HelixDab2 @ HelixDab2 @lemm.ee

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I believe that most other countries call them provinces rather than states. But yes, if you live in a country that has a normal police force, and you don't have to worry about out-of-uniform cops using no-knock warrants to kick your front door in, then this is definitely not going to apply to you.

Your side hobby isn’t a PhD program

And yet, none of the people writing laws can understand these things. Nor do cops, most people in the military, or--in all likelihood--you. But by golly, they're going to write laws about them, even if they have no idea what the laws they're writing will actually do!

And I notice a conspicuous lack of “patriots” reacting at all.

Yeah, it's almost like what passes for a "political left" in the USA is a completely watered down, neutered version of the left, and is more interested in circular firing squads than actually doing something, huh?

Lots of cops and ex-military in favor of gun control.

Cops and ex-mil are not usually people I'd say know guns. When I say "know guns", I don't mean just that they know how to shoot--which most cops and mil people can't do for shit----I mean know how they work, and why they're designed the way that they are. I mean, how many cops or military people can tell you exactly what the difference is between, say, a direct impingement and a piston system? Or what the different kind of delayed blowback mechanisms are? Or what the technical differences are between and AR-15 that's capable of being select fire, and one that isn't?

And, even more than that, when you look at history, it's clear that the second amendment was intended to ensure that the people had access to militarily-suitable arms. We're right at the point of gov't tyranny right NOW, and Dems want to disarm people? So, what?, we can have a King Trump I?

I would not ever call a 1911 "reliable". You need to keep up with the spring replacement (500-2000 rounds for the recoil spring), and you need to make sure that you're keeping them very clean. I've had the slide stop walk out on mine in the middle of a stage, which created a stoppage that couldn't be fixed on the clock.

It would not be my first recommendation for a carry gun.

For reliable, I'd go with a major-name striker-fired polymer framed pistol. And by "reliable" I mean a gun that you can forget to clean for 2000+ rounds, and it still works well.

That said, my carry gun is a CZ Shadow 2 Compact. It's also not 'reliable'; it's going to take a lot more work than a Glock 19. I'm okay with that. And I knew that going in.

My opinion is strictly anecdotal; I'm not a professional, I can only speak to what I've personally seen, and that may or may not be representative.

OTOH, if sex and relationship counselors are saying that the overwhelming majority of people are doing multiamory badly, then their opinions have a lot more weight. Are they necessarily correct? No, of course not, any more than the opinion of any one doctor could be full of shit (see also: any doctor that thinks trans-ideology is a woke-mind virus, or whatever they're saying now). But it has a lot more weight than opinions of non-professionals.

Okay, so low beam should always be on. High beam should only be on when switched on.

The position lights

Can't be that. I've replaced one of the turn indicators; it's only two wires, and neither of them are the same color as the position indicator. In the wiring diagram, the position light is not going to the the turn signal. And, most important, the position light wire is only going to the headlight assembly. I had thought that there was only a single bulb in each side of the headlight, but maybe there's another one...? It's not really something that can be disassembled, aside from changing out the bulb.

there’s a catalog with dimensions in it

Good deal; I can check that pretty easily.

No, castle doctrine exists in all states. You do not have a duty to retreat when it's inside your own home in almost all cases.

You will get zero people that have real knowledge and understanding of weapon systems advising legislators on ways to ban them.

AR-15 rifles also covers select fire variants. The original AR-15 made by Eugene Stoner was select fire only. The assault rifle/assault weapon distinction is functionally meaningless, and really only applies to the military. Oh, you'll get fudds that will claim otherwise, but they're also the ones claiming that a 1911 is the best gun ever because "TwO WorLD wARs!".

Shooting plainclothes cops that execute a no-knock warrant on your home.

Seriously.

All states--ALL states--have a castle doctrine that allows you to use lethal defense to protect yourself inside your home. A no-knock warrant being executed by cops out of uniform means that you have a reasonable belief that your home is being invaded, and that your life is at immediate risk. Now, admittedly, you probably aren't going to survive that exchange of gunfire. But the state is going to have a really hard time charging you with shooting at/killing a cop if you do.

Samsung and Roku are bad for this.

You're buying the hardware; they provide the software as a service. Oh, sure, no agreeing to a unilateral change of conditions on the software means that your hardware is rendered worthless, but still... And yeah, that's pretty much the way that actually works.

IP law can start getting pretty strange.

None of what I said is restricted to any specific form of multiamorous relationship, or any sexual orientation or gender identity/expression. Most of the people trying to engage in polyerotic relationships--by which I mean the overwhelming majority--are people that have signed up for an ultramarathon before they can successfully complete a 5k fun run.

It was completed in 1937, not the 70s.

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Edit: I see that I'm getting downvoted by the people that are in non-monogamous relationships. Fact is that when you talk to sex-positive sex and relationship counselors, they will almost universally say that functional polyerotic relationships are the equivalent of post-doctoral work, while most people have relationship abilities equivalent to a barely-literate middle school level. It's not that multiamorous relationships are bad or wrong, or that the people that engage in them are wretched examples of humans (...although there are certainly more than a few of those) or anything like that, but to be functional that type of relationship requires a far greater level of self-awareness and honesty than most people are capable of. Hence the reason that they tend to be so volatile; more moving parts, more chances to fuck up.

In my personal experience I have found that most multiamorous relationships are more casual and less emotionally intimate (e.g., more shallow) than monogamous relationships. The people I have personally observed, including my own partners, have had less time to spend with any single person, and were more likely to jettison relationships rather than putting in the hard work to fix problems.

Ha. Very true. The people that were clued in knew you couldn't trust the gov't, but the lack of easy information meant most people had no idea.

Oriental shorthair. They sound very unusual too.

Right, but that's not the reason it won't print if you're out of a color. Especially since you can still print in B&W only mode. Or you certainly used to be able to, but I'm still using the same color laser from >10 years ago for home use, and an old Brother photo printer for things that need to be higher resolution.

If you use a Brother printer with ecotank cartridges, you can get an empty yellow cartridge and fill it with water if you're worried about tracking dots. You'll want to run a few cleaning cycles first to ensure that all the residual yellow is gone from the yellow print head.

...Or you can buy a typewriter at a pawn shop with cash, and dump it once you've written the ransom note/bomb threat. If you're counterfeiting stuff, you should probably consider the printer to be a consumable item that gets discarded and replaced after every batch.

Also, not every printer made since the mid-90s does that. See here

To be honest, i don't know specifically, but that's very much in his prairie school of architecture.

If you ever get a chance, try walking around in Oak Park (a nice suburb of Chicago on the far west side); a lot of Wright's earlier architectural work is there. One of his earliest buildings is there, from before he developed his prairie school, and it's... A real change of pace.

That is NOT the reason. FFS. If that was the case, you couldn't switch to B&W only printing when you're out of one of the cartridges, and, shocker!, you almost always can (assuming that you don't have the absolutely worst printer driver in existence).

I work in commercial printing, and I print in CMYK every single day. Almost nothing is absolutely pure cyan, magenta, yellow, or black. Printing pure black ends up looking like a very washed out charcoal grey. If you want 'rich black'--which is what most people think of as black, you need to us C,M, and Y. If you had a spectrophotometer and were creating color profiles for your printer, you'd be able to very, very quickly see that. (You'd also be able to see that the colors used in most inks and toners isn't strictly linear, and that you can start getting weird 'hooking' in colors once you exceed a certain ink volume. Some inks are much worse than others in that respect.) Depending on the RIP software that you're using, and how you create the color profile for the printer, you can specify exactly where greys switch from being monochromatic (K only) to using the full gamut.

It used to be really apparent with our old Roland printers, where you could easily see the individual pixels with a magnifying glass. Now we're using printers that are higher resolution--I think 600ppi natively, but I see enough dot gain in what we're printing on that anything past 150ppi is irrelevant--you can't see them.

There's a collection of images that I have to print regularly from one of our corporate clients. This collection of images is always sent as greyscale .tif files. When you look at them on-screen, they look fine. When you print them, they're washed out. The issue is that the RIP software sees the images in greyscale, and defaults to using K only. If I convert the images to RGB (which, yes, I know, it's weird that I print in RGB when the printer is CMYK, but trust me, it improves color slightly), then the printed image looks like the image on screen.

God of War.

I dunno, being Nicholas Cage just seems kind of cool.