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This one is fake, but the Guinness book of world records has some cats recorded as being close to that size. http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/bigcat.asp

Honestly, IME, the skill of the lawyer isn't really reflective on the law school as much as it is on the practical experience the lawyer has. I've seen some harvard lawyers make some pretty bone-headed decisions, and some western state* lawyers make some damn good decisions. What makes people perform well in law school (memorize, regurgitate, and apply) is not necessarily what makes them good lawyers (research skills, statutory interpretation, etc). Law school will teach a future lawyer the basic standards of the law, but practicing law is where lawyers really learn how to be lawyers. I would be very afraid of someone who just graduated from harvard (or anywhere!) opening their own law office without first practicing with other lawyers, because at that point, they haven't had the benefit of experience. *Western is a law school around here that's come close to losing it's accreditation because of a low bar pass rate among other issues.

I played WoW, raiding high-end content during the majority of the time I was in law school. It didn't impact my social life, or my academics (in fact, I finished a semester early because I worked my ass off). If I had to study, I blew off the raid and studied. If I wanted to go out with my boyfriend, I blew off raiding to go out with my boyfriend. Sure, it was easier for my guild to kill Nefarian with me, but they could do just fine without. No player is essential. Like any hobby, it can get out of control IF YOU LET IT. How many marriages have ended because of skydiving? If it wasn't very many, we wouldn't have the term "Altitude Induced Divorced Syndrome". Every hobby has it's fanatics. The thing with WoW and skydiving is that most of us participants are not "obsessed" (at least not after the first few levels or skydives). We only hear about the ones who go nuts, because someone with proper balance in their life just isn't worth talking about.

You don't really have the interaction like you do in WoW. Eve has one goal: profit. They're the ferengi of the mmorpg world. It didn't hook me like WoW, there wasn't really any story to it, just here's a space-ship, go make money, and there wasn't as much incentive to really group with people to get things done, which is what makes an mmorpg fun, imo. otherwise, you might as well just play by yourself.

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What part?? San Angelo...middle of f'n nowhere. I'll be there for a few months and then it's off to Georgia. Georgia the state or Georgia the country?

I have a level 62 undead rogue on KelThuzad server in WoW. Played Eve. It got pretty boring pretty fast, and you can't turn off the damn computer voice. WoW is a good game.

I'll take a look at it if the range has one to rent. =)

I've already got plans for a 9mm Glock 17 or an HK USP .40 further down the road. Right now, I just need something I can practice with a lot.

Come live in Australia, or even move to the UK, as in all my 33 years (excluding the years I spent in the military) spent living in both the UK and Australia, I have never and I mean never been in a situation where I have needed to pop a cap in some dudes ass. In fact I would even say that I actually do not know of a single friend, friend of a friend, or member of my family or any any family I know who have ever been in a situation where being tooled up would have been required. You paint a bleak picture of the US, is it really that bad and you all live your lives in fear???? Just waiting for the opportunity to cap someone?? When if it did actually happen most of you would probably find that you aint got what it takes to kill a human at point blank…… ... I used to be a karate instructor. I can't count the number of women who have come in to the school wanting to learn to defend themselves AFTER something awful had happened to them. I've met so many crime victims that I have lost count. I've been attacked myself, and had no problem "having what it takes" to use my training to protect myself. I got lucky, and the guy wasn't a trained martial artist and wasn't expecting me to defend myself, so the stuff I tried worked. I've met people who weren't so lucky, but, yeah, I wonder what would've happened if hand-to-hand wasn't able to help me. What if it hadn't been enough?

There are all kinds of cat litter concealment furniture out there. If you get a cat genie, or keep the box really clean (you should do this anyway), nobody will have a clue that there's a box inside your furniture, so it doesn't really matter at all where you put it. The diaper pail deodorant stick-ups you can get in the baby aisle at the grocery store also help.

Count me in... make the world safe, and I'll give up my gun.

Maybe if you hadn't been saying "omg you're going to hit the curb" over and over she'd have been paying attention to her driving and avoided the curb instead of having you distract her enough to hit it. If you'd kept telling me that I was going to hit the curb, I'd have turned off the car, handed you the keys, and said "fine. you park it."

First, I bought one of these: Cat Genie Self-Washing Catbox Second, I bought one of these: Ikea Storage Cabinet Followed by one of these: Cat Hole I used a saw to cut a hole in the side of the cabinet and installed the cat hole. Then, I cut a hole in the back of the cabinet to run the plumbing lines out. Finally, I put the cat genie inside the cabinet, and put a step next to the side so the cats could get in. If it wasn't for the step, you'd have no idea there was a catbox in there (cat genie doesn't smell, at all!), and I've got extra counter space on top of the cabinet.

Wow... read the bios. that place is SCARY. The most of the artists were hired when they had NO tattooing experience at all. They were hired because they were christians. I guess he couldn't find any experienced artists who wanted to work for him?

This is a good idea, mostly. Stuff sold in the cafeteria should be healthy. No soda, no caffeine, no aspartame. Celebrating children's birthdays a couple of times a month with one cupcake per kid isn't a big deal. Kids should be able to bring whatever they want to eat from home, but they should be able to buy only healthy food at school.

My boyfriend and I got tattoos at the same time and place in the same style, but mine's a butterfly, and his is an oroborous (snake eating its own tail). http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?do=post_attachment;postatt_id=65508; Edited to add: it wasn't like we did this as a "couples" thing. I picked my design and the artist, and he decided he liked her work and got one too.

I think it's going to be a 5" barrel.

I tried both today, and liked the angle of the 22-45 much better. It felt much more natural to me.

I know there isn't much stopping power. I was also shooting a .357 revolver today. =) I want a gun that I can practice with for several hours, cheaply. I'm not concerned so much with stopping power, since I'm not planning on using it for self-defense (I have my shotgun for that). .22 ammo is cheap, so I'll be able to practice a lot with not a lot of damage to my wallet or my body.

.22. I finished the training today. =)

I tried this weapon at the range today, and loved it. It fit my hand, was accurate and fun to shoot. I got my California Handgun Safety certificate today, and I'm thinking about buying a ruger 22/45 mark iii. I already own a shotgun (winchester defender) for home defense, so this weapon will be for target shooting and practice. Price is $309 new. So, is there anything I should know about it, pros/cons, etc?

There's a difference between talking about doing something and training to do something. A "planned" reaction is not the same as a "trained" reaction. Planned reactions are great when you have time to think about it. Trained reactions take over when you don't have time to think, just time to react. If you don't have time to think, you will perform as you have practiced, because your subconscious doesn't know anything else. In many situations, the purpose of training is to train a reaction, to bypass the conscious, decision-making thought process, and just enter a world of act and react. Training can work. I've been training in martial arts off and on for about 18 years. When someone actually did attack me, I didn't have to think. I didn't make a conscious decision to react. I just did. There was no moment of "maybe I should do something..." I didn't think because I didn't have to. This was a situation I'd spent a good part of my life training for, and I reacted how I'd been trained to react, and it probably saved my life. To relate this to skydiving, we're all taught cutaway procedures. Those are trained motions. However, in skydiving, we have trouble training the motion to the situation, because we can't simulate a malfunction on the ground very well. So, we have our drill trained, but we don't have it linked to the situation that should trigger it. We all know our cutaway drills, but how many of us have looked up and thought "hey, I can fix that... wait a second... no I can't! *chop*" There's that second of thought in there that is very hard to train away. So, while the cutaway drill is trained, when to apply the cutaway drill is planned, and requires conscious thought. Martial arts isn't like that, because you can simulate an attack very well, so it's easier to link stimulus and response. Edited to add: We all talk about how we'll bail out on our reserve below X altitude, but how many people, faced with that situation, actually end up pulling their main? From the stories I've heard, quite a few, because we're trained to go to main, then cutaway drill if the main doesn't work. In the air, we always pull main first. Pulling reserve first is contrary to everything we've been doing for however many jumps, so it isn't a natural reaction. Come panic time, we do what we've always done.

Call your doctor and find out if there is any medication that might help. I know several people that were not able to quit until they tried something like Zyban. Then, if the Body Worlds exhibit is anywhere near you, go see it and look very carefully at the smoker's lungs exhibit. It made my brother quit on the spot two years ago. There's just something about seeing the actual physical evidence of what it does to your body...

The first thing that went through my mind after "OMG! What a tragedy!" was "I wonder if this would've been different if some of the victims had been able to shoot back?"