Chucktshoes

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I find it amusing that so many here condemn all of the Islamic world because of the expressions of happiness in the aftermath of the WTC attacks they saw on the news. Yet, when a tragedy strikes some Islamic country, what do they do? Express happiness that the misfortune befell those they dislike. It may not be in the streets for the cameras to see but I think that's mostly a cultural issue. (We only take to the streets to whine about crap.) regardless, I see a whole lotta folks engaging in the same behavior they condemn others for and acting awfully smug while doing it.

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EssOne- I blame you for mentioning this thread in that other thread. It was laying peacefully dead until you decided to dig it up and make a zombie out of it. Now it's lumbering around and looking all ugly and shit.

Is that in Apple Music or is that available without having Music turned on? I'm going to continue to hold off until I am assured the issues with the new music app are fixed. I have no interest in music streaming at all and well over half of my phone's 64gig of memory is music and digital is just a small portion of my music collection. It is reassuring that they seem to be listening to the many complaints and horrid reviews and are fixing some of the things they broke with the intro of Apple Music.

The only way to shuffle is to have Siri do it.

I have heard this from everyone who has switched to the new iOS. These are the reasons why I refuse to upgrade. To explain a little further, these functions were core to how I interacted with my music. Without them, I might as well burn it all off to CDs and go back to a non-digital music ecosystem. The ability to interact with my music much like I would with physical CDs was what drew me into the Apple iTunes world and without it, I might as well not bother. I spend between $50-$100 monthly on music. I have no issue with ordering physical CDs from Amazon again.

I have refused to upgrade to the new iOS because of Apple Music and everything I have read and heard from folks using it has pushed me dangerously close to abandoning Apple. My music collection is a major part of my tech experience and Apple Music is a huge threat to my enjoyment of it. I have been an admitted Apple fanboy for many years now and Apple music is a major misstep in this fanboy's eyes.

I run the Georgia section of 129 pretty regularly. It isn't quite as bad as the TN portion (which was closed to TT traffic at the beginning of this year if I remember correctly), but it still isn't for the faint of heart when you got a 53' trailer attached to the tractor. I'm kinda disappointed I didn't get a chance to run it before it was closed as a truck route.

Many times the same word can hold very different meanings for different people. There have been a few ongoing threads recently (and usually are at any given time) that I think are greatly impacted by the definition of this word we hold in our heads. So with that in mind, I'll pose a few questions that come to my mind but by no means are an exhaustive list to help better understand what folks are saying when they talk about "rights". What is a "right"? Where do they come from? How do you exercise them? What are their limiting factors? Do you still possess them if prevented from exercising them? Can you have a right to a thing? Can you have a right to a service?

Those of you defending the abrogation of rights by government by claiming that rights are, or can be, granted by others make my head hurt. You do the work of those you say you oppose. While an entity may have the physical ability to prevent one from exercising their rights through violence or the threat thereof, it does not make that action legitimate. The illegitimacy of those acts of violence is what provides the justification to act in self defense. To claim that rights are granted by others grants legitimacy to their violent acts to remove those rights. TLDR: if you think government grants rights, you don't understand what a right is.

By the way, do you have any silver spray paint? The local Home Depot won't sell me any more.

I'm from Memphis. I live, I die, I live again! Witness me!

Accurate.

I'd say this is likely accurate. I won't bother with it at all. I quit watching TWD about four episodes into the first season.

'Murica!

Even if things were to go south here in the way that y'all think it will, I couldn't be bothered to leave because I don't think I would notice any functional difference. Most of what people talk about the way the country "used to be "is really nothing more than a rose colored glasses of myth and memory. Things didn't used to be any freer during the lifetime of any of y'all living, you just believed the lie more back then.

So you figured you'd just come in and tease us all a little?

I don't have much to say on the primary subject of the thread as I think that btr96, SWJewelTN and others have articulated most of my views reasonably well. I do want to address an argument that I have seen made repeatedly in this thread and elsewhere whenever the subject of interactions between the police and the public has arisen. Variations of arguments that question the standing of those critiquing cop behavior to even do so because they don't have an LE background are just plain bad argumentation. It is one thing to use your background in LE to explain why you do things a certain way. That's a valid argument, but to say that someone shouldn't question a tactic or action because they don't understand what it is like to be a cop is in no way shape or form a valid argument. It is the equivalent of feminists saying that men can't have an opinion of abortion because they lack a vagina or when SJWs say that folks can't question certain behaviors because they aren't of a particular race. It is simply a tactic to silence the other party without substantively addressing the topic actually being discussed. When you say "you need to be a ______ or you wouldn't understand what _____ go through" what you are really saying is that you can't make a strong argument to support your position would rather try to weasel out of the debate by delegitimization of your opponent.

True. Which I would do if I had a desire for an AR pistol. That is actually the second configuration for this lower. Initially it had all MOE furniture and a Trijicon Reflex optic.

Unlike KFC, it's truly finger lickin' good.

No. Just an early pic in the build process. I have a complete pic somewhere, just wasn't handy at the moment. Edited to add:

Another vote of confidence for the MI SS rail. I have a 15 inch on mine and I love it .

And what does the interest work out to on a debt whose principle you will never pay off?