I would add to that list of missed items half a dozen 3" magnum 12 gauge shells, and on another occasion 5 steel cased 7.62x54R rifle rounds as I had forgotten those in my coat pockets after hunting and then flown a few weeks later.
Very true. One time I was making chili and forgot to wash my hands after cutting up all the peppers (about 2 bells, 12 jalapeños, 12 cayenne, 6 habanero, and 6 Bhut Jolokias) and went to pee. I ended up curled up on the floor in the fetal position for about half an hour I have never felt that much pain ever. I was numb for several hours afterwards. I never notice it on my hands as they are rough and calloused, but it is a different story on sensitive skin.
I have never had a problem growing Bhut Jolokias up here in Minnesota in the summer. We have some nice hot humid days and it still can get cool in the night. I do have to start them inside each year since it is still possible to get some hard freezes even now. I love these peppers since these are what I consider a hot pepper, I grow also grow jalapeños, bell, cayenne, habanero and can eat all of them fresh off the plant like candy. Fresh ones are always better and hotter than the ones from the store
Interesting story. One time I was making chili and forgot to wash my hands after cutting up all the peppers (about 2 bells, 12 jalapeños, 12 cayenne, 6 habanero, and 6 Bhut Jolokias) and went to pee. I ended up curled up on the floor in the fetal position for about half an hour I have never felt that much pain ever. I was numb for several hours afterwards. I never notice it on my hands as they are rough and calloused, but it is a different story on sensitive skin.
I have had that same experience playing WiiFit as I am 5'9" 250 lbs and do a lot of power lifting (8 hours a week on weights and 4 hours a week on cardio so I don't have a heart attack like so many other power lifter do). My little niece wanted to play WiiFit and when we got it set up it change my mii according to my BMI and my mii ended up being a round ball. My niece's comment to me was "that doesn't look like you". By the way I have a 34 inch waist, but need to buy 38 inch pants to fit my thighs, and a 52 inch chest. I do get annual checkups and my doctor says to keep doing what I am since everything but BMI comes back good but my doctor doesn't worry about that with me as I am healthy and that is what is more important than BMI.
My idea seem to be fairer than others that seem to want a tax based off of mileage to deal with alternative fuels, hybrid, and electric vehicles to raise revenue for roads.
1. Remove the gas tax
2. Use a formula like ("annual mileage"/"vehicle weight in tons")*"cost factor" to get the total amount each vehicle is taxes each year.
3. Remove any vehicle that is exempt form excise taxes
4. Stop siphoning off road funds for things like buses, or trains. Example: the Minnesota MVET law that was passed a few years ago that mandates that at most 60% of the MVET can go towards roads and at least 40% must go towards mass transit. This was promised to solve the roads issue in Minnesota but hasn't.
As an added bonus this would encourage lighter vehicles and fewer miles. Of course this wouldn't fly because it doesn't pick favorites like government likes to do.
TFS makes it sound like my 350 lb motorcycle should be paying an equal tax amount for road repair as a 3 ton big rig that travels the state distance. Nonetheless, one of the reasons I chose to start riding a motorcycle was because I wanted to reduce the amount of damage my vehicle was doing to the road it travels on.
I think you should change it to a 30 ton big rig. 3 tons is about the size of a SUV. I do agree that this is wholly unfair in that the tax is not proportional to the damage caused by the specific vehicle. At least with a gas tax the amount paid is, in general, proportional to the vehicle weight and miles driven.
Ethanol isn't hard on engines designed to run on it even methanol, which is even more corrosive than ethanol, isn't hard on engines designed to run on it. To support this I would submit the alcohol powered drag cars, sprint and midget dirt racers, F1, and Indy cars. People claim that these engines are high maintenance, but growing up in a racing culture even gasoline engines (premium unleaded or even 115 octane lead avgas) run with similar power outputs in similar fashions require the same high maintenance. The problem with alcohol eating seals, rusting parts, eroding rubber and plastics are solved issues. Even the lack of lubrication from running alcohols is a solved problem as there are additives for the alcohol race fuels that come premixed. The main issue with these race engines is that they are run at the limits of what they are capable of doing some for extended periods of time. If you don't believe me you could always go and put your car on a dynamometer, get a cinder block and plop it on the gas pedal and let it run wide open (at the redline) for 500 miles and then have a mechanic check it out. You would probably find that there are some serious issues with the engine and would be in need of a rebuild.
Can you tell me the last time a citizen was able to successfully use weapons to defend his property from 'intrusion' by any determined authority, local or federal? Rambo fantasies are so lame.
I would submit this story from Minnesota a few years back. Basic gist was the SWAT team went to the wrong house in the middle of the night, the home owner believing he was being burglarized got his shotgun fired at the SWAT team through a wall hitting 2 of them. The SWAT team returned fire and missed. I don't know what ended the confrontation, but not only was the home owner not injured, his family was safe, he was not brought up on charges, and even won a settlement with the city of Minneapolis. To me that sounds like he was able to "successfully use weapons to defend his property from 'intrusion' by any determined authority"
The best choice for a firearm for home defense is not a handgun but a shotgun. Hand guns have 2 problems for home defense: 1. They tend to over penetrate and exit your house 2. it is easy to miss compared to a shotgun.
Load the shell with rock salt. Bird shot (never seen #40 parent probably meant #4) is too fine even magnum goose loads won't do much to a person. Rock salt probably won't kill them but it will stop them. Also a shotgun slug has similar or greater penetration to that of a handgun. Buck shot is another good choice and doesn't require hand loading the shell, but there is a good chance of kill the intruder. As the parent suggested a firearm for home defense is something to be taken serious. Also laws on shooting at intruders vary state to state so this is also something to keep in mind. I wouldn't recommend a firearm for home defense if you have small children as remember you need to be able to get to the firearm before the intruder can get to you and easy to access fire arms kids seem to believe are wonderful play things. I do advocate training for a fire arm such as a conceal carry course, hunter fire arm safety, or even the NRA "Personal Protection" firearms course (never heard of this one before) so as to become familiar with proper handling, storing, and usage of a fire arm.
As a side note even thought I own several fire arms I wouldn't be using them for home defense for the above mentioned reasons. They are either too powerful (both hunting rifles) for the purpose of home defense and all including the shotgun are locked up and stored properly
I wouldn't say they are worthless. The 4 to 8 of them I get a year make wonderful backstops for BB gun targets in the basement. After they no longer stop a BB they make excellent fire-starters when I go camping
The physical book may be worthless as a directory but it still has other uses
Yes I have. For comparison purchasing Sudafed has about the same requirements as buying a rifle or shotgun in Minnesota. In both cases the ask for you ID, swipe it, look at the picture while waiting for a printout which you have to sign after verifying your information. So obviously Sudafed is a dangerous as one of these. In both cases it the buyer is entered into a government database, is required to provide "valid" identification at time of purchase, and must be at least 18.
You are forgetting the main reason why ethanol or even methanol are used as racing fuels, you can get more power out of a given amount of air. Even thought the energy density of both ethanol and methanol are less than that of regular gasoline it requires less air to burn them. If I remember correctly the stoichometric ratio for regular gasoline is about 14.7:1 bur for ethanol it is about 9:1 so even though ethanol only has 2/3 the energy of gasoline you can burn about 1.6 times as much of at a time. So the net result is that for each combustion cycle you get more energy released. Add in the fact that ethanol has a much higher octane number (I think it is around 120) and a higher latent heat than gasoline you can run much higher compression ratios in an engine thus extracting more of the energy released from the fuel. So comparing a same displacement properly race tuned gasoline engine to a properly race tuned ethanol engine you will be able to produce an extra 10%-20% more power (I am unsure of these numbers) which is what is needed for racing but you do consume about 1.6 times a much fuel when running ethanol over gasoline.
As someone who does a lot of lifting I hear this a lot. I tell people when they say this that there are a few types of people at the gym using the free weights. You have those that are trying to build strength, those that are trying to "get in shape", and those that are showing off. Those that are there to get in shape may be to lose weight, or get ripped take you pick. But the only people that are problematic are those that are there to show off. They are easy to spot as they are the ones who tend to make the most noise by banging weights, grunting and just in general trying to draw attention to either their physique or the amount they lift. These people tend to not be the most ripped, or the strongest. Those that are actually there to really build strength or get in shape won't look down at someone just starting out as they view them as at least they are trying. If you ask one of the people who is building strength or getting in shape (not those showing off) for help on how to do a lift or for a spot they will usually help out so you learn how to do it correctly. I fall into the strength category when I go to they gym and have been asked numerous time how did I get so strong which is I have been lifting hard for 3 years. The way to get to start off light and get the technique down first. If you haven't lifted before the next day you will be sore but after about 2 weeks you should stop being sore after working out as you body is now starting to get back into shape.
I have a large plot (40 acres) in northern Minnesota so that is where I do this. You are correct in that I don't know of any ranges that would allow you to shoot at what are termed garbage targets. Also to answer your last question I use either my SKS (a 1948 Romanian one) or my M91/30 (an unissued Russian main battle rifle from WWII accuracy grade 1 made at the Tula plant). Both are fairly accurate the SKS has 4 inch groups at 100 yards and the M91/30 has 1.5 inch groups at 100 yards. A buddy of mine has both a M1 Garand and a M1 carbine that he uses up at my property for the same thing.
I have always preferred putting some 7.62mm holes through old hard drives at a distance of 50 to 100m. Just remove the electronics so you don't end up with circuit board debris all over and old hard drives make great targets.
I agree that it doesn't sound like a brake fluid was the fix. I would believe that it was either a tire balance that corrected this problem, or it was the power steering fluid that was topped off instead of the brake fluid. They are both are typically red fluids and generally are filled in the same area on a vehicle (as in the brake master cylinder isn't far from the power steering pump). The other common cause of wheel vibration is a warped brake rotor.
You have seen a Hummer full of kids? All I have ever seen is one person in them who thinks they need it in case they might want to tow something some day or might go off paved road. My 4 door sedan (BMW 540i) has seen more truck like use than most Hummers, but after last year tearing off one of the mufflers while hunting (almost high and centered it) I decided to get another vehicle better suited to hunting in remote areas of northern Minnesota.
Just a correction, Minnesota does have a primary seat belt law now. It went into effect on June 9th, so now the police can pull you over for not wearing one. Also as noted by the MPR article the fine is $25 so it sounds like a nice way to close the budget gap for local cities.
What you say is true about SS, but I would like to clarify some things. Social security has, since it's inception, taken in more money than it pays out. What the government has been doing is taking that excess money and spending it while putting a promissory note (government treasury bill) that the government will pay back with interest that amount. This is what is know as the social security trust fund. So the government technically has been investing the social security excess in US treasuries. The problem is that soon (sounds like this year) the social security administration will need to start cashing in those T-Bills to pay benefits. This will cause the government to do one or more of the following:
1. raise taxes to keep all spending the same
2. Borrow more money to keep all spending the same
3. cut discretionary spending
4. cut social security spending
5. inflate the currency / print more money
Take you pick but I would be willing to rule out numbers 3 and 4 since 3 would be the responsible thing, and 4 would be a career ending decision for any politician. I have recently started to think that it may have been a better idea to just to have a pile of non interest bearing $100 bill sitting in a vault instead since then at least we wouldn't be in this position.
I have seen a better Great Tits headline. A while back on the BBC there was this one: "Great tits cope well with warming". It was about how this species of bird is doing well with the warming environment.
As a Minnesotan I wish that were true. We do have some nice unused roads in out state Minnesota, but in the Twin Cities metro area the roads are crap, but we do spend a lot on local government aid (LGA) so the 2 biggest cities can waste money on green roofs or designer drinking fountains, along with some suburbs like Apple Valley and their water park.
Disclaimer: I am a resident of Apple Valley, and no I don't just complain on/. about government I regularly bother my state and US congress critters along with Gov. Pawlenty
Out of curiosity I looked up the density at the center of the sun and got an answer of "150,000 kg/m3 (150 times the density of water on Earth)" which to me is less than "100,000 times more dense than water"
So my question then became how does this not spontaneously fuse?
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I would add to that list of missed items half a dozen 3" magnum 12 gauge shells, and on another occasion 5 steel cased 7.62x54R rifle rounds as I had forgotten those in my coat pockets after hunting and then flown a few weeks later.
Very true. One time I was making chili and forgot to wash my hands after cutting up all the peppers (about 2 bells, 12 jalapeños, 12 cayenne, 6 habanero, and 6 Bhut Jolokias) and went to pee. I ended up curled up on the floor in the fetal position for about half an hour I have never felt that much pain ever. I was numb for several hours afterwards. I never notice it on my hands as they are rough and calloused, but it is a different story on sensitive skin.
I have never had a problem growing Bhut Jolokias up here in Minnesota in the summer. We have some nice hot humid days and it still can get cool in the night. I do have to start them inside each year since it is still possible to get some hard freezes even now. I love these peppers since these are what I consider a hot pepper, I grow also grow jalapeños, bell, cayenne, habanero and can eat all of them fresh off the plant like candy. Fresh ones are always better and hotter than the ones from the store
Interesting story. One time I was making chili and forgot to wash my hands after cutting up all the peppers (about 2 bells, 12 jalapeños, 12 cayenne, 6 habanero, and 6 Bhut Jolokias) and went to pee. I ended up curled up on the floor in the fetal position for about half an hour I have never felt that much pain ever. I was numb for several hours afterwards. I never notice it on my hands as they are rough and calloused, but it is a different story on sensitive skin.
I have had that same experience playing WiiFit as I am 5'9" 250 lbs and do a lot of power lifting (8 hours a week on weights and 4 hours a week on cardio so I don't have a heart attack like so many other power lifter do). My little niece wanted to play WiiFit and when we got it set up it change my mii according to my BMI and my mii ended up being a round ball. My niece's comment to me was "that doesn't look like you". By the way I have a 34 inch waist, but need to buy 38 inch pants to fit my thighs, and a 52 inch chest. I do get annual checkups and my doctor says to keep doing what I am since everything but BMI comes back good but my doctor doesn't worry about that with me as I am healthy and that is what is more important than BMI.
My idea seem to be fairer than others that seem to want a tax based off of mileage to deal with alternative fuels, hybrid, and electric vehicles to raise revenue for roads.
1. Remove the gas tax
2. Use a formula like ("annual mileage"/"vehicle weight in tons")*"cost factor" to get the total amount each vehicle is taxes each year.
3. Remove any vehicle that is exempt form excise taxes
4. Stop siphoning off road funds for things like buses, or trains. Example: the Minnesota MVET law that was passed a few years ago that mandates that at most 60% of the MVET can go towards roads and at least 40% must go towards mass transit. This was promised to solve the roads issue in Minnesota but hasn't.
As an added bonus this would encourage lighter vehicles and fewer miles. Of course this wouldn't fly because it doesn't pick favorites like government likes to do.
TFS makes it sound like my 350 lb motorcycle should be paying an equal tax amount for road repair as a 3 ton big rig that travels the state distance. Nonetheless, one of the reasons I chose to start riding a motorcycle was because I wanted to reduce the amount of damage my vehicle was doing to the road it travels on.
I think you should change it to a 30 ton big rig. 3 tons is about the size of a SUV. I do agree that this is wholly unfair in that the tax is not proportional to the damage caused by the specific vehicle. At least with a gas tax the amount paid is, in general, proportional to the vehicle weight and miles driven.
Unfortunately I am only half joking with.
At least those were quality phones since Ma Bell didn't want to have to pay repair staff to fix or replace them.
Ethanol isn't hard on engines designed to run on it even methanol, which is even more corrosive than ethanol, isn't hard on engines designed to run on it. To support this I would submit the alcohol powered drag cars, sprint and midget dirt racers, F1, and Indy cars. People claim that these engines are high maintenance, but growing up in a racing culture even gasoline engines (premium unleaded or even 115 octane lead avgas) run with similar power outputs in similar fashions require the same high maintenance. The problem with alcohol eating seals, rusting parts, eroding rubber and plastics are solved issues. Even the lack of lubrication from running alcohols is a solved problem as there are additives for the alcohol race fuels that come premixed. The main issue with these race engines is that they are run at the limits of what they are capable of doing some for extended periods of time. If you don't believe me you could always go and put your car on a dynamometer, get a cinder block and plop it on the gas pedal and let it run wide open (at the redline) for 500 miles and then have a mechanic check it out. You would probably find that there are some serious issues with the engine and would be in need of a rebuild.
Can you tell me the last time a citizen was able to successfully use weapons to defend his property from 'intrusion' by any determined authority, local or federal? Rambo fantasies are so lame.
I would submit this story from Minnesota a few years back. Basic gist was the SWAT team went to the wrong house in the middle of the night, the home owner believing he was being burglarized got his shotgun fired at the SWAT team through a wall hitting 2 of them. The SWAT team returned fire and missed. I don't know what ended the confrontation, but not only was the home owner not injured, his family was safe, he was not brought up on charges, and even won a settlement with the city of Minneapolis. To me that sounds like he was able to "successfully use weapons to defend his property from 'intrusion' by any determined authority"
1. They tend to over penetrate and exit your house
2. it is easy to miss compared to a shotgun.
Load the shell with rock salt. Bird shot (never seen #40 parent probably meant #4) is too fine even magnum goose loads won't do much to a person. Rock salt probably won't kill them but it will stop them. Also a shotgun slug has similar or greater penetration to that of a handgun. Buck shot is another good choice and doesn't require hand loading the shell, but there is a good chance of kill the intruder. As the parent suggested a firearm for home defense is something to be taken serious. Also laws on shooting at intruders vary state to state so this is also something to keep in mind. I wouldn't recommend a firearm for home defense if you have small children as remember you need to be able to get to the firearm before the intruder can get to you and easy to access fire arms kids seem to believe are wonderful play things. I do advocate training for a fire arm such as a conceal carry course, hunter fire arm safety, or even the NRA "Personal Protection" firearms course (never heard of this one before) so as to become familiar with proper handling, storing, and usage of a fire arm.
As a side note even thought I own several fire arms I wouldn't be using them for home defense for the above mentioned reasons. They are either too powerful (both hunting rifles) for the purpose of home defense and all including the shotgun are locked up and stored properly
the physical phone book is worthless!
I wouldn't say they are worthless. The 4 to 8 of them I get a year make wonderful backstops for BB gun targets in the basement. After they no longer stop a BB they make excellent fire-starters when I go camping
The physical book may be worthless as a directory but it still has other uses
Yes I have. For comparison purchasing Sudafed has about the same requirements as buying a rifle or shotgun in Minnesota. In both cases the ask for you ID, swipe it, look at the picture while waiting for a printout which you have to sign after verifying your information. So obviously Sudafed is a dangerous as one of these. In both cases it the buyer is entered into a government database, is required to provide "valid" identification at time of purchase, and must be at least 18.
I believe that American Dad already parodied this.
You are forgetting the main reason why ethanol or even methanol are used as racing fuels, you can get more power out of a given amount of air. Even thought the energy density of both ethanol and methanol are less than that of regular gasoline it requires less air to burn them. If I remember correctly the stoichometric ratio for regular gasoline is about 14.7:1 bur for ethanol it is about 9:1 so even though ethanol only has 2/3 the energy of gasoline you can burn about 1.6 times as much of at a time. So the net result is that for each combustion cycle you get more energy released. Add in the fact that ethanol has a much higher octane number (I think it is around 120) and a higher latent heat than gasoline you can run much higher compression ratios in an engine thus extracting more of the energy released from the fuel. So comparing a same displacement properly race tuned gasoline engine to a properly race tuned ethanol engine you will be able to produce an extra 10%-20% more power (I am unsure of these numbers) which is what is needed for racing but you do consume about 1.6 times a much fuel when running ethanol over gasoline.
As someone who does a lot of lifting I hear this a lot. I tell people when they say this that there are a few types of people at the gym using the free weights. You have those that are trying to build strength, those that are trying to "get in shape", and those that are showing off. Those that are there to get in shape may be to lose weight, or get ripped take you pick. But the only people that are problematic are those that are there to show off. They are easy to spot as they are the ones who tend to make the most noise by banging weights, grunting and just in general trying to draw attention to either their physique or the amount they lift. These people tend to not be the most ripped, or the strongest. Those that are actually there to really build strength or get in shape won't look down at someone just starting out as they view them as at least they are trying. If you ask one of the people who is building strength or getting in shape (not those showing off) for help on how to do a lift or for a spot they will usually help out so you learn how to do it correctly. I fall into the strength category when I go to they gym and have been asked numerous time how did I get so strong which is I have been lifting hard for 3 years. The way to get to start off light and get the technique down first. If you haven't lifted before the next day you will be sore but after about 2 weeks you should stop being sore after working out as you body is now starting to get back into shape.
I have a large plot (40 acres) in northern Minnesota so that is where I do this. You are correct in that I don't know of any ranges that would allow you to shoot at what are termed garbage targets. Also to answer your last question I use either my SKS (a 1948 Romanian one) or my M91/30 (an unissued Russian main battle rifle from WWII accuracy grade 1 made at the Tula plant). Both are fairly accurate the SKS has 4 inch groups at 100 yards and the M91/30 has 1.5 inch groups at 100 yards. A buddy of mine has both a M1 Garand and a M1 carbine that he uses up at my property for the same thing.
I have always preferred putting some 7.62mm holes through old hard drives at a distance of 50 to 100m. Just remove the electronics so you don't end up with circuit board debris all over and old hard drives make great targets.
I agree that it doesn't sound like a brake fluid was the fix. I would believe that it was either a tire balance that corrected this problem, or it was the power steering fluid that was topped off instead of the brake fluid. They are both are typically red fluids and generally are filled in the same area on a vehicle (as in the brake master cylinder isn't far from the power steering pump). The other common cause of wheel vibration is a warped brake rotor.
You have seen a Hummer full of kids? All I have ever seen is one person in them who thinks they need it in case they might want to tow something some day or might go off paved road. My 4 door sedan (BMW 540i) has seen more truck like use than most Hummers, but after last year tearing off one of the mufflers while hunting (almost high and centered it) I decided to get another vehicle better suited to hunting in remote areas of northern Minnesota.
Just a correction, Minnesota does have a primary seat belt law now. It went into effect on June 9th, so now the police can pull you over for not wearing one. Also as noted by the MPR article the fine is $25 so it sounds like a nice way to close the budget gap for local cities.
What you say is true about SS, but I would like to clarify some things. Social security has, since it's inception, taken in more money than it pays out. What the government has been doing is taking that excess money and spending it while putting a promissory note (government treasury bill) that the government will pay back with interest that amount. This is what is know as the social security trust fund. So the government technically has been investing the social security excess in US treasuries. The problem is that soon (sounds like this year) the social security administration will need to start cashing in those T-Bills to pay benefits. This will cause the government to do one or more of the following:
1. raise taxes to keep all spending the same
2. Borrow more money to keep all spending the same
3. cut discretionary spending
4. cut social security spending
5. inflate the currency / print more money
Take you pick but I would be willing to rule out numbers 3 and 4 since 3 would be the responsible thing, and 4 would be a career ending decision for any politician. I have recently started to think that it may have been a better idea to just to have a pile of non interest bearing $100 bill sitting in a vault instead since then at least we wouldn't be in this position.
I have seen a better Great Tits headline. A while back on the BBC there was this one: "Great tits cope well with warming". It was about how this species of bird is doing well with the warming environment.
As a Minnesotan I wish that were true. We do have some nice unused roads in out state Minnesota, but in the Twin Cities metro area the roads are crap, but we do spend a lot on local government aid (LGA) so the 2 biggest cities can waste money on green roofs or designer drinking fountains, along with some suburbs like Apple Valley and their water park.
Disclaimer: I am a resident of Apple Valley, and no I don't just complain on /. about government I regularly bother my state and US congress critters along with Gov. Pawlenty
Out of curiosity I looked up the density at the center of the sun and got an answer of "150,000 kg/m3 (150 times the density of water on Earth)" which to me is less than "100,000 times more dense than water" So my question then became how does this not spontaneously fuse?