Funeral Service

See, to me SPR simply goes off the rails with the radar installation scene. No captain in his right mind is going to go off objective to take out an emplacement that poses no danger to him or his men when he knows that the main force behind them will have things like tanks, artillery, and air support to help the grunts take care of it later. Going off mission, and losing men from your already small group, just doesn't make ANY sense at all.

SPR is laudable for the D-Day sequence, but not much past that.

Meanwhile, BHD shows how the best laid plans can turn to <poopy> when the shooting starts. And you can't tell me that Eric Bana, Tom Sizemore, William Fichtner, Ewan MacGregor, and even Josh Hartnett didn't give 110% the whole movie. BHD may be the one saving grace to Hartnett's entire career, and Bana and Fichtner just ooze the operator-ness that I've come to know from my SF buddies.

He'd have been able to shoot all of those guys AND evac the tower.... if he'd not been a freakin' south-paw....

SPR was basically another heroic John Wayne type WWII movie with added realism and touched on survivor guilt. BoB was better. Fury was in short, insane. It looked more like the pictures from the war my grandfather kept in his sock drawer and never talked about than anything I've seen in a WWII movie except maybe Stalingrad. 

I'd love to run a 3-gun comp with a Winchester M97 or M12 trench gun, M1 Garand, and a bone-stock M1911A1. 

So I was looking at Shields today. The chain had a 9mm for 385 and a 40 for 350. I was going to get the 9mm but didn't have one of the pieces of paperwork on me that they needed. So on my way home to get it I stopped by the locally owned gun shop to see what he had. He had one as well so I decided I would support the small business even if our cost a few extra bucks. Then I saw his price tag. $505! MSRP on these is 449 and the guy wanted another 55 on top of that.

I ended up going to a range and renting one. Loved it. At 5 yards I had 4of my first 8 shots in a .5"x.5" group. Ended up buying one from them for right at msrp. It's a slick little pistol.

procarbinefreak wrote: I learned today that my 1970 Remington 1100 can't handle high velocity upland loads.  And by can't handle I mean it somehow ejects not only the spent shell, but also the next live shell that's supposed to be chambered leaving me with an empty chamber.   I'm not even mad.  It's kind of a hilarious situation.   Switched to regular velocity loads and all was fine.   Tough day though, we put out 12 birds, saw 8 or 9 and only shot 5.  All roosters though, so that's a plus.  This new hunt club has some beautiful birds.

Yeah, saw your pic on FB today, looked like it was a tough hunt with just those few birds. Still, IMHO, it's all about being out there, not how many you get.

agentwhale007 wrote: On the research side, I'm working on some content analysis stuff looking into the themes of trending stories on the Facebook sidebar, and I'm doing a larger content analysis of use of the #GamerGate hashtag on Twitter to get a quantitative data set on that whole mess.

JohnnyCanuck wrote: well, my 'o9 macbook died, so bought a retina, need it for work.

What is your macbook doing? Mine died a month or so ago. It wouldn't boot. Had the gray/white startup screen nonstop. I tried all the fixing solutions I could find of buttons to press while turning it on. Seeing if it was a corrupted memory card. Nothing worked. I found some people with 09 MacBooks were all having the same issue and it was a bad harddrive wire. Apparently the 09 MacBooks have this problem more than any others. I have a mid 2009 MacBook Pro. I ordered a new one from ifixit and replaced mine. Now it works just like before. After that fiasco, I bought an external harddrive and made a complete duplicate of my internal harddrive. Now I can boot up from the external if the wire ever gives me a problem. Just have to rewrite every month or 2 to keep it all updated.


With the explosion of the Antares rocket headed for the ISS to restock supplies, does anyone what kind of backup procedures they have for getting another rocket up as soon as possible.

Everytome I see ISS, I think of ISIS or any other names they have been given.

Found a truck. 03 4x4 S10 with 98k miles, for a pretty good price. Only problem it's in Los Angeles. I really do not like visiting the Peoples Republic of California, but I might have to.