Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770
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53 minutes ago, Rye Miles #13621 said:
I wonder if anyone ever gives a reason for editing and if you do does it show up? Do only the administrators see it? I’ve never given a reason for editing. Anyone??
I don't do so for spelling or maybe just changing a word or two that reads better. I've done so when I thought it was pertinent. Usually something like "Edited because I'm an idiot", because I discovered that I'd misread the post I was quoting or some such.
Like now, I just read "Do only the administrators see it?' after I hit send.
No, It shows up in the post.
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Just now, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:
With me it’s more like Amazon send a pic of the delivery. I recognize the door, I’ve seen it twice before. I wish I knew where it was.
Usually it's my neighbor's door. My mailbox is right on the property line between our houses, so they'd always go to his. It turned out that the 6" high numbers on my house weren't enough of a clue which house it was. I fixed that though. I got a sign to mount TO my mail box indicating which way to go.
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Many years ago, I bid on a pistol on Gunbroker. At the time I was online with a Webtv. Yeah, THAT long ago. The Webtv crapped out, so we wound up with our first honest to God computer. Running Windows XP.
A few weeks after that, I got an actual phone call from the Dealer from Gunbroker. He informed me that I'd won the gun, and did I still want it. I did, and still have it. But with the changes, (the Webtv email account wasn't compatible with Windows, so I had a different email), I totally forgot I'd bid on the gun.
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35 minutes ago, Pat Riot said:
Safety Departments all over the U.S. now consider ladders unsafe for most maintenance tasks higher than step ladder heights in some states.
Mostly because of incidents caused by knuckleheads.We offered to lift him up on the forklift.
Some people have NO sense of humor.
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1 hour ago, Alpo said:
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1 hour ago, Eyesa Horg said:
Took a bit to notice it, but in the settings it was easily corrected.
I figured that it was something like that. I guess that these people are too busy making "content" to notice such things. Or how stupid it looks.
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10 hours ago, Dapper Dave said:
Also it depends on the OC being used. I started with LE Bodyguard 10, until an inmate got soaked with a petroleum propellant OC in Florida, then hit with Taser and somehow ignited. That was what they told us when they switched us to water based propellent Sabre Red.
Unless you witnessed that personally, I'd about bet that they did that after seeing it on "CSI". Mythbusters tested it and found that it doesn't work that way.
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17 minutes ago, Pat Riot said:
But all it takes to ruin a high tech system is a lack of performing the low tech job of cleaning.
The system my former employer had didn't have that problem. About every six months or so, we had to rent, ($$$) one of those big man lifts so that a guy could clean the lenses. I guess that he was too good to climb a ladder.
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52 minutes ago, Texas Joker said:
You assume journalism is about giving you the facts.
These days and for quite a while it's about selling stories/papers. The more clicks and shares the more $$$.
You're half right. It's also about giving you the "facts" that they want you to have, and to tell you what to think about it. Or rather how to FEEL about it, thereby promoting the narrative.
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I watch a lot of Youtube videos, probably more than I should. Many of them show people posting, from what I gather, on other "social media" platforms. Many of these postings, especially from the blue hair, septum pierced TDS sufferers, are done from their car. That's weird enough, but the crux of my question is why do most of these videos have the image reversed. They look like they're sitting on the wrong side of the car, (no comments from you Aussies, these are American cars), and any writing is reversed.
So why is that? I would presume, as someone who not only doesn't do these things, but is still rocking a flip phone, that there would be a setting to correct the image. Or is there such a setting and these people just don't know it?
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1 hour ago, Alpo said:
A well-bred nudist carries a towel wherever he goes, so he does not accidentally leave skid marks on the furniture.
While, as a nudist, he cannot use the hem of his t-shirt to clean his glasses, he can use the edge of his towel.
But where does he hang the towel when he's not... oh, never mind.
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12 minutes ago, watab kid said:
truth in reporting is essential to rebuilding the faith in our press- it is severly lacking these days aned reporters need to make an efoty to fix that befoe the regain my trust
Reporters don't WANT to tell us what the truth is, they want to tell you what THEIR truth is. And as long as they think that they can sway the way the sheeple feel, not think, they're fine with that.
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3 minutes ago, watab kid said:
i wil admit my wife will do the same - i wont , if i paid the price they asked it was what i was willing to pay , if the nnext day they discount it to move t i was obviously a day early and a few dollars out , i would not send it back , nor would i expect them to give me compensation for something that had not hap[pened when i made my decision to buy , as log as what i bought fulfilled the need at the time i bought id not ask for more
I freely admit to being a C.O.B., (Cheap Old Ba$tard). If I can save a buck without outright stealing it, I will.
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1 hour ago, Hardpan Curmudgeon SASS #8967 said:
Reminded me of a time I got called on the carpet....
A colleague and I were discussing a problem with his computer (IBM XT, as I recall). He said that one of the hard drives had failed; knowing that his particular machine had two drives, I naturally asked, "which drive, Chris? The master or slave?"
Evidently someone walking through heard my perfectly correct query, was instantly offended, and "reported" me.
I can't tell you the number of times something like that has happened to me. Usually the "offended" party's boss would call my boss and when I explained what had REALLY happened, that was the end of it.
However, one time at a high dollar customer, (remember the Biosphere 2 in Oracle Arizona?), it got a little more interesting. I was delivering compressed gas cylinders to them. Now the warehouse guy and I had gotten to know each other fairly well and were always busting each other's chops about one thing or another.
So he had been out delivering stuff to where it needed to be when I got there, so I unloaded my delivery without him there. Just as I was finishing up the paperwork he comes walking in.
"Oh there you are, "I said to him. "Now that I'm done you show up." We laughed about it and I thought no more of it.
Well when I got back to the shop I was IMMEDIATELY called into the Bosses office, where he DEMANDED to know why I was bitching out a customer of HIS bosses SON?!?! (The salesman, a really decent guy, was the son of one of the companies owners).
I said "What are you talking about?" , and he proceeded to tell me that somebody at the Biosphere had called the salesman direct and told him that I was YELLING at their warehouse guy. The salesman, of course, wanted answers and if he didn't LIKE the answers he wanted a piece of my butt. When I told my boss what really happened he cooled off and he told the salesman and HE cooled off. But now I was miffed. The next week when I was back at the Biosphere I asked the Warehouse guy what the deal was. HE didn't know anything about it. He asked around but nobody ever fessed up to being a little... pansy. The Warehouse guy immediately called the salesman and straightened the whole thing out.
Then there was the time a guy at Raytheon, (yes, THAT Raytheon), accused me of trying to run him over with my truck, but that's a story for another time.
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5 minutes ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said:
Just yesterday I had a pro photographer take a couple of simple pictures for a special project simply because my kerosene powered flip phone couldn't get a recognizable image.
My flip phone does the same thing. I've still got a stand alone digital camera for that.
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1 hour ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said:
I answer to "Your Highness" or "Your Worship" too.
1 hour ago, Rip Snorter said:You must be closing in on "Oh, Ageless One".
7 minutes ago, Subdeacon Joe said:Wouldn't that be "Ageless Wonder?"
Your Royal Hind A$$ is probably most accurate.
As for me, I usually say "Yes Ma'am" or "Yes Sir" when talking to people. At 71, I get a bit of a kick calling a 20 something woman "Ma'am. It throws them for a loop.
In Yul's situation, I probably would have apologized, (tongue firmly in cheek), and said, "Then how DO I address you then?", and done so until our interaction was complete. THEN I might say something like, "Thank You ma'am, have a good day", just because I'm a jackass.
On the other hand, when somebody calls ME Sir, I usually respond with, "Don't call me Sir, I was a Sergeant". It's such a habit that I don't even think about until I've already said it, since I was a Sergeant in The Marines. When they look at me like "WTH?" I tell them, "Sorry, old habit."
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28 minutes ago, irish ike, SASS #43615 said:
cheap cameras with low quality lens.
Not to mention that security camera tend to be mounted up high out of the way of both less than observant people, (most of them), and anybody trying to damage them.
Several years ago my former employer was broken into on a Saturday night. All caught on camera. If those HATS had ever walked in again, they'd be instantly recognizable. The faces under them, not so much.
As for the ever damnable cell phone camera, people are great at taking selfies with them, or other posed pictures, but most can't film worth a darn. That takes work and thought, both of which which most of these people lack.
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46 minutes ago, Crazy Gun Barney, SASS #2428 said:
If they are all buried somewhere in the Nevada Desert... sure. All the best consipracy theories have to include the multiple rounds of cleanup that have to come afterwards.
That's what Area 51 is really about.
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2 hours ago, Jiminy Cricket said:36 minutes ago, Alpo said:
Photoshop
Still funny.
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1 hour ago, Pat Riot said:
If you don't know, the rest of us certainly don't!
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3 hours ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said:
Noah was called a crazy end-of-the-world conspiracy
But then, Noah was called a crazy end-of- the-world conspiracy theorist.....until the rains started.....and didn't stop. So, what do I know?
You knew Noah, right Forty?
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I've seen videos like this before. The whole conspiracy is nonsense. Even the federal government just doesn't "blow up" a building. It takes months of planning and preparation to demolish a building by imploding it. Structures are cut, charges are set, it doesn't happen overnight.
Look at just the logistics. That much activity, people moving around, material being moved in, etc. would get noticed even in New York City.
Ad to that that every WTC conspiracy theory has been debunked, and when "they" come up with a new one, THAT one gets debunked, the whole thing is so much Bravo Sierra.
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8 hours ago, watab kid said:
yes , as a business owner i would do this for my customer service - because i care about my customers , BUT as a buyer/consumer i would not do this , i would respect that i bought fully understanding the cost and willing to pay it , i find people that want items but always wanting to pay less somewhat offensive - if you want to pay less shop around and or wait for a sale ,
if your willing to pay X on one day jus buy it - if the next day its on sale , you should have waited to buy
Sometimes you need an item when you need it. Say my refrigerator craps out on me. I need a refrigerator. I go to Home Depot and get one that satisfies my needs. I pay $600. (I know, thats cheap these days, but so am I). The next day it goes on sale, 10% off. I'm going to go back and ask. I'm not going to expect to get the sale price, but it can't hurt to ask. I'm not going to get upset if I don't get it, I willingly paid the original asking price because I needed it right then. But I'll ask.
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39 minutes ago, Colorado Coffinmaker said:
On several of my conversions (Kirst & R & D) I made bushings to go between the Cylinder face and Barrel Lug, cutting them from 45 ACP cartridges cases.
This reduced the "End Shake" to .002
I just did the same thing on my 1861 Richards Conversion using a .44 case. I just had to relieve a bit of material from the frame below the barrel to make it work.
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Conspiracy Theory
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I think that the other side is just trying to not take the blame for it. Except for the most deranged TDS sufferers, even they recognize how horrible it was.