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Home PCs are not administered like lab PCs. Are you telling me the average retail buyer has no administrator privs? You are supposed to have to give permission to alter anything. Same goes with windows vista and 7. I can tell you there are ways around it on both OSes. HEck, you bash UAC in wondows, but tout the exact same kind of permission pop up in OS X as something good. The mac cube... heat issues. The first revision mac mini without a fan... heat issues. The first revision white plastic mac books... heat and fan issues. Second revision plastic mac books ... heat issues due to assembly issues. The 17" metal clad mac books ... heat issues. The 15" and 17" aluminum unibody mac books... looks like they are better, but still ahve heat issues. The first gen 21" glass and aluminum imacs... we have a way more than we want dying, and way more than should be. might be a heat issue or component issue. Several of the revisions of all in one imacs have had display quality issues. The cheese grater desktop chassis have excellent airflow though. Almost like they learned their lesson when trying to strect out the lifespan of the plastic clad cases. My opinion comes from my experience where I work, and my friends experience where he works. We have literally hundreds of imacs deployed in labs ranging from 10x5 to 24x7 use. on a staggered 3 year or 4 year replacement cycle. We deploy dell, toshiba, apple, and hp laptops to some of our staff. We also staff an apple certified repair center (also certified for some pc brands, forget which exactly). My friend has about 80 laptops deployed to faculty and staff for 24-7-365 use with a 4 year refresh cycle. Apple used to have very robust hardware when everything was big and colorful. When their design ethos went to sleek and minimalist, things started getting problematic. IF like the OP says, they are going to only use it for browsing and word processing, then I doubt they are going to kill it becuase they will never be hitting maximum thermal dissipation. Saying windows machines are only good for games is idiotic. Odds are when you run into niche professional software, it runs on windows and nothing else. Even so, windows works well for design (especially 3d design, because apple doesn't ship any machines with deent professional 3d cards), editing, word processing, financial software, database tools, etc. I guarantee you if you take the whole world of software that people need and use, more of it works on windows than anything else. You can USE it as a server, but I'd rather not. The same applies to OS X. I really don't care what anyone uses. Use what you like. I dislike a lot about OS X, but it is mostly a matter of things it does inconsistently and the fact that their UI one of the least ergonomic I have used (yes, I have actually sat down and measured and counted specific things while performing specific tasks, macheads will scream heresy and tell me that's easy, just use the hotkeys, and I will ask if you have to know hotkeys, why bother with a mouse). I jsut dislike it when I see people blindly assuming apple stuff is guaranteed to be good. It used to be true that apple displays were just GOOD. Every time. Then the 30" cinema display hit. You had rioting amongst the graphic designers who now had a $3000 monitor with an uncorrectable yellow color cast. Apple told them to go scratch. Several revisions of the all in one imacs have come with screens wih drasticly bad color problems. The 13" unibody imac shipped with a screen that couldn't even do full 24 bit color. So did one of the cheaper glass and aluminum imacs... and they didn't tell anyone up front. People were PISSED. Apple laptops are usually pretty sound hardware with a fashion focused design that usually impedes a solid cooling solution. Which nets a just a little better than average overall quality. If I were going to buy a current gen macbook, I'd get the 13" unibody. It's cooling is the least out of step with it's thermal output. The mac minis with the fans seem to be reasonably solid so far. The workstation is actually pretty good as long as you don't need it for 3d design. Then there's the price. For web browsing and word processing, you can spend a lot less than $1000 and have a very, very servicable windows laptop of decent quality. Heck, with christmas sales, you can probably have two.

Macs are not clearly better. Apple takes form over function every time. A lot of their designs have thermal dissipation issues. The 13" MacBook, and the 17" have close to the same amount of airflow. The 17" is cooling a lot more CPU and a discrete gpu. At work we were averaging 2 motherboard replacements per 17" MacBook pro over its life. My friend does it for a bording school where the 17" is issued to all faculty and staff. They are averaging 3 motherboards per laptop. Our labs are seeing our all I one iMacs lose main boards at less than their 3 year cycle. As for security, apple has no security software. The unix user model might help if it weren't for the fact that you are operating as someone with effectively root privs all the time. Most badness comes through the browser these days. There are real world Mac exploits out there. Apple just finally patched one vulnerability. After it being exploited for more than two years. NO os is free of security problems.

OK, lets say you got 500 people together, and all got denied. What would it do for any legal argument? I'm not seeing the benefit.

My take on it is go with a lighter bullet and maximum velocity. If you are talking REAL up close and personal in a short barrel, the more gas coming out the end of the gun after you poke the initial hole, the more of a mess it will make in there if it is a shot from muzzle contact distance. Semi auto would do better than a revolver in this scenario, I would guess, due to the cylinder gap venting some of the gas. Also if you want a hollow point that works, google the paco kelly maxi nasti-nose. What you are going to need is all the velocity you can get for a short pocket gun barrel.

I cast my vote, but 500 is pretty arbitrary. For example my lever gun gets shot usually once a year. It'll take me FOREVER to get to 500 rounds. But it isn't forgotten about in the safe. Same goes for my bolt action, although it got an intial burst of enthusiasm. My pocket gun gets out to the pocket gun match, but it will take a while to get to 500 despite the fact it gets taken out and shot. My Desert eagle has had way more than 500 rounds through it, but barely gets shot any more. SOme are retired safe queens, but have thousands and thousands of rounds through them.

The indoor match is not an actual USPSA match except for the one special match a year. Due to time, the second two stages are usually speed shoots, which are stand and shoot stages much like most of the classifiers are, but they are not actually USPSA classifiers unless someone changed something. Given the griping I have heard about availability of people to cover for the match given Eric's job moving him around, I doubt that has changed.

Ok guys. If you are coming we would REALLY appreciate help setting up. Maks and Vlad are each designing a stage, and have other stuff to get done besides stage construction. A few extra bodies will make a huge difference in how smoothly things go.

Ok, I wen't back and looked at their numbers for pistol ammo because I was wondering why they were so off from my experience. Their numbers are just wrong. cheapest .40 I can find is $12.50 per box. That's $0.25 per round They come up with $0.27, which means they are probably talking something along the lines of wally world WWB. Using my current suppliers of components, AND assuming I don't ever reuse brass, just buy cheap once fired, I come up with a raw material cost of $0.165 cents per round. They come up with $20.6. That's with purchasing things in largish quantities to manage shipping costs, but shipping is in that price of $0.165. Stepping up to a more expensive jacketed bullet, rather than the plated I use with good results, only adds $0.02 per round. Stepping down to a coated lead round would bring it down by $0.015 cents per round. Oh yeah, and I'm doing that with 180gr bullets, I could shave a little off the price with 165 like they are using, but doing cheapest steel cased crap I could find for the commercial price, it was also 180gr. I don;t know what they are using for their bullet price of $0.165 per bullet, but montana gold is $0.12, precision delta, bulletworks plated, precision moly coat, and bayou bullets burnt tire stank green coated bullets are all less than that and shoot well. Primers are way cheaper now if you buy intelligently. You can get the cost down to about 1.6 cents per primer. They have it at 3 cents per primer. For their 168gr .308 load, their bullet price is high. They have bullets at $33 a box of 100. As long as I stay away from lead free options and berger bullets, highest price I can get to is about $30 a box of $100, I can get a nicely performing match grade 16gr bullet for $0.25 a round. Primer cost I can get down to about $0.26 for large rifle in a brand I know will work. So with a little shopping and shipping smarts, you can get the components to you for about $0.42 shipped vs. their $0.48. What is really wrong is the price they have for factory ammo. I can actually find .308 plinking ammo for less than $15.99 per box ($12.95 for something brass cased). A box of stuff loaded with a 168gr match bullet is more like $28-30 a box of 20, which is $1.40 a round, not $0.80. What I get for $0.42-$0.43 is a NICE match grade round vs. $1.40 at retail.If I go with a no name 168gr hp match bullet like in the $28 a box match ammo, bullet price drops to $0.19 per round and round cost drops to $0.37 per round vs retail of $1.40. Go for a 147-150gr bullet like you actually get for $15.99 per box, and I cna get the bullet price down to $0.15 per round buying in bulk. That's $0.32 per round vs their $0.80. I agree with them 100% that loading shotgun makes no financial sense. you ahve to cast your own shot to make it cheaper than retail, and to do that you need to drop a hefty sum on equipment to do it in any kind of volume.

Beats 95+ and 90+% humidity too.

I generally find you can save at least 25% on 9mm, 35% on .40, and almost 50% on .45. .233, I save about $0.24 per round for something comparable of new manufacture (I.e. not match grade ammo). I can load .308 match grade ammo for about $0.40, a savings of over a buck per round on match grade .308. It also does just over 1/2 moa out of my rifle, which commercial won't. .444 I can save over a buck a round as well.

Powder - at least one years worth Primers - at least one years worth Brass - at least one years worth Bullets - at least one years worth Loaded Ammo - whatever I have the time and inclination to make.

Actually dress in layers. Cause it will cold and likely windy when you get there, and not too bad by mid day. No point in sweating your butt off while shooting.

Assuming they aren't putting ina crap barrel, since .45acp is so low pressure, +P shouldn't be an issue unless they took way too much when throating the barrel. +P is a spec for .45acp, and it means you go from 19,000 PSI to 23,000PSI as the pressure limit. Nobody can say ANYTHING about +P+ reliability. All that means is that the laod is higher pressure than SAAMI permits for +P. Unless they tell you, nobody can say how much higher. +P will always wear out a gun faster than standard pressure loads.

your poll is broken. I shoot uspsa and wouldn't bother with open-10. Open is just too damn expensive for my taste. So I put NA in 2, but my answer for 3 would be I'm not spending a dime on anything open, not even magazines.

Unless I'm missing something, the Troy is similar to the bad. I have one on multiple ars and like the bad lever. I have used an oversized release, forget who made it, it broke after getting abused a bit. I really didn't find the slightly larger pad to make any difference.

The USA Ammo loads look like they are using plated bullets made of swaged lead wire. If they have lots of pock marks, it probably means they are one of the softer varieties. My guess is they are either undersized from the source, or undersized by the manufacture process, and that is causing them to keyhole.

This is ridiculous. I hope the judge reads it as "No really, we were really just wasting your time judge. We wanted to show you the least respect possible without removing any articles of clothing."

No, not unless the minor power factor load is just plain inaccurate. Which is a possibility.

Well I'm taking MAks at his word that the exhaust is no longer where it was. I guarantee you once they take the bumper off, they will at least be replacing the foam underneath. Then you have fixing the exhaust hanger, and possibly some of the exhaust. I can tell you right now, the number isn't going to stay under $800.

It boggles my mind that people can't see that the first and second amendment are closely related. They are things you should not try to do because it's impossible to do, and attempting to do it is the path to evil. You can't stop people from talking about things. We have piles of bodies throughout history to prove that. It's a futile effort that leads to evil. You can't stop people from believing what they want. You can threaten, torture, and otherwise abuse them. It won't work, no matter how evil a bastard you want to be. You can't stop people from trying to defend themselves. The worst you can do is kill them, which is the fate they were trying to avoid anyway, so they might as well defend themselves with every ounce of their being. The only choice you ahve is to become the one attacking them.

cat crap can work for a lot of folks. But it also cuts clarity a little, and some find that unacceptable. Rudy project glasses are good, most of their sports designs are designed to ride off your face while offering wrap around coverage. Their impact X lenses are tough. They are also not cheap. There are discount codes for them though, so if really interested, look them up or ask.

There's also no reason to store your wallet and personal documents in your vehicle. But apparently it is not uncommon, several areas by me regularly have people come around trying cars to see if they are unlocked and taking documentation, bills, etc.

I'm guessing between $3600 and 4800. The higher number is if they dented the gas tank or not.

I guess I'm lucky. My carrier the last place I lived was pretty decent. So is the one at my current location. Heck, my three cases of bullets arrived when he was on vacation. It was a lady who isn't that big. She didn't whine about hauling the boxes to my porch.

I'm not confident a gun is gremlin free until 500 rounds without issues. Then I shoot it without any maintenance at matches until it fails, keeping track of rounds. I check out why it failed. I take that round count, lop off a couple hundred, and consider that the mandatory maintenance interval for that gun. That's the simple version.