Nah, I own an (obviously taxed and licensed) AK-47. It was built in 1968 and is still fully functional. I've brought it to a few machine gun shoots ('snot my name, it's what they call 'em) for vets and take it out for more than just show. This one (they all seem to have a high variance) isn't entirely inaccurate. I'd feel capable at hitting a human sized target out to 300 yards and, with some stability, 500 yards.
I do not have an AK-74 but I understand they're available for sale once in a while. I've never known anyone who has owned one and was fortunate to get the 47 from a dealer who is also a friend that needed the money and wanted to get rid of a few items. I turned down a very well priced Thompson because I'm functionally retarded. *sighs* I could have had it for $7500 and it was in fantastic shape with a couple of drum magazines and a ton of ammo. I saw a documentary recently where they had one complete with original packaging. I'm still kicking myself for turning it down.
Hmm... Not sure if serious? I encourage you to look at what happened in the Gulf War, specifically with stealth-capable aircraft. It came in quite handy and may well have saved a bunch of lives and expensive equipment. More than once they were firing up at an unseen enemy because things mysteriously we blowing up around them.
Having one tool is generally a bad idea unless you need to accomplish a very uncomplicated thing. We probably could have used a B-52, lost a few, and obliterated whole cities if we wanted to. Since the days of Total War, ala WWII or, perhaps, Korea, that's generally frowned upon as certain people get their knickers in a wad when you're killing scads of innocent civilians.
"Buggered if we know but we know something's causing these effects" really doesn't roll off the tongue very well. I do wonder if some other verbiage would have made this easier for people to swallow. It's strange that folks seem to balk at the idea and I really wonder if it's something to do with the verbiage or, perhaps, the state of science journalism. Maybe they just should have stuck with calling it "unexplained gravitational lensing" which was, I think, how I first heard it though I think it went on to say "also now being called Dark Matter."
I dunno... Dealing with people isn't my thing and I can't really explain 'em. Try as I might, some folks still just make me shake my head. It's not even like this is controversial. Now, what it is, specifically, has had some controversy but that's a given.
While true, I'm not sure that has anything to do with what I said. I do see it as an odd statement coming from a Slashdot poster, now that I think about it. Mission creep, additional features, and all that. I'm not sure that's related either. But, as I said, I've made no statement concerning that functionality as far as I know. Should it then be user-configurable for disabling entirely and changing the times? There are some whom, I assume, would argue that every second counts in an emergency.
If I had to submit an idea, I'd suggest greater configuration and including the capacity to disable it entirely would be the best route. I'd also submit that off should be off, entirely. If one wishes to accept those risks then, by all means, I'm all for it. But, how much complexity is too much? I doubt there's any way to satisfy anyone. Later, in this thread, I proposed an alternative for those wishing to avoid this in its entirety.
While there's no benefit, that I can see, for this as far as science goes. There is likely to be *some* tangential benefit. Those whalers are almost certainly going to be attacked and bothered during their trip. This will likely be done by people who do a bunch of silly things like try to board that ship. Almost invariably, this makes someone end up falling into the water and then getting run over by the dinghy they were using to attack the giant whaling vessel. It's makes for amusing videos. So, there's that. I don't think there's much science involved, however.
See Unit 731 for an example of the Japanese doing just that very thing. Well, no, they were torturing/killing the Chinese for medical experiments. It turns out that vivisection is deadly. Yay! Science!
I wonder how much of this is actively watched. I suspect, excluding my ISO torrents, I stream at least that much but it's on in the background and streams documentaries as I go to sleep or while I'm sleeping.
I own a whole bunch of cars, an obscene number really, and many of them predate this sort of thing. I also own newer cars but that's besides the point. The point is, I guess, that for about what it costs to get a new car you can buy an older car, perhaps one you loved as a child, and get it fully restored and keep it properly maintained for a near-indefinite period.
Hell, I've a 1978 Porsche 911 that I sent back to get factory restored and the total cost for this was less than the cost of my car that's in the hotel's parking garage. That includes shipping (as in, real shipping involving a ship). I have a 1982 Volvo 245 that I sent out to the West Coast and had them rebuild it with some minor improvements (such as better torsion bars, frame stiffening, replaced cam and set timing forward, attached a skid plate, replaced injection system, etc) and it was actually just about the price of a brand new Volvo R model.
Again, I've a 1988 Honda Accord LX (yes, I've an odd collection but I own each of them for a very specific reason) that I've probably spent less than $5000 USD on it and could easily hop in it and tour the country. In fact, I almost did take it on my current journey. I didn't take it because I'd just recently acquired the car in the above mentioned parking garage and it's just a whole lot of fun to drive. (It's a BMW 650i Coupe, yes - that one.)
Hmm... I have a 1973 Jeep Wagoneer (complete with factory PTO as it uses a BW transmission type also used in tractors) and could just have easily taken that on this journey but I try to keep the mileage low and, to be honest, I kind of like the environment so I don't really think that's a very appropriate vehicle to be driving around the country. It also has the handling characteristics of a tractor at highway speed. It's also about as safe as smoking in a gun powder factory. Bouncing off that dashboard or steering wheel is gonna kill ya. It might not dent the bumpers but it's gonna kill ya.
At any rate, don't despair. Think outside the box and think of the car you dreamed about as a child. Go buy one. Fix it up, or have someone do it for you, and then properly maintain it. No, you don't get the default infotainment packages but you could add them easily enough. It's a buttload of fun. You don't have to go to extremes to do it. I have gone a bit overboard and don't really show much sign of stopping but you don't have to. (I've got a big, giant, garage with my own lift and tools and hire a mechanic to come in on Saturdays when he's not working his regular job. In fact, I have a whole barn full of cars and actually need to build out more storage one of these days.)
Even a hypercar can be purchased for low-prices (comparatively speaking) if they're not a highly valued car. If you don't set your goals too high then you can almost certainly build out something you love, that is reliable, is enjoyable, and doesn't do any tracking of your movements. Is it economical or environmentally friendly? Yup. Look at the energy and resources required to build a new product. You'll spend more in gasoline, maybe, but you'll make that up by not needing those additional resources to make a new vehicle. You can even do a variety of mods to make them more economical.
You don't get out much, do you? I get great cell reception at home. Home is way out in the boondocks and in an unincorporated township that has a total of six houses that are occupied by residents (there are a few hunting camps).
It's not a bullshit scenario and you know it.
That said, I'd rather suffer the consequences than enable OnStar. I know and accept the risks. Given the number of animals, specifically moose and deer, on the road at night, the risks are not zero. There's no made up scenario needed, it exists right now. I'd still not opt for it but I'm simply pointing out that you're a frothing at the mouth moron.
I had a Nissan Maxima that used to talk to me like that. I finally heard of a message board that had some enthusiasts and ended up finding out how to connect to their network and posted a message. It turns out, it was a little blue box that sat under the driver's seat and was easily disconnected. Life was a little better after that. I loved the feature at first but it got old pretty quickly.
Heh... My first (now forgotten) UUID was not as low as yours but I do, distinctly, remember the thread in your signature. Those are some funny comments to read.
I don't know the exact armaments aboard this vessel but they've almost certainly got shore-level access with a variety of weapons. In WWII they were launching rounds the size of a VW some 25+ miles inland with near pinpoint accuracy. They were using rockets with less accuracy but in great volumes. This is a destroyer. It's not some little piddling thing that's suited for but one task. No, this is a giant friggen monster that oozes death and destruction from it's very core. And it is awesome.
Yes, yes I have seen it. Not close up but from afar. You could see it from over on the bridge. I also saw some of the earlier stealth ship prototypes down in Florida. Oddly, at one point, one was docked and doing nothing but sitting there for the longest time in Panama City, Florida. I've a piece of property in that area. It was an interesting find as there's not a whole lot of Navy stuff right there that I know of. Of course, this wasn't strictly military and wasn't a destroyer but rather was a prototype of the stealth tech.
Pfft... We are Slashdot! We know *everything* better than the professionals do. Seriously, just ask us. We'll tell you all about it.
Anyhow, you could watch *some* of this being built from outside the BIW gates. I've seen bits and pieces of it as I've gone by and have stopped near the bridge to take a peek. It's kind of awesome in scope and size. For a while, BIW had the world's strongest/largest gantry but I don't know if that's true any longer. I think one of their other cranes holds a record.
Two things... Yes, you can see them. They are awesome. I just recently spent a couple of days at the National Air and Space Museum and one day at the second on in Virginia. The second thing, well... Yeah, sort of? Venus is going *somewhere* at various rates of speed. "...Ain't goin' anywhere" seems a bit excessive.;-)
I live in NW Maine and, even though I'm not there at the moment, I enjoy the luxury of reliable power. I really dislike power outages and have taken steps to avoid them. I'm kind of surprised that more people don't have a UPS and generator. I also have both solar and wind though those are not truly cost effective. (I'll almost certainly need to replace them before they've paid for themselves.)
Anyhow, the date of this is kind of amusing. It was posted on the 7th which is Pearl Harbor Day.
I know it's popular to blame everybody else but maybe it's time to blame the terrorists themselves?
People seem hell-bent on blaming the US, guns, politicians, religion, economy, environment, the French, Europe in general, etc... How about we just, you know, blame the asshole terrorists?
Well the moral of the story here is you should not pass laws you can't enforce you should not outlaw things people generally don't see as terribly objectionable.
Letting people use apps t get rides and paying people to take them places in cars does not offend anyone other than rent seeking cabbies. The result is you get a general public that breaks the law. Ditto for soft drugs like weed, gambling, more discrete prostitution eg call girls who do happy endings, etc.
Other people see people they know and respect being scoff laws and respect for the law is lost. After that its only short mental leap to 'i probably won't get caught so what the hell' and that is why we can't have nice things.
That's insightful? You can't enforce laws against murder - you can only punish after the fact and then only if there's evidence to do so. So we shouldn't have laws that make murder illegal? That's not so insightful, I think.
Laws have never been about stopping anything. They've been about establishing punishment for what is deemed harmful behavior by the powers that made those laws.
Do you have to re-crimp new CAT-6 every time in California or is there a special tool that locks the cable in and you have to press a recessed button in order to remove the cable before you can reinsert a new one?
I followed your link and, even if they weren't labeled, I'd have been able to tell them apart. This is a person who doesn't even *use* tablets as a general rule (though I own a number, that was just because I've tried to like the form factor) and doesn't actually use iDevices very often at all. Why you'd expect lawyers to know is a bit odd. They might have a degree but they're not always that bright. Either way, the two are vaguely similar but I'm not sure if I'd have found them similar enough to warrant finding Samsung at fault.
However, you may have something known as a "warranty of applied merchantability" in your state. Check your local regulations. I'll leave you to Google it but, in short, it's something that businesses either hope you know nothing about or lack the will to make use of it. However, you may well have an implied warranty in your State even if the company doesn't know this or wish to admit it.
I don't know if this will help but it might. See, there's nothing to worry about. They're probably not wanting to have sex with you. Finally, the odds of finding a rapist in a group of transgendered or hermaphroditic people are probably lower than the odds one might have of winning the lottery. In other words, it shouldn't be very high on your list of concerns.
If, by some strange turn of events, you find yourself encountering one of these folks who is acting in a sexually threatening manner then you might just as well as play the lottery.
One can easily find out my real name (it's not like I've hidden it - and I've been here for years and have met quite a few people here in the real world) and use that to get my tax records which are public information. And no, it's comments like those. Not that one specifically. If you only read the first and last line then I can see where you'd be confused. However, what you want and what is are often two different things and that's something for you to accept. My obligations end at taxes, which I pay in full. I give more because I feel I should. I do get to vent once in a while, no?
What I owe is called taxes. Those are enumerated, clear, and paid in full. I owe no more than that. I give more than that. It's optional but not required.
That's funny. It really must have been tough unless your parents were loaded. My kids had it fairly well but I'd not accumulated as many bits of green paper then as I have now. They got lots of hand-me-downs as I'd refresh a couple of times a year at times (I kind of needed to, things were changing that fast). It wasn't until the 2000s that they started getting their own new computer, mid-2000s probably. They're both in their mid-20s now and came to live with me after they realized I had the better toys. (No, I seriously think that's why they came to live with me. Very, very clever and conniving monsters, the both of 'em! *grins*)
Actually, they're good people. One's finished med school and is working in an ER children's unit. The other is supposedly still in school but he's really in Peru and sexing a very beautiful native girl while smoking a lot of weed. I can't say as I blame him. The missus and I are going to go down and see about getting him a bar/hotel combination to run and he can pay back the loan that way. He doesn't drink so it is cool.
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Nah, I own an (obviously taxed and licensed) AK-47. It was built in 1968 and is still fully functional. I've brought it to a few machine gun shoots ('snot my name, it's what they call 'em) for vets and take it out for more than just show. This one (they all seem to have a high variance) isn't entirely inaccurate. I'd feel capable at hitting a human sized target out to 300 yards and, with some stability, 500 yards.
I do not have an AK-74 but I understand they're available for sale once in a while. I've never known anyone who has owned one and was fortunate to get the 47 from a dealer who is also a friend that needed the money and wanted to get rid of a few items. I turned down a very well priced Thompson because I'm functionally retarded. *sighs* I could have had it for $7500 and it was in fantastic shape with a couple of drum magazines and a ton of ammo. I saw a documentary recently where they had one complete with original packaging. I'm still kicking myself for turning it down.
Hmm... Not sure if serious? I encourage you to look at what happened in the Gulf War, specifically with stealth-capable aircraft. It came in quite handy and may well have saved a bunch of lives and expensive equipment. More than once they were firing up at an unseen enemy because things mysteriously we blowing up around them.
Having one tool is generally a bad idea unless you need to accomplish a very uncomplicated thing. We probably could have used a B-52, lost a few, and obliterated whole cities if we wanted to. Since the days of Total War, ala WWII or, perhaps, Korea, that's generally frowned upon as certain people get their knickers in a wad when you're killing scads of innocent civilians.
"Buggered if we know but we know something's causing these effects" really doesn't roll off the tongue very well. I do wonder if some other verbiage would have made this easier for people to swallow. It's strange that folks seem to balk at the idea and I really wonder if it's something to do with the verbiage or, perhaps, the state of science journalism. Maybe they just should have stuck with calling it "unexplained gravitational lensing" which was, I think, how I first heard it though I think it went on to say "also now being called Dark Matter."
I dunno... Dealing with people isn't my thing and I can't really explain 'em. Try as I might, some folks still just make me shake my head. It's not even like this is controversial. Now, what it is, specifically, has had some controversy but that's a given.
While true, I'm not sure that has anything to do with what I said. I do see it as an odd statement coming from a Slashdot poster, now that I think about it. Mission creep, additional features, and all that. I'm not sure that's related either. But, as I said, I've made no statement concerning that functionality as far as I know. Should it then be user-configurable for disabling entirely and changing the times? There are some whom, I assume, would argue that every second counts in an emergency.
If I had to submit an idea, I'd suggest greater configuration and including the capacity to disable it entirely would be the best route. I'd also submit that off should be off, entirely. If one wishes to accept those risks then, by all means, I'm all for it. But, how much complexity is too much? I doubt there's any way to satisfy anyone. Later, in this thread, I proposed an alternative for those wishing to avoid this in its entirety.
While there's no benefit, that I can see, for this as far as science goes. There is likely to be *some* tangential benefit. Those whalers are almost certainly going to be attacked and bothered during their trip. This will likely be done by people who do a bunch of silly things like try to board that ship. Almost invariably, this makes someone end up falling into the water and then getting run over by the dinghy they were using to attack the giant whaling vessel. It's makes for amusing videos. So, there's that. I don't think there's much science involved, however.
See Unit 731 for an example of the Japanese doing just that very thing. Well, no, they were torturing/killing the Chinese for medical experiments. It turns out that vivisection is deadly. Yay! Science!
I wonder how much of this is actively watched. I suspect, excluding my ISO torrents, I stream at least that much but it's on in the background and streams documentaries as I go to sleep or while I'm sleeping.
I own a whole bunch of cars, an obscene number really, and many of them predate this sort of thing. I also own newer cars but that's besides the point. The point is, I guess, that for about what it costs to get a new car you can buy an older car, perhaps one you loved as a child, and get it fully restored and keep it properly maintained for a near-indefinite period.
Hell, I've a 1978 Porsche 911 that I sent back to get factory restored and the total cost for this was less than the cost of my car that's in the hotel's parking garage. That includes shipping (as in, real shipping involving a ship). I have a 1982 Volvo 245 that I sent out to the West Coast and had them rebuild it with some minor improvements (such as better torsion bars, frame stiffening, replaced cam and set timing forward, attached a skid plate, replaced injection system, etc) and it was actually just about the price of a brand new Volvo R model.
Again, I've a 1988 Honda Accord LX (yes, I've an odd collection but I own each of them for a very specific reason) that I've probably spent less than $5000 USD on it and could easily hop in it and tour the country. In fact, I almost did take it on my current journey. I didn't take it because I'd just recently acquired the car in the above mentioned parking garage and it's just a whole lot of fun to drive. (It's a BMW 650i Coupe, yes - that one.)
Hmm... I have a 1973 Jeep Wagoneer (complete with factory PTO as it uses a BW transmission type also used in tractors) and could just have easily taken that on this journey but I try to keep the mileage low and, to be honest, I kind of like the environment so I don't really think that's a very appropriate vehicle to be driving around the country. It also has the handling characteristics of a tractor at highway speed. It's also about as safe as smoking in a gun powder factory. Bouncing off that dashboard or steering wheel is gonna kill ya. It might not dent the bumpers but it's gonna kill ya.
At any rate, don't despair. Think outside the box and think of the car you dreamed about as a child. Go buy one. Fix it up, or have someone do it for you, and then properly maintain it. No, you don't get the default infotainment packages but you could add them easily enough. It's a buttload of fun. You don't have to go to extremes to do it. I have gone a bit overboard and don't really show much sign of stopping but you don't have to. (I've got a big, giant, garage with my own lift and tools and hire a mechanic to come in on Saturdays when he's not working his regular job. In fact, I have a whole barn full of cars and actually need to build out more storage one of these days.)
Even a hypercar can be purchased for low-prices (comparatively speaking) if they're not a highly valued car. If you don't set your goals too high then you can almost certainly build out something you love, that is reliable, is enjoyable, and doesn't do any tracking of your movements. Is it economical or environmentally friendly? Yup. Look at the energy and resources required to build a new product. You'll spend more in gasoline, maybe, but you'll make that up by not needing those additional resources to make a new vehicle. You can even do a variety of mods to make them more economical.
You don't get out much, do you? I get great cell reception at home. Home is way out in the boondocks and in an unincorporated township that has a total of six houses that are occupied by residents (there are a few hunting camps).
It's not a bullshit scenario and you know it.
That said, I'd rather suffer the consequences than enable OnStar. I know and accept the risks. Given the number of animals, specifically moose and deer, on the road at night, the risks are not zero. There's no made up scenario needed, it exists right now. I'd still not opt for it but I'm simply pointing out that you're a frothing at the mouth moron.
I had a Nissan Maxima that used to talk to me like that. I finally heard of a message board that had some enthusiasts and ended up finding out how to connect to their network and posted a message. It turns out, it was a little blue box that sat under the driver's seat and was easily disconnected. Life was a little better after that. I loved the feature at first but it got old pretty quickly.
Heh... My first (now forgotten) UUID was not as low as yours but I do, distinctly, remember the thread in your signature. Those are some funny comments to read.
I don't know the exact armaments aboard this vessel but they've almost certainly got shore-level access with a variety of weapons. In WWII they were launching rounds the size of a VW some 25+ miles inland with near pinpoint accuracy. They were using rockets with less accuracy but in great volumes. This is a destroyer. It's not some little piddling thing that's suited for but one task. No, this is a giant friggen monster that oozes death and destruction from it's very core. And it is awesome.
Yes, yes I have seen it. Not close up but from afar. You could see it from over on the bridge. I also saw some of the earlier stealth ship prototypes down in Florida. Oddly, at one point, one was docked and doing nothing but sitting there for the longest time in Panama City, Florida. I've a piece of property in that area. It was an interesting find as there's not a whole lot of Navy stuff right there that I know of. Of course, this wasn't strictly military and wasn't a destroyer but rather was a prototype of the stealth tech.
Pfft... We are Slashdot! We know *everything* better than the professionals do. Seriously, just ask us. We'll tell you all about it.
Anyhow, you could watch *some* of this being built from outside the BIW gates. I've seen bits and pieces of it as I've gone by and have stopped near the bridge to take a peek. It's kind of awesome in scope and size. For a while, BIW had the world's strongest/largest gantry but I don't know if that's true any longer. I think one of their other cranes holds a record.
Two things... Yes, you can see them. They are awesome. I just recently spent a couple of days at the National Air and Space Museum and one day at the second on in Virginia. The second thing, well... Yeah, sort of? Venus is going *somewhere* at various rates of speed. "...Ain't goin' anywhere" seems a bit excessive. ;-)
I live in NW Maine and, even though I'm not there at the moment, I enjoy the luxury of reliable power. I really dislike power outages and have taken steps to avoid them. I'm kind of surprised that more people don't have a UPS and generator. I also have both solar and wind though those are not truly cost effective. (I'll almost certainly need to replace them before they've paid for themselves.)
Anyhow, the date of this is kind of amusing. It was posted on the 7th which is Pearl Harbor Day.
I know it's popular to blame everybody else but maybe it's time to blame the terrorists themselves?
People seem hell-bent on blaming the US, guns, politicians, religion, economy, environment, the French, Europe in general, etc... How about we just, you know, blame the asshole terrorists?
Well the moral of the story here is you should not pass laws you can't enforce you should not outlaw things people generally don't see as terribly objectionable.
Letting people use apps t get rides and paying people to take them places in cars does not offend anyone other than rent seeking cabbies. The result is you get a general public that breaks the law. Ditto for soft drugs like weed, gambling, more discrete prostitution eg call girls who do happy endings, etc.
Other people see people they know and respect being scoff laws and respect for the law is lost. After that its only short mental leap to 'i probably won't get caught so what the hell' and that is why we can't have nice things.
That's insightful? You can't enforce laws against murder - you can only punish after the fact and then only if there's evidence to do so. So we shouldn't have laws that make murder illegal? That's not so insightful, I think.
Laws have never been about stopping anything. They've been about establishing punishment for what is deemed harmful behavior by the powers that made those laws.
Do you have to re-crimp new CAT-6 every time in California or is there a special tool that locks the cable in and you have to press a recessed button in order to remove the cable before you can reinsert a new one?
I followed your link and, even if they weren't labeled, I'd have been able to tell them apart. This is a person who doesn't even *use* tablets as a general rule (though I own a number, that was just because I've tried to like the form factor) and doesn't actually use iDevices very often at all. Why you'd expect lawyers to know is a bit odd. They might have a degree but they're not always that bright. Either way, the two are vaguely similar but I'm not sure if I'd have found them similar enough to warrant finding Samsung at fault.
Sadly? Caveat Emptor, probably.
However, you may have something known as a "warranty of applied merchantability" in your state. Check your local regulations. I'll leave you to Google it but, in short, it's something that businesses either hope you know nothing about or lack the will to make use of it. However, you may well have an implied warranty in your State even if the company doesn't know this or wish to admit it.
I don't know if this will help but it might. See, there's nothing to worry about. They're probably not wanting to have sex with you. Finally, the odds of finding a rapist in a group of transgendered or hermaphroditic people are probably lower than the odds one might have of winning the lottery. In other words, it shouldn't be very high on your list of concerns.
If, by some strange turn of events, you find yourself encountering one of these folks who is acting in a sexually threatening manner then you might just as well as play the lottery.
Email has been sent. (From email address associated with my profile.)
One can easily find out my real name (it's not like I've hidden it - and I've been here for years and have met quite a few people here in the real world) and use that to get my tax records which are public information. And no, it's comments like those. Not that one specifically. If you only read the first and last line then I can see where you'd be confused. However, what you want and what is are often two different things and that's something for you to accept. My obligations end at taxes, which I pay in full. I give more because I feel I should. I do get to vent once in a while, no?
What I owe is called taxes. Those are enumerated, clear, and paid in full. I owe no more than that. I give more than that. It's optional but not required.
That's funny. It really must have been tough unless your parents were loaded. My kids had it fairly well but I'd not accumulated as many bits of green paper then as I have now. They got lots of hand-me-downs as I'd refresh a couple of times a year at times (I kind of needed to, things were changing that fast). It wasn't until the 2000s that they started getting their own new computer, mid-2000s probably. They're both in their mid-20s now and came to live with me after they realized I had the better toys. (No, I seriously think that's why they came to live with me. Very, very clever and conniving monsters, the both of 'em! *grins*)
Actually, they're good people. One's finished med school and is working in an ER children's unit. The other is supposedly still in school but he's really in Peru and sexing a very beautiful native girl while smoking a lot of weed. I can't say as I blame him. The missus and I are going to go down and see about getting him a bar/hotel combination to run and he can pay back the loan that way. He doesn't drink so it is cool.