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Well, technically I am talking about jobs in NYC but no matter where you look there is a shortage of skilled IT specialists. My previous company had hard times finding talent, my current company also have the same troubles. All my friends in the industry complain about problems hiring the right people. My team had three different open positions for a long long time and I was able to find only one qualified person. Same problem exists in other countries (Ukraine in my example). I interview lots of people and their qualifications are just not there, or they have extremely narrow skill set. In summary there are ton of work in IT if you know what you are doing.

Welcome to forum! I guess I am so much fun they just love to keep seeing me there. This is the only reasonable explanation why they still did not issue my fpid 2+ months later

Googled for a gun mountable camera some time ago and came up with this one - http://www.shotkam.com/

Also, does it mean that to be on a safer side instead of 9mm 15 rounds gun I should get .22 10 rounds and.45 8 rounds guns if I plan to buy in between 2 weeks to 2 months range from now?

My understanding that ban happy side did some research because they keep saying how 10 round saved lives again and again etc. Did anybody see that research? Is there any truth to it?

Source? NATO is doing military exercises in the area, must be related.

I know it does not help much but I caught a deal on natchezss.com last week using slickguns.com and ordered a bunch of .22lr. It is already shipped. Shop around, there is always use for ammo, gf or not.

One more point. There was a point in my life when I almost got into Ukrainian army (after getting higher education). This was worse than going into prison. Army in 1990th was a seriously screwed and bad place to be. I got lucky and did not get in there. For a long time I tried hard to avoid routes that lead past the local army enlistment center. I have business partners in Ukraine. When SHTF out there many of my coworkers went to that army enlistment center to sign up into army. There were several thousand people over there for several days. This is in the city where practically nobody speaks Ukrainian. In fact the first time I heard a clean Ukrainian in family level conversation was here in NJ! And I traveled extensively all over the place in Ukraine back in the day. Army did not take them all right away but some of my friends got enlisted finally. For me it is one of the strangest twists in a whole ordeal.

Here is a good article about use of media in this war - http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2014/apr/28/ukraine-hate-progress/ It is also worth looking at reportages by Simon Ostrovsky from Vice (there are plenty on youtube). This guy have some serious balls and gets right in the middle of conflict. A little bit about Russian's pseudo-patriotism - http://euromaidanpr.com/2014/04/29/children-of-russian-officials-prefer-overseas/

http://www.allamericanclothing.com/ Recommended by my friend.

Maksim, there was never ever abuse of Russians in Ukraine. It is just impossible. If anything speaking or showing support for Ukraine gets you severally beaten or killed in some areas in East. I did not look at videos but what you wrote pretty much repeats fantasies and lies that are told on Russian TV. Turning off Russian channels helps to clear mind. It helped my Ukrainian relatives for sure.

Apologies for off-topic. Bush did not really computerized much of processing. For example at some point USCIS introduced online form filling. Turns out they were receiving data online via website, printed forms, and sent them to processing facility just like normal person would via snail mail. At processing facility USCIS scanned forms back into computer database. Filling online did not give you or USCIS any advantage over regular processing at all. I spent several very miserable years waiting for any kind of decision from USCIS, so I read everything related, especially ombudsman's and GAO's reports on performance etc. There were tons of very unpleasant stories there. I became citizen last year. This was exceptionally pleasant experience, believe it or not from start to finish. I was very surprised. I guess some positive changes were made in the last several years.

I am following the news from Ukraine obviously. It is sad that government cannot put their act together and fight off those terrorists. I believe the only way to resolve this conflict is a forceful removal of Putin and some of his friends from power by forces from inside of Russia. US/EU sanctions supposedly should motivate such forces to act. I do not understand many things about 2A and issues about it, but in my opinion Ukraine today is an example of what 2A is about. With powerless government, dysfunctional police, people are forming militia to protect their towns from terrorists. The only problem is that they have hardly any weapons because civilian people are mostly prohibited from having it in Ukraine. They have nothing but will against trained professionals, AKs, grenade launchers etc.

I wish it was exaggeration. Most of the time my case was stuck in different background checks for whatever unknown reason.

It took me about 8 years to get U.S. permanent resident status legally. For the most of those years either me and my wife got fingerprinted at least twice a year. I did some research and turns out fingerprints were stored on a tape. Nobody bothered to retrieve them from tapes unless FBI did a serious research on a specific person. So they requested new fingerprints every time they needed them. I believe it is already fixed though at least with FBI. There might be a simple explanation to this 're-fingerprinting' issue.

Some manufacturers tell their dealers that "you cannot display discounted price online".

I thought maintenance is included with bmw cars, "free" for life. I have a subaru dealership 5 walking minutes away. I will never ever give them my business even if it will cost me money. In fact I had to tow my car once and chose somebody 20 miles away instead of this dealership. It is an extra $100 or so in towing fees. This is not because their prices are higher but because of their total luck of interest in having me as a customer. It seems like all their departments ( I tried to use all of them once ) are sabotaging customers. I also buy all my bicycles and most of bicycle accessories from the same small store on a shore for many years now. They are not cheapest and 40 minutes away but they always have time to talk about my needs and always have a good advice. And I am just an average Joe rider, nobody special. I value this relationship more than money, time or convenience of shopping online. Price wise they are somewhat reasonably more expensive than deals that I can find on Internet. I guess there is a pain point in price difference where I would go somewhere else but I have yet to reach it. The same goes for gun shops. With good customer relationship and experience paying more than the best deals on Internet feels just fine. But there is a pain point when you will feel stupid for paying this much. As an example available to me I have no choice but to pay twice more for ammo than what I can get on Internet. The moment I get FID this place will get no more of my ammo related business. Their gun's prices are somewhat high and sometimes ridiculously high. My guess would be that prices are negotiable and salesman wants some room to go down.

You can click to get a bigger image here - http://news.mail.ru/foto/180962/73350/ This is what Alpo said.

Rush Holt is my representative. I asked his office for help on several occasions and every time was surprised how efficient and helpful his office was. I also complained couple times about things I did not agree with and also got a personal response on those issues. I do not know if he personally writes notes or not, but it is surely rare when you get handwritten note from your representative. I also do not call him names, neither in mail nor behind the back; maybe that's the difference. I never got any reasonable response from any other representative besides a formal 'we got your message'.

I know everything about ppq that is to know from reading Internet. But it is the first time I saw one in real life (and behind glass).

I was looking at Walther PPQ. I only wanted to make sure I can hold it comfortably. I discovered recently there are pistol grips that are too big for my wide palm/short fingers hand. It would be a waste of dreaming power if it turns out walther does not fit me well.

Thanks. I got the answer. I guess I have to suffer till I finally get FID. Hope it will take less than 20 years

My feeling exactly. I am hopefully about a month away from getting fid, and if there is a choice between that place and somebody else guess who will get my business.

Should I really post topic appropriate porsche ad here?

Do I have to have fid to take a gun in my hands in a gun store? Was denied today to look at a gun I am interested in buying. I wonder if store manager made this rule up to get rid of me or it is some kind of law I know nothing about?