Pretty much every airport. 40% of the illegal aliens in the US have overstayed their visa. There is pretty much zero enforcement of sending people home when their visa expires.
Europe nearly succumbed to the German National Socialists, and would have had it not been for us. And our founders laid the foundation for all the subsequent success. The fact that we are following Europe down the crapper is because we have deviated in substantial ways from the system of government they set up. If you are so sure of AGW, cite me the paper that, in your opinion, definitively proved that the earth's atmosphere is warning due to the tiny amount of CO2 added to the atmosphere by human activities. I will review the paper and find R^2 correlations, which never proved anything, cooked computer models, and vigorous hand waving. Note that I have a degree in physics with minors in math and chemistry, so I can read and comprehend the original papers. I have reviewed many such papers and found the same thing in all of them. And don't yammer on about a body of work. Coming to the same unsupported conclusions time after time does not even begin to establish proof. The only viable conclusion a true scientist can arrive at based on our knowledge is that we don't know if CO2 is the primary driver of climatic temperatures.
#8 birdshot won't bring down a drone 250 feet up. The maximum lethal range on live birds for #8 is a little over 100 ft. After that, it won't even break a clay target.
If you don't like our Constitution as presently understood, feel free to try to repeal the parts you don't like. Funny how even the most shrill of leftists never want to come out and say what everyone knows they are wishing for. BTW, those rich slave holding men created the most successful country in the history of the world. As if any leftie could do better. One of course wonders what our great grand children will mock us for. My vote is AGW.
This does bring up some pertinent questions. What size shot is optimum for drones? I would think #4 would work pretty well with a full choke. Also, do you think the feds will require steel (non-toxic) shot for drones? Will there be seasons and bag limits? Federal stamps like for ducks? Mandatory harvest reporting? Seems like a new area ripe for federal regulations.
Who said that a toddler ever laid hands on any of my firearms? You are assuming facts not in evidence. I am merely pointing out that some kinds of weapons are easier to fire than others. I would also note that if the toddler in question has the ingenuity to rack a slide on a table, he can probably figure out how to use a key to open a trigger lock.
I think it's cute when people who have little experience with guns other than watching re-runs of Law and Order sit in judgement of others with far more experience. No, there was no failure involved whatsoever, and if you had the slightest understanding of firearms, you would know that a 1911.45ACP has such a stiff recoil spring that some adults have trouble with pulling the slide back. Especially the variant I have, the Officer's Model, that has a shorter barrel, hence a shorter recoil spring. I chose this model precisely because I wanted a handgun with a stiff slide spring to provide an extra margin of safety in case it ever got into the wrong little hands. Not that it was left laying around, but it was not locked up like all my other firearms. Part of having a defensive weapon is making sure that if someone breaks into your house in the middle of the night you can get to it instantly. And yes, that happened to me. It was before we had kids, and I had a Ruger Mini-14. The perp had broken into a bathroom windows, and when I flipped on the lights and racked the slide, a miscreant with very wide eyes jumped back out the window. Had I not been armed, it might not have ended so well. Your mileage may vary.
You are more correct than you think. Revolvers are a terrible choice if you have kids. When mine were little, the only weapon not locked up was a.45 auto. I kept it with a loaded magazine, but empty chamber. The act of loading, pulling back the slide, takes a lot of hand strength, and no way could a little kid get it loaded, but it was fairly ready in case of emergency. It was a good compromise.
True. Sometimes it is necessary to kill. This is why police carry them, and when you need one to protect yourself, there are not any good substitutes. Kind of like life jackets and seat belts. Many, many more family members are protected by an armed parent than are injured in accidents, but those rarely make the news.
I support our rights to own firearms and refuse to give mine up.
That's a quality red herring right there. What was the last time anyone has asked you to give up your gun?
What do you think it means when The Anointed One spouts off about how we meed to emulate Australia and England? They banned and confiscated. The dots are not hard to connect here.
When I go to Japan I see lots of cute SUVs from Mitsubishi and Toyota that have turbo diesel engines. I would love to have one. Too bad the EPA has made it pretty near impossible to meet US emissions standards.
And pointing out that not everybody wants to be a mindless government drone gets modded troll. Slashdotters are a bunch of childish leftie zealots. I am about done with this place.
Of course we all like our air clean. The delta between European standards and EPA standards would make zero impact on air quality where many people live. We are way, way beyond the point of diminishing marginal returns. The biggest air quality problem where I live is from wildfires in the summer, which could be mitigated by harvesting timber instead of letting it burn, and inversions in the winter, which nobody can do a thing about. If people in the LA Basin want to have different standards, that is up to them. We don't need a Soviet-style, one-size-fits-all emissions policy.
Of course the EPA shares blame. The 7.3 had a stellar reputation. Then the EPA arbitrarily tightened rules, making the 7.3 "illegal". Scare quotes because this was not a dully passed law, but a bureaucratic edict. The resulting motor, the 6.0, was horribly unreliable because of design changes directly attributable to the new emissions standards. The dots are not hard to connect.
I take it you have never been to Europe or Japan. You see small diesels everywhere there. Of course they are not saddled with our wild-eyed envirowackos in the EPA.
My truck has one of the last 7.3s to roll off the line. Interesting you should mention the disastrous 6.0. *All* of the problems of the 6.0 can be traced back to EPA mandates. Blown head gaskets were the result of two EPA mandates. First it only has 4 head bolts per cylinder (the 7.3 had 6) to make room for 4 valves to meet emissions. Second, the exhaust gas re-circulation cooler was inside that water jacket, and it plugs up, causing the coolant to boil on that side, which takes out the head gasket. Blown head gaskets lead to total engine failure due to overheating and getting anti-freeze into the main bearings. One wonders about the carbon footprint of all the blown EPA-engineered engines and the extra fuel they use compared to the minimal amount of air pollution saved.
I leased a VW Jetta TDI three years ago. It pretty much always got better than the advertised economy. I rarely got below 48 MPG and I think it was rated at 42. I only checked the dash MPG against the actual MPG a few times when it was brand new and they were within.1 MPG. It was an amazingly efficient vehicle.
This. Ever wonder why there is such a dearth of diesel powered vehicles? Because the EPA has screwed up royally. It is nearly impossible to get a diesel engine certified, and when it is, the reliability is worse than gasoline power because of all the emissions crap the put on it. Not only that, but the ridiculously low levels of sulfur allowed require that they start with light sweet crude instead of heavy crude, which drives the cost of diesel up. The acid rain problems were taken care of by putting SO2 scrubbers on coal burning equipment back in the 70's. But the EPA cannot see that. They do zero cost benefit analysis before imposing new regulations.
I have the last Ford diesel pickup made with no emissions equipment. No cat, DPF, DEF, EGR, etc. I put a chip in it that gives me more power and better fuel economy. This does not break a single federal law. The EPA may not like this, but guess what, *I* own this truck, not them. It passes emissions testing with flying colors.
I will never trade this truck in. The new ones have horrible reliability problems. For example, many new diesels "make oil". The amount of oil in the engine crank case goes up as you drive. How does that happen? The diesel particulate filter (DPF) in the exhaust pipe gets filled up, so they pump diesel into the exhaust pipe through the injectors/cylinders to burn it in the DPF to make the particles into ash so it will go through the filter. This is called "regeneration".
Some of that diesel fuel gets past the rings into the crankcase and dilutes the oil. The diesel pumped into the exhaust does nothing to provide motive power. This is only one of many very stupid ideas, brought to you courtesy of bureaucrats who wield the power of government, who you cannot vote for or against, and never have to provide a cost-benefit analysis. We are way, way beyond clean air and water.
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An EMP, whether from the sun or a hostile act, will make Sandy look like a Sunday School picnic.
Where are the gates completely open?
Pretty much every airport. 40% of the illegal aliens in the US have overstayed their visa. There is pretty much zero enforcement of sending people home when their visa expires.
Europe nearly succumbed to the German National Socialists, and would have had it not been for us. And our founders laid the foundation for all the subsequent success. The fact that we are following Europe down the crapper is because we have deviated in substantial ways from the system of government they set up. If you are so sure of AGW, cite me the paper that, in your opinion, definitively proved that the earth's atmosphere is warning due to the tiny amount of CO2 added to the atmosphere by human activities. I will review the paper and find R^2 correlations, which never proved anything, cooked computer models, and vigorous hand waving. Note that I have a degree in physics with minors in math and chemistry, so I can read and comprehend the original papers. I have reviewed many such papers and found the same thing in all of them. And don't yammer on about a body of work. Coming to the same unsupported conclusions time after time does not even begin to establish proof. The only viable conclusion a true scientist can arrive at based on our knowledge is that we don't know if CO2 is the primary driver of climatic temperatures.
#8 birdshot won't bring down a drone 250 feet up. The maximum lethal range on live birds for #8 is a little over 100 ft. After that, it won't even break a clay target.
If you don't like our Constitution as presently understood, feel free to try to repeal the parts you don't like. Funny how even the most shrill of leftists never want to come out and say what everyone knows they are wishing for. BTW, those rich slave holding men created the most successful country in the history of the world. As if any leftie could do better. One of course wonders what our great grand children will mock us for. My vote is AGW.
This does bring up some pertinent questions. What size shot is optimum for drones? I would think #4 would work pretty well with a full choke. Also, do you think the feds will require steel (non-toxic) shot for drones? Will there be seasons and bag limits? Federal stamps like for ducks? Mandatory harvest reporting? Seems like a new area ripe for federal regulations.
Who said that a toddler ever laid hands on any of my firearms? You are assuming facts not in evidence. I am merely pointing out that some kinds of weapons are easier to fire than others. I would also note that if the toddler in question has the ingenuity to rack a slide on a table, he can probably figure out how to use a key to open a trigger lock.
This AC has obviously mastered *both* the straw man and Rule 5. Bravo!
I think it's cute when people who have little experience with guns other than watching re-runs of Law and Order sit in judgement of others with far more experience. No, there was no failure involved whatsoever, and if you had the slightest understanding of firearms, you would know that a 1911 .45ACP has such a stiff recoil spring that some adults have trouble with pulling the slide back. Especially the variant I have, the Officer's Model, that has a shorter barrel, hence a shorter recoil spring. I chose this model precisely because I wanted a handgun with a stiff slide spring to provide an extra margin of safety in case it ever got into the wrong little hands. Not that it was left laying around, but it was not locked up like all my other firearms. Part of having a defensive weapon is making sure that if someone breaks into your house in the middle of the night you can get to it instantly. And yes, that happened to me. It was before we had kids, and I had a Ruger Mini-14. The perp had broken into a bathroom windows, and when I flipped on the lights and racked the slide, a miscreant with very wide eyes jumped back out the window. Had I not been armed, it might not have ended so well. Your mileage may vary.
You are more correct than you think. Revolvers are a terrible choice if you have kids. When mine were little, the only weapon not locked up was a .45 auto. I kept it with a loaded magazine, but empty chamber. The act of loading, pulling back the slide, takes a lot of hand strength, and no way could a little kid get it loaded, but it was fairly ready in case of emergency. It was a good compromise.
The main purpose of a gun is to kill. .
True. Sometimes it is necessary to kill. This is why police carry them, and when you need one to protect yourself, there are not any good substitutes. Kind of like life jackets and seat belts. Many, many more family members are protected by an armed parent than are injured in accidents, but those rarely make the news.
That's a quality red herring right there. What was the last time anyone has asked you to give up your gun?
What do you think it means when The Anointed One spouts off about how we meed to emulate Australia and England? They banned and confiscated. The dots are not hard to connect here.
When I go to Japan I see lots of cute SUVs from Mitsubishi and Toyota that have turbo diesel engines. I would love to have one. Too bad the EPA has made it pretty near impossible to meet US emissions standards.
And pointing out that not everybody wants to be a mindless government drone gets modded troll. Slashdotters are a bunch of childish leftie zealots. I am about done with this place.
Of course we all like our air clean. The delta between European standards and EPA standards would make zero impact on air quality where many people live. We are way, way beyond the point of diminishing marginal returns. The biggest air quality problem where I live is from wildfires in the summer, which could be mitigated by harvesting timber instead of letting it burn, and inversions in the winter, which nobody can do a thing about. If people in the LA Basin want to have different standards, that is up to them. We don't need a Soviet-style, one-size-fits-all emissions policy.
Of course the EPA shares blame. The 7.3 had a stellar reputation. Then the EPA arbitrarily tightened rules, making the 7.3 "illegal". Scare quotes because this was not a dully passed law, but a bureaucratic edict. The resulting motor, the 6.0, was horribly unreliable because of design changes directly attributable to the new emissions standards. The dots are not hard to connect.
I take it you have never been to Europe or Japan. You see small diesels everywhere there. Of course they are not saddled with our wild-eyed envirowackos in the EPA.
I put in the CAT ELC coolant. It has enough SCA to do 250K mi. with no cavitation.
My truck has one of the last 7.3s to roll off the line. Interesting you should mention the disastrous 6.0. *All* of the problems of the 6.0 can be traced back to EPA mandates. Blown head gaskets were the result of two EPA mandates. First it only has 4 head bolts per cylinder (the 7.3 had 6) to make room for 4 valves to meet emissions. Second, the exhaust gas re-circulation cooler was inside that water jacket, and it plugs up, causing the coolant to boil on that side, which takes out the head gasket. Blown head gaskets lead to total engine failure due to overheating and getting anti-freeze into the main bearings. One wonders about the carbon footprint of all the blown EPA-engineered engines and the extra fuel they use compared to the minimal amount of air pollution saved.
I leased a VW Jetta TDI three years ago. It pretty much always got better than the advertised economy. I rarely got below 48 MPG and I think it was rated at 42. I only checked the dash MPG against the actual MPG a few times when it was brand new and they were within .1 MPG. It was an amazingly efficient vehicle.
This. Ever wonder why there is such a dearth of diesel powered vehicles? Because the EPA has screwed up royally. It is nearly impossible to get a diesel engine certified, and when it is, the reliability is worse than gasoline power because of all the emissions crap the put on it. Not only that, but the ridiculously low levels of sulfur allowed require that they start with light sweet crude instead of heavy crude, which drives the cost of diesel up. The acid rain problems were taken care of by putting SO2 scrubbers on coal burning equipment back in the 70's. But the EPA cannot see that. They do zero cost benefit analysis before imposing new regulations.
I have the last Ford diesel pickup made with no emissions equipment. No cat, DPF, DEF, EGR, etc. I put a chip in it that gives me more power and better fuel economy. This does not break a single federal law. The EPA may not like this, but guess what, *I* own this truck, not them. It passes emissions testing with flying colors.
I will never trade this truck in. The new ones have horrible reliability problems. For example, many new diesels "make oil". The amount of oil in the engine crank case goes up as you drive. How does that happen? The diesel particulate filter (DPF) in the exhaust pipe gets filled up, so they pump diesel into the exhaust pipe through the injectors/cylinders to burn it in the DPF to make the particles into ash so it will go through the filter. This is called "regeneration".
Some of that diesel fuel gets past the rings into the crankcase and dilutes the oil. The diesel pumped into the exhaust does nothing to provide motive power. This is only one of many very stupid ideas, brought to you courtesy of bureaucrats who wield the power of government, who you cannot vote for or against, and never have to provide a cost-benefit analysis. We are way, way beyond clean air and water.
Patience, Grasshoppa.
This is almost as pathetic as the "educators" who kicked the kindergartner out for nibbling his Pop Tart into the shape of a gun.
Correlation does not even begin to prove causation.
Um, I said "let ME be the first ...". Not " let US ..." Apparently reading comprehension is not your strong suite.