Aerik

I know a few other local pc build-geeks, and they swear by MicroCenter. I just haven't been there to see for myself recently. There's a crappy lil hole in the floor place behind Hooter's E. Main that is also quite good for basic stuff (hard drives, dvd-rw drives and such).

Yup. We spend most weekend nights hanging out here wrenching on bikes, shooting pool, and drinkin beers. OR peeps are of course welcome to stop by- we're boring, but nice enough. Near BWR.

Not terribly many-- maybe average of 200 per range trip (probably a high estimate), maybe four range trips with it. I always have friends and we bring a bunch of guns to the range, so no one gun gets fired a ton.

Wasn't me holding it in that pic- my friend Nick, the Marine who we constantly pick on for bad trigger discipline. And he's offering me $480 for the whole bundle, so that's the high offer so far. Although he'd have to gather up the cash to do that, so it's not immediate. No pressure here or anywhere-- not in a huge hurry.

Here are the promised crappy cellphone pics.

I'm trying to see what a realistic price should be- I haven't bought or sold a used handgun in forever.

Alright, let me finish eating, then I'll take some crappy cellphone pics.

I'm thinking of selling my Glock 17 to get some extra cash. It's in great shape, I bought it new (at New Albany range) and maintain it meticulously. I have 3 17-round mags and one 33-rounder. Also included would be a Crimson Trace laser-grip, factory case and factory cable lock. What would you ask for this bundle? I can take/ post pics if anyone on here is interested.

Damn skippy.

Yes, watching overevolved primates act like poop-flinging monkeys does offend my logical nature, but we are what we are. Sometimes these big forebrains we have just short out and the animal kicks in. Yeah, I'm tired of people's emotions too.

Even better. Squeeze Carrie Fisher back into that damn costume and let's do this.

Really, with a new PC, the best move is to get a friend who's good with computers to take your budget to NewEgg and build you exactly what you need. No bloatware, just the good stuff, and done right. An hour or two with the box of parts, and he'll have you a badass computer for much less than the price of an equivalent Dell or HP, with fewer problems.

If we're gonna be the resistance, I demand a beret and a Kalashnikov.

Also, the nature of our media culture now is such that everyone essentially has their own channel. Left or Right news, websites, talk radio, even music: you can seriously avoid opposing viewpoints almost 100% of the time now. When you can set yourself up to go all day hearing only things that agree with you, you lose the ability to be reasonable with people who don't.

ALL of Boba's lines (not counting Kid Boba in the fake movies): "As you wish." - Boba Fett to: Vader "What if he doesn’t survive? He’s worth a lot to me." - Boba Fett re: Han Solo "He's no good to me dead." - Boba Fett "Put Captain Solo in the cargo hold." - Boba Fett Cool character, minor character.

So you're proposing to start a civil war in my country because your side lost an election? "OMG not everyone agrees with me?!?!?! I better start shootin' fuckers!!!" Way to emo-quit democracy. We armed liberals didn't start shooting people during the Bush term, you can man up and do what you're supposed to do: advocate, debate, protest, change minds, try to set yourselves up to win the next election. That's the whole point of the process. When you start threatening to kill my countrymen over such a disagreement, you negate the whole point of having a democracy (or a 'constitutionally-limited democratic republic'), and you alienate people with whom you might otherwise find some commonality of views. I agree with Pauly (or Paulie? I fail at remembering name spellings)-- things would have to get quite a lot worse, one way or the other, before I'd be willing to harm my fellow Americans in a non-self-defense situation. EDIT: Just saw your clarification. Ok, no biggie. Still leaving my post untouched for the people who weren't kidding.

Sell your plastics to get money for the fighter stuff. Streetfighters are win.

I agree. My Glock 17 is a nice, straightforward, functional piece. I'd say that modern 'tupperware' guns are kind of like newish Honda Civics-- fairly reliable, they do exactly what they're designed to do, nothing fancy, but who cares. 1911's, on the other hand, are more like vintage Mustangs-- big, cool, noisy, fun as hell; but also finicky, temperamental, harder to maintain, and often unreasonably expensive. Both are good for what they're good for, but you normally buy them for different reasons.

I believe it. My digital circuits class this term is mostly online/ independent, and I've been acting like a rabid badger all week because Hobie keeps watching TV while I'm trying to get these stupid VHDL designs to work. Ugh.

This thread made me immediately think of my favorite site ever: http://thisiswhyyourefat.com/page/1 Don't go to that site if you're already hungry, it'll make you do crazy things. Don't go to that site if you're full, it might make you physically ill. Yes, that's a deep-fried double quarter-pounder. It's all downhill from there. Dammit, I can't stop looking now. I want this: Double Stuffed Pizza Fatty Sausage stuffed with pepperoni, cheese and veggies stuffed inside more sausage with a second layer of toppings, all smoked and then topped with pepperoni.

That's alright-- cats have no place using computers. GTFO!

Really? I've ridden at least 40 miles on 7 of the last 8 days. I'd wait till it's below 20 to start giving kudos.

I once had an accident in Jersey City. I was sitting in line for the tollbooths, heading out of NYC (near the Holland Tunnel). This douchebag in a BMW in the lane to the right of me is trying to force his way over in front of me. There wasn't any room, and he was being fairly rude, so I just kept rolling along at about 5 mph. Busy on his cellphone (according to my wife, who was in the passenger seat-- I couldn't see him over my hood), he kept drifting over, trying to bully me into stopping so he could cut me off. It might have worked better if, as I mentioned, I were actually able to see him. Anyway, after about 100 feet of this slow-motion jockeying, I hear an awful CRUNCH, SCRAAAAAAAAAAPE, CLANK! The asshole had wandered into the side of my truck, and dragged then entire driver's side of his Beemer down the right side of my truck. He ripped the steps off my fuel tank, and managed to even drag my front wheel's lugnuts all down the side of his now thoroughly-fuckered Beemer (making a pretty nifty 10-point spiral pattern). He jumps out, and runs around to my side of the truck. Stops dead when I get out, and he realizes I'm about 15 years younger, taller, and a whole lot angrier. Eventually the cops come (Jersey State police), take one look, call the guy an asshole, and cite him. I politely hand him back some trim and mirror pieces that had ended up under my truck, and go on my merry way. The police report naturally exonerated me (the guy made an 'improper lane change'), so I had no issues with my company over the matter. TL: DR-- Douchebag in a Beemer rams the driver's side of his car into the passenger side of my truck, in 5 mph traffic. THE POINT: My truck was nearly identical to this: 65 feet long, 13'6'' tall, and fire-engine red. With a big shiny fuel tank right at eye level, on his side. People are fucking retarded.

At least you won't have scurvy.

The simple truth is that we (meaning our leaders, and us by extension) are going about things the wrong way. We have a military that is built from the ground up to be the best in the world at one specific job: winning wars against other militaries. However, when we talk about fighting terrorism, at best we're talking about fighting a group of people with no uniforms, no 'national capitol' that we can claim and say we won-- in essence, none of the things which might define a 'military' as we would commonly think of the word. At worst, we're fighting an idea, a strategy, an ideology. You know how hard it is to cruise missile an idea? Can't get a target lock for shit. Put simply, using our military, no matter how good they are, to fight an idea is like using a scalpel to hammer a nail: wrong tool for the job at hand. But that's what we've been doing since September 12 '01. And the result? We've essentially been playing whack-a-mole with these assholes. Pop one, his cousins/brothers/whoever pop up to avenge him, either by attacking us overtly or by supporting those who do. Sure, we've killed plenty of assholes. But that pesky idea we're actually trying to kill only spreads faster the faster we kill the douchebags thinking it. Meanwhile, an awful lot of Americans have been killed because we sent them to hammer that nail. In truth, the only way to kill an idea is to give it no place to live. The easiest way to do that (short of removing all the heads that could hold it) is to fill people's heads with a different idea which is incompatible with the one you don't want around. These people don't attack us for fun. Many have been misled by their leaders into believing all manner of evil bullshit about us. Some are trying to avenge people that we or our allies have actually killed. Some are just poor, disaffected, uneducated, and angry. Some blame us for the actions of the Israeli government (and incidentally their 'bomb everybody for everything' tactic has worked soooo well for the last 60 years). I'm not making excuses for them, believe. But you can't address an issue until you know what motivates the other guy. Changing his (meaning the people in that region) behavior means removing or altering those motivations. If we want to not be seen as the bad guy, we need to make ourselves be seen as the good guys. And yes, I know we have been building schools and hospitals in these places. That's certainly moving in the right direction. But it takes a lot of that kind of thing to outweigh the view of us that the mullahs would portray, and continuing our present course doesn't make it any easier. People always remember the tank rolling down their street more than the guys setting up the clinic. I don't claim to have all the answers, but it should be obvious to anyone watching that what we've been doing isn't the most effective way to go. Terrorism will never be bombed out of existence. Only changing minds (or more accurately, preventing new minds from changing against us) will stop people from attacking us. And we will only change minds after a major, well thought-out, carefully executed change in our policies and positions.