn it as you overheat it
3. Here I am not talking about standing on the brake pedal but riding it so you are always applying braking force to the wheels, you are still on the gas pedal, but more so than you would need to be otherwise. I had a vehicle where one of the front calipers got stuck which is basically the same thing, it was still possible to accelerate but it did it really slow, and eventually I burned up the rotor, pads, and boiled the brake fluid, but managed to get it home.
4. Not in park which is usually the gear that you start in. When you start a vehicle it doesn't have oil pressure immediately and when you floor it the engine will rev up quite quick without oil pressure. This will wear the engine out really fast, or just blow up the motor eventually (ask my step mom who usually ends up with 3 engines being put into a car with less than 100,000 miles).
5. Never seen a vehicle where the traction control couldn't be turned off with a push of a button. This is usually do the the fact where there are edge cases where it just goes stupid like on a sheet of ice when starting. Here it just goes stupid and will throttle down the engine and apply the brakes until the car ceases to go forward since you will end up spinning one tire if you have an open diff.
6. The emergency brake is not very strong and is usually just a mechanical linkage to a small set of drum brakes located in the rear rotors. The emergency brake is usually only strong enough to keep the car from rolling on a mild incline. Even if it actually controlled the actual brakes using the hydraulic system it still wouldn't be that much force and could be overcome by pressing down on the gas pedal more.
Granted some of these all assume having either an automatic or cvt transmission and not a manual, but standard manuals you can really beat on by riding the clutch or by learning how to shift without the clutch. There is also the grind the gears option but that seems to simple but is a side affect of learning how to shift without using the clutch.
You can still check to see that the curbs exist (this will probably knock it out of alignment, if not repeat until it does), stand on the brakes and gas at the same time and cook the converter, ride the brakes until you boil the fluid, floor it immediately after the engine catches when starting, turn off the traction control and whip some shitties (go in reverse if in a front wheel drive vehicle), leave the emergency brake on.
Yes in Vegas you can rent a Ferrari as well as a host of other sports cars. When I was out there with my wife a few years ago I rented a Lotus Elise for a day. Of the fancy cars it was the cheapest and only like $10 more than a Ford Mustang but I like little roadsters so it was worth it for a day of driving around seeing some of the other stuff in the area. As much fun as getting something like a Lamborghini of Ferrari would be I still wanted the Elise.
I agree it is McDonald's beer (Kronenbourg 1776). I went whole hog for the full bastardized experience and got the royal with cheese at the McDonalds on the Champs Elysees my first night as I figured everyone would ask if I did that when I was in France. I was in Paris for 3 months with work and had a chance to try a number of French beers and Kronenbourg was among the worst, although none were great. I eventually found the Belgian beers and those were good, I particularly like the Leffe Brown. The best experience was when I met up with a Scotsman shortly after I arrived (2nd week) at the back of the plaza in front of Notre Dame who wanted to use my tripod for taking some night time pictures. Even in french I could still hear his thick accent and once I explained that I really didn't speak French asked me in English and we started talking. After taking pictures he asked if I liked Scotch and we went down to a bar in the Latin Quarter and chatted through a bottle of single malt. The only part of my trip to France I didn't like was my co worker, who was also from America, that was on the trip with me. He never wanted to do things, couldn't clean up his messes, couldn't function without adult supervision and had never been away from his mom and dad until this trip yet was 29 years old.
For locks that I don't care about I have always preferred the large slotted screw driver hammered through the key slot, just attach a large vice grip pliers to the shaft of the screw driver from some leverage. Granted the lock will never work again but you can open it.
Actually you can find the ammo at any decent sized sporting goods store as well, but just don't expect to find it at wally world.
I love the 7.62x54R round, it is cheap (about $10 for a box of 20 if buying commercial with mil surplus being substantially less), can be accurate (you do seem to need to find the manufacturer your gun likes though) and can easily take all big game in North America. As to Moisin-Nagants, they are very inexpensive, I bought mine for $89 on sale a few years back but the quality of the Russian ones at that price point varies greatly (some are wall hangers, others are phenomenal shooters). I picked through about a dozen until I found the ex-sniper one in the batch and with an added scope, bedding, and a bit of trigger work it is about a 1 MOA firearm. Now what I really want is a Finnish M39 Moisin-Nagant as those are suppose to have incredible accuracy with their heavy barrels, less twist, and trigger work, but those are substantially more and difficult to find.
.303 is used while not common isn't unheard of. One of the guys in the hunting party uses one and actually is shooting a Lee-Enfield No.4 Mk I and accuracy wise my M91/30 is better, but I really love the smoothness of the action of his Enfield.
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I have always lived in Minnesota, as in that is my permanent residence, but I happen to live close enough to Wisconsin that if I need to I can easily go get some.
No problem. Apparently others felt it was off topic and it got bounced down to -1 for a bit.
Maybe?
That is what I was going for
Why would I go to a theater to see a movie not shot at 24 fps, 48fps is just too fast for me.
I will give you that. I was only out there for a few months with work and dealt with mostly professionals, but would have to say neither. The looks I would get when I would mention that I hunt was quite funny as people who preach the wonders of all natural, organic, free range, grass fed, cage free, hormone free, and antibiotic free meat tried to reconcile actually going out and killing an animal for food your self and their world view. You should hear the lecture I get about the evils of hunting and firearms from my sister in law who insists on eating only the above mentioned type of meat and lives in Eugene. The biggest things I miss about being out there is the beer, that you can buy beer in the grocery store, and can buy it on a Sunday.
But you neglected the most important part of living in Oregon, are you a duck or beaver?
And you can even watch the not work as they give speeches to an empty floor.
I would hardly call MSNBC a proper news organization, to me they seem to be a slightly more shrill version of Fox News for the left. When traveling for work I prefer something like BBC World Service, the French international news in English (this still seems very rare) service, Al Jazerra in English, or just about any other new service than the standard American cabal ones.
You sound like me with my car. The look on some people's face when someone actually decides to step into the gas some, or light up the tires on a BMW is quite humorous. What I really want is to eventually finish restoring my MG Midget and have it setup as a proper supercharged alcohol burner for some real fun and see just how much power one can squeeze out of an A-Series engine.
I love driving, just not in heavy traffic. I like the long road trip or better yet beating on my stuff at the track. I had an SCCA solo license and that was a riot to do. To get it you need to go to classes to learn how to really beat on your stuff and do it correctly. Some day I will get back to doing SCCA solo events but not until the kids get a bit older as I don't have the time now.