Jonnin

  A computer can react much faster than you can.  By orders of magnitude.  As for trusting the programmer, you already do... your car would stop dead in the road if the geek behind its computer did his job wrong.    As for the guy in front of you, if his car is also automated, he can't really screw up anymore, can he (this is the #1 benefit to me...  an end to traffic incidents caused by idiots).     And on insurance, the idea is that *everyone* uses the automatic car which 1) allows cars to talk to each other (I am here, you are there!), 2) does not do stupid human stuff like changing lanes without signals or speeding or talking on its phone instead of driving or drinking and driving or thousands of other human screw ups  3) can use extra information (in a fully set up world, it could know when a light would change and compute the velocity required to make the light well in advance, avoiding stopping at lights more often and certainly avoiding the "stop or floor it" decision of a yellow light, etc.   They would also know if nearby emergency vehicles were coming and clear a path, for another example of extra data. Just to name a few of the things that are possible ... most of them are already possible. 

at least try another browser ... portable apps will let you use a "light" browser that does not have to be "installed" so you can at least test it quickly that way with no impact on your system.   

  I get less uses out of them.   They reload fine, but split sooner, in my experience. 

  I don't know the average lifespan.  I would expect more than 5, but not more than 10, but I am guessing here.

AK or something that shoots the same round is a very inexpensive choice if you wanted only 200 or so yard range.   There are a few bolt guns, alternate semi autos (sk, ruger's mini, others) in the round as well.   Here again, brass cased ammo is less common so reloading is a bit annoying and range brass is all but nonexistent.  

  except its necked.   Necked cases just don't last like straight pistol...  youll have to replace them, probably trim them, etc.   And its a high pressure round, which is harder on the brass.   I would expect the brass to wear out fastish.

price wise, 308 is hard to beat.   Lots of cheap ammo out there for it.    Rifle ammo is pricey -- you want to save, you can do that with milsurp but the ammo is not always top notch, sometimes corrosive (depends on what era the gun and ammo are from), and often oddball (even obsolete).   I mean, my 7.65 arg can do anything a 308 can, but ammo is insane, hard to find, and a bit annoying to reload.  Nagant ammo was plentiful but the well WILL go dry (if it hasn't already) and most of the guns are in meh condition... you want a good quality gun for accuracy, and most are worn out.  Worse, nagant is "challenging" to reload ... most of the "brass" is primed wrong!  You start going bigger than 308 and the price goes up in general... 7 magnums and 400 stuff is extra expensive.   Down isn't as bad, 243, which is really a 308 with a smaller bullet, will go long range for cheap and mild recoil to boot, its excellent.  Several 25-30 ish rounds are really good, prices vary.   Ballistics wise,  there are literally hundreds of cartridges that will do 500 -750 or so yards very nicely.  You want more than that, you need to start being picky about it (??).   If you don't want to try for 1000+ yards,  then stick to ammo price / availability for sure as your #1 criteria.

Its very close to actual 357 mag.  Which is one of the most versatile rounds ever created -- you can shoot anything from below 90 grains all the way up to a bit over 200.   The autos won't cycle on weak loads so its not quite as friendly as a 357 revolver for variety but you still have a huge range of play.  And as noted above some projectiles don't work as well.     That said, its a glorified 9mm.  In the grand scheme of things, the difference between a 9mm+P and a 357 sig are rather slight.  Its there, but is it worth the hard to find brass, aggravation of a necked case, etc?   To me it wasn't worth it.  

Ive found that I can usually seat a primer without doing anything when the old primer was crimped in.  About 8, maybe 9 out of 10 a new primer will seat without excessive force by just rotating the brass on the press until it slips in.  Works on 9 and 223 both.   The 1-2 of 10 that won't seat I toss in a bucket and if I ever run out of brass I can cut the crimp out of those.   308, this didn't work so well.   More like 8 or 9 of 10 won't seat a new primer... I gave up on those pretty fast.

most devices let you adjust the image size so you don't take 10MB ++  images per click.   Some more dumbed down devices refer to this as image quality (this isn't precisely wrong, but its not helpful to the user either).    Very few images should use up more than 1/2 a megabyte for your general public show and tell when in compressed format (jpg, usually).   Only if you NEED the extreme detail that allows you to count the threads in the clothing of everyone in the group picture should you have a 10-50 MB image.   1-5 MB is good for making an image that you intend to CROP for a high detail of something, for example if you were trying to show a small damage to a gun you were selling -- but you wouldn't post the entire image in that case, just the area of interest.   Another setting that *some* devices have can control the jpeg compression.  This varies from "lossless" (image is NOT damaged) low compression all the way up to pretty high (image is visibly distorted without zooming in).  Middle settings have distortion when zoomed in for normal images (world around us) or a little distortion on specific image types (an image of text on a page, for example, stark changes in color with hard defined edges).   So use a medium to high loss/damage setting for typical pictures of people and nature,  and only use lossless for things with high detail and stark, un-natural color changes (no gradients between colors).    So, as you can see, my approach to fixing the issue is to configure your device differently.   Hope this helps?

212 isn't bad, but its a touch over priced. thai smile is good. the blue plate / hennons is good.   farther off, taco mac is good,  and the chains... sticky fingers, etc but its farther than I would care to walk.

  Life membership only removes the renewal notices.  You get the rest of it, if not MORE of it, afterwards.   I think I will stop there before I say what I really think about the current leadership/behavior pattern.

we get both.  they both are full of "give us money" and commercials.  They actually just duplicate the spam articles rather than write 2 of them.   hunter is full of dead animals.   I find it depressing... they cover a lot of trophy hunting of things that probably should not be shot at anymore -- there was some azzhat in the last one shooting at elephants.   rifleman is full of random firearms of all types.  It varies from boring to decent depending on what things interest you.  I find about 10-15% of it worth reading each month.

lawnmower should be much easier.   it just records the boundaries and obstacles and goes across everything inside the bounded area.   Or you can just drive it once and have it record that, and repeat it.  If this is not in use somewhere, I would be amazed ... industrial farming screams for it.

I worked in unmanned systems for a long time.   Ground vehicles are hard, esp using the road where idiots can hit them.  I would use one on long trips... absolutely.  I get bored driving and the idea of a machine doing the work while I hang on the internet or read a book is win for me.   I wouldn't use it on short trips like going to work, but those long stretches of interstate... yea.    Make the car a luxury ride and its looking even better.  And then there is the millennium winebago ... sleep, eat, LIVE in the thing while it gets you there.     A futuristic car wouldn't have a driver's seat at all, all that room could be reclaimed into a better seating arrangement or bed or whatever.      That said, I wouldn't want one until its much more proven.   It needs to be able to avoid accidents, not just navigate.   A 4 wheel steering system for rapid / ultra control would be useful for that.     Its getting better, but its not ready for prime-time yet.  

you could foot the bill to sell it to him through a shop --- they will do it but its a bunch of wasted money.   This checks the buyer AND the gun's serial, covering both bad seller and bad buyer.   I would only do this if the other person seems shady somehow.      That said, a 10-22 is a low cap, weak cartridge, very large target pistol.   Its not exactly what your average criminal is going to go looking for in a buy.

meh, my first car had a 7 liter engine.  Wimpy truck :P

  respectfully disagree .. the other guy isn't pulling HIS punches.    You hit them as hard as you can as fast as you can until they surrender.   He wasn't suspended for how hard he hit.   All fighting is equal punishment.   You gonna get kicked out if you fight.   This is just because schools have given up and decided to ban everyone for everything, whether its eating a pop tart or hauling a box of wires and bombish looking stuff into the room, or getting into a fight,  wearing clothing that the teacher does not like, and more.   Its wrong, but that is how they do it because making an intelligent decision requires thinking, and thinking isn't encouraged.   Thankfully suspension is harmless...  unless you have like 50 of them ...  you miss what, 1 week of class, which is like 15 min worth of catching up in actual material?

like that SA pull?   How about one of the sigs  (380 or 9)?   The shield also has a decent, if not SAO, trigger.   Both the shield and sig 9s are a little more snappy, not bad, but not as mild as a 380.  These are smallish and the grip is not as friendly as the fingered pk.  The ruger mentioned is probably the closest actual match to the PK.     Cz83 or bersa types are fairly mild DA/SA 380s, again grip isnt quite what she had.  The cz82/83 has a big following and custom grips are out there, see a lot of well dressed ones.

  Sure, if you can walk in and plunk down the cash for stuff, do it.   Not everyone just starting out can go debt free.   I mean you can if you live in momma's basement for 5 years while you save up.  Think about what a young'un out of college faces... a house, a car, insurance, utilities, student loans, wedding/dating, and tons more expenses all on, generally speaking, introductory level wages.   Its not possible for most folks. 

  This is the most guntarded thing I have heard in a while, by the way.   THE GO-TO round for deer for a HUGE number of hunters is the ... 2 inch long ... 30-30.    Which your 308 pistol will probably outperform.

company policy.   What they do for concealed carry: nothing, you can have it as-is.  But if you are going to take it out and wave it around inside the store, they go into full paranoid mode because someone, at some point, fired their "unloaded" gun in a store or at a gun show etc.   Its overkill, but I have experienced the same at several stores.  Sportsman's warehouse has you unload it while its muzzle is stuck into some weird "bullet catching device".  Academy walks it back for you.   Etc.   Its just legal safety... if you shoot someone while waving your carry piece around checking out holsters,  the store is liable if they don't have a "don't do that" policy on the books.   IMHO the shooter should pay the store for damages and any victims and everything else when this happens, but somehow the store is considered at fault with our broken legal system.   Buying a gun is usually not as weird as pulling one out in-store for service/fitting/etc.  

  I know it works, but its like thumbing the hammer back down on a live round to "decock" various pistols.   It works, but its not exactly the best idea ever.  Of course the best safety is the human.   I am glad mine has the safety; if I tried to do the thumb thing wearing gloves sitting in a tree with the scope partially in the way of it all ...  it would be just asking for bad luck to strike.

credit cards are great if used properly.   Look for the ones that have an introductory deal  ... a friend of mine got one of those before a company trip and made like $500 by paying for the whole team's hotel and food the whole trip, got paid back for his expense report, and pocketed the "earned" money for using the card.   They are good to get your credit rating established too.   Just look for the best perks, and pay it off so you never pay interest.   Amazon visa is great... we get a little money to spend at amazon and buy a few things for "free" each year, never paid a cent of interest etc.      Just don't be the sucker that makes their system work.   Pay it off!

um, you can do that here too.  You can hunt here with say a 357 or a 44 rifle and you can hunt here with a 308 pistol too.   Get you a desert eagle BFR 45/70 or something :P   (I actually would but they cost too much for what little use I would get out of it).  I think it comes in 308 and a bunch more.