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  1. Yea it's a pain in the ass until it's your house that they are roofing or your driveway needs needs done in a hurry right? lol. I live in a relatively new neighborhood and moved in before building was complete. It was annoying, as I work night shift, but I saw it as a temporary thing, and something I really didn't want to cause a fuss about. Kinda hypocritical, as I 'm sure at some point I will be the guy trying to beat the heat and getting started early myself.
  2. BILLVON Nice of you to "edit" my post and completely gut out the point I was trying to make about our society being one of "watchers" instead of "helpers". I said exactly nothing about a principal using a gun, the point was that the people like myself that carry seem to be the only people with the mentality to protect and help rather than stand by. So is this how you moderate a forum? Edit people's responses to make them say what YOU want them to say?If your argument was going to be that only people who carry concealed would get involved and try to help, then this incident is proof that you are wrong, as their is no evidence the vice principle was carrying (very very unlikely in a school), and he did get involved and help people out. If you are motivated to carry in order to "help people out" I'd suggest you rethink such Walter Mitty impulses. If you want to carry to protect yourself, to have a last card to play when other options have evaporated, you have every right to do so. If you see yourself as a potential hero of the moment, stepping in between the bad guy and the damsel in distress, well people have got themselves killed doing that. I hope you at least have some kind of formal training in active shooter scenarios. If the quote is your statement and BVs edit, I agree the message has been altered. However, I have to say I agree a lot more with the BV version. Using a gun to take the guy down, in a crowded hallway full of panicked students, could well have produced more casualties than the knife-wielding attacker did. Don Actually no....my statement has nothing to do with the actual act of carrying a gun or using one, but rather the mindset of those who carry and those who don't. Had Billvon not taken advantage of his position as a moderator to hack my post to death and edit it to context to say what HE wanted it to say so that he could construct an argument maybe you could see that. My point was that there are people in society who stand around and watch, or at worst in a mob situation, join in. There are those who are "entertained" and decide to take video for their own personal status or gain. And there are those who seek to help others, and despite what may be a higher risk to their own personal safety, strike back and try to help others. TYPICALLY those types fall into the type that would carry. Do I have training? You bet. I take my right to carry VERY seriously and read and practice regularly, not to mention I spent four semesters in a criminal justice degree before switching to skilled trades. I do not in no way feel that whipping out a gun in any given situation is the correct protocol, I well know the ramifications of doing so. Often just showing the gun in the wrong situation can cost you tens of thousands of dollars in legal fees, pulling the bang switch will gain you a minimum of the night in jail, possibly hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees, and possibly the rest of your life in jail. In fact in a majority of violent situations I have been presented with, had I been carrying I would not have touched my firearm, as they were already working themselves out. But you can bet your lunch I would be glad I had that option should I need it.
  3. BILLVON Nice of you to "edit" my post and completely gut out the point I was trying to make about our society being one of "watchers" instead of "helpers". I said exactly nothing about a principal using a gun, the point was that the people like myself that carry seem to be the only people with the mentality to protect and help rather than stand by. So is this how you moderate a forum? Edit people's responses to make them say what YOU want them to say?
  4. >People like myself who carry concealed are the types who would get involved and > try to help others out I am very glad that the assistant principal took this guy down, and did not try to use a gun to "help others out."
  5. Hate...nah, that is a pretty strong word, and not really the right one. I would say personally it's more of a lack of sympathy. I have a hard time feeling bad for them when I came from pretty shitty circumstances myself. I am a high school dropout that was out of the nest at 16 years old freshly released from the county jail in 1997. At that time I managed to get two of these "terribly demoralizing jobs" that pay very little, one at a farm paying 4.25/hr the other washing dishes. I mostly slept in my beater truck and couch surfed for awhile, even camping out a lot when it was nice out. Once I hit 18 I was able to get a job working third shift in a factory making oh....7.75/hr I believe when I started, and clocking as much overtime as I could get or working other odd jobs. I suddenly felt crisis and realized I better get my ass doing something productive if I wanted to quit sleeping in weird places ad eating raman noodles, so i started going out to my local tech school to take the tests for my HSED. Amazingly enough I scored very highly in the HSED tests and was one of the few awarded "high honors" at my "graduation". I continued to work third shift and managed to scrape by paying for my tuition out of pocket. I did not qualify for tuition assistance because my parents made too much income (mind you they kicked me out at 16 and we hadn't spoken for some time..but apparently that doesn't matter). Once I got my first technical degree I liked it so much I continued on and got a second one. Both in skilled trades, and was fortune enough to get hired as a multicraft industrial maintenance guy. From there I continued to "move up" to the highly successful person I am today who is still steadily working to improve myself. Not by the use of government handouts, not by sitting around whining that my life is too hard and feeling I'm entitled, and surely by keeping my willy in my pants and not having children which I knew I could never afford or continue with school if I were to have. I have very little sympathy to anyone who is poor in this country. This country affords anyone willing to work their ass off an opportunity. I see it every day. I see fields like the skilled trades that are begging to find people interested and skilled enough to hire, that can't find employees. People who are driven make it, those who aren't don't, and I don't feel sorry for them. Did I get some lucky breaks? yes, I fortunately never got terribly injured or sick. I did have a couple charitable individuals who helped me with small things like dinner once in awhile and encouraged me with kind words. I still to this day won't buy something on credit besides my house that I put 80% cash down on. I live within my means, not by how much credit I can get doled out to me trying to keep up with the Jones' Do my views describe every poor person? absolutely not, but I do feel they cover the vast majority. Of course I feel compassion for the severely mentally ill not being provided services and such. But there isn't much out there that can really hold you back if you are motivated enough. I know people from all walks of life that have overcome insanely difficult circumstances. They all have a few things in common. None of them feel sorry for themselves, they are all driven, they don't often ask for help or assistance, they all are much smarter than the world ever would give them credit for, and when any one of them gets knocked down they gather themselves, learn from it, and get back the hell up more determined than ever.
  6. Well speaking of parts, does anyone have a source for the power supplies in the smaller units? I've had several die, open them up and start poking around with a meter to find that the power supply is just dead. I wanna say it's like a 3.3 VDC.
  7. lol thanks guys. I'll dig into it. You are right, it sounds like one of those RC planes with the mini jets taking off when it's running.
  8. Ok so I had some basic training a very long time ago on some IT stuff. But have long forgotten most of it. I am hoping someone can give me some advice. I picked up an antiquated cisco catalyst 3500 XL that was basically getting tossed out. I would like to just plug it into my cable modem and use it as a dumb switch. You know, have it provide internet access to all of the crap in my house that I want to plug into it. I am able to telnet into it, but not sure what to do from there. I don't remember any of the commands or what they do. Any help would be appreciated.
  9. Legal in most places, the law talk last year was nothing but grand standing, as outright anonymous sales are extremely rare. Most people use these types of sites only for listing and arranging the details of the sale. Every person I know that has ever done a deal through such a site either arranged to meet at a gun shop to do the transfer through a licensed gun dealer or at the very minimum required the buyer to show up with a current and valid concealed carry permit and conducted their own public record search on the buyer (free and public record in WI). With the way that people have sued and how prosecutors have sometimes went after people who have sold to those who can't posses guns, not many straight up people are willing to do sales without some form of background checking or CYA.
  10. I bet this lady really likes motorcycles and cars with custom exhaust. Anyone know any local bike or car clubs? ;)
  11. FYI to everyone, there is a scammer running an operation where they call your celly and want you to go to some website and enter all your info for a $44 credit to your verizon account. Totally fake, they did it pretty good though, they have a spoofer on the caller ID to make it show up as Verizon's tech support phone number and everything.
  12. Just had to share this! For those of you who are aviation nuts, as I am, this is a pretty thrilling read, a quick "trip report" from the pilot of the 747 that flew the shuttle back to Florida after the Hubble repair flight. A humorous and interesting inside look at what it's like to fly two aircraft at once... And for those cynics who think modern-day aircraft fly themselves, read this and then think again... "Walt and all, "Well, it's been 48 hours since I landed the 747 with the shuttle Atlantis on top and I am still buzzing from the experience. I have to say that my whole mind, body and soul went into the professional mode just before engine start in Mississippi, and stayed there, where it all needed to be, until well after the flight...in fact, I am not sure if it is all back to normal as I type this email. The experience was surreal. Seeing that "thing" on top of an already overly huge aircraft boggles my mind. The whole mission from takeoff to engine shutdown was unlike anything I had ever done. It was like a dream... someone else's dream. "We took off from Columbus AFB on their 12,000 foot runway, of which I used 11,999 1/2 feet to get the wheels off the ground. We were at 3,500 feet left to go of the runway, throttles full power, nose wheels still hugging the ground, copilot calling out decision speeds, the weight of Atlantis now screaming through my fingers clinched tightly on the controls, tires heating up to their near maximum temperature from the speed and the weight, and not yet at rotation speed, the speed at which I would be pulling on the controls to get the nose to rise. I just could not wait, and I mean I COULD NOT WAIT, and started pulling early. If I had waited until rotation speed, we would not have rotated enough to get airborne by the end of the runway. So I pulled on the controls early and started our rotation to the takeoff attitude. "The wheels finally lifted off as we passed over the stripe marking the end of the runway and my next hurdle (physically) was a line of trees 1,000 feet off the departure end of Runway 16. All I knew was we were flying and so I directed the gear to be retracted and the flaps to be moved from Flaps 20 to Flaps 10 as I pulled even harder on the controls. I must say, those trees were beginning to look a lot like those brushes in the drive through car washes so I pulled even harder yet! I think I saw a bird just fold its wings and fall out of a tree as if to say "Oh just take me". Okay, we cleared the trees, duh, but it was way too close for my laundry. "As we started to actually climb, at only 100 feet per minute, I smelled something that reminded me of touring the Heineken Brewery in Europe ....I said "is that a skunk I smell?" and the veterans of shuttle carrying looked at me and smiled and said "Tires"! I said "TIRES??? OURS???" They smiled and shook their heads as if to call their Captain an amateur...okay, at that point I was. The tires were so hot you could smell them in the cockpit. My mind could not get over, from this point on, that this was something I had never experienced. Where's your mom when you REALLY need her? "The flight down to Florida was an eternity. We cruised at 250 knots indicated, giving us about 315 knots of ground speed at 15,000' The miles didn't click by like I am use to them clicking by in a fighter jet at MACH .94. We were burning fuel at a rate of 40,000 pounds per hour or 130 pounds per mile, or one gallon every length of the fuselage. The vibration in the cockpit was mild, compared to down below and to the rear of the fuselage where it reminded me of that football game I had as a child where you turned it on and the players vibrated around the board. I felt like if I had plastic clips on my boots I could have vibrated to any spot in the fuselage I wanted to go without moving my legs...and the noise was deafening. "The 747 flies with its nose 5 degrees up in the air to stay level, and when you bank, it feels like the shuttle is trying to say "hey, let's roll completely over on our back"...not a good thing I kept telling myself. SO I limited my bank angle to 15 degrees and even though a 180 degree course change took a full zip code to complete, it was the safe way to turn this monster. "Airliners and even a flight of two F-16s deviated from their flight plans to catch a glimpse of us along the way. We dodged what was in reality very few clouds and storms, despite what everyone thought, and arrived in Florida with 51,000 pounds of fuel too much to land with. We can't land heavier than 600,000 pounds total weight and so we had to do something with that fuel. I had an idea...let's fly low and slow and show this beast off to all the taxpayers in Florida lucky enough to be outside on that Tuesday afternoon. "So at Ormond Beach we let down to 1,000 feet above the ground/water and flew just east of the beach out over the water. Then, once we reached the NASA airspace of the Kennedy Space Center, we cut over to the Banana/Indian Rivers and flew down the middle of them to show the people of Titusville, Port St.Johns and Melbourne just what a 747 with a shuttle on it looked like. We stayed at 1,000 feet and since we were dragging our flaps at "Flaps 5", our speed was down to around 190 to 210 knots. We could see traffic stopping in the middle of roads to take a look. We heard later that a Little League Baseball game stop to look and everyone cheered as we became their 7th inning stretch. Oh say can you see... "After reaching Vero Beach, we turned north to follow the coast line back up to the Shuttle Landing Facility (SLF). There was not one person laying on the beach...they were all standing and waving! "What a sight" I thought...and figured they were thinking the same thing. All this time I was bugging the engineers, all three of them, to re-compute our fuel and tell me when it was time to land. They kept saying "Not yet Triple, keep showing this thing off" which was not a bad thing to be doing. However, all this time the thought that the landing, the muscling of this 600,000 pound beast, was getting closer and closer to my reality. I was pumped up! "We got back to the SLF and were still 10,000 pounds too heavy to land so I said I was going to do a low approach over the SLF going the opposite direction of landing traffic that day. So at 300 feet, we flew down the runway, rocking our wings like a whale rolling on its side to say "hello" to the people looking on! One turn out of traffic and back to the runway to land...still 3,000 pounds over gross weight limit. But the engineers agreed that if the landing were smooth, there would be no problem. "Oh thanks guys, a little extra pressure is just what I needed!" "So we landed at 603,000 pounds and very smoothly if I have to say so myself. The landing was so totally controlled and on speed, that it was fun. There were a few surprises that I dealt with, like the 747 falls like a rock with the orbiter on it if you pull the throttles off at the "normal" point in a landing and secondly, if you thought you could hold the nose off the ground after the mains touch down, think again...IT IS COMING DOWN!!! So I "flew it down" to the ground and saved what I have seen in videos of a nose slap after landing. Bob's video supports this!) "Then I turned on my phone after coming to a full stop only to find 50 bazillion emails and phone messages from all of you who were so super to be watching and cheering us on! What a treat, I can't thank y'all enough. "For those who watched, you wondered why we sat there so long. Well, the shuttle had very hazardous chemicals on board and we had to be "sniffed" to determine if any had leaked or were leaking. They checked for Monomethylhydrazine (N2H4 for Charlie Hudson) and nitrogen tetroxide (N2O4). Even though we were "clean", it took way too long for them to tow us in to the mate-demate area. Sorry for those who stuck it out and even waited until we exited the jet. "I am sure I will wake up in the middle of the night here soon, screaming and standing straight up dripping wet with sweat from the realization of what had happened. It was a thrill of a lifetime. Again I want to thank everyone for your interest and support. It felt good to bring Atlantis home in one piece after she had worked so hard getting to the Hubble Space Telescope and back." This was circulated in email from United Technologies corporation.
  13. I'm sure if the guy would have been a CC'er instead of a LEO people would reacting plenty different. Then it would all be about the poor downtrodden "teenage boy" who was accosted by the big bad racist CC'er.
  14. Like maybe fixing failing infrastructure instead of building more tools of war?
  15. I live about 15 miles north of the state of Illinois.....there has been a steady stream of corrupt politicians going on there for some time. I believe at one point three former Governors were on probation/parole or in prison all at the same time. There, just because of the political makeup, it's been steadily Dems. But it's definitely both sides of the aisle.
  16. Not to nickpick....but at least around here... car noise on the road is mostly the noise of the tires on the road complimented by the surface condition of the road and the noise of the vehicle forcing itself through the air. That is hardly going to be eliminated. In the north there is no way around needing tires with some bite to get through snow, slush, and ice and that results in the majority of the buzz or whine as a car flies down the highway. And I'm sure as the drag coefficients get better, wind noise will reduce. But these days very little noise comes from the exhaust or intake of a vehicle. Most of the new vehicles I'm standing next to I can't even hear them running. I was amazed even how quiet the Dodge HD Diesel I was next to the other day was. The thing was nearly silent, and apparently the exhaust additive was doing pretty good because I couldn;t smell a thing coming from that truck.
  17. Yes this is growing big time. My employer just added a CNG station at my local plant, and I believe said they are now at the largest CNG fleet in the nation. A local company (Angi Energy Systems) that manufactures CNG systems has steadily grown from a little fab shop in a farm pole barn through three different ever larger buildings in town. Heck even the newest gas station in town added a CNG station when they built it.
  18. If this "http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2009/battery-material-0311.html" works it could make swapping batteries a moot point. The best design FOR THE CAR is to have cells stashed all over wherever there is room, and laid out in such a way to distribute the weight. The likely optimal engineered design is to have the battery integrated into the vehicle. By developing a battery that can be charged in the same amount of time that a typical gasoline fill up takes, that will make people more likely to buy into the tech.
  19. I tend to agree...the govt shouldn't "force it". For decades manufacturers have figured out it's often been in their best interest to come together on an industry standard. From wall plugs, HDMI cables, speaker sizing, to USB charge ports on phones. Eventually the car companies will get over their little pissing contest and come to some sort of standards for their own good to become viable. Sometimes that process has been "helped" along by regulation, but I think the best scenario is when the brightest engineers from multiple firms can come to a consensus without some agency, that really doesn't know much about the subject, is forcing it with tax collection in mind.
  20. I'd be looking at the voltage regulator. I've seen a lot of voltage regulators go on bikes, mostly connections melting right off of them. Sounds to me like something warming up, expanding, and losing connection. Then cools back down and retacts back into connection.
  21. I had the misfortune of landing about 2 minutes before AF1 in Portland one time. Because of this unfortunate timing the entire airport was brought to a screeching halt. My and many other commercial planes full of people trying their best to make it to important meetings, conduct business, or even just meet family were forced to sit on the tarmac in holding for over an hour while AF1 moved about and unloaded. Leaving the airport I saw roads shut down with some of the worst traffic backups I have ever witnessed. I thought "oh well the president is here, I'm sure he's conducting some important national business". NOPE he was attending some high dollar $1500/plate campaign fund raiser. I remember thinking something similar to this article. HOW RIDICULOUS! Just seeing this moving cluster fuck circus in action makes one really understand the amount of people, labor, and inconvenience any movement of the president brings about. Had I never seen it in action I never would have understood how the movement of one individual can really fuck up an entire city's day. Then think about the cost. The cost of AF1, the cost of the security detail, the cost of virtually shutting down an international airport, the cost of city services......and it goes on and on and on. All so some spoiled rich fuck can go sip chardonnay over $1000 plates of food and claim he appreciates the plight of us "commoners".
  22. The resistance I've always had to bio based stuff is that I constantly am nicking or cutting my fingers. In my occupation I frequently am twisting wires, turning nuts and bolts that may have burrs, handling sheet metal, etc. I tried using the finger print reader on my work computer and it was worthless. The one time I had "clean" hands I set up the bio stuff. It's a roll of the dice whether it works or not depending on what shape my fingers are in from work. Heck when I got my Utah permit I had to go back two times to get my prints taken because of the same issue.
  23. I don't have a bio, I didn't feel it was worth the cost. I have the normal nanovault with combo tumblers. It comes with a steel cable that I routed to a seat mount in my truck. A seat mount is about the strongest thing you can find in a vehicle to loop a cable to. I also liked that the one I bought seemed smaller than a bio activated one. I have a Chevy Avalanche with a sizeable center console, so the nanobvault fits in there with no problem and the cable that attaches the safe to my seat doesn't interfere with the console latching and locking as a second security measure. Typically if I'm in the truck my firearm is down in the drivers door panel where I can easily access it. I only worry about securing it in the the safe when I have to leave the gun in the truck. I think my removable radio face and other easily stolen stuff spend more time in my gun safe than my gun does.
  24. You have to download the gopro app from android market first. Should be pretty straightforward to setup a wifi connection to it from there.
  25. Looking for advice from experienced vid flyers. I have been doing tandem work for a couple years at a Cessna dz. I've gotten the invite to jump with a new forming novice 4 way team..we all get to learn together! I've always filmed on my belly and my camera suit has the small B wings. I'm about 165 wo rig and have not ever really had fall rate issues with flying vid, except our big boy TM jumping with bigger women I have had to wear a belt. I have the old skysystems full face with a cx-110 on the side and have ran Gopro 3 for stills. I'm thinking that setup should still be fine? What are some of the things different with flying RW groups from tandem I need to keep in mind? Is the RW group fall rate going to be lower...enough that I may need to think about bigger wings? I plan on watching a lot of footage online to see what other guys are doing but thought I could also get some useful advice here. Thanks!