Everything posted by H.M. Murdock
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Have Your Brake Lines Checked!
There's so many permutations of parking brake designs, i.e. lever in drum, drum in rotor, rear pad on rotor, secondary rotor, rotor on driveshaft and then placement, i.e. one rear wheel, two rear wheels. Not even considering hydraulic e-brakes for rally and drifting.. It's hard to generalize how well a parking will perform and for how long.
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News regarding PA CCW reciprocity
I still don't understand why that NJ2AS thing didn't happen
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Have Your Brake Lines Checked!
Segregating the brake system between front and rear circuits is not the rule. With the advent of FWD vehicles in the late 1960's, diagonal-split brake systems entered common use. Diagonal split has improved stability during brake failure. Today it can be found on most FWD and AWD vehicles. RWD is usually still split between front and rear. Oh, to have been an early adopter of dual-circuit brakes when they were still experimenting with a left-right split.. Since each circuit of a dual piston master brake cylinder each drive both a front and a rear wheel brake, the MBC design can involve internal dual "proportioning valves" to reduce force to the rear wheel output. Front-rear split systems can avoid these complexities with a simple "proportioning valve", internal or external to the MBC, and/or a MBC design that drives the rear brakes with a smaller piston.
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Might be moving from JC Advice please!
And what a legacy that man left! In the very least I think we owe him for this bulletin board's existence
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how to use Sweeney's "no CCW" tweet to our advantage
90% as in a hasty way to say they're paying an order of magnitude less than us. Consider that each residence likely carries just one policy for many drivers that aren't really related. I also suspect Maryland has weaker requirements for proving residency and is a popular place for illegal aliens to obtain a drivers license (fraudulently). I don't know Maryland insurance rates but I do know that my sister paid $250/year in central NY. I would imagine Maryland is similar (though more urban than CNY). I think NJ is alone in its massive PIP limit (and other factors which drive up insurance premiums) P.S. If you're paying $1,400/year I envy you
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ARTICLE: New Jersey is the 47th Best State for Business 2014
It will be interesting what the liberal NJ population will have to say in a couple decades once the paradise they have been working towards actually comes into fruition. Its one thing to for them to pontificate as they enjoy a cushy life in their McMansions and fancy cafes (la di da) but the realities of equal outcome will hit them very hard. Freudenschade and spite are the only things that keep me smiling these days.
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how to use Sweeney's "no CCW" tweet to our advantage
It is easy if you have no regard for the law. I personally can't stand seeing this, i.e. all these Maryland plates living in NJ. If you could reverse look-up some of these Maryland addresses you'd probably find 50 drivers licenses registered to each one. But it's not just the illegals. I see it all the time with old white people with Florida plates who definitely don't live down there more than 50% of the year. The effects of this insurance and ID fraud are palpable to any NJ resident paying NJ car insurance rates. They're getting a 90% break in their insurance rates on our backs. Worst part is that its considered acceptable by the general NJ population. No chance of reform here.
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Might be moving from JC Advice please!
I can't even imagine the things that go on at schools these days. The culture is unrecognizable to me now. There's like 100 different drugs that you have to be worried about now. All we had were weed and alcohol. There was only a couple dope heads. Reading all the stories of brilliant kids getting pigeonholed with the common core curriculum is infuriating. Uniforms and structured environment are a great upside of private schools (though missing the yoga pants revolution is one of my biggest regrets in life). And having your friends located all over the county/state was nice from my perspective, once I had my license. One negative for me was the overall lack of resources. For half of my AP classes I had to self-study the entire course which was annoying. And it was hard for them to attract teaching talent with the meager salaries they pay private school teachers. Half my teachers were burnouts that graduated the same school a couple decades earlier. Maybe that last part isn't unique to private schools. Crazy how much you have to go thru just to get into a university which will put you in debt for half your life and leave you in the same position that you would have been in a few decades earlier without a college degree.
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Might be moving from JC Advice please!
I agree but they serve their purpose for those who have the money. I believe that, at least in NJ, most kids sent to private school are there because their parents are worried they wouldn't graduate in public school. I went to a Catholic school and would have been ineligible to graduate public school because of the amount of time I missed (f'ing around). It's a way for the parents to get their kid into the front door of a college. What happens once those types of kids are in college is another story. But it does buy the kid more time to mature and many kids do wise up, study and wind up in a better station than they would have in a parallel life, dropping out of public high school. There's also the other type of private school which is effectively a means of class separation from the general public (the general public being those people that travel on commercial airlines). But those schools cost orders of magnitude more than the typical private school (plus donations under the threat of shaming) OP: The "mountainous" woodlands of northern Bergen and Passaic counties are a great place for a kid to grow up
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Does anyone carry even though it's illegal?
* unless there's a hurricane on <snicker>
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News regarding PA CCW reciprocity
Just read the thread on Pafoa.. wow, unbelievable.. it really is a cancer. Almost better that Bloomberg stays healthy. When he croaks I can imagine his last will and testament will fund these c*nts for the next century. Should be interesting having all MD/NJ people switch from CC to OC en masse. Chance that UT licenses will be made acceptable again before my NH license expires? I don't like my odds.
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Jeep Wrangler Rental
A real Jeep is any Jeep that is often taken off road and usually comes out the trail on its own power. A real Jeep is a utility vehicle first and foremost. It's rare to see any evidence of shrub rub or baked dirt under most of the big lift, chrome Wranglers we all encounter on NJ roads. But they're always the first to talk about their "real Jeep". They're also the first to run out to the parking lot in a panic because a shopping cart hit their big bad Jeep. My point is that these pedantic requirements for what make a real Jeep are not legitimate or based in reality. Like my XJ's which you've relegated to station wagon status because they're not open body and have a roof. Then again I don't have doors or a floor pan. Can I substitute one requisite "real Jeep" feature for another in determining if my Jeeps are real? Reminds me of trying to figure out if a rifle is NJ-compliant. Too many damn rules. If it's got a Jeep badge on it and you go wheeling with it.... it's a real Jeep. That's my take on it
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Mossberg 500 good for doin fancy math
or "How to calculate Pi in a post-apocalyptic world" https://medium.com/the-physics-arxiv-blog/c1eb776193ef Do not try this indoors. Or talk about it in math class if you're a student in a NJ public school.
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NJ only issued 1195 CCW permits
Well, for lack of better words, that sucks!
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NJ only issued 1195 CCW permits
Without shining too bright a light on a quiet operation.. I believe an organized effort was successfully made last year to develop concrete evidence that the majority of applicants are denied.
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Almost nobody complied with the Connecticut AWB
Amen.
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S2723 Revises Firearm Purchaser ID and handgun purchase permits (Sweeney, Norcross, Weinberg)
I must be imagining things but I thought there was a scheduling trick he could use to extend the 45 day deadline. I thought I read a news article that mentioned something like he intended to extend the deadlines for the earlier bills on his desk so he could consider all of them together at once. But I must be imagining things because I can't find it now <shrug> Anyone familiar with this?
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Top 5 NJ Gun Laws You should know
If Mr. Ed gets banned then I'm going to come to all your ranges and shoot up your target stands! How about a list of forgotten or repealed NJ gun laws or municipal ordinances? I.e. in 1856 Piscataway Township made it illegal to prop up a table using the stock of a rifle-musket unless it was a Christian holiday
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Notice served to Assembly Speaker
Lifer here. When I think NRA in NJ, I think ANJRPC. And when I think ANJRPC, I think
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Gun Safe Dehumidifier ?
I believe Eva-Dry is the original brand and the others are rebranded. They're great but only work with slight humidity. I put a bunch of them in an off-site cabinet and got surface rust after a few months. Climate control in the building is the most important thing, dessiccants and heat sticks are secondary. Do you use silicon spray and/or gun socks within the safe/cabinet? Do you use the A/C non-stop or open your windows when the temperature permits? Night air can be very cool (and airs out a stuffy house that runs A/C all day) but it can also be very humid. Enough to make my wood furniture swell! (real furniture, not ifle stocks)
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Urinating in public?
When I lived in Hoboken a long, long time ago I was approached by a cop while I was pissing on Court St. He goes, "nice dick". I said, "same to you Sir". He was still pissing when I left. Hoboken is a lot different now P.S. Mipafox, nice impatiens
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Asian Mosquitoes Zeroes in on NJ
Do these skeeters have their private parts blurred out too?
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Today is a very sad day...
I'm so sorry I wish these little guys could live as long as us If there is any good in a person, a dog will find it.
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FID change of address DENIED
You probably already know this but even if you are talking to a Det or the C.O.P. about clearing the underlying issue you still need to file an appeal with the county (Superior) court within 30 days of the letter The town may meet with you, be friendly to you, promise to look into the problem, etc. but once that 30 days is up you are shit out of luck with a permanent denial on your record regardless of what they've said to you I noticed that Anselmo offered to provide templates for the letters you need to send the town, state and Superior court. I would take advantage of that offer and send them out ASAP (certified mail with return receipt with plenty of time to spare before the deadline) even if you plan on retaining a lawyer later. Then you are assured your appeal prior to an official denial and your lawyer can later notify the court to be attorney on record (and file a request for discovery, etc.) prior to the court date (which will be months away as the rate the towns (particularly the ones that belong to Mayors Against Guns) are increasing their denials For a lawyer you are looking at a few thousand bucks start to end. I am curious how much Shawn saved by preparing and arguing his case and only having the lawyer do the paper work. That sounds like a good plan if you can articulate yourself well!
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The ***OFFICIAL*** Steel Target Group Buy Thread
Forgive me Henry, maybe "not maintained" is a better choice of words as this is the first update since May 21st Regardless we all have our answer now I'm in for the next group buy should you organize another one