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  Everyone is infected.

Building was a lot of the fun for me and I learned a bunch that I wouldn't have otherwise. I wouldn't put down buying factory made though.

Good deal, happy ending. :woohoo:

Someone needs to be photoshopping that guy into moon landing shots, beside the grassy knoll, etc.       Something is definitely off about him being an idiot. Surely there would have been a lot of waving and shouting if he was out of place? And then he's holding that bag open for whatever they're putting in there.

  Ah yes. I recall seeing that one. Seems like a good idea. Though for tightening the barrel nut, you're torquing against the keying nub (whatever that's called). Not sure if that would make a difference. Definitely better for the muzzle I would think though.

Be nice if they actually came out and said "Look, we sell pricey drinks and snacks. You have elected legislators to take care of that other crap, go whine to them instead"

  One was the TGO upper and the other was whatever came with the Ace pistol kit.   It seems to me that the only place you really want to grip the upper anyway is right behind the barrel nut. There is plenty of support material there and it is where you really want to be applying the resistant torque anyway. More and more I'm liking my idea of a wrench over vice blocks for the upper. Though the vice blocks might still be needed for the muzzle.

  LOL. Like they're even considered relevant anymore.

  Looks like the devices can be had for as cheap as $7 or less (in bulk) on ebay and a little more legit but $25 is a good price to pay to have someone know what they're doing do it.   Just the chips themselves are less than a couple of bucks so you're also paying for the disposable injector and the packaging.   With regard to the original poster, I'd definitely consider mentioning this to law enforcement. If there's any pattern of this guy making off with peoples dogs, they need to be able to put it together. I'd probably give him the benefit of the doubt in the meantime though.

Make sure to try the milquetoast.

  You have to watch the fit too. The clamshell I got fit neither of the uppers I used it on and I had to carefully carve it down with a chisel to get a snug fit. I think if I would have used it as-is, I would have definitely had problems.

Just in case anyone isn't clear, I mean this one... Not this one ;) Clearance is 107 ft so it would just be "aim for the middle".

  But who made those promises? Certainly not the politicians in power today and not the politicians in power in 4, 12 or 20 years time.   The principle of parliamentary sovereignty (The principle that the government can't be held to decisions made by it in the past in its future legislation) doesn't appear to apply to the US, probably mostly due to the constituion but you can bet that something not too dissimilar applies to general legislation.

  It might be interesting to discuss the response to something like Ebola in a libertarian or minarchist environment but I'm sure it's been done to death already.   Troutburger: Classic.

  Perhaps. But it can't not go away (or at least continue to exist substantially as it is currently). So that leaves us in an interesting place.   Unless there's a wide-scale collapse, I strongly suspect that the taxpayer of the future is likely to turn around and say "Enough. We're not paying you any more. You should have solved this problem before you came to rely on it. This is your problem, not ours" and you'll see a lot of people in their retirement years in an awful lot of trouble.

  Agree absolutely.

In some ways, SS is operating the way it would be expected to. You pay into it and the government uses the money to grow the economy and then uses that growth to pay out to recipients as needed.   What this misses, however, is:   1)Government is fucking useless with money 2)Demographic changes 3)Government is fucking useless with money   The demographic issue is likely to affect private pensions also however. It's simple logistics. You have less people producing and more people wanting to be less productive (retiring). It just doesn't go. That's even before the huge stock market bubble that's going to cause problems and government wanting to tax pensions. Private is still better than public, however.   Personally, I don't plan on retiring anyway. Seems like a good way to die quickly. I just want the ability to take my foot off the throttle a bit.

Aviation has the concept of a chain of errors   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain_of_events_%28aeronautics%29   Which basically states that when things go wrong, it is not usually one thing that causes the problem but many small things that contribute. Things like allowing people from problem areas to travel to areas without problems, incorrectly handling those people when they do arrive and then having those who have been in close contact with that person to fly to weddings and go on cruises.   The point being that if you get one or more of these items right, you break the chain and disaster fails to happen even when things fuck up elsewhere. You stop travel, you train the nurses, you restrict them and monitor them after contact.   No doubt there is a whole litany of stuff in Liberia itself but let's concentrate on the US where we are supposed to have at least a modicum of understanding of good hygiene practices and (we hope) run with science over superstition when it counts.   This is reading like a bad novel, including the "let's not do anything in order to try and prevent panic" idiocy. Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is much stupider too.

Ironically, if it does hit, it will probably hit more democrats by proportion. I'd still rather it was kept on the other side of the ocean though.

He is a chancer. His calculation is that if he plays it cool and we somehow get away with it, it gives him more brownie points than if he institutes a travel ban. If things go wrong and thousands die? Calculated risk. 

    Doesn't work for me. I guess the black helicopters got there first...   Edit: Works this time so I guess the black-ops cointelpro disinformation servers are inline.

  Think so. If you get lucky, you might catch a special. The chips are very cheap so it's a high mark-up (worth it, even at that though)

  Maybe that's someone they can run into in a later show... "Here guys, let me show you something..."

  How odd. My daughter is dual and we were advised for her to just travel on her US passport. Haven't renewed her UK once since it expired when she was 5.

  Don't most African nations need a Visa to enter the US*? That would seem to make things a little more difficult for people who just wanted to wander around. You can't just get on a plane and fly somewhere mostly. Even intervening countries want to know you have a visa through to your final destination because they don't want your sorry ass ending up in their country.     *Yup. Not many countries on the Visa Waiver program and most first world. http://travel.state.gov/content/visas/english/visit/visa-waiver-program.html   Heck, I've been turned away at the gate of an aircraft before due to a mix up with my green card.