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  No, I have Lawyers.   :2cents:     I would also render no aid to someone I had just shot in a self defense situation.

After seeing the hornady rings on a friend's set of dies I just ordered up some hornady rings for my Lee dies. ;)

    Well yes you can certainly get much more complex when setting up wireless but it is rarely needed in the average sized home.  The Aironet 1140 APs we use here at work are stupendously efficient especially when mounted to the ceiling, but I doubt most wive's would approve of that type of use in the home. There are advantages to either design but it should not be the primary reason for choosing a particular AP. I was just trying to give an example of when someone may want to make use of a router with an external antennea. :2cents:

    Sort of, but if you end up with a router with decent internal antennas and it still won't do the job you'll end up searching for a different router, or an extender.  Where as with external antenneas you can make the most of the router you have by otomizing it's antennea for the use you intend.   If you read my current setup above you'll see I have nothing against internal antennea (both my airport express routers use them exclusively) but if I was concerned with budget a set of high gain antennas on a lone router in the center of the coverage area would be the way to go over the cost of a router and 2 seperate WAPs to blanket the area more efficiently with signal.

with external antenneas that you can change out to better fit your application you shouldn't need any "extenders" in most applications. I've connected to wifi networks from several miles away, all it takes is the right antennas. ;) Longest distance I've sucessfully connected over was 4.1 miles with an off the shelf linksys router flashed with DD-WRT and the antennea setup below, a co-workers setup beat my best by nearly a mile.

I'm running a Motorola SB 6120 modem with a WRT-54g router flashed with DD-WRTv23.x, It's on a battery backup and last I checked had an uptime approaching 2 years. The router's built in Wi-fi is off and it feeds my wired home network which has WAPs plugged in where needed. For WAPs I currently have an apple airport express at each end of the house supporting both 5ghz and 2.4ghz networks covering the entire property.   In essence, I'm with the crew saying to keep the modem and router seperate, in my case I even seperated the WAPs so I can upgrade them more frequently as needed for either better coverage or new technologies.

I'll 2nd this idea, I purchased a pair of new mini's last year and immediatly installed a second HDs and maxed out the ram. Installed 64 bit Win 7 on one drive and OSX on the other. I travel with them to support some heavy duty GIS mapping with the red cross and have to say having the option to boot into and run software natively in either platform is invaluable. I would have kept my g5 mac pro forever but it was getting hard to find parts for it, now I'm glad I finally made the switch. Really hard to beat what the minis offer for thier size. The old setup was much less portable, but was still happily chugging along as an entry level Final Cut Pro/Adobe CS4 workstation when I sold it.

To be honest not only are lead sufficient for punching holes in paper, lead are plenty sufficient should zombie hoards come at you as well.

My advise does assume you already have a reasonably acceptable room to record in. Proper accoustics can go a long way to making a great recording. My diffusor was probably my biggest bang for the buck change to my last setup and I've been dragging it around from house to house since. :) Here it is in our living room at the last house pretending to be a sculpture. :cool:

You would be amazed to hear the recordings I've seen made in recent years with just a quality mic, preamp, and a mac running garageband. The same setup with some cash can be easily expand to way more channels than I've ever needed around the house.

You can find guns/safes with an FLIR camera given the right conditions.(depends on outside temp differential and quality of the camera) I found 2 longuns that my grandfather had hidden in a wall while getting an energy audit on the home 20 years later. The guns retain heat/cool longer than most of the other building materials making them stand out in the image. 

Redbox just never make sense to me. The closest one to me is 7 miles away so by the time I drive there and back twice,(once to rent and once to return) I've generally spent what an online rental costs in gas and eaten up a half hour of my time doing it.  :down:

Well that is a change of mindset, there is nothing just "on" with TV via the internet, you have ot initiate the activity by picking a show to watch from a provider. If I sit down on the couch and can't think of something I want to watch inside 2 minutes, then I should probably be doing something more important with my time.  :2cents:

It really depends on what you watch and how much of it you have time to watch. If you buy an aTV or roku to try it for yourself for a month you can generally resell it for little if any loss.

  Content providers set the prices so it varies. I picked up a half dozen seasons of Stargate last fall for "$10 per season", and "The Americans" (my most recent purchase) was $14.99 for the current season.(before the discount) One trick on itunes to lower your spending is to buy itunes giftcards in mass when they go on salea couple times a year. I scored $300 in giftcards cards from best buy via a black friday online promotion for $200. That and waiting for the shows themselves to go on sale in itunes can lower the cost dramatically. I buy TV shows in apple's standard def widescreen format as they are usually watched on the TVs since they are produced in 16x9 where as movies I buy in HD since they are usually watched in the theater on the projector.(again the projector is the only viewing location where I can tell the versions apart by image clarity)   The more content providers that have come on the scene over the last few years the more the prices drop in the iTunes store as they all vie for the viewer's limited TV dollars. Amazon is cheaper by a few dollars on most seasons when they aren't on sale, but if you shop carefully it's not terribly hard to pay less than that even in iTunes.   The content discovery and cataloging as your collection grows work much better in the apple universe currently, but I remind anyone just sticking their toes in the pool that amazon is making strides to catch up with every revision of their interface. If you were to look at my catalogs of content in either you would think I had spent a fortune on content, but I've never spent more than I used to with my satellite provider in a single month, and can pick and choose what quality I buy, when I pay, and what I spend as I go.

    Google and Apple both have the current season of Duck Dynasty for sale whole or by the episode and the episode that aired yesterday is already up as is typical of online content. It's very rare on the whole to not be able to find content if you like it enough to pay for it.   Most months we spend $0 on extra programs b/c we can barely get through the netflix que and a few hulu+ exclusives. When a show comes available that we do want for purchase we can decide if it's worth the price on a show by show basis which I find to be quite rewarding and comes out cheaper by far than cable did in the end for us. We watch live baseball in the MLB app which has goofy blackout restrictions but those effect cable viewers as well. We still see manage to see more STL games live than my Father in law and he has season tickets. :woohoo:     Any programming that isn't readily available legally online from the content owner is readily available through other less than kosher means, I get the full commercial free airings of Top Gear UK from a website after paying good money for them for one season and unknowingly being sold the edited version by BBC America. :rant:   If I can purchase content legally in a reasonable time frame I do, if for no other reason than I do my best to be a law abiding citizen.   Last year NBC tried to tell me I couldn't watch the olympics online b/c I didn't have a cable package and I personally coughed up and rented a server located in the UK to provide the BBC commercial free streams to whoever wants it and is willing to ask nice faster than the NBC execs could issue an apology.    HBO says I can't watch Game of Thrones b/c i'm not a subscriber even though I had recently coughed up $70! for a season pass on itunes?(they decided to push back the online release date by several months after many had already paid) Watch how fast I can get it from the service that shall not be named and see if I purchase any further content from you. :stunned: (I had already paid for a license to own/view it)      Content owners still have a lot to learn in this space, one thing is that if a viewer base wants to watch something bad enough they will find a way, whether it means illegally downloading it, or paying to have new content be produced out of pocket. Pretty simple, name your price and allow me to decide to purchase it on whatever device I want and if it's close to reasonable pricing I'll happily pay up for the convenience of watching what I want, how I want, when I want. :popcorn:       As for connection speed I've found it varies greatly and that 3-4 mb on clear, or my verizon mifi does not equal 3mb via comcast b/c of how spotty the connection's throughput generally is. A cable modem or DSL is much more stable than any cell based WAP's I've found. Also a slight drop in quality is not really noticible on my smaller tv's but becomes a glaring deficiency on my 110" projection setup in the theater so how you plan to watch can make quite the difference in what is acceptable.

    I did the math this way originally, and after "cutting the cord" several years ago to save cash I have found that I also save time in the end and only see what I want to watch.   I'm on the $39 per month Comcast internet and we utilize OTA HD, hulu+, Netflix, and Amazon prime. As much as I work and as little time as I have to watch TV I have found that since I left DirectTV I get more actual episodes in of my favorite shows and spend no time wasted watching fillers, reruns, and commercials.   For a year(in 2007) or so I was very hardcore into DVRing everything OTA on the major networks. My DVR was programmed to record the all the new shows, cut the commercials out, and reformat them to .mp4, and place them on my media server. It worked great but was very expensive initally so I was reluctant to get away from it. (about $1.5k: Mac Mini server, 2 Silicon Dust dual tuner boxes, Synology RS812 with drives and , 2x scratch drives, an appleTV, Roku, or PS3 at each TV)   Over the next couple of years Netflix and Hulu really began to slowly and steadily flesh out their streaming libraries and the need to record shows slowly slipped as many were added to either netflix or hulu, but I did have a need to get several shows that were not available on the services so I used a crutch to serve other internet content from the media server to our TVs since many independent channels(HGTV,CBS, CW,WB) all had their own content all over the web in vastly differing quality, quantity, and variety. This worked, but not very well. The slightest change in the source page at the networksbroke mediaserver plug-ins until updates were released often at a very slow pace. And networks were oftenc changing the content available drastically with little or no notice as they seemingly changed policies and approaches to internet distribution on a whim.   Come mid 2012, Apple anounces it's adding Hulu+ to the appleTV. After years of use of the original ATV then the upgrade to the ATV2, my wife lhas come to love the appleTV, it's the only box she feels is both easy enough to learn and reliable enough to place in our guest room where her parent's often stay. We moved to a new house and I went all in with the appleTV model. Our PS3s and Roku are still around but they are now assigned to extra inputs in the home theater, and the living room. where it is likely that she or I will be at the helm even if we have guests over. Every other TV in the house got an appleTV. Most are stuck to the back of the TVs out of sight and you wouldn't know they were even there if it weren't for the slick interface. All of the media on the server is available, all of it plays reliably and smoothly over a seperate 5ghz network with a cat6 backbone. Any new content we choose to buy from any of the ATVs can stay in the cloud and be backed up to physical media automatically by the server at our leisure. With the vast array of content on Hulu+ and Netflix, we find ourselves buying very little, mostly premium content from HBO, Showtime, or AMC.      Up front I mentioned I save time. . . Shows purchased via apple, amazon, or watched on netflix are all commercial free, which means I get around 18 more minutes of TV squeezed into every hour of "watching TV" with no frustration of fast forwarding, delays due to live events throwing the DVR timing off, accidently deleting a small bit of the show with a script designed to remove commercials, or incorrectly flagged "new" OTA shows by the local networks.     The cost of hardware entry to this is now $100 or less. Which makes trial of the setup much more affordable. Do yourself a favor, buy an appleTV or a roku and try a month or two of the key services. You may love it, or it may not be for you, but it is a decision you'll want to make for yourself. My wife and I would never go back.

University Catholic is an excellent example, they have had great support from the local catholic church and have no need to request handouts of space or money from the university. If those that would seek to troll the meetings on campus follow them to the Frassati house then they can be dealt with accordingly b/c they are now on church property. win-win.   I do wish the university would just drop the activity fee all together, If it a group is worth having around it'll be around regardless of the handouts to promote student activities on campus. I just don't think legislation is the right way to go about it.

 First line of the body of the page linked 2 posts above yours. . .    "The Office of Secure Transportation (OST) is managed by the National Nuclear Security Administration within the U. S. Department of Energy."  :wave: 

Under the "Image Links" section of your photobucket page click the "Direct Link" button to copy that address, then on the forum post window click the picture icon and paste the copied address.

Any chance of getting rid of the new car?   2 years ago changing my primary vehicle from a 2007 Mazda to a 1999 VW Beetle dropped my premium around $100 a month, and I picked up leather and heated seats in the switch.  :pleased:     I've got 2 classic sportscars and a vintage VW bus as well as my daily with a terrible driving record(on paper) and I am still just barely over what you quoted for your focus alone. ($528 per 6 months for all 4)

  I agree witht he above statement but think it should be ammended ever so slightly.   . . .who aren't necessarily covered by your healthcare insurance, and may have no personal health insurance or a very high deductable.

  The most secure shipments are often accompanied by a few heavily armed men in the most plane jane vehicles available accompanying trucks with few if any identifying marks. DOE certainly comes to mind as one of the most common.

If the flooring is susceptable to color change with exposure to UV you may endup with a lighter or darker square that may never match regardless of the small filled spots. <ask me how I know.  :pleased:

I should also probably point out that ALL of the religious groups operating on campus received money from Vanderbilt collected from student's AcFee. All VU was attempting to do was hold it's religous organizations receiving funding to the same university wide standards as the arts, cultural, special interest, and programming groups.   "Each spring, the seven AcFee committees allocate nearly $1.7 million in activity fee funding to every eligible student organization. All student organizations are split into six subcategories: Arts, Cultural, Programming, Religious, Service, and Special Interests (2)."   Source     So when they whine about having to move off campus, it's really that they loose funding and the use of free space on campus. It's quite simple, Every student pays the "AcFee" as part of their tuition, every organization receiving funding from the AcFee pool must be open at every level to all of the students that paid the "AcFee".   A religious group can be as free as they wish to be, all they have to do is not apply for AcFee funding from the university.  :up: