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Well I am skeptical that Trump isn't turning on us, it is possible that this is strategy. 1) You don't have to be articulate to be smart. Some folks who are smart choose to play down their verbal skill for their benefit. 2) There's trying to outsmart your opposition, and then there's a card force. It's a term from magic tricks. In this case Trump insisted he get a bundled up omnibus. Schumer knows that an AWB of any flavor, much less the semi-auto ban is BS and won't pass. He even said their isn't full support for an AWB on the dem side of the aisle. So. Send in stuff without the AWB, trump can thump the table and say not good enough. Send it with and it all dies before it hits him. It's not genius, but it is a valid stalling tactic as well as requiring congress members to put their name to very specific gun control. By requesting bundling, it means all the "weak" gun grabbers have to jump off the same bridge as their zealot friends. 3) This may not be accidental. Gun control is very often a losing issue at the polls. If you see midterms as a fight, having the opposition rally your base is free, and if you are facing the shit storm in the media anyway, you might as well benefit form it as much as possible.

OK, if your lack of demand on the demand curve is due to mining becoming too difficult and punching out, easing the work effort is a valid response. It moves the point of intersection of supply and demand if you believe the only ting impacting demand is time and electricity cost. Implicit in that is the assumption that on all vectors there is no over supply. I'm not saying that the network break if nobody wants to maintain it. While true, like you said, it's kind of not relevant as to get to that point other factors that kill it had to occur first. My point specifically is that any of those things occur that make demand for bitcoin fall off radically, producing MORE bitcoin will not fix the problem facing bitcoin. Lets say you have big banks manipulating things. They do a pump and dump and the bigger fools get stuck holding the bag on bitcoin and it goes back to the price from a year ago of about $1020. Open the spigot and tell people you can mine a coin for $700 in electricity and that the rig to mine it can be amortized in three coins, you STILL face the specter of a capital investment in the face of a provenly unstable good, AND you have pretty shitty gains in the face of the knowledge that there's a shit ton of idle coins hiding out that people are upside down on. When do they flood back into the market? Bitcoin, as admitted by the bitcoin folks, is designed to go deflationary once you hit 21 million coins. Historically any deflationary currency or store of value has been abandoned as it inherently hampers growth. Bitcoin hopes to bypass this problem by making mining easier when it happens and collecting transaction fees. This only works if people want to conduct transactions only in bitcoins. Which to date they don't really. Everyone wants to turn it into money. The market cap of it is small enough that manipulators have generated massive deflationary behavior now. One of the results of that is that pretty much all the mining is consolidated in very few hands. The hands of the folks likely to front run the market and fuck you over. Jo average and the coke snorting gambling addicts on wall street might not be wary of that, but regulatory agencies, banks that want to be guaranteed a buck and don' find themselves one of those groups that own the giant pile of mining asics, well they tend to dislike such markets.

Soap box Ballot box Ammo box Just saying it seems some folks don't get what they are messing with screwing over large chunks of the population. That goes for all sides.

Lots of people watch it for the drama. They want drama with action. What they don't want is to be on a treadmill or to watch badly written, drawn out BS. For example a 1 hour death scene.

The ratings these days take into account delayed viewing by DVR, streaming, etc. TWD's only immediate streaming competition is the AMC website/app itself, so that's not it. The numbers are in, and it was 8.3 million viewers, just 200k more than season 2. At this point AMC needs to do something. It's still a big show, but they can't afford to keep it starving out other content if they want to have something after TWD. The existence of comics is not relevant. They are not obligated to abide by them in any way and would outpace them in 2-3 years likely anyway. My opinion is still that they should come up with and ending, or at least an ending note to break the same old shit cycle, and free up the writers to do something interesting over the next 2-3 years. Put a bow on it, call it done, and move on without running into the inevitable with the comics.

The season premiere turned in number 30% below the previous season's. They needed this to bring back people who weren't watching. Even if it had the numbers, I'm guessing next week's will be disappointing. If the decline continues, they have about 2 maybe three more years in it before they are below season 1 numbers. IMO, they need to pick an end date and write to that instead of the perpetual new big bad thing.

Yay, an hour long death scene. That was painfully boring. Yeah, I mean realistically family will be there and things will be said, but it's a TV show. We didn't watch the entire cast learn how to shit in the woods either. Some stuff is a waste of the audience's time, and this was definitely such a waste. I'm guessing this isn't going to turn in the numbers they hoped it would.

Here's another new stumbling block. The level of maintenance needed. http://myfox8.com/2018/02/25/for-self-driving-cars-car-washes-are-a-nightmare/?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark Read the link. This is not viable in a realm of mass consumer goods with the existence of lawyers. So.. The van full of nuns died because you used something other than the approved cleaning fluid and gentle puffs of air to clean the lens is not going to fly in the world of cars. Sorry. Yet another milestone to move past before this stuff is remotely ready for primetime.

The BATFE letter isn't worthless, but it isn't going to necessarily save you. 1) Any cop dealing with you won't know jack in detail. They'll do what they want and let people with more knowledge and authority sort shit out so long as their ass is covered by probable cause. The converse to this is that they probably won't do anything about it unless you give them a reason to, because they don't know the technical details of the law, if they know the law at all. They either think all evil black rilfes are illegal, or they know some aren't. But that's probably it at best. 2) The NJSP firearms unit is tasked with providing guidelines to departments and prosecutors on the technicalities of the law. They have promulgated the pinkey test. Good or bad. 3) Prosecutors go to court to win cases and make their numbers look good. They won't take a shitty case to court to lose unless they have a grudge or strong marching orders. In theory, when making that determination, they would look at the case they have and make at least a quick consult on technical issues. At that point the actual, specific to this case, opinions of the NJFU will matter a whole lot to them. At that point, the BATFE letter as submitted by your lawyer will also probably matter to them. Once again absent a grudge or strong marching orders, if they both say no it's not, your bill stops being run up there and you move on with your life minus some cash. 4) If it doesn't stop there, you are now going to argue reality vs the law in front of a judge. The law does NOT define a flash suppressor. This means more than likely you will have to down the road of arguing the common understand of the language used in the law. Which will lead to trying to prove that the device does not lessen flash in any meaningful way. The BATFE during the AWB had some unpublished metric for this. Now it does not. This leaves your lawyer and the prosecutor arguing over how much flash it makes vs a bare muzzle, and arguing what meets the common understanding of suppressed. This will likely mean expert testimony. The prosecutor's will be the NJFU guys if they concur it IS one, and possibly additional expert testimony sourced elsewhere. If favorable, one of those expert sources will likely be the manufacturer themselves, and any marketing materials will likely be accepted as the opinion of same in their absence and ignorance of the trial. The prosecutor will not be paying for anything that might help you. IF they have, the entity will just stay home and their results will be secret unless your lawyer discovers their existence and contents. If you are in this position, it means they have been told NO and prosecuted anyway. Don't expect them to abide by the law and willingly disclose stuff they have not made part of their case. SO now you have to pay for experts. Which cost a shit ton. AND you need the judge to not then decide that the common understanding of things is unfavorable to you and your expert. THAT is what TBill means by the letter being worthless. IT isn't protection from anyone but the BATFE. Vs. state law it is just evidence from an expert source in a situation where you are explicitly asking a judge, who based on precedent thinks you should go fuck yourself, for their opinion on where the threshold of the law is. Myself, if I didn't care about it being effective as a comp, I'd avoid that risk and just perm-attach a thread protector. IT's safe and gets the job done. It's also cheap. If I cared about it being effective, I'd buy something that did a good job. And produced as much of a fireball as possible. It would also be absent any verbiage from the manufacturer about flash suppression.

Moved a warehouse, or possibly exist near a border and lost the argument with cook county that they are not in fact in cook county.

Have some perspective on this and attempt a bit of empathy for someone doing their job. You may disagree but look at it this way: Shrinks have a lot of patients with problems. Many, many of them would tie them up 48 hours a day pestering them with their personal bullshit if the shrink didn't set boundaries. One of the easier ways for them to do that is to put a price tag on their time. ALL of their time. The guy isn't insisting you pay him for a signature (yet). He is insisting you pay him for time spent on this outside of your regular appointments, or wait for your next appointment and include it in that time. The latter is a net zero cost if you don't want to pay the gotta have it now tax. NJ being what it is, you may literally be their first time dealing with any of this. Alternatively, they may feel that what they have been observing and assessing you for on your meds is not sufficiently thorough. If you are on some flavor of methylphenidate, it can have side affects of increased aggression or paranoia. If you were not obviously displaying such, they may want to ask more specific questions rather than just monitoring you for dosage effect and if you are blowing your liver out or have any cardiovascular related risks that are increasing.

Honestly, I'd like to see kennedy go and be replaced with someone who gets high marks form the NRA AND the ACLU. Someone who is jsut a fan of freedom of the individual to not be dicked around by the system.

When is the last time a search on someone not known to have weapons was done with a single officer? Three? Most towns are operating on a 1000:1 ratio of officers to residents if not more. Logistically it will be hard and very expensive. Not to mention that all the people screaming to do such things will then likely freak out that the cops are kicking in doors in their neighborhood.

We'll see. if he gets shitty advice, it could be bad. I mean can you tell me what the normal rate of fire is on a semi-automatic firearm? The dude is deficit spending like a mad man. if he pisses off gun owners enough, he kills that block. He aint getting back in with just the religious loons. His opposition is going to be motivated, splitting your base is going to be troublesome.

I'm with you on this. Part of it may be that the dudes with bare muzzles seem to also always be shooting m193 of m855 type ammo, which is loud. However, comps, to a limited extent do some of the same things flash suppressors do in spades. Namely act as a heat sink and diffuse the gas. This takes heat energy out of the gas quicker, and this can often times mean they get a teensy bit less blasty. They then of course usually point that blast some direction other than "thataway" which mitigates the very minimal losses. Some flash suppressors also rob the expanding gas of energy via a tuning fork effect. Which is why you get a way different sounding muzzle blast out of a vortex style flash suppressor.

Yeah, keep in mind Trump may have just one termed himself with his announcement on bump stocks.

Yup, saw that. Most optimistic possibility is that it is worded well so that it isn't a bureaucratic open end. Shockingly, of all the wording I have seen the NJ bill on the issue has perhaps the least problematic wording with "devices that simulate fully automatic fire". You could narrow it even more by going for something like "a device that permits multiple shots to be fired without repositioning of the trigger finger". That wouldn't even touch binary triggers. It was inevitable the folks playing chicken with the BATFE would eventually fail to dodge.

It won't as it exists. That's been clear for a while. The only appointment was to replace a pro 2a guy with what is likely a pro 2a guy. Until you replace someone who is anti or a waffler, you won't change the behavior of the court. That behavior will be detrimental to everyone on many issues, because it weakens the position of the court and sets precedent to disregard other amendments.

I used the term psych meds because the long list of shooters on psych meds were taking ssris and one other category I don't recall off the top of my head. We already have a question on there that boils down to "if you are taking schedule one drugs or prescription drugs without a prescription or drink to much you can't buy guns." perhaps ssris need to be added to that explicitly or need to be moved to schedule one and thus included implicitly. They can cause suicidal ideation, sleep driving, sleep fucking and or rape, increased aggression, and other fun things. Additionally, if you need them you probably have mental issues. If you need them to get over the hump while you develop coping skills for your issues and then stop you aren't prohibited anymore. If you need them forever, well you are fucked, because they cause up regulation of serotonin receptors. You will constantly be ramping up and then at some point it won't work and you still need to be weened off. Unless your doc believes you need them too much. Then you get to have pseudo parkinsonian tremors, which continued use can make permanent. In which case you shouldn't be operating a firearm. If you are being prescribed them inappropriately, and don't really need them, you are at increased risk of the more weird ass side effects and should get off them. Should someone tripping balls be using firearms? No. Should someone at serious risk of being dissociated from reality because of their prescription meds? That answer may also need to be no. If a drug had narcolepsy like symptoms in 25% of users, should taking it disqualify you from operating a car on public roads? You have chronic depression needing ssris? Maybe funds aren't for you. You are well controlled on them? Well guess what, you keep on seeing the psychiatrist because your meds need constant adjusting. Well regulated still usually means that you start regressing or showing side effects due to dosing. When you can keep talking your meds and still fall off the wagon, perhaps life and death decisions aren't for you. I've got a friend who has been on them for a long time. They keep asking to go shooting. I keep not taking them. They take their meds, see their therapist, get dosages adjusted etc. but they still are often not the one who notices they are getting depressed and out of control again. I'm not saying anyone has to agree with me. And maybe the issue of ssris shouldn't be dealt with at the batfe end of things. Maybe it should be dealt with at the prescribing end and cracking down on how the medical industry uses them. Maybe it should be like pain meds and handing them out like candy should stop and the therapeutic use should narrow. But maybe iatrogenic addiction to shit that can cause a psychotic break in some users should be considered disqualifying.

So, given that it looks like we have yet one more shooter on meds, and the LV shooter was on meds, what are my fellow 2a peeps feelings on regulations surrounding that? Should the 4473 be amended to make being on SSRIs or other specific prescription drugs a disqualifier just like illegal drug dependency? Should they be made schedule 1 drugs? Is there benefit worth the risk? Do you think more public funding of mental health care needs to be put back in place? I can tell you for a fact and from experience with a relative, that as public funding for care was reduced over a 20+ year span in NJ, the ability or willingness of judges to remand individuals arrested for their behavior to evaluation has dropped off significantly. Most families can't afford to get the people they know are a problem locked up for everyone's good, and there isn't much point going to the police or court to get permission to do so anyway if you can't foot the bill 100%. I don't like taxes in general, but there's taxes for the sake of lining people's pockets, and there are taxes everyone benefits from communally. Keeping certain fucker off your lawn, out of your schools, etc. is one of those valuable but invisible services IMO. I'd rather be paying for that than lining cronies' pockets for jack. I'd also rather not bypass the judge. Just set it up so that going to court over such things isn't a near guaranteed waste of everyone's time and money.

Those plus 32NRR foamies were what I used when I was still willing to RO open guns indoors. As fro the ringing, look up tinitus. I've got a bit of it from concerts, but I can still ace the hearing test. It does not preclude being able to detect high frequencies, especially if you had exceptionally good hearing in the high range to start. They only care about a certain range, and what and how much they care about depends on your age. For example, a certtain amount of hearing loss is expected in the left ear due to driving with open windows. They may ignore some of that if you are say... 50, unless they consider it abnormal or debilitating. Not sure what you mean by you sounding like talk on a broken radio to yourself, but I hear myself just fine. I also don't have severe tinitus though so can't speak for that. Also, doctors have to see an insane number of patients. If something is bugging you speak up and be specific. Ask the question "Hey doc, how can my hearing test be fine when I clearly have issues hearing the high frequencies I'm used to in one ear?" They aren't going to lead you to water and make you drink it. They are relying on you to bitch about what is bugging you.

IMO if you want crisp, leave behind Geiselle. It peaks at the ssa-e and while they are nice for a multi- part trigger, the drop in trigger packs are just hitting an insane level of performance and pricing. If you like zero creep, the top of the line elftman tactical is a single stage with no take up. Like literally no take up. Trigger bits pivot on needle bearings. If you like light and a pretty crisp break, the AR gold trigger can get down to 1.9lbs It is technically a two stage, but stage one is very, very, very light, and IMO feels more like trigger flop than a stage. Something like .4lbs. and it is kind of long for the weight. If you like crisp but don't need ultra light weight, the triggertech adjustable trigger can get down to ~2.5lbs. It has a relatively short take up at about .7lbs And a really crisp, repeatable break. You may see claims that it gets down to 1.9lbs. You will also see some people complaining about it doubling and some other stuff. Out of the box it does not hit that weight anymore. Somewhere around 2.3lbs the adjustment screw stops being attached to the housing. Based on reading up on it in various forums and owner reviews, I believe they may have revised the trigger sometime last year. You also need to follow the install instructions that come with it. If you want full space gun territory, there's the timney calvin elite AR. 1.5lbs with a fully adjustable/articulated trigger shoe. Costs more than the geiselle, but there aint much out there like it.

Some of the prices they get, they get via doing bulk order deals with the manufacturer. This can be a delay in and of itself as it appears they wait to hit the number. They can also exceed the manufacturers supply and have to wait for inventory to exist. This is where they wind up taking weeks to ship. It can also work the opposite way. I ordered something for $43 that said it may take 3 weeks to ship. The item MSRP is $89, most places sell it for $78, and the cheapest everyday price I have found is $67. Not too pricey and a large discount. It shipped in 3 days because the manufacturer has tons on hand and the price was attractive enough that the bulk order commitment was reached rapidly. Much like PSA, I don't order things from optics planet that I need right now. I pay the gotta have it now tax and go elsewhere.

coyotes are all over the place in central jersey. See them all the time in the piscataway area. I've seen dead ones along rt 18 in New Brunswick. I've seen them throughout most of middlesex. If we are going to have them, I wish they'd eat more canada geese or at least scare them away.

OK, looking into the specifics of bitcoin, it has a 2 week rolling average for difficulty. So in the event of a crash, the guy with the 8 year old laptop can have shit nobody wants. Yay. Because if nobody wants it, it isn't ever coming back. It's like zimbabwe dollars. If something had given value, and a market massively lowers that value to the world at large, you do not magically make it more valuable by printing a shit ton of it. Bitcoin is unlikely to break algorithmically, nor be exploited algorithmically, it's likely to be exploited because it is a market, and humans know how to game markets. Practically speaking, bitcoin is never getting easier unless people stop mining it. Which means, at best, you have a gold situation. People flee it due to poorly scaling limited availability. Then there's the problem of subsidized utilities, ambient temperature of the climate, etc.