A gun purchasing "channel" on TV holds no interest for me, but personally I buy most of my guns online these days (from sites like Buds or Grabagun).
For the most part, guns are a commodity at this point. If I buy a new handgun it generally arrives and works fine. Once I've chosen a particular make/model I don't care which one out of the case I get. I do the same with a lot of surplus or police trade-in guns that I order. They aren't new, but for the most part they work just fine, so I don't care about the cosmetics THAT much as long as it's reasonable.
Now, the shop down the road charges $20 for a transfer fee, but is typically $75-100 more in cost compared to online shops. To me it is just better to order online and then go on down to the shop and do the paperwork to pick it up when it comes in. With the money I save I usually can get a decent holster and a couple extra magazines.
On the odd case that I get a gun that isn't satisfactory I can have the manufacturer remedy the situation.
Since when is the government actually succeeded in taking American's guns away? The only laws proposed are at preventing future gun sales, but they never actively try to take guns (except through useless gun buyback programs).
When people debate censorship do they only worry about the government going back and censoring the stuff that's already out there, or is the prospect of censoring future content a major concern as well?
Any attempt to prevent people from acquiring new guns is "taking their guns" as much as confiscation of existing guns would be.
Bias has nothing to do with "factual inaccuracies".
If I don't like person A I can generate a nice long article containing every (legitimate and true) bad thing about them never listing any virtue and paint them as a bad person, when that might not be the case at all. The article wouldn't be untrue - just biased.
To some degree Trump is refreshing. A lot of people have become absolutely fed up with political correctness that has run amok in the country in the last few decades (and it seems particularly within the last 5 years or so). They feel so oppressed by this sense of having to tip-toe around everyone's feelings and sensitivities that anyone who throws that out with blatant disregard is exciting.
They know he's an idiot, just like I know a bacon double cheeseburger is terrible for me, but when you've been on a gluten free diet of kale salad for long enough you really don't care about logic anymore and just want to cut free and eat that bacon.
Yep, and now the internet companies who had basically been saying anyone who really uses their broadband is a "dirty pirate" are going to have to seriously look at their infrastructure. People are actually USING all that pipe.
I think that rather than complaining about "heavy users", ISP's really should count them as a blessing. Consider it market research - whatever usage you perceive to be "excessive" now will be the norm in 5-7 more years. Build out your network accordingly.
I know we're on a tech site, but don't fixate on computers so much. There is a TON of stuff out there that as far as technology simply isn't evolving that much.
A good waffle iron from 40 years ago will still work perfectly and will probably still be working long after whatever junk you can buy from Walmart today gives out.
On my fishing rod I've got an Abu Garcia Ambassadeur reel that I bought USED about 12 years ago - still working fine. They still make them (the real Made in Sweden ones cost around $100-$125), but my brother can't fathom spending that much on a fishing reel. So he buys $15 reels from Walmart. And he buys a new one pretty much every year because that's how often they break.
My washer and dryer are both 20+ year old Kenmoores that are still working fine (and are simple enough that if they DO break there are local repair guys that can fix them easily). Nothing new that you buy will last that long.
So yeah, if you're talking iPhones you might be ready for a new one every 2 years, but for the every day necessities? There's a whole bunch of stuff that continues to work just fine for a LONG time.
There is very little "basic needs" stuff that comes from China. Construction labor/materials and food really aren't what China is known for.
Trust me the world can live quite well without $5 blenders and $0.50 HDMI cables from China. The average American could probably SAVE money by avoiding "junk" purchases anyways and buying quality items to begin with, but sadly the average person is too stupid to understand that a $25 item that lats a lifetime is a better deal than a $5 version of that item that breaks and needs to be replaced every 2 years.
Not to mention that half of those people living in poverty because they're flipping burgers might actually be able to get a decent paying manufacturing job again.
He didn't say guns were hard to come by he said CCP's (Concealed Carry Permits) were hard to come by. No many how many guns are sold if you can't carry it on you it does no good unless you're at home.
This is one area where the "lower cost of living" areas of the country kind of get shafted.
I make ~$65k per year. In my area - that's fine. I bought a recent construction 1800sqft 4 bedroom house for $115k. Food and electricity are cheap here - I have no problem living comfortably on my salary - EXCEPT when it comes to buying something like a car. Cars cost about the same regardless of where you are in the country. As such while I'm making over twice the median income for my area - even $40k for a car isn't remotely feasible. My realistic budget tops out at around $25k. Thankfully you can still get (some) cars for less than that.
That said - I'm still driving my 10 year old car that's long been paid for. You can buy a LOT of gas per month for the price of a car payment.
Except your story doesn't make any sense here. I've read some of the reviews and using a 10K resister isn't cheaper than using a 56K resister, it is simply wrong and dangerous.
The part isn't cheaper, but the employee that made that mistake is cheaper than the one who wouldn't have. Labor costs are part of a product cost.
Unless we literally get a time machine working, its unlikely that we'll be able to show EXACTLY what happened. All we can do is model it, and anything that has a very tiny chance of happening is generally thrown out unless all other potential avenues are exhausted. Otherwise, each time we say "yeah, that 1% course is possible, lets stick with that" - we're wrong 99% of the time.
Of course there's something to see here. If you never hear that this model has been disproven then people can go on to throw it out as plausible later.
A theory being disproven - particularly one that was highly regarded - is very much newsworthy.
I personally wasn't using 75TB, but I was up around 4TB - I got the OneDrive subscription to keep an updated mirror of my large storage RAID which has about that much space.
With a limited of 1TB I no longer have need of their services. Newsflash: if you advertise unlimited, people will use the feature as such. Nobody expects infinity, but what is considered extreme usage by you may well be considered normal by some of your users.
The article clearly states that the guy who sold it inherited the item after the previous owner passed away.
If he had never been told what it was, he probably just assumed it was some weird project from his relative (possibly parent) that was taking up space. It'd be something that one might would even throw away except that anything large and metallic has scrap value so basically you get paid for your "trash".
My dad and uncle went through a lot of this after my grandfather passed away. Behind his house he had a ton (well, actually many, many tons) of old tractors, plows, cars, etc that after they broke he just tossed in the woods behind his house (still on his property - just off of the cleared portion). After my granddad passed away just in the process of cleaning up the place they hauled off pretty much all of it and took in quite a few thousand dollars in scrap value.
Doesn't really seem to do that for me. I get a strong burn in my nose if I eat too much horse radish but it's just a quick reaction that clears up after a few seconds. Capsaicin actually gets the sinuses open and draining for a while.
From a culinary perspective though I enjoy both, though I'll admit horseradish was much more of an acquired taste.
Medications for colds aren't meant to cure it - they merely manage the symptoms. If you want - sure, just deal with it and it will go away on its own, but you can use medication to make that time between when you get sick and when you get better a lot more tolerable.
Yep. Its particularly annoying for things that don't get you high.
For instance, I've got gout. To avoid being off my feet for a few days every other month or so, I take Allopurinol daily, and cholchicine if I ever do feel any pain coming on.
I have needed these medications for ~10 years now. I'll almost certainly need to keep taking them for the rest of my life. So why the heck do I have to see my doctor every 6 months just for him to say "Yep, you've still got gout - here's your permission to buy your meds."?
Why do YOU people always leave out the militia part? A little inconvenient?? There is no militia now, so you don't need any guns.
The Supreme Court has already ruled that the right to be arms is an individual right, not the right of the militia. It merely facilitates the formation of a militia when needed.
Claiming that 2nd amendment only applies to the militia would have made about as much sense as claiming that the 1st amendment only applies to the press.
Sweden destroys their constitution every 10 years, and re-writes it from the ground up. This eliminates the issue of a 325,000 page federal code, and ridiculous shit like Alabama having a law against playing naked ping-ping, or a woman in California from riding a horse wearing shorts, etc.
The constitution isn't "325,000" pages. As a matter of fact the constitution fits on less than 10 pages. All the crazy laws that we have are the laws beyond the constitution that have been later added. The constitution itself is a document that explicitly is intended to be timeless. Only the most basic of concepts are addressed there, and its been working for us just fine for well over 2 centuries.
Need it from a functional standpoint? No, but games are entertainment, not a task to to simply accomplish like sending an email or text. To make it an actual enjoyable experience, yes I need tactile controls.
The trigger on S&W autos is hideous and prone to breaking under duress.
There are after market solutions to that - namely by Apex Tactical Specialties which enjoys much popularity in the competition world. S&W could certainly license or clone that type of technology for any military pistol submission. The FSS kit with proper springs gives the gun a 5.0 lb trigger (or lower, though I doubt they'd go lower for general issue) that's aluminum instead of the stock polymer, and while not quite as crisp as a 1911, is darned close.
Of course Glock could design around their issues too - aftermarket Glock barrels solve the case support issue (though even in OEM barrels it's less pronounced in more recent manufacture guns).
I doubt anybody will submit a model identical to what's off the shelf to this requests. They'll read up on what's required, and if interested either design a whole new gun (like Beretta is doing) or modify their existing designs.
Either way it should be a win for the consumer market as even the guns that don't get chosen may well go into production for civilian sales.
The story mentions prisons - I'm not sure if short-term jails are included in this but I hope so.
While I've never personally had to make any calls, my sister was arrested (DUI) once, and being a nervous wreck was calling me - nearly hourly- until we got bail posted. The collect calls - often lasting no more than 2-3 minutes, were charged at a flat rate of $15 per call. A one night stay ended up costing me over $200 just in collect phone call charges before I eventually just had to tell her that I wouldn't accept any more calls.
Honestly - I've played a lot of good games "back in the day", and skipped over just as many that were good back then but I just never got around to playing (and whose interfaces I just can't play nowadays). I'm happy with remakes of those games, as long as they're true remakes like what Square is doing (I'm less interested and the "HD Remix" concept - I want completely new graphics not just uprezed stuff).
I personally have zero interest in "mobile gaming". I can understand that as a company they have to "follow the money", but I personally have little interest in games on a ~5 inch screen whose controls usually are just variations on "Turn device or touch the screen". I've embraced a whole bunch of "new media" with open arms. I love podcasts, most social media, and I've gotten to where I find myself viewing Youtube far more often than watching traditional television shows, but I'd completely give up gaming way before I'd play most of what passes for games on a phone.
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A gun purchasing "channel" on TV holds no interest for me, but personally I buy most of my guns online these days (from sites like Buds or Grabagun).
For the most part, guns are a commodity at this point. If I buy a new handgun it generally arrives and works fine. Once I've chosen a particular make/model I don't care which one out of the case I get. I do the same with a lot of surplus or police trade-in guns that I order. They aren't new, but for the most part they work just fine, so I don't care about the cosmetics THAT much as long as it's reasonable.
Now, the shop down the road charges $20 for a transfer fee, but is typically $75-100 more in cost compared to online shops. To me it is just better to order online and then go on down to the shop and do the paperwork to pick it up when it comes in. With the money I save I usually can get a decent holster and a couple extra magazines.
On the odd case that I get a gun that isn't satisfactory I can have the manufacturer remedy the situation.
Depends on what part of America. New Jersey isn't so much known for being polite, but in the South people tend to be much more polite and courteous.
Since when is the government actually succeeded in taking American's guns away? The only laws proposed are at preventing future gun sales, but they never actively try to take guns (except through useless gun buyback programs).
When people debate censorship do they only worry about the government going back and censoring the stuff that's already out there, or is the prospect of censoring future content a major concern as well?
Any attempt to prevent people from acquiring new guns is "taking their guns" as much as confiscation of existing guns would be.
Bias has nothing to do with "factual inaccuracies".
If I don't like person A I can generate a nice long article containing every (legitimate and true) bad thing about them never listing any virtue and paint them as a bad person, when that might not be the case at all. The article wouldn't be untrue - just biased.
To some degree Trump is refreshing. A lot of people have become absolutely fed up with political correctness that has run amok in the country in the last few decades (and it seems particularly within the last 5 years or so). They feel so oppressed by this sense of having to tip-toe around everyone's feelings and sensitivities that anyone who throws that out with blatant disregard is exciting.
They know he's an idiot, just like I know a bacon double cheeseburger is terrible for me, but when you've been on a gluten free diet of kale salad for long enough you really don't care about logic anymore and just want to cut free and eat that bacon.
Yep, and now the internet companies who had basically been saying anyone who really uses their broadband is a "dirty pirate" are going to have to seriously look at their infrastructure. People are actually USING all that pipe.
I think that rather than complaining about "heavy users", ISP's really should count them as a blessing. Consider it market research - whatever usage you perceive to be "excessive" now will be the norm in 5-7 more years. Build out your network accordingly.
I know we're on a tech site, but don't fixate on computers so much. There is a TON of stuff out there that as far as technology simply isn't evolving that much.
A good waffle iron from 40 years ago will still work perfectly and will probably still be working long after whatever junk you can buy from Walmart today gives out.
On my fishing rod I've got an Abu Garcia Ambassadeur reel that I bought USED about 12 years ago - still working fine. They still make them (the real Made in Sweden ones cost around $100-$125), but my brother can't fathom spending that much on a fishing reel. So he buys $15 reels from Walmart. And he buys a new one pretty much every year because that's how often they break.
My washer and dryer are both 20+ year old Kenmoores that are still working fine (and are simple enough that if they DO break there are local repair guys that can fix them easily). Nothing new that you buy will last that long.
So yeah, if you're talking iPhones you might be ready for a new one every 2 years, but for the every day necessities? There's a whole bunch of stuff that continues to work just fine for a LONG time.
There is very little "basic needs" stuff that comes from China. Construction labor/materials and food really aren't what China is known for.
Trust me the world can live quite well without $5 blenders and $0.50 HDMI cables from China. The average American could probably SAVE money by avoiding "junk" purchases anyways and buying quality items to begin with, but sadly the average person is too stupid to understand that a $25 item that lats a lifetime is a better deal than a $5 version of that item that breaks and needs to be replaced every 2 years.
Not to mention that half of those people living in poverty because they're flipping burgers might actually be able to get a decent paying manufacturing job again.
He didn't say guns were hard to come by he said CCP's (Concealed Carry Permits) were hard to come by. No many how many guns are sold if you can't carry it on you it does no good unless you're at home.
It happened in a government building. What do you think the likelihood of them being able to CARRY those guns is in that building?
Guns sitting at home do nothing.
I guess he hasn't gotten to the class in school yet explaining that the Executive branch can't enact laws . . .
This is one area where the "lower cost of living" areas of the country kind of get shafted.
I make ~$65k per year. In my area - that's fine. I bought a recent construction 1800sqft 4 bedroom house for $115k. Food and electricity are cheap here - I have no problem living comfortably on my salary - EXCEPT when it comes to buying something like a car. Cars cost about the same regardless of where you are in the country. As such while I'm making over twice the median income for my area - even $40k for a car isn't remotely feasible. My realistic budget tops out at around $25k. Thankfully you can still get (some) cars for less than that.
That said - I'm still driving my 10 year old car that's long been paid for. You can buy a LOT of gas per month for the price of a car payment.
Except your story doesn't make any sense here. I've read some of the reviews and using a 10K resister isn't cheaper than using a 56K resister, it is simply wrong and dangerous.
The part isn't cheaper, but the employee that made that mistake is cheaper than the one who wouldn't have. Labor costs are part of a product cost.
Because 1% chance means quite unlikely.
Unless we literally get a time machine working, its unlikely that we'll be able to show EXACTLY what happened. All we can do is model it, and anything that has a very tiny chance of happening is generally thrown out unless all other potential avenues are exhausted. Otherwise, each time we say "yeah, that 1% course is possible, lets stick with that" - we're wrong 99% of the time.
Of course there's something to see here. If you never hear that this model has been disproven then people can go on to throw it out as plausible later.
A theory being disproven - particularly one that was highly regarded - is very much newsworthy.
Well, there goes my onedrive subscription.
I personally wasn't using 75TB, but I was up around 4TB - I got the OneDrive subscription to keep an updated mirror of my large storage RAID which has about that much space.
With a limited of 1TB I no longer have need of their services. Newsflash: if you advertise unlimited, people will use the feature as such. Nobody expects infinity, but what is considered extreme usage by you may well be considered normal by some of your users.
The article clearly states that the guy who sold it inherited the item after the previous owner passed away.
If he had never been told what it was, he probably just assumed it was some weird project from his relative (possibly parent) that was taking up space. It'd be something that one might would even throw away except that anything large and metallic has scrap value so basically you get paid for your "trash".
My dad and uncle went through a lot of this after my grandfather passed away. Behind his house he had a ton (well, actually many, many tons) of old tractors, plows, cars, etc that after they broke he just tossed in the woods behind his house (still on his property - just off of the cleared portion). After my granddad passed away just in the process of cleaning up the place they hauled off pretty much all of it and took in quite a few thousand dollars in scrap value.
Doesn't really seem to do that for me. I get a strong burn in my nose if I eat too much horse radish but it's just a quick reaction that clears up after a few seconds. Capsaicin actually gets the sinuses open and draining for a while.
From a culinary perspective though I enjoy both, though I'll admit horseradish was much more of an acquired taste.
Medications for colds aren't meant to cure it - they merely manage the symptoms. If you want - sure, just deal with it and it will go away on its own, but you can use medication to make that time between when you get sick and when you get better a lot more tolerable.
Yep. Its particularly annoying for things that don't get you high.
For instance, I've got gout. To avoid being off my feet for a few days every other month or so, I take Allopurinol daily, and cholchicine if I ever do feel any pain coming on.
I have needed these medications for ~10 years now. I'll almost certainly need to keep taking them for the rest of my life. So why the heck do I have to see my doctor every 6 months just for him to say "Yep, you've still got gout - here's your permission to buy your meds."?
Why do YOU people always leave out the militia part? A little inconvenient?? There is no militia now, so you don't need any guns.
The Supreme Court has already ruled that the right to be arms is an individual right, not the right of the militia. It merely facilitates the formation of a militia when needed.
Claiming that 2nd amendment only applies to the militia would have made about as much sense as claiming that the 1st amendment only applies to the press.
Sweden destroys their constitution every 10 years, and re-writes it from the ground up. This eliminates the issue of a 325,000 page federal code, and ridiculous shit like Alabama having a law against playing naked ping-ping, or a woman in California from riding a horse wearing shorts, etc.
The constitution isn't "325,000" pages. As a matter of fact the constitution fits on less than 10 pages. All the crazy laws that we have are the laws beyond the constitution that have been later added. The constitution itself is a document that explicitly is intended to be timeless. Only the most basic of concepts are addressed there, and its been working for us just fine for well over 2 centuries.
Need it from a functional standpoint? No, but games are entertainment, not a task to to simply accomplish like sending an email or text. To make it an actual enjoyable experience, yes I need tactile controls.
The trigger on S&W autos is hideous and prone to breaking under duress.
There are after market solutions to that - namely by Apex Tactical Specialties which enjoys much popularity in the competition world. S&W could certainly license or clone that type of technology for any military pistol submission. The FSS kit with proper springs gives the gun a 5.0 lb trigger (or lower, though I doubt they'd go lower for general issue) that's aluminum instead of the stock polymer, and while not quite as crisp as a 1911, is darned close.
https://store.apextactical.com...
Of course Glock could design around their issues too - aftermarket Glock barrels solve the case support issue (though even in OEM barrels it's less pronounced in more recent manufacture guns).
I doubt anybody will submit a model identical to what's off the shelf to this requests. They'll read up on what's required, and if interested either design a whole new gun (like Beretta is doing) or modify their existing designs.
Either way it should be a win for the consumer market as even the guns that don't get chosen may well go into production for civilian sales.
The story mentions prisons - I'm not sure if short-term jails are included in this but I hope so.
While I've never personally had to make any calls, my sister was arrested (DUI) once, and being a nervous wreck was calling me - nearly hourly- until we got bail posted. The collect calls - often lasting no more than 2-3 minutes, were charged at a flat rate of $15 per call. A one night stay ended up costing me over $200 just in collect phone call charges before I eventually just had to tell her that I wouldn't accept any more calls.
Honestly - I've played a lot of good games "back in the day", and skipped over just as many that were good back then but I just never got around to playing (and whose interfaces I just can't play nowadays). I'm happy with remakes of those games, as long as they're true remakes like what Square is doing (I'm less interested and the "HD Remix" concept - I want completely new graphics not just uprezed stuff).
I personally have zero interest in "mobile gaming". I can understand that as a company they have to "follow the money", but I personally have little interest in games on a ~5 inch screen whose controls usually are just variations on "Turn device or touch the screen". I've embraced a whole bunch of "new media" with open arms. I love podcasts, most social media, and I've gotten to where I find myself viewing Youtube far more often than watching traditional television shows, but I'd completely give up gaming way before I'd play most of what passes for games on a phone.