Oh Shoot

  Tiny, it's federal law, same for all states. A lower is a firearm. Further, since it is not a "rifle" or "shotgun" it may only be received from FFL in state of one's residence, and one must also be 21.   However, now that you are in a much freer state, note that you may legally buy any non-NFA firearm here in private sale without FFL involvement at the age of 18 as long as you have have no reasonable cause to believe it is stolen.   Welcome to the Patron State of Shootin' Stuff. ;)   - OS

Kahr PM9 (6+1)  1lb 3.8 oz XD subbie 9 (13+1)  2lb 0.2 oz   - OS

  That was BSE (mad cow), right? Similar but not same as CJD. I can see no possible way to get an "outbreak" of CJD.   - OS

  But transmission of that is through such rare parameters no way it could ever become even common, let alone epidemic/pandemic.   edit: well, maybe if everybody starts eating human brains after The Collapse. :)   - OS

  Also CTAS. Goes way back to UT being able to influence money flow back to the UT system county by county and city by city, under the guise of "helping" them govern. They used to have CGT (Center for Government Training) where they'd go into cities and counties and conduct workshops after elections. They finally got so few invites to do that they closed it down, but somehow CTAS and MTAS keeps cranking.   Same thing as having an Ag agent in each county, though that I guess still has more of an actual beneficial nature.   - OS

  Well, no. It's not. I guess 700 deaths over three or four countries qualifies as a epidemic, but for sure it doesn't even register on the pandemic scale. Hell, though exact estimates are far from reliable, the normal flu strains kill many thousands per year.     Has ever been thus since first identified, nothing new.   - OS

  Haven't yet, been over 3 years on the first I put up and it's fine. Think it mostly matters how clean it was when it was stored and that it's not subjected to anything once containers are sealed. This was chlorinated city water to begin with, too, though chlorine depletes, at least in contact with air.   Easy to see if it's still okay if you keep some in the transparent 2 liter pop bottles as old as your oldest stash, can inspect visually and also of course sample for smell and taste periodically.   Btw, type of plastic container important. I forget the nomenclatures without looking all that up, but the type that milk and gallon size bottled water uses will develop leaks just sitting over time. Not sure about the very thin stuff that's used for the individual small bottles.   Anyway, the 2 liter type bottles and the harder stuff like economy size mouthwash comes in, and HDPE are all essentially forever if kept out of direct sunlight.   - OS

  Bungee jump that went wrong? ;)   - OS

  If I had a core family still, I'd do the Mormon mind set and have at least a year's worth of food and water for each member. Plus of course lots of other stuff and better plans, like not even living where I do now for one.   My "survivalist" tactics are fairly simple if the worst happens. Have 3 months food and water and etc and of course the firepower to (maybe) protect them. Just planning for having that length of time (maybe) to decide if it's even worth going on, but at least won't be among the first fatalities at the local Kroger. :)   But not kidding myself about the odds here on edge of the urb.   - OS

  12 7 gal Aquatainers divided between two bathrooms. Though not recommended, stacked two high. Plus some 2 liter pop bottles full here and there. Anybody with any room at all could store 3 months worth pretty easily for one person.  Frugal use of a gallon per day is enough for hydration plus frugal cooking/cleaning/sponge batch.   - OS

  Bottom half virtually untouched, what's up with that?   - OS

Hell, I live in a urban apartment but keep about 3 months of water (at a gallon per day), plus a couple of different purifiers. Breathing is number one and then water.   - OS

    Assuming neither of you made typos, the CW9 and the CM9 are different Kahr pistolas.   - OS

  Well, according to Jesse it's not about the money, ya know. ;)   - OS

  Ah, you think the "out" is subtle wit on his part? If so, then yeah, I missed it.   - OS

  Yeah, I have the "Sports Entertainment Package" and don't even really know what it entails, wish I could give it to you. :)   If only we could "menu" shop. Having the movie channels is my priority and predicates what package I can "choose". 'Course, if they allowed "menu" subscribing, I'm sure they'd rig it to where you wouldn't save a dime.   Cable companies are as much committed to the minutiae of spread sheet decision making as Walmart.   - OS

Fellow didn't get lyric right in title of his vid, it's "send in the clowns".   - OS

  Here's the deal with Comcast though: you often have to "choose" more than you need for one part of service to get what you want for another.   Example, my TV/net service had topped $200 about 4 months ago, was able to drop it down to $150 by going with the "Triple Play". And btw, this includes same "Extreme 105" internet pipe that Dave has, but I only get 30-40 Mbps. Why? Because the fine print says "connection speeds may vary and are not guaranteed".   So I'm getting same internet speed as before but theoretically could be getting his speed if everything else to me were optimal. Also got VOIP phone, which I didn't care about. Hooked up old phone to it just for the hell of it -- use it to call my cell phone once in a while when I've misplaced it. :)   Also, to thicken the plot and to show how weird the "rules" are, my Infinity branded Arris modem/router/phone box was losing synch frequently. After trouble shooting everything for a couple of weeks, finally just yesterday went in to swap it. Well, none available, guy said a shortage of them all over. So I have a Surfboard modem and Linksys router, but he said I had to have a phone capable unit to maintain the Triple Play price. Wow. So he gave me a new Ubee modem with phone input, but it's not a router. So I hooked it up to my Linksys.   Probs with the Arris seemed to have begun about the time they rolled out the individual xfinitywifi thing, too. Dunno if connected to prob or not, but of course I no longer have that with this Ubee, which btw came with no documentation, and is not even Xfinity branded. There's not even a manual for the thing available online. Had to find a forum to find out username/password just to "hack" inside it and look around.   I may still have some problem or other though, my TV OnDemand has gotten odd and the Ubee is not showing same channel connection bonding all the time, seems upstream power level may be too high, so have a feeling this saga is "to be continued".   - OS

A mystery how this guy is walking at all. Plot thickens some -- Doc Siegal on FOX said the doc took some kind of experimental antibody treatment made from blood of infected person while he was still in Africa.   Apparently one reason the hemorrhagic fevers are so devastating is that they trick the immune system into putting up no defenses to fight the disease, and whatever this doc got may have prevented that.   - OS

All kinds of conflicting info on this.   According to PC Mag, doesn't affect us at all:   http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2461772,00.asp   Some sources say only for the "triple play" customers with the Comcast equipment, etc. Then again, my Xfinity branded Arris with the built in router crapped out, and they didn't have any more so using their Ubee with no built-in router/WIFI.   At any rate I got no notice from Comcast/Infinity myself, would seem all folks affected would? Anyone else cept Dave get actual notification?   I generally get around 35mbps, unchanged today.   - OS

  Watch it, he might sue ya for that....   - OS

  Yeah, but we're cool, only give the state $10 per gun once the state allows us to buy it, or even if not.  ;)   - OS

  Well, there goes our monkey and fruit bat industry.   - OS

  Goes to payment page on his eBay account but if signed in I get:   "The following critical errors have occurred     Order Service temporarily unavailable or invalid parameters in the request URL"   - OS

  He is absolutely completely blatantly wrong. The language in the statute is crystal clear, as will be shown in the first case if they stupidly try to prosecute it.   First of all, Knoxville never "opted out" of anything the first time the law was changed, only relied on local ordinance. All local ordinances regarding firearms have been made void, except three:   - discharging fireams - location of firing ranges - carry by city/county employees or contractors     Here is "the language from the final bill"   http://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/108/Amend/SA1084.pdf   - OS