E4 No More

I don't know about anyone else, but I wouldn't be shooting through a jacket pocket.

It doesn't. The head of the Democratic party in Mass stated that it shows the people to be "impatient" which showed that they don't get anything.

Yes, Camp Foster.

I believe Rock Island's are made in the Philippines: hence, cheap labor.

Fit, finish, and 10 year old Filipinos determines price. I have a Colt, and the blue is not what it used to be. I've seen worse on the lower end 1911's. EDIT: Yes, I know I'm a smartass!

I have never been close to a deer in my life and I know that was a dumb idea at the onset.

I want that time back!

I'm orignally from Kansas City, so I wouldn't be able to keep from bad-mouthing the Broncos. My wife likes football too. She got into it with me when I came back from Oki.

I ain't as old as you! I was 8 1/2 years old back then, and couldn't care less about football. I loved playing football while growing up, but I didn't start following it until 1985 while I was stationed in Okinawa. I watched the re-broadcasts of the games and followed the Giants and Phil Sims to the Superbowl.

The guy de-values what he has to say by telling people what he names his guns. "The Noisy Cricket" gives people the image of Will Smith in Men In Black blasting away at whatever. He should have kept that to himself.

Huh? Jets vs Colts in the Superbowl?

This is not to be construed as to apply to you or anyone else on this forum. It is the truth behind perception. I have known a few people from Dell Technical Support over the past several years, and I have talked to MANY customers who call to complain about tech support to the sales staff. I do not sell, nor have I ever sold, computers, so there is no motivation for me to color the following or even outright lie about it. I work in a technical pre-sales role for networking equipment on a salaried basis, and because of this I am in contact with tech support and the customer regularly. 1. Tech support tells me that the vast majority of calls they receive is because of stupid crap the end user does to the computer; not because the computer is malfunctioning. Many customers get pissed when tech support refuses to teach them how to use the computer or software they bought. They expect Dell to be their free IT consultant or IT staff. Consumers are notorious for this. 2. Hardware issues account for less than 3% of the calls into tech support. Considering that no one knows what DHL, (the most notorious of the carriers), FedEx, or UPS has done to the boxes during shipment, or what the customer has done to the computer, (see #1 above), this is an extremely low figure for the industry. 2. At the time of purchase the customer chooses the level of support that they want. Most customers make their decision based on how much it costs, and then when they do something stupid they get mad because, "Dell's crappy support" can't help them when the real issue is that the lowest level of support that they chose is the real problem. Fact of life: When one is cheap they should expect cheap results. 3. All electronics are built for an expected level of use and lifespan. My truck analogy comes in here in that many customers buy pick-up trucks for a bargain price, and then expect it to perform as a dump truck. In other words, they want to save money by purchasing consumer grade desktops/notebooks and expect them to perform flawlessly in a business environment. These customers account for the majority of calls into tech support clogging the works for other customers, and this is why Dell no longer offers super cheap computers to businesses. We let those customers go to Acer. In extreme cases, customers buy desktops, load server software on them, and then complain because their "server" isn't running right. 4. Customers don't understand what they are being told. They don't want to appear stupid, so they don't insist that the tech rep explain it to them better. I have handled many customers like this who call their sales reps complaining about tech support, and then when I get on the line with the tech support rep and the customer the truth comes out. 5. Customers lie...frequently!!! I have dealt with many customers who claim to have called tech support and got no assistance. When I research it, (calls are logged with case numbers and the Service Tag Number of the device), I find out that the customer never talked to tech support. They may have chatted in some forum with someone, or they outright make it up. Boy, do they feel stupid when I call them on it. So when you hear people bitch'n about tech support consider that there's two sides to every story. Companies like Dell, HP, or Apple don't get their size by producing and selling it to the company.

I doubt it'll do any good, but I emailed MSNBC complaining about this kind of conduct and asking if they support voter fraud and calling people bastards if they don't agree with you.

Things change. Consumer grade customer support is still in India whereas XPS and enterprise grades are in America. It's been that way for a few years now.

So did Stossel sue the crap out of the guy? Did he go to jail for assault?

If I recall correctly, it takes velocity, (to generate heat), as well as pressure to ignite primers. When they made the Devastator, (I think that's what they were called), rounds many years ago they said that it took 400 fps to ignite the primer in the bullet.

A few months ago when I was reporting a hit-n-run in Lavergne, I showed the female LEO my permit with my license, and she didn't care. She said, "As long as you don't try to shoot me with it I don't care."

10x42 here. Great service. I got a sun shade that didn't thread-on and they sent me a new one without a hassle right away, and they didn't want the old one in return.

I have one of their Super Sniper scopes on my Savage model 12, and I'm pretty pleased with it.

Umm, "SWAT Teams going out into the neighborhoods retrofitting homes..."? WTF? Over!

Scottish, Irish, Cherokee, English.

Wow! 37 pages for this loser.

About time that you joined, Rodney.

If the box survived the gun is ok.

Congratulations!