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  2. Considering 1st purchase, couple questions...

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    Posted · Edited by JRMMiii

    Civil trespass, directly from the Ohio attny general - if it's in a vehicle or parking lot

    http://www.ohioattorneygeneral.gov/getattachment/6cbc82c0-21e6-4db1-b6e0-545e3970ee03/2009-Concealed-Carry-Laws-Booklet.aspx

    Page 23

    Criminal trespass if you actually take it into an establishment

    http://codes.ohio.gov/orc/2923.126

    ORC 2923.126 Sec C.3.a

    (3) (a) Except as provided in division ©(3)(b) of this section, the owner or person in control of private land or premises, and a private person or entity leasing land or premises owned by the state, the United States, or a political subdivision of the state or the United States, may post a sign in a conspicuous location on that land or on those premises prohibiting persons from carrying firearms or concealed firearms on or onto that land or those premises. Except as otherwise provided in this division, a person who knowingly violates a posted prohibition of that nature is guilty of criminal trespass in violation of division (A)(4) of section 2911.21 of the Revised Code and is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree. If a person knowingly violates a posted prohibition of that nature and the posted land or premises primarily was a parking lot or other parking facility, the person is not guilty of criminal trespass in violation of division (A)(4) of section 2911.21 of the Revised Code and instead is subject only to a civil cause of action for trespass based on the violation.

  13. New 2011 ZX10 recall

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    2011 Kawasaki ZX-10R returns to sale, problem identified

    http://hellforleathermagazine.com/2010/12/2011-kawasaki-zx-10r-returns-to-sale-problem-identified/

    zx-10R-599x397.jpgKawasaki USA has just announced that the mysterious stop-sale on the 2011 Kawasaki ZX-10R will be lifted, identifying the previously-mysterious fault as residing in the intake valve springs. As stated when the not-a-recall was announced on December 11, the problem isn’t related to safety, performance or the modifications made to reduce power for the North American market. Instead, Kawasaki says there were fears the intake valves could seat improperly, impacting engine performance. Before the new superbike king of the hill goes back on-sale, all units will benefit from new camshafts, valve springs and spring retainers. Kawasaki isn’t naming a precise date, instead saying sales will resume in, “late January.” Full details below.

    The press release follows:

    IRVINE, Calif. (Dec. 29, 2010)—Kawasaki Motors Corp., U.S.A. today announced that the recent sales hold placed on the 2011 Ninja® ZX™-10R sportbike is expected to be lifted in late January and that sales of the highly-anticipated unit will resume as normal.

    According to Kawasaki engineers, the proactive sales hold resulted from a finding that indicated possible surging of the intake valve spring when the unit is operated under unique riding conditions, such as on a racetrack. The surge could cause the intake valve to seat improperly, resulting in poor engine performance.

    The camshaft, valve springs, and spring retainers are being replaced to prevent the valves from surging, without affecting engine performance.

  17. Conspiracy Theorists Unite w/ Governor Jesse "the Body"!

    in Dumpster

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    I haven't watched these yet, but they appear just as interesting for the fearmongers among us.

    [url=http://www.youtube.com/redirect?q=http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=3646E199A148A788&session_token=-upbRQoRsEqQJbEscfZP7G1g3mF8MTI5MzU3NDg5Mg==][ame]http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=3646E199A148A788[/ame]

    The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom (2007) by producer, Adam Curtis.

    The

    series consists of three one-hour programs which explore the concept

    and definition of freedom, specifically, "how a simplistic model of

    human beings as self-seeking, almost robotic, creatures led to today's

    idea of freedom.

    If one steps back and looks at what freedom actually

    means for us today, it's a strange and limited kind of freedom. The

    West apparently fought the Cold War for "individual freedom", yet it is

    still something our leaders continually promise to give us. Abroad, in

    Iraq and Afghanistan, the attempt to force "freedom" on to other people

    has led to bloody mayhem. This, in turn, has helped inspire terrorist

    attacks in Britain. In response, the government has dismantled

    long-standing laws that were designed to protect individual freedom...

    The Trap-Part 1-Fuck You Buddy!-Full Length Documentary

    Part 1 — Fuck You Buddy

    In this episode, Curtis examines the rise of

    game theory during the Cold War and the way in which its mathematical

    models of human behavior filtered into economic thought. The program

    traces the development of game theory with particular reference to the

    work of John Nash, who constructed logically consistent and

    mathematically verifiable models, for which he won the Nobel Prize in

    Economics. He invented system games reflecting his beliefs about human

    behavior, including one he called "Fuck You Buddy" (later published as

    "So Long Sucker"), in which the only way to win was to betray your

    playing partner. These games were internally coherent and worked

    correctly as long as the players obeyed the ground rules that they

    should behave selfishly and try to outwit their opponents. As the 1960s

    became the 1970s, the theories of a Scottish psychiatrist, R.D Laing,

    and the models of Nash began to converge, producing a widespread popular

    belief that the state (a surrogate family) was purely and simply a

    mechanism of social control which calculatedly kept power out of the

    hands of the public. Curtis shows that it was this belief that allowed

    economic models that left no room for altruism to look credible and that

    this underpinned the free-market beliefs of Margaret Thatcher, who

    sincerely believed that by dismantling as much of the British state as

    possible and placing former national institutions into the hands of

    public shareholders, a new form of social equilibrium would be reached.

    This was a return to Nash's work, in which he proved mathematically that

    if everyone was pursuing their own interests, a stable, yet perpetually

    dynamic society could result. But as the mathematically modeled society

    is run on data—performance targets, quotas, statistics—it is these

    figures combined with the exaggerated belief that human selfishness will

    provide stability, that has created "the trap".

    The Trap-Part 2-The Lonely Robot-Full Length Documentary

    Part 2 — The Lonely Robot

    The second episode reiterates many of the

    ideas of the first, but develops the theme that drugs such as Prozac and

    lists of psychological symptoms which might indicate anxiety or

    depression are being used to normalize behavior and make humans behave

    more predictably, like machines. This is not presented as a conspiracy,

    but as a logical although unpredicted outcome of market-driven

    self-diagnosis by checklists based on normal symptoms of human emotion.

    The Trap-Part 3-We Will Force You To Be Free-Full Length Documentary

    Part 3 — We Will Force You To Be Free

    The final program focuses on

    the concepts of positive and negative liberty introduced in the 1950s by

    Isaiah Berlin. Curtis briefly explains how negative liberty could be

    defined as freedom from coercion and positive liberty as the opportunity

    to strive to fulfill one's potential.

  20. Trailer Building 101....

    in Dumpster

    Posted

    What's that have to do with anything? Yea its an auto.

    Nothing, jporter doesn't know what he's talking about. Having an auto transmission is about as important as putting gas in your car instead of diesel. They're both fuel -- it doesn't matter.

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  24. Conspiracy Theorists Unite w/ Governor Jesse "the Body"!

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    Here you go Fonz and Sambusa... you want fear and conspiracy, this is it. Except, this series has been awarded "Best Factual Series" in 2004.

    Yes, I watched all 3 of the one-hour documentary pieces. And this is along the lines of the same "kool-aid" I've been drinking all along and I've offering to share it with others.

    2004: The Power of Nightmares (BBC Two) suggested a parallel between the rise of Islamism in the Arab world and Neoconservatism in the United States in that both needed to inflate a myth of a dangerous enemy in order to draw people to support them. It received the BAFTA Award for Best Factual Series in 2004.[6]

    To view all threee videos in order...

    http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=1D677F7EAAEE3DD5

    The films compare the rise of the Neo-Conservative movement in the

    United States and the radical Islamist movement, making comparisons on

    their origins and claiming similarities between the two. More

    controversially, it argues that the threat of radical Islamism as a

    massive, sinister organized force of destruction, specifically in the

    form of al-Qaeda, is a myth perpetrated by politicians in many

    countries—and particularly American Neo-Conservatives—in an attempt to

    unite and inspire their people following the failure of earlier, more

    utopian ideologies.

    Part 1 - Baby it's Cold Outside

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5lByw7kvS0&feature=player_embedded

    Part 1: Baby It's Cold Outside:

    The first part of the series explains

    the origin of Islamism and Neo-Conservatism. It shows Egyptian civil

    servant Sayyid Qutb, depicted as the founder of modern Islamist thought,

    visiting the U.S. to learn about the education system, but becoming

    disgusted with what he saw as a corruption of morals and virtues in

    western society through individualism. When he returns to Egypt, he is

    disturbed by westernization under Gamal Abdel Nasser and becomes

    convinced that in order to save society it must be completely

    restructured along the lines of Islamic law while still using western

    technology. He also becomes convinced that this can only be accomplished

    through the use of an elite "vanguard" to lead a revolution against the

    established order. Qutb becomes a leader of the Muslim Brotherhood and,

    after being tortured in one of Nasser's jails, comes to believe that

    western-influenced leaders can justly be killed for the sake of removing

    their corruption. Qutb is executed in 1966, but he influences the

    future mentor of Osama bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahiri, to start his own

    secret Islamist group. Inspired by the 1979 Iranian revolution, Zawahiri

    and his allies assassinate Egyptian president Anwar Al Sadat, in 1981,

    in hopes of starting their own revolution. The revolution does not

    materialize, and Zawahiri comes to believe that the majority of Muslims

    have been corrupted not only by their western-inspired leaders, but

    Muslims themselves have been affected by jahilliyah and thus both may be

    legitimate targets of violence if they do not join him. They continued

    to have the belief that a vanguard was necessary to rise up and

    overthrow the corrupt regime and replace with a pure Islamist state.

    At

    the same time in the United States, a group of disillusioned liberals,

    including Irving Kristol and Paul Wolfowitz, look to the political

    thinking of Leo Strauss after the perceived failure of President

    Johnson's "Great Society". They come to the conclusion that the emphasis

    on individual liberty was the undoing of the plan. They envisioned

    restructuring America by uniting the American people against a common

    evil, and set about creating a mythical enemy. These factions, the

    Neo-Conservatives, came to power under the Reagan administration, with

    their allies Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, and work to unite the

    United States in fear of the Soviet Union. The Neo-Conservatives allege

    the Soviet Union is not following the terms of disarmament between the

    two countries, and, with the investigation of "Team B", they accumulate a

    case to prove this with dubious evidence and methods. President Reagan

    is convinced nonetheless.

    The Power of Nightmares Part 2 - The Phantom Victory

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ai6LhnW4Oa8&feature=player_embedded

    Part 2: The Phantom Victory:

    In the second episode, Islamist

    factions, rapidly falling under the more radical influence of Zawahiri

    and his rich Saudi acolyte Osama bin Laden, join the

    Neo-Conservative-influenced Reagan Administration to combat the Soviet

    Union's invasion of Afghanistan. When the Soviets eventually pull out

    and when the Eastern Bloc begins to collapse in the late 1980s, both

    groups believe they are the primary architects of the "Evil Empire's"

    defeat. Curtis argues that the Soviets were on their last legs anyway,

    and were doomed to collapse without intervention.

    However, the

    Islamists see it quite differently, and in their triumph believe that

    they had the power to create 'pure' Islamic states in Egypt and Algeria.

    However, attempts to create perpetual Islamic states are blocked by

    force. The Islamists then try to create revolutions in Egypt and Algeria

    by the use of terrorism to scare the people into rising up. However,

    the people were terrified by the violence and the Algerian government

    uses their fear as a way to maintain power. In the end, the Islamists

    declare the entire populations of the countries as inherently

    contaminated by western values, and finally in Algeria turn on each

    other, each believing that other terrorist groups are not pure enough

    Muslims either.

    In America, the Neo-Conservatives' aspirations to

    use the United States military power for further destruction of evil

    are thrown off track by the ascent of George H. W. Bush to the

    presidency, followed by the 1992 election of Bill Clinton leaving them

    out of power. The Neo-Conservatives, with their conservative Christian

    allies, attempt to demonize Clinton throughout his presidency with

    various real and fabricated stories of corruption and immorality. To

    their disappointment, however, the American people do not turn against

    Clinton. The Islamist attempts at revolution end in massive bloodshed,

    leaving the Islamists without popular support. Zawahiri and bin Laden

    flee to the sufficiently safe Afghanistan and declare a new strategy; to

    fight Western-inspired moral decay they must deal a blow to its source:

    the United States.

    The Power of Nightmares Part 3 - The Shadows in the Cave

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HvzR8w1z2g&feature=player_embedded

    The final episode addresses the actual rise of Al-Qaeda. Curtis argues

    that, after their failed revolutions, bin Laden and Zawahiri had little

    or no popular support, let alone a serious complex organization of

    terrorists, and were dependent upon independent operatives to carry out

    their new call for jihad. The film instead argues that in order to

    prosecute bin Laden in absentia for the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings, US

    prosecutors had to prove he was the head of a criminal organization

    responsible for the bombings. They find a former associate of bin Laden,

    Jamal al-Fadl, and pay him to testify that bin Laden was the head of a

    massive terrorist organization called "Al-Qaeda". With the September

    11th attacks, Neo-Conservatives in the new Republican government of

    George W. Bush use this created concept of an organization to justify

    another crusade against a new evil enemy, leading to the launch of the

    War on Terrorism.

    After the American invasion of Afghanistan

    fails to uproot the alleged terrorist network, the Neo-Conservatives

    focus inwards, searching unsuccessfully for terrorist sleeper cells in

    America. They then extend the war on "terror" to a war against general

    perceived evils with the invasion of Iraq in 2003. The ideas and tactics

    also spread to the United Kingdom where Tony Blair uses the threat of

    terrorism to give him a new moral authority. The repercussions of the

    Neo-Conservative strategy are also explored with an investigation of

    indefinitely-detained terrorist suspects in Guantanamo Bay, many

    allegedly taken on the word of the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance

    without actual investigation on the part of the United States military,

    and other forms of "preemption" against non-existent and unlikely

    threats made simply on the grounds that the parties involved could later

    become a threat. Curtis also makes a specific attempt to allay fears of

    a dirty bomb attack, and concludes by reassuring viewers that

    politicians will eventually have to concede that some threats are

    exaggerated and others altogether devoid of reality. "In an age when all

    the grand ideas have lost credibility, fear of a phantom enemy is all

    the politicians have left to maintain their power."

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