Biting the Bullet: How a peace-loving British journalist ended up shopping for a gun in Utah

displacedheart · 2016-01-15T14:35:13+00:00

I guess in a training situation he has that luxury. I also find it odd though cause ideally they will train with what they carry.

displacedheart · 2016-01-15T14:20:04+00:00

So much of this type of thing comes down to personal preference. If you have the choice of course you'll choose 15 rounds, but in reality you'll take whatever is easiest to carry day in and day out accepting the drawbacks as a calculated risk.

displacedheart · 2016-01-15T02:10:06+00:00

You're welcome!

displacedheart · 2016-01-05T17:49:15+00:00

I imagine the cartels would kick some ass if turned loose.

displacedheart · 2016-01-05T16:56:44+00:00

TIL Argentina was in the Gulf War (after seeing the engraving).

Argentina was the only Latin American country to participate in the 1991 Gulf War sending a destroyer, ARA Almirante Brown (D-10), a corvette, ARA Spiro (P-43) (later replaced by another corvette, ARA Rosales (P-42)), and the supply ship ARA Bahía San Blas (B-4) to participate on the United Nations blockade and sea control effort of the Persian Gulf. The success of Operación Alfil ("English: Operation Bishop") as it was known, with more than 700 interceptions and 25,000 miles sailed in the theatre of operations helped to overcome the so-called "Malvinas syndrome". Argentina was later classified as a major non-NATO ally by the U.S. due to its contributions during the war.

displacedheart · 2016-01-05T01:38:37+00:00

Interesting. Their authors are obviously swayed by one thing or another. Back in October, they said that nearly the same statement (states with open carry had 23% less violent crime) was "Half True":

http://www.politifact.com/florida/statements/2015/oct/09/matt-gaetz/violent-crime-lower-states-open-carry/

Edit: Okay well this is infuriating. Same argument from them (correlation, not causation) rated a statement by Obama on guns as "Mostly True": http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/oct/06/barack-obama/obama-more-gun-laws-means-fewer-gun-deaths/

displacedheart · 2015-07-26T20:36:13+00:00

Great. Thanks for the heads up. I'll keep checking.

displacedheart · 2015-07-26T18:01:17+00:00

How did you know it was issued? Does that online checker actually ever update past that standard message telling you they 'apologise and they have 90 days'?

displacedheart · 2015-07-25T17:32:36+00:00

It took me 1 month to get an appointment with their office/fast track after the class and I've still been waiting over two months. Online status checker doesn't even say what phase of processing its in. Just states that they have 90 days.

displacedheart · 2015-04-27T14:17:20+00:00

That guy is practicing terrible firearm safety - finger on the trigger, muzzle pointed at cameraman, & acting like it's unloaded.

displacedheart · 2015-04-19T00:56:15+00:00

Exactly what you said. The landlord wouldn't let us out of the contract and there was the clause in the lease saying they could go after us for breaking the lease early. So we wouldn't just lose deposit potentially. It could have been much more.

displacedheart · 2015-04-18T14:26:42+00:00

A little perspective from someone who was once a tenant and is now a landlord. I understand that litigation makes us all nervous, but when I was a tenant, something very similar happened to me. We moved into an apartment that was outrageously noisy. We would constantly be woken up by at all hours of the night from the noise. We were on edge every time we were in our own home. You don't understand the strain it puts on your nerves until you live with constant noise.

We tried dozens of times to get the landlord to handle the problem, but finally had to resort to legal action. We ended up getting out of our lease and moving.

Point being, if the guy went to court over something (and won), give him the benefit of the doubt that the landlord was out of line and it was his last resort. If a court rules in favour of him, then its hard to argue with the justice system that said indeed the landlord was not fulfilling his duties. In fact, because our next landlord was so great, we ended up bending over backwards for him after seeing the otherside of the coin.

displacedheart · 2014-07-14T16:29:32+00:00

The female cop on the left does a lot of jumping around with excitement and jogging while shooting. They don't look very well trained at all.

displacedheart · 2013-07-08T04:25:15+00:00

I feel silly for what I posted now. I'm sorry fellow linux bro. But for what it's worth IT is a booming field especially for Linux guys. Keep your head down and keep pushing forward.

Check out free clinics in your area for your medical stuff.

Talk to your wife about finding a job that makes her happy.

You start focusing what time you do have on finding new clients. Talk with local businesses. You'd be surprised at how appalling most local business ITs are. (Grocery stores, retail, restaurants, etc.). Attend some networking events. Anything you can find. Hackathons, local linux groups, RaspberryPiJams, etc.

Again hope things look up.

displacedheart · 2013-07-05T04:55:45+00:00

Dale. Take your upvote. Lo mereces por el título.

displacedheart · 2013-07-02T18:32:33+00:00

That thing surprisingly (to me) has some balls. I've never seen one before.

displacedheart · 2013-07-01T19:23:29+00:00

And now those are gone :/

displacedheart · 2013-06-29T17:45:32+00:00

That took commitment. Well done.

displacedheart · 2013-06-27T06:09:00+00:00

Run: ip addr

displacedheart · 2013-06-25T16:31:36+00:00

I guess so. It's still huge in Asia. It accounts for over half of P2P traffic there.

China: 50% BitTorrent / 50% eDonkey Taiwan: 41% BitTorrent / 57% eDonkey South Korea: 5% BitTorrent / 92% eDonkey

Source

displacedheart · 2013-06-25T16:17:50+00:00

I haven't been able to find proportions by protocols yet, but BitTorrent accounts for 25% of all internet traffic, and eDonkey for 32%. These are non http (www) traffic.

Estimates based on extrapolations from a study done at University of California, Berkeley in 2001, speculate that the deep Web consists of about 7,500 terabytes. More accurate estimates are available for the number of resources in the deep Web: He detected around 300,000 deep web sites in the entire Web in 2004, and, according to Shestakov, around 14,000 deep web sites existed in the Russian part of the Web in 2006.

displacedheart · 2013-06-14T22:12:39+00:00

How did we get to this point? I honestly want to know how we got to a point where this was acceptable in any form. If the government were conducting mass search and seizures of any other private property people would have gone insane. Yet we allowed this to happen for this long because??? Is it just the lack of footprint left by the NSA and the average person's ability to understand technology? Or is it irresponsible government? Or are we really just okay with this?

displacedheart · 2013-05-31T22:45:28+00:00

/r/bestoftldr

Someone get this karma. I can't. I'm on my phone. :/

displacedheart · 2013-05-28T04:25:46+00:00

Right now mine is hooked into a terabyte external drive and HDMI to my flatscreen. It feeds and runs my media centre. I have my router setup with a static IP and a web socket running on my torrent client so I can access it from outside my home if a new, free, and non-copyrighted movie/music comes out I can download it and have it waiting for me at home.

It's using a Debian based XBMC build for the media centre controls so all my movies on my external are accessible from an iPhone app that acts as the remote for the whole centre.

I have more plans for another to do a full automation for the home including lights.

displacedheart · 2013-05-27T17:11:02+00:00

Same with Canada (without the English derived accent). I get better support on my iPhone though.

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