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TGO David

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  1. I really feel that trying to moderate political threads on TGO is like trying to pick up a turd by the clean end. It can't be done. I also feel that forbidding discussion of political things is a similar proposition. Politics are so intertwined with firearms and firearms ownership that people drawn to guns and gun forums will also always be drawn to talking about political topics. Even if the topics seemingly have nothing to do with guns. At a fundamental level, all political topics involve force or the threat of force once you start making laws. Instituting a law requires the threat of repercussions if the law isn't obeyed. The government's answer to the question, "Or else - what?" always has been that they will use force to remove you from public or even the gene pool if you fail to comply. We could try [again] to forbid anything political being discussed on TGO, but that also means people won't be allowed to talk about current events. This doesn't appeal to me. Or I could just tell people to grow the #### up and be ready to receive it if you dish it out and see who's left standing. I swear, though. The absolute intolerance of other opinions makes me think some of y'all pee sitting down.
  2. Does the apartment I have inside your head rent-free also come with furniture??
  3. You know, I am honestly approaching the point where making people behave here is wearing thin with me. We get dangerously close to me just telling you all to have at it and seeing if you can really survive open discourse when you pick at "the other side" with bait memes like this.
  4. Hey gang, just a quick vote of confidence for the seller @Booms225. I know he's new to TGO but he is also a personal friend of mine and is completely squared away. You can have confidence in him as a seller.
  5. Hey gang, just a quick vote of confidence for the seller @Booms225. I know he's new to TGO but he is also a personal friend of mine and is completely squared away. You can have confidence in him as a seller.
  6. It is certainly his prerogative and one that I might enact myself were I teaching a firearms course to the general public.
  7. I received my Apex Tactical extended mag release maybe two weeks ago. It's still sitting on my desk. I need to install it sometime this weekend and give it a whirl. Overall, I still really like the Echelon. The only way I can see it being any better is if they release a version sized comparably to the Glock 19.
  8. This is news to you? I'm not saying it; Sig Sauer is saying it.
  9. The post-recall P320s are fine. That video shown above is clearly the result of something that didn't belong in the holster with the gun. You can see the gun get fully pushed into the holster as the cop bent over, and then BOOM. Here's the deal: Anytime a cop has a negligent discharge, FOP protocol (whether formalized or not) is to blame the gun. That's just how it works. I've got several friends whom I trust who have been through the P320 armorer's course and they all say that there is no way that the P320, post-recall, can fire without the trigger being depressed. Period. My own P320 is carried often and I have close to 3,000 rounds through it at last count. It has never discharged out of battery or unintentionally.
  10. It's hard to put a family of five in a Ferrari.
  11. I think the most important thing that I can reiterate here is that I have no interest in selling TGO. I have been approached by other companies several times over the years. It's simply not something that I am interested in doing. TGO is a labor of love for me. It's not about money.
  12. Whenever a community's ownership changes hands, it can be a tough transition to navigate. Most of the big web forums out there were originally founded by people who are insanely passionate about whatever the topic focus is. Those people, generally speaking, will have poured countless hours into building a thriving community that they themselves would have wanted to be a part of. If and when they sell, the sale usually goes to a holding company that is primarily in the business of monetization through advertising. If they are lucky, the original staff stay onboard and help keep the original spirit of things intact. This is actually the best of both worlds, because the community benefits from access to more resources and the owner benefits from the "magic" that caused the community to grow. I'm not foreshadowing anything here, but I do want to address several points: First, there are a lot of Canadian citizens who wish they had our Second Amendment freedoms. Just because a company is based in Canada, it doesn't mean that they are anti-2A. Second, it makes no sense for a company like Verticalscope to invest money into buying a community only to ruin it or shut it down. They bought those communities for a reason and that reason was to make money.
  13. No, I generally don't want a lock on an automatic knife. But I also choose knives that are not easily opened, let alone accidentally, and I only carry automatics in certain situations for specific defensive purposes and they are not my only nor primary knife even then. I have several of them now. My favorite is probably my Microtech DIRAC Delta. It is a largish double-edged automatic and the activation switch is arranged such that it is ambidextrous. The switch also requires an intentional shove to activate and the blade will halt if it encounters resistance. That knife is carried on my weak side to be used as a "get the hell off me" tool if I am fighting someone over control of my handgun. It's not used for opening Amazon boxes, whittling sticks, or cleaning under my fingernails.
  14. Yes - anything done after August 17th until yesterday would be gone. PMs included.
  15. We were on dedicated hardware since around 2013 or 2014, but we are back to a virtualized solution now. MacGyver and I are starting to research just moving it all to Azure for better scalability, tough.
  16. Honestly that's me these days. I read more than I post. With shorter days and longer nights around the corner, I'm sure that my activity will pick back up.
  17. Had it taken another day to rebuild, I would have told you to just send your money to the local liquor store under my name.
  18. We've used them for a few years. Last year they were purchased by another company. The prices went up but they [quietly] abandoned the Managed Service Provider model and went to pure bare-bones hosting. When I reached out to them for assistance yesterday, I was advised that they no longer did that sort of thing and that it was up to me to handle every aspect of the recovery. So, I hired a new company last night -- one that does do managed services -- and fired the old company today.
  19. I love my MR920. The CR920 ought to be fantastic!
  20. This is what real friends do!
  21. The shameful part is that we had about 30-days worth of backups that would have prevented us from losing all but maybe 8-hours worth of activity, but they were destroyed when the hardware failure occurred. Normally those would have been replicated offsite and to the cloud, but part of the automation that I wrote wasn't running and I just didn't notice it.
  22. It was not a fun period of time. I think you're the first person to post since, though.

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