The 1911 comes out to a few more parts when field stripped, but I honestly don't find it harder to field strip. In some ways its easier IMHO because you don't have to pull the trigger, and sometimes it's frustrating to pull the Glock slide back just the right amount to take tension of the takedown lever without the striker cocking.
Don't get me wrong I wouldn't field the 1911 either despite being a big fan of it (I've got a Glock and 3 1911's), but field stripping it isn't bad at all.
Personally, I'd be in favor of adopting the S&W M&P in.40S&W. To me it's easier to takedown than the Glock (you flip down a lever instead of pulling the trigger to deactivate the striker), and the takeown lever itself is a pivoting latch that's easy to work as opposed to that spring-loaded deal on the Glock. It's completely subjective but I find the M&P to just sit in the hand better than the Glock too. It's also an American owned and operated company which I think priority should be given to for defense contracts. It also is available already with a thumb-safety as an option which I'm sure the DOD will mandate.
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As someone who lived through the early years of Linux (I started using It back around 1998), nah, we're pretty good. There are some projects that are going in odd directions, but open source is showing its strengths there with people still taking a more traditional approach (ie, the Cinnamon interface in place of regular GNOME3).
Using Linux back then was a chore - you really had to WANT to use it because the apps were lacking and the UI was downright clunky, not to mention the famed stability of Linux that was always touted really applied to the console running server apps - KDE and most of the desktop stuff crashed constantly. Now most of the Linux desktop stuff is pretty stable.
Nope. The same week as a large shooting in the US (may have been Sandy Hook, not sure) there was a mass stabbing in China. The difference is there was a tiny chance of living if shot in the shooting, and a 100% survival in the school mass stabbing.
And a little more than a year later there was a mass stabbing in China that left 29 victims dead:
Finger print scanners introduce extra parts and extra points of failure. Making it "really hard to squeeze" (ie, making the trigger pull heavy) makes a gun much, much more difficult to shoot accurately. Nothing like needing to use your gun and not being able to hit anything because the pull weight of the trigger is heavier than the weight of the whole gun.
Also - not all guns - PARTICULARLY handguns intended for defensive use, have a safety - at least not a "switch" that disables the gun. Reason being is simple: if you need to use the gun you'll likely be under a tremendous amount of stress. If there's a little switch on the gun disabling it and you have to switch it off to use it, there's a very real possibility that you may fail to switch the safety off. As a matter of fact Glocks - the sidearm carried by the vast majority of law enforcement - have no manual safety. They have a trigger safety that keeps the trigger from moving if it's not directly pressed, and they have a drop safety that keeps the gun from firing if dropped, but there is no little switch on the side that turns the gun on and off.
And that's part of the problem here. 90% of the people proposing "solutions" know almost nothing about how guns work. Slashdot will go ballistic if a bunch of 80 year old technophobe politicians try to make laws about how the internet should work, but then you get people whose experience with a firearm is limited to FPS games stating how laws should require guns to work.
We had all of those things in Vietnam and still couldn't manage to hold the country against an army mostly comprised of simple infantrymen with small arms.
They also promote the "Eddie Eagle" program specifically for teaching young kids what to do if they find a gun (ie, don't touch it, report it to an adult, etc):
The NRA are not the boogiemen that you think they are, nor are they or gun-owners as a whole bloodthirsty savages. I mostly use my guns for sport (mostly competition target shooting, occasionally for hunting), and also keep a few for self-protection if the need arises. I don't have murder fantasies or want to shoot anyone - I simply have the gun in case I need it, much like I keep several fire extinguishers in the house hoping I never need to actually use them.
Most gun people also advocate locking up your guns IF you have children in the house. I've got a 7 and 5 year old in the house - most of my guns are in a large combination safe with a handgun in a fast access safe on my nightstand. Having the gun in that safe most certainly does make it a little slower to access, but that's part of having kids around (though I will say that my when I grew up my dad never locked up nor unloaded his guns and we were fine, though he didn't have any handguns).
If I DIDN'T have the kids at home, I'd likely just keep the one gun sitting on the nightstand with the rest locked up. Having the option to make the best choice for ourselves is what most gun owners want. Not a one-size-fits all "you have to keep your guns locked up" dictated by law.
Just about the entire smart phone lines available on any pre-paid plan like Straight Talk or the like is less than that.
Heck my Galaxy Core Prime brand new from Verizon off-contract was $175.
There's no need to spend over $200 for a pretty decent smartphone, and if you're not looking for the latest and greatest you can find them for significantly less.
Point: Would a 15 year old kid who just stole a candy bar from a store, stopped by the police, but who panicked and ran, deserve a tasering?
What they hell do you expect? "Maybe we'll get 'em next time?". If all it takes to avoid being prosecuted for shoplifting is to run then that's just what everyone will do (including adults, because until they make a contact, there's no telling how old the suspect is).
No, if you rob a store (regardless of the total value of goods stolen), and the police see you, you will be stopped. It's your choice as to whether or not that stop is going to be relatively painless (ie, submit), or painful (they forcibly either taser you or tackle you to the ground and cuff you).
At that point the perp isn't being bullied or harassed: they are being arrested for criminal activity.
It seems the mindset of far too many these days is that people should just be able to commit whatever crimes they feel like without being harassed or inconvenienced by law enforcement.
No - with debit cards you have to punch in the pin anyways (you always have).
The issue is with inserting the card - and then leaving it there. Many people who are used to the "swipe" system put in the card, then pull it back out when it need to stay in the reader the whole time. That starts the process over so that they have to reswipe, reinsert, reenter pin, etc.
Walmart is doing it here as of the last few weeks, as well as Dollar General.
The supermarket that I shop at (BI-LO) was doing it two weeks ago but I'm guessing someone complained because the machines weren't asking you to insert chipped cards anymore as of a few days ago.
Personally I don't find the process THAT bad, but until everyone gets used to it it certainly does slow the line down.
World War 2 was a conflict the likes of which we have never seen again. All companies that had almost any manufacturing capacity were making weapons.
Which is why we have rifles from the time manufactured by IBM, Smith Corona, the National Postal Meter Company, and a ton of other companies that traditionally had made far more innocent items. Heck the stocks on some of the M1 Carbines were made by Milton Bradley.
I think my mom would put whatever passed for "suntan lotion" in the 1970s on us, once, when first got there and never reapply.
Honestly I think the "reapply" part is mostly marketing wanting to sell more sunscreen anyways. I'm your typical sunburn risk patient - blond hair, blue yes, and paper-white skin. I walk out into the sun without sunscreen and I'll burn to a crisp in ~90 minutes. I do a lot of fishing though and am out in the sun a lot. As long as I put on sunscreen in the morning I'm perfectly fine (usually do 50 to 70 SPF). Sometimes I'm on the boat in the sun for 7 or 8 hours with a single application and I'm perfectly fine when I get home.
Honestly I also don't care too much about brands wither. I think what I've got in the boat now is Banana Boat, but I've gone out plenty of times with store-brand sunscreen and its worked fine.
OR . . . . I can just wipe on some inexpensive lotion for the times when I'm in the sun rather than put up with uncomfortable lengths of hair all the time.
AI pretty much agree. The process is already pretty automated as it is. Truck comes by every Thursday and robotic arms already grab and empty the bin.
The pace at which the driver can move from house to house is pretty impressive. Our entire street doesn't take more than a few minutes. I honestly don't see It getting much more efficient.
Also, YOU would benefit from it too, since it would be paid out to everyone. What, you don't like money?
Yes, I'll get $5 back after I pay in $10 to support this program.
Do you not realize that things don't just materialize out of thin air? They don't just print more money (at least not without devaluing it). They take money from some and give it to others.
Unless you're already below the average wage here in the US, you'll be paying in more than you receive.
A brilliant but strong male who can't find work in any other industry may take a job at a construction site to make money (and many other strong but not so brilliant ones may do the same). People can jobs based on their talents. Its all about improving efficiency.
If hiring attractive females to basically make the workplace more exciting serves to increase productivity, then so be it. It's a lot less degrading to everyone than just saying "Work harder or you're fired.".
People are just too quick to be offended these days. We're supposed to be the most "tolerant" society ever in modern times yet you can't turn a corner without offending someone.
I think the bigger issue is that those devices are coming down in price - AppleTV is going up. All have versions available in the ~$40 range, and all work pretty well. I can't imagine an AppleTV doing anything that my FireTV doesn't already do for cheaper.
Honestly I've got a "cheaper" phone myself and haven't had any issues. I've got a Samsung Galaxy Core Prime - originally designed for the Indian market but then released over here. I have to buy my phones unsubsidized to keep my unlimited data plan, so for $175 outright/no contract this worked out well.
Compared to most "premium" phones the specs on this one are terrible, but aside from on-paper I have no issues with it.
I do a lot of downloads and have 4 people in the house any of whom might be watching Netflix, Hulu, Sling, or Youtube at any given time. I don't think I've came in UNDER 700GB in a year or two and have hit 1.2TB in a month before.
That said, If they offered this I wouldn't have any issue with them charging (or me paying) an extra $30 a month. That's a REASONABLE fee. I don't mind paying a reasonable fee - I just want the ISP to butt out and stop worrying about how much I transfer (that said, my current ISP has no limits anyways).
The fastest DSL is slower than the worst cable connection Comcast or Charter can make
DSL is also available in some areas that cable markets won't serve. My parents' house 10-12 miles outside of the area served by any cable company, but they get DSL just fine, and trust me 3Mbps may be slow by today's standards but it sure as heck beats dial-up.
My brother lives just a little further out and even the DSL isn't available. His only options are dial-up (worthless these days), satellite and cellular. The latter two have bandwidth caps that make them very undesirable - particularly to his 7 year old who is used to streaming Netflix at her mom's house.
1. An account isn't necessarily a unique person. One person may have 5 accounts if they change emails every now and then.
2. This is an international site, not an American site (actually even the company itself is Canadian). Those 40 million members are taken from the world's ~7 billion person population, not the United States' ~320 million.
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The 1911 comes out to a few more parts when field stripped, but I honestly don't find it harder to field strip. In some ways its easier IMHO because you don't have to pull the trigger, and sometimes it's frustrating to pull the Glock slide back just the right amount to take tension of the takedown lever without the striker cocking.
Don't get me wrong I wouldn't field the 1911 either despite being a big fan of it (I've got a Glock and 3 1911's), but field stripping it isn't bad at all.
Personally, I'd be in favor of adopting the S&W M&P in .40S&W. To me it's easier to takedown than the Glock (you flip down a lever instead of pulling the trigger to deactivate the striker), and the takeown lever itself is a pivoting latch that's easy to work as opposed to that spring-loaded deal on the Glock. It's completely subjective but I find the M&P to just sit in the hand better than the Glock too. It's also an American owned and operated company which I think priority should be given to for defense contracts. It also is available already with a thumb-safety as an option which I'm sure the DOD will mandate.
As someone who lived through the early years of Linux (I started using It back around 1998), nah, we're pretty good. There are some projects that are going in odd directions, but open source is showing its strengths there with people still taking a more traditional approach (ie, the Cinnamon interface in place of regular GNOME3).
Using Linux back then was a chore - you really had to WANT to use it because the apps were lacking and the UI was downright clunky, not to mention the famed stability of Linux that was always touted really applied to the console running server apps - KDE and most of the desktop stuff crashed constantly. Now most of the Linux desktop stuff is pretty stable.
Nope. The same week as a large shooting in the US (may have been Sandy Hook, not sure) there was a mass stabbing in China. The difference is there was a tiny chance of living if shot in the shooting, and a 100% survival in the school mass stabbing.
And a little more than a year later there was a mass stabbing in China that left 29 victims dead:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Finger print scanners introduce extra parts and extra points of failure. Making it "really hard to squeeze" (ie, making the trigger pull heavy) makes a gun much, much more difficult to shoot accurately. Nothing like needing to use your gun and not being able to hit anything because the pull weight of the trigger is heavier than the weight of the whole gun.
Also - not all guns - PARTICULARLY handguns intended for defensive use, have a safety - at least not a "switch" that disables the gun. Reason being is simple: if you need to use the gun you'll likely be under a tremendous amount of stress. If there's a little switch on the gun disabling it and you have to switch it off to use it, there's a very real possibility that you may fail to switch the safety off. As a matter of fact Glocks - the sidearm carried by the vast majority of law enforcement - have no manual safety. They have a trigger safety that keeps the trigger from moving if it's not directly pressed, and they have a drop safety that keeps the gun from firing if dropped, but there is no little switch on the side that turns the gun on and off.
And that's part of the problem here. 90% of the people proposing "solutions" know almost nothing about how guns work. Slashdot will go ballistic if a bunch of 80 year old technophobe politicians try to make laws about how the internet should work, but then you get people whose experience with a firearm is limited to FPS games stating how laws should require guns to work.
We had all of those things in Vietnam and still couldn't manage to hold the country against an army mostly comprised of simple infantrymen with small arms.
The NRA is one of the primary sources of gun safety education in the country.
http://www.nrainstructors.org/...
They also promote the "Eddie Eagle" program specifically for teaching young kids what to do if they find a gun (ie, don't touch it, report it to an adult, etc):
https://eddieeagle.nra.org/
The NRA are not the boogiemen that you think they are, nor are they or gun-owners as a whole bloodthirsty savages. I mostly use my guns for sport (mostly competition target shooting, occasionally for hunting), and also keep a few for self-protection if the need arises. I don't have murder fantasies or want to shoot anyone - I simply have the gun in case I need it, much like I keep several fire extinguishers in the house hoping I never need to actually use them.
Most gun people also advocate locking up your guns IF you have children in the house. I've got a 7 and 5 year old in the house - most of my guns are in a large combination safe with a handgun in a fast access safe on my nightstand. Having the gun in that safe most certainly does make it a little slower to access, but that's part of having kids around (though I will say that my when I grew up my dad never locked up nor unloaded his guns and we were fine, though he didn't have any handguns).
If I DIDN'T have the kids at home, I'd likely just keep the one gun sitting on the nightstand with the rest locked up. Having the option to make the best choice for ourselves is what most gun owners want. Not a one-size-fits all "you have to keep your guns locked up" dictated by law.
Just about the entire smart phone lines available on any pre-paid plan like Straight Talk or the like is less than that.
Heck my Galaxy Core Prime brand new from Verizon off-contract was $175.
There's no need to spend over $200 for a pretty decent smartphone, and if you're not looking for the latest and greatest you can find them for significantly less.
LG Optimus Fuel on Straight Talk for $30:
http://specials.straighttalk.c...
My sister actually uses that same phone and has no complaints.
Point: Would a 15 year old kid who just stole a candy bar from a store, stopped by the police, but who panicked and ran, deserve a tasering?
What they hell do you expect? "Maybe we'll get 'em next time?". If all it takes to avoid being prosecuted for shoplifting is to run then that's just what everyone will do (including adults, because until they make a contact, there's no telling how old the suspect is).
No, if you rob a store (regardless of the total value of goods stolen), and the police see you, you will be stopped. It's your choice as to whether or not that stop is going to be relatively painless (ie, submit), or painful (they forcibly either taser you or tackle you to the ground and cuff you).
At that point the perp isn't being bullied or harassed: they are being arrested for criminal activity.
It seems the mindset of far too many these days is that people should just be able to commit whatever crimes they feel like without being harassed or inconvenienced by law enforcement.
I'm not sure about NFC. I don't have any payment method that supports this so I haven't tested it.
No - with debit cards you have to punch in the pin anyways (you always have).
The issue is with inserting the card - and then leaving it there. Many people who are used to the "swipe" system put in the card, then pull it back out when it need to stay in the reader the whole time. That starts the process over so that they have to reswipe, reinsert, reenter pin, etc.
Walmart is doing it here as of the last few weeks, as well as Dollar General.
The supermarket that I shop at (BI-LO) was doing it two weeks ago but I'm guessing someone complained because the machines weren't asking you to insert chipped cards anymore as of a few days ago.
Personally I don't find the process THAT bad, but until everyone gets used to it it certainly does slow the line down.
World War 2 was a conflict the likes of which we have never seen again. All companies that had almost any manufacturing capacity were making weapons.
Which is why we have rifles from the time manufactured by IBM, Smith Corona, the National Postal Meter Company, and a ton of other companies that traditionally had made far more innocent items. Heck the stocks on some of the M1 Carbines were made by Milton Bradley.
I think my mom would put whatever passed for "suntan lotion" in the 1970s on us, once, when first got there and never reapply.
Honestly I think the "reapply" part is mostly marketing wanting to sell more sunscreen anyways. I'm your typical sunburn risk patient - blond hair, blue yes, and paper-white skin. I walk out into the sun without sunscreen and I'll burn to a crisp in ~90 minutes. I do a lot of fishing though and am out in the sun a lot. As long as I put on sunscreen in the morning I'm perfectly fine (usually do 50 to 70 SPF). Sometimes I'm on the boat in the sun for 7 or 8 hours with a single application and I'm perfectly fine when I get home.
Honestly I also don't care too much about brands wither. I think what I've got in the boat now is Banana Boat, but I've gone out plenty of times with store-brand sunscreen and its worked fine.
OR . . . . I can just wipe on some inexpensive lotion for the times when I'm in the sun rather than put up with uncomfortable lengths of hair all the time.
AI pretty much agree. The process is already pretty automated as it is. Truck comes by every Thursday and robotic arms already grab and empty the bin.
The pace at which the driver can move from house to house is pretty impressive. Our entire street doesn't take more than a few minutes. I honestly don't see It getting much more efficient.
Sure. Certain ones definitely. Not much mind you, but I'd wager it'd be a lot more than they get from my ad impressions.
There are probably 5 or 6 forums I regularly visit. I'd be willing to do $1 per month for those.
I already subscribe to Netflix, and am a backer/sponsor of several smaller websites and podcasts (as well as a few Twitch streamers).
I don't mind paying for content - as long as its ad-free and interesting.
Also, YOU would benefit from it too, since it would be paid out to everyone. What, you don't like money?
Yes, I'll get $5 back after I pay in $10 to support this program.
Do you not realize that things don't just materialize out of thin air? They don't just print more money (at least not without devaluing it). They take money from some and give it to others.
Unless you're already below the average wage here in the US, you'll be paying in more than you receive.
A brilliant but strong male who can't find work in any other industry may take a job at a construction site to make money (and many other strong but not so brilliant ones may do the same). People can jobs based on their talents. Its all about improving efficiency.
If hiring attractive females to basically make the workplace more exciting serves to increase productivity, then so be it. It's a lot less degrading to everyone than just saying "Work harder or you're fired.".
People are just too quick to be offended these days. We're supposed to be the most "tolerant" society ever in modern times yet you can't turn a corner without offending someone.
Well, that and people with paler complexions are at a greater risk of sunburn and skin cancer (which is why they have to wear higher SPF).
Northern Europe isn't quite as sunny as much of North America. Put simply, white people aren't really evolved for the Florida climate.
Apple entered the market 8 years ago. Roku has been doing fine.
I think the bigger issue is that those devices are coming down in price - AppleTV is going up. All have versions available in the ~$40 range, and all work pretty well. I can't imagine an AppleTV doing anything that my FireTV doesn't already do for cheaper.
Honestly I've got a "cheaper" phone myself and haven't had any issues. I've got a Samsung Galaxy Core Prime - originally designed for the Indian market but then released over here. I have to buy my phones unsubsidized to keep my unlimited data plan, so for $175 outright/no contract this worked out well.
Compared to most "premium" phones the specs on this one are terrible, but aside from on-paper I have no issues with it.
I do a lot of downloads and have 4 people in the house any of whom might be watching Netflix, Hulu, Sling, or Youtube at any given time. I don't think I've came in UNDER 700GB in a year or two and have hit 1.2TB in a month before.
That said, If they offered this I wouldn't have any issue with them charging (or me paying) an extra $30 a month. That's a REASONABLE fee. I don't mind paying a reasonable fee - I just want the ISP to butt out and stop worrying about how much I transfer (that said, my current ISP has no limits anyways).
The fastest DSL is slower than the worst cable connection Comcast or Charter can make
DSL is also available in some areas that cable markets won't serve. My parents' house 10-12 miles outside of the area served by any cable company, but they get DSL just fine, and trust me 3Mbps may be slow by today's standards but it sure as heck beats dial-up.
My brother lives just a little further out and even the DSL isn't available. His only options are dial-up (worthless these days), satellite and cellular. The latter two have bandwidth caps that make them very undesirable - particularly to his 7 year old who is used to streaming Netflix at her mom's house.
Two things:
1. An account isn't necessarily a unique person. One person may have 5 accounts if they change emails every now and then.
2. This is an international site, not an American site (actually even the company itself is Canadian). Those 40 million members are taken from the world's ~7 billion person population, not the United States' ~320 million.