(Lincoln, the -Liberal- Republican, of the party that later became the modern-day Democratic Party, as opposed to the modern-day Republican Party that derives its roots primarily from the Whigs.)
Organized in Ripon, Wisconsin on February 28, 1854, as a party opposed to the expansion of slavery into new territories, the Party is not to be confused with the Democratic-Republican party of Thomas Jefferson or the National Republican Party of Henry Clay. The ideology of the reborn Republican party, however, did follow that of the early Democratic-Republicans. During Jefferson's presidency, he was called a "Republican", but the reference was to the party now known as the Democratic-Republican Party. That party later split into the Democratic Party and the Whig Party. The latter was formed in the winter of 1833-1834 but was defunct by the time of the American Civil War.
The first convention of the U.S. Republican Party was held on July 6, 1854, in Jackson, Michigan. Many of its initial policies were inspired by the Whig Party, which by then was in decline. Many of the early members of the Republican Party came from the Whigs, the Free Soil Party, and American Party. Since its inception, its chief opposition has been the Democratic Party.
John C. Frémont ran as the first Republican nominee for President in 1856, using the political slogan: "Free soil, free labor, free speech, free men, Frémont." Although Frémont's bid was unsuccessful, the party grew especially rapidly in Midwestern states, where slavery had long been prohibited, and in the Northeast, culminating in a sweep of victories in the Northern states. The ensuing election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860 ended the domination of the fragile coalition of pro-slavery southern Democrats and conciliatory northern Democrats which had existed since the days of Andrew Jackson. Instead, a new era of Republican dominance based in the industrial north ensued.
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They block port 25 (SMTP) outgoing. It's a PITA, but I deal with it.
A few years ago, I was being spammed by an email worm. I was getting hit several times an hour, from different email addresses. But, they all originated from the same IP: a TDS broadband customer. I tried changing sendmail to deny that IP address, but the worm simply switched to my backup SMTP server, which dutifully forwarded it to me (I don't have access to that server).
I sent several emails to TDS customer support, identifying the client IP address and including the complete text of the email with headers -- even before TDS's auto-reply told me to send it. But, I never got any human reply from TDS.
The spam went on for weeks and finally stopped -- perhaps that's how TDS did so: by blocking outgoing port 25 altogether.
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You should have dug a little deeper. The "240 grain" is a measure of the gunpowder charge, not the mass of the bullet.
No, the parent poster is correct. In this context, "grain" refers to the weight of the bullet. "Grain" is also used for specifying the powder weight, but that information is rarely published outside reloading manuals.
Higher-load charges use the same bullet, just different, more powerful charges, that result in the bullet traveling faster.
For any given caliber/cartridge, there are usually many variations of bullet weight and muzzle velocity, which is why both are documented -- at least in the published specifications.
While I agree that sueing the people who make the tool is wrong (who is suing smith and wessen for their making guns that are used to kill),
Pardon me if I mis-interpreted, but it appears to me you are posing a rhetorical question to the effect of: if sueing the people making a tool is OK, who is sueing Smith & Wesson?
If so, this isn't a rhetorical question. The answer is: The US Dept. of Housing and Urban Development, usually known as "HUD". At the time, S&W was owned by a British company, who thought it was a good idea to settle:
The results were disastrous for S&W. The "agreement" required S&W to impose additional burdens above and beyond federal law on dealers. As a result, many dealers dropped S&W products altogether. The remaining dealers found themselves unable to sell an S&W product to anyone that was familiar with the HUD fiasco.
S&W was nearly bankrupted, even after massive layoffs. Tompkins LLC finally sold S&W for a small fraction of its value to an American company. They are turning a profit again, but only after the US Government has effectively repudiated the agreement.
I found that Texas derives only 7% of its electricity from "green" sources (I'm including nuclear in that number), with the remaining coming from coal, natural gas, petroleum (61%), and "dual fired" (what's that? Is that "green?") (32%).
A "Dual-fired" generation plant is one that can run on either natural gas or oil. It gives the operator the option of using what is cheaper at the time.
As an analogy, it's legal to own a handgun even though guns can kill, but it's still illegal to put a silencer on that gun.
That's a bad analogy.
In the US, all you have to do is pay a nominal tax to the ATF (and jump through a couple of other bureaucratic hoops), and there's nothing illegal about a suppressor. It's no problem for someone without a criminal record.
(If you ever shoot a gun with a suppressor, you'll quickly realize that it's anything but silent)
In most of Europe, suppressors are not considered "evil". On the contrary, a suppressor is considered environmentally friendly, because it reduces the noise footprint. A competitor can practice in much closer proximity to other people without disturbing them. That's a significant factor where the population density is much higher than the US.
Why drive? Amarillo has an airport served by Southwest Airlines. I dare say they do direct flights to Dallas (they certainly do to Houston).
Southwest Airlines flies out of Love Field (DAL), not DFW. So, a traveler would have to make their way from DFW to DAL (about 30 minutes, if the traffic is light) to catch a SWA flight.
American Airllines operates regional jets from DFW to Amarillo. But, I doubt that would have been modded +5, Funny.
Our chief weapon is surprise...surprise and fear...fear and surprise....
Our two weapons are fear and surprise... and ruthless efficiency....
Our three weapons are fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency...
and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope....
Our four... no...
Amongst our weapons... Amongst our weaponry...
are such elements as fear, surprise...
Sounds like you might have some family health history to investigate...
I have big feet (size 13) and long legs. I have a standing instruction to my travel agent to rent full-size cars, because there isn't enough room in many mid-size and compact cars to even get my knees under the steering wheel.
However, the incident in my own car was simple exhaustion. I had been driving for over an hour in freezing rain, after working about 16 hours straight. I was only a half-block from home and let my guard down, then reacted badly.
Unfortunately, my mom obviously shouldn't have been driving. That was the last time she did so, and she passed away a few years ago.
It looks like shipping direct to consumers from in-state wineries was also illegal, so perhaps the Supreme Court decision wouldn't have changed anything.
More likely, this was a case of 'wrong pedal syndrome' where she had her foot on the accellerator instead of the brake and pressed that to the floor - but damned if she'll ever admit to that...
I don't know why so many moderators thought this was funny, but you likely have it exactly right.
It happened to me once on an icy road when my car started drifting. I thought I had my foot off the accelerator and on the brakes, but didn't realize why the anti-lock system wasn't working and the engine was making so much noise until I was sliding into a ditch. There was no damage and I was able to drive out, but at that moment I knew exactly how people can believe they had their foot on the brake.
Unfortunately, my mother wasn't so lucky. She got the pedals mixed up while manuvering in the driveway behind the house and ended up parking in the neighbor's bedroom (fortunately, no one was home). When my father ran outside and shut down the ignition, she was dazed from the impact, but her foot was still jammed on the accelerator.
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In all fairness, a quick search through my spam archive (which is about a year of spam) doesn't yield any hits on "digitalcandle". And a search of news.admin.net-abuse.sightings yields only seven hits.
One thing - despite Turners announcement that the entire senior staff was going, it appears that he may have stepped out on a limb, as several of the other editors have not, at this time, announced their resignation. Just Turner and Blanc, so far. I'm hoping to see Walker, Winslow, and Taylor follow suit soon.
You actually get more steerage locked up on gravel than locked up on bitumen. The tyres act like rudders, pushing the gravel aside.
That's interesting... I never thought of that.
If the gravel is loose (and deep) enough, I can see how the edge of a tire could be used as a "plow" to steer a vehicle in one direction or another.
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If your ABS came on, you were skidding, and you would not have stopped as fast if you didn't have ABS.
There is reportedly at least one exception: loose gravel. On a gravel road, locking up the wheels will stop the car faster than ABS. One of the earliest cars with ABS (a Mercedes) had an override switch to disable ABS, for this exact reason.
However, there's a trade-off: you lose steering if the front wheels are locked. Depending on the situation, an longer stopping distance on a gravel would be preferable to no directional control.
Why don't they just use the damn radio like normal people?
If the pilot has a radio in his plane, and he has turned it on, on what frequency would you call him?
An airplane is not required to have a radio, unless flying in airspace where it is required. Some planes don't even have an electrical system to support a radio.
Some pilots in an airplane without a radio carry a handheld radio (powered by batteries), but only turn it on when it is needed (i.e. takeoff and landing).
An aircraft comm radio has 760 "channels" (different frequencies). 121.5 MHz is the univeral "guard" or "emergency" frequency. But, pilots typically don't listen to it unless there's a need to do so.
I live in the Fort Worth/Dallas Metroplex where congress, through the Wright Amendment, put restrictions on South West Airlines so it cannot fly directly to DFW International unless the flight originates from within Texas or a bordering state.
I think you made an inadvertant typo: the airport in question is Dallas Love Field, not D/FW International.
If Southwest were to fly into D/FW, they wouldn't be subject to the Wright Amendment. Now that Delta has left D/FW and gates are available, Southwest's opponents are advocating exactly that.
There are exceptions to the Wright Amendment: regional jets with 56 or less seats are not restricted. However, while Continental once offered regional jet flights from Love Field to their hub in Cleveland, they no longer do so.
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I'm probably the one of the few that understands this joke, but unfortunately I don't have any mod points.
But I can offer this, which is the first non-paid hit when Googling for "leslie austin":
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Not exactly.
Birth of the Republican Party
Organized in Ripon, Wisconsin on February 28, 1854, as a party opposed to the expansion of slavery into new territories, the Party is not to be confused with the Democratic-Republican party of Thomas Jefferson or the National Republican Party of Henry Clay. The ideology of the reborn Republican party, however, did follow that of the early Democratic-Republicans. During Jefferson's presidency, he was called a "Republican", but the reference was to the party now known as the Democratic-Republican Party. That party later split into the Democratic Party and the Whig Party. The latter was formed in the winter of 1833-1834 but was defunct by the time of the American Civil War.
The first convention of the U.S. Republican Party was held on July 6, 1854, in Jackson, Michigan. Many of its initial policies were inspired by the Whig Party, which by then was in decline. Many of the early members of the Republican Party came from the Whigs, the Free Soil Party, and American Party. Since its inception, its chief opposition has been the Democratic Party.
John C. Frémont ran as the first Republican nominee for President in 1856, using the political slogan: "Free soil, free labor, free speech, free men, Frémont." Although Frémont's bid was unsuccessful, the party grew especially rapidly in Midwestern states, where slavery had long been prohibited, and in the Northeast, culminating in a sweep of victories in the Northern states. The ensuing election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860 ended the domination of the fragile coalition of pro-slavery southern Democrats and conciliatory northern Democrats which had existed since the days of Andrew Jackson. Instead, a new era of Republican dominance based in the industrial north ensued.
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A few years ago, I was being spammed by an email worm. I was getting hit several times an hour, from different email addresses. But, they all originated from the same IP: a TDS broadband customer. I tried changing sendmail to deny that IP address, but the worm simply switched to my backup SMTP server, which dutifully forwarded it to me (I don't have access to that server).
I sent several emails to TDS customer support, identifying the client IP address and including the complete text of the email with headers -- even before TDS's auto-reply told me to send it. But, I never got any human reply from TDS.
The spam went on for weeks and finally stopped -- perhaps that's how TDS did so: by blocking outgoing port 25 altogether.
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Higher-load charges use the same bullet, just different, more powerful charges, that result in the bullet traveling faster.
For any given caliber/cartridge, there are usually many variations of bullet weight and muzzle velocity, which is why both are documented -- at least in the published specifications.
Where? What country? :)
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Pardon me if I mis-interpreted, but it appears to me you are posing a rhetorical question to the effect of: if sueing the people making a tool is OK, who is sueing Smith & Wesson?
If so, this isn't a rhetorical question. The answer is: The US Dept. of Housing and Urban Development, usually known as "HUD". At the time, S&W was owned by a British company, who thought it was a good idea to settle:
http://www.hud.gov/library/bookshelf18/pressrel/gu nagree.html
The results were disastrous for S&W. The "agreement" required S&W to impose additional burdens above and beyond federal law on dealers. As a result, many dealers dropped S&W products altogether. The remaining dealers found themselves unable to sell an S&W product to anyone that was familiar with the HUD fiasco.
S&W was nearly bankrupted, even after massive layoffs. Tompkins LLC finally sold S&W for a small fraction of its value to an American company. They are turning a profit again, but only after the US Government has effectively repudiated the agreement.
Maybe you should look at a map of Asia.
A "Dual-fired" generation plant is one that can run on either natural gas or oil. It gives the operator the option of using what is cheaper at the time.
That's a bad analogy.
In the US, all you have to do is pay a nominal tax to the ATF (and jump through a couple of other bureaucratic hoops), and there's nothing illegal about a suppressor. It's no problem for someone without a criminal record.
(If you ever shoot a gun with a suppressor, you'll quickly realize that it's anything but silent)
In most of Europe, suppressors are not considered "evil". On the contrary, a suppressor is considered environmentally friendly, because it reduces the noise footprint. A competitor can practice in much closer proximity to other people without disturbing them. That's a significant factor where the population density is much higher than the US.
But, a friend sent me a link to a torrent of the video. It's interesting just to see the conditions they are living in:
Windows media, 640x480, 26.7 MB
MPEG, 640x480, 29.0 MB
Southwest Airlines flies out of Love Field (DAL), not DFW. So, a traveler would have to make their way from DFW to DAL (about 30 minutes, if the traffic is light) to catch a SWA flight.
American Airllines operates regional jets from DFW to Amarillo. But, I doubt that would have been modded +5, Funny.
Our chief weapon is surprise...surprise and fear...fear and surprise....
Our two weapons are fear and surprise... and ruthless efficiency....
Our three weapons are fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency...
and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope....
Our four... no...
Amongst our weapons... Amongst our weaponry...
are such elements as fear, surprise...
I'll come in again.
I have big feet (size 13) and long legs. I have a standing instruction to my travel agent to rent full-size cars, because there isn't enough room in many mid-size and compact cars to even get my knees under the steering wheel.
However, the incident in my own car was simple exhaustion. I had been driving for over an hour in freezing rain, after working about 16 hours straight. I was only a half-block from home and let my guard down, then reacted badly.
Unfortunately, my mom obviously shouldn't have been driving. That was the last time she did so, and she passed away a few years ago.
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Reading the text of the enacted bill:
Enrolled version
It looks like shipping direct to consumers from in-state wineries was also illegal, so perhaps the Supreme Court decision wouldn't have changed anything.
I don't know why so many moderators thought this was funny, but you likely have it exactly right.
It happened to me once on an icy road when my car started drifting. I thought I had my foot off the accelerator and on the brakes, but didn't realize why the anti-lock system wasn't working and the engine was making so much noise until I was sliding into a ditch. There was no damage and I was able to drive out, but at that moment I knew exactly how people can believe they had their foot on the brake.
Unfortunately, my mother wasn't so lucky. She got the pedals mixed up while manuvering in the driveway behind the house and ended up parking in the neighbor's bedroom (fortunately, no one was home). When my father ran outside and shut down the ignition, she was dazed from the impact, but her foot was still jammed on the accelerator.
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I'm not sure where he stands in the pecking order, but Steve Suehring has also announced his resignation, for the same reason.
Actually, all one has to do is look at the history of enactment of gun control in the US, and you will find that one does cause the other:
Gun crime causes gun laws.
Of course, whether gun laws reduce or increase gun crime is still inconclusive. For every example of one, there is a counter-example of the other.
That's interesting... I never thought of that.
If the gravel is loose (and deep) enough, I can see how the edge of a tire could be used as a "plow" to steer a vehicle in one direction or another.
There is reportedly at least one exception: loose gravel. On a gravel road, locking up the wheels will stop the car faster than ABS. One of the earliest cars with ABS (a Mercedes) had an override switch to disable ABS, for this exact reason.
However, there's a trade-off: you lose steering if the front wheels are locked. Depending on the situation, an longer stopping distance on a gravel would be preferable to no directional control.
If the pilot has a radio in his plane, and he has turned it on, on what frequency would you call him?
TV reception around here is terrific.
The television (and some radio) broadcast towers for the Mpls/St. Paul area are in Shoreview, just north of 694 and a bit west of 35E.
I think you made an inadvertant typo: the airport in question is Dallas Love Field, not D/FW International.
If Southwest were to fly into D/FW, they wouldn't be subject to the Wright Amendment. Now that Delta has left D/FW and gates are available, Southwest's opponents are advocating exactly that.
There are exceptions to the Wright Amendment: regional jets with 56 or less seats are not restricted. However, while Continental once offered regional jet flights from Love Field to their hub in Cleveland, they no longer do so.