Oh Shoot

"The SU-16 has a conventional, long-stroke gas-piston operation and utilizes the proven Johnson/Stoner breech locking system. " Kel Tec CNC - OS

The Fair Tax is even more well, fair. Tax consumption only. Now even illegals and others working off the books pay their fair share of taxes. Yep, and another reason the Fair Tax is feared, because unlike the Flat Tax, the Fair Tax is pretty much anonymous. The gummit can't control any segment of America any more than any other. Everybody pays, in direct proportion to what he consumes. - OS

Except for avatars, TGO only links to pix files. It doesn't store them or manipulate them. It can't, because they are not on TGO server. - OS

Exchangeable image file format - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Many image editors can see it by simply viewing image info. Everything from Photoshop down to freebies like IrfanView (a frigging GREAT app, btw). Here's typical data in a JPEG image straight out of my (damn near antique) digicam: --------------------------------------------- Make - EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY Model - KODAK P850 ZOOM DIGITAL CAMERA Orientation - Top left XResolution - 230 YResolution - 230 ResolutionUnit - Inch Software - YCbCrPositioning - Centered ExifOffset - 228 ExposureTime - 1/20 seconds FNumber - 2.80 ExposureProgram - Normal program ISOSpeedRatings - 100 ExifVersion - 0221 DateTimeOriginal - 2008:07:19 23:30:08 DateTimeDigitized - 2008:07:19 23:30:08 ComponentsConfiguration - YCbCr ShutterSpeedValue - 1/20 seconds ApertureValue - F 2.83 ExposureBiasValue - 1.00 MaxApertureValue - F 2.64 MeteringMode - Center weighted average LightSource - Auto Flash - Flash not fired, compulsory flash mode FocalLength - 6.00 mm FlashPixVersion - 0100 ColorSpace - sRGB ExifImageWidth - 2592 ExifImageHeight - 1944 InteroperabilityOffset - 896 ExposureIndex - 100 SensingMethod - One-chip color area sensor FileSource - DSC - Digital still camera SceneType - A directly photographed image CustomRendered - Normal process ExposureMode - Auto White Balance - Auto DigitalZoomRatio - 0.00 x FocalLengthIn35mmFilm - 36 mm SceneCaptureType - Standard GainControl - Low gain up Contrast - Soft Saturation - Normal Sharpness - Normal SubjectDistanceRange - Unknown Maker Note (Vendor): - Thumbnail: - Compression - 6 (JPG) Orientation - Top left XResolution - 72 YResolution - 72 ResolutionUnit - Inch JpegIFOffset - 8180 JpegIFByteCount - 5974 ------------------------- All of this can be zapped out by a "save for web" type resave in apps that optimize for web use, or with option to strip EXIF data on save, whatever. - OS

Ultimately, because "they" don't want "us" to have guns, because guns are the only means "we" ultimately have to overthrow "them". So what little gun freedom we enjoy has been grudgingly given back up over time after it having been mostly taken away, and so we have a patchwork of gun laws. As far as TVA, except for inside actual dam reservation land, I don't know that I've ever seen a TVA "leo". Seems, if you referenced the long thread links early in this thread, that TVA cedes enforcement of most of it's lands to TWRA, and they tend to run it by their rules. Anyway, when's the last time you heard of TVA/TWRA/USACE arresting anyone putting a boat in for packing heat? Like that. Concealed carry answers a huge multitude of questions. - OS

NOT designed to stack after filling though, only empty. I do have some filled ones only two high, but the bottom ones don't really like it. - OS

Dunno about .mov files, but JPEG, which often needs to be re-sized anyway, if you use the "save for web" feature in various softwares, nukes any extra file info. Or program you use may have option to not include them when you save. Some cams may have that option also, although mine doesn't. The two fields that JPEG allows are in the EXIF info, which the cam puts there automatically, and the IPTC info, which is generally entered manually within an editor. If you want to see these fields in JPEGs that still have them, you can use something like the free and excellent IrfanView. I assume this GPS info is just another field in the EXIF? If not, I can't imagine where else it is. - OS

Barrett .50BMG recoiled into my nose in the last year, too. You're right, I am a tough MF. I think I'll go out and pick a fight. - OS

Yep. See? - OS

Already answered by FallGuy in your other thread. Get impact weapon training certification as per 39-17-1308, A,8. - OS

So, folks in Germany all have video running in their cars all the time? - OS

I kept a gun in boat fishing ever since I was 16, both on Watts Bar where I grew up and down in Keys, the two places I've done the most fishing in my life. Ironically, I've not actually been fishing since I got my HCP. It's sort of unsettling fishing all night out on a big lake or miles offshore in the ocean ... unarmed, anyway. - OS

Gotcha. Strongly doubt there's 1% of folks who even consider themselves staunch outdoorsmen who could survive for a year outdoors anywhere in TN with just what they could carry in. Maybe that percentage or higher if you could hunker down next to good fishing. - OS

Here's hoping you won't ever have to prove your point. - OS

Whole concept of higher tax rate for higher income is totally flawed, and indeed, Un-American. One major reason we have lost our national ethos is because we punish success and reward failure in many ways, often including our tax codes de jour. - OS

Problem with an ass whipping is that you can't know if it might continue to your death knell, especially once one has entered geezerhood. I've pretty much decided that even though I'm a fairly big guy and certainly in better shape than many of my age, I will NOT accept one any more, unless I started it. - OS

Let me guess: the version that ends "... for I am the meanest MF in the valley?" - OS

I've shot Mosey's and it was just fine, shot better than I can maximize (which to be fair I can say about all guns, sigh)... WHAT's/WHERE's the shop in downtown Sevierville? - OS

I'm afraid I'd consider a better handle on reality to be at least laying in a one or two month supply of food, water, and other essentials, since there is another person's life at stake here for which one has chosen to be responsible. Were one Mormon, you're encouraged to have a year's worth for every family member. - OS

Unless you have prenup, all husband/wife property jointly owned. Not even sure how effective a prenup is in TN, though since contract law is pretty strong here I guess it works? Giving away inheritance before death is complicated, but done correctly, you can indeed give up to the life maximum exemption on inheritance tax over time, but no idea how much a year, or how it's figured and notated, since that max amount has varied every year for some time. I really don't know much about the inheritance stuff, was just roughly 'splained as such once to mom and I. For example, she had wanted to put house/car investments, etc in both our names, and her accountant explained why ABSOLUTELY NOT to do that. See your friendly tax accountant. Of course, it is just a small step from the state simply taking private property for it to tax inherited property period, which has already been taxed, and usually multiple times in multiple ways. As far as plain gifting, you can give anyone x amount in a year, in cash or property, without their having to claim it as income. In 2010 it's $13K for an individual to give and double that for couple filing jointly, which is where the "22K" figure likely comes from that was mentioned. The givers do not of course get a tax break for the money given it's still earned income, even though they didn't keep it. Again, though, this is not "inheritance" but "gifting". Same rules whether you give to a family member, friend, or total stranger. - OS

Ah, IC. They are the Expo's own in-house security, not contracted from the outside. Thanks, I think I get it now. - OS

Are you sure they are not? I can find no type listing for anything similar to KCSO as far a Security/Guard service, "Knox County Safety ... " whatever... What is the actual name of the security guard company that you say they are? - OS

Yep. I keep about 3 months food and water and various other emergency/camping stuff. I figure, if I can protect it, that gives me at least that long to decide if it's worth trying to continue. But if I were younger with spouse and/or kids, I'd have at least a year's worth, and likely a more sustainable fall back location that I do now. - OS

That IS good news. Whippersnapper. - OS

Either they revised the schedule or I simply overlooked it. Probably the latter, my apologies. Good catch. Revising previous post in case it throws someone else off. - OS