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Yeah try not to do that, it's bad for your blood pressure. Also, I'll be sending you a bill for that advice, but don't read it either (again, blood pressure.)

And you have to read the entire thread. I already clarified I agree that the statute doesn't apply. My comment about the hemline was making light of the shortcomings of the language of the statute. I further agree that the definition of nudity in the statute makes it doubly non-applicable to this case.

And it's worth noting that between the time that the eyewitness accounts came out and the time that they put a substantial portion of the plane back together again and examined it, the people that were "asking questions" and saying "hey maybe this thing was shot down or bombed or something" were not written off as tin-foil hatters. In fact it was a lot of people wondering what the heck happened. It's perfectly healthy to want to investigate such a speculation. What's not healthy is looking what the FBI and NASA and everyone else concluded after countless man-hours of combing over everything and saying "nah, bs, they're all in on it."

Unfortunately the usual gun control measures paraded out only target the unusual (and sometimes completely imaginary) events and its only very rarely you see a measure that, even if only on its face, stands to make a dent in your 30/day figure. Wanting an "honest and open discussion" about gun violence is incompatible with ensuring as many legislative pipelines as possible are crammed full of bullshit that won't help each and every year.

If the only recognition employees get is being fired or not, it sounds like there are other engagement problems in play. If I'm a manager and someone needs to take off on short or no notice "because life" it's on me to make sure things don't screech to a halt because of it. Hopefully the person taking the time off doesn't make that any harder than it needs to be. And if someone else steps up to pick up any slack left behind I'm gonna remember that at the end of the year. I'm used to working on and with teams of pretty specialized individuals though. I can see this possibly being more of an issue that goes unmitigated in an environment where there's "one big pile" of work to do.

"Newsworthy" and "statistically significant" are often mutually exclusive. If you're reading about something in the news it's probably unusual. Reading about two or three or four such things doesn't change that. You are a member of the Information Age with instant access to every unusual event that happens across a planet of billions of people, what do you expect? Firearms accidents, like skydiving accidents, are almost all preventable. And, as I've said before, people aren't really inventing new ways to get killed. In both cases I support measures to improve education and to try and promote safer behavior. I believe in doing so without the tired pissant moaning and whining about the very existence of firearms and cross-braced canopies or peoples' desire to own them. In the case of these two rage killings I think there was simply too much premeditation to take a "but for gun ownership" view of the situation. That said, while the Nevada person we don't know much about, it's possible something could have been done about the NC guy before he blew up.

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More grief over AR pistols from the BATFE... http://www.atf.gov/sites/default/files/assets/Library/Notices/atf_framework_for_determining_whether_certain_projectiles_are_primarily_intended_for_sporting_purposes.pdf Due to the existence of AR pistol receivers, any ammunition that can be fired from an AR (basically everything if you include AR-10s) that contains tungsten alloys, steel, iron, brass, bronze, beryllium copper or depleted uranium is banned from sale to the public. Finally this will bring an end to the zeros of police officers killed by AP rounds defeating their body armor*. *I'm genuinely interested in someone proving me wrong here. Has M855 ammunition (the primary focus of this ATF letter) ever been used to murder anyone, police or otherwise, body armor or otherwise, in the United States?

Department of the Interior huh? Can I be in charge of issuing permits for BASE jumping in national parks?

If you're holding an M3 over the top of your head, shooting it out of the hatch of your tank, the barrel life is probably long enough.

For reference, here's what the officer is being charged with: http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/alcode/13A/6/2/13A-6-22 There doesn't seem to be hooks in the next level up (2nd degree assault which would be a bump to a felony) for the seriousness of the injury you cause unless you intended the serious harm or you used a weapon (or, ironically, if the victim is a cop.)

I think there should be three.

I like that one... Thread de-rail, but what do you all think of my generation (call it...25-30) in terms of our work ethic? I'd call it about the same as any other. Some are amazing, some are really good, some are so-so, some are pretty bad, some are really shit. I would agree, and I would like to clarify my original comment wasn't directed at an age group. Looking back over the last year a few positive examples come to mind (older than me, about my age, and younger than me respectively.) Last February I was driving to ORD in a blizzard on I-294 after MDW had completely shutdown cancelling my original flight. I hadn't driven that stretch in years, so when I got to the first tollbooth, I asked the attendant how many more tolls there were between there and O'hare to make sure I had enough cash. So she tells me and then makes sure I had enough change and told me which booths to save the quarters for so I could stay further left at those and avoid having to make a dangerous merge. All with a smile. Last May I was managing an IR&D project at work, part of which involved FPGA development. I brought a guy onto the team to develop the VHDL for it and after I had met with him once to talk about what I was hoping to accomplish, who comprised the rest of the team, etc. he went off and lined up lab space to do the work, test equipment, and even got a developmental board with the model FPGAs I wanted to use on it that another program no longer needed. Basically all the logistics to support his part of the effort done without me even having to lift a finger. Last August I was flying out of Glacier. I had already checked my bag, and when we were going through security my wife realized she had a big bottle of syrup we had bought in her carry on. When the TSA guy took it out I said, "ah crap we should have put that in our check bag..." and he said, "Oh, you checked a bag? come with me." So he walks back with me to the ticket counter (given it's a small airport), goes into the back, gets my checked bag, and lets me put the bottle in it and then go back through the security line. I have more stories but this post is already getting long. I would also like to point out my comment was not just directed at "grunts." Pride in doing your job well as a manager also means making sure the people that work for you get recognition and sometimes that means sticking your neck out to get them a raise or to help them move to another project they would enjoy more even if you'd benefit from keeping them on your team.

This is a duplicate thread, just so you know. http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=4699078

I'd like to see everyone take pride in doing their job well.

Here's the ruling (pdf warning) Conveniently, of course, California just passed Alejo's AB 1609 which prohibits California residents from bringing a firearm in from out of state without delivering it to a CA FFL so the FFL can deliver it back to them, so for the time being this means nothing to people here. If Mance v. Holder survives the inevitable hubbub, it's unclear if CA P.C. 27585 would necessarily meet the same fate. Time [as in years] will tell.

You leave my elk alone. It's what us atheists have to do. We have to kill, steal, covet, bear false witness, dishonor our fathers and mothers, commit adultery, etc., etc. It's just what we do. Jesus Christ, you forgot selling FSM paraphernalia on the Sabbath. You can't just "etc. etc." that. You're demoted from elk to mule deear.

In Los Angeles if you can see so much as a pocket clip on a folding knife then it's considered exposed and the knife blade must be less than 3" regardless of how it operates. ...it's one of the reasons I like my Charge... 2.9" main blade

Study shows that asians are 100% more likely to be culled from CNN reports on studies than are whites, blacks, or hispanics. Seriously... here's the original Zillow press release of the study what the hell CNN?

Well, this year we have magazine ban one, magazine ban two, everything needs more warning labels, if someone's a danger to themselves or others, take their guns, problem solved, and everyone's favorite more gun buybacks, aka "rip off grandmas, distroy relics, and get a bunch of broken garbage."

No, you're not missing anything. I don't think that statue applies to what he did either. I was just lamenting the language of the law and trying to answer Billy when he asked "How is this not illegal?" I could have worded my post better. The answer to "How is this not illegal?" is always, "Because there's no law making it illegal."

Here's the law that the prosecutor tried to apply: http://www.oregonlaws.org/ors/163.700 I guess "above the hemline of one's skirt" wasn't explicitly listed under "Places and circumstances where the person has a reasonable expectation of personal privacy."

Lots of shooting trap/skeet/sporting clays with 12 ga. Bolt action .50 BMG, but then a rather abrupt drop off down to .30-30 and 5.56x45 in the rifle department. Also a whole bunch of .45 colt and, of course, .22lr Nothing exciting with handguns... 9mm, .38 spc, and .22 lr

The idea was that if you installed it with the intention of using it as an arm brace, that meant it was legal. If you then shouldered it, it didn't change the legal status because that would be absurd. What they're more or less saying now (and I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt) is that shouldering it demonstrates that you installed it with the intent of using it as a stock, and it was therefore never legal. I don't really have any desire to build an AR pistol, but I wouldn't bother with one of these even if I did. I have fired one from the shoulder before and it just had a foam cover over the receiver extension, kinda like that material you see on the handles of exercise equipment. That worked just fine. The elephant in the living room is that the way rifles and handguns have evolved over the last several decades has made the 1934 NFA restrictions on SBRs look idiotic.

I know this will come as a severe disappointment to those of you in speakers corner but I, also, will not be running for POTUS in 2016. I will only be 34 at the time.