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They shouldn't test him for drugs, they should test him for species.... he can't be human.

It's like a stepped-on jelly donut. Extreme sompression over time weakens the wall of the disc. One day it will rupture and the gelatinous inner material will bulge out into the space near the sciatic nerve. It puts pressure on the nerve causing pain which can be indescribable. The sciatic is like the "main phone cable" that conducts all the nerve signals from the sensory nerves up and down the body. A little nevre in your hand can make your brain feel the pain of a broken wrist.... imagine what pain you would feel if that whole nerve bundle was pressed or pinched. Been there, done that: the pain is so immense it feels like it is bigger than your whole body and so excruciating it is hard to actually feel it is in any specific location.... pray you never have to go there, because if the nerve is impacted it takes weeks for the swelling to go down.

For many more reasons than most people know. The typical surgery is fusion (bolting together with titanium rods) the vertebrae above and below the blown disc. It works, if you define works as getting rid of the pain. It also increases the stress load on the disc directly above and below the fusion point, often leading to more surgeries down the road. Losing the flexibilty of one of the disc junctions is not good. The other thing is, the moment the pain is gone, people go back to doing whatever it was that trashed their back in the first place.... and here come the next surgeries following additional disc injuries.

I've done similar things... even addressed them as "Sir" and "Ma'am" at the very least, or by their rank if I know it or was told it.. That's funny because when my wife is in uniform and goes out to lunch with her crew, guys come over and start asking what branch of the service it is and all that. In her case they are just hitting on her.

I don't think you owe anybody anything. If you were registered under the lottery draft (like I was) and got a number that wasn't called you obeyed the law. I did the same thing, and it is the only lucky number I have ever gotten in my life (I remember it to this day: #225). I have never won a football pool, any money at Reno, nothing... but in 1972 (at the height of the Viet Nam war) I got a number that was above the call line (I think they only went up to about 175 that year?) Anyway, I know that these days there are a lot of people who claim that if you didn't serve in the military, you have no right to voice an opinion. tell them to shove that when you encounter it. It always cracks me up... my father did 33 years of service, including the entire war in the Pacific in a rifle company He was at Schofield Barracks in hawaii when it was bombed on Dec 7). We also paid the price for a military career (lived in houses where the roaches tried to have us evicted), and never had two nickels to click together. My oldest brother volunteered for nam in 1966 and served two tours (which aged my parents about 40 years). My other brother managed to avoid going in country (but was in service), and I got a lucky number in the draw and chose to stay in school. But you'd be amazed how many rednecks think that means we have no right to speak out against the current war.

DAMN!!!! I have one at home sitting on my living room table. It just went up in my esteem......

I've done 300 in one day and it really wears you out.

Here is a good average: my motorcycle just turned 25 (years old) and rolled the odometer to 70,000 miles. That is a shade under 3000 per year. When you are young, you ride more. As you get older, you treasure the creature comforts of your car more. I still us my MC to commute 20 miles a day in decent weather to do my part to save gas.

Bingo. It also depends on the gun. If you shoot a DA revolver with a 7 - 8# pull, you will shoot better with the first joint on the trigger for increased leverage and stability of finger position. On comp autos with light triggers, find the comfortable spot that gives the best results (on the pad is usually best, not a law). Practice the one your finger finds naturally because under the heat of shooting, that's where your finger will end up.

Yeah. I get such a laugh when some of these people think they can excercise free speech and not have to pay for it with retaliation against them. Like the man recently said to me: "We'll teach that SOB that free speech has a very high price!" ?????

My Para 1640 was returning home after beaming back to the mother ship for work (minor problem.... firing pin safety blocked the firing pin about one time in 20 at random and the gun didn't fire). So, I spent $48 to ship them the stupid gun. They did fix it in less than a week (that's good) and they replaced every internal componenet from the trigger back (transfer bar, firing pin, blocking pluger, lifter, sear, hammer, main spring and MSH). If that doesn't get it...? So, I get the notice on the door: "Attempted delivery, will return tomorrow between 2PM and 5PM." So, I eat a 1/2 day's vacation and go home at 1PM to be sure to be there.....and find the second sticker saying: "Attempted delivery at 9AM, returning package to store." I blew a gasket and started calling the UPS numbers and actually managed to get through to a dispatcher.. and explained I have burned 4 hours of vacation (at $40/hour) to receive a gun from somebody who can't tell time. I red the first notice to him and he said he'd call the truck driver. So, at about 5PM my gun finally made it home alive. I had placed a notice on the door that said: "Ring bell: I'm inside." My wife took it down as she came in the house... I told her what happened and said next time the sign will read: "Ring bell......I'm insane." She said I should at least give him fair warning and add: "Use all available cover and come in shooting."

Actually, the correct answer is: "Wait a minute.... I'm not falling for that one again. You're supposed to tell ME what I did wrong!"

Is it correct? Depends on what you're trying to do. In a defensive situation out to a range of about 15 yards, I'd say his technique is usable for most people. Note that it is possible to see the sights (albeit fuzzy) with both eyes open and locked on target (sights aligned with dominant eye), so you can still aim the gun with the sights without giving up any loss of vision on the target and surroundings. I favor that method (looking through the sights with both eyes focused on the target) for any "close range" shooting... and I define "close range" as any range where you can hit within about 2" of POA every time using the technique. For me, that is easily ranges out to about 17 yards. From what you wrote: "just place the muzzle in the center of the target, look through the sights.." It sounds like he is recommending exactly what I said: look through the sights, but focus on the target using both eyes. That is actually still using the sights, but with "indirect" sighting (peripheral vision). But you can still aim the gun very accurately this way. IMO, I can't understand why anybody would use any other technique for close range shooting.

I believe it was Edison who said: "Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration." He also said of one of his inventions which had failed to work about 100 times before finally working, something to the effect: "We had no failures. It was simply a development process which had 100 steps."

Just don't try to give them a license for a civil union or you will have the Republicans on your ass faster than a duck on a june bug.

MYTH MYTH MYTH MYTH MYTH MYTH MYTH The visa loophole has been abused to the point where we have tons of EE's and can quickly get more from China and India who will work for cheap to keep their work visa. I couldn't throw a paper clip from my cubicle in any direction without hitting six of them. I have been an EE for 28 years and I can say this without fear of contradiction: You want a REALLY high paying job where you can work whatever shift or hours you want? NURSE NURSE NURSE NURSE NURSE

Instead of the low class: "Dya want fries wid dat?" You will be able to ask: "May I offer you some fried potatoes this evening, sir?" It just classes up the whole thing.

And you'd think that $1000 pistol wouldn't have to go back to Para to fix it so it shoots, but that's not true either.

That's cool. I was surprised to learn out here that most of the money from tickets collected by the cities has to be kicked back to the state government.... kind of like the old feudal system where the little lords had to pay liege to the big lord. In fact, most city DPS (department of public safety) operate at a loss and need the money but the state takes almost all of the fines collected. The CHP fines obviously go straight to sacramento being that they are a state police agency.

I am getting light strikes with my 1640 LDA. I have completely detail cleaned it and I still get light strikes sometimes. I even taped the grip safety down to make sure it was fully depressed, still got two light strikes in 60 rounds last night. Does the LDA use the standard mainspring? The Wolff site says the stock 1640 uses the 23# mainspring, did not specify LDA or not. Is 23# right or too much? Does anybody lighten the firing pin spring to get more hammer hit? (that's an old trick used on HI-powers)

Exactly. And if they do fess up to bing married, the polite response on your part is: "OK, then we'll have to skip the foreplay and get straight to it.... I don't want to be here when the idiot gets home."

If you want to know what the REAL "speed tax" is, just drive down the freeway in kalifornia. Since our government is 35BILLION in debt, the california Highway Patrol have announced a new "zero tolerance" for speeders. They wrote 1100 tickets yesterday in one corridor of I-680 yesterday. I might respect them if they just owned up to it... but they are also lying about why they are doing it. they now claim speeding is the #1 cause of fatal accidents... a lie disproven by the statistics they publish every year which shows alcohol/drug impaired drivers are the #1 cause of fatals, and driving too fast for conditions (but within the posted limit) was #2.... the horrific accidents in the fog banks of the central valleys are that category. Exceeding posted limit was usually #3 or #4. So, don't speed in Kali... in fact, don't drive at all. One guy complained he got a ticket for going the speed of traffic since doing less would be a traffic hazard... they asked a CHP about it and he said: "Eventually everybody will be going the speed limit." Yeah... I wonder what color the sky is on the world where he lives?

NO I know he needed one. he drove a 30 year old VW and bought everything at Sears because it was the only place he could get credit. He waxed poetic about the size of the debt on that card... how it waxed and waned with the seasons (always getting larger at Christmas for obvious reasons). I sometimes wonder if he ever paid it off... I think that was the only real ambition he had in life besides teaching. NO, but he was rare in that he had a fully functional BS meter and used it frequently with respect to literature and the authors of such. He knew more about the lives of the writers of great works than the works themselves, and that was actually more interesting. Like Theodore Dreiser: he wrote a great book called "An American Tragedy" which was made into a movie.... and he wrote a lot more novels and short stories and they were all garbage. Not just mediocre, but true garbage. My teacher once pointed out.....: "It is true that Dreiser only wrote one good book...... but keep in mind most authors never write ANY good books!"

No, actually my teacher (and I) were laughing more at the people who think the meaning of the universe has been revealed to them by a guy who basically drove into the woods and hung out a while. I don't think thoreau was necessarily dishonest, but the fact is that students (and teachers more so) always try to ascribe lofty and inscruitable implications to everything that a "great" author writes, to prove how they really "understand" his work.I remember seeing Ray Bradbury talking on this subject... he wrote the Martian Chronicles which is a series of short stories about going to Mars and living there. At a lecture given by Bradbury, some guy stood up and started pontificating about the alleghorical implications of the story and how Mars represented the world and the martians represented our struggle against our inner selves... (you get the idea). Bradbury basically said: "I don't know what the hell you're talking about... it's just a science fiction story." What always made me wonder was whenever we read a book or story in school, the teacher would ask (usually on a test): What did the story MEAN? You'd write an answer and then the teacher would tell you that you were wrong because it actually meant blah, blah blah..... and then when I got to junior college, that teacher would say it meant something else. At the university you get another version and eventually you wonder if any of those people's opinion is any better than yours (?)

It starts sooner than that. What about all the words we string together to make those lies? Each one is it's own lie in that meaning depends upon agreement. be Lewis carrol wrote some clever asides on that subject in Alice in Wonderland. In one scene, Alice is listening to a walrus: Walrus: "If someone were to tell me he was setting out on a sea voyage, I would ask him: With what porpoise?" "Don't you mean "purpose"?" asked Alice. "I SAY what I mean!" replied the Walrus in an offended tone. And there is the famous line of the Queen who said: "When I use a word, it means exactly what I want it to mean.... no more, no less." I wonder how many people grasp the implication of that fact which actually applies to every word that humans utter on earth.