The truth is an unloaded gun is good for nothing more than a paperweight or a very inefficient club
You have obviously never used a Mosin-Nagant. If you have the bayonet they make an excellent pike/spear and with the metal butt stock they can make a very good club.
I would like to thing of it as they are now catching 6% of the banned items instead of the usual 5%. They did say that gun discoveries were up 20% and previously they failed to find thing 95% of the time so now they only fail to find stuff 94% of the time.
What is more likely than my password being brute forced is their database gets compromised which negates any security a long or complex password provides.
Depends. If they were smart and salted the passwords and just stored the salted hashes as a SHA256 or SHA512 sum then having strong passwords still protects, if instead they just stored the password in plaintext in the DB well your fucked anyway. If all they have is a listing of usernames and hashes they still would have to brute force, or rainbow table them but they do that offline.
Well I have a lake that needs some more fishing pressure it is smaller but of the 7 people who have properties on it only 3 fish it and even then only rarely. As I only recently acquired it I really haven't had a chance to fish it much this year (in college we would fish it regularly) but it sounds like the bass have started taking over so I might pound them hard this spring.
I think there the key is to know where it comes from, how it is handled, what they are fed, how they are kept. I know where my meat comes from, I have to pay the farmer for my share and then pay the processor for the processing. Having gone to both since I was a child I know how they operate and what to expect. I spent a lot of time out at that farm and now my kids like seeing where next years meals are coming from. I have been around back at the processor for years bringing in wild game for processing as it is cheap enough to pay a professional and get the best usage instead of the hatched job I would do.
Small operators like that know if they screw up their customers will up and leave and never come back as there are other good processors and farmers out there. A few years back they even had fun with the whole "Pink Slime" issue putting up a big banner out from stating "Pink Slime free since '71". There is a night and day difference in the quality I get from them and what I find elsewhere For example when I was in college and eating the dorm food I would get a bone chip in the burger patty and I found this really odd as I had never had this happen yet it happened all the time. Also I the beef there always lacked flavor but I figured it was because they cooked the crap out of it. Then I lived outside of my state for about a year and didn't have access and found out that while they did cook the shit out of it grocery store meat does suck even when cooked correctly.
So was that just in New Delhi? The last time I was there (about 10 years ago) in Pune they were just getting started with the push to get the auto ricks running on CNG but it was just a suggestion.
So much for the myth of high quality German engineering and standards.
Hey the engineers who graduated at the bottom of their class need to go somewhere and my experience from late 90s early 2000s VW seems to indicate that they all work for VW.
Glad to see I'm not the only one who does this. Let it run full on for a few days then after that let it blast away at night when not in use for a week or 2 to make sure everything is good and doesn't have problems.
One of my wife's uncles works to clear trails out in some of the remote areas of Colorado where you aren't allowed to bring in any motorized equipment. So no chainsaws, ATV, trucks to help with the work. They ride in on horseback with axes, saws, and camping equipment and maintain those horseback and hiking trails in the back country. That is the only reason I am aware of the issue.
Trump as POTUS would probably be the least productive and positive Presidency
I fail to see how least productive would be bad. It isn't like congress has stopped passing bills that violate our rights, approving shitty trade deals, going to war with 3rd world shit holes that only cause problems for their neighbors.
This reminds me I should check and see if the local power plant still offers tours and if I can take a pile of cub scouts. Last summer they got to go on a tour of the local water treatment plant and see how that works and they did like that so they may like the power plant as well. Way back when I was in high school there was a field trip where they offered plant tours and we had a choice of a half day at the power plant and the other half at the zoo or the whole day at the zoo. I was one of the few who chose to go to the power plant and everyone thought that was dumb. My response was that I had been to the zoo like a hundred times just like everyone else because it was only a few miles from school but I hadn't been to the power plant. When I got to the zoo after the power plant everyone who chose full day at the zoo was bitching that it was dumb as they had previously seen everything there before and that they wished they had gone to the power plant.
We just always call the adjustable wrenches fuck-up wrenches because you are either using them because a bolt is fucked up or because you are going to fuck up a bolt.
Hell even if you live int he US just substitute "Made in Germand" or "Made in Sweeden" in most cases. I would still buy an American made arc welder again as Lincoln and Miller (talk about fanboys the guys in either camp makes Apple fanboys seem like they only have a fleeting interest) make some really nice welders.
Factories where workers work on dirt floors on their hands and knees, yet still producing finer quality work than our domestic suppliers.
It is all about the quality control, and I have had similar experiences with some things. My hunting knife was made by hand by some guy probably working on a dirt floor over a pile of coal with a hammer, anvil, and a tea kettle of water. I have heard it said that the chines offer multiple qualities, there is the first quality which is as good as you will find anywhere else with great quality materials, nice finish, tight tolerances and great quality. From there it goes down all the way to the make it as cheaply as possible consequences be damned.
And at any time. When we were cleaning out my grandmothers house we went through my grandfather's tools. While they were old tools they weren't good tools so they did make cheap crap "back in the day" it is just most people never see the old cheap crap now as it had long ago been landfilled. Every one of those tools was "Made in the USA" so keep that in mind. However I do hear that it is really hard to source a good 2 man cross cut saw now days but that is because all the new ones are 100% machine made and machine heat treated so you end up with the same properties across the whole saw instead of different properties in the teeth and spine so the old ones are highly sought after by those who need a good 2 man cross cut saw.
This is easier now than it was before. You can buy high quality online but that usually require you know what you are looking at. Even in store you can buy still sometimes find high quality tools if you go to a good sore. I recently bought an ax locally and the store had about 10 different axes from like 3 manufactures. The best made single bit ax there was the Estwing one with the one piece forged head and handle set in the molded shock absorbing rubber/plastic handle cover. It cost less than $10 more than the cheapest one that had an obviously cheaply cast head and poorly fitting hardwood, did not say hickory and didn't look like hickory, handle. I have a nice set of hammers and dollies that I got years ago that I think were Swedish, maybe German I forget, that I use for forming thin metal, and a few other nice blacksmithing hammers from Scandinavia and Germany.
That said there are some companies that have figured out that they can make their products look like they are high quality yet are shit. I had a pair of boots that looked like they were well made, triple stitched seams, stitched on sole thick leather. Turns out that they were just glued together and where it looked to be thick leather they had just glued another thin strip in there so they put in all sorts of effort to figure out how to make them look well made instead of just making them well. Those boots lasted less than 6 months.
Well my experience is that I can break any tool and I am more interest in their failure modes. Having used some cheap sockets that were bought for a one off job only to have them shatter instead of snap was a put off. The ones that shattered had huge grains almost like those found in cast iron while the ones that snap/crack have much smaller grains. This seems to indicate that the alloying, casting, forging, cooling, or heat treatment just isn't up to snuff on some of the really cheap tools. Sadly I have noticed that even on modern craftsman tools they are getting cheap and have larger grains when they break and they do break more often. As stated just because it broke doesn't mean it was a bad tool, when you put an 8' long pipe on the end of a 1/2" or 3/4" ratchet to get some huge torque something will break, even if it is a Sanp-On or Mac impact socket.
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The truth is an unloaded gun is good for nothing more than a paperweight or a very inefficient club
You have obviously never used a Mosin-Nagant. If you have the bayonet they make an excellent pike/spear and with the metal butt stock they can make a very good club.
I would like to thing of it as they are now catching 6% of the banned items instead of the usual 5%. They did say that gun discoveries were up 20% and previously they failed to find thing 95% of the time so now they only fail to find stuff 94% of the time.
So you are saying that a sound investment may actually be modern high end smartphones that are kept in pristine condition then.
They have emails proving the mayor know about problems with the water a year ago, yet continued to insist that it was safe.
Still sounds like CITY, not a STATE, problem so people at the CITY level should be prosecuted, not people at the STATE level.
What is more likely than my password being brute forced is their database gets compromised which negates any security a long or complex password provides.
Depends. If they were smart and salted the passwords and just stored the salted hashes as a SHA256 or SHA512 sum then having strong passwords still protects, if instead they just stored the password in plaintext in the DB well your fucked anyway. If all they have is a listing of usernames and hashes they still would have to brute force, or rainbow table them but they do that offline.
eatshit@and.die is one like to use when places ask for an e-mail address that only want it so they can bombard me with crap.
No. One day I wondered if someone had ever created a cross between Hello Kitty and the Punisher. The internet provides. I now want this.
Sadly I now want a collection of their patches. I do wonder if this is one though.
Well I have a lake that needs some more fishing pressure it is smaller but of the 7 people who have properties on it only 3 fish it and even then only rarely. As I only recently acquired it I really haven't had a chance to fish it much this year (in college we would fish it regularly) but it sounds like the bass have started taking over so I might pound them hard this spring.
I think there the key is to know where it comes from, how it is handled, what they are fed, how they are kept. I know where my meat comes from, I have to pay the farmer for my share and then pay the processor for the processing. Having gone to both since I was a child I know how they operate and what to expect. I spent a lot of time out at that farm and now my kids like seeing where next years meals are coming from. I have been around back at the processor for years bringing in wild game for processing as it is cheap enough to pay a professional and get the best usage instead of the hatched job I would do.
Small operators like that know if they screw up their customers will up and leave and never come back as there are other good processors and farmers out there. A few years back they even had fun with the whole "Pink Slime" issue putting up a big banner out from stating "Pink Slime free since '71". There is a night and day difference in the quality I get from them and what I find elsewhere For example when I was in college and eating the dorm food I would get a bone chip in the burger patty and I found this really odd as I had never had this happen yet it happened all the time. Also I the beef there always lacked flavor but I figured it was because they cooked the crap out of it. Then I lived outside of my state for about a year and didn't have access and found out that while they did cook the shit out of it grocery store meat does suck even when cooked correctly.
My guess would be lamb, venison, maybe bear depending on diet.
So was that just in New Delhi? The last time I was there (about 10 years ago) in Pune they were just getting started with the push to get the auto ricks running on CNG but it was just a suggestion.
So much for the myth of high quality German engineering and standards.
Hey the engineers who graduated at the bottom of their class need to go somewhere and my experience from late 90s early 2000s VW seems to indicate that they all work for VW.
Lies we all know it was first known to Bruce Schneier who long ago found all Mersenne Primes in O(1) time.
If you are going to use a internet meme at least pick the right one.
4d: Testing a new rig.
Glad to see I'm not the only one who does this. Let it run full on for a few days then after that let it blast away at night when not in use for a week or 2 to make sure everything is good and doesn't have problems.
One of my wife's uncles works to clear trails out in some of the remote areas of Colorado where you aren't allowed to bring in any motorized equipment. So no chainsaws, ATV, trucks to help with the work. They ride in on horseback with axes, saws, and camping equipment and maintain those horseback and hiking trails in the back country. That is the only reason I am aware of the issue.
Sadly that doesn't surprise me as the last place I work that had either Snap-On or MAC tools was almost 20 years ago.
Trump as POTUS would probably be the least productive and positive Presidency
I fail to see how least productive would be bad. It isn't like congress has stopped passing bills that violate our rights, approving shitty trade deals, going to war with 3rd world shit holes that only cause problems for their neighbors.
This reminds me I should check and see if the local power plant still offers tours and if I can take a pile of cub scouts. Last summer they got to go on a tour of the local water treatment plant and see how that works and they did like that so they may like the power plant as well. Way back when I was in high school there was a field trip where they offered plant tours and we had a choice of a half day at the power plant and the other half at the zoo or the whole day at the zoo. I was one of the few who chose to go to the power plant and everyone thought that was dumb. My response was that I had been to the zoo like a hundred times just like everyone else because it was only a few miles from school but I hadn't been to the power plant. When I got to the zoo after the power plant everyone who chose full day at the zoo was bitching that it was dumb as they had previously seen everything there before and that they wished they had gone to the power plant.
We just always call the adjustable wrenches fuck-up wrenches because you are either using them because a bolt is fucked up or because you are going to fuck up a bolt.
Hell even if you live int he US just substitute "Made in Germand" or "Made in Sweeden" in most cases. I would still buy an American made arc welder again as Lincoln and Miller (talk about fanboys the guys in either camp makes Apple fanboys seem like they only have a fleeting interest) make some really nice welders.
Factories where workers work on dirt floors on their hands and knees, yet still producing finer quality work than our domestic suppliers.
It is all about the quality control, and I have had similar experiences with some things. My hunting knife was made by hand by some guy probably working on a dirt floor over a pile of coal with a hammer, anvil, and a tea kettle of water. I have heard it said that the chines offer multiple qualities, there is the first quality which is as good as you will find anywhere else with great quality materials, nice finish, tight tolerances and great quality. From there it goes down all the way to the make it as cheaply as possible consequences be damned.
I think crap can be made anywhere...
And at any time. When we were cleaning out my grandmothers house we went through my grandfather's tools. While they were old tools they weren't good tools so they did make cheap crap "back in the day" it is just most people never see the old cheap crap now as it had long ago been landfilled. Every one of those tools was "Made in the USA" so keep that in mind. However I do hear that it is really hard to source a good 2 man cross cut saw now days but that is because all the new ones are 100% machine made and machine heat treated so you end up with the same properties across the whole saw instead of different properties in the teeth and spine so the old ones are highly sought after by those who need a good 2 man cross cut saw.
This is easier now than it was before. You can buy high quality online but that usually require you know what you are looking at. Even in store you can buy still sometimes find high quality tools if you go to a good sore. I recently bought an ax locally and the store had about 10 different axes from like 3 manufactures. The best made single bit ax there was the Estwing one with the one piece forged head and handle set in the molded shock absorbing rubber/plastic handle cover. It cost less than $10 more than the cheapest one that had an obviously cheaply cast head and poorly fitting hardwood, did not say hickory and didn't look like hickory, handle. I have a nice set of hammers and dollies that I got years ago that I think were Swedish, maybe German I forget, that I use for forming thin metal, and a few other nice blacksmithing hammers from Scandinavia and Germany.
That said there are some companies that have figured out that they can make their products look like they are high quality yet are shit. I had a pair of boots that looked like they were well made, triple stitched seams, stitched on sole thick leather. Turns out that they were just glued together and where it looked to be thick leather they had just glued another thin strip in there so they put in all sorts of effort to figure out how to make them look well made instead of just making them well. Those boots lasted less than 6 months.
Well my experience is that I can break any tool and I am more interest in their failure modes. Having used some cheap sockets that were bought for a one off job only to have them shatter instead of snap was a put off. The ones that shattered had huge grains almost like those found in cast iron while the ones that snap/crack have much smaller grains. This seems to indicate that the alloying, casting, forging, cooling, or heat treatment just isn't up to snuff on some of the really cheap tools. Sadly I have noticed that even on modern craftsman tools they are getting cheap and have larger grains when they break and they do break more often. As stated just because it broke doesn't mean it was a bad tool, when you put an 8' long pipe on the end of a 1/2" or 3/4" ratchet to get some huge torque something will break, even if it is a Sanp-On or Mac impact socket.