Jonnin

Wow, I guess my marriage is a total failure because I did not whelp.

I guess for me, it comes down to how important the data is and how secret it is. If you absolutely do not want the information public, you better do your own encryption locally. How many times in the last 2 years have we seen hackers pull down a big wad of weakly encrypted data stored somewhere, decrypted it in full or in part, and caused no end of problems? Database after database has been nabbed and personal info made public. If you care about it, you better do it yourself. Once it is garbled beyond all hope of recovery, THEN you can trust the cloud or having that PC on the internet. I am hopelessly paranoid, though. Probably because I am a computer guy and understand that it only takes one person at any point in the chain to make one small mistake to compromise an entire system. I trust the big backup guys to have the data when you need it and to restore your PC if something happens. I do not trust that at some point in the next decade no hacker will lift data from their systems.

I fully agree with you that govt needs to get out of it. I have no desire to water down the meaning, my point was the same as yours: by common usage (indeed, caused by the govt) the term is already watered down. Most of the people that are fussing over using the term "married" with homosexuals will accept *any* use of the term with *any sort* of heteros. That is inconsistent and illogical (If the same folks will start up a campaign to ban the term married from any marriage that is not done in their particular brand of church, at least it would be consistent and logical). Or surrender that the term is forever watered down in the secular world and let the point go. All that matters is what the term means to the particular couple anyway... for some it means a lifelong commitment before the almighty, for others it is a living arrangement for a few years.

It would either be an "AOW" (any other weapon) or a "SBR" (short barrel rifle). I think the TC would be SBR with a 14 inch barrel installed, but I am not 100% sure. AOW is the catch all category, if it fails to meet the SBR rules somehow. Which means you would have to pay $200 & register the gun with the BATFE to get a paper saying you can have it....

I am OK with that. The point is equality under the government, and terminology can be put aside for that. But I do not understand the terminology issue AT ALL. Apparently the people that get butthurt over "marriage is a sacrament" (whatever that means) are OK with atheists and satanists and who knows what else being "married" if they are male/female but you better not be using that married word with homosexuals! Until I can get a LOGICAL argument about THAT, the word married can be used for the homosexuals as well in my book. It is dumb to try to make an issue of the word as if it "belongs" to the christian church when any hetero couple can use the word regardless of faith......

I buy the genetic or "hardwired" concept. I have known 2 guys who, as kids and probably before they even knew anything about sex at all were very girlish (talking like age 6 here). One is a cousin .... and he recently 'came out' (he is maybe 20 now??). Say what you will, that boy was feminine from the time he could walk. The other one, not related to me, same thing. And in the case of my cousin, his parents are pretty hard core fundys, church of christ and homeschooled the kids. Its hard to call that any kind of choice, its just how the guy was his whole life and trust me, his parents did NOT encourage it.

Do you have anything else at all to go on? Almost any snake can look like a stick .... they are both long tubes so all the snake has to do is sit still and be straight instead of coiled. As for playing dead, not many types do that either, but it could have been happy in the sun and sort of sluggish when you first saw it. In short, not much to go on here.... any brown or black snake in a straight line could do it in the right lighting etc. None of the ones here look all that much like a stick as any sort of camo or on a regular basis, though, at least none that I am aware of.

He accomplished as much years ago --- he has been perma banned from nearly every firearms forum and that takes dedication, effort, and time to accomplish, I doubt I could duplicate that feat in a year's time.

Those are very good guns, and under-rated IMHO. Its a lot like my makarov in every way that counts, which is one of my favorite hanguns, top 5 and I would have to think about it for a while to see if it makes #1 (would be close). For those that complain about 380 cost but like the gun, makarov is same as 9mm in price And both mak and 380 reload for under $4 a box.

http://www.chron.com/news/article/Judge-orders-sex-change-for-Mass-murder-convict-3838432.php Apparently, it is a serious medical disorder. Even I draw the line at spending tax dollars for this sort of thing... though once obamacare gets rolling, we will probably see a lot of this sort of thing.... I still say the govt needs to get out of this issue entirely. I think the back & forth here shows that nothing else is going to work for enough of the population to be possible.

IMHO your wife should always be your best friend. I also have no idea how the title and topic relate, all I can guess is your shooting buddy will soon be your wife, after this class?

I saw one of their other guns at the range and it was well made but crude -- probably too well made (extra thick and strong). If this one is as well done, it will be plenty safe and will work fine.

he was in a lot of stuff. Great voice and a good actor indeed.

you can use makarov bullets I think for a light load, probably cost less too.

not that, that is another issue. Any type of company, a large number of them are incorporated in just a couple of cities, for whatever reason, if traded.

Is it for the stock market? I am not sure if they are publicly traded anyway, but public companies always end up in NY or Delaware I think (???) but my memory on that is a little foggy. Something about the laws make it best to incorporate in those places.

you also have folks like me who are not gay but who firmly think that the gay community should have equal rights. Mostly, that means I would see any and all laws/tax codes / etc that are for married couples removed entirely so the government can get 100% out of the issue: if there are no bonuses for marriage, then everyone is equal. The other direction (making laws to say who can marry who and when and where and so on) is too much government involvement at too deep a level. Getting 100% out of the issue and away from it is the only way that I can see it actually working out. Then, after that, if the gay community wants special treatment, we can stamp that "denied" and move on.

yea an encrypted wadfile is the way to go, either compress all the stuff to save money/space and encrypt that, or tarball it (no compression but fast) and same idea. That is the easy way out. Do NOT use built in zip encryption, as far as I know, that is not hard to crack (??) or it used to be easy anyway (been a while since I tried).

Ive used 2230 to make an excellent light load, but have not tried to take that all the way up. I think you could do it. I would say mine are about 75% of the starter load, dead on at 200 yards which is all the space I have. It burned clean and fully, might give it a try.

Pistol 18 U.S.C. § 921 (a)(29) And 27 CFR § 478.11 The term "PISTOL" means a weapon originally designed, made, and intended to fire a projectile (bullet) from one or more barrels when held in one hand, and having: • a chamber(s) as an integral part(s) of, or permanently aligned with, the bore(s); and a short stock designed to be gripped by one hand at an angle to and extending below the line of the bore(s). However the SBR and AOW defs muddy the above and apply all sorts of nutty "what is it?!" questions to the above simple text.

the ammo prices at the show were stupidly high, IMHO. A good dollar more per box than the stores that are in town for a lot of it. Or, to put it another way: the reloads for sale were as much as a box of factory ammo.... and factory ammo was more than I wanted to pay.. $25 and 26 for a bulk box of 22 LR (normally 20-22 in town). ?! I did manage to find that M&P sport, 750 OTD from a very nice gentleman who also had some nice looking mausers and milsurp. Got a few targets that my wife likes that are hard to find in local stores. Not much else, looked at an older beretta .22 target pistol but I already have too many .22s so I just drooled and moved on. Lot of stuff I would have bought if I had infinite money, so a good amount and variety of nice guns. All in all slightly better than average. Everyone kept asking if my new ar was for sale but no one wanted to pay $1k for it

92 glock (any glock, slight model variety matters little, but I think of the 19 as the classic) uzi pistol Iconic being those are the 3 I have seen the most in tv/movie/etc

Now that I can stand behind 100%. I hope the loss of legal fees this time around will put a damper on his future efforts.

pure population vote takes all say out of entire regions of the country, the middle and the south would have NO say in any policy anymore. Its the difference between the house and the senate.... the house, the mid and south struggle and lose a lot to the big population states. The senate.... 2 reps per state, puts the big population but few in number back in their place (sometimes). .... There has to be something fair that prevents bullying of the bulk of the country by a couple of population heavy spots yet does not discount the high population (they do, after all, get a vote and a say!). That is what the EC tries to do. Swing states and everything riding on a couple of states is annoying to me too, but I would much rather not have a pure popular vote until such time as the population has a lot better sense than it does right now.

Some are, and indeed his gun is one of those. Mine is a 223 pistol but its not an AR upper, its kinda unique (kel tec plr). LE used to carry a PLR around but swapped to the AK for variety I guess. The law is not a rational person. The law made a size limit for a sawed off shotgun, and people have happily sawed them off to the legal limit for decades. Everyone is OK with this. The law made a limit on the size of a "pistol" and a few gun makers produce weapons on the edge of this size. Here, this causes all sorts of problems, but it is exactly the same thing. If the legal size of a pistol is too big, then it should be changed, but until that time, the law is what it is and the officers should know the limit (they all seem to have memorized the shotgun rule and carry stick to measure it, why not for a pistol? These pistols have been around for decades!). There is no consensus on what a "rifle round" is. Is a .22 long RIFLE a rifle round? What about a 30-30, which there are revolvers chambered for? What about 9mm, with all the popular carbines and so on? About all anyone can say is that a given round is most commonly used in whatever type of gun --- however I would guess .22 is even split between rifle and pistol. I guess what I am going for is this. Take the jerk out of the scene and replace the pistol with a glock. Ok so joe blow has a glock 17 open carried in a park while wearing camo or some other nutty outfit and is acting a little off. Would you guys be ok if he were arrested at gunpoint after he had already had his permit checked, if he had not been doing anything to anyone, had not drawn the gun, etc? Would you be ok with the cops not knowing if his gun were legally a pistol or not? Maybe he had a 30 round glock mag and one of the LEOS mistook it for an uzi, would that be OK?