John Kloehr

Fair enough. It does account for the few I have been in. But I will allow that not all are the same.

Did a "Wally Walk" when I got my carry permit years ago. Had been several years prior when I bought a Mr. Coffee drip coffee maker which did not have a clock or other fancy stuff. That prior trip was the last time I was in a Walmart until the walk. I did not really even want to do the walk there but it made sense to get some initial comfort with carrying an arm in public. I had no problem with the infamous customers. The reason I had a problem came from the prior coffee maker trip, it was near the holidays and I saw how the employees (mostly new) were exhausted, overworked, not enough of them, and how supervisors were treating them. The company culture had an illness. I doubt it has healed over the years. I know many can not afford to shop elsewhere, but the best thing customers could do is stop patronizing the company so it can deservedly die, in hopes replacement companies would treat employees better as those employees could then possibly treat customers better. But as a customer and a former retail worker, Walmart does not deserve my business.

No case number or tracking page at this time. New appeal (Rush v United States) out of the 7th district: https://shared.nrapvf.org/sharedmedia/1512068/rush-v-us-cert-petition.pdf " Question Presented: Whether the Second Amendment secures the right to possess unregistered short-barreled rifles that are in common use for lawful purposes. "

I just did a google search, found plenty of fund raisers. A lot of charity shoots for various causes. A few raffles for repair to a club range after storm damage. Even a few for sick members (run by a SASS club). None that struck me as a problem. The lack of random fundraisers, for a sick friend who is not in SASS, for various causes which have no link to the sport, not even some tenuous 2A link, or not associated with a club... Seems like there is some judicious moderation but the reality is not as absolute as the text indicates.

Not sure what the answer is, but these various programs have not produced as many results as policing has. Those who do not even complete a High School education are certainly "at risk." And by this I mean going into a life of crime. Education may not completely equal opportunity, but is certainly a strong marker of success. This may even be trade school, we still need welders and linemen; there are some jobs which do not require a college degree. Still requires completing High School. On the flip side, as long as the consequences of crime, such as drug dealing, are lower than the benefits of the lifestyle which comes with such activities, the benefits of education will be lost on those who would rather lead a criminal life. And even in jails, there are three hots and a cot. For those who do not value time, maybe they consider this an easy benefit and relief from daily struggle...

iPhone allows setting custom call and custom text sounds for any contact.

I suspect the part in red is an ancient leftover from the dawn of web time when server hosts charged for storage space. You made a post, my reply is also a post. I suspect the original meaning was to delete any thread which had no reply in the last 30 days. Today, I have no idea how old a thread has to be to get "archived" which closes it to new replies. But even then, it is still here.

Not sure, could be cross-eye dominance though...

Here is a random Invision powered forum I found. Can you open it or do you get the same error when using your phone on cell data?

Is that wifi or cellular? If cellular, I can not see the speed or latency causing your problem.

This site is sensitive to latency, how long it takes data packets to go back and forth. It is not that data intensive compared to most other forums. Try this link to get some basic idea of how fast your connection is: https://fast.com/# Click "More Info" to see latency numbers. "More Info" provides unloaded latency, loaded latency, and upload speed. I'll bet you have terrible unloaded latency. My home wifi generally is above 200 Mbps with 17ms unloaded latency. Fast load of all sites. Verizon data (just now, I have 1 bar at home) gets me 1.9 Mbps, 575 ms unloaded latency. 1% of wifi speed, nearly 40 times greater latency. This site is very slow, but does eventually (usually) load fully. What are your numbers?

An observation from a couple rulings. In Garland v Cargill (bump stock ruling): " JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR, with whom JUSTICE KAGAN and JUSTICE JACKSON join, dissenting. On October 1, 2017, a shooter opened fire from a hotel room overlooking an outdoor concert in Las Vegas, Nevada, in what would become the deadliest mass shooting in U. S. history. ... He did so by affixing bump stocks to commonly available, semiautomatic rifles. " And now in unanimously deciding Smith v Mexico, Kagan writes: " ... Mexico here focuses on the manufacturers’ production of “military style” assault weapons, among which it includes AR–15 rifles, AK–47 rifles, and .50 caliber sniper rifles. ... But those products are both widely legal and bought by many ordinary consumers. (The AR–15 is the most popular rifle in the country...) " The first quote is in a dissent, but dissents can be used in future arguments in other cases. The second quote is in a ruling. This makes it more compelling. One argument might be it should be ignored as it is dicta, but the quote clearly calls out the legal nature of the product and is thus arguably part of the ruling as to liability under the PLCAA, thus not dicta. And thus compelling for the other AR-15 ban cases in lower courts. Both in the context of being legal products and in that they are common for legal purposes. When a ban case does ultimately reach the Supreme Court, Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson will need to reconcile that future case with what they have already written.

Yes and no. Data is a low priority compared to voice. Verizon network with an iPhone for me. One bar means data basically does not work. Maps can maintain and track location information but not search or map a new route. Web browsing does not work. Two bars is the minimum for data to work on this network with this phone. With no bars, maps can not even maintain position information, the circle of uncertainty gets bigger and bigger until it gives up. Voice calls may garble and drop. At the other end, with four bars, but in the middle of tourist season in a tourist area... Timeouts galore! Strong signal but no available bandwidth. When pages load, they do so very slowly. Outbound calls generally work, someone trying to call into these areas may go to voice mail.

Well then for all I know, I might be remembering a movie.

Sounds familiar, and recall various due process challenges for a long time after. And a summary on the news that the kids were in the bus exactly where the suspect said they were.

The SCOTUS ruling reverses the lower court decision and remands to the lower court. Hopefully the lawyers do get paid by the plaintiff (Mexico) as part of closing out on remand. While not a SCOTUS case, Rare Breed did not include attorneys fees as part of the settlement. And that was a settlement, not a ruling.

From what I understand, there is a formal process with documentation before any actual official questioning of a suspect. That it might be relayed as a suspect having the right to remain silent and a suggestion to use it does also Mirandize to some extent; even if it is more an officer's expression of irritation and part of making an arrest easier. A formal reading of rights (from a Miranda "card") came more from a safe interpretation and implementation of court rulings than any actual requirement it be done in some exact fashion. I remember a case from many years ago, a bunch of kids buried in a school bus. Miranda issues were brought up but still, the kids were found in the bus where the suspect said they were... So a great deal of evidence was still admissible even if all "i"s were not dotted and "t"s crossed. There are other principles such as inevitable discovery and exigent circumstances. Other lines do limit these exceptions, such as torture, but many people who know they should shut up still don't.

In a unanimous opinion authored by Kagan(!), SCOTUS held Mexico may not sue firearms manufacturers for cartel violence based on otherwise legal distribution and sales: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/23-1141_lkgn.pdf Such suits are barred by the PLCAA.

Forgot the mushrooms, there they were when I was ready to put the assembly in the oven. Here is when it came out of the oven. Not a casserole, definitely a stew:

A SD gun has to go bang every time. 500 rounds with no hiccups in any chosen brand basically "proves" the gun. I have a few purchases which did not prove out or required a change in ammo brand to prove out. Other than that, shot placement is more important than caliber. I used to carry .45 ACP, now like my "nine" more.

Put me 3rd in line I guess. No PM sent since I assume it will go to one of the first two.

From top to bottom, the Victoronix I carried during decades of my high tech career, the "Sheffield" (can almost still read it) box cutter I have carried for the last 10 years, and a new Civivi which may replace it:

Japan is very crowded. Personal space barely exists. Even home space is very small. As to the pandemic (dampanic, and I did catch it at least twice and it was nasty and I did lose friends to it), my lady and I went bike riding and masked people gave us hate for not masking. So we went to ride in the National Park and got chased out of there as it was closed. But the officer did understand my reasoning for breaking the restriction when I explained what happened at the city park. The mask guidance at the time did "allow for" not masking when exercising in public, riding a bike in the park explicitly listed as a safe activity. I was OK with "two weeks to flatten the curve," it does and did make sense. Don't think the years of restrictions changed the ultimate outcome. CoViD is still making the rounds, folks showing up at the ER basically unable to breath with little or no other symptoms. CoViD test comes up positive at a rate well beyond the known false positive rate. It seems those who caught it in the first or second wave have done better than those who did not catch it early though it still killed a lot of people out of the gate. It also looks like vaccination does help those who did not catch it in the early days. Today, I am tracking apparent residual immunity of those who did catch it early, seems the immunity (and morbidity) are no longer as favorable as the virus mutates.

Masks are common in Japan in public simply for personal privacy, this was common long before CoViD. But the west coast transplants alone in their cars with a mask on? I don't get it.

Not reloading yet. Quite serious about what I will eventually be doing. The big concern I see with leaving powder out is humidity. See this study: https://chronoplotter.com/2021/08/19/how-does-humidity-affect-powder/ I'm in east Tennessee, humidity can swing from 10% in the winter to 90% in the summer. I can manage indoor humidity to some extent but not perfectly. For someone who lives where humidity is always 50% +/- 5%, hopper staining might be the worst problem. For me, humidity will be enough of a factor to affect some planned future loads. I will not be leaving powder in the hopper. But hey, for SASS, even humidity might not really matter.