peejman

If they expanded the safety zone to the whole road, I bet we'd all be amazed at the revenue that would generate (not that I'm advocating tickets as a revenue stream). If it was a new road, there's no way the speed limit would be more than 35. Look at the Pigeon Forge bypass for comparison... way less traffic, 4-6 lanes with a median, less curves, practically no businesses, and 40 mph limit. Knox city/county is too afraid to piss off all the influential folks who use it daily to cut the limit to something more appropriate and actually enforce it. Thankfully I don't have to drive Chapman Hwy regularly, and I avoid it whenever possible.

Not enough business and residential density? It's wall-to-wall businesses nearly from one end to the other. Traffic density is as high or higher than any other road around. And both of those illustrate the difficulty with fixing it. It will be hugely expensive because of all the businesses 30ft from the road and hugely inconvenient given the current traffic load. All the lunatics driving 70mph and generally lax enforcement certainly don't help the situation. It's much easier to persecute bikes on a windy road with no intersections and little other traffic.

Most deadly road for miles around, yet bikes crashing on the dragon always make front page news instead. It desperately needs widening and barriers, and the speed limit should be 35 over the whole length.

Tried to vote last week but the line was long and not moving. Went to a different location today and it was much better.

I suspect the early voting turn out will be high while the Election Day turn out will be low. After all, has anything they've said in the last 6 months changed your mind? Me neither.

Gotta pull for the cubbies, and I'm certainly glad "the usual suspects" aren't there.

A locking shoulder so I could finally finish my FAL, and a small amount of .380 and 5.56.

How's the trigger?

Most small generators have throttle controls to (try to) maintain constant speed, so yes it's supposed to run at full speed regardless of applied load. This is part of why most generators produce "dirty power". Every time the load changes, the throttle controls must react to maintain constant rpm. But they can't react instantly so the rpm varies, which then causes the voltage and frequency to fluctuate. This is why it's a bad idea to run some electronics (computers, etc.) using a generator that produces unconditioned "dirty" power. Generators that are rated "electronics friendly" condition their output to minimize all those fluctuations. They do it by converting the AC signal output to DC, passing it through a capacitor which acts as a buffer, then converting it back to AC which cleans up the signal. Easiest way I know to do that on the cheap is to use a small engine (or bicycle, water wheel, etc.) to spin a car alternator and run the alternator output through a power inverter.

Yes, voltage (and frequency) are proportional to engine speed. Generally, a generator has to run at full speed (3600rpm) to generate full voltage.

We've got several of those. Llama llama mad at momma.... my wife doesn't like that one much.

A friend of a friend is her nephew. He says she's super nice and the country bumpkin stuff isn't an act, she's really that down to earth. My kids' bookshelves are full books courtesy of her Imagination Library.

Looks like bone to me.

What they said. When the body is trying to purge something bad, let it. Just try not to get too dehydrated.

Common core is gone and it only lasted at most 5 years in the systems that fully adopted it.

I used to do that for exercise when I travelled a lot.

Sorry for your loss Joe. This too shall pass.

It's a new striker fired design. The current LCP is double action hammer fired. The larger size seems counter productive to me, especially with the LC380.

I don't disagree. The safest thing to do is to ride a bit faster than traffic flow to help prevent someone getting you from behind where your visibility and awareness are worst. But that was hardly what I'd consider heavy traffic and 15+ over the limit while weaving through the cars was asking for it. Having a gun in full view is the icing on the cake. I didn't see where that was, but it looked like Florida where concealment is a requirement. At least the cop didn't sneak up behind him and snatch it out of his holster like that moron here did a while back. The lesson clearly is, be polite, do what you're told, don't be stupid, and things will work out fine.

Or.... Don't ride like a dumbass and you won't get pulled over in the first place.

I've got an old P85, and yes, they are tanks. Mine's been stone reliable and after eleventy gillion rounds, is still more accurate than me. It's got a lot more muzzle flip than you'd expect for such a big pistol, and the trigger reset is long, but it's still fun to shoot.

Because our wives make us take the kids.

Story I've heard is these guys were hunting on another's property without permission. It's been going on for years. When the property owner would fuss, his property would mysteriously catch fire. He got fed up and called TWRA to set them up.

I didn't realize bear season was open already, I work with a couple avid bear hunters. Personally, I don't consider hunting with dogs to be "hunting". More akin to shooting fish in a barrel.