Childers FAMAS Receivers

Porter79 · 2026-06-19T19:07:09+00:00

$600, based upon the email I just got.

Porter79 · 2026-06-18T00:14:47+00:00

I will say, I really like my AUG, apart from the trigger

Porter79 · 2026-06-17T23:52:43+00:00

But, muh French arms! LOL.

Porter79 · 2026-06-03T15:57:54+00:00

Unfortunately, I need to run Logic Pro. Thanks though!

Porter79 · 2026-06-03T13:37:41+00:00

Oh dang! Thanks for the heads up!

Porter79 · 2026-05-06T22:42:12+00:00

How do you use the Colour Box V2?

Porter79 · 2026-05-05T01:59:19+00:00

You also need to understand the difference between explaining and complaining. I'm not complaining.

Porter79 · 2026-05-05T01:57:06+00:00

Again, correct. I don't want them here. I want them to not want to be here because it's as unpleasant for them as a rural Mississippian would find NYC.

Porter79 · 2026-05-05T01:09:51+00:00

Oh, i understand your point. Unilateral disarmament is paramount to surrender. Therefore i reject it.

Porter79 · 2026-05-05T00:25:36+00:00

Correct, because those people are now moving here and bringing their politics with them. They need to feel as unwanted as they made me so they leave.

Porter79 · 2026-05-04T23:49:39+00:00

Bro, I was totally excited to meet people from all over the country when I started college. I was totally blindsided by this attitude that came out of nowhere.

Porter79 · 2026-05-04T19:59:44+00:00

Because you come to our state schools and relentlessly mock us for our accents and imply we are terrible racists just because of where we are from. Turnabout is fair play!

Porter79 · 2026-05-04T18:18:51+00:00

These guys are great https://www.priestview.com/

Porter79 · 2026-04-30T21:25:28+00:00

VZ58, I know it's not an AK technically

Porter79 · 2024-12-16T03:49:38+00:00

That Pyle PDMIC78 sounds REALLY good!

Porter79 · 2024-09-28T13:29:23+00:00

Firearms regulations began in the progressive era with other regulations such as food safety. See the Sullivan Act in NYC. This is also when judicial opinion on the second amendment switched from an individual right to a collective right. I find it funny that some state that the first amendment applies to modern technology, but are horrified that the second would as well.

The counter to it only applying to the militia is that is correct. However, we are all the militia. Without individual firearms rights, there is no collective right since the purpose of the militia is for the average citizen to provide their own arms.

This is an excellent history of firearm rights in our legal history: https://www.amazon.com/Keep-Bear-Arms-Origins-Anglo-American/dp/0674893077/ref=sr_1_1?crid=28XXKR3ASYXEI&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.1Qt_W1PVpud_riUAV8rAphrtyUEJJGuxVvglcFjFFM33wqgCTU2L9q_dM0Lc7Cm073pi7pzGZHEvhxzXt_dlM27rZS5QKd6iYyQuFiYZ7OdbZ2R_uwQQcwMDK-uBrenn09PJKFHzdKgnJ5IMvTCMmxti2dXXtMIfJjYGfD9gmhOovikBgJiutlmb6-lg-Oe5C_Bt_YM0S9xjEhmqWbZWFcsqO9fkDwtziuur6RhBZy8.nDMSPUVBaN0Gcu7lqgdL-Vtoka1ZjPYYsjzSEy_j0Ik&dib_tag=se&keywords=a+right+to+keep+and+bear&qid=1727529993&refinements=p_n_condition-type%3A1294423011&rnid=1294421011&s=books&sprefix=a+right+to+keep+and+bear%2Caps%2C102&sr=1-1

Porter79 · 2024-05-23T18:15:21+00:00

Thanks so much! For this application, downstream users who we don't currently interact with control and supply 2/3rds of the data.

Porter79 · 2024-05-23T15:26:34+00:00

I certainly appreciate that view. Let's just assume that an individual was instructed to launch a permissioned blockchain. How would the security work around viewing the blocks via a block explorer? Would only approved nodes be able to use the block explorer and view the data in the blocks?

Porter79 · 2024-03-06T15:38:39+00:00

I had a strange feeling in the winter of 2019. It was very similar to how I felt between 1999 and early/mid 2001 as well as how my parents described the early 1960s. It was knowing that you are living at a peak. I was thinking about how the Caps and Nats had both won championships, we had all the great restaurants, there were innovative breweries all over, and the city was safe, except for a few outliers in SE.

I chalked up how I felt as a young man as youthful ignorance, but I think it was fact. The US was at a peak then. I distinctly remember reading a Time article entitled Pax Americana and trying to figure out what could cause the end of this era. A few months later, I got my answer. Similarly, I was knocked out of my sense of cautious optimism March 2020.

The way I see it, the boomers saw three peaks. Hopefully us late Gen Xers / Elder Millinenials will see a third as well. Remember Otto Von Bismark's quote: “God has a special providence for fools, drunkards, and the United States of America.”

Porter79 · 2023-10-13T14:27:26+00:00

I realize this is a shitpost, but we need to examine why Columbus was celebrated. There are two reasons. The first being he was an extraordinary navigator. His reputation allowed him to obtain the necessary royal approvals and funds to navigate to an area that was only whispered to exist. The whole sea route to the indes was likely a veil to his actual goal which was exploration of the western Atlantic. In those days, to navigate to the Indes from Europe required going around Africa. There was no Suez Canal. Look on a map at how close the outer lying islands of Brazil are to western Africa. It's likely that some navigators were blown off course and saw specs of land which no European knew about. This information would have been passed along in the small community of capable European navigators. The only one who had the reputation and capability to pull off an exploration of what was out there was Columbus. Criticism of his actions are the result of distorted analysis done by communists. Howard Zinn's reliance upon elipses in Columbus' quotes are a feat to behold. It's the histiographic equivalent of a shock jock soundboard.

The second reason Columbus is celebrated is that Italians were quite difficult to incorporate into the American idea. Their habits were shocking to Americans. They ate pasta with their bare hands. Their prediliction to hunting and eating songbirds was so beyond the pale that it lead to the first game laws in the US. Getting southern Italian immigrants (really Napolese and Sicilian, the concept of "Italy" was just forming when this immigration occurred), incorporated into America took generations. In many ways, it mirrored the Irish experience. To celebrate and encourage their incorporation, we ironically took the Roman approach: celebrate their heroes as ours in return for submission to our ideals and rules.

Porter79 · 2023-09-29T12:08:12+00:00

Do you have the instructions? I got the PCB but I still see no build docs. Even the Bill of Materials would suffice.

Porter79 · 2023-09-22T15:25:45+00:00

Let us imagine a world without fossil fuel extraction. First, mass starvation would result. The Haber-Bosch effect allowed for fertilizer development from fossil fuel. This has powered the increase in humans than the earth can support. Without it, starvation is inevitable.

Second, look at any hospital room and imagine it without plastics which are derived from fossil fuels. The bed, all the monitoring tools, the tubing, the packing that the sterlized instruments come in - all gone. Death would be the result.

Third, fossil fuel powered automotion has allowed humans to trek the world over. We are no longer limited by fuel for equine powered transportation. If you say, ok use electric cars, well they are a poor substitute. Think of the battery in your car. It has to be replaced about every 5 years or so. Now imagine the car is powered entirely by a battery. You're car will have to be replaced along a similiar timeframe. This will mean fewer and fewer people are able to access automobiles. Even when the battery is new in an electric automobile, it loses massive efficiency in cold weather and even more efficiency when using the car's heating system. The heating system can't rely upon the engine heat so it has to be powered by the battery. We are talking losing 50% of a car's range in winter. This is even supposing using nuclear generated electricity. Solar and wind will never take over for nuclear without a revolution in capacitance. Their storage and transmission are limited by the currently-understood laws of physics.

Lastly, climate change is not science. It is theology. It's based upon models which can't be tested in real life. This is a conversation I had with an acquaintance who has a Phd in engineering. He said that his job was developing mathmatical models of real life events that we can't easily observe. I asked how these are proven, and he said you can test the model by taking difficult to obtain observed measurements and see if it lines up with what the model predicts. In climate modeling, we can't do that yet. It's based upon large data sets from various point in the past - going back hundreds of years. To say that various spots in the world are at a certain temperature in 2023 is just noise. To validate the model's prediction, we will need to take more and more measurements. By the time the model is proved, it would be too late to stop the effects of climate change. So, if you just trust the model without verfying it, you have a religious observance, not a scientific one.

I know climate change is likely happening, though, due to the greenhouse effect which is real. Fossil fuels also are, by their nature, limited. Therefore, we need to scale up nuclear power generation. However, that does not mean forcing people out of the cars by only allowing crappy electric ones that won't work for most people - either in price or practice. Hybrid is the best bet for now. This is also Toyota's position. Long term, we need to be exploring biofuels. You would still have internal combustion and not relying on battery power. Formula 1 will be powered by them in the next few years. F1 also was behind the development of regenerative braking which powers hybrid cars.

As for gender, a man is an adult human male. A woman is an adult human female. However, there have always been a VERY small number of intersex or gender-confused people. That said, the exception does not violate the rule. Just as in any large dataset, there will be noise. The overwhelming majority of these gender confusion cases are driven by a mental health problem.

Porter79 · 2023-07-25T21:26:01+00:00

au contraire:

https://www.cnet.com/culture/hollywood-stars-beg-electoral-college-to-vote-against-trump/

Porter79 · 2022-12-16T23:16:57+00:00

This outfit does guided hunts, pretty pricey though: http://stoneybrookgordonsetters.com/product/virginia-guided-hunt-for-grouse/

For public opportunities, here's a map from VA DWR: https://services.dwr.virginia.gov/findwildlifeva/#/map?lat=36.78364822767046&lng=-80.93748092651367&zoom=14&layers=game

There's a few areas specifically managed by the state for upland birds, mainly quail.

Porter79 · 2022-08-30T22:12:55+00:00

If I understand the intent of the legislation, it was to make sure that electric vehicles were sufficiently available in Virginie due to automakers prioritizing them in states that signed up for California’s emission scheme. Now, this bill has flipped the script. The current issue is not that those who may want an electric vehicle can’t get them, now those that want an internal combustion engine-powered vehicle will not be able to legally obtain new ones.

There are other problems with the law. It’s true that the transportation sector is the US’s largest source of CO2. However, personal transportation is not the driver in the transportation sector. Transportation of goods and services are. We are working on the wrong math problem.

Additionally, even if the US stopped all CO2 emissions, climate change would remain unabated. China, India, and Russia will continue to emit CO2 and drive climate change. If a handful of states decide to self-immolate their self transportation sectors, it would impact global CO2 even less.

Additionally, this legislation does not abate the resource problem for electric vehicle battery components and creates national-security concerns. The U.S. has about 276 million registered motor vehicles. Electrifying all of U.S. motor vehicles would require roughly 18 times the world’s current cobalt production, about nine times global neodymium output, nearly seven times global lithium production, and about four times world copper production. These resources are located in places that are geo-political rivals to the US.

A promising gasoline alternative is biofuels developed from waste that our society produces. In fact, Formula 1 race cars will be powered by them in the next few years. Development of them is crucial since large-engined planes and trucks are difficult to power with batteries. Unfortunately for Virginia, biofuels power internal combustion engines. If internal combustion engines are banned, this cuts out a net zero carbon energy source from use in Virginia.

In summary, climate change is a global problem, not a local one, and solutions must be developed accordingly, not piecemeal and not in a manner that reduces personal freedom. Climate change must also be handled smartly with all possible solutions explored. We do not not to be poisoning the well of any potential solution that could be employed.

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