TGO David

My wife and I are taking my daughter to the range today, in fact.

Yes, there is an option for that and I'll get it set up sometime this weekend. I've got a long list of changes to make and will be doing them all at once. Got family in town right now so my Internet time is a little limited, but I'll get it done.

I just have to go on what those guys are saying. Quite a few of them work as PSCs in Iraq and claim that even taping them together causes unbalance issues that sometimes make the mag snag up rather than drop freely. Not sure how dependent that is on the perfect conditions, high tide, phase of the moon, direction of the wind, etc. It just seems that every time it gets brought up the general consensus is that joining mags together isn't as preferred as using the Redimag or just carrying mags on your person. Maybe Joe will chip in here. I'm sure he's toted his share of spare mags before.

The guys over on M4C, whom by and large tend to be professionals, say that none of them are worth a rip and all cause problems with mag ejection. They tend to favor the "RediMag" product that clamps onto the side of the lower receiver at the mag-well.

Very cool, Todd. I am going to give your way a shot this weekend when I go to dial-in the new rifle. It looks like a lot less work.

Bah, I misread the post. The #s after DDR are the transfer rate. Go with the cheaper of the two for this machine.

Welcome to the group! And as others have said, thank you for your family's service to the country.

True. I stopped running 32bit when I switched to Vista so I rarely think about that limitation. Of course, OS-X is 64bit also.

FWIW... Windows 7 looks like it may take a lot of the "This really sucks" out of Vista and put the OS back on track. It borrows some of the underhood tech from Server 2008 (which is actually a very nice OS) and so far looks to be quite stable. I love my MacBook and love OS-X but I hate how bloated the apps are. I did surgery on the machine about two weeks ago and pulled the 80GB HDD out and installed a 350GB HDD. I can't believe Apple puts such a low capacity drive in their flagship notebooks.

Breaking this off into it's own thread, guys.

Yeah, he is pretty far out there in left field.

I forgot to post that video the other day and this just jogged my memory.

4GB of memory seems to be the key there.

You gentlemen will be happy to know that the "vampire" wingnut Jonathan Sharkey, the guy who was recently arrested here in Tennessee for threatening the POTUS and some Judge up in Indiana, highly approves of your choice of carbines. [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Mmq0foa6DA&feature=related[/ame] Money can't buy a higher endorsement than that.

Pirate, I hadn't noticed that it wasn't showing that and when I did, it seemed rather silly that it wasn't provided out of the box. I did some rooting around in the PHP code and joined a few extra tables from the vBulletin database to make it work. Thanks for the suggestion. PS: Showing the member's location is conditional upon the member having their location defined in their vB profile. If they left that field blank, then the location row won't even be shown in the classified ad listing. I did it this way to keep the ad listing a little less cluttered. Oh, and the vBClassified author was impressed enough with this addition to state that he's going to use the code in a future re-write of the software.

I need to come visit you guys and pick up some more mags, Joe.

Actually I just noticed an error in the way that one of the permissions was implemented. Despite the fact that your account should have been able to post an advertisement, it wasn't working that way. I think it's fixed now but I will need for you to try it and confirm. Sorry.

You're assuming that the rules have changed. They have not. Therefore there is nothing to grandfather in. I just checked and your account should be allowed to post. Are you using the new Classified section or are you trying to post in the old forums marked as Archives? There is a huge difference. Old Archive New System and the corresponding Forums Also, a rather prominent notice about all of this was posted in our Announcements forum. It really sounds to me like you're trying to use the old forums and that isn't going to work as has been explained in that announcement. If you are trying to use the new system and it's not letting you, then you need to copy and paste any error message you're getting so that we can figure it out. Please advise.

Well you can, more or less. The people who gave you feedback in the old forum can still post it to your new Classifieds account. StrickJ posted a nice how-to guide on it here.

All I know for sure is that after he utterly and completely failed as a pre-runner, he established his Fred PAC to "help identify and support candidates on every level who support a platform of conservative, principles-based leadership and policies". He even sent me a nice form letter asking me to donate. Sorry, Fred. I donated the first time when you were dipping your toes into the water and decided it was too cold for a swim. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.

Glazed donuts, FTMFL.

I will concede that the GOP is running a non-starter for a candidate. That doesn't mean I like it and it definitely doesn't make Barack Obama any less of a huge steaming pile of ****. But I don't for a minute believe that Obama should strike me as being a leader. A leader of WHAT? His background is as a Community Agitator. Sorry, Organizer. In one of ... if not THE ... most corrupt city governments in our wonderful country. He has less time on the job in the US Senate than the average McDonalds manager has on the job. His credentials consist of looking smooth, talking smooth and doing as he's told by the people financing his campaign and writing his speaches. In short, he's a stuffed suit and is the last person our country needs at the wheel during these next crucial four years. McCain? Not much better. It sucks beyond belief that he is who the GOP decided to put on the stage as their man for the hour. People have sworn for years that politics is rigged, just like WWF wrestling. I'm starting to believe them. Somewhere, someone told McCain "You're going to go out into that ring and you're going to throw the fight. Don't worry, you don't have to do anything special. Just be yourself. That's all it is going to take." Why Fred Thompson dropped out is still beyond me. My gut tells me he was paid off, blackmailed or threatened away. There's no other logical explanation. He was supposedly going to be the second coming of Ronald W. Reagan and what we got was a belly-flop off the diving board. Way to go, Fred! So where that leaves me right now is pretty f'ing irritated. Obama will end up winning this one barring divine intervention, and the country gets to bend over, grab both ankles and take it right up the O-Hole for the next four. I wasn't kidding when I said I'd be flying my flag upside down until 2012. I really hope that the voting public is capable of putting 2+2 together and seeing that the Democrat controlled Congress has been utterly worthless and ineffective. This country's only hope of survival under an Obama Administration is if the GOP takes back both the House and Senate, building a firewall between the Legislative and Executive branches. The only Hope for Change will be Obama wishing to God that Congress would just throw him a bone.

Frankly I think McCain was just pandering for votes when he said that. Which I find pretty reprehensible and desperate. His advisers were all probably sitting in the audience with their faces in their hands asking, "He just said what ???". If someone took out a loan on something that they couldn't afford, then two people are at fault and should take the hit: Them and their lender. It's not the government's job to be their nanny and it's not my taxes job to bail them out.

This talk of donuts is killing me. Maybe if I take the dog out for a mile or two walk the next few nights, I can earn a few donuts on Saturday.

Donuts don't go well with my effort to drop weight. I figure for every donut I eat, I'd need to do an additional 100 crunches the next morning. I already hate the 100 that I do now, so I sure as heck am not going to add to it just because of sugary, frosty, glazed goodness... Sorry, lost my train of thought there. Just say no!