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I like my knives, have for a long time. But there are infinity knives and more made every year. So to get into my collection they have to be incredibly appealing to me, or go with my primary theme, which is locking mechanisms. There's a number I don't have represented, but I do have quite a variety at this point. Some I only have the low rent example of it.

It's called mining because you are sorting through a bunch of shit of zero value for the good stuff you might find if you are lucky. This is remarkably similar to the process of going through a bunch of rock to find the ore you want. It also shares the nature that operational overhead is essentially the same for failure as success in both tasks. Adiditonally, I don't know how you can fail to understand it, but when you mine bitcoin, you are not "maintaining" the block chain, but lengthening it. If you luck out and add a block, you get the coin that goes with it. No more mining, and you total number of bitcoins stops increasing. That means you stop expanding supply on the supply and demand curve. How the fuck and this NOT impact the price of bitcoin? It's like the lottery, not a 50/50. Sell one ticket and they aren't guaranteed to win. Reduce the number of miners and the guy with the 8 year old laptop doesn't win, the timespan between hash matches just gets significantly longer. So I guess if time has zero impact on you, yeah you win, but... well that's stupid.

You are right. In theory, mining stops, and whatever trade in bitcoins happens, occurs out of the existing pile of bitcoin. Either there is enough, or there isn't. If not, the price goes up and miners come back. The fact that the run right now is on graphics cards rather than dedicated asics will tell you how locked in miners are and how interested they are in chasing efficiency. Basically not at all. IMO the general purpose gear is selling like hotcakes because people want to mine easy coins in a chain, then pump and dump the crypto of the month while they hold the cheap version of it.

An AR for the long gun. If I cna have multiple uppers, then yay. But like HE said, a well set up semi with a 16" barrel gets a lot of stuff done well. PIstol, probably a decent double stack 1911 offspring of some sort. This is presuming free trade in accessories and such. It's pretty much what makes it out of the safe constantly of my own volition.

Yes, but what happens with heavier bullets with higher BC and sectional density? Also, 3300 out of a 62 grain? You are beating 5.56 ammo by what? 100-200fps? That's... well... kind of disappointing for all the hardware changes involved. Close in neither the nosler nor valkyrie probably offers much over the .223/5.56 cartridge(s). HEad out farther, and it looks like valkyrie gives you more to work with and is a smarter design.

If you got every gun owner, and went with optimistic estimates of gun ownership in NJ, you are only at 12.5% of the population. More realistically we represent 10% of the population of NJ. Nor do we vote as a monolithic entity, nor do we roll out 100% of those owners. So... no need for a fix.

If that were the case, then binary triggers would be legal here. They are not. Because NJ defines a machine gun differently than the BATFE.

200-500 at a shot for bulk pistol, pure progressive. 100-400 at a shot for bulk rifle. Semi progressive. Size and prime, then swage, then trim, then load progressive. Pretty much don't go below 100 at a go because I don't like leaving partial packages of primers around. QC is a vigilance task, and I find that somewhere between 600 and 800 it breaks down for me. So I usually just cap it at 500 which is what I have enough primer tubes to cover without a refill, and leave it at that.

My $0.02 We may have them sooner than 10-15 years, but if we do they won't be ready. To date, despite idiots on the internet claiming otherwise, they aren't very good at driving. Or, more precisely, we think humans are way worse at driving then they are. Google are the only ones who have put up or shut up with data on incidents. By my last evaluation, they are running about 89.X% of human driver performance by mile. So at best you are looking at more but possibly less severe accidents. (really people are quite good a driving. Every time you notice that asshole being an asshole, you ignore the other 50 people on the road near you that kept that asshole from causing tragedy. The average human driver goes about 110k miles between accidents, even if it doesn't seem like it. Google's algorithm is at about 98,000 and change between them) That being said, that record is based on: -no testing in significant rain, just drizzle and mostly not that. -no testing on damaged roads. -no testing in snow or ice. A big tell on this is Ford's position. They shit canned retail autonomous vehicles in the near future primarily because to be decent, they need multiple sensor input, and maintaining that in bad weather is nearly impossible to date without making something heinously awful to look at and package. Secondly, programming behavior that is safe for roads that don't behave like textbook roads increases complexity, and that is still an issue. Combine those two and it just isn't going to be ready. That was 2017. 2018, and Ford feels compelled to start selling them in 2021. Well what changed? One they got some protections by easing of regulations. So it won't be their fault when they fail. Additionally, they are only selling to commercial buyers. Likely because they can still see value in a vehicle they agree to only deploy in certain conditions. Being able to fire all your drivers in arizona can still save you money. Telling a retail buyer they can't drive it six months of the year, or drive it to visit grandma in a wintery state won't fly. Additionally, there are very practical issues with widespread adoption that will likely resolve, but not real soon. First is the level of computing power needed for the AI. To be good, this is likely to not be something you can combine with a really efficient electric car or an affordable electric car. It may even cause issues with hybrids and/or gas engines making CAFE goals. As an example, the tesla model S barely has the compute to do the worst version of this stuff, and it dwarfs most vehicles in that department. If used in a coal powered region, it's not even as fuel efficient as the average midsize sedan with a gas engine in the current market. Better batteries, better computing, or eased regulations will make this less problematic over time, but it will take time.

Since the only place I've run into laws regulating the possession of either a firearm or shotgun don't deal with issues of legality in turning one into the other, my assumption is the only place it matters it manufacturer and transfer. In which case, unless I understand incorrectly, if it comes form the factory as a firearm, it stays one even if you put a stock on it. It's all stupid. and doesn't matter as states are permitted to adopt differing regulations than the federal government provided they don't get in a pissing match to legalize stuff the fedgov has made illegal.

A shotgun is not a shotgun without a stock. It is a firearm. At least federally. A firearm is neither pistol, rifle, nor shotgun. Noir ABR, AOW, DD, or machine gun.

Note rayray is not on his own list, thus making him part of the rest. That's not an accident

MY $0.02. They continue to sell at premium prices in a down market without people bitching about them. SO they must be doing something right. That being said, what they ahve going for them if that is the case is quality control and customer service. The odds of the latter taking a shit because you had to perform compliance work is non-zero, and they don't appear to offer NJ firendly configs anymore. Given that their parts aren't anything exceptional, I'd avoid sinking a lot of money into them and go with a decent maker who does offer compliant SKUs. Because the value in a pre-built is making avoiding and remedying problems THEIR concern, not yours.

I think the main thing people like about them is that they view the pressure cooker portion of them as less scary than actual pressure cookers. The other thing is that it takes two large items and combines them into one. At least historically, they are well packaged to let you take advantage of everything pressure cooker-y.

either some flavor of sw-22, or a nordic/jp dedicated upper. I've got a nordic upper. Don't think they make them anymore. runs like a top and very accurate.

This. The market cap of all the blockchains are small enough that there are a relatively large number of entities that have the cash to manipulate the market without doing anything that would be remotely illegal. This may come to an end soon, but all the less than legal manipulation will still be there. As a point of reference, the gold metal market is possible to manipulate by brute force. Barely. As for bending the rules, look at how gold was manipulated by the "market owners". Look at how goldman sachs set up warehousing for various commodities for trading, mostly metals. Then front ran any orders by customers using the service? Look at how the forex market was manipulated in 2013. Those last two hold some extreme parallels for how most people participate in bitcoin and other blockchain "currencies". Blockchain is for crooks. Used to be drug dealers and such, now it's bankers. Watch your cornhole, cause they gonna bend you over.

That's not always true. Mostly true, but not always. The math to tell which side of that equation the deal falls on is a giant PITA though. Last car purchase I looked at third party leasing offers (i.e. not from the dealer/manufacturer). Almost all of them were very close to simply getting a loan for the vehicle and stopping paying at month X. Of course the payments looked like you had a loan too, so.... there is no free lunch.

IMO you are mistaken. It's more like: Gun laws have nothing to do with safety. They are designed to slowly erode gun ownership until gun owners are a non-existent voting block and thus can be ignored. In theory this will forever cripple the ability of the other side to win.

simply picking a lighter stock, light barrel profile and going wiht irons, I have a pretty cheap build that tips the scale at 5.8lbs. It does have a carbon fiber forearm, but it wasn't an expensive one. heavy bolt carrier, heavy buffer. Drop $165 on a RCA lightened carrier with adjustable key, and I could drop another 5oz off it easy. For another $165, I could drop another 7oz off the stock. there's light and there's light. IMO if you hit 7lbs and keep it balanced, it is very handy, transitions fast, and is easily carrier. Stuff starts to get REALLY pricey once you start trying to beat 5lbs. Currently the challenging mark is ~60oz. To hit that you have to start spending AND make the gun stupid.

it looks like a clamp on comp based on the burn marks and the clamp. Ok, found it. S&W clamp on comp for a k38, or something really, really similar. http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2017/03/02/smith-wesson-clamp-compensator/

https://www.dvor.com/trijicon-accupower-1-8x28-riflescope-moa-segmented-circle-crosshair-w-red-led-34mm-tube.html?promotion=high-end-optics-clearance-85-2018-01-18 Dvor has it for $1069 right now. Lowest price I was able to find stalking one of these for the last 6 months or so was $1199. I've got one used fro $900 and it is a very, very nice scope. This is a smoking deal if you have been looking. FYI it is a 34mm tube.

""Machine gun" means any firearm, mechanism or instrument not requiring that the trigger be pressed for each shot and having a reservoir, belt or other means of storing and carrying ammunition which can be loaded into the firearm, mechanism or instrument and fired therefrom." You never press it for the second shot, so machine gun, hence why the binary trigger is a no go here. I don't see why having it in the rifle from the factory would change that. IN NJ it's a machine gun. Federally it is not.

This. The practice is called price optimization. To quote an allstate talking head "We do not engage in price optimization that seeks to charge the highest rate the market will bear." So yeah, they use research data on you to jack your prices, but just not as much as the data suggests you will tolerate. When to switch is variable. But in general if your rates increase and there isn't any news articles on your company going at it with the state, or a natural disaster that cost them in the region, you are probably going to benefit form switching. Being a stick in the mud is bad for you. I was, and I got over 2x the coverage for about 55% of what I as paying. Saved about $20 a year on moving homeowners with it.

anyone see how you load the thing yet?

My DVR ate itself, and absent the convenience of that, cable was REALLY pissing me off. Then they raised rates. So I'm looking to cut the cord. It looks like direct TV now will be the winner, primarily because they now have MSG as the regional sprots networks for this area so devils fans can watch the devils. Cable was going up to about $130 a month. With HBO, Starz, and fees, it'll be about $83. If the next tier down covers MSG, I'll be moving down a notch, shaving $20 more, and adding the one channel I'd miss as streaming ala-carte. Roku is decent, but for the real technophobes, roku plus a harmony hub (harmony smart control package is usually the cheapest way to get it), you can make it very cable like. Power on the TV, goes straight to the directTVnow app in roku.