Cheech

Been there for two of them, and one of those (the one that started this meme) happened to be mine. Still haven't seen a Kat complete the run, although I admit I haven't been looking very hard. They're very much a love-it-or-hate-it looking bike, I was a fan of the fairings but not a fan of the weight, and CERTAINLY not a fan of the carbs once I got my hands around a FI engine. I think there are better options out there, but if you come across a deal for $1500 or so it might not be a terrible thing.

My number is one digit off from Wal-Mart in Reynoldsburg. I always answer my phone with "This is Jeff", so if you're paying attention you have fair warning that this is not, in fact, Wal-Mart. The people that I hear immediately screaming for managers or whatever I have a LOT of fun with. On the other hand, I've helped out some people too, so that should even things out.

CCNA ICND2. Spoiler alert, the packet dies in the end.

Heh, the notification thingy must be borked for me because I didn't see anything, just saw someone looking for a packet plumber. Thanks for thinking of me though. Scubs, sending you a PM.

In the flesh and on your screen. How's the twins coming along?

Please tell me that's sarcasm.

I'll do you one better: During the Dorner manhunt, the LAPD pumping 102 rounds into a blue truck occupied by two women that looked nothing like Dorner, inside a truck that looked nothing like the grey truck Dorner was driving. How they both survived is a mystery to me, but the 8(!) officers involved had no criminal charges brought, and it's unclear exactly what kind of punishment they received since they weren't even named. I understand that there are a ton of good cops out there, but when the stakes are this high that I have to be concerned about police with itchy trigger fingers that prefer to fire first and ask questions/make up the story later, I can't afford to automatically treat all police with the benefit of the doubt.

The standard has gotten so low in America that even bringing charges is a big deal, especially when those charges are so overblown to try and generate temporary, short-term order that getting a conviction on them is impossible and the cycle begins anew. I honestly believe the Slager trial in South Carolina is the canary in the coal mine. The guy shot Walter Scott in the back while fleeing, and subsequently lied on his police report about him going for his Taser. The Union's turned their back on him, but there are still plenty of layers to go.

This I can get behind. They tried to take the crowdsource mentality of Occupy and apply it to a different movement. The problem is they took the part of Occupy that didn't work so well (leaderless, groupthink mentality) and tried to pin it to the only part of BLM that did work initially (the message that Black people were being disproportionately targeted/killed by police) until the former ate the latter. My pasty white guy take on this is simple: When you remove, or are perceived to have removed, all possible forms of legitimate accountability for people in positions of power, the only thing that the people are left with is vengeance. I think a viable solution can be found to make everyone push back from the edge a bit, however that solution involves the PD's doing something that they really don't like: admitting when they're wrong. There are so many layers of protections to hide behind; qualified immunity, Garrity, the Union, and even each other that to the general public it's almost impossible to determine where an investigation is at, or if they even started one in the first place.

You do realize that bitcoin is ridiculously easy to manipulate, right? I'm not one to tell someone how to spend their money, but if you didn't get into BTC in 2009/early 2010 then I think you missed the boat. I'm in a similar boat as Tpoppa, I've been sitting on a mix of S&P index funds and long-term Vanguard mutual funds since I consolidated everything earlier this year and am down just slightly, but I still have about 10k unallocated in the 401k to plow into something new.

Damn that's tempting. I'm currently looking at a 2008 Yammy Morphous scoot, but this has me second guessing myself.

It's an interesting idea. I've kinda set a budget of 4K for this which the Duke would blow out, but it's not going to kill me. I wanted to stay away from the supersport riding position though, am i going to be right back to it with this?

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You mean like the Aprilia SR50? Sat on one of those too at IP, I feel like I'm too much of a fatass for a fitty, I'd have to rev the tits off it to get it to go anywhere.

Wsa debating between that or a Grom, but after reading a bit of the Grom thread I don't think it's for me. I sat on a CB300F at IP and was pretty impressed, any owners out there have any insights? This is just a screw-around bike, I've been without for a few years now. Riding position on a supersport bothered me too much and I wasn't able to get a lot of ride time, I was thinking with the better upright position that it'd be better for my wrists and hands.

Because they want an Islamic State. It's right in their name. They happened to go after the low-hanging fruit with the Sunni bloc that was being disenfranchised by the current Iraqi government, they sure as hell didn't want to fight for Maliki so they immediately surrendered and accepted ISIS rule. The Kurds to the NE and the Syrians, on the other hand, is a completely different story. The Kurds know with the power vacuum that this is basically the closest they've gotten to self-sufficiency in quite a long time, so when you have the "barbarians at the door" in the form of ISIS, the Peshmerga wanted to set an example that they are not to be fucked with, and I believe have done so. Not going to happen. Syria is a Russian ally, and there's lots of Russian assets in the country. If we were really going to clean house, we would have done it when we had the international backing following the chemical weapons attacks.

Oh, I'll vouch for this. He even has the well-trained minions to run it all. This has always been something that's fascinated me, but with the galaxy of tools and stuff out there I've always felt too overwhelmed to start doing anything. What would y'all suggest to start out with? I have on hand in the garage a B&D Matrix drill with the jigsaw and reciprocating saw attachments, a hacksaw, a couple of clamps, hammers, and that's about it. I'd like to just start easy with a workbench or something in the garage, but I just have no idea what I need and what is overkill. I have a tendency to go overboard buying tools.

We did, no question about that. I was just tired of seeing the Harley guys walk past the cops with impunity after being at the bar all night, while some sportbike riders get popped for loud exhausts.

Good to know they're offering severance, and with the time you have in that should amount to a significant chunk of change. That said, I'd start getting on the horn to recruiters now, and explain your situation to them. I don't know many people in the Cincy area, but CBTS and the usual suspects (TekSystems, etc.) might be a good place to start. On top of that, start on some cert learnin', and find a way to get some paper to your name before interviews come around. I'm not sure what specialty you're in in IT, but from a networking perspective I've never had a job gap in 12 years, and I've bounced around a LOT. The last 2 gigs I've had (including my current, started in May) I've gotten within 1.5 months, I was kinda half-assing how wide I casted my net, and I was pretty picky. You can put your stuff on careerbuilder/Dice/whatever, but chances are you're going to get hit up by national recruiters who don't know their ass from a hole in the ground. You'll get calls/emails that don't pass the smell test, just ignore them. If you need some help, I'll do what I can. Good luck.

I can't argue with that, but I can argue that the collision with the drunk pirate was entirely preventable if the on-site police were doing their jobs instead of collecting their overtime for the security gig.

You had me right up until that last sentence. Speaking strictly about the QSL crowd, when I watch hordes of cruiser riders hang out at the bar all night and get loaded, I find that statement dubious. Even worse, in my mind, is that they have to walk past a county sheriff at the door, then possibly ride past another sheriff at an exit, but for some reason they never get lit up for DUI. However, you find a sportbike with a questionable exhaust and it's cop open season. Again, this is just from my observations from the Columbus QSL bike night. YMMV, void where prohibited.

Damn dirty liburals. To properly answer redkow's question: A massive influx of tourists and new people into a city with a barely-functioning mass transit system, the protests, the counter-protests, the "free-speech zones" and the associated overbearing LEO response to all of the above, the gawkers and rubberneckers alone should make Comfest look like a quaint gathering in the park. Not to mention the Secret Service security entourages for multiple people (thanks Obama!) adding a whole other layer of what-the-fuckery to the already Thurman-sized holyfuckburger. Like I said, it'll be great for the city, I just don't want to have to deal with it. Instead of fighting it, I'll just quietly leave and return in a few days. No biggie.

I agree that the convention would be excellent for the local economy, however I'm also aware that they would be fucking awful for those of us who live here. If for some reason Columbus gets the DNC, me and the future Mrs Cheech are busting out of the city for the weekend.

I thought the same thing. You couldn't pay me enough to join that circus anymore.

Understand that for the first couple HOURS, you're going to be going at literally idle speed. I couldn't hit the throttle at all on my 600rr, otherwise I'd blow past a bunch of people and bunch up the moto escort. Temp-controlled cooling fan was on pretty much non-stop, and coolant temp held at about 250 for the majority of that time. When I volunteered for moto a few years back, the mech vans responded very quickly. Given that the only supplies you'll really need are tire spoons to pop off tires and innertubes, the only supplies you'll really need are water for you, and even then the gaps between water stations aren't that bad.