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  I believe that site or one like it came up a while back in a different thread. As a motorcycle rider and liberty minded individual, the whole thing just makes me shake my head. "Territories" and "domainant club"s? Sheesh.

  You know about Nevada? That's just ridiculous.  

I have seen it a few times and I too figured it was just poor maintenance (like when someone drives past with their stereo rattling all the loose panels on their POS beater). This was the first time I'd heard of it.

Local laws where I am permit hunting within city limits but I think this would not qualify as hunting.   Actually had a similar situation a few years ago. Driving by the body of a dear in the turning lane when it lifted its head. It was a moot point though as it would not have been safe to stop and do anything about it anyway where it was.

Saw one in Nashville West End last night...

  For a second there, I was picturing you attacking the wasp with a cigar.

Console? Call me when they have Steam sales on the XBox or Sony.

One of the pros to building your own is that you can upgrade bits as-and-when your budget suits you. Instead of buying an average computer, you can get a decent graphics card this month, a better CPU in six months, a bigger/better hard-drive next year and so on.   For a gaming PC, your best bang-for-the-buck is going to be in the graphics card for which you'll probably be spending somewhere above 150 for something reasonably capable. If you need new core stuff, you're probably realistically looking for a new motherboard, CPU and memory (at least 8GB recommended) which you could pull together for around 200, possibly less. One gotcha is that your power requirements might put you in the market for a PSU upgrade. SSDs are definitely nice to have but I wouldn't put it as a priority. If you have a case, PSU and DVD drives (keyboard, mouse and monitor) that you're happy with, may as well stick with them as pay for new ones in a new system.   Then, of course, there's the operating system which I will make no comment upon.

  You miss the point. In many ways it doesn't matter even if everything was handled properly in this case. The history has set the scene. I'm not justifying anything but on the flipside, I think that standing around asking "So why are people so upset before the facts come out?" is a bit disingenuous also.   "Sow the wind" and all that...   Edit: And now the officers are being charged with murder which is quite possibly unwarranted. This is what a lax attitude to "bad apples" brings you.

  However, the fact that the "rough ride" is a well known thing sets the tone. If you have a force that's known to be scrupulously careful in the handling of suspects, that's one thing but if you have a culture of egregious violence, that's another.

  True enough. However, what this means that when the police misbehave, it falls disproportionately within those communities. It has a multiplicative effect. You have to look at the variables you can control and work with what you can. To me, that appears to be ending the justice system (as controlled by our democratically elected representatives) allowing bad cops to have an easy ride. We can also discuss crime rates but that's a whole other can of worms.

I believe Mel Brooks had something to say about the nature of tragedy.   But tragic or not, this stuff just simply shouldn't be happening. Start adhering to the rule of law and then let's go from there...

A little pricey but.... There is also a thing you can do where you take a bunch of photographs and can work out a 3d model from it. You have to take a *lot* of photographs though. http://www.123dapp.com/catch

  I understand it as a tactic. I just think telling the perpetrators that that is what you're going to do is just plain stupid.

  The best bit about the rear-bumper people is that many lights are sensor lights so there's a good chance they won't change for you.

  This is actually a correct and legal use of the lane. There is a maximum travel rule (traveling in the turning lane is dangerous anyway).   Of course, then there are the people that come to a near-stop before entering the turning lane. Not sure what is going on in their minds.

I'm totally with you. The problem is, as you know, it's already here.   States should be erecting partitions between the federal government and their police forces also.

I saw someone make a good point the other day that if the police want to be militarized, they should fall under the ucmj. That would soon put them straight.

Definitely HBO was ladeling the sex & nudity on but I think they backed off a bit when it turned out to be pretty good in its own right. Personally, it doesn't bother me much anyway but it does seem unnecessary sometimes.

I've reviewed items that weren't purchased from Amazon before. Didn't mean I didn't buy them elsewhere.

I have bought one but I'm waiting on installing it on getting a new car or a new windshield. I got the B40 because it is fairly discreet (most are huge and hand off a suction cup. I think it will do the job but I'm thinking it's lack of rear-facing cam might definitely be a downside with some of the stuff I've heard going on recently. It also doesn't have GPS built-in but it is apparently available via a module.

The joys of computer-generated pricing.

I think "the customer is always right" is often misunderstood. It does not necessarily mean that the customer is correct

I was trying to think if I could plot out a decent route over this side. I'm thinking maybe breakfast in Leiper's fork and lunch in Ashland City.

Got the bike cleaned up a bit today, it was looking a bit grubby. Think I'm going to try some new allergy medicine. Loratadine doesn't really do it and it's beginning to kick in.