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1) The market is FLOODED and competition is fierce. Let me put it this way, I have a noveske gen 2 lower home build with a rianier billet ultramatch upper. I paid in a non panic market $240 and $169 respectively. They are now $300 and $209 respectively and peaked significantly above that during the 2012+ panic. IIRC they were near $400 for the lower, and $240 for the upper. To top it off my noveske is based on a forging, and the gen 3 is back to billet. If I want forged and a matching feature set, that is forged, and the only hting it may not bring to the table is the tolerances and concentricity of the rainier upper, and it's $199 for their M4E1 matched set. I can litterally buy a lapping tool with compound and still come in less than a noveske lower. I'd be selling used something that cost me $449 vs a new cost of $509, and new competitive product cost of $199. It's going to be a bloodbath for me, and the panic buyer is SCREWED at trying to recover a decent chunk of a $640 price. Additionally, the builds I see for sale on a lot of forums are either full of it about how much they spent to build it or got SHITTY,. SHITTY pricing as a lot of it seems ot be MSRP or higher. 2) Buying used means you trust the builder or you are buying for parts. How much do you trust them, and there's parts I don't believe the seller on ever. I.e. barrel and bolt. 3) No. I built to my needs for the most part. I have about one ar that exists because spare parts bin, but I have no desire to sell any of them. I also didn't go off and panic buy a dozen lowers and feel obligated to build them into something. Home builds may never have had quality, and most of the franken guns are home builds. Beyond that, for a good name factory gun, you are pricing in the risk the owner dicked around with it, and even on the used market it faces the same problem as new. The price of a just as you like it franken gun is still likely cheaper than the $2300 high end AR or even the $1700 used version of it. Your market is people who want it JUST like that and who trust you to have been kind to it and not be lying too much. Guns with a secondary market demand the right size compared to supply tend to retain value. Otherwise yeah they tend ot lose a good chunk at resale. Frankly most used builds I see do not make a lick of sense and very often represent someone trying to sell their questionable idea or a passing mood. People buy the shit out of, and shoot the shit out of, 5.56 ARs it's not dying. not even close. There's just a glut. Part of the reason for that glut is that there's no real IP attached to the platform that you have to license. the AR-10 platform is heading there so it is getting cheaper, but it isn't yet cheap and probably won't be anytime soon. Things like the BN36 are proprietary and will have the pricing and success to go with it. Anything that brings a smaller .308 in an ar-like platform will be proprietary unless made public domain by the creator. Kind of like the DPMS version of such. I'm assuming you are posting because nobody wants your 6.5 grendel. It's out of fashion. The new hotness is .224 Valkyrie. Who built it? For a hunting gun lots of answers are probably ok. For an accuracy gun? Not so much. Even if it is an AA gun, who did the compliance work and did they kill the accuracy? Your selling into a glut and it's a niche product that's out of fashion. You might as well keep it or just accept you are going to take it in the nuts when you sell.

So looking for an exchange of opinions. Not saying anything is right, just what you believe or your personal taste and maybe a justification for it if you have one. Real life doesn't have enough serious knife people to shoot the shit with, and the dedicated knife forums are like drinking from the fire hose so.. I'll start. Liner locks should go die in a fire. Especially titanium ones, and frame locks aren't much better. Why? Take a liner lock make absolutely sure you are holding it where your fingers don't get in the way of the blade closing and give the spine of the blade a sharp rap on a reasonably solid surface. Bet you it closed or partially closed. I discovered that one when cutting on some stuff in a tight space and discovered I had upset a bitey thing form nature. You can load them up with all the weights you want on youtube, it's a shit design in my opinion. To work well, the machining has to be good and the tolerances have to be good, and even then, depending on your hands and the ergonomics of the knife you can wind up with your finger tip(s) working against the locking mechanism when you get a serious grip on the knife. Ideally it should be made out of something that can at least fake being a spring for a long time. Titanium often can't. I have a titanium liner lock that is perhaps the most unsafe thing I have met and it graduated to that state pretty much just sitting in the safe over the years. Similarly I'm not a fan of lockbacks with the lock at the tail end ala the buck 110. get it lodged in something that requires a good yank to get it out and you cna trip the lock mechanism. Mileage will vary depending on knife, fit and finish, and your hands. I've come to believe that a good heavy duty camp knife in the 6-7" range with a choil is about as versatile a fixed blade as you can get and really makes me wonder what the heck the point of a hatchet is. It's not the ideal tool for a lot of things but man you can do more than a half assed job at a lot of things with it, and it sure as heck takes a lot less skill using it to chop small trees than a hatchet does, and in the race to be a mediocre machete, it wins hands down to a hatchet. You can spend all the money in the world on sharpening rigs, but it won't replace a good dose of patience some basic sharpening tools, and having a clue about why you are doing what you are doing. A good edge is not the provenance of team push it harder. The belief of my youth that spyderco makes weird knives that are pointless was deeply wrong. Although I can't figure out why their only knife with a marlin spike isn't part of their salt series. If you want your folder to be tough like a fixed blade, you should buy a fixed blade. You'll save money and be happier. There are more knives in the world than money, so a collection needs a theme or a bankruptcy lawyer. Currently mine is locking mechanisms. Your turn.

Dude. The number of civics I have seen that think they are amphibious vehicles is shocking. Especially back in the 90s, they had good door seals and were light, which means they'd float just enough you could REALLY be screwed beyond belief when you gunned it into the flooded street.

spyderco native. fits a wide variety of hands. s30v steel (unless you want the salt version that exists now using very,very corrosion resistant LC200N steel which I didn't even know about until I went to look up current pricing and now I want one damnit. or the maxamet sprint run, CPM-4, 154CM, S35VN, S90V, S110V or... lots of options all of them good to better). And runs $95 to about $180 depending on features you go for (excluding some very limited sprint runs that are probably too nice for EDC and you can drop near $300 on). Me and my wife both have one and like them. I have size 11 1/2 mitts she has teeny 5'2" lady hands. unfortunately not as cheap as it used to be, I picked mine up for $42 back when the options were serrated or not and wal-mart still sold them. As for other reocmmendations: griptillian - decent knife in the right steel at the right price. Not my fave in terms of ergonomics but a usable size and blade shape. mini-griptillian - don't buy until you meet one, especially if you have larger hands. Cold steel - the code 4 knives are a great value if you catch a sale (got mine for $60 last year), but are pretty large and are at 3.5" by the manufacturer claim. Their smaller length blades are either weird shapes that are less than broadly usable, or they are not as cheap as they should be for the foreign manufacturing and quality of steel. The tuff lite being maybe the only exception. They are a solid design for $25. Whole tons of good things in your specs really. https://www.bladehq.com/cat--Manual-Knives--45?page=2#/filter:country_of_origin:USA/filter:blade_length:2:3/filter:blade_length:3:3.49/filter:price:100:250/filter:blade_material:154CM/filter:blade_material:CPM-S90V/filter:blade_material:ATS-34/filter:blade_material:CPM-154/filter:blade_material:CPM-M4/filter:blade_material:CTS-XHP/filter:blade_material:Maxamet/filter:blade_material:CPM-S30V/filter:blade_material:CPM-S35VN/filter:blade_material:CPM-S110V/sort:price_sort_asc:asc

Or a new bolt. One of the mating parts aint right if you are building up more than some carbon gunk in there. Heck. I've taken a couple of mine apart for thoroughness because I shot them in the rain. There really wasn't much to speak of in there at all after thousands of rounds. As for water.. well it's almost like shooting it gets that part really hot and heat makes water evaporate.

Limited to KFC and popeyes, I'll take popeyes most of the time. Occaisonally I want some KFC crispy tenders and gravy. But at that point I'd say I'm not really enjoying fried chicken proper.

9th is the most overturned court in the land. They don't care. As others have said Peruta part deux. We got a solidly conservative panel of three and a 2-1 ruling. They'll request en-banc, and the lefty 9th will give it. Then it will be overturned. Even if it didn't happen that way CA will appeal to SCOTUS. But they'll ask for en banc because it's better to have a ruling in your favor, that way if SCOTUS ignores it, you get what you want instead of the other guy.

"The Army would like the new weapon chamber pressure to be between 60 and 80 KSI (kilopound per square inch). To put that into context, the Army’s M1 Abrams main battle tank fires at that chamber pressure. Assault rifles tend to be around 45 KSI, so this will definitely be higher." Uhm.. 5m855a1 is already at about 63k psi. People say stupid shit and then put it into articles.

Poking through the documents online, it was heard by three judges, Bennett was not one of them. You don't ever get all the judges unless you get an en-banc hearing.

You do get dogpiled on on occasion, often you set yourself up for it. Your bucket pool may be a regular thing, it does not make it legal. So probably best not to post about winning one, where it happens, etc. If they are getting the right license for a non-profit org to run a fund raising raffle, then post away, but you might want to state that. If they aren't, it's one of those things that one might want to exercise some discretion about.

1) What finger oil can do to the thermal compound is partially dependent on the compound. They aren't remotely all the same. 2) Regardless of compound the skin oils can cause all of them to stick poorly to the CPU. While new this won't matter so much. As they get old and get more solid and crumbly, it can matter a lot. 3) For most applications these days, the amount of compound you can get on with a finger on both sides is excessive unless the finish on your heatsink is total shit. It's also less likely to be uniform, and the only way you don't get low spots is to make sure your high spots are squishing out. Over the years, CPU packaging has varied form couldn't give a shit to you are screwed on the subject of getting any even remotely conductive goo on things. 4) You don't need to use a razor blade. edge of an old credit card is fine.

Add the ability to carrry parts for the "non-beater" car. Which i many cases is not actually functionally a car most/all of the time.

Honestly if you aren't pushing the envelope, going radeon for the video card and spending the money on an IPS freesync enabled monitor might really please you. The RX vega 56 is roughly equivalent to the 1070. Unfortunately prices are still jacked by bitcoin miners.

Looked at aces high specs. 1050ti should do you. 1060 should get you through a spec bump or two. 1070+ Shouldn’t even be breathing hard.

If our politicians were politicians anymore, rather than just simply criminals in positions of authority, you might be able to deal. That's how we got a lot of Reagan's appointments. When the time came to play nice similarly and keep it polite and balanced, the DNC just waived the middle finger and said who cares. This can't be the strategy going forward because the other side wouldn't respect it.

I've considered that again after seeing his SCOTUS list and intially disliking that appointment. I see one strategic possibility, which is that if you keep the 9th producing their typical crazy bullshit, they get to continue to be the most overturned circuit court in the nation. They generate a lot of crazy bullshit, rapidly. Having a fast track to SCOTUS appeal of crazy bullshit can be a feature rather than a bug if SCOTUS's composition is favorable to your desired outcome. The possibility that it is strategy really depends on how long the Kennedy retirement has been in the works and a known event to the insiders.

Are you retarded? She was an affirmative voice for the 94 AWB under her husband and has campaigned to ban the shit out of anything remotely modern since? How do you even develop these notions when the candidate themselves has stated otherwise past, present, and speculatively into the future?

The guy isn't full of shit, but really? How long do you need to discuss a plate rack? The amount of time given to the actual mechanic in terms of your eyes and focus for faster transitions is limited at best, although from what he says I'm sure he understands the concepts at work. The bulk of time is spent describing equipment for some exercises that are not real clear on how they are supposed to improve your transitions (i.e. it seems to me that you could practice doing things in a non-efficient manner and still wind up improving your times while limiting your maximum performance.) He also loads up on the theoretical/abstract discussion first, with no visual reference to clarify what he's talking about, for a lot of people it's going to come off as even more boring and low information than it did for me. If you read guides on viewer retention for youtube, and you read guides on instructional design for video, they will both agree that you want to chop videos up into shorter bits and try to keep them to 5-10 minutes. If you read guides on how to maximize monetization, They will tell you 11-30 minute videos. That might have nothing to do with it, it may just be an artifact of sticking him in front of a camera in front a berm and he gets long winded without having appropriate props, a whiteboard to draw things on to visualize, whatever.

24+ minutes on sight transitioning? The dude needs to learn the art of brevity and stop padding for youtube's monetization algorithms.

The 1080ti is a LOT of video card if you aren't into gaming a lot at 4k. If you don't have a 4k monitor, it's a LOT of added cost for no current benefit to you and that is if you play current games. You would likely be well served by a decent 1050ti rig or a 1060. A 480-512GB fast m.2 boot drive is something you will notice. 16GB of ram will be nice, but you might not notice it over 8GB if you aren't using memory intensive apps, virtual machines, or the linux on windows subsytem in 10. 10 is pretty solid in terms of how it runs. Just opt out of the telemetry stuff as much as possible.

That was completely unclear form your statements. I've seen labs get aggressive. My own did at one point as it got older and it's vision started going. Normally sweet as pie. Would start losing his shit if he got a stuffy nose and someone startled him. Fortunately stuffy noses weren't common. Anecdotes are anecdotes. "Natural"? WTF is natural abbot pure bread dogs? Natural would be a world of random mutts banging away incessantly.

Yes owners play a role but.... Then you go on to tell us about the asshole owner. Sometimes the damage done can't be undone.

I punched out of FTWD. I'm pretty sure I wont be back for more of TWD. I'm semi tempted by new show runners, but I can't take the formula any more. I get enough of stupid people doing things stupidly in day to day life.

No I mean a professional writer. They get a direction from either the collaborator or the editor then they interview and discuss. The. They write. No need for an agenda, they are pretty mercinary. Doesn’t mean the people involved didn’t have an agenda, just that professional ghost writers don’t need huge lead times to crank stuff out.

It's called a ghost writer, or more than one. When motivated, you can get a book done and sold (via traditional publishing) in about 30 days. It's not common, but it has been done. 4 months isn't prohibitive, it's only a tad shorter than the typical ghost written politically affiliated book.