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Living Room / Re: Can U Say Crap-O-Riffic??
« Last post by Stoic Joker on January 23, 2012, 06:33 AM »
Zoiks! That's a hell of a round. But I'd rather the hollow-point, as they're designed to frag and stop in the first target. It's safer for the Innocent bystanders that way. Chances are you'll have to asses the field of fire in a split second, so it's best not to take chances with overkill.
-Stoic Joker (January 22, 2012, 10:23 PM)

Perhaps I should have pointed out that the second, (12g - causes very large recoil and makes a really big mess of things ;D ), doesn't go in the first, (1851 Navy Colt - lot of fun, bit slow to reload).
-4wd (January 22, 2012, 11:17 PM)

Understood. I recognized the antique black powder/ball ammo revolver. I'd thought that the Navy Colt had a back strap over the cylinder ...(So was thinking Colt Dragoon)... But I'm not that up on with the older stuff. *Shrug*

My brother is a big fan of the solid loads/slugs in a 12g (e.g. I'm familiar with the recoil). Me I tend to think of the shotgun as a mid-range coverage weapon (with 00 buckshot). I carry on a regular basis...so I tend to (must) be/stay mindful of the repercussions that certain choices can have. :)
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Living Room / Re: Can U Say Crap-O-Riffic??
« Last post by Stoic Joker on January 22, 2012, 10:23 PM »
Zoiks! That's a hell of a round. But I'd rather the hollow-point, as they're designed to frag and stop in the first target. It's safer for the Innocent bystanders that way. Chances are you'll have to asses the field of fire in a split second, so it's best not to take chances with overkill.
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Living Room / Re: I came to a conclusion this morning...
« Last post by Stoic Joker on January 22, 2012, 10:16 PM »
I just had one of those birthdays last week that my family insisted on celebrating - for purely sadistic reasons!
-J-Mac (January 22, 2012, 09:36 PM)

Hay me too! Happy day we were trying to ignore. :)
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Living Room / Re: Can U Say Crap-O-Riffic??
« Last post by Stoic Joker on January 22, 2012, 06:19 PM »
Yes, because the very last thing you want to have in a shooting is a second version of what happened...  ;)
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Living Room / Re: Can U Say Crap-O-Riffic??
« Last post by Stoic Joker on January 22, 2012, 03:53 PM »
loaded with hollow-points
-kyrathaba (January 22, 2012, 03:45 PM)

(Well of course) Do they still make another kind of bullet? ;)  :D
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Living Room / Re: We Are Legion Documentary - Anonymous
« Last post by Stoic Joker on January 22, 2012, 02:00 PM »
I'm more a fan of having a shotgun (same coverage with less bullets) and a fast car. However a well hidden base of operations does make for a good place to reload.

...Unless we can get one of those A-Team vans, then both are covered and it's just an issue of parking.  :D
-Stoic Joker (January 22, 2012, 01:50 PM)


Ooooo! Can we?!! Can we?!!!
-40hz (January 22, 2012, 01:53 PM)

Sure! Oh and to clarify what counts as a proper shotgun for the "job":
StreetSweeper.jpg

Remember: The key to winning the Zombie Apocalypse is to stock-up on ammo while the first wave is eating the cops. ;)
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Living Room / Re: We Are Legion Documentary - Anonymous
« Last post by Stoic Joker on January 22, 2012, 01:50 PM »
I'm more a fan of having a shotgun (same coverage with less bullets) and a fast car. However a well hidden base of operations does make for a good place to reload.

...Unless we can get one of those A-Team vans, then both are covered and it's just an issue of parking.  :D
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Official Announcements / Re: DC going offline to protest SOPA on Jan 18
« Last post by Stoic Joker on January 22, 2012, 01:43 PM »
There are actually municipalities in the US that require gun ownership now.  I don't think there have been studies as to what effect that has had on crime, though.
-wraith808 (January 22, 2012, 01:19 PM)

I remember hearing about that back when a few of them were just starting. IIRC early results were good ... But that doesn't guarantee a positive long term. I think a lot of might depend on people focusing on getting along (like proper adults)...instead of trying to represent (like some street punk).
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Living Room / Re: We Are Legion Documentary - Anonymous
« Last post by Stoic Joker on January 22, 2012, 01:34 PM »
Strategy aside, I like it :up: The world could use a few more Robin Hoods me thinks.
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Living Room / Re: I came to a conclusion this morning...
« Last post by Stoic Joker on January 22, 2012, 01:24 PM »
+1 - But I'm extra crispy.
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Living Room / Re: Can U Say Crap-O-Riffic??
« Last post by Stoic Joker on January 22, 2012, 12:16 PM »
But it's rather baffling/annoying that a brand new drive would go poof that quickly.
-Stoic Joker (January 22, 2012, 08:33 AM)

Have a relative that holds a BEE (from MIT no less!) tell me the problem with electronic devices is they can suffer from what he called "infant mortality." He said if you can (1) power up an electrical device, (2) run it for 72 hours under full load (3) then shut it down and let it cool off overnight (3) then bring it back up successfully - it will almost always (99.9999%) run without problems for the next six to eight years. That's because most electrical engineering defects manifest themselves very early on. And about 75% are heat-related, so they won't start to show up until the device has been running several hours.

The basic rule of thumb seems to be: If it's gonna die, it's gonna die shortly after you get it - otherwise it will die no sooner than one month out-of-warranty. So look for the longest warranty you can find. (Not that it will matter. Because hardly anybody ever registers or remembers where they put their receipt.)
-40hz (January 22, 2012, 09:43 AM)

Actually I already knew that part ... It's a big part of why I tend to skip the extended warranties, as if it'll make it 30 - 90 days without going poof it'll most likely last forever.

Annoying was the operative phrase above. The other was more of a philosophical thing regarding the timing of my turn-in-the-barrel.


According to my genius cousin, it seems that the way they move product these days, there's no longer any such thing as real burn-in testing. Unless it's being sold at MIL-SPEC premium pricing, what little QC there is tests the major components of a device or assembly very briefly. If the little ogre powers up, and a signal is detected on whatever I/O ports it has, it's considered "good." After that, it's off to antistatic bagging for shipping.

The manufacturers do a risk assessment, calculate the projected failure rate from actual returns, adjust the warranty as necessary, and budget for the inevitable replacements. So it's purely a lottery and numbers game. It's sort of like the old rule for buying a truck - it's either: (a) expensive, but top quality and going to last - or (b) inexpensive to buy and cheap and easy to fix.

Most electronic manufacturers opt for 'cheap to replace under warranty' because it's more cost effective for them to eat the occasional bad egg (and write it off on their taxes) than it is to properly and extensively test each individual product. And in the case of something as complex as a microprocessor (with its meeel-yuns and meeel-yuns of transistors and countless potential electrical states) - it's not even possible to completely test them any more. Or isn't if you don't have 20 years to wait for the tests to complete.
-40hz (January 22, 2012, 09:43 AM)

Yeah ... Warmer. It never ceases to amaze me that a bunch of asshat beaners have managed to argue away the merit of making a quality product. I would like to set these people on fire.



P.S. There's a 9mm Glock Tactical in the top drawer behind the pretzel bag if you need it. Just don't point it at yourself or the dog. ;)
-40hz (January 22, 2012, 09:43 AM)


Ya almost had me spooked there for a second - had to make sure the web-cam was off. While I am partial to Glocks I keep one of these (40 cal) in my office (in easy reach), sitting on top of a copy of George Carlin's Napalm & Silly Putty.
Bersa Mini-40-FireStorm.jpg
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Living Room / Re: Can U Say Crap-O-Riffic??
« Last post by Stoic Joker on January 22, 2012, 08:33 AM »
The way the story of playing out, it's more like aft-play.

The array survived - yet again - But it's rather baffling/annoying that a brand new drive would go poof that quickly. Guess it'll be "fun" to see what happens next.
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Living Room / Re: .Free domain names are free? What is catch?
« Last post by Stoic Joker on January 20, 2012, 09:47 PM »
pr0n.free  ;D
-rgdot (January 20, 2012, 09:36 PM)

That means the lack of pr0n. Surely you wanted pr0n4.free ?
-Deozaan (January 20, 2012, 09:40 PM)

oops good point :D
-rgdot (January 20, 2012, 09:44 PM)

Damn...
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Living Room / Re: .Free domain names are free? What is catch?
« Last post by Stoic Joker on January 20, 2012, 09:46 PM »
pr0n.free  ;D
-rgdot (January 20, 2012, 09:36 PM)

Hay! That's a good one ... But it's taken now...
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Living Room / Re: .Free domain names are free? What is catch?
« Last post by Stoic Joker on January 20, 2012, 09:43 PM »
I guess I'll be Guinea Pigging this one ... and will let you know if/when my mail server explodes.

I used an alias e-mail to signup...If they decide to spam me, its a simple case of delete and move on :P
-Stephen66515 (January 20, 2012, 09:26 PM)

That too is an idea. But I've actually started to enjoy the spam a bit now that it helps me plan my day. Oh look a new and clever infected attachment scam ...Don't try to start anything new... It's gonna be a busy day for tech support. :)
3166
Living Room / Re: Apple & Textbooks
« Last post by Stoic Joker on January 20, 2012, 09:32 PM »
It might be a good idea, but then again, it might not.  Its hard to come to a definitave decision on such matters without further research into the implementation and design aspects of the topic of discussion  :huh:
-Stephen66515 (January 20, 2012, 09:24 PM)

I don't need further research ... I'm fine with the same snap decision I made after viewing a news cast about one of the Florida schools going to this nonsense.

They decided that buying iPads for all the kids in the school was going to be cheaper than getting dead tree editions of the text books - 'cause electronic copies are free ya know... - And then pass the cost of a replacement on to the parents if/when the kids iPad got lost/stolen/broken. Brilliant right?? ...Not!
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Living Room / Re: Apple & Textbooks
« Last post by Stoic Joker on January 20, 2012, 09:23 PM »
I'm to tired to come up with something witty. So...

@Renegade:  no.

@Doezaan:  yes.
-barney (January 20, 2012, 09:13 PM)

+1  :)
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Living Room / Re: .Free domain names are free? What is catch?
« Last post by Stoic Joker on January 20, 2012, 09:19 PM »
Great way to harvest information for spam. :Thmbsup:
-Deozaan (January 20, 2012, 08:38 PM)

Yes, but the promised not to... (hehe)

Password can only be 12 characters max. . . :huh: :down:
-Deozaan (January 20, 2012, 08:38 PM)

With very limited special characters allowed ... Yeish! (agreed)

General availability: November 2013. That's almost 2 years from now.
-Deozaan (January 20, 2012, 08:38 PM)

Meh, it'll probably take me that long to figure out what to do with the domains.  :D


I guess I'll be Guinea Pigging this one ... and will let you know if/when my mail server explodes.  :o
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Living Room / Re: .Free domain names are free? What is catch?
« Last post by Stoic Joker on January 20, 2012, 07:22 PM »
Correct, sorry its been a weird day.
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Living Room / .Free domain names are free? What is catch?
« Last post by Stoic Joker on January 20, 2012, 06:49 PM »
Not sure what this is all about - just heard about it today - but they appear to be preregistering .free domain names. For free. I'm assuming there must be a catch...but none is obvious at this point (to me). I joined...perhaps foolishly...and no apparent evil manifested immediately.

Anybody heard anything about this??
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Living Room / Re: Can U Say Crap-O-Riffic??
« Last post by Stoic Joker on January 20, 2012, 06:23 PM »
And now the second chapter of As the Mind Boggles - What Again?!?


So a few days ago, I get this little blinking icon with a balloon message what says RAID Failure. Nice... Just what I need while I'm trying to get started on a new project that right out of the gate is supposed to take an entire year.

Weeee... + Word that rhymes with truck (hint: it isn't pineapple).


So I pop open the Intel Matrix Storage Console, to see who the hell died now. The 2 remaining old drives 0 & 1, are just fine. The brand new WD drive from BestBuy is however reporting an "Error Condition". I say condition, because it had a status of error, it was red, and it was blinking. These are all cues that something is in a condition what needs attention. It did not however tell me a damn thing about WTF'ing error was...specifically.

So... I right clicked the offending drive, to see what my options might be. And as it happens there was an option on said menu that asked - something to the effect of - Would you like this drive to be normal. And I thought to myself, why yes I would like that drive to be(have) normal(ly) ... And so I clicked said option ... And it set the drives status to normal, and began to rebuild. 1%. 2%. 3% ... It was a rather boring show so I went to bed.

The next morning, all was fine in RAID land as all the drives were happily frolicking in unison. But would it last?? No.

I get home from work that night and we're right back to the cheerfully blinking RAID Failure icon. This time the status of the drive is failed. Which is nice in a way as now I don't have to go digging around trying to figure out what some obscure error code means. However it does strike me that the previous day's error may have been that the drive was almost, but not quite, dead yet... (yes the Monty Python version) ...But it would be in a day-or-so...


I did manage to find another drive (also a WD Caviar blue), and the array is once again rebuilding. You'd think it would get faster with all the practice its had lately ... But no. It's at 7%.

And that will conclude my patience for the evening. So if you'll excuse me ... I have to go fucking snap.  :D

Thank you.
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Living Room / Re: Who's up for a DonationCoder talk show?
« Last post by Stoic Joker on January 20, 2012, 03:15 PM »
I swear quite a bit on a good day ... It's when I stop swearing that it's about to hit the fan. I like to be different...  :D

I don't do real well with fools either.
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Official Announcements / Re: DC going offline to protest SOPA on Jan 18
« Last post by Stoic Joker on January 20, 2012, 12:18 PM »
In the case of many of the big-name "blackouts" from sites like Wikipedia, Google, or Reddit, I was not impressed with the follow-through used. Google turned their logo black. Wikipedia's blackout was only for the English site and easily overridden with (or due to lack of) javascript. Reddit only did it for half of the day.

IMO those are examples of half-hearted protests. If you're going to protest something you should first come up with an effective form of protest and then commit to follow through with the protest.
-Deozaan (January 20, 2012, 11:16 AM)

This I understand, as I too was looking for a bit more - all in - carnage.
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Developer's Corner / Re: The most insane review of Visual Studio 2010 I've ever read...
« Last post by Stoic Joker on January 20, 2012, 11:54 AM »
Oh shit, that's funny! Thanks wraith I needed a laugh today!
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Living Room / Re: As a counter-point to the SOPA/PIPA demonstration
« Last post by Stoic Joker on January 20, 2012, 11:50 AM »
Fact is that humans have limited amounts of energy/resources, and when they are overwhelming consumed by just trying to get by, well... go figure. They don't have time/energy/resources to do the work needed to become informed about politics.

When everything runs from 9 to 5, and they're at work, they have no opportunity to do anything. They're excluded from participating because they need to work to live.
-Renegade (January 20, 2012, 07:36 AM)

Exactly. Now compound that by the convoluted manner in which the issues are addresses during election debates/interviews. The one classic example that always stuck with me was when ABC's Charlie Gibson interviewed Sara Palin. He asked her a simple direct Yes-on-No question. She responded by babbling for 10 minutes straight, and never once said yes, no, or even addressed the friggin question. Charlie countered by re-asking he exact same question and directly specified that he was looking for a Yes-or-No reply. Her response? 10 more minutes of distracted puppet shit.

When a politician answers a direct question the only thing that can be guaranteed...Is that nobody in the room will have the slightest clue what the fuck their talking about. Because it's just one long string of complete bullshit.

Now let one of us try that shit in a court of law... HA!

I want to see politicians subjected to the exact same treatment that any other crackhead junkie whore would be given if they got evasive in court. <-- Senator... If the next word out of your mouth isn't either yes...or no ... Your ass is going to jail for somewhere between 90 days and whenever I damn well feel like you've learned your lesson. --> Now that's a government that fears its people.
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