SpacemanFry

Just my understanding (which I acknowledge may be flawed), but the oil and gas reserves that we have in this country were until recently much harder and more expensive to get to (shale, deep water etc) and weren't viable until recently. Also, oil/gas/other resources aren't generally sold directly from a country to a country but go through a commodities market. Our home produced crude would go into said market and obviously be cheaper for us because of slightly lower transportation costs, but given the fact the Obama administration has delayed the Keystone pipeline which would help transport the crude from Canada & North Dakota to refineries in the south the transportation cost savings may not be that high. I guess my point is that yes now we have the technology and price incentive to become a major oil/gas producer (even exporter) but it's going to take at least 5-10yrs and in the meantime demand keeps growing.

I'm sorry, did we all of a sudden transport ourselves to 1950s USSR?? Since when did we become a country that tries to limit how much profit a company can make legitimately? ... mind-boggling...

Some went back to doing what they were doing before the Prohibition (gambling, racketeering, etc) but most bootleggers either got busted, killed or went "legit".

Please stop spreading misinformation. First of all the deviation BS only applies in NJ. Second, if he has an NJFID he can transport long guns all day long even in NJ. It's only handguns that must be from home to range etc..

Not that I subscribe to paranoia, BUT it's been shown time and time again that presidents will push more aggressive legislation during their 2nd term than 1st (doesn't matter which party). Once you no longer have to worry about being reelected you can push more controversial stuff.

I called a week after I dropped all my paperwork and they had my card done a few days later. You mileage may vary, but usually it doesn't hurt to ask if you ask politely.

And everytime you're leaving NJ you aren't going to a range?

You can carry in the states that have a reciprocity with FL or UT. That's 33 states or so I believe.

Natural selection happens?

Fail to see what crime rate has to do with invading them. Yes some people have made the jump from one to the other (incorrectly) but that's not the title of the thread now is it. Look it up, but in WW2 Swiss pilots shot down quite a few German fighters that invaded their airspace chasing after allied planes. Yes the gold stashing helped, but why bother paying a bank to stash it if you could invade it. There is also documented proof that Hitler asked his generals about invading Switzerland and was told the cost would be too high. The Swiss did not allow German troops to go through their country (other than the ones making deposits I guess )

Don't think anyone in Central Jersey wants to be told they live in North Jersey. ::shudder::

TBH I think the reason Nappen & other people spread this interpretation is because it's so ridiculous they hope people hearing it will realize how ridiculous NJ laws are and maybe sway them a bit to our side. But at the same time I personally agree with the interpretation where in your home you can handle *any* firearm and thus it's perfectly legal for your spouse to use your HG in selfdefense.

I've always like the Czechs. Amazing engineers and architects, and they were one of the few countries behind the Iron Curtain to occasionally stand up to the Soviets.

IMO this sounds like a suicide by cop.

Maybe it's just me, but short of having diarhea I think this is harder than people think

http://njgunforums.com/forum/index.php?/topic/30598-okla-woman-shoots-kills-intruder-911-operators-say-its-okay-to-shoot/

You're right, I was more thinking across similar CPU generations. Comparing a 6000 transistor chip running at 2MHz to a one that has ~2+ Billion transistors at 3+GHz is not exactly "fair" :-)

http://njgunforums.com/forum/index.php?/topic/30598-okla-woman-shoots-kills-intruder-911-operators-say-its-okay-to-shoot/

Holy sh*t, don't make the mistake to read the comments... there are so many of the type "good for her, but i hope her guns are registered" or BS like that....

^^ What Babaganoosh said. Also it's really easy to record audio on modern smartphones. I have an app on mine all set up to record quickly if I want. I use it as a voice memo reminder generally but can be used to record something like this if needed.

If you compare the speed, handling, safety, comfort etc of a Model-T with a top of the line car today it's also a HUUUUGE difference. You can't compare MPG increases with speed increases in computers as that's not a valid comparison. If you compare power consumed then the comparison is slightly more relevant and there both industries have made some improvements but nothing mind-boggling. The biggest limitation for the transportation industry (and many many other industries) is energy storage. That's been what's kept electric cars, flying cars, etc from being practical. If we had cheap, reliable, small and dense energy storage it would dramatically change not just he transportation industry but pretty much every other industry out there. IMO, efficient energy storage is the key to everything, not energy generation. And that's what's made oil so attractive, it's a very dense, stable and cheap* energy storage. Of course it's not clean and the cheapness is slowly eroding so now we must find another energy storage medium, preferably one that we can generate.

Actually that's not quite true. The CPU itself uses less power than the old generations. It's all the new peripherals and fancy addons that make computers require massive power supplies. The biggest power culprit in the last 1.5 decades has been the graphics card.

For one thing the mandated ethanol BS reduces mpg by quite a bit.

Oh I agree with you completely. If he thinks things are identical to pre-Nazi Germany he needs to go read those history books again 'cause it's not even remotely like that. And I have no doubt that the more onerous provisions of the Patriot Act and NDAA will not stand the scrutiny of SCOTUS with regards to constitutionality, however it would really suck to be the US citizen caught in it while it's being fought. And yes I wish Ron Paul's common sense with regards to economy and domestic issues were duplicated in his foreign policies and defense.... My hope is that a good showing by Ron Paul may influence other politicians that his sane ideas are worth pursuing (ie trimming gov, enforcing bill of rights and constitutional rights, gov butting out of people's personal lives, etc).

You're right, I'm generalizing to make a point. The point is that general people don't know if they are dealing with an asshole cop or a good cop. So if they treat the "question" as just a question and not a "demand" they may get screwed over by a cop who thinks that his questions must be answered or be labeled suspicious. For the record, I'm always nice to cops when I get pulled over etc. Even if they're cranky I know they're just doing their job and it's often a shitty job, and this has saved me from quite a few speeding tickets because most cops usually appreciate not being treated like the enemy.