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Googling around, I found a value of 3.3 grams per liter under standard conditions, or about 3.9 times as dense as air. I didn't quickly find a value for the vapor density of gasoline, which has all kinds of volatile stuff in it in addition to octane, but the vapor will still be denser than that of air. But it will still diffuse pretty quickly, because the entropy of the gas won't let it stratify for long. A balloon filled with octane vapor will sink; the unconfined gas, not so much. If you spill a little gas on the floor, think of how quickly the smell gets to your nose.

No idea. A lot of places don't require them, but that doesn't help if you live somewhere that does.

Try leaving the magazines sit with 14 rounds for a few days, then use your Uplula loader to force in the 15th round, and let them sit like that for a few days. I've had good success with that method. Don't have an Uplula loader? You should--they're great!

I'm a chemist. The MW of CO is lighter than that of oxygen (as O2, the form in which it exists in the atmosphere). It's the same as that of nitrogen (N2). So CO is lighter than the average molecular weight of 'air'. But that doesn't matter, as the gasses diffuse very efficiently, and CO, N2, and O2 aren't going to stratify even a little bit. Even the little bit of Argon in the atmosphere doesn't settle out, and it's a friggin heavy gas atom.

The system is corrupt if they weren't making terroristic threats, in illegal possession of a firearm, possession of a high-capacity magazines, or possession of hollow points outside of the legal exclusions for them in NJ. But if they were (and we won't know until the trial), why wouldn't the prosecution charge them with all of the violations? I don't agree with a lot of the laws, but if the misguided legislature passed them, I wouldn't expect the prosecutor to selectively ignore them.

Nothing sinister; the military is smart enough to know that if they are carrying less useless packaging weight, they can carry more ammo. It's not about being PC, or gender neutral. It's about not stupidly clinging to outdated and inferior solutions.

I only shoot reloads; cast bullets in the .45, and I follow Glock's recommendation to only use plated or jacketed bullets in their polygonal barrels... So my .45 reloads are a little cheaper than my 9 mm reloads. Yes, I could shoot faster splits with a 9 than a .45, but I shoot significantly better scores with the .45, partly due to better sights (I haven't given up on finding good sights for a Glock, I just haven't succeeded yet), and partly due to a better trigger (and no amount of wizardry done to a striker-fired pistol will let it match the pull of a tuned single action). I also shoot a number of events that don't have dimensional restrictions on the gun but do have 10 round limits, so I run 10 round mags and don't give up round count to the 9s and 40s

Lowes and Home Depot both carry bags of hardwood chunks for smokers.

It's right for bullseye, both center fire and .45 stages. The 1911's dominate.

Let them know you're spending money elsewhere. Email screenshots, redacted as needed, of your online purchases of anything they carry but won't sell here.

I'd not seen a temporary flight restriction over Hoboken-there isn't one there as of today-but it is common to see them over newsworthy disaster sites anywhere. For exactly the reason you mention-fear of news helicopters colliding overhead. The train station is already under some very restricted airspace due to its proximity to Newark airport, but choppers could operate over the river.

I just saw that on one of the pilot boards. That's the fleet of Embry-Riddle aviation university; they were evacuating their training aircraft to Auburn. I'd imagine there were lots of similar, but much less orderly, tracks from light aircraft all over Florida heading north and inland.

Better barricades would mean more fatalities in the train, fewer on the platform, unless they cause more jackknifing of the train cars, in which case it gets uglier on the platform again. The problem is, there just isn't enough room to stop the thing with minimal destruction if it enters the station with excess speed

Oh, good. I was wondering how many electron volts that was! :-) I'm surprised the TNT equivalent was less than a pound... That seems low, but I've not much to base that on. Converting to a unit more familiar to the shooters here, the train had a power factor of over 410,000,000, so the USPSA/IDPA folks would score it as "major".

Approval for a merger this size would typically take only a few months, and the FTC says no to nothing. The only big merger I recall getting shot down in recent years was Pfizer/Allergan, and that wasn't because of antitrust concerns, it was because Pfizer planned to incorporate out of Allergan's Irish headquarters, to lower their corporate tax rate. Companies have a lot of leeway to build near-monopolies; it's only when tax revenues might take a hit that the Feds start to pay much attention.

Yep, that's exactly the problem.

The NTSB owns the investigation. They're thorough and slow and not at all inclined to issue periodic "here's what we think so far" updates. And with the federal investigation underway, I'm sure the local agencies are discouraged from offering up any statement of what they think. If they handle train crashes the way they do plane crashes, they will issue a short preliminary report in 1-3 days, and the final report in a couple of weeks.

I recently used Carglass LLC, 862-926-7936, and I was very happy. $350 cash to replace a Subaru Outback windshield, work done in my driveway (Morris County)

I'm looking for a carpenter for a couple of home projects, in the Montville/Denville/Boonton area. I need someone with experience with old houses; main project is to replace the sides of the front porch roof. There are some big moldings involved (not stuff found at a typical home center) and while we don't require an exact match, we want to keep it in the style of the original woodwork. There are a couple of more routine jobs we may have done at the same time; a window replacement (more 1890's vintage molding to work around), a little bit of wood siding replacement, perhaps a repair to a small section of the garage roof. Any recommendations?

With a little work, you could make that look like new. :-)

Annually. Per year.

"Super Owner" I like it. Maybe we should get some t-shirts made up.

Just a suggestion...maybe delete from here the details of what sensors you have and how they are set. If someone wanted to find your house using the personal information available on this board, I suspect they could.

And the top 3% of Americans control 54% of the wealth. http://www.cnbc.com/2014/09/05/even-in-the-richest-3-theres-a-growing-wealth-gap.html The Pareto principle (which these stats roughly follow) was published in 1896--this isn't new. Ownership distributions always skew heavily towards the top end (few, owning most). MGM and Caesars own 60% of the casinos in Vegas. Five beer conglomerates brew over 50% of the world's beer. It's unremarkable. Only if the distribution was anywhere near linear would it be unexpected, unprecedented, publishable.

Very cool! Of course, when NJ DMV figures out what they mean, they'll recall them as 'obscene/offensive'.