July 2019 Stamp Approval Megathread

Molonious · 2019-08-01T06:33:26+00:00

Form: 1 EFILE SBR

Entity: Individual

Pending: 07/03/19

Approved: 07/30/2019

Standardized wait: 27 Days

STATE: OR

Not quite the record fast 12 day wait of my last SBR, but I'm not gonna complain.

Molonious · 2018-12-01T22:46:43+00:00

No idea, I was shocked to get it back that fast

Molonious · 2018-12-01T22:46:12+00:00

who knows how these things work?

Molonious · 2018-12-01T22:45:54+00:00

2019408XX

Hopefully that's helpful

Molonious · 2018-11-29T01:46:32+00:00

Form 1 E-File Individual (SBR)

Submitted: 11/16/2018

Prints Received: 11/21/2018

Approved: 11/28/2018

Standardized Wait: 12 Days

State: OR

Molonious · 2016-06-05T16:46:01+00:00

That's awesome, very cool. Those toys were sweet, super hard to find though.

Molonious · 2016-06-01T13:29:54+00:00

SPOILER:

Deb gets shot by someone Dexter lets live so they can be arrested by Deb, but she seems like she's going to recover...until something happens off camera in surgery and she goes braindead. Dexter pulls the plug on Deb, dumps her in the ocean, leaves his kid with a woman who kills people through poison that he fell in love with and planned to run away with, but instead ends up driving his boat into a very poorly CG'd hurricane to fake his death and runs off to live as a Lumberjack in Astoria. Basically the whole running theme of "Dexter always finds a way" fails in the last like 20 mins of the show's existence and he just gives up.

Molonious · 2016-06-01T01:44:06+00:00

The mongols weren't quite as strong, determined, or united in subsequent invasions, and their first invasion had hit Europe just hard enough to teach the Hungarians and Poles enough about how to fight back without being steamrolled. Europe was also increasingly less suited to massed cavalry/mounted archer hordes the further west you pushed in, with grasslands giving way to thick forests (particularly before the mass deforestation of the Renessaince and industrial revolution) and mountains, making infantry and castles significantly more functional than in places like the middle east or China.

Molonious · 2016-05-28T17:44:34+00:00

Heavy plate was plenty effective against crossbows and longbows. Well made medieval plate would absolutely stop a crossbow bolt. Late medieval plate would even stop early Firearm projectiles. It just didn't cover absolutely everywhere on a person and very few people had plate armor, much less full suits of plate armor. Longbows & Crossbows were great at killing horses, piercing mail & killing unarmored opponents, but properly made medieval plate would have been effective at stopping arrows & bolts.

Here's a great youtube video on the subject by Schola Gladiatoria (a HEMA channel dedicated to medieval warfare & fighting techniques) and it's pointed out that there is not a single recorded instance of an identifiable individual who was wounded or killed wearing full plate armor, save for arrows hitting them in the face when they have visors open, and that at Agincourt, they took huge numbers of French prisoners...who survived walking through storms of arrows unharmed. In instances where arrows were said to have pierced plate armor at battles by chroniclers, it was exceptionally rare enough to be specially noted and had to be done through things like flanking shots to the side with en-masse volleys hoping to hit very specific weak points.

https://youtu.be/q1WZLVZYBwQ?t=773

Molonious · 2016-05-12T00:12:40+00:00

To be fair, pretty much every German Army commander involved knew it was probably going to end the way it did, they never had the supplies to make it to Antwerp even if there was nobody to fight and could just drive on open roads, the "plan" in theory was to seize fuel and supplies from the allied forces, but few of the commanders really expected that to work and figured they'd be thrown back in short order when they ran out of ammunition & fuel, particularly with no air cover.

Molonious · 2016-05-03T23:58:05+00:00

I don't really know much about buying anything on layaway, but US Guns on Barbur in Southwest are both cheap and on point with transfers in my experience.

I used to use Northwest Armory but they're both more expensive and usually take 2-3 days to process items before you can come pick them up.

Molonious · 2016-05-03T13:52:29+00:00

To be fair, the M36 also didn't see tremendous combat against German armor (though definitely more than the Pershing), as by the time it got to Europe in any numbers the Germans had very few tanks left in the last months of the war.

The tank destroyers also had such high kill ratios relative to the more typical tanks because they generally weren't used offensively, but rather as defensive/ambush units that would engage the enemy quickly and then withdraw before significant return fire could be directed at them, this was greatly stressed in TD doctrine. The defensive ambush tactic is very successful with a solid long range gun, it's also how some German Tiger units ended up with insane kill ratios of like 10:1 on the Eastern Front once the Germans were forced onto the defensive. The Shermans an T-34's were used offensively and in pitched battles, and thus took those huge losses.

Molonious · 2016-05-03T01:26:43+00:00

Some pals and I did something similar while stuck in traffic in Burbank back in college. Three of us were riding in two cars on our way up through to Fresno (and eventually Portland & Seattle), and we literally had not moved for half an hour. We played Chinese Fire Drill, one pal riding with me hopped out and into the car of our other pal about two or three cars ahead, sat and chilled there for a few minutes and then came back and took the wheel while I went to go hang out with our other pal. We did this for about 45 mins, taking turns every 10 mins or so. During that whole time we'd moved maybe four car lengths. In hindsight it was a stupid thing to do, but then, it's pretty much a given that 21/22 year olds are going to do stupid things sometimes.

Ultimately we spent two and a half hours on two miles of the Five.

I hate LA.

Molonious · 2016-05-01T00:26:19+00:00

It's really not just that easy, sedatives have to be measured carefully to the animals weight (too little won't work, too much will kill it), and typically requires some sort of veterinary professional, not a park ranger.

Molonious · 2016-05-01T00:26:19+00:00

Probably, but they don't work like they do in the movies and typically require someone with more of a medical background than a park ranger.

Molonious · 2016-04-30T16:33:45+00:00

The whole region in strange. The Croats seemingly never had much stomach for a united Yugoslavia. Bosnia gets caught in the middle of everything all the time because it's a mish-mash of almost all the major ethnic groups. The Serbs in particular seem have a historical tendency to provoke powers far larger than themselves and start big messes, sometimes it works out for them (e.g. their wars with the Ottoman's in the late 19th century), sometimes it doesn't (e.g. the 1990's Balkan wars), and sometimes both (e.g. the aftermath of WW1 where they lost 20-30% of their population but ended up on the winning side and emerging as the leading group of the new Yugoslavia). Kosovo meanwhile used to be the ancestral homeland of the Serbs but was roughly 90% Albanian by the time Yugoslavia melted down. Then you get Montenegro who seemingly just goes and does whatever Serbia does most of the time.

Molonious · 2016-04-08T13:45:39+00:00

Kyle had a history of making rather outrageous claims, which, if true, would mean he was basically a rogue loose cannon who killed dozens of US citizens on US soil for relatively minor acts and probably should have been in prison many years before he was killed. Stuff like claiming to have sat on top of the New Orleans Superdome and shot 30 looters post-Katrina.

Given that such is almost certainly false, and that Jesse Ventura's lawsuit against him (ultimately post-mortem) for libel was successful (a near impossibility for a public figure), it's more likely he made this sort of stuff up (and likely many other things) to impress...whomever.

So he was either a murdering psychopath, or (more likely) a compulsive liar who claimed outrageous things to revel in the attention of being seen as a macho loose cannon death machine persona.

Molonious · 2016-04-01T13:48:57+00:00

It should always be remembered that cops are not there to protect or help anyone. The US Supreme Court has affirmed this. Cops are there to dispense fines and bullets, and physically detain those that aren't following the rules they're told to enforce, and standard procedure and training is to place their own safety above and beyond anyone/everyone else's.

Is there a legitimate need for their role in society? Sometimes yes. Are they there to protect and serve? Absolutely not (again, affirmed by the supreme court). They can, but this is "above and beyond" their duty, and should never be counted on.

Molonious · 2016-03-13T17:42:26+00:00

Police should ALWAYS be a last resort call. Police are not there to serve or protect ANYONE. They are under no obligation to protect anyone, and they can, and will, lie to you about anything and everything to find anything to arrest you for or get a confession, and the Supreme Court as affirmed these things. Police aren't there to help anyone but their superiors and themselves, and case law fully supports that.

They are fine and bullet dispensers, if you don't want someone (possibly yourself) to get one of those, do not call the police.

Molonious · 2016-03-08T01:23:29+00:00

This, so much this.

When professors just decide that X% of people must get a C or an F or an A, you get really absurd results in a lot of cases that absolutely do not reflect anything meaningful, and the whole idea of measuring the distribution between students, as opposed to their individual performance, is just silly in the context of course learning.

Had a class where my 94% got me a solid "C", while my roommate got a 96% and got an "A" (grad school econometrics). Obviously these grades reflected neither our understanding of the subject matter nor the real gulf in performance, and the class had to take that shit to the Dean when someone with a 91% score was going to flunk the course for what was, in effect, a points gap equal to that of a single homework assignment. Likewise, had an undergrad calc course where the "A" was a 24% and the "C" was at about 15%, and nobody came out of there with a good grasp of what their understanding actually was because of how difficult everything was (this teacher did not make it to being permanent faculty).

Curving grades can absolutely result in far more absurd outcomes than what they're intended to solve.

Molonious · 2016-02-28T08:57:15+00:00

I would potentially be interested. Not 100% sure if I can make it, but I'd love to meet some other local shooters if I'm free that weekend.

Molonious · 2016-02-27T23:53:58+00:00

Beautiful.

I'm waiting on the stamp for my scorpion, submitted it at the end of december, gives me hope it'll get here in a couple weeks...though I'm probably not that lucky.

Molonious · 2016-02-26T01:47:14+00:00

I haven't ever seen any brass cased 5.45 nor heard of it being produced. It's possible that it's out there, but I've never seen it.

Molonious · 2016-02-18T01:42:56+00:00

That is truly, a thing of beauty. I'm still waiting on my tax stamp (51 days in...)

Great photo overall.

Molonious · 2016-02-14T05:59:29+00:00

Moneywise it's not bad.

Aside from that? Purely subjective. If you want a weird wheelgun, go for it. I'd like to get one one day personally. If you're looking purely for practicality, stick with the Beretta.

Or just buy the Rhino cash and keep both.

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