NightSG

Double post.

So, much like tithing settlement, the smart ones will find a very good reason to be nowhere near there.

NT just wants everyone else to be unprepared. Price gouging opportunities will abound.

Sams and Costco put together couldn't handle the logistics of that for north Texas. The day after National Chili Day doesn't use a tenth of the toilet paper that would be needed.

Actually, the inverse - bodies photographed in such a way as to appear to be landscapes - is quite an interesting subset of nude photography. Done well, it can take a while to realize it is a shoulder or hip, rather than a dune or rolling hills.

Y'know, when I first scrolled past that, I assumed it was related to the original topic, and had to come back to ask just how you'd know...

And once again, when I agree with JAG, it's got to be some sort of universal Truth. I mean, not to put too fine a point on it, but barring some unnatural processes, you physically just can't make babies unless the male is enjoying it somewhat.

This is why I stick with original source material.

I've done 8x12" (don't get me started on the evil of 8x10" becoming a standard) from a 2MP camera that looked excellent. And that was a low light cave photo. Beyond a certain point, it's more a matter of getting the shot right than the number of pixels. Somewhere, I should still have the negatives from a big pile of film (35mm and 120) and scans of those and other shots from a 10MP DSLR. Once they're scanned in at around 9600DPI, I have to really look to figure out which camera took what, (except that the 6x6cm 120 is obviously square - and the 6x9cm frames do tend to show a crisper image at high zoom.) and even then I get mixed up on the desert scenes. (Carlsbad Caverns, the surrounding area, and Fort Davis all got mixed together since I didn't take a daylight tank to process the film before returning.) FWIW, it seems to be a generally accepted limit on some of the hybrid-process (generally, scanning negatives) photography groups that around 16MP is the point of strongly diminishing returns when scanning 35mm film frames. I know some of the pro wet drum scanners tend to go to 30MP, but that's partly because folks want every detail of the film grain preserved.

What are you, some kind of Methodist?

It can be a little tricky down a long 8% with couple curves. Basically just trying to stay under 40mph until I could see the rest of the descent. Going up varies by the hill, though. Sometimes it's just easier to get off and walk.

So bike touring 1300 miles to the starting line and deciding that morning whether I feel like trying it on a loaded touring hybrid is probably not a recipe for success?

<Insert condescending post about the evils and inherently ungodly nature of jealousy and the self-righteous inclination to justify it by denigrating competition> Losing doesn't mean the competition is evil, just that you need to get off your butt and try harder.

I'm 41, and I'm sure there's a box of them somewhere in storage, where I pretty much tossed them in the box as I got them. Didn't want them in view, detracting from some actual performance-based awards.

Congratulations. You've earned it.

Then you need some extra bicycles. Order soon, as we won't be able to make next month's rent unless we can sell 3-4 rebuilt ones or a couple of new ones in the next few days.

Way too good about themselves, apparently. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5422759/Former-Freemason-naked-inside-pipe-organ-Brisbane.html I mean, at least I know that when I'm trying to feed the homeless, but accidentally down a bottle of Scotch instead, I should avoid getting naked inside pipe organs.

We should make meth illegal so this sort of thing won't happen.

No it's not; you need a graph. Clearly, closing EPCOT center would same more people than any form of gun control. (Numbers are real.)

Simulated training? Is that where they have an animatronic teacher pretending to tell you what to do? As I recall, at least TacPro Shooting Center was offering a substantial discount on their tactical pistol and pistol force-on-force courses to educators with concealed handgun licenses. That one includes the jungle run, which is basically a target range spread out over about a mile, running hard from station to station to simulate the effects of a hard adrenalin dump. Pretty much the only more realistic training you can get is Ayoob's LFI 4, which includes things like donating a pint of blood (under competent medical supervision) immediately before shooting a qualifer stage to "simulate" significant blood loss, and has included an epinephrine injection (also under medical supervision) to simulate the adrenalin dump. Of course, the three LFI courses leading up to that one will take you 120 hours of training, $3,000+ in tuition and a small fortune in ammo, so I'd say it's not realistic for teachers to put in the time and money on that one.

Just ask Charles Kinsey. OTOH, if you keep your frickin' booger auger outside the trigger guard unless and until you have a confirmed valid target and are fully prepared to destroy that target, like the NRA teaches even small children, it's impossible to squeeze it accidentally. As for teachers, I wouldn't expect any of them to risk their own class unnecessarily by going out hunting for a shooter. Move the students away from the door, get behind the best cover or concealment available in the room and be ready to shoot anything that comes through the door before police announce the situation is under control.

Infer what, specifically? So everybody important was there. And He asked then, among all, who's up for this job, and two hands went up. He picked one. Not at all the same as pulling one person into a private meeting to be told what they're going to do.

Odds of being a victim of a mass shooting anywhere in the world: <1 in 15,000 (Including third-world countries where they do this stuff for fun.) You're seven times more likely to be killed by a lightning strike. Odds of drowning are about 1 in 1,100, but all these people "so concerned" about keeping people safe won't push for mandatory swimming lessons in public schools. Odds of dying in a car wreck are 1 in 88, but the same people will scream if you try to toughen licensing requirements. Heart disease is 1 in 6, but don't you dare restrict their Big Macs. The fact remains that Chicago, New York, Philadephia and Los Angeles, with the toughest gun laws in the U.S., account for the majority of the nation's violent crime. Criminals prefer unarmed victims.

Note that it doesn't say "God told Jesus to come into His office sometime in second hour and close the door behind Him, then 'offered' Him the calling, with the unspoken yet ever-present bit about how He is expected to say yes." He interrupted the biggest meeting in history to ask everybody for volunteers and then picked from the two who spoke up. A very different process.

How many LE have more than the bare minimum firearms training? Aside from a few notable departments, they don't get any more high-stress training than you can get for a couple hundred bucks at many shooting ranges. Certainly nothing like the stress of having crazy people shooting back. Repetition is the key to internalizing an action, and once you have it, you'll default to the same thing regardless of stress level. Best thing you can do is a whole lot of 4x5 drills: 5 shots on a 5" target at 5 yards in 5 seconds, from whatever carry method you normally use. It doesn't seem particularly hard, but if you can do it every time, you're better off than most police and armed guards. If you want to improve it even more, try 5 separate 5" targets spaced 1-3' apart, varying position and spacing each session so you're forced to aim at each one individually, or three targets with two lateral and one above, representing a head shot so you can practice two-and-two with a failure to stop on one of the "opponents." (Paper dessert plates are about 5" and you can generally find them in huge bulk packages under $5.) If you really want to step it up, get a Texas Star: