Home made, as long as your home has the tooling given to your country by the former Soviet Union. It's not like someone is going to hammer out an AK-47 on their anvil.
I have a $100 gun cabinet (won't even call it a safe). If I lost the keys, it would take at least a full hour with my 6" angle grinder to get into it. I'd like something more substantial, but my choices are to reinforce the floor to hold a real safe or put it in the basement where the humidity would damage the contents.
"Stack On" makes the shittiest tool boxes on earth. It's a ripoff of the "Snap On" name, but made in Crapistan and sold in discount stores. Seriously, I'd feel safer storing my guns in cardboard boxes. This is NOT news.
I don't see where you're going to find a "Computer-Science-not-IT" job anywhere, desk or not. I work for one of the largest software companies in the world and there isn't anything here that's much more computer-sciencey than Geek Squad.
To the article submitter: Your cubicle awaits. Get used to it.
I think the US is one of the exceptions, where the more affluent population continues to have more than multiple children.
The intelligent hardworking people I know have two, one, or no children. The dumbest and poorest just keep pushing them out. It's exactly like the movie Idiocracy.
It doesn't help that we have a social system that rewards low income high birth rate. My wife and I will have to make a tough decision when it comes to offspring #2. Can we afford it or not? If we can't, I'll get snipped and we'll just go on working to pay for other people's children through welfare, food stamps, WIC, EIC, Section 8, school lunch vouchers, head start, etc, etc, etc. Our standard of living would improve if we both just quit working and had more children.
Sound good, or did you just mean poor people should pay the costs of making themselves more desirable for exploitation by the wealthy?
One of the nicer homes in my neighborhood is owned by a guy who runs a window tinting business. By that logic, he should be paying for the education of the two employees that work for him because it benefits his business.
Of course, he is paying for it, because his taxes are higher than mine. I'm cool with that, because it's more money in my pocket. But I'm going to call it what it is - my own greed - not some utopian socialist ideal.
Fire, police, and schools are paid from county property taxes, which are a proportion of how much your home is worth. The average single family home in my county does not pay for itself. Wealthy land owners make up the deficit.
Roads are paid from state income taxes. My state takes the revenue from the highest income portion of the state (a D.C. suburb) and spends it all in the poorer rural parts of the state.
So if the top earners demanded their money's worth from their taxes, the rest of us would be in serious trouble.
Combat is entirely different than range time, but I'd rather take my chances surrounded by armed citizens. Otherwise, the criminal is 100% in control of the situation. The fact that these things go on until the shooter decides to stop is clear indication that people need to be ready to defend themselves. If the police show up at all, they'll be waiting outside until it's over.
I've never in my life fired at a moving target, but I'd rather have the chance than to just sit there and wait for my turn.
A night time security guard at a movie theater is NOT going to put his life on the line for a customer. Even police, IF they get there in time, aren't going to take a bullet for you or me. And I wouldn't expect them to.
The "training" for my concealed carry permit was a 1 hour online video and a 20 question multiple choice test. I may be a crazy right wing gun owning nut, but even I think that was too easy. A hunting license (for deer) is a whole weekend course.
That said, we're statistically in the the most law abiding category, but I'd like to know that we've at least proven we can hit a target.
Was visibility *totally* obscured for everyone? It's possible someone would have gotten a clear shot on the guy before he killed and injured most of the people he did.
Unfortunately the night vision scope on my AR15 makes it difficult to stuff into my pants.
I see your little jab there against Christianity, but I've met lots of scary fundamentalist Christians and none of them would strap a bomb to his/her chest and run into a crowded market. The concept of Mutually Assured Destruction would pretty much keep them in check.
This might be a good place to mention that Democrats held both houses of congress and the white house. Whatever you may think about Texans, they didn't have anything to do with canceling the project.
A car battery will be dead. Even if kept charge, it'll run an inverter for a couple of hours at best. For me, a cheap used generator will run the well pump (all the clean water I'll ever need), the fridge, a window unit A/C (my wife is 38 weeks pregnant - 100 degree heat is NOT an option), and the blower in my wood stove (I have 5+ years of fire wood stacked in the yard). Oh the wonders of gasoline! Even better would be a diesel generator that I could hook up to my 500 gallon heating oil tank. That would definitely carry me through the zombie apocalypse.
What has surprised me during this weather event is that you can't beat a landline phone. Verizon Wireless was out for two days and still isn't reliable and Vonage/Skype wouldn't work without cable internet service. I had no way to contact anyone.
You're the first to mention tree trimming. That's a big debate in itself.
People complained about outages after Hurricane Whatever a few years ago so the utility came through and cut back everything. My neighborhood looked like a war zone when they were done. They even bush-hogged my flower garden. Then everybody complained about the trimming. Of course, we still lost power for 36 hours last weekend.
Every homeowner should have a generator, a water pump, and a gun. Waiting until you need one to get it is too late.
I run into that exact same problem with browsers ALL THE TIME. In fact, I have IE6 on my PC right now because the corporate intranet site doesn't work with anything newer. Now the customer wants the product tested on IE8, forcing me to upgrade, which is going to totally hose the JavaScript application I'm working on AND I probably won't even get paid anymore because I can't even fill in my timecard!
So some incompatibility with an old obscure Java 1.4 app is NOTHING compared to the debacle of web browsers and thin clients.
Even if it is a problem, it's trivial to deploy an older VM with your software and specify it explicitly because Java doesn't even need to be "installed" to function. Just dump it into your app's default directory and run it. Try that with IE or Firefox! Or even worse,.NET!
I'm currently working on a large JavaScript based application. It's just like every rich client I've ever done, except it's not type safe, or compile safe. Debugging is a pain in the ass. It's slower. I have to make it work in multiple browsers. It's enterprisey and web 2.0ish and pretty, but missing all the powerful UI tools I have under.NET or Swing. As a developer, It just seems like a huge step backwards.
The justification for this year's increase is dependent coverage to age 26, no copays for certain procedures, and no lifetime limits. More to come over the next couple years as the rest of Obamacare kicks in.
And I paid for my own damn health insurance from age 17 to 25.
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These are the only political positions I've actually seen him consistently take ... I'm not Barack Obama. In particular, I'm white.
If you can provide a citation for that, please do and I will not vote for Romney.
Otherwise you're full of shit and a racist. And so is whoever modded you up.
Home made, as long as your home has the tooling given to your country by the former Soviet Union. It's not like someone is going to hammer out an AK-47 on their anvil.
I have a $100 gun cabinet (won't even call it a safe). If I lost the keys, it would take at least a full hour with my 6" angle grinder to get into it. I'd like something more substantial, but my choices are to reinforce the floor to hold a real safe or put it in the basement where the humidity would damage the contents.
"Stack On" makes the shittiest tool boxes on earth. It's a ripoff of the "Snap On" name, but made in Crapistan and sold in discount stores. Seriously, I'd feel safer storing my guns in cardboard boxes. This is NOT news.
I don't see where you're going to find a "Computer-Science-not-IT" job anywhere, desk or not. I work for one of the largest software companies in the world and there isn't anything here that's much more computer-sciencey than Geek Squad.
To the article submitter: Your cubicle awaits. Get used to it.
I think the US is one of the exceptions, where the more affluent population continues to have more than multiple children.
The intelligent hardworking people I know have two, one, or no children. The dumbest and poorest just keep pushing them out. It's exactly like the movie Idiocracy.
It doesn't help that we have a social system that rewards low income high birth rate. My wife and I will have to make a tough decision when it comes to offspring #2. Can we afford it or not? If we can't, I'll get snipped and we'll just go on working to pay for other people's children through welfare, food stamps, WIC, EIC, Section 8, school lunch vouchers, head start, etc, etc, etc. Our standard of living would improve if we both just quit working and had more children.
Sound good, or did you just mean poor people should pay the costs of making themselves more desirable for exploitation by the wealthy?
One of the nicer homes in my neighborhood is owned by a guy who runs a window tinting business. By that logic, he should be paying for the education of the two employees that work for him because it benefits his business.
Of course, he is paying for it, because his taxes are higher than mine. I'm cool with that, because it's more money in my pocket. But I'm going to call it what it is - my own greed - not some utopian socialist ideal.
So I should loot my neighbor's house if my taxes go up or we don't get that new school?
Fire, police, and schools are paid from county property taxes, which are a proportion of how much your home is worth. The average single family home in my county does not pay for itself. Wealthy land owners make up the deficit.
Roads are paid from state income taxes. My state takes the revenue from the highest income portion of the state (a D.C. suburb) and spends it all in the poorer rural parts of the state.
So if the top earners demanded their money's worth from their taxes, the rest of us would be in serious trouble.
Combat is entirely different than range time, but I'd rather take my chances surrounded by armed citizens. Otherwise, the criminal is 100% in control of the situation. The fact that these things go on until the shooter decides to stop is clear indication that people need to be ready to defend themselves. If the police show up at all, they'll be waiting outside until it's over.
I've never in my life fired at a moving target, but I'd rather have the chance than to just sit there and wait for my turn.
A lot of people hunt for reasons other than recreation.
A night time security guard at a movie theater is NOT going to put his life on the line for a customer. Even police, IF they get there in time, aren't going to take a bullet for you or me. And I wouldn't expect them to.
The "training" for my concealed carry permit was a 1 hour online video and a 20 question multiple choice test. I may be a crazy right wing gun owning nut, but even I think that was too easy. A hunting license (for deer) is a whole weekend course.
That said, we're statistically in the the most law abiding category, but I'd like to know that we've at least proven we can hit a target.
Was visibility *totally* obscured for everyone? It's possible someone would have gotten a clear shot on the guy before he killed and injured most of the people he did.
Unfortunately the night vision scope on my AR15 makes it difficult to stuff into my pants.
They charged me per-credit for my overload schedule. Nothing was free. Ever.
I thought education and healthcare and everything was free in Germany. ?
I see your little jab there against Christianity, but I've met lots of scary fundamentalist Christians and none of them would strap a bomb to his/her chest and run into a crowded market. The concept of Mutually Assured Destruction would pretty much keep them in check.
This might be a good place to mention that Democrats held both houses of congress and the white house. Whatever you may think about Texans, they didn't have anything to do with canceling the project.
A car battery will be dead. Even if kept charge, it'll run an inverter for a couple of hours at best. For me, a cheap used generator will run the well pump (all the clean water I'll ever need), the fridge, a window unit A/C (my wife is 38 weeks pregnant - 100 degree heat is NOT an option), and the blower in my wood stove (I have 5+ years of fire wood stacked in the yard). Oh the wonders of gasoline! Even better would be a diesel generator that I could hook up to my 500 gallon heating oil tank. That would definitely carry me through the zombie apocalypse.
What has surprised me during this weather event is that you can't beat a landline phone. Verizon Wireless was out for two days and still isn't reliable and Vonage/Skype wouldn't work without cable internet service. I had no way to contact anyone.
You're the first to mention tree trimming. That's a big debate in itself.
People complained about outages after Hurricane Whatever a few years ago so the utility came through and cut back everything. My neighborhood looked like a war zone when they were done. They even bush-hogged my flower garden. Then everybody complained about the trimming. Of course, we still lost power for 36 hours last weekend.
Every homeowner should have a generator, a water pump, and a gun. Waiting until you need one to get it is too late.
I've gone through a few "C for Dummies" style books, but I'd like a better understanding. Is there a C book that you would recommend?
I hereby curse you with having that song stuck in your head for the rest of the day.
I run into that exact same problem with browsers ALL THE TIME. In fact, I have IE6 on my PC right now because the corporate intranet site doesn't work with anything newer. Now the customer wants the product tested on IE8, forcing me to upgrade, which is going to totally hose the JavaScript application I'm working on AND I probably won't even get paid anymore because I can't even fill in my timecard!
.NET!
So some incompatibility with an old obscure Java 1.4 app is NOTHING compared to the debacle of web browsers and thin clients.
Even if it is a problem, it's trivial to deploy an older VM with your software and specify it explicitly because Java doesn't even need to be "installed" to function. Just dump it into your app's default directory and run it. Try that with IE or Firefox! Or even worse,
I'm currently working on a large JavaScript based application. It's just like every rich client I've ever done, except it's not type safe, or compile safe. Debugging is a pain in the ass. It's slower. I have to make it work in multiple browsers. It's enterprisey and web 2.0ish and pretty, but missing all the powerful UI tools I have under .NET or Swing. As a developer, It just seems like a huge step backwards.
The justification for this year's increase is dependent coverage to age 26, no copays for certain procedures, and no lifetime limits. More to come over the next couple years as the rest of Obamacare kicks in.
And I paid for my own damn health insurance from age 17 to 25.
Isn't that like the new feature of Ubuntu that everybody hates?
I'm hard core. I hit [Win]-R and type the exact path and filename of everything I run.