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I typically have a briefcase or messenger bag if I'm on call. They checked it the last two movies I saw in Green Hills, noticed my scrubs and shoes but completely missed my pistol. One did say something about a couple cliff bars I keep in there for when I miss meals but neither noticed or mentioned my pistol due to it's concealment. It would take a very keen eye paying much better attention then I've ever seen to even find the pocket the pistol is in when it's not on my waist.

Two of my sets of prescription glasses are polycarbonate safety lenses with wraparound style frames. Saves me having to wear a second pair to shield my eyes in the OR.

I can likely help you out tomorrow afternoon or one evening later this week.

  I took my class twice about 5 years apart b/c I moved out of state briefly and came back, by the second time the class members had changed dramatically and MANY were completely inexperienced with firearms and several didn't own one yet. That second time I took the class I had to ask the RO/instructor to shoot later since the woman in the lane next to me kept sweeping me with her muzzle. The instructor finally asked her to stop and finish after the rest of the groups were done so he could take some time to work with her individually. I have noticed that since then they have added not one but TWO classes for beginning shooters that can be taken before you get to the permit class to give the new shooter a chance to learn before the larger group class that is the permit class.    That said, it sounds like the lady representing NA could have likely mentioned the primer classes in a much more inviting manner.

  That drone hovering 5 feet from anther's window would have left the usable airspace for an RC operator IMHO, as I stated earlier the homeowner's airspace traditionally ends where their legal use of it ends. To me that's either the treetops or the top of the tallest structure in the vicinity of the craft. Hovering at 200 feet vs flying through at 200 feet of a 2 story home: no difference both totally legitimate and legal uses of the public airspace. Coming down below a tree line or roofline on another's property regardless of whether they are there to peep in windows or not is a safety concern and an invasion of the homeowner's airspace IMHO.  There is no argument in my mind for me to legally fly between two houses, buildings, trees on other's private property ect. The reason I use the term vicinity in regards to clearance of buildings and trees is that the craft determines the safe distance the operator should give to ground obstacles. With a standard consumer camera drone such as a phantom you have reasonable power, control, and maneuverability so you can safely get much closer to obstacles such as buildings than say an RC model blimp for instance. Just because I can safely navigate 15 feet from a home's windows doesn't mean that I should, typically that would be below the roofline, a no go in my opinion without the homeowner's permission. Unfortunately ATM much of this is left up to the craft's operator to make based on their judgement, the weather conditions, and their craft. One thing I've earned frequently flying small aircraft all over the US is that there is almost always an exception to FCC guidelines and there are always idiots out there that don't know the rules, follow the rules, or use good judgement as they should.

RF Jammers are illegal, banned by the FCC and the use of a jammer in the US carries a very heavy fine. Also many drones don't need signals other than the GPS signal from the sats, mine will go into auto pilot, retrace it's steps and land from where it took off from originally. So that's a just another quick way to end up in hot water much like this guy who shot this one down. Even if a drone pilot breaks the law by flying somewhere they shouldn't it doesn't give you a license to break the law to stop them. Pick up your phone, dial 911, and record the incident if you can safely.   http://www.cnet.com/news/man-put-cell-phone-jammer-in-car-to-stop-driver-calls-fcc-says/   http://www.cnet.com/news/truck-driver-has-gps-jammer-accidentally-jams-newark-airport/

  A six foot fence is a reasonable measure to assure privacy from average passers by on foot. To say that a 6' privacy fence is a "reasonable measure" to prevent aerial photography from public airspace is a huge leap. At my other house it's not uncommon to have photographers lurking on the beach at all hours (all the beaches in that state are public) trying to catch someone famous that apparently has a house a few hundred yards down the beach from ours. I've talked to the sheriff, so long as they don't step foot on my property not a damn thing I can do, sure I could put up a 30' foot wall to block any nosey photographers from shooting my hot tub from the dunes but then I couldn't see the dunes and beach from my hot tub either. It's just something I've had to learn to live with.

        Well to date there is not a reasonable expectation of privacy outside in your backyard unless you taken reasonable measures to assure such. The airspace 500'+ is considered navigable and you'll have a hard time attempting to stop anyone with a pilot's license and a plane from flying over it. Now the individual property owner's "airspace" extends as high as they need where their legal use of the land is concerned. So if you had a 150' RF antenna tower that was legally marked and erected it would be reasonable that you could expect any "aircraft" to pass at a safe distance, depending on the craft that could be from 50' to 500' at that altitude. 

  Well, the drone was at an altitude of 200 or so feet and it appears the homeowner isn't as familiar with his property line as he might believe. The drone's GPS log is much more accurate than a human is when guessing where that invisible line is up in the sky. My drone gets location accuracy within about 12-18 inches once it locks on to 12+ satellites which is very easy to do at 200 ft.   My drone travels at up to 30 miles an hour in flight so it could very easily have only been over a 1 acer lot for a second or two.

 It USED to be clear that backup lights meant a vehicle was backing up, unfortunately I now have to deal with back up lights coming on on vehicles randomly that don't even have drivers in them b/c some idiot at GM thought it was a good idea to tie them to the unlock button. Now in parking lots I give NO right of way to cars with reverse lights on, if it isn't already moving backwards I assumed they can  just wait.

The landsat imagery I have access to from satellite overflies of most of the US is MUCH higher resolution at ground level than my drone at 100+ feet and typically only a few days old so some of you may want to readjust your idea of privacy in your backyard. The only thing giving you any real privacy from our own satellites is the fact that there are MANY back yards in the country that get imagery every day, so it's essentially security via obscurity. Even when we were given the imagery from days after the Nashville floods one of our teams stumbled on someone tanning nude on an apartment roof downtown while trying to show where the river water was receding day by day.     I got the drone for real time checks of tornado tracks when working with the red cross. From 400 feet the drone can pinpoint damaged houses and properties along a track in minutes where it might have taken several hours for a team to do the same by car for a longer track. Also b/c the drone has GPS accuracy to within around 18 inches of it's location I can hand still images over to property owners that they can use for insurance claim purposes as well. Getting in or around a house at 15-50 feet is dangerous anyway due to trees, power lines, and such. I actually crashed mine about 10 min after checking my neighbor's roof trying to get a good inspection of a broken tree limb that was still attached to the tree on my property.

When I was 16 we were using a bulldozer/front loader on a friends farm in franklin/triune to build a motocross course. Of course we hit a huge piece of limestone right where we wanted a mudpit, rather than alter the course layout we decided to move the rock. Off to the barn we went in search of chains and shovels but instead all we could find were sticks of dynamite. The friend had helped his dad blast rock to build the stables so he set it up ran the wires and we all took cover behind the equipment as instructed. Only problem is that he was apparently way off in both placement of the charge and in the amount of explosive to use. The rock moved all right, large chunks of stone and dirt rained down from the sky for what seemed like an eternity, somehow only one of us was hit by any and it only caused a gash on his arm. We didn't think much of it and went back to work on the course until it was close to dark at which point we put away the tools and loaded up to head out, as we approached the front gate we were surprised to find a deputy sitting at the locked front gate. He hassled us and lectured but we stood our ground that we had no clue what that loud noise was(it was a several hundred acre property and we were FAR from any roads or other properties where the track was being built) and somehow got away with it all, at least until his dad found the explosives inventory low a few weeks later.  :rant:  

Heck I flew over all my neighbors' property today checking out damage from the high winds. Saved one neighbor across the street from having to drag a ladder out to check his roof for damage. Granted I started from 300 feet up circling a radius of 500 feet, before dropping to the deck at the neighbor's request for his personal fly by.

Another problem with 60" + wide decks is that they don't cut contours as well on uneven ground. The 60" walk behind I demoed before my current 48" would scalp the interior of several of our drainage areas where the 48" cuts them perfect.

Hell that little sucker is expensive, for just under $1500 I just started assembly on a 1m x 1m CNC utilizing a 48v spindle and Nema 23 steppers that will happily machine 6160 with the correct tooling. The company assembling the kits can't get them out the door fast enough, there was a 4 week wait before mine shipped.

There is no mention in the TCA legal definition of the weight, nor any of whether you could actually fire it with one hand. Only pistol, revolver, or other firearm, with a barrel under 12".   TCA 39-17-1319 (a,1) “Handgun” means a pistol, revolver, or other firearm of any description, loaded or unloaded, from which any shot, bullet, or other missile can be discharged, the length of the barrel of which, not including any revolving, detachable, or magazine breech, does not exceed twelve inches (12″)"

Saw this reposted on a friend's twitter a little while ago, didn't realize it was near real time! My prayers go out to the victims and their families. :(

    Apple didn't want DRM, the labels wanted DRM, and Apple got rid of it in it's entirety in 2009. Without Apple having the pull they did to push towards legitimate online music distribution we likely wouldn't have google music or amazon music today.  :2cents:

I've put a window unit in one garage, in a framed hole in the wall for it. Just installed a mini-spilt in another which is working quite well, only required a single 3" hole to pass the hoses and wiring through. Best has been the built in garage at the new house, figured it in as heated and cooled space to start and installed an r-18 insulated door and it's just as cool as the rest of the house, but obviously that isn't as easy an option after the fact.

Apple already has fingerprint recognition working and working extremely well in my experience. It really increases security, for example to log into my email you need the username/password, my fingerprint(to unlock the phone) and the RSA style code provided by Google authenticator on my phone. That's dramatically more secure than a simple username/password alone and easy enough to use daily without becoming onerous. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Missed at least one simple bit that's reasonably easy for users to do that makes it MUCH harder for attackers. Turn on two factor authentication EVERYWHERE it is available. ;)

If it needs a simple seal and it's not hard to do I'd just go on and get it over with you'll save money in the long run on the cost of oil. My last valve cover gasket was only $18 from the dealership. I will say that my beetle burns about a quart every 600 miles, but I haven't repaired it b/c the fix is a new engine due to the rings on cylinder #2. I have the new engine here on a stand half complete, still buying parts here and there but it should be ready to go in with the new transmission right about the time I hit 200k.  :2cents:

I took a few from the office tonight, sad after going through them that I didn't drag my big tripod into work b/c my small one was not capable of supporting my larger lenses. My favorite so far. . . _MG_3048 by Erik, on Flickr

People carry into my home all the time, I have no problem with it as we entertain often. Since we have a pool and a bar and most people don't swim or drink with their weapon I often politely offer to lock any up that need to be stored while we all swim/drink/hang out, that alleviates any fears of the guns getting into the wrong hands.(typically I worry about other friends small children playing around the pool finding a pistol wrapped up in a towel or something) Some friends also leave them in the car which is fine as well.   As for carrying into other people's homes where I go, so goes the pistol typically(well concealed). I've only revealed I was carrying once and that was so I could secure the pistol and enjoy some extremely fine whiskey that was offered. I wouldn't have revealed to anyone who didn't already know that I carry, but this is a friend who knows me well and has allowed me to come hunt with him on his land so there is a strong mutual trust there anyway.

"the taxes violate both the Federal Telecommunications Act and, in the case of the second ruling, 1998's Internet Tax Freedom Act, intended to prevent discrimination against services delivered over the internet."    Much like Chicago's firearms laws, these will likely last right up until they get to court.   Source- http://www.theverge.com/2015/7/1/8876817/chicago-cloud-tax-online-streaming-sales-netflix-spotify