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My answer is look it up your goddamn self. This isn't your own personal Livejournal. We're all about giving noobs starting out advice, until they show that all they are are postwhores and completely ignore valid advice from experienced riders (Brian) and mechanics (Isaac's Papa). You got Google on your phone? Get fucking cracking.

Of the Mount-fucking-Everest pile of reasons to switch from national, too-big-to-fail banks to community banks/CU, you had to find the one firearm related excuse. My hat's off to you sir, your consistency is truly legendary. And hey, if this gets more people out of BoA/Chase/Huntington/Citi/et al, then more power to y'all.

Honestly, I wouldn't waste your time. He won't read this anyway.

Media of any stripe have proven themselves utterly incapable of covering this impartially and objectively, therefore I'm not paying any attention to anything they are saying short of "this happened in the Zimmerman trial today". Media enhancements, image and audio manipulations, all that have more or less proved themselves to be completely full of shit, even moreso the bloviating heads that incessantly feel the need to comment on the smallest minutiae detail for the next 24 hours. Facts will come out at the trial, everything else is just bullshit hearsay and wild speculation.

Nope, I can't see those coming apart under vibration/at speed at all.

On that third pic I don't see resistors. I see wire, wrenches, broken mirror, pack of cigarettes and keys, but no resistors. Find the hot wire and tap the resistor wire into it, or splice the resistor wire into the hot wire. How you do this is up to you, just understand that a) the resistor gets HOT, plan accordingly and b) if you fuck this up, you're going to be chasing wiring issues for a while.

So you're asking if you should ignore the advice of an established race rider with multiple year experience in favor of your own experiences over the last few months that has already resulted in a crash? You are beyond help. Sell the bike, take your family on a vacation and live a long and safe life. At the rate you're going, you're going to wrap this thing around something major sooner rather than later, and $320 in missed wages will be the least of your concern.

I have no idea why on fucking Earth I just plowed through all 6 pages of this shit. I have no advice to give (since I've seen how well that would be received), just a solid what. the. fuck.

I don't know why I'm wasting my time on this, since you don't seem to listen to advice too well, but here's hoping. Turn signals: Are there any signal lights that aren't working, front or rear? It's possible that one of them might have had their filament broken on the lowside. Some modern bikes, when they detect a bad bulb, they'll flash fast instead of the regular flash. From what i understand, the Ninja 250's don't have hazard light capability (all 4 lights flash at once) Could the relay have taken a hit? That being said, if it's not an easy fix like replacing a bulb or relay, given the level of knowledge you seem to possess and my personal experiences taking down the plastics on my 600RR, I find it HIGHLY unlikely that you are going to tear down the fairings, find the problem, fix the problem, do proper damage inspection, and reassemble everything to your satisfaction on a bike that you have never worked on before in less than 2 hours. I'm not saying that to be snarky, I'm saying that because in all probability it's true. If you're taking everything off after a crash, you should be checking for damage. Any bent or dented pieces of essential subsystems (engine, suspension, electrical, things like that) should be researched and replaced if needed. Scratched pieces and scuffed damage should be noted for future reference, especially if you intend to resell the bike at a later time. Screws you should be able to get from a Kawi OEM part dealer. You might need to purchase the whole bar end as an assembly, but it's possible you could get just the screw.

Ah fuck. Time to get my crowbar.

I've done this before, on multiple occasions. I'll opt out of the backscatter, and as I do, instead of looking at the agent I stare at my bags. When the agent asks me to come around to the groping floor, I immediately and sternly tell them that I will comply, however the bags and the content of my bags are not leaving my sight at any time and for any reason. When I flew to Brisbane I had a feeling that the Columbus TSA lackey (I'm being serious, this guy did not have two brain cells to put together) would want to rifle through my checked bag (I had a wireless LAN controller in there, pretty large piece of electronics) so I hung around the bag dropoff. Sure enough, it got pulled, so I walked over and stood right in front of the guy as he conducted his search, just to make sure Dumbass McDerpington didn't break anything that I would have to have to MacGuyver later.

I would equate al-Arabiya now to what al-Jazeera was back then.

I'm still waiting for your references from your al-Jazeera argument above, or were you just talking completely out of your ass?

blind squirrel, nut, etc...

political bickering aside, this is the real problem, and has been ever since the well was "capped" and public interest started to wane. A story like this needs to be told to everyone, if only so they stay informed as to what's happening in the seafood supply and continuing environmental impact. I think the reason it's NOT being told is simply because seeing pictures of something like this, with the massively deformed crabs (and the rate of deformation), shrimp, and other staple foods on the 6:30 news would be a MASSIVE kick in the balls of both the seafood and tourism industries of those coastal states, and would prompt pretty widespread panic nationwide with the quality of the food supply. The damage is done, the oil and dispersants are out there. Short of building the deepest dredger known to man and dredging up all that oil that fell to the seafloor from the dispersants, I really don't know what can be done to fix this.

Really? List 3 citations or you are completely full of shit.

Or, you know, he could be just an idiot.

Makes sense, multiple pieces of metal would stop a .22. Didn't stop my 7.62x54R though...

Pack C4 between platters on the spindle and cover with blast-resistant dome. I think that data's pretty securely gone. Could make your own thermite and just cut the hard drive in pieces...

Cheap and easy way - sledgehammer until the platters either physically deform and scratch all to hell (in multiple places, a little dent's not going to do much) or shatter (best case scenario) If you're ZOMG paranoid about the data, it might be possible for someone who really, really wants SOMETHING off that drive to snag something off the tracks that werent hit by the drill (the ones closest to the center and farthest away)

You probably sat on a seat manufactured by the company I used to work for, they made seats for the MRAP. Hope your ass was happy that day. According to the DHS's internal rules (http://www.immigrationpolicy.org/just-facts/authority-us-customs-and-border-protection-agents-overview), ICE's jurisdiction extends 100 MILES inland from any international boundary, including both coasts. That boundary covers the entire upper half of Columbus. Yes, the targeted clientele of ICE and CBP aren't US citizens, but they've done WAY more than their fair share of scope creep.

There are a LIMITED amount of applications I can see something like this warranted. DHS currently uses SUV's, Jeep's, and pickups with the detention area in the bed to go up and down the border, all three of which don't do very well in a possible gunfight and do even worse against anything explosive. These would work for that application. Deploying something like this 50 miles inland on a state route WELL within United States jurisdiction would be WAY out of line.

Just registered, ID is JC0069. I ended up selling the RR, so unless you want a fat kid trying to ride a unicycle down High St., I'll won't be doing escort this year. Let me know where you's can use me.

That's just...wow.

Yes. I know you told me back in January you'd never wash your ass again after you sat on that MV Agusta at IMS, but for fuck's sake, it's time to man up and take a shower.