JayC

I've never had problems getting instances, only getting them at a cheap price...  but even still between rackspace, amazon etc you shouldn't have a problem finding instances to turn up even on black Friday.   I know I didn't when some of my sites had a rush of traffic on Friday and today.  

The thing is, everybody has access to the resources of Amazon, via Amazon Web Services...  You to can have you website located in multiple data centers with super fast internet connections and able to handle a million users at a time...   And they're using Rackspace, which has a fairly robust cluster system of their own...  as I said, today there is no reason you can't handle 10,000 or even 100,000 customers hitting your site at the same time...  the system should be setup to run more frontend webservers, and backend database servers to handle the load...  and since you're charged by the hour, the cost only happens when in theory you have enough extra customers to pay for it.   I host a weather related website, that normally has 5 to 10 users on it at a time...  certain weather events happen and we'll have 10,000+ users show up all of a sudden...  as the primary server reaches 75% load, the software automatically starts to launch more web frontends...  it might get slow for 10-15 minutes but the site doesn't crash even if 100,000 people show up all at the same time...  once the rush slows down, it automatically turns frontend servers off...  the costs to do this are less than $100 a month... well within the price range of a Buds.   As I said, the IT department needs to be taken out back and shot...  I have interns who work for me that could have handled this level of traffic better.    

No reason for a business today to have a web server crash on black Friday or cyber Monday...  IT team needs to be taken out back and shot ;)   everything should be setup so they can spin up more front end VMs as load requires (even better if it's fully automated).  

Let them try...  quickest way to get campus carry is for a TBR school to expel an adult (better yet if they're 30+) student because they legally had a firearm in their vehicle in a parking lot.   The legislators would be forced to react, and it likely would result in campus carry reform in short order...     Also, that student may very well win a lawsuit against TBR, since state preemption 39-17-1314a likely prohibits TBR and it's officials from regulating among other things the possession of firearms.     There is a reason why they haven't done it yet...  it would cost TBR a lot of political capital, and likely result in tough questions about their anti-firearm policies that would be hard to defend and justify in front of a republican legislature, no matter how much the legislature wants to pretend there aren't any issues with firearms in TN.    

Plate checks do NOT contain information about whether the owner has a permit or not...  While some departments automatically pull information on the owner of a vehicle's drivers license, which would show that you had a permit, many others don't.  

In all fairness 30 states recognize the right to carry a handgun without a permit....  14 other states require their citizens to purchase the right (for example TN)... and only 6 states prohibit the right altogether, TX, FL, SC, CA, IL, NY   TN needs to get with the program and become a no permit open carry state (although no permit concealed carry would be even better)...  along with the vast majority of other states...  Every state we touch with 2 exceptions, GA and SC allow unlicensed open carry and those states aren't seeing any problems...   And I agree we need better gun laws and should model our laws on states such as AZ, WY, and VT.... not TX.    

Best of luck, I'm pretty sure if Beth Harwell could have gotten a restraining order for her town hall meetings during the restaurant and park carry debate on me, she would have...   The simple solution is to primary her...  she is a weak RINO, while we might loose the seat to the democrats in the general, but we'll be rid of her.    

I think the best option would be to completely do away with the make work department and fire all of the leeches that work there...  but that's just me ;)  

TN recognize all other state permits.    

39-17-1307f3 Is the relevant law:  

Just remember that salary employees in Government are treated differently than in the real world...  So if they're at a gun show on Saturday, they get comp time...   Which means for everyday they're at a gun show goofing off and waste tax dollars, there is another day during the week where they aren't doing they real job.   BTW, if they get more than 240/480 hours of comp time accrued they can get cash payments for the extra time.  So yeah the cost is probably much higher than you're describing.   Least anybody think I'm making this stuff up, here is the TDOS employee handbook:   http://www.tn.gov/dohr/employees/pdf/Employee_Handbook.pdf    

I disagree, the current HCP background check system is currently one of the most wasteful departments in TDOS...  TICS is able to do the same basic background check at a cost of less than $10 per check, and they do a LOT more checks per hour per employee.  NICS has an even better track record and that is the federal government.   By law HCP fees are only supposed to go to running the HCP program and nothing else... so every penny we save in that program reduces the cost to law abiding citizens who are forced to pay for the privileged to gain access to a God given right.   I think if you want to start an organization to promote safety and awareness (btw there are a couple good one's already out there), I'll be happy to write a check and donate to the cause...  I completely disagree with spending tax dollars on such a program...  Because if I disagree with the message of your program, I can stop donating...  if I disagree with the government run program I don't have the option or removing my funding from it. (obviously without giving up my permit)   If we forced the HCP department to run as well as the the horribly managed TICS system, it would reduce the cost of permits from $105 down to around $50, and renewals down to $25-35.  I don't know about you, but that sounds like a good deal to me.     

Why is TDOS wasting money on attending gun shows and giving away free swag?  Should we cut this wasteful spending and reduce permit prices instead?

Unless you believe in property rights or contract rights, in which case, TFA is happy to throw your other rights under the bus to get a parking lot bill passed.    

She needs to be challenged in the primary, even if it costs us the seat in the long run, getting her out of public office is the best thing we could do at this point in time.

I'm curious what impact the rehabilitaion center could play...  I'm guessing that since it was part of a sentence it likely was court ordered...  I suspect that could cause more snags than the DUI's themselves at this point.

Because of the stock, isn't this a SBR instead of a pistol?

Tell that to the state troopers in PA who are still beating the bushes...  Doesn't take very many to move from simple noncompliance to forceful resistance before  things go sideways fast.  

Quick way to fix the EBT issues in this country...  Create military style mess halls, if you're on welfare and need a free meal, you go to the 'mess hall' and they feed you.  No TV's, just like it was in boot camp.   Lots of people will get sick of that quick and find themselves a job to feed themselves.

They won't go into those neighborhoods...  they'll disarm the law abiding areas first.  

Serpa CQC, but like any holster you need to take time to train and keep your finger off the trigger :)

Technically the range test is 48 or more rounds per TDOS regulation...  Most instructors have you shoot 50 because ammo comes in 50 round boxes and it's just wrong to leave 2 rounds left in an otherwise empty box.  And it has the added benefit to making the math easier on the scoring of the test....  even though virtually everybody passes the range test anyhow.   My guess is very few instructors would throw a fit over only using 48 rounds if you asked nicely and were a good shot.

Here is a link to a better article... http://www.cbsnews.com/news/sean-groubert-former-south-carolina-trooper-charged-in-shooting/   I'm pleasantly surprised to see the office charged...  clearly it was a bad shooting...  and a questionable stop, since there is no way the trooper witnessed the driver violating the law which is required in SC (and TN) to perform a stop for the seat belt law.   And yet another reason we should repeal the unconstitutional seat belt law in this state.  It's no different than trying to ban big gulp drinks, and candy bars...  none of the governments business if an adult is wearing a seat belt or not.

I don't think ESEA is impacting because of this statement from the principal:     I'm curious who is 'we' in his statement, because is sounds like there maybe some others involved...  but it really doesn't matter...  It's pretty much game over by the comment right there...  all the ACLU needs is a single person in attendance for their lawsuit and the school board will be signing a big fat check...   At the end of the day I'm not a big fan of the ACLU, so maybe the government can stop doing 'stupid stuff' so the tax payers don't have to keep writing big checks to them?  

TMF, not a government agent...  therefore not bound by the establishment clause...  they could ask for a prayer, preach from their bible, whatever they want to do...  all protected by the 1st amendment.   It changes when it's a government official asking children under his charge to say a prayer at a school function....  not even the most conservative courts would uphold that behavior.