Disappointed
NASA makes a lot of press about the arrivals of their probes around other heavenly bodies, but they sure don't keep us updated.The Ceres mission didn't get any fanfare at all once it'd made orbit.Juno...
View ArticleUncomfortable Feeling
The Dallas Police used a bomb-disposal drone armed with a remote detonated explosive to kill off the shooter.He'd barricaded himself in and they made the decision to kill him.This comes barely a month...
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By the way...While we're talking about it...Hardly anyone is killed by a cop (990 in 2015 and mostly white people).Hardly any cops are murdered. 129 died in the line of duty in 2015, 55 to some sort...
View ArticleShip Ownership
The standard GURPS: Traveller paradigm is paying 20% down and making 480 payments of 1/240 of the sale price.For a Type A this is a Cr 28,855,200 vessel. It's Cr 5,771,040 down and 480 payments of Cr...
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All Zastava All The Time
Two are Serbian, four are Yugoslavian.Top pistol is an M99, the Tokarev is an M57. Of note is the M57 lacks any manual safety whatsoever past the magazine disconnect. A real live battlefield...
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RENEW! RENEW! RENEW!Got my letter from BATFE telling me to renew my Type 03 FFL today.Right on the heels of CBS getting it wrong.Is it any wonder I don't believe anything they say about anything...
View ArticleA Hearty Fuck You
To...John Brown, of Northpoint Response Group.Curt Wolf, of US Armament Cort.Jeff Folloder, Robert Landies of Ohio Ordnance Works.Wayne Weber of H&K USA.Robert Segel of Small Arms Review.This is...
View ArticleZastava M70ABM
Willard has a new toy and we tested it out.Although we knew from firing a single shot that it was absolutely reliable for all time, we ran a couple mags anyways just for fun.The Tapco trigger is unlike...
View ArticleDay One Of 41Fpocalypse
The old rules are dead, long live the new rules.Which if NFA had an NRA would be overturned because BATFE broke the rules promulgation rules several times.I'm finding that I have an urge to submit...
View ArticleExtreme Restraint
I only ordered a 200 pack of earplugs from Amazon's Prime Day.Most of the deals weren't anything I wanted anyways, luckily.
View ArticleSometimes Things Connect
The husband of a friend came very close to making a complete donation via donorcycle several times.Notably these attempted donations have the same mechanism in common: he slammed on the brakes and went...
View ArticleBaffling
There's gunborker seller in Colorado who's got two SKS's listed.One's a Norinco, the other is a beat to shit Yugo. (Links will be dead after a few months).Both them are:LE/MILITARY PURCHASE ONLYYou...
View ArticlePretty Light Show
For about a week we've watched some pretty impressive thunderstorms get almost to us or go right past us.The lightning is pretty though.
View ArticleNot Mutually Exclusive
You most certainly can be a reprehensible human being and also be a hero.The two things overlap a lot more often than most people want to believe.However, there's a long standing tradition that your...
View ArticleIndentity
I think that in April we're going to file our taxes with $0 reported income.Although Harvey has a job, I think we identify as unemployed and therefore should not only not have to pay taxes, we should...
View ArticleOh Wait
We should require anyone who owns a truck to register that truck before they take it out on the road.We should only let people who pass a driving test and obtain a license drive trucks.Oh wait...I...
View ArticleStill Not Interested
Alien 5 with Sigourney Weaver? Don't care. She's held the story back since Alien 3.I'd like to see that universe advance, and it can't as long as we keep revisiting Ellen Ripley.Nor will it work to...
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