Think Baltimore riots were justified? Then you may be a racist.
Posted by Prager University on Wednesday, April 29, 2015
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You Too Could Be A Racist
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Study: 99% Of Lieutenants In Abusive Relationship With Platoon Sergeants...
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Took Martta To The Range
She shoots a lot better than Reatta ever did!
Just 50 yards and I suck with open sights. I'm no Simo Häyhä, that's for certain.
This is about half the group size Reatta managed to pull off outdoors at 50, so I am very pleased with my upgrade. Indoors at 25 I shot three rounds touching with Reatta, but the groups open up a lot once the target gets blurrier; Martta's got a better trigger and it's easier for me to keep my mind on what I'm supposed to be doing.
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Black Is White
Up is down.
In is out.
It is easier to find a reliable USGI 30-rounder than a reliable new-made 20-rounder.
Willard has some AR-Stoner 20-rounders that are consistently double feeding the last round, and it appears that the left feed lip is simply not fully formed.
I think that Midway offers an exchange for defective magazines...
The only 20 rounders I use regularly are ancient USGI of Vietnam vintage (with new springs) and a couple ban dated Colts. I've got a bunch of the Brownell's 20's, but I don't think I've actually tested any...
Of course the BEST magazine I've used is the Magpul P-Mag, but it's too much for poor Willard to accept a plastic magazine into his heart unless you stabbed him there with it. The fact that he's got an AR that needs reliable magazines is bad enough; he's got more than one!
In is out.
It is easier to find a reliable USGI 30-rounder than a reliable new-made 20-rounder.
Willard has some AR-Stoner 20-rounders that are consistently double feeding the last round, and it appears that the left feed lip is simply not fully formed.
I think that Midway offers an exchange for defective magazines...
The only 20 rounders I use regularly are ancient USGI of Vietnam vintage (with new springs) and a couple ban dated Colts. I've got a bunch of the Brownell's 20's, but I don't think I've actually tested any...
Of course the BEST magazine I've used is the Magpul P-Mag, but it's too much for poor Willard to accept a plastic magazine into his heart unless you stabbed him there with it. The fact that he's got an AR that needs reliable magazines is bad enough; he's got more than one!
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No Shock Here
If there's no chance of winning, there's no point in playing.
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Attainder
There are times when I wish that bills of attainder weren't forbidden by the constitution.
Because Baltimore is going to want federal money to rebuild what their own citizens destroyed and we can't just write a bill that says, "nope you broke it, you pay to fix it yourselves."
Because Baltimore is going to want federal money to rebuild what their own citizens destroyed and we can't just write a bill that says, "nope you broke it, you pay to fix it yourselves."
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Cuts To The Bone Of It
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One Fewer
Reatta is off to her new home!
I hope the new owner likes her.
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I hope the new owner likes her.
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¡Happy Cinco de Mosin!
Top to bottom:
Hanna, a Finnish Kivääri 1928-30 made in 1936 by SAKO for the Suojeluskuntian Ylieskunta (Civil Guard or SK.Y) with a 1915 Tula hex receiver.
Martta, a Finnish Kivääri 1939 made in 1941 by SAKO for the Suomen Armeija (Finnish Army or SA) with a 1916 Tula hex receiver.
Katerina, a Soviet M91/30 made from an M1891 with a 1922 Izhevsk barrel and 1893 Chatellerault hex receiver.
Tatyana, a Soviet M91/30 made new by Izhevsk in 1941 with a low-wall round receiver.
Lei, a Chinese Type 53 Carbine made in 1954 by Arsenal 296 with a low-wall round receiver.
Happy Birthday Sergei Ivanovich Mosin!
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Oh Yeah
Something that I'd forgotten about the wild and woolly world that is Windows; is there's gobs of manufacturer specific stuff to install.
The Lenovo has an array of keys marked in blue that are activated in combination with the blue function key.
Almost all of them needed a non-generic driver to enable them.
It just didn't come up on the MacBook because the OS vendor is the same as the machine vendor.
Once again I am struck with the idiocy that are the OS wars for the average user. There's no difference in browsing and instant messaging between Apple and MS (and the Ubuntu I used to run).
The Lenovo has an array of keys marked in blue that are activated in combination with the blue function key.
Almost all of them needed a non-generic driver to enable them.
It just didn't come up on the MacBook because the OS vendor is the same as the machine vendor.
Once again I am struck with the idiocy that are the OS wars for the average user. There's no difference in browsing and instant messaging between Apple and MS (and the Ubuntu I used to run).
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Wide Open
I cannot help but repeat what so many others have said before.
When the border is wide open to millions of Mexicans, it is also wide open to millions of anything else.
Wanting the frontier sealed is not racism, it's nationalism!
If ISIS really did orchestrate the attempted murder in Texas it kind of proves the point about border security.
I don't care about the plight of poor Mexicans anyways, it should never be a point of national policy to put foreigners ahead of ones own citizens.
When the border is wide open to millions of Mexicans, it is also wide open to millions of anything else.
Wanting the frontier sealed is not racism, it's nationalism!
If ISIS really did orchestrate the attempted murder in Texas it kind of proves the point about border security.
I don't care about the plight of poor Mexicans anyways, it should never be a point of national policy to put foreigners ahead of ones own citizens.
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Docking Fees
I've got something for Traveller...
I do.
What I am working on that ties into it is a reasonable set of double-talk that allows interstellar electronic banking.
Rather, FuzzyGeff has been given it as a homework assignment, and he keeps making excuses.
Blah blah, have to work.
Blah blah, need to eat.
Blah blah, pay bills.
You know, stuff that doesn't matter in the slightest!
In essence, docking and berthing is handled by starport type and size of ship.
Around busy worlds even the position in orbit is subject to fees, which is why we need a non-cash method of payment that doesn't require the ship to have been to the destination world previously.
In a word, trust, is what is needed for the canon credit transactor to work.
Geff has speculated a situation where the transactors, readers and kiosk units are all supplied by The Imperial Mints, and trust is derived from the same trust that lets cash be used. He started to explain the encryption double-talk somewhat, but when someone who does calculus in their head tries to explain it to someone who actively drank Jack Daniels until calculus was overwritten... Yeah.
I do.
What I am working on that ties into it is a reasonable set of double-talk that allows interstellar electronic banking.
Rather, FuzzyGeff has been given it as a homework assignment, and he keeps making excuses.
Blah blah, have to work.
Blah blah, need to eat.
Blah blah, pay bills.
You know, stuff that doesn't matter in the slightest!
In essence, docking and berthing is handled by starport type and size of ship.
Around busy worlds even the position in orbit is subject to fees, which is why we need a non-cash method of payment that doesn't require the ship to have been to the destination world previously.
In a word, trust, is what is needed for the canon credit transactor to work.
Geff has speculated a situation where the transactors, readers and kiosk units are all supplied by The Imperial Mints, and trust is derived from the same trust that lets cash be used. He started to explain the encryption double-talk somewhat, but when someone who does calculus in their head tries to explain it to someone who actively drank Jack Daniels until calculus was overwritten... Yeah.
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But But But The Narrative!
Tam, dear Tam...
Don't you know we need to panic to wear ourselves out so we can sleep?
And Weaponsman, we're infrared rational here!
Kidding aside...
I remember seeing a photo back in the Usenet days...
It was a train loaded with M113A2's someplace in the desert being used as evidence that the UN was establishing camps in the US using foreign troops...
Well, they were foreign M113A2 alright. Canadian. Canada occasionally uses (used?) the National Training Center out of Ft Irwin, California to train. Why? Because our OpFor is epic! I've seen Bundeswher Leopards on trains heading there before.
FEMA camps are just the new flavor for the conspiracy narrative that used to be UN based.
For fucks sake, if this really was the harbinger of the gubmint takeover of the US, would they have announced it?
Related to the trainloads of M113... More recently I saw a similar trainload of them. The caption where I first found the pic was all evol gubmint conspiracy; but the real explanation was they were on the train headed to a depot to be rebuilt. How did I know to look further? No two matching bumper unit numbers and an astonishing variety of camouflage.
A used M113 is a valuable item to be used for foreign military sales, and they've been actively phasing them out of the US Army inventory since I was in the military, (FUCK!) nearly thirty years ago.
Don't you know we need to panic to wear ourselves out so we can sleep?
And Weaponsman, we're infrared rational here!
Kidding aside...
I remember seeing a photo back in the Usenet days...
It was a train loaded with M113A2's someplace in the desert being used as evidence that the UN was establishing camps in the US using foreign troops...
Well, they were foreign M113A2 alright. Canadian. Canada occasionally uses (used?) the National Training Center out of Ft Irwin, California to train. Why? Because our OpFor is epic! I've seen Bundeswher Leopards on trains heading there before.
FEMA camps are just the new flavor for the conspiracy narrative that used to be UN based.
For fucks sake, if this really was the harbinger of the gubmint takeover of the US, would they have announced it?
Related to the trainloads of M113... More recently I saw a similar trainload of them. The caption where I first found the pic was all evol gubmint conspiracy; but the real explanation was they were on the train headed to a depot to be rebuilt. How did I know to look further? No two matching bumper unit numbers and an astonishing variety of camouflage.
A used M113 is a valuable item to be used for foreign military sales, and they've been actively phasing them out of the US Army inventory since I was in the military, (FUCK!) nearly thirty years ago.
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Seis De Mosin
Same guns as yesterday with the addition of a Soviet PU sniper rifle. Willard doesn't respect the haff words and doesn't give his rifles woman's names.
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He's Got High Hopes
But they're not very grounded...
While an M38 Mosin isn't the $150 rifle an M91/30 is, it's hardly a kilobuck rifle either.
Especially with import markings.
It's especially amusing there are "buy-it-now" $300 guns in the same or better shape, with much better photo documentation of the condition.
I sense a "Husband, you will sell off enough guns that we can walk through the entire bedroom!" with a counter of, "Wife, I am doing my best to sell them, but nobody seems to be bidding..."
When she counters that he should list them for what he told her he'd paid for them... well it will be bad.
While an M38 Mosin isn't the $150 rifle an M91/30 is, it's hardly a kilobuck rifle either.
Especially with import markings.
It's especially amusing there are "buy-it-now" $300 guns in the same or better shape, with much better photo documentation of the condition.
I sense a "Husband, you will sell off enough guns that we can walk through the entire bedroom!" with a counter of, "Wife, I am doing my best to sell them, but nobody seems to be bidding..."
When she counters that he should list them for what he told her he'd paid for them... well it will be bad.
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Spiken Zie...
Heute habe ich zu sein scheinen sehr beliebt in Deutschland.
4175 Seitenabrufe aus Deutschland, meist mit Firefox auf irgendeine Form von "anderen Unix".
In Anbetracht, dass ich in der Regel erhalten, etwa 200 Seiten pro Tag, fast alle von ihnen aus den USA, das ist sehr ungewöhnlich.
Willkommen auf meiner neuen deutschen Leser, wenn Sie sind wirklich echte Menschen, genießen Sie diese schlechte Übersetzung von Englisch nach Deutsch zu Ihnen von Google Translate zur Verfügung gestellt.
4175 Seitenabrufe aus Deutschland, meist mit Firefox auf irgendeine Form von "anderen Unix".
In Anbetracht, dass ich in der Regel erhalten, etwa 200 Seiten pro Tag, fast alle von ihnen aus den USA, das ist sehr ungewöhnlich.
Willkommen auf meiner neuen deutschen Leser, wenn Sie sind wirklich echte Menschen, genießen Sie diese schlechte Übersetzung von Englisch nach Deutsch zu Ihnen von Google Translate zur Verfügung gestellt.
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Siete De Mosin
Same guns as yesterday, plus a "Bulgarian" M91/59.
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Robotniki Loadski
The new Soviet Russian tank has a completely unmanned automated turret.
This is the only way they could think of to protect the gunner from the auto-loader, I guess.
Congratulations!
You've finallyfielded built an example of the tank Twilight: 2000 called the T-90. Just 25 years after GDW predicted you would too!
Don't feel bad, we never made the M1E2 as depicted in the game; although the Stryker MGS has the turret for it...
This is the only way they could think of to protect the gunner from the auto-loader, I guess.
Congratulations!
You've finally
Don't feel bad, we never made the M1E2 as depicted in the game; although the Stryker MGS has the turret for it...
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Oh Shit
It just hit me.
The epic raping that Lockheed/Martin is giving the taxpayers on F-35 is revenge.
And we had it coming.
Lockheed, on their own dime, had developed the Starfighter and wanted to sell it despite just tepid interest from the USAF.
There was lots of foreign interest, but to do business in some of these nations, the rails needed to be greased with bribes.
When it was discovered that Lockheed had bribed some foreign military officers and government officials in a manner that was clearly illegal if they'd been American military officers and public officials the shit hit the fan and a law was passed to make such illegal.
In a nutshell if you couldn't do it at home, you couldn't do it inVegas West Germany.
I have to wonder how many sales were cratered by this law. In adjusted dollars, is Lockheed merely breaking even on those lost sales?
I sit here waiting for Northrop/Grumman's revenge for A-12A (especially since they've had the wound salted with the way A-6F and Tomcat procurement and upgrades were dismissed out of hand).
The epic raping that Lockheed/Martin is giving the taxpayers on F-35 is revenge.
And we had it coming.
Lockheed, on their own dime, had developed the Starfighter and wanted to sell it despite just tepid interest from the USAF.
There was lots of foreign interest, but to do business in some of these nations, the rails needed to be greased with bribes.
When it was discovered that Lockheed had bribed some foreign military officers and government officials in a manner that was clearly illegal if they'd been American military officers and public officials the shit hit the fan and a law was passed to make such illegal.
In a nutshell if you couldn't do it at home, you couldn't do it in
I have to wonder how many sales were cratered by this law. In adjusted dollars, is Lockheed merely breaking even on those lost sales?
I sit here waiting for Northrop/Grumman's revenge for A-12A (especially since they've had the wound salted with the way A-6F and Tomcat procurement and upgrades were dismissed out of hand).
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It's A Service Pistol
Service pistols need lanyard rings.
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Handy that S&W makes a replacement for the take-down tool that has a place to clip a lanyard.
Finding one has been something of a chore because although lots of places listed it, nearly all of them listed it as backordered. The few that claimed to have it in stock don't seem to know that the M&P 45 uses the same tool as the M&P 9, so it took a little research on my part to know it was OK to order the "wrong" part.
Handy that S&W makes a replacement for the take-down tool that has a place to clip a lanyard.
Finding one has been something of a chore because although lots of places listed it, nearly all of them listed it as backordered. The few that claimed to have it in stock don't seem to know that the M&P 45 uses the same tool as the M&P 9, so it took a little research on my part to know it was OK to order the "wrong" part.
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