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Did anyone else notice that demolition girl was able to rig the place to blow (and later a whole bridge), but wasn't able to make a grenade-like explosive to lob over the dumpster to get the captain, or the other attackers? Of course if the shooter had done what we all thought, that wouldn't have been necessary. Or the captain sending guys in one at a time to run him out of bullets instead of all at once...a sniper can only shoot so fast and can't repel a commited mob with only 10-20 yards of ground between them. Plus nobody on milita side using suppresive fire, even it is with muzzies. PLus, it's one guy on a roof of a 4-sided building...I guess the captain was never taught about flanking. Tactically, it was dumb on both sides, but keeping the captain alive and the main characters alive let them move the story along by revealing Miles' connection to the militia.

What am I missing here? It sounds like an audit turned up some weak practices in their training and procedures and they are suggesting changes to correct them. If this is about "Why does the IRS have guns? They're going to use them with the 25 bazillion bullets DHS just bought!!! OMGWTFBBQ!!!!1!!", if I was having to go knock on someone's door while running a criminal investigation, I'd be armed and trained too.

According to IMFDB, it's a Remington 700 http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Revolution_(TV_Series)#Sniper_Rifles

I just finished Ep. 3. I suppose I will let the TiVo pick up some more episodes while I wait to hear if it's getting canned or not. IF it's going to make it, I'll probably keep watching. So far it's not making me want more, the way Jericho* did. * A non-cable network show about SHTF that did NOT suck until it got rushed to get canned.

I have a blued Beretta and a stainless Taurus. The finish on the Taurus is good, and the internals are pretty clean, but the Beretta is better. The trigger on the Beretta is a world apart from the Taurus. It's much smoother. The parts also fit a bit tighter. There's a tiny bit more slop to the Taurus. Not enough to affect performance, but if you're really looking close you'd notice. The Beretta is a superior gun. How superior ($$$) is a matter of opinion. Note that the way the safeties behave is different. I don't care about frame (Taurus) vs. slide (Beretta) location, but the Beretta is up for fire, down for safe (which also decocks). The Taurus is up for safe, down for fire, then all the way down for decock. I like that you can be on cocked and locked with the Taurus, but not that you have to pass from safe through fire to get to decock. Besides the obvious safety concern there, I find it more natural when grabbing the gun to flick my thumb up (Beretta) instead of bringing it over the top (Taurus) of the safety lever and down to go from safe to fire. I also hate how Taurus feels the need to emblazon their giant TAURUS logo on their slides.

Since the rebuild, I have not found any postings in the parking lots, roads, doors, or anywhere else except the tiny one at Regal.

You dug up a 2 month old thread to critique someone's grammar? You stay classy, AWM.

That's the way I understand it. Regal cinemas inside the mall is posted with a small gunbuster, but it's not exactly "plainly visible".

Like was said before, it depends on what you want to do with it. If you're a tinkerer and want to get inside it and make tweeks and such, then Android. If you want a smartphone that's easy to use and just plain works, then iPhone. Because of Android's open source OS, you'll find apps that can tweek pretty much every part of the OS and the phone. iPhone is more "locked down" in some areas, which helps keep it more stable because apps can't access certain core parts of the OS.

Agreed. I have both and prefer the real one.

I love my Beretta 92. I put some Hogues on it. Those combined with the heft of the gun soak up the recoil. It's the only non-.22LR handgun that my wife actually likes to shoot. It's also my favorite shooter and seems to have a very natural aim for me. The Italian ones were reportedly harder to find some years ago and sold for a few dollars more. Now I see Italians about as much as I see USA. There's a certain cachet about having an Italian made Beretta due to perceived increased quality, but that's it. I don't think you'll find an actual quality difference between them.

Good choice with the black grips. I love me some 92's. For now, I'm settling with a blued Beretta and a stainless Taurus. The Taurus looks good in the stainless, but it's still not as pretty as the real deal.

Glock torture tests are interesting to read. I found one where a guy dropped his out of an airplane into a field. He found it caked in mud. I don't recall if he hit it with the garden hose, or just forced the action open a few times, but it worked fine. It did make some marks in the finish, but that's about it.

This is an example of a union working the way a union is supposed to work. The employees are contributing to the success of the business in a way they don't think is reflected in their compensation. The owners disagreed. They underestimated the value provided by the union workers. Once that became clear, changes were made to better reflect the value the employees are adding. Had the new refs done a good job, the league would have been proven right and the old refs would be out. With teachers unions, it's a more nuanced situation. It's not a profit making business so it's hard to say the teachers add unrecognized value to the bottom line and should get a bigger taste of the profits. The refs create a measurable product. Through tape reviews it can be made more or less known if they are making good or bad calls, helping or hindering the flow of the game, and watching out for player safety. The closest we have for measuring most teachers are tests like TCAP. That can be manipulated to reflect poorly on a teacher. You can do parent/student surveys but those are hardly objective. I'm not generally a fan of unions. They do have their place and can still be an effective tool for employee safety and quality of life. The big unions are rarely so magnanimous. There's simply too much pocket lining corruption in them. They generally seem to promote mediocrity. There are good workers in unions. But there are bad ones too.The nflpa does not discourage individual achievement like many unions do. Each player gets their own contracts and pay, but the contract has general rules that the nflpa has made the league include for things like continued medical care, safety, team workouts, etc. To the contrary, the NEA encourages mediocrity. Even bad teachers are hard to dismiss. Good and bad are paid the same. No nflpa member gets to do a poor job and keep his spot on the roster. Comparing the two unions just isn't a like-like setup. ETA: There are many many many good teachers in our schools who work hard despite there being no additional reward. They spend their own time and money on their classrooms to be better at their jobs. It's by their own personal desire to do a job and to do it well that some teachers do this. My point is that the NEA/TEA does nothing to encourage this behavior. Hardworking teachers get paid the same as the teacher who works to the clock. Some people take pride in their work while others don't. That's true in all professions. The NFLPA has found a way to bargain together for common/shared items while rewarding the dilligent and firing the rest. The NEA bargains together while failing to reward the diligent and protecting the rest. I don't begrudge teachers being unionized. Without some form of collective effort, it wouldn't take long before cash-strapped districts started increasing class sizes and extending school days while freezing or even cutting teacher pay. I think unionized teachers should bargain for those shared elements (fixed class size limits, fixed # of instructional days, fixed # of continuing education days, fixed # of hours in a school day, minimum salary, health benefits, etc.) and for a fair evaluation process. Then allow that evaluation process to reward good ones and fire bad ones.

I don't think that's a very honest comparison. NFL refs are the elite in their jobs. Only the very best can do that job. The screw-ups this season have proven that. They are very thoroughly evaluated. If teachers' unions would submit to the scrutiny and demanding perfection that NFL refs face, then maybe we could make a comparison there. Avoiding that scrutiny through evaluations is exactly what many unions are trying to do. If we had a way to find the very best teachers and dump the rest, they'd deserve much better pay and benefits, and we'd be stuck with a severe teacher shortage. As for part-time, Ed Hochuli is a full-time lawyer and during the season, a 40+ hour ref. http://sports.yahoo.com/news/nfl--nothing--part-time--about-ed-hochuli-s-approach-to-game-as-nfl-s-most-famous-referee.html

$90 is actually not out of line. GnL is $65, as are a few others. $75-$90 is a pretty normal range. There are a few in the $125-$150 range. For the classes with higher prices, I would expect smaller class sizes and more one-on-one instruction.

At least one of them had actually been fired by the Lingerie League due to incompetence.

It's about the money. Always has been. Always will be. All of Goodell's talk about protecting the brand, player safety, stiff fines, etc all has to do with protecting the money the brand delivers. Even with the replacement refs, TV viewership is still solid. That means mo money mo money mo money. The league couldn't care less about the $3.3 million it would take to settle this with the refs. Any one of the owners could write a check for that and close the whole mess. But caving in to the refs for the paltry $3.3m will mean big money out of their pockets when it's time to re-up the players' union contract. That's something they won't stand for.

Oh, right. I was thinking of something like the Volt with the gas-powered generator engine. I forgot the Leaf's range. Still, I suppose that if you had all the time in the world to wait between your 100 mile jaunts, you could rig some PVs up to charge the batteries. There are some experimental EVs that run on solar for longer distances, but those are for academic/research purposes and wouldn't work as any sort of practical vehicle. http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/1000/longest-journey-by-solar-electric-vehicle Here are some specs on the car: http://www.uwmidsun.com/midnight-sun-x

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This story delivers http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/09/flight-attendant-tries-to-bring-loaded-gun-through-airport-security/

Box turtles hibernate in winter. That's why he would disappear for a while. I had a beautiful bright yellow female box turtle that lived around my old house. I named her "Flash". She scared the crap out of me the first time I saw her. I was watering the lawn and it was after sunset. A tree's shadow made it very dark in the front lawn. I went out to move the sprinkler and as I was reaching down for it I triggered my motion light. There she was about 6 inches from my hand. I don't know what I thought it was, but "easy going box turtle" wasn't it. I'm sure she was looking for water. This was 2007 or 2008 when we had a bad dry summer in Nashville. I kept a shallow plate of water out for her all summer. I rarely saw her once we started getting more rain. I guess my house was her bug out location when things got bad in the woods. I found out that she liked blueberries...a lot.

Solar cells wouldn't generate enough power to continuously replenish the batteries as they are used by the motors. Instead, you'd be able to recharge the batteries when you run out of charge, given enough time sitting in daylight, and then continue your journey. For example, the PV cells on something like the Fisker Karma don't do much except add a cool/green factor. They generate enough power to run a small fan that keeps the cabin cool when parked in the sun. You might find yourself traveling for your EV's range of 400 miles or so, then sitting for days (or longer with bad weather) waiting for enough charge to keep going. If time wasn't a factor, then I suppose you could do it. Someday, I hope that PV cells will be able to generate enough power to be viable for "normal" people, but that day isn't here yet.

The EM-1 Rail Gun from Eraser. To be fair, part of its awesomeness comes from the scope. http://www.imfdb.org...er#EM-1_Railgun

Yeah. I was thinking that one might use that to add on a charge or two though, but only if one gave him/her reason to want to make your life difficult.