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NotActuallyALonghorn

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  1. You trying to call me loose? What's next, are you going to start calling me "mother?"
  2. I generally wear a watch everyday because I'm not a loser who is constantly on their phone or always pulling it out. It's much easier to glance at a watch to check the time anyhow. I'm pretty rough on watches. They might last a year before the crystal gets completely scratched up, so I usually don't wear anything super nice.
  3. So, I decided to rewatch The Clone Wars (also keeping track of which episodes are the most skippable, as most guides filter out some 30% of the content, when I'd prefer to watch all but the most worthless episodes), and I'm at season 2 episode 12, the start of the Deathwatch Arc. Interestingly, the helmets used by the Deathwatch are essentially the same form as the one Din Djarin has in The Mandalorian. It's one of those things that makes you appreciate how much Dave Filoni pays attention to keeping small details consistent.
  4. Lots of people are cross dominant. He is probably left eye dominant but right handed. It works fine for handguns. Shooting a rifle or shotgun, it is better to learn on whichever side your dominant eye is on.
  5. Counterpoint: Tites.
  6. We lost power Friday night and were out of town all Saturday. When we came back that evening the power was still out (it had come back on at some point during the day before going out again, so luckily the freezer didn't defrost. Anyhow, I loaded up some coolers full of frozen meat and the kids to head to the inlaws and stick it in their freezer. Before we left I told my wife I was going to go to the bathroom. "The power is out. Are you sure you will be able to flush it?"
  7. And let's not forget the text Monday morning..."you didn't put gas in the car?!?!?"
  8. Unless you've been before, I wouldn't combine Yellowstone with anything. You can fill a week in there without getting out of your car to do any real hiking. If you want to do some hiking, then a week probably isn't enough. There is just so much to see there it is unreal. I would look at combining it maybe with the Grand Tetons, as that is a good park to just go and relax by the lake without feeling like there is so much to see that you are missing out on. Plus it has one of my favorite ever dispersed camping spots and there are showers you can pay to use by one of the visitor centers, which happens to take care of one of the biggest disadvantages of dispersed camping if you don't have a way to heat up shower water.
  9. It's not that they used a controller so much as that they used a Bluetooth controller. Edit: I should refresh the thread before replying.
  10. Meh, memespeak and texting language is invading normal language. How many times have you heard somebody say LOL or lulz? This is how language evolves. It's not exactly formal, but if we required all business communications to speak with formal language, we would still be speaking like the King James Bible.
  11. Surely nobody with a brain. But it's nice in the shade and there is a whole lot of cool stuff you can explore in the dessert if you know where you are going. It's the knowing where you are going part that gets tricky.
  12. Reserving campsites is a rookie move. Especially if you have a camper van.
  13. I think the second one here might be better.
  14. If they could pinpoint it within five miles in 1968, imagine how good they are now.
  15. If water at that pressure suddenly drops to atmospheric pressure, would it immediatly turn into little tiny ice crystals?
  16. I didn't realize @Helobious was a journalist.
  17. Nice tactical flashlight mount he's got there.
  18. At least you'd have some extra food.
  19. You just make a hatch on both ends. One bolts from the inside, the other from the outside. The hatch being the proper shape is probably more important than the torque, as the intense water pressure probably puts more force on it than the bolts. But even then, a torque wrench isn't that hard to pack.
  20. There are a few submersibles that have made the trip to the bottom of the Mariana Trench that also have manipulator arms. It might be possible to mount some sort of spool on one and run a tether up to the surface. They'd be dead by then for sure, but it would be a cool project to see if it is possible.
  21. We had a hail storm about a month ago that took mine down for me. I'm assuming the roofers will take care of what is left of the clips.
  22. Ain't nothing wrong with a smallish but fiesty and not annoying dog. I had a dog several years ago that was supposed to be a long haired chihuahua puppy, but her hair was pretty wirey and she looked like she was sired by some sort of schnauzer. She wasn't yappy or annoying (although I did catch her barking at a bald eagle hanging out in a pine tree in the back yard when I got home one day) and was a great little dog. She even got run over by the mail lady's jeep and was just fine after a couple of weeks. Nothing wrong with a little dog like that.
  23. Yeah, I'm not sure what I was thinking, given that this is a federal case. I think I was thinking that the due process clause being reinforced by the fourteenth amendment would negate some of the arguments about colonial prohibitions on gun ownership by slaves or freed men (the government actually tried to argue that recently) because the preceeding thirteenth amendment, but somehow wires got crossed and I was distracted with work and the heat. Anyhow, I assume you read my previous post, so I would argue that the vagueness doctrine which is derived from due process clearly applies, given the power it allows law enforcement to selectively enforce it. And I believe that there was even a recent case in which a judge ruled that even a one time use of a controlled substance would be sufficient, which makes selective enforcement even more probable. But the bigger issue to me, is that even under Heller, flatly prohibiting any user of a controlled substance such as marijuana from possessing an arm that was involved in any way with interstate commerce is defacto stripping that person of a fundamental right without due process, which means strict scrutiny should be applied. I don't think there is anybody on this board who would say that the government has a compelling interest in stripping cancer patients of their second amendment rights unless they fundamentally disagree that it is actually a right.
  24. I'd bet if you looked at the statistics about the racial identity of those who get charged with lieing on a 4473 you'd see a pretty significant racial discrepancy. It's a vague law that doesn't define who someone who is a "user" of controlled substances is. In practice, it is a tool that allows law enforcement to discriminate against whoever they choose to. It is also a tool used to fish for other crimes in a discriminatory manner. They can open an investigation and fish for evidence of other crimes, and then conveniently drop charges on the violation of 922(3)(g) so that the defendant doesn't have good standing to challenge it.
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