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LIEGE, Belgium � Fabian Cancellara gave some joy to his troubled RadioShack Nissan team as the 99th Tour de France began on Saturday, winning his fifth opening-day prologue at cycling�s premier race in the same Belgian city where he edged Lance Armstrong eight years ago.
The 31-year-old Swiss rider proved he�s positively dominant in time trials over the four-mile race against the clock in Liege. This time, Cancellara outclassed another Tour title favorite: Bradley Wiggins, aiming to become the first Briton to win the Tour, was 7 seconds behind in second.
Cadel Evans embarked on his title defense in solid form, finishing 13th � but importantly, 10 seconds back of Wiggins, who many see as the main threat to the Australian�s hopes of a repeat. Cancellara unquestionably is the world�s best time-trial rider but isn�t considered a Tour contender because he often struggles in the mountains.
�What a great opening � again!� Cancellara said. �I did the most I could. It�s not always easy. I always do the maximum ... It�s a great feeling, and this certainly takes some of the pressure off.�
The Tour start offered a welcome return to racing � three weeks and 2,168 miles criss-crossing France, nosing into Switzerland, and scaling climbs in the Alps and Pyrenees before the July 22 finish on Paris� Champs-Elysees. Two other individual time-trials await.
RadioShack, built on the remains of teams that Armstrong led to a record seven Tour victories, has faced a rough patch.
Its current leader, Andy Schleck, is staying home to nurse a spinal injury he sustained in a crash in the Criterium du Dauphine this month; team manager Johan Bruyneel � Armstrong�s longtime mentor � is staying away to avoid being a distraction to the team and the race over a U.S. anti-doping case targeting him, Armstrong and four others.
In a further embarrassment, Enrico Carpani, a spokesman for cycling governing body UCI, said it received information from several RadioShack riders that they�d faced delays in receiving some salary payments. Team spokesman Philippe Maertens said he believed they had been paid, �and if not, there is a reason for it.� He called it a �private issue.�
Brushing aside the team�s issues, Cancellara said he was focusing �on what I have to do � and that�s riding my bike.� He said the victory, which he dedicated to his pregnant wife, doubly was rewarding because he broke his collarbone in the Tour of Flanders in April and wasn�t sure he�d be at his best for the Tour prologue.
Cancellara now has earned the leader�s yellow jersey for 22 days in his career, equaling the marks of other Tour greats, including two-time winner Laurent Fignon of France, American triple champion Greg Lemond and Dutchman Joop Zoetemelk. All of Cancellara�s prologue victories have been outside France: He beat Armstrong by two seconds in Liege in 2004 and also won in London in 2007, Monaco in 2009 and Rotterdam in 2010.
Wiggins, a three-time Olympic champion, said he believed going into the prologue that �there was a man who could beat me: There is always Fabian; he is the best in the world� when it comes to time trials.
�I finished second, so that�s a good thing,� said Wiggins. �Physically I felt fantastic. I didn�t take any major risk because there were a lot of tricky sections.�
Evans, too, said he�d expected to be outclassed in the prologue and put his ride into a broader perspective.
�Not good, but not bad,� the Australian said. �Of course I�d rather concede less seconds; you never want to lose time ... I�ve got one (general classification) rider ahead of me, but I was kind of half-expecting that. Wiggins, what his background is, is these short efforts.�
�For me the real racing starts (today),� Evans added. �I�m just happy to get it going, and looking forward to some good racing. ... It�s like 6 kilometers out of 3,500 or so, so in that regard it�s a small comparison.�
Despite jittery first-day nerves, only a few riders ran into mishaps. Tony Martin, the reigning world time trial champion, was the day�s highest-profile casualty: The German rider got a flat tire, raised his hand to his team staffers and had to change bikes � and crossed 15 seconds back of Chavanel, who was leading up to that point.
Promising young Slovak rider Peter Sagan briefly skipped off the road and lost time. Fort Lewis College alumnus Tom Danielson finished 31 seconds back in 100th.
As defending champion, Evans had the honor of riding last among the 198 competitors who rolled down the starter�s ramp for the race against the clock in the cycling-crazed city, where untold thousands of fans lined the route.
Today�s first stage takes riders over a mostly flat, 123-mile loop from Liege to the nearby town of Seraing.
The Durango Herald, Greg Keller and Samuel Petrequin contributed to this story.
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The 5 Most Insane Examples of Chinese Counterfeiting
Whenever you hear about counterfeit merchandise, you almost always think about China. It's not completely undeserved -- the country does have a history of churning out tons of fake DVDs, electronics, designer clothing and everything else you can and can't imagine.
Why? Because they're really, really good at it. The amount of work and creativity the Chinese underworld puts into their fakes is so damn impressive that you have to wonder why they'd ever need to steal other people's ideas. These are the people who have faked ...
#5. Entire Companies
When Chinese counterfeiters decide to set up a series of knockoff store chains, they don't mess around trying to be subtle. Check out this strangely familiar retailer in Kunming, China:
Everything at this Apple Store is 30 percent cheaper than the one down the street because capitalism.
They have the Apple logo, the displays and even blue-T-shirt-clad staff members sporting that classic Apple smug grin.
Ha, that awkward 45-degree angle. Classic.
The illusion was so perfect that even the employees thought the place was legit. Let's say that again: Even though it's a complete knockoff, all the employees completely believed they were working for Apple.
Chinese officials have so far found a total of 22 fake Apple stores operating across the country. Hell, at least when somebody opened a chain of fake Ikea stores, they had the courtesy to reverse the color scheme:
The food in their cafe was 40 percent lead, making it markedly more delicious than the real thing.
But both of those pale in comparison with the scope of the counterfeiting operation that targeted the Japanese electronics giant NEC.
In 2004, NEC got word that some counterfeit computer products with their logo on them were coming out of China. Big surprise, right? But when they had someone investigate it further, instead of a single rogue factory they discovered a massive, multinational operation counterfeiting ... well, all of NEC.
Which one do we sue? Which one do we sue?
Someone in China actually created an entire parallel NEC enterprise with business cards, R&D commissions, detailed production plans and even warranties all bearing the NEC mark.
This fake NEC also had a network of over 50(!) factories across China and Taiwan producing existing NEC goods and totally new products like MP3 players and entertainment systems ... for which the evil-twin NEC was receiving "royalties." Some of their products were even found in stores of major retailers.
But here's the craziest part: The real NEC guys admitted that those "original fakes" were actually of a pretty good quality, which was probably like being told that some guy stole your identity and then used it to win the Biggest Penis World Championship.
#4. Prehistoric Fossils
Dinosaur bones are valuable, for obvious reasons -- besides being a finite resource, they're also difficult to find, being buried deep underground and all. What if you could simply skip the entire "discover it and clean it off and assemble it together" process that makes archaeology so tedious and skip right to the "make money from tourists" part? Leave it to industrious Chinese counterfeiters to find a way.
In the 1970s, the Chinese fossil market exploded, with dino-bits being dug up and sold all over the country. When the supply dried up, someone suggested, "Why don't we just make some more?"
Really, the difference between a million years and 10 minutes is where you put the decimal point.
And thus, today China is one of the biggest suppliers of fake fossils on the planet. Why bother? Well, here's a fake rat fossil made from a calcified fish. It sold on eBay for over $3,000:
We don't even buy HDMI cables from Chinese retailers.
They can be made in a number of ways, including building skeletons out of chicken/frog bones or plaster and rock, to more authentic fakes made by mixing existing fossils into completely new animals, and sometimes even crushing them into a paste and sculpting new bones. Examples range from fake pterosaur fossils ...
Scientists speculate he was delicious with hoisin sauce.
... to fake saber-tooth tiger heads made from modified dog skulls:
The problem is so persistent that some Chinese scientists are claiming that judging modern fossil collections on their authenticity is just "unrealistic." We wonder if the same thing will eventually happen for ...
#3. IDs for Underage Kids
There's been a lot of talk lately about China taking away American jobs, but the one profession we've always assumed would forever stay within U.S. borders is the proud tradition of making fake IDs for underage kids wanting to get shitfaced. That is no longer the case.
Because you don't need an ID for meth.
Since 2010, police have been finding insanely high-quality fake driver's licenses and other IDs on underage drinkers all across the country. The fakes were so sophisticated, in fact, that they could fool not only bouncers and law enforcement officers, but also some bar-code readers. And they all originated from one company in Nanjing, China.
It works like this: You email the company your physical description, your picture and other information you want on the ID. Then you pay them $300 (or $75 if you order more than 20). Finally, you receive your ID in the mail, hidden in the sole of cheap-ass shoes.
Which will prevent you from getting into most clubs, no matter how many ID cards you throw at people.
Fortunately, most of the fake IDs can be identified immediately with advanced scanning, so they don't really pose a problem to national security or anything. Still, that doesn't mean they have no negative consequences; studies have shown that underage people are more prone to binge drinking than legal adults, which can often have lethal results. And what about Steve from Dorm B?! How is he supposed to pay for that new laminating machine and his WoW subscription with China taking away all of his business?
"Well, I guess it's back to the gold farmi -- awww, damn it."
But before you breathe too much of a sigh of relief about national security, there's the issue of ...


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Upcoming Training Events Question
I've noticed there are some upcoming training events in March and April for ExtJS 4.0. I don't often go to a product training event, and I want to get the most out of it. There are two that I am interested in, ExtJS 4.0 Update and Mastering ExtJS 4.0. I would consider myself an advanced ExtJS user. I'm comfortable with modifying existing ExtJS applications, as well as creating my own custom components. I also keep up with the Sencha blog, and have watched the videos from the Sencha conference 3 months ago.
My question is, with my experience, is it worth while to go to the ExtJS 4.0 update event or would I feel comfortable with the Mastering ExtJS 4.0 event?
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Let $G$ be a (discrete, say) group and $\mathbb K$ a field. The regular representation $G^{\mathbb K}$ is the vector space of all functions $G \to \mathbb K$. It is a (left, say) $G$-module: given $g\in G$ and $f: G \to \mathbb K$, the action is $g\cdot f: x \mapsto f(xg)$. Then $G^{\mathbb K}$ is a commutative algebra object in $G\text{-rep}_{\mathbb K}$, the symmetric monoidal category of $\mathbb K$-valued $G$-representations, under pointwise multiplication $f_1f_2: x \to f_1(x)f_2(x)$.
But the pointwise product is not necessarily the only commutative algebra (in $G\text{-rep}$) structure that can be put on $G^{\mathbb K}$. For example, when $\mathbb K = \mathbb R$ and $G = \mathbb Z/2$, as an algebra $G^{\mathbb K} \cong \mathbb R[\epsilon]/(\epsilon^2 = 1)$, with the $G$-action corresponding to conjugation $\epsilon \mapsto -\epsilon$. The same $G$-module supports the algebra structure $\mathbb R[\epsilon]/(\epsilon^2 = -1) = \mathbb C$, which is patently a different algebra.
My question is whether there are any examples with $\mathbb K = \mathbb C$? I.e.:
Does there exist a group $G$ so that there is a commutative algebra object in $G\text{-rep}_{\mathbb C}$ that is isomorphic to $G^{\mathbb C}$ as a representation but not as an algebra?
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Monday, Sept. 24, 2012: This year tension builds with your professional and community activities. Do you have too much on your plate? You might want to cut back or delegate some of your responsibilities to others, even if you don't want to. If you are single, your playfulness cannot help but come out when interacting with others. A friendship is the key to your next relationship. If you are attached, the two of you feel strongly about your personal and domestic life. Just add more fun in! AQUARIUS knows how to draw you in.


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I often see passphrase suggestions written as a sentence, with spaces. In that format are they more susceptible to a dictionary attack because each word is on it's own as opposed to a large unbroken 20+ character 'blob'?
No (with a minor exception at the bottom).
The passphrases "correct horse battery staple" and "correcthorsebatterystaple" are equivalent entropy-wise. Choosing to put spaces in an incorrect spot or sometimes including spaces and sometimes not including spaces will give you a few extra bits of entropy; but its not worth it for the extra difficulty remembering it. You'd gain a few bits of entropy for the entire passphrase for weird spacing pattern; while just adding another word would add about 13 bits (assuming a diceware dictionary of 7776 words corresponding to 5 rolls of a six-sided dice; note that lg(65) = 12.92; lg being the base-2 logarithm). (There's no disagreement between my answer and Thomas's; an attacker would have to check for passphrases both with and without spaces unless he had extra information about whether you tended to use spaces in your passphrases).
Beware the distinction between random words and meaningful sentences. A passphrase "quantum mechanics is strange" is much lower entropy than say "heat fudge scott canopy"? Why? In meaningful English you have patterns like certain words combine frequently (quantum mechanics) or certain patterns must appear to be grammatically correct (subject, predicate, subject complement) that in principle could be exploited by a sufficiently sophisticated attacker (even though I am not aware of any cracking algorithms that currently utilize this). The informational entropy of grammatically correct written English is about 1 bit per character so the first passphrase has ~30 bits [1], while the second passphrase has about 4×12.9 ≅ 52 bits of entropy; so would take about 222≅4 million times longer to crack.
Be wary of incorrect analyses like http://www.baekdal.com/insights/password-security-usability that make many fundamental information theory mistakes. E.g., "this is fun" is incredibly weak being comprised of some of the most common English words in a syntatically correct sentence that is very common ('this' ~ 23rd most common; 'is' ~ 7th most common; 'fun' ~ 856th most common word) [2]. If you tested just three random words from the top 1000 english words, it would take you only 1 second to crack it, assuming a modern GPU and you have acquired the (salted) hash. This is roughly equivalent to a 5 random alphanumeric characters (not counting special symbols). If you search google for the quoted phrase "this is fun" it appears 228 million times.
EDIT: Minor exception: in the rare case when consecutive words in your passphrase form another word in your dictionary (or your attacker's dictionary), then not having spaces (or another separator) between words lowers your passphrase's entropy significantly. For example, if the random words forming your passphrase were "book case the rapist" and you had no spaces, an attacker could get in by trying all combinations of just two words 'bookcase therapist'.
Spaces in a passphrase add entropy exactly insofar that they could not have been added. An important point is that an attacker cannot test for a partial match on a password; contrary to what Hollywood movies tend to suggest (in a most graphic way), there is no such thing as a "partial decryption" (where the text is partly legible, but blurred) or a "partial password". The attacker has the exact expected password, down to the last comma, or nothing at all. This is a login system, not a game of Mastermind.
For instance, suppose that you make passwords by randomly selecting four words in a list of 2048 "common" words, and appending them (the "correct horse battery staple" method). We assume that any attacker knows that you are selecting passwords that way (e.g. that's the "official password selection method" promulgated by the sysadmin). How much entropy is there in such a password ? That's easy to compute (assuming you are really selecting things "randomly", with dice, not with your brain): there are 2048*2048*2048*2048 = 244 possible passwords, which all have the same probability of being selected. Hence, 44 bits of entropy.
Now, suppose that the selection process also states: "You shall concatenate the four words without any space". There are 244 possible passwords, so 44 bits of entropy. Assume now that the rules say: "You shall always put a single space between two words". There still are 244 possible passwords, so still 44 bits of entropy. But suppose that the rules say: "you shall either separate the words with spaces, or concatenate them all together (throw a coin to decide one way or another when you choose your password)", then there suddenly are 245 possible passwords (still with equal probability): entropy is now 45 bits.
Even more generically, if the password selection process entails throwing a coin three times, to decide for each slot between two words if there should be a space or not, then entropy rises to 48 bits. But note that this is not "free": you get more entropy, but you have to remember more, too (namely where you put the spaces).
On a practical note: on a typical keyboard, the space bar, when pressed, emits a slightly different sound. If your office colleague has a keen ear, he may notice whether you use it or not, and possibly at what places. Also, your colleagues perfectly knows the password selection rules which are advertised in your organization, since he is, by definition, in the same organization than you. So I would advise against using spaces as source of entropy. Especially if you use the "four words rule" and not all words in the list have the same length: the long-eared colleague may deduce the length of each word by hearing the spaces when they are typed.
The simple answer is yes, but not very much. Think about the character space - if you are looking at alphanumeric including upper and lower case that gets you 62 chars (a-z, A-Z, 0-9). Adding {space} means 63 chars so you have improved by 1/62
Contrast that to adding an extra character which increases your entropy exponentially.
You can't use a dictionary attack, because you can't try each word individually. This is a pass phrase. You have to get it all to get it right. I'm sure your dictionary might contain "mike", but it doesn't contain "mike is the smartest man alive". Those are two different passwords. Adding spaces adds more characters. The more characters the more combinations the more entropy.
It depends. Of course it matters what the circumstances are in detail.
If the attacker does not know, that you're combining words, and does a brute force attack over the whole space of possibilities, the blank increases the alphabet.
If the attacker knows or assumes, that you're using a sentence or a list of words, but does not know, whether you use a blank or not, the number of sentences with or without blank is nearly twice as big, as only without blanks.
Twice sound much, but if you think about it - an attacker which does a brute force attack over 1 month will probably do it for 2 months too.
The question of sound is an interesting thought. I have another one:
If you insert your password in a Textfield of a GUI, maybe the browser, a blank should always work. But if you happen to insert it from a shell, in an indirect process:
might not work, because shells tend to use blanks as separators. You would need to use
My idea is now, that the error might help an attacker, to guess the reason for the error, and therefore to leak information of the way, the password is build. There might be a rule to use at least 8 characters, and "you" happens to have only 3, so people, using sentences without masking, might be typical victims of this error message.
Of course this is very speculative.
Using blanks may, on the other side, help you to memorize a very long pass phrase. You may, as a French user on an US site use a Spain sentence, insert foreign names like Kolmogorov and spelling errors you remember easily, which will be hard to plan for in brute force attackss. :) Of course, you can do that without blanks too.
Adding spaces may or not add security, but adding spaces make it easy to read and type pass phrases. For example, Lastpass can generate OTP (one time passwords) if you need them while traveling and using a public computer. These OTP passwords look like this:
You are supposed to print them and type them when you need to login from a public computer, but these are extremely difficult to read and type. Instead of this, their OTP should have looked like this:
words with spaces that is easy to read and type. There are no cons to including spaces in pass phrases, but the pros are obvious, as in this OTP case.


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In a triple header to kick off 2012, The Royal Opera presents three operatic masterpieces, all composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart with librettos by Lorenzo Da Ponte.
A serial seducer gets his just deserts in Don Giovanni, a tale of murder, the supernatural and redemption. The work features a rich mix of humour, drama and thrills as well as some of the most disarming arias ever composed – all framed within a white knuckle ride to the Don's damnation. Erwin Schrott and Gerald Finley share the title role in Francesca Zambello's energetic production.
Classic comedy Così fan tutte tells the story of two young men, testing the faithfulness of their girlfriends for a bet with wily old Don Alfonso. Containing some of Mozart's most romantic and beautiful music, the opera has proved a repertory staple in recent decades. With costume designs by Giorgio Armani, Jonathan Miller's production melds the classic and the contemporary, leading one review to dub it a 'Mozart meets Sex in the City triumph'.
The story of a 'day of madness' atCount Almaviva's palace near Seville, Le nozze di Figaro rounds off the trio of Mozart and Da Ponte operas in comedic fashion. Featuring one of the most infectious overtures in opera, Figaro is also a showcase for most famous arias and sublime characterisation. Director David McVicar sets the action in 1830 – providing the perfect backdrop for the unresolved tensions between the classes of Revolutionary Europe. A stellar cast and creative team is on offer with Ildebrando D'Arcangelo singing the role of Figaro, Simon Keenlyside taking the role of the Count and Sir Antonio Pappano conducting.
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- BSO Case Number: PB01-12-4324
- PIO Number: 01-12-30
- Date: November 20, 2001 through December 17, 2001
- Place of Occurrence: Broward, Palm Beach, and Martin Counties
- Dozens of retail stores in the tri-county area
- Errol A. Phillip, 35, 9/6/66, 13354 Orange Grove Blvd., West Palm Beach
- Jeffrey Myers, 41, 11/24/60, 13354 Orange Grove Blvd., West Palm Beach
Description of Incident:
A string of three-dozen armed robberies in Broward, Palm Beach, and Martin Counties is over with the arrest of two suspects in Palm Beach County.
Broward Sheriff's Office detectives say 35-year old Errol A. Phillip of West Palm Beach has confessed to committing 36 armed robberies between November 20th and December 17th of this year.
In most cases, Phillip would enter a convenience store armed with a knife, demand money, and then escape with his loot in a white, 2-door Honda.
Shortly after 3:00 pm on Sunday, December 16, 2001, Phillip, along with 41-year old Jeffrey Myers of West Palm Beach, robbed the North Lauderdale Discount Beverage store at 7150 Kimberly, North Lauderdale.
A witness reported the tag number of the suspect's getaway vehicle and the Broward Sheriff's Office put out a bulletin for other law enforcement to be on the lookout for the suspects.
The morning of Tuesday, December 18, 2001, a Palm Beach County Sheriff's deputy spotted the suspect's vehicle and arrested the pair in the 3500 block of South Federal Highway in Boynton Beach.
Seven of the armed robberies to which Phillip has confessed fall under BSO jurisdiction. Detectives say Myers is linked to only three armed robberies at this time.
- INVESTIGATORS: Sgt. J. Ulvang / Dets. D. DiPerna & R. Kerr
- THIS REPORT BY: Hugh Graf/PIO 12/18/01 5:00 pm
Posted At: 12/18/2001 05:17 PM
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The Grandaddy Of All Rootbeers: Sioux City Sarsaparilla 12oz. for $1.39
Walk into the saloon and order up one of these babies. See how that grabs 'em!
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YEE HAW! seriously some good stuff here, one of my all time favorites (next to Fanta Birch Beer, of course)
Root Bear Rocks!
shipping starts at $11.95 business, 13.95 home
no root beer is that good
@fit410s: Don't worry, we'll return to normally scheduled woot programing tomorrow. If you're looking for real deals search "-cowboy"
@cowboydann: programming? are you real or a robot?
@fit410s: Might be a real robot.
This is from my state and it's pretty awesome. Sarsaparilla is delicious and similar to root beer but usually with a somewhat simpler ingredient list. All that said I'd have a hard time justifying the purchase if I couldn't pick it up locally. If you're into quality rootbeer/sarsaparilla, it may be worth checking out.
Yeah, that's some pretty expensive shipping. Even ordering 12 bottles, shipping comes out to nearly $24. A $40 12-pack better be darn good. I'm going to have to look around locally before I shell out that kind of coin for some soda.
They used to carry this at a smokehouse/restaurant waay out in the country when I was a kid (long time ago, wild bison used to rule the plains). I'd love going there so I could get the neat Sioux City flavors with their cowboy themed cans. I never could figure out the difference between their Birch Beer & Sarsaparilla.
I havent seen this in almost 4 decades.
Very, very cool.
$26.64 for 6 four-packs (case of 24) at Walmart, with free ship to store!
Sometimes you eat the bar and sometimes the bar eats you ...
@paisannyc: I saw that deal but I didn't know if white rock was the same as this stuff.
Also please don't buy this deal It's a great rootbeer but you should try to find this one locally guys (try a specialty wine store that stocks thousands of wines beers and sodas, they usually have them. Ours in CA is called BevMo)
@alan40oz: YES! A thousand times YES! Everyone give your upvotes to this wooter
$1.39 for a 12 ounce bottle?? where's the deal? you can get a 12 ounce bottle of Stewart's root beer (just as good) at Cracker Barrels for 99 cents
Not too bad of a deal until you look at shipping. $13 for a single bottle, or $24 for a case. That would make it nearly $60 for a case. Sorry, no rootbeer is worth that much money.
Some folks just ain't gettin' the theme.....
@dcpotts: Exactly what I was thinking
Great deal if you're addicted to it and you don't live within 300 miles of a grocery store. Otherwise, this is the lamest deal of the day.
As far as Sarsaparilla goes I've only had this and a rare Kansas City Sarsaparilla. But I would agree with the cowboy that this is a good one. If you like sodas this would really tie your collection together.
Can't ship to New York?
seriously guys don't buy it from here. See if you can find a local supplier
seriously guys don't buy it from here. See if you can find a local supplier
seriously guys don't buy it from here. See if you can find a local supplier
seriously guys don't buy it from here. See if you can find a local supplier
seriously guys don't buy it from here. See if you can find a local supplier
It's good but it's not 40 dollars a case good.
@cowboydann: Such as? I can never seem to find a place that deals in exotic sodas like this. Hell, the only place I can find Big Blue is a gas station in the ghetto.
@alexmg2420: http://www.whiterockbeverages.com/WhereToBuy.cfm You can ask them. I doubt they'd sign you up for spam but just to be on the safe side you can use a secondary email I suppose... I honestly don't expect any spam from these guys though.
or pick up from walmart as posted above
@domenci: Yes you could pick up the 24 pack of from wal-mart. I'm just making a suggestion in case someone doesn't want to drop 30 dollars on something they're not even sure they'll like.
I did a little research and White Rock is the company that makes the stuff but what threw me off is I was used to seeing White rock as A RC-Cola kind of company. As long as it says White Rock Sioux City You're good and that will be the stuff you're looking for.
(Also, If he can find someone that carries Sioux City maybe he can find someone to get his other specialty drinks in a less shady place)
I'm not a fan of creme sodas, or of root beers, this is true,
But I'd kill a man, and strangle his horse for a sarsaparilla or two.
It started when I was a carny, back in september of the year 2001,
At a fair in hot springs, on a very hot day, long before my work was done,
Some locals had a booth selling Sioux City, and kettle corn,
For a buck a bottle it served me better than the internet serves porn.
Alas I can rarely find it since, all local distributors fail,
Within a hundred miles, to find this drink is rarer than mexican hail.
So while there's better deals to find in local shops for some,
If you've never had or seen it before, just buy it, don't be dumb!


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I have Sparrow configured for my personal gmail account, and Mail.app for working. However, every time I open Sparrow, it will set itself as the default .eml file reader, although I didn't config the Sparrow doing so (as in the following picture). I like to use the Mail.app as the default .eml file reader, so every time after I use Sparrow, I have manually re-config the .eml file reader to Mail.app.
Is it a Sparrow's bug?


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How far is your break point to fly?
Recently, we completed two 12 hour drives (soon after a 10 hour flight), and while the drive was longer for a shorter distance, the car was more comfortable. So, I'm running a 15 hour time limit in driving. What's your time?
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I'd say about 10-11 hours. Anything beyond that starts to get into the "you're spending more time AND more money" range for me.
I'm 6'5, so flying is obviously uncomfortable for me. The TSA doesn't make it any easier with all the screening requirements these days. When it comes down to it, I may actually prefer driving if the trip is less than about 14 hours or so.
@capguncowboy: I sympathize (just shy of 7 feet) and it doesn't help that they now charge extra for exit row :/
I figure at least 2 hours before flight time at the airport, at least 45 minutes waiting for bags after arriving, add that to the flight time, and if driving is within 2-3 hours of that I'll drive. I also factor time getting ready to leave the house and travel time to the airport into the equation.
I also factor in if I'll want a rental car, in that case driving gets some extra points so I can have my own vehicle when I'm there. Vegas is a 7 hour drive, or a 1hour 10 minute flight. I prefer the drive.
An aside: @capguncowboy & @ okham I love tall men! ::sigh::
OT Long drives are okay...long to me is, at most, 8 hours. Sometimes the price of flying is less than it would cost to drive a really long distance. Cost of gas, wear & tear on your car, probable motel stay, etc. To say nothing of the time saved (sorta) in flying. I'm short, so the lack of leg room is less a bother. TSA is the same PITA, though. Also, getting to the airport SO early is a waste of time. An added thought....you can't drive to Europe. ;-)
Do understand long road trips. They have a beauty of their own. The selected routes, the ability to stop & enjoy sites, etc. Have also done numerous long train rides. Love those, too! BTW: If you get a room/roomette they are VERY expensive.
My "break point" has more to do with the time available to me and the balance of time/money. I used to live a 15 hour drive from "home": if I were going home for 10 days at Christmas, I'd drive. On the other hand, if I were attending a wedding, I had to fly so that I could work Friday, take a late flight, have Saturday and most of Sunday with my family, and be back in time to work Monday morning. The financial aspect isn't always obvious, either: it might cost more to buy a plane ticket than to pay for gas, but there's also the wear-and-tear on the car - and if one needs to take two extra days off from work to drive, there's a cost involved as well.
Of course, the calculus changes depending on how many people one puts in the car! Driving is essentially the same cost for a family of four as for an individual, but plane tickets generally don't have the same economy of scale.
@gmwhit: Europe was the 10 hour flight :) And my wife concurs with your love of tall men...
@neuropsychosocial: My equations are similar but I add in the extra variable that I normally drive alone. Any more than about 7 hours in one day is too much for me. I just get to a point where I don't feel comfortable driving anymore. My family all lives about 12 hours away from me, most of the time I drive because I do fairly short, extended weekend trips. I just don't have the time to drive it. I did drive for Christmas last year and was able to stay with friends at about the halfway point on the way back. That worked out really well and I hope to be able to do that again this year. I also saved money by not having to mail packages or pay for extra baggage on the plane. And I could actually wrap presents before the day before Christmas when I arrived! It was great.
The farthest I ever drove was to Atlanta, which was a little over 9 hours. Based on that trip, I would say that my max is about 10-11 hours.
I do love long road trips, though. I bought this book called The Next Exit. It's a listing of what's at every interstate exit in the United States. It's a tremendous resource, and it has helped me a lot on my trips.
My break points depend on how many people I'm traveling with. The more people, the more expensive all the plane tickets would be and the cheaper the drive would be per person. So it's really all about final cost. It really depends on how much money we're saving by driving to decide if it's worth it for us.
If I'm by myself, anything more than about 8 hours is going to have me looking at plane tickets for sure.
If I'm with, say 2 other people, and I can split the gas and time behind the wheel... I could stretch it out to 16-17 hours if need be. I'd really have to be saving several hundred dollars versus flying though. And have the extra time obviously.
Any drive longer than that and I'm probably flying no matter what. I'd have to be saving $500-$600 to sit in a car for 3+ days or something...
I despise long car trips. I am not fond of the cross country plane trips with the lack of nonstop flights and the security hassles and crowded aircraft. If I have to choose my poison, it would be air, but not overv10 hours in one day!
Lets see..
Arriving at airport four hours early like average asians = 4 hours
Flight from LAX (Los Angeles) to Manila, Philippines = ~15-16 hours
Time spent in Philippine airport (from landing to walking out with like eight boxes) = ~1-2 hours
Bus ride from Manila to hometown (Baguio City) including usual traffic = ~5-8 hours
So thats about of ~25-30 hours of non-stop one-way hilarious travel time for me every other year.
But then again, I like traveling! As long as I get to use the bathroom when I need to, able to stand every once in a while (I sometimes get butt pain from sitting down too long) and don't get car sick from all the sudden stop-go plus stick-shift ride.
It really depends on how I feel/where I'm driving. In some cases I'll refuse to drive 5 hours, and would rather just buy the plane ticket. Sometimes I'm down for a big road trip :)
are you talking non stop (besides gas) or how far will I travel in a car? I'd go around the world in my car if I could. Just not in one shot. Most I've done was a 22 hour trip to Florida straight. Recently it was 9.5 (record time) to Indy. 10.5 on the way back. I love driving. Snow, rain...whatever. Flying sucks.
Definitely want to factor in the cost (including gas/hotel/food).
If it's under 8-10 hrs, I'll pretty much always drive though.
Over that, you have to factor in how many people are coming with you as others indicated. Sometimes we'll share the driving and go straight through, but pretty much I prefer to drive, so I wind up doing more than "my fair share", of which I'm completely fine with obviously.
There's something exciting about driving across the country too -- you get a much different view than what you would flying, but I suppose you can say something like that about flying too...
Exception to this would be if it's on the company dime -- something about flying being out of one budget sometimes, and easier to do than getting a rental and paying for that much extra gas...dumb, I know. Especially when I fly to one location and then have a 30-40min flight to the next place.
The most in one day is usually 10 hours. The only time I ever really choose to fly is when it's for work, aside from that it's just too expensive.
I flew for the first time last year. From St. Louis to Phoenix. Before that, I've driven everywhere I've ever gone. 14-15 hours driving is the furthest I've been away from home with the exception of a 22-hour bus ride one time. The only reason I haven't driven further is money and having enough time off. And I can't imagine flying for two would ever be cheaper than driving within the U.S. with me living in the middle of the country.
It would be really hard to give up the experience of driving across America in order to fly. I love seeing the sights. I would love to drive the full length of Route 66.
The break point for me is if alcohol is free during the flight. I used to fly from the UK to Australia several times a year, long flight, but very pleasant (free booze).
Mine isn't so much about the length of the drive - I love driving, love road trips, etc. But sometimes the fuel cost for driving is higher than the cost of 1-2 plane tickets. There's also the factor of my husband's vacation time - it we're going from NY - CA, spending a minimum of 8 days driving really cuts into the R&R time.
For me - I'd prefer the drive. I hate airports. Don't mind flying, but HATE airports. If they ever roll back the TSA crap then it would be more bearable for me.
About 12 hours. Over that and I'll fly.
Before 9/11, I'd fly any time the drive would be more than five or six hours.
Now that TSA agents are required to sexually manipulate my genitals, I'll drive unless the destination doesn't share a continent with the origin.
When I must fly, though, just to piss off TSA, I make it a point to wear a kilt. And I wear it properly. If they're going to touch my junk, then they're going to Touch. My. Junk.
There is no break point. I recently drove to CT from Florida, and then over to Maine, and then back.
I will not step on a plane again until the TSA is gone.
If I wanted a prostate check, I would go to a doctor. Not some moron in a police costume.
If I need my teeth checked, I go to a dentist. Again, I don't need some moron in a police costume. In fact, I can't think of a single reason I would possibly step on a plane and risk making my way through a bunch of people who watched the X-Files and wondered what it was like on the other side of that probe, wondering if I am a terrorist and checking me for toothpaste. (Btw, they were never needed. 9/11 wouldn't have been prevented by them, because they were carrying stuff that was allowed).
Yes, yes I would gladly take my chance without them, considering before TSA there was a 1 in 17 million chance of something bad happening. After TSA? 1 in 17 million chance.. hmm...
But, if I leave the country, freightertravel.com all the way. :)
And btw, I understand anal probes and mouth checks aren't happening now, but with the joy that is TSA, who knows? Now they have to stick their hand IN underwear to check genitals for bombs (their job, stopping terrorists). Is it really that much further to the probes? No, realistically it is not.
We love in far West Texas, closest US cities are one at 250 miles, one at 450 miles, and then a whole herd at 600. So going anyplace is either a plane trip or a long car ride. We drove 750 miles (1,500RT) to Houston for a weekend convention once, one day on the road, two days at the con, another day on the road. But we feel like travel is as much about the journey as the destination. We still fly plenty, but if we can get there in 15 hours of driving we usually drive. My friend behind the wheel, me handling mapping, entertainment and refreshments, a good mix of audiobooks and sing-along music on the MP3 player.


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Does adBrite give you any money for clicks? I'm only getting a few visitors per day, but they are clicking on ads apparently. My earnings are very low.
You are paid per:
And per:
To really earn money you need very high numbers, that means hundreds, thousands of users per day.
Not only adBrite, but any advertising exchange out there that pays proportionally to the traffic of the publisher.
Be aware that you don't generate clicks! In the past I thought to be smarter then the engineers working for an ads company and I've been kicked out forever (still lucky they didn't report me to authorities).
Raise up your visibility on the web, which can be a hard job indeed, but it's possible. Some advice:
Remember to search for people who have the kind of problems you are trying to solve.
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For example, if my hand is empty and I draw and reveal Temporal Mastery, can an opponent cast Funeral Charm and make me discard it before I have a chance to cast it for its Miracle Cost?
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Yes. Miracle triggers upon revealing the card when you draw it. You cannot cast the card until the triggered ability resolves and you pay the cost. Until that time, the card is in your hand and subject to the effects of discard.
It depends on whether the Miracle card is a Sorcery or Instant
It would be correct to say: Your opponent can make you discard a Miracle card before you can cast it for its Miracle cost, as user1873 already pointed out.
If the card is a sorcery, you can't usually play it outside the main phase or with a non-empty stack, so for your specific example, he could make you discard before you can cast it in any way.
If it's an Instant, however, you can still play it for its regular cost in response to the Funeral Charm.


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Apologies if I'm being completely out of line here by pointing out what I perceive to be small but not intractable problems. I'm on three medications right now, and one of them is booze.
When you're looking at the profile of a user who has accounts on every SO network, it isn't immediately obvious which box is for what site. The only differentiator seems to be the tiny icon to the left of the user's name.
Wouldn't it make a lot more sense to have a textual label for each box?


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"The American way of eating has become the elephant in the room in the debate over health care," he wrote in the Sept. 10 New York Times. "Our success in bringing health care costs under control ultimately depends on whether Washington can summon the political will to take on and reform a second, even more powerful industry: the food industry."
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"Rich People Just Care Less": variations on a theme
I enjoy writing blog entries, I really do.
And yet at times I reflect and notice a bit of repetition in the work, a nagging and perhaps obsessive idea. A fixation.
Much of what I write here seems to be a variation on a single theme: conservative thought is a powerfully rich tradition whose contemporary exemplars have strayed from some important foundations. The bonds of community, for example, above and beyond the individual. The natural and organic order, the importance of history and tradition. An engaged critique of modernity rather than an embrace of the forces of hypermodern capitalism.
Here's more variation on that theme, in the form of a powerful and critical essay in the weekend New York Times (http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/05/rich-people-just-care-le...). After reading this, it seems to me that the Church -- and especially the so-called conservative "traditionalist" wing in the US -- should be addressing not only the growth of inequality and the concomitant stagnation of social mobility, but the growing sense of indifference and even hostility towards the poor. What I see, though, is something like the opposite: the economics of Paul Ryan, the libertarian theology of Robert Sirico.
Are these views representative?
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What Goleman reports, that people pay more attention to those who are powerful, can be filed as research confirmation of something that everyone already knows to be true. His supposition, that powerful Republicans are unempathetic to people who are not powerful, may well be true. But why wouldn't it also hold true that powerful Democrats and liberals are unempathetic to people who are not powerful? As it happens, we know that to be true, as it is not difficult to cite instances of Democratic policies that are shockingly unempathetic to those who are weak and powerless.
Traditionalists in the Catholic Church are not numerous, and their influence can be overstated. In their own estimation, many of them tend to see themselves as the disenfranchised and oppressed ones. I note this, not to disagree with Robert's contention about Paul Ryan; there are too many conservative Catholics who buy into theories that are cruel to those who depend on government programs for subsistence. I just wouldn't want to classify them all as traditionalists. I think it goes well beyond the borders of traditionalism.
My follow up question is: is this an endogeneity issue? In English, does this mean that people who achieve wealth & power lose their empathy, or is an empathy gap a pre-requisite for being drawn to/able to do what is necessary to attain wealth & power? My gut would suggest the latter, but I'm open to being persuaded otherwise.
Another question: do most people in positions of wealth & power have a real sense of what poverty/lack of power means? I'm reminded of the scene from Arrested Development where Gangie asks her son how much a banana costs: $10?
A third question: how are we (and "they") defining community? I read extensively about the right wing. They know exactly who their community is. And the reason they hate the government is that it shifts power, howsoever construed, to the members of society who are most definitely not a part of that community.
Low-income people are invisible to the middle and upper classes. Perfectly lovely, thoughtful , Christian people simply do not see them. I am not writing metaphorically. The non-poor simply do not live in the same neighborhoods, go to the same schools, churches, even grocery stores. You will not run into a poor mother and her two kids in a Whole Foods. It's expensive to play little league baseball. It's expensive to play sports in elementary, middle and high school. There are few opportunities for poor kids and adults to hang out with people whose resources exceed theirs. Higher income families are often generous in giving to food pantries, holiday gift drives and the like, but rarely do they come in contact in a social setting with poor people. There may be some brief contact with a cashier in a convenience store, but that's it. I've worked professionally in programs that serve the poor in the inner city and in a prosperous suburban area. When well-meaning friends would ask about my job, they usually were sympathetic to people's struggles, but it came with "advice" on how they could do better. One has to have an very good imagination to be empathetic to people you have never met and whose lives bear little resemblance to yours. If you have never been poor (not graduate student poor), never lived in a trailer in a rural slum or in a cold apartment with broken windows, broken appliances, two babies, and no money to pay the electric bill it is not surprising that you cannot relate to those who do. I wish I had a solution to offer. So, I think middle and upper income folks may care in an abstract way about struggling people, but in my experience they, in a concrete sense, have no clue.
Thomas --
The Piagetian psychologists have shown that if a person doesn't develop his/her imginative powers of visualizing other people's interior, subjective experience that they cannot develop consciences because they simply don't see the consequences of their actions, so they are not bothered by those consequences.
It seems to me that this is another strong reason to require literature in the schools -- it forces kids to imagine what their own actions do to other people. No development of imagination yields no conscience yields no morality yields injustice. Support the literature teachers!
The Northern Ca. Catholic HSs bring their students on a regular basis to the innercity Franciscan Gubbio project. We have not yet found a way we can entice their upper middle class parents on a tour....see just a short video of the 'others' .
Holloway - I agree entirely.
You're quite right that even ostensibly-democratic activities for children like scouting and soccer are too expensive. I pay well over $100 for one of my children to play in a house soccer league, and the annual dues for boy scouts were about $100, too. For a family in perpetual jeopardy of not making rent each month, these may be beyond reach. Even public schools in this suburban area are expensive, once clothes, supplies and all the nickel-and-dime fees throughout the year are figured in. And don't get me started on tuition at allegedly-affordable public universities.
I was struck by the NYT piece, too, and anyone who has gone down the socio-economic ladder is very attuned to the way relationships wax and wane with income and status.
Some people will, for a time, accommodate someone's reduced financial circumstances, but eventually, they'll get sick of "slumming" at Big Boy or the coffee shop--the cheaper places poorer people can afford occasionally--and stop inviting poorer acquaintances to social gatherings altogether. They make money, and they want to enjoy it. Why shouldn't they?
Those in reduced circumstances often don't want to entertain because a) they don't have the money and b) because the accommodations are getting pretty threadbare. They've disconnected the cable, so they can't talk about everyone's favorite TV series. They decline invitations if they don't have the clothes suitable for the venue or the season. One of my students, whose famiy of five lost their house, had to live in their van for six months. She said her teenaged son asked them to let him off several blocks from school so his friends would not know.
There is a terrible embarassment on both sides of these relationships, pity on the part of the still-affluent and pride on the part of those with dwindling resources. Generally, it's a relationship both parties--unless the friendship is true, lasting, and deep--are eventually glad to end.
Sociologist consider it an iron rule that 20% of the congregation usually contribute 80% of the funds the religious community gets for its support. The first St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York was built in this way just as the 187,000,000 dollar renovation is now being done. That 20% controls a lot of things in society and the church.
Bill and Melinda Gates are current examples, along with Warren Buffet, of rich people using their money well. Very little of their fortune is going to their children. They are e specially sensitive to poor people in Africa. It does not matter to me whether they are democrats or republicans...or Catholic. They are special people.
Thanks for directing us to this essay.
This indifference developped from lack of community is one reason to discourage the possibility of paying money to avoid things that are inconveniences for the general public.
Once upper middle class people can avoid going to the DMV, they will become indifferent to the squalor, long lines and rudeness present in some places.
If people can pay for dedicated faster lanes, they will become indifferent to traffic jams.
When the internet becomes differentiated, rich people will pay for high quality connections and not care that poor people have bad connections. In fact the internet is close to being congested so we will have to start sharing bandwidth, something that will soon become a scarce resource. In some places Skype works less well than 10 years ago, and telephones are less reliable. People stream videos, and then others have trouble accessing critical information. How will we get organized to allocate bandwidth and give priority to the transmission of certain informations rather than others, in a way that is fair? It's a big question. Right now information is transmitted in small packets, and I think that, still, all packets are treated the same, regardless of content. That's not going to last much longer, but we don't yet know how to design the next version of the internet. If we end up simply charging more for better quality of service, it'll be yet another way to widen inequalities. (Imagine if you went to the movies and were given a choice between paying $1 for fuzzy images and indistinct voices, or $30 for high-quality image and sound... imagine if the internet was like that...).
Once upper middle class people can avoid going to the DMV, they will become indifferent to the squalor, long lines and rudeness present in some places.
In Illinois, this already is happening.
Jury duty is another civic responsibility that forces the 401K class to rub elbows with the hoi polloi. It seems to me that quite a few with offices of their own manage to scam out of that as well.
At one time, the military draft was a great social leveller. Not many on a college track choose to enlist out of high school these days.
People stream videos, and then others have trouble accessing critical information. How will we get organized to allocate bandwidth and give priority to the transmission of certain informations rather than others, in a way that is fair? It's a big question.
The precedent for over-the-air broadcast bandwidth is:
- The federal government owns the bandwidth
- The government auctioned off slices of it to netwok bidders - so capitalism is part of the process, and big money became gatekeepers of the content
- The government regulated the content of the networks to ensure that content meets public needs
Until the advent of the array of media that confronts us today, it actually worked pretty well, it seems to me.
I invite your attention to Christopher Hayes' "The Twilight of The Elites."
He supports by argument much of what was said in the Opinionator blog.
Of course, he is one of those fuzzy-headed, Jesuit-influenced liberals.
I've noticed two other places where people across the socio-economic spectrum are less likely to mingle: polling places and juries. The rich can usually figure out a way to vote absentee and get out of jury duty.
Jean - at least where I live, in Illinois, voting is intensely local - we're divided into precincts that may encompass only a neighborhood or subdivision, or, as when I lived in Chicago proper, a city block or even a couple of high-rise buildings* So unless I happen to live in a diverse locale, chances are that the people in line to vote are an awful lot like me.
* At one point, I lived in a building that had a polling place in one of its street-level storefronts, a barber shop - but my precinct was not that one, I had to walk a half-block away to a synagogue to vote. The precincts must have divided my building by the floor or something, I never did figure it out.
Perhaps instead of fasting in pleasant surroundings to show solidarity with the poor, Catholics should be required to actually fast WITH the poor by spending one hour of their fast day where the poor go--to a health department clinic, to the DSS, to the Goodwill store, to a soup kitchen, to a food pantry. You wouldn't have to work there or even talk to anyone, just spend time rubbing shoulders with the people who have to use those facilities in order to survive, listen to their interactions, see what they need or buy. You could say a rosary while you're in there. Maybe something would click.
One of my co-workers relies on foodstamps, which will run out of $$ at the end of the month, and the state says it won't pick up the tab. The government is not necessarily going to be there for these people, and I suggest everyone consider making generous donations to their food pantries; they're going to be working overtime if the shutdown continues into November.


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I wouldn't do it. I've got three .44 mags, three .454 casulls, and a .480 Ruger. Two of my .454's are ported. One is Magna-Ported, the other has the Taurus porting. They were bought used and came ported. The main reason some people get ported guns is because they think porting will cut recoil. It doesn't. Porting on a handgun is not the same as a muzzle brake on a rifle. Porting on a handgun directs the gases upward. This does not reduce recoil. It does reduce muzzle rise. The amount of recoil is still the same, it's just in another direction. Some actually believe that felt recoil is harder with a ported gun, since the barrel stays down and recoil drives back into the hand. Porting also makes a handgun much louder.
They want $125 bucks to do the work. Any one have experience with Magna-Porting?
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Yes, and then increase it (or not) as you get use to the recoil. The anaconda is a pretty heavy .44 (53 oz in 6") and handles recoil better then most others. With the heavy full lug barrel, muzzle rise is usually handled pretty well. Plus its the nicest looking 44 around. Love mine 1.jpg 26.76KB 22 downloads
That's the best commentary I've received. Sounds like the best thing to do is reduce the load.
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That's probably the best advice, since many people perceive recoil differently. And many guns handle recoil differently. On my magnums, I've basically got 3 different grip designs. With single action handguns the grip allows the gun to roll upward in your hand, making recoil less felt. On double actions, the barrel rolls upward less, and recoil comes back into your hand. And then the Bisley grip on one of my single actions is sort of a combination of both.My Ruger SRH .454 is not ported. My Freedom Arms and Taurus .454's are ported. All three guns are about the same weight (FA is lighter, but with scope about the same). I really can't tell any difference in the recoil from gun to gun. It's really something you have to experience yourself. So shooting a ported gun of similar size, weight, and design, (with the same ammo) is probably the best way to tell if you want to do the porting or not. When I was shooting heavy loads in my anaconda, I did go back to the older style grips that were narrow at the top and flared down at the bottom. This grip design allowed the recoil to roll upward, instead of straight back into the hand. In the end, I found that the more I shot my .454's, the lighter the recoil of the .44's got. 1.jpg 25.84KB 20 downloads
You are pretty close to me and if you want to try the guns ported you can try mine.
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Depends on the gun. A ruger redhawk or a taurus, yes. A classic like a model 29 or an anaconda, it could hurt the value.
..........it also brings the value of the weapon up .. cost 125 or so and increases your value up to 400 depending on your buyer.. if you were to ever sell it .
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"...Most powerful handgun in the world. Do ya feel lucky, punk?"I wasn't going there but SJ started it.
Dirty Harry never needed any Magna Porting.
Posted 21 August 2009 - 05:45 PM
Well do ya ?
"...Most powerful handgun in the world. Do ya feel lucky, punk?"I wasn't going there but SJ started it.
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How dare you!!! I suppose you're gonna try and tell us that John Wayne couldn't knock out a bad guy with one punch either!
Dirty Harry used blanks................
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He was a Pussy he shot 44 Special!John have you had the pleasure of shooting the Smith 4 in Alloy full house factory Man can it kick but a Sweet Gun hope to own one somedayOn single action I had a Super Black Hawk 44 when I was 18 hated the roll of the grip so went to bigger wood then to Pachmayr no more twist and return to target much fasterOnly 1 time did I regret late reloading one night instead of 5 gr of Bullseye 250 gr Hard Cast Keith dumped 10 gr that load removed skin from my hand
Dirty Harry never needed any Magna Porting.
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21grs if I remember right.
And what was the load 2400 and a 250KT?
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John boy from the waltons was a bigger man than John Wayn! John wayn was a draft dodging wuss and cheated on his wife and left his kids. Now outlaw Josei Wells was a cool guy.
How dare you!!! I suppose you're gonna try and tell us that John Wayne couldn't knock out a bad guy with one punch either!
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Sometimes I make a list of things, just as a brainstorm of things I'm thinking about, not necessarily things that have to get done, just things I want to think about what needs to get done, like "Typography," which could turn into an action later like "Go to the library and pick up that book on typography." But usually it's just a thought that I don't want to forget. Reminder or note?
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I feel that having to make the decision about which program these things go into actually slows down my productivity. A lot of the time reminders go in as notes, or events go in as reminders (before of things that need to get done beforehand).
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Is there any meaningful difference between a "figure of speech" and a "figure of thought". Searching for a definition of "figure of thought" leads to many esoteric discussions relating to ancient rhetoric and philosophy. How can I tell a figure of speech apart from a figure of thought, and why would it be worth distinguishing between the two?
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Yes they are different, although the definition and distinction my only be of interest to scholars of classical rhetoric. There are, according to this article from the University of Alberta, three figures: Figures of Word, Tropes (Figures of Speech), and Figures of Thought. All three are tools in rhetoric for conveying information.
Figures of word involve the actual construction of a sentence, including word selection, placement, and repetition.
Figures of speech are when words or phrases are used in a sense other than their literal meaning for dramatic effect. Hyperbole is a figure of speech.
Figures of thought are the styles that rhetoric can take, the way an argument is approached. A simile is a figure of thought.
They are different concepts, but not mutually exclusive. Examples of figures of thought could be figures of speech, and contain figures of word. Figure of speech is, by a wide margin, the concept that we are most familiar with. And we are familiar with specific types of all of them, including, hyperbole, paralipsis, metaphor, and allegory, but their technical classification wouldn't be of much interest to anyone outside of an academic setting.
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