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I have to call my dad now...he may work at that store...
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sent PM
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Scope for My SKS, new business portfolio and pen (im in sales), few xbox games, jeans and asst clothes, CCW underseat safe designed for my jeep.
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you may have to do it to an "all-channel" setting or something of the sort. Some of the onkyos when using an Ipod dock had the same issue. CAll pioneer support, they may have a quick answer. I would say I can come over....but well....you decided to leave us for the job of a lifetime.
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what kind of receiver?
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is it only playing through 2 speakers?
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I have the glcok 27 as my ccw and I really like it. Shoots well for as small as it is. My brother has the Henry .22 and as far as fun you cant go wrong. Very well made and accurate.
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must they be rifled barrels?
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hmmm, sounds like a fun round...dont think i have a rifled barrel though.
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We need a nationwide ban on cellphone/texting in cars - NHTSA
Tomcat0403 replied to Scruit's topic in Dumpster
http://www.foxnews.com/health/2011/12/13/studies-may-have-overestimated-cellphone-crash-risk/?test=latestnews Funny this just came out today... Increased risk of having a car crash attributed to cellphone use may have been overestimated in some past studies, a new analysis suggests. So-called "distracted driving" has become a big public health issue in recent years. The majority of U.S. states now ban texting behind the wheel, while a handful prohibit drivers from using handheld cellphones at all (though many more ban "novice" drivers from doing so). But studies have reached different conclusions about how much of an added crash risk there is with cellphone use. In the new report, Richard A. Young of Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit finds that two influential studies on the subject might have overestimated the risk. The problem has to do with the studies' methods, according to Young. Both studies a 1997 study from Canada, and one done in Australia in 2005 were "case-crossover" studies. The researchers recruited people who had been in a crash, and then used their billing records to compare their cellphone use around the time of the crash with their cell use during the same time period the week before (called a "control window"). But the issue with that, Young writes in the journal Epidemiology, is that people may not have been driving during that entire control window. Such "part-time" driving, he says, would necessarily cut the odds of having a crash (and possibly reduce people's cell use) during the control window and make it seem like cellphone use is a bigger crash risk than it is. The two studies in question asked people whether they had been driving during the control windows, but they did not account for part-time driving, Young says. So for his study, Young used GPS data to track day-to-day driving consistency for 439 drivers over 100 days. He grouped the days into pairs: day one was akin to the "control" days used in the earlier studies, and day two was akin to the "crash" day. Overall, Young found, there was little consistency between the two days when it came to driving time. When he looked at all control windows where a person did some driving, the total amount of time on the road was about one-fourth of what it was during the person's "crash" day. If that information were applied to the two earlier studies, Young estimates, the crash risk tied to cellphone use would have been statistically insignificant. That's far lower than the studies' original conclusions: that cellphone use while driving raises the risk of crashing four-fold. And, Young says, the results might help explain why some other studies have not linked cell use to an increased crash risk. A researcher not involved in the work said that the two earlier studies may well have overstated the crash risk from using a cellphone. But that doesn't mean you should feel free to chat and text away at the wheel, according to Fernando Wilson, an assistant professor at the University of North Texas Health Science Center in Fort Worth. A number of other studies, using designs other than case-crossover, have suggested that cellphone use, and particularly texting, is hazardous on the road, Wilson told Reuters Health. "In wider policy, I don't think this study is going to change the conversation about distracted driving," Wilson said. "Most of the conventional thinking is that we need to do something to reduce it." In his own study published last year, Wilson looked at information from a government database that tracks deaths on U.S. public roads. He found that after declining between 1999 and 2005, deaths blamed on distracted driving rose 28 percent between 2005 and 2008. And the increase seemed to be related to a sharp rise in texting. ("Distracted driving" refers to anything that takes the driver's attention off the road, from fiddling with the radio to talking to other people in the car.) Other studies, Wilson noted, have used mounted cameras to show that drivers' behavior becomes more risky when they are using cellphones. All of those studies have limitations, and cannot pinpoint just how big a risk driving-while-texting (or talking) might be. Wilson said the current study highlights a limitation in case-crossover studies. But the new study, itself, has shortcomings. Applying the GPS findings from this study to the two earlier ones, done with different drivers, in different countries, is tricky, both Young and Wilson point out. "It's possible that the (earlier) study findings were overstated," Wilson said, "but it's difficult to know by how much." According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, about 450,000 Americans were injured in crashes linked to distracted driving in 2009. Another 5,500 were killed. Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/health/2011/12/13/studies-may-have-overestimated-cellphone-crash-risk/?test=latestnews#ixzz1gRZj20X1 -
In the event of a non-zombie apocalypse... What would you do?
Tomcat0403 replied to Josh1234's topic in Dumpster
Head to my parents house, decent sized lot off the beaten path, plenty of food, natural gas whole home generator plenty of firearms and ammo as well. Water is a well so that is not a problem and plenty of natural shelter. -
Think the US government won't imprison occupiers as terrorists?
Tomcat0403 replied to Casper's topic in Dumpster
The UK is beyond whacked out, I dont think V for Vendetta will be far from the mark here in a few years. -
Looks fake. Kinda reminds me of a cakeboss cake.
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I am a current customer too
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Roundabout price range for 1k of shells?
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Razr is amazing!!! Or i have a droid x for sale...with extras
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They can restrict it in the office and common areas (coffee shop, pool, gym) but they cannot restrict it in in buildings where tenants live. Even though it states it in the contract, they still must have the appropriate signage.
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99 tj sport 4.0 liter 2" coil lift 32" bfg mud terrains 17" rubicon wheels gale banks stainless header into a dynomax exhaust Light bar with 4 hella lights 4.10 gears homemade sway bar disconnects She is my first vehicle, and while she is a money pit i do most of the work on her.
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...dammit, just bought mine EDIT: Nevermind, I upgraded my phone so i would not have been able to take advantage of it.
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I am selling my droid X to get the new Droid Razr. Clear ESN, extra OEM battery (both batteries are still good), body glove case, and OEM wall charger will get the new 16gb SD card from the new phone. Craigslist price $200 OR price $150 Not sure i want to sell the HDMI cable yet, but will consider it for a good offer. No pics at the moment, very small scratch on the screen, small nicks on the bottom corners. Any questions please let me know
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Send me a FR, I need people to play bf3 with...tired of doing the lone wolf thing. Tomcat0403
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I have been playing battlefield since the beginning, this one is by far the best I have played, even with it being rushed. I like COD as well and will be getting it as well. Battlefield for me never gets old and there is aways a new aspect of the game to explore.