Cheech

Unless you carry with frangible ammo, there is no way in hell I'd risk sitting next to a person with a weapon who has the capability of causing a cabin depressurization. I know, I know, explosive decompression with a bullet hole is a myth, but it's still not a good situation to be in. Bottom line, there are enough items on board your standard airliner to be able to subdue an attacker. If you want to be able to carry a collapsible baton or something to that extent, go right ahead. Passengers know they have to police themselves when the shit hits, and that's EXACTLY what happened here.

I hate the TSA just as much if not more than the next guy, but it's not a question of guilt vs. innocence. You aren't on trial, you haven't been convicted, indicted, or even accused of anything. Where the problem lies here is a complete spinning of events and the predictable over-the-top government knee-jerk reaction. Napolitano had the theoretical balls to go on TV and said the system worked. The Dutch guy (who received TSA training, by the way. Everyone on my flight from Amsterdam to Detroit a month ago had to pass through secondary screening at the gate itself) let the guy on the plane, ergo, the TSA has some responsibility for this cocksucker being on board. The only part of this "system" that worked is the passengers realizing after 9/11 that if some guy (especially a foreigner of non-European/American descent) starts doing dumbshit on a flight, there's going to be someone out of the 200+ people on that plane that's going to stop him. What's better, to risk personal injury trying to disarm/stop the terrorist or to hope the bad man goes away and you all die? Then there's the aforementioned knee-jerk reaction. Clearly terrorists are stupid enough to attempt the exact same attack exactly the same way as before, so now we all have to remove the conditions of that attack. Because no one is going to go to the bathroom 1:10 instead of 1:00 before the flight lands, and good luck getting 200+ people to sit straight with their hands visible at all times for an hour on a red-eye flight to Detroit. At the end of the day, it's just more of the same: plain and simple security theater. Guilt and innocence have nothing to do with maintaining the illusion that air travel is 100% completely risk free.

I advise against powerline solutions. Intel messed around with it in the late 90's, and there's a reason why it didn't take off. 14mb and 85mb are just theoretical numbers, good luck trying to find something that maintains stability, and you have to add another $70 device every time you want to add a leg to the network. Short term solution: Where is your AP located in the house? If there's a way you can get it to a central point, then either get higher gain antennas for it or pick up a WRT54G that you can hack to boost power THEN get higher gain antennas, you might be better off. Also see if there are driver updates for your wireless card. Long-term solution: Re-wire the house. I've never done a residential job, I've only done a commercial factory and that's during the construction phase when the drywall wasn't up. I highly recommend getting your materials from monoprice.com, on the off chance that someone here will sell you something for a reasonable price I'd take it, but I was able to beat any commercial quote for materials by a ton sourcing my stuff through monoprice.

Goddamnit, I still have to fly to Australia and back. If those cocksuckers think that my noise-canceling headphones are an "electronic device", I'm going to go apeshit. Maybe I should just stay there...

probably because all the girls we seem to run into seem to all prefer tacos to sausage. What's up with THAT.

Thanks for the clarification, I'm looking to start track days this summer too. So is Mid-O NESBA or STT?

and again tomorrow! Weather nerds say it'll be clear all night tomorrow.

I heard it says "Welcome Aboard".

Very awesome, thanks again to MJ for putting this on. I'm going to pay for this tomorrow, those snow blades makes my legs sore. Ah, I see there's another ski snob on here. Tom, I said the same thing and then it actually began snowing. We had a good 1/2 to an inch of powder to play with, for Ohio that's a freakin' Festivus miracle.

Then you REALLY need to talk to magley64.

From what I saw, you ain't kiddin'.

Find a girlfriend. I think that's the only thing that's been really missing.

Watching Dave's drunken progression as he slid lower and lower into his chair last night was just funny as hell. Lulz were had by all, a good night indeed. Dave, start pounding Gatorade now and pop some Excedrin, you'll thank me in a few hours...

Excellent, thanks dewd.

I skimmed the thread and maybe I missed it, what time is this whole thing kicking off?

That pretty much sums it up for me, although I will add getting a track day or two in would be nice. Already saving up for my suit.

Consider it hit for me too. Unpacking is for little sissy girls. Are we getting passes or whatever beforehand, and are we carpooling somewhere?

I'm pretty sure I just came a little.

You are one bad brown man. Merry Christmas!

I'll see if I can grab some pastries from Eagle on my way down.

Sonic Death Monkey, or perhaps Kathleen Turner Overdrive. if all else fails, there's Everyone Gets Laid.

DARKNESS!

Just because she ate the cast of Twilight doesn't make her a vampire.

Save the Slim Jims though, I love that shit. I think if you throw a low-mass object like a concrete block at her, it will settle into orbit.