Howard

Well you can never stop everything, but if you have multiple communications methods they would have to cut them all at the same time. Yes anything one man can create another can get around or destroy with enough work.

Nice looking dog, unfortunately a pound of raw chop meat with poison neutralizes it very quickly

Good alarm systems have wired sensors and cameras with tamper alarms. They typically are dual mode communication using landline or internet along with cellular. They also have battery backup so the odds of getting past it are very slim. The only real weakness is in how long it takes police to show up.

AP is fake news? We are in big trouble if that is the case.

Just saw this article: https://apnews.com/58e9557074dc4274887d8a9723d6eaef They are going after the guy that sold ammo to the guy who shot up Las Vegas a few month back. Sounds like going after the car dealer that sold you a car that you killed someone with. This is getting ugly.

How did this thread that was about the fact that bad guys broke into a store and stole stuff turn into an attack and defense of their business model? Now why the attack on the definition of a tragedy? Sure it is a tragedy when someone gets killed or non-replaceable objects are taken. But anyone that has built a business will feel it a tragedy and a personal attack when what they build is attacked or destroyed even if it can be replaced with money. If you have never built a business perhaps you can't feel that, but I understand where Pete is coming from. As for pricing, well every business builds their own business model. Some are low priced others are high priced. They each target a different demographic and have different means of achieving their goals. If you operate in a high cost area and offer huge inventory and lots of service and support you are typically going to have higher prices. Any business typically offers three things- price, service and quality - as a customer you typically get to pick any two of those that you want and the business sets the other. That is why there are many different businesses around. My suggestion for those that don't need service and support buy online since they just want the cheapest price. If you want to be able to hold the product and compare it to lots of others and be able to ask many people behind the counter about the product then you will likely pay more at a full service business. So, have the bad guys been caught, any lead on them?

I might be proven wrong, but I cannot see a self driving car ever working in NYC. NYC streets are a sea of pedestrians, and they don't obey traffic light, they just go when they see a chance. That means in the midtown area a self driving car will never be able to make a right turn as it will just sit and wait forever. I predict that self driving will have the greatest impact, and quickly, on long haul trucking. There are huge cost savings to eliminating a driver on long haul trucks and allowing the trucks to run for more hours a day - that is big money. In the short run they might need a driver for the first and last few miles, but for the entire interstate highway trip this technology will take over faster than many think. I was having the discussion about snow and ice being an issue with a young person just a few weeks ago and he astutely pointed out that my thinking was wrong. I was thinking about the visual problems, but he pointed out that is a human flaw since sensors do not have to use the visual spectrum and can "see" through the snow and ice.

Does anyone here do exterior painting in Morris County, or know someone that does. I need someone to do some exterior painting on my house in Randolph. Feel free to respond here or PM me if you rather do it that way. Thanks for your help.

NO! There is nothing in the law that requires you to have a driver's licence in order to own a gun or follow other laws. So many people spew the crap about FID and matching licence but nowhere in the statute does it say anything about having a driver's licence. A copy of your deed or mortgage would prove you are a resident.

http://www.nj.com/hunterdon/index.ssf/2018/01/man_kills_himself_at_hunterdon_county_gun_range_officials_say.html Authorities are investigating an apparent suicide at a Hunterdon County gun range on Monday afternoon, Hunterdon County Prosecutor Anthony P. Kearns said in a press release. A man died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at the Tactical Training Center in Raritan Township, officials said. His identity is withheld until the family is notified, Kearns said. No additional information was released. Tactical Training Center is a full-service firearms range, welcoming walk-ins and members, according to its website. Instructors are retired or current police officers with Firearms Instructor Certifications. Questions linger after latest suicide at shooting range Over the past two years there have been at least six shootings at N.J. gun ranges. In 2016, a state law allowing temporary transfer of firearms at gun ranges came under fire after at least six people killed themselves in gun ranges between September 2014 and July 2016. In January 2017, a gun range employee in Lakewood accidentally shot himself in the hand while pulling a firearm from a storage cabinet.

I shoot both indoor matches and outdoor matches, some with real bathrooms and others with porta potties. I have not noticed any significant difference in the female participation rates based on the facilities. I shoot IDPA, USPSA, Knockdown steel and Static steel. I probably notice the most women at USPSA matches at Ontelaunee PA, and the only bathrooms close to where the match is actually shot are porta potties.

While there may be more women shooting overall, at least here in the socialist people's republic of New Jermany, it is rare to see more than zero to maybe three women at shooting matches. There are several matches I routinely shoot at in all different disciplines and that number is generally close to zero at some matches and I have never ever seen it higher than say 5% of total participants.

EXACTLY. Check out the recent thread on the board about winter tires.

The cheapest way to have a car is to buy a two or three year old car and drive it till it stops moving. But cheap does not always mean best. That 12 year old car might just give up the ghost when you are in a bad part of town, and oh crap you live in New Jermany and can't have a gun with you Leasing is actually cheaper than buying if you want a high priced luxury car. Leasing is cheaper than buying if you want a new car every two years, especially if you don't want to have to deal with selling a car privately. As mentioned if you have major damage to a car, even if "perfectly" repaired that car will never be worth what a clean one will be that did not have that damage. I had a leased car that was rear ended under the Betsy Ross bridge near Philly. The back was totally smashed and the car was just driveable. The lease was up a two weeks later and I was leaving on a business trip to Europe three days later. I took the car to the dealer the day before I left with the insurance info and police report and said here is your car I am done you deal with it. That was the last I ever heard of the car and they handled everything. Bottom line, there is no one right answer, even though for most I agree that generally better to buy if you can't take the lease payments as a business expense.

Well as long as it has good air bags I guess you could drive it into a wall and total it - lease over

Time to rent the car out or start driving for Uber to rack up the miles.

No one said “you” were idiots. Heck they do this stuff every day so they should be good about it. I don’t agree with you on the part about the negotiated price not showing up in the lease calculation as it always did in the vehicles I leased. The other thing is be prepared to walk out. Every time I have done that they keep calling knocking the price down with every phone call.

Well that is how it has worked for any car I have leased. Please explain how you see it differently.

Yes but when you want to lease never ever tell the dealer that up front. Always tell them you want to buy and then negotiate a price. Also go in knowing what the residuals are and what the interest rate or what they call the money factor is. That was you lock them into figuring the lease payment based on info you have locked in. You will get the best deal that way.

YUP, I never understand why people buy their leased cars at lease end. On the flip side there was a period in the 1990's when they were doing such strange stuff with residuals just to keep production going. I leased three different Mercury Mountaineers for 2 years each and it was actually much much cheaper than leasing two for three year terms. Makes no sense in the "real" world". I think the two year residual was something like 80% back then.

I love that one Bob! Towards that end I think they should not allow R or D or any other party affiliation actually be printed on the ballots. They should only have the people's names. At least that way voters would actually have to know something about the candidates, or at a minimum take two minutes and write themselves up a cheat sheet to take with them into the voting booth.

Buying a car out at the end of a lease is often a fools errand. This is especially the case on a luxury or high value car. The reason is that car companies often set very high residuals on these cars to lower the monthly payments. They do this in part to keep manufacturing plants running at high capacity figuring they will eat the loss at the back end. Thus, the buyout at the end of a lease might be say $25,000 when you could in fact buy a similar car for only $20,000.

There are companies that buy-out leases - check Google. One of the best deals I ever ran into was when we leased a vehicle that we knew would use a lot of miles. They let you pre-buy as many extra as you wanted at 8 cents a mile. When you turned the vehicle in anything over 15,000 miles a years that you did not use they refunded at 10 cents a mile. Sweat deal, I think I "bought" 30,000 a year and made a bunch of money as we only used about 18,000 a year.

I had heard the floor is supposedly around $5,600 based on electricity and computer costs to “mine” a bitcoin. Mining seems like a very strange term for it though.

I would bet they have some very good video of the perps as they have the place fully covered including the outside. Will be interesting to see how quickly these "people" get caught.