Everything posted by raz-0
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28% of Democrats Say It Should Be Illegal to Join the NRA
The actual questions: 1* Do you have a very favorable, somewhat favorable, somewhat unfavorable or very unfavorable impression of the National Rifle Association, also known as the NRA? 2* Are NRA members more likely or less likely to commit a crime with a gun? Or is the level of gun crime by NRA members about the same as in the population at large? 3* Following several recent mass shootings, officials in San Francisco have declared the NRA a domestic terrorist organization, although the decision has no specific impact on the NRA or its members. Do you favor or oppose declaring the NRA a terrorist organization in the community where you live? 4* Should Americans be prohibited by law from belonging to pro-gun rights organizations like the NRA?
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Good lube for handguns?
Yeah if you don't have a safe and are putting it in foam lined cases, even if it seems dry have some desiccant in there. Most hard cases, get less air intrusion than a safe and the foam holds the moisture right up against the surface.
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White People Gun Association
Hmm you know how the gun grabbers have their fake "pro-gun" organizations to endorse their plans? Part of me wants to create the "Caucasian Caucus to End Gun Violence". It'll consist entirely of paid actors endorsing every pro-gun bill, no matter how sane.
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Trump Gets a Win on the Southern Border on Asylum seekers
7-2... DAYUM! Given the court composition that is damn near unanimous as no matter how you slice it that cut across pretty much every liberal team up on issues in the court. I'm going to guess Sotamayer and Kagan... time to go peek. Nope Sotamayer and Ginsburg. I had no doubt the wise Latina could give a crap about the content, purpose, or process of law, but who she would drag with her was the question.
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Chief executives (Traitors) of 145 companies urge Senate to pass gun control laws
Ooh MongoDB.. you mean that company that by virtue of defaulting an install to be publicly accessible has enabled a huge swatch of you personal info leaking? Uber, lyft and grubhub... the folks trying to work around labor law and general scumbags. Levis and the gap collective. So quality sweatshop goods. The only thing on that list that I would have to do something to boycott is twillio and bad robot.
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New Ford Ranger any good?
You know what puts the boost in a 2.3L ecoboost engine? Hint: it's a twin scroll turbocharger. That aint a giant transmission cooler in front of the radiator. The escape is available with a 1.3l ecoboost, a 2.0 liter ecoboost, and a 2.5L 4. SO you might have dodged it there. But most of the folks who want good mileage bought the 1.3 as it has the best numebrs. UNtil you realize it's slow, don't want slow, and mash the throttle through the floorboards and it dumps fuel at 100% duty cycle on the injectors to avoid detonation and pre-ignition.
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New Ford Ranger any good?
I believe you. I'm 6'7" so when I say compact and comfy it doesn't necessarily mean the same thing to others. I also run into a lot of ~6ft people that seem to think things are cramped when they aren't. My current ride I can wear a hat and get my legs under the steering wheel. That's luxury to me. Then I hear a bunch of 5'10" people whining they don't fit and I have to ask what they hell they are doing while driving a car.
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New Ford Ranger any good?
It's the magic of turbo charging. Most turbo setups, prior to ending all the fun, start dumping a TON of gas to use it to cool off the charge. There's lots of people who got REALLLY bad mileage out of the escape your wife liked because they would just keep smashing the pedal anytime their not fast car wasn't as fast as they thought it should be. And you start dumping gas just to keep it from eating itself. This is why I laugh to myself when I see people pushing turbos to save gas.. yeah right. Most drivers don't know how their car works and will not see good mileage from a turbo engine.
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PORK ROLL or TAYLOR HAM!?
Ok, enough of this. Although I think you may be on the right track. It needs to be on the ballot this year. The question is "is it?" The options are "pork roll" or "taylor ham".
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New Ford Ranger any good?
I have had my eye on it. I got to test sit a few along with pretty much every other pickup at the NY auto show. The interior is comfy but compact. I've seen the complaints about fuel economy. but looking through fuelly, I'm going to guess there are people driving it that this is their first trubo charged ride. If you decide it isn't fast enough and keep in in the boost hard out of frustration or you want that little bit more, that COSTS at the pump. Dearly. I'm going to guess that physics tax is going to be higher on turbo engine set up to cope with a steady diet of 87 octane. I say this as someone who has gotten 11mpg out of a tank of gas on a 3400lb, 250hp turbo 4 sedan. I'm not saying it wasn't fun, but that number doesn't mean the EPA numbers were a total lie. EPA sticker said 21/25, which was optimistic. GRannying that thing, I could get 18.3/23 best.
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FID card needs to be carried when going to range?
Well these days, thanks to shitty court rulings, not answering a question can be used as a indication of guilt. If you are exercising your right to remain silent, you have to say so. Also, historically I've been asked where are you coming from and where are you going rather than specifically about transporting anything. Oddly, I was ALWAYS asked that question until I owned firearms. Once I owned them and that question had any remote chance of being even semi-valid, I haven't been asked. Answers I have used, which have never resulted in an arrest, and sometimes not even a ticket: - Why do you ask? (the easiest version to be polite with, if you get officer "I'm asking the questions!" you know you have a turbo asshole, so...) -How is that relevant? Is it a moving violation to be traveling to or from someplace specific? - I don't see how that is any of your business. - Home. (To both questions, unless I I never plan on going back home or something. Unless they are verifying something specific that has a statute attached to them it's none of their fucking business what stops I make along the way and for how long. Just a note, cops that also happen to be dumb as a fucking stump don't like when you have to explain to them how that shit works, because they are stupid and don't grasp the concept of time being involved in the question, and might just get all angry that they are bringing up the low side of the bell curve. )
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Trump Admin Is Considering Using Amazon Echo And Apple Watch To Determine If Citizens Should Own A Gun
It's an organization that doesn't like trump conflating two things that are vaguely related, and a site that loves conspiracy theories summarizing it badly for click bait. The Trump administration is considering establishing HARPA. A health administration research projects agency. Someone suggested something that might fall under such an organization (i.e. fishing for grant money) called the safe home project. The wapo decided to publish this as an Orange Man Bad Production (tm) and leave the fact that nobody knows who has heard of this specific project other than the wapo author, and that includes Trump. This would be like saying that since DARPA exists and does research on technology to fight future wars AND that there exists papers on alien invasion scenarios at the DoD, that TUMP PEPARES FOR ALIEN INVASION!!!!
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buffer extention tube on rifle length gas
Rifle length gas systems are less violent and lower pressure at unlock time than mid-length or carbine buffer systems. The carbine has a stouter spring, but not much, and the buffer is lighter than a rifle buffer. I've run an 18" rifle length upper on a carbine length lower with a spikes S2 buffer with no problems. I've also run it with a full mass BCG and ~3oz rifle length buffer without issues. For a not TOO insane price, odin works makes a carbine size buffer with interchangeable weights. The AR-15 heavy combo cna be adjusted from 3.7-5.8 oz. Costs like $50.
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Good lube for handguns?
Ah lubes. I'll give an edited version of my general response to this. 1) If it has all sorts of rules and conditionals to it's application and actually working, it is garbage. I'm looking at you frog lube and others. 2) Some things, usually not meant for guns or primarily guns, will dry to a tacky film. These should be avoided as a lube. I'm looking at you boeshield t-9 (not a half bad protectant that comes off fairly easily for the safe queens that need it. Keep it out of fire control group parts. ). 3) If you just want lube and you plan to apply before use, almost any gun lube or motor oil will work fine. 4) If you want to lube it up and have something there doing it's job months later, you might need to do research. The way I use things, I want the stuff to not run off or evaporate easily. I've been pretty happy with slide glide lite grease and fp-10 for an oil. I'd love a better protectant, but have yet to find anything that works well without gumming things up.
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SCOTUS agrees to hear 2A case from NYC
You need to follow 2A cases more. They tend to bring out the amicus briefs.
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New Jersey's red-flag law takes effect Sunday, but will it help prevent gun violence?
For anyone hoping for the NJ legal system to behave as a filter on stupidity and abuse, this article is an interesting read on one more way NJ sucks. https://reason.com/2019/08/22/how-i-was-a-criminal-defendant-in-a-n-j-harassment-case/
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Remove paint scuffs from a car
Hire a detailer who knows what he is doing. Removing it without causing damage that wasn't there already involves a certain amount of knowledge and skill. Doing it right also involves the car being much cleaner than it currently is. It doesn't look like you are that inclined to baby your car's finish, so by the time you get the chemicals, tools, etc for what will be a one time fix, you will likely spend the same as paying someone skilled for a one time fix, and the odds of them doing it right are much better.
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New Jersey's red-flag law takes effect Sunday, but will it help prevent gun violence?
You might not want to make your plans to commit a felony public knowledge, just sayin.
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"We Are Going Up In Flames": New Jersey In "Worse Shape Than Any Other State" Senate President Admits
Reading the article, it looks like it was a sound attempt to get municipalities to reign in spending while kicking the can on pensions. You have a property tax increase cap, a pension deficit, and a mandate that any bonds have to be on the ballot and that income tax can only go to property tax relief. So you redirect lottery winnings into the pensions and away from schools, seeing as schools essentially have the entirety of income tax pointed at them.
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Jeffrey Epstein, accused sex trafficker, dies by suicide
Possibly nothing depending on the nature of the failure. Two cameras located physically close to each other being inoperable would not be uncommon if the issue is the wiring/networking, especially for TCP/IP video cameras. In that case, if a switch is dead or inoperable for that purpose, all the cameras routing through it are also effectively dead. For any camera that's wired, two in close proximity in a building where things aren't generally routed through walls everywhere will have power and video transmission routed together for a portion of their runs unless you want total rats nests in your cabling areas. So you could also have a cabling failure take both of them out. i.e. small fire, big rats going to town on a bundle, whatever you want to consider the small scale version of some dipshit with a backhoe, plumbing leak, etc. Now if it was just those two cameras both individually physically failing? The only way that happens in a not specifically malicious way is if they both failed over a more believable span of time and nobody bothered to log it or fix it.
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"We Are Going Up In Flames": New Jersey In "Worse Shape Than Any Other State" Senate President Admits
No that is income tax. Income tax has to go to property tax relief in NJ, and that is mostly in the form of school aid. Which mostly means school construction projects, which is why you see shitty school districts getting buildings replaced way faster than in more functional school districts. It also goes to county colleges, which is why you also see the state government being much more receptive to spending more on them when it comes to higher ed than state colleges. Some of your property taxes go to the county, but I'm not sure how they spend it in terms of education.
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"We Are Going Up In Flames": New Jersey In "Worse Shape Than Any Other State" Senate President Admits
Thanks for the warning Really there's no way around it, the boomers are going to die soon enough, and they are going to put ~26 million homes on the market in the US. To put that in perspective, the government decided they needed to intervene in 2008, and at that point there were less than a million surplus homes. The great recession saw ~7 million homes go into foreclosure and hit the market. So... yeah. There will be some serious downward pressure.
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"We Are Going Up In Flames": New Jersey In "Worse Shape Than Any Other State" Senate President Admits
Hey don't forget about where your income taxes are going, as they are all required to be used for property tax relief.
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3 NRA Board Members Resign In Latest Sign Of Dissent In Gun Group
Actually, if you aren't donating because of Wayne, say so. While there are a bunch of ways it may be ignored, there are ways it might not be. 1) Most telemarketing jobs have quotas, and while everything you say may be ignored, things are likely recorded. If the guy is getting a lot of nos and someone wants to can them for sucking, they may review the recordings and see that there is another reason than the worker sucking. It won't hurt them any more than a no, and might help them. 2) If the call center is not run like crap, they should be noting the reason why you say no. For example, if you can't afford it right now they may push you into a cheaper campaign, or put you in the pile to try again in 90 days. There may very well be a WLP sucks tick box and that metric may be getting watched. If you have a principled no and don't say it, they can't know that's why. And no because WLP sucks, once again, isn't really going to impact the worker more than any other no. So be polite, but tell them why you are saying no.
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Old fingerprint and new firearm application
Hey they have trouble getting in touch with you? You can fix that! Call them every day, even multiple times per day. You are their new best friend helping them out every step of the way. Log that shit. If it doesn't fix the problem go see their boss's boss about why the fuck they can't do their job with someone holding their hand.