monkeylizard

I have a Streamlight ProTac 2L that I've used an EDC for years. I just got a 1L for Christmas. I use CR123 in them both and can tell a difference in brightness over AA.

I use Streamlight. They seem to be a good balance between the uber-pricey stuff like Surefire and the cheap ones at the box stores.

Yes. I've had to call a few times with questions. No problemo.

I use Fidelity. $4.95 trades and they have some of the best analysis tools around. they're one of (if not the) biggest in the industry and the quality of their software reflects it.

So is that a "no" ?

Can anyone tell me where I can learn to do flips n rolls like these high speed low drag operators? Any chance that @Cruel Hand Luke can teach a class on some of these moves? Apologies to those not on FB. I couldn't find this video on YouTube.

Queue hoarding runs on ammo in 5 . . . 4 . . . 3 . . . 2 . .

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Don't worry. The great service and selection you're used to at Cabela's will soon be replaced with 85% Redhead products priced like North Face products, with the occasional rare sighting of an indifferent person with a name tag who kind of works there.

Or even better: >"Why were you carrying a pistol to the mailbox?" <"None of your business." >"OK. Carry on."

If your zucchini vines turned soft and kind of gooey, it was probably a virus introduced by cucumber beetles or squash bugs. I have yet to find an effective solution for them besides the really toxic stuff that I don't want to put on my garden. Neem oil doesn't work, diatomaceous earth doesn't work. I think the trick with them is to plant so much of it that even when you lose some, the others produce so much that you don't care about that dead loss. The same goes for melons and pumpkins. I pretty much stuck to herbs, peppers, and tomatoes this past year. They all did great. Leafy greens like kale, lettuces, spinach, and arugula all do well for me too, but I wasn't eating enough of them to justify the space in my garden.

Oh, I don't know... How I Met Your Mother's finale was right there at the top of the Worst Ever list too.

I read that Rose and the casino world were added to appeal to the Chinese audience.

wow....Arise, Zombie Thread!

FIFY!

It better do a whole lot more than that.

No doubt, since Ep. V is widely held to be the best of them all. I agree with you about Ep III having one of the best and most important parts of the overall story. I just hated the movie production of all three prequels. Bad acting, bad scripts, and bad CGI, but all with good storie (except the midichlorian crap). Even Jar Jar could have been useful if used sparingly and wasn't written so idiotic. If Lucas could have just overseen the story arc and then gotten out of his own way, they could have been great. He's apparently pretty good at making a cohesive story arc as shown in the originals. Each one builds on what the prior one starts, and so do I-III. With Ep VII and VIII, it feels like Disney has nobody helming the cohesion of the story arc. Everything we were fed by Abrams in VII as plot points to be further developed later got thrown away by Johnson in VIII as irrelevant. Maybe Ep IX will fit it all together.....

I agree, and that makes me sad. Star Wars is a place where there's a light side and a dark side. Sure Ben brings up "a certain point of view" but it's not supposed to be a movie-world of cynicism. Hope, despair, joy, suffering, love, and hate, sure....but never "meh, none of it matters. Just look out for yourself". Han felt that way at the start of A New Hope but he had changed from that by the end of it, and only half-heartedly expressed that perspective in Empire. We all knew he was a good guy. It feels like the lines for DJ sum up this director's vision of the SW universe. And that's just not any fun.

Another thing that bugs me about it is that it doesn't fit with the story that started in The Force Awakens. The original trilogy fits in one long story arc. Each one building on what the prior one established. Even the prequels were coherent and consistent with their story telling. The production, script, acting, characters, and CGI were awful, but the story told in I, II, and III fits together. With The Last Jedi, it's like they said "hey....you know all that stuff we setup in The Force Awakens? Screw it. None of that matters. We're doing our own thing. And while we're at it....you know how the original trilogy, prequels, and everything in the Expanded Universe says that only some people are force sensitive? Screw that too. Everyone's a special snowflake who can use the Force. Even this untrained 5 year old kid sweeping the floor. Watch him make this broom jump to his hand. Never mind that Anakin at that same age (you know...one of if not THE most powerful Jedi ever) had no concept of the Force." It's just stupid in so many ways.

Anyone see it yet? Anyone besides me think it sucked? Where to begin? The entire fleet of Resistance bombers was like what, 8 of them? Wow....I think they might be a little outgunned. And who made them so stinking slow? And why do they have "bombs" that drop out the bottom when there's no gravity? And why would they be so stupid as to arm them while they're being shot and not really about to drop them? They clearly have wireless communications, so why not arm them after they leave the bombers? Yeah, Po's a good pilot, but single handedly taking out every single gun turret on the surface of the Dreadnought while simultaneously defeating or evading its entire TIE fleet? WTF? Leia survives in the vacuum of space, wakes up and flies herself back to a destroyed airlock that somehow lets her in without blowing out the ship's remaining air. Wait...is this Star Wars or Superman? WTF? The First Order Fleet mindlessly chases the Resistance cruiser for hours instead of just sending one of the star destroyers ahead of it in a small hyperspace jump. WTF? Luke's gone from being "there's still good in him, I can feel it" about Darth Vader to "hmmm....maybe I'll kill my nephew in his sleep 'cuz you know, there's darkness in him" WTF? They killed Snoke without telling us who he is or where he came from. Was he Sith? If so, was he one of Palpatine's trainees unknown to Vader? What happened to Luke's students who left with Kylo, the so-called Knights of Ren? If they can miniaturize Death Star tech into something the size of a small building, why doesn't Snoke's ship have miniature Death Star cannons on it? You know...something powerful enough that there's no need to send a landing party....just blast the Resistance in their cave from space. Why do Snokes guards dress exactly like Japanese Samurai if this is happening long long ago in a galaxy far far away? Luke's "dead" but his astral projection of Han's dice live on long enough for Kylo to pick them up and watch them disappear? Again....WTF? While we're on it....how exactly did that kill Luke? Not only can Yoda appear to someone (we knew that....and they fixed that gaping plot hole with the lame ending of Ep 3 with "oh...Qui Gon Jinn taught me how to be immortal. I'll show you too Obi Wan"), but now he can also apparently interact with the world. I suppose that's somewhat believable given the mythos of The Force in the SW Universe, but it's still hokey. Luke finally gets it that failure is something to be learned from, so now he can go back to training Jedi and passing on what he has learned.....oops....he's dead. Finn's story line in the whole movie was pointless and contributed nothing to what sort of passes as a plot. Did I say Finn's story-arc was pointless? I meant to say that Finn's story-arc existed to pitch some basic anti-capitalism "rich people bad, poor people suffer at their hands" screed. Didn't Snoke's throne room look a little too much like the Emperor's on the 2nd Death Star? No? Then didn't the conversation between Rey and Snoke sound almost exactly like Luke and Palpatine? No? Then didn't those trenches look just a little too much like Hoth? No? How about the Falcon flying through red salt crystal tubes that looked EXACTLY like the Falcon flying through the 2nd Death Star, complete with a large open cavern with a center column that looks just like the power core of the 2nd Death Star, followed by the Falcon "exploding" out the tunnel to safety? I like that these 2 new ones (and Rogue One) have more of a lived-in feel than the awful perfectly clean worlds of the prequels, and I like that they're using props and computer panels and droids that look similar to the originals, but do they really have to throw that much on-the-nose stuff at us? It's like they know this story sucks bantha balls, so they have to keep reminding us that we're watching a Star Wars movie. Then the final scene.....how in the galaxy did those kids know anything about that battle? They're essentially slave labor on a distant planet. There's not exactly going to be a news feed about how the last scrap of the Resistance along with a not-really-there Luke Skywalker, Jedi Knight, defeated the mighty First Order. If they had been playing as Finn and Rose doing something make-believe to stand up to the First Order, that would make perfect sense. Oh .... and you need to be a vegetarian....or at least don't eat animals that are cute.

Except when they can't because the provider already there throws legal challenge after legal challenge to keep the new one from entering the market place. Just look at AT&T and Comcast trying to shut Google Fiber out of the Nashville market for as long as they could by keeping them off the existing utility poles. That's been happening for years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_Internet_access

Sure there is. The Norks smuggle one in and detonate it locally. We can't nuke them back without soaking our allies in fallout, and possibly triggering a full scale retaliation by the Chinese or Sovie....er, the Russians. Or maybe ISIS gets in with a dirty bomb. Our response may be entirely conventional in either case and neither attack would devastate the whole nation, much less the world.

This^^^ Check the status on your rebate at the link I provided back on page 1, then call them.