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Email me. I will try to help. Email is on profile.

Email me as well. I will try to help. Email is on the profile.

Oh it’s crazy useful. You can communicate with a stupid lightbulb. It might save your life some day.

Huh? Amateur radio still exists in the world of cell phones, satellite phones, yada yada yada?

That’s stupid world war 2 technology.

— N9EX

Xerox C315?

> I always feel like I'm the odd person out preferring local clients for everything

No you are not. I prefer to use local clients for everything as well.

I actually did, and now feel liberated. It stops a lot of impulse buying.

Probably unpopular opinion here, but my policy is,

If I can choose to not pay rent, I will choose to not pay rent.

I think CARP might be a better solution.

In the other news, BMW has "stopped" selling service manuals for motorcycles showing a damn middle finger to everyone including law makers (in Europe even). That is absolutely rubbish, but somehow they can do it legally.

Sorry, but R1250RT is NOT a sports bike. It redlines at 8K rpm, compared to S1000RR that redlines at 14600 rpm, delivers 136 horses at 7750 rpm compared to 205 horses at 13000 rpm, does 105 lbs-ft. at 6,250 rpm compared to 83 lb-ft at 11,000 rpm.

Now if you look at K16 specs, 160 horses at 6750 rpm with 123.7 lbs-ft at 5250 rpm. And it DOES have linked brakes, traction control, ABS and heated grips.

Both R1250RT and K16 are marketed in the sports tourer segment.

So NO, R1250RT is no where near top of line sports tourer and definitely not a sports bike.

1250RS is not top of the line for sure in any of the segments it is marketed at. I would say a K16 would be more towards the top.

Some powered FA aircrafts and pretty much any powered commercial aircraft has air brakes/spoilers.

> Instead of the most areodynamic way of flying straight, and the worst aerodynamic way of flying completely sideways, you power-slide the plane so that it's not dead-straight and the extra wind-resistance slows you down.

That is actually not completely true. You are mainly increasing drag to lose altitude quickly WITHOUT gaining additional airspeed. Remember, backside of the power curve, pitch for speed, power for altitude. You could push the nose down to give up altitude in a power out, flaps out configuration, but you might overspeed your flaps by gaining airspeed. That is why you have the Tokyo drift.

While approaching to land, you are on the backside of the power curve, so pitch for airspeed, power for altitude. You have correctly indicated about managing airspeed. But it is not as difficult as it sounds. If you were flying at the beginning of the slip, you will continue flying through the slip unless you mess with nose positioning, or pitch. TL'DR, DON'T PULL UP while you are in cross control.

Here are some suggestions. As one of the child comment stated, go fly a glider for a few hours. It will immensely help with flying "not straight". I started it for gaining better understanding of flight but ended up finishing a commercial ticket on glider as well, because I enjoyed it so much and also just for the bragging rights.

Secondly, cross control is perfectly safe till the time you pull back on the stick. That is how you get into cross control stalls, the starting configuration for a spin. When you are slipping, you should actively trim nose down, (that you should have done already, remember you are approaching to land), and maintain just a little forward pressure as you fly sideways. I would recommend, grab a competent CFI and get cross control stalls nailed. I know it is not a part of PPL, something I am very pissed about. Hell, PPL in US does not even need spin training. Bollocks, if you ask me....

That's strange. Not saying slipping a 767 is a walk in the park, but I routinely slip Cessna landings (182s and 206s) because I just need to get down. It is a little weird, but no where near unnerving and for sure not wrong.

Email me and we will discuss more. :)

I would say, they are not Stripe, yet. Unless you go through underwriting, it means nothing.

Also, they just failed a basic sniff test. I called their 800 number to ask if they would work with a firearms business and reached a voicemail. They say department is available between 8AM and 8PM Eastern. It is just after 6PM eastern right now. That does not instill a lot of confidence.

My web store runs WooCommerce and there are multiple plugins maintained by the processor that makes the payment processing seamless. They also provide SDKs for many popular frameworks for the integration.

Rate wise, I pay about 2.8% + 0.15c. Obviously different mechanisms (dipped vs typed vs internet) have different rates. There are no monthly gateway fees. The underwriting took about 3 weeks, but again I was very prompt in answering followup questions. I did not feel any additional headaches that I already did not anticipate due to the underwriting process. They did ask for a lot of documentation (that I totally expected them to ask and in my opinion is very relevant), licensing and such but again I am operating in a VERY regulated industry. They did want some clarification of business processes since they were not 100% familiar with selling guns online and in person. But I will say, they were very interested in understanding my requirements and help me do things according to the published laws and guidelines. Feel free to write to me at my hn_username at 80386 dot org if you want to chat. I would love to help with this if you are interested.

You do not need to mix your bank and payment processor. For example, my credit/debit card stack is USBank + Elavon but I bank with Navy Federal. I don't even have a checking account with USBank.

One thing I would strongly recommend. GET OFF STRIPE. Talk to a proper bank like USBank or Chase. It is not hard to integrate with their payment processor. They WILL send you through proper underwriting and will have your back. At least they had and continues to have mine with a firearms business.

Let me be also very clear. When you are going through underwriting, you will feel at times that this was a colossally bad idea, but it pays off its trouble in gold.

5-10 years... wishful thinking, that's all I am going to say.

I wear an automatic Tag Heuer. I have been asked by many people why I still wear a mechanical watch. My answer is, battery powered watches (including smart watches and quartz movements) might have a life, but a mechanical watch ticking incessantly has a soul.

It absolutely does. It almost looks like a MLM scheme with at least depth of 1. Let's say you earn $100/hr using my tool. If I as the author/seller of the tool claim $1/hr for tool usage (I understand it is much less than that, but just go with my statement) in the form of subscription, I continue to get the buck as long as you use the tool. As a developer, I am paying the tool author perpetually for the work "I" do. I believe I should have an option to say, NO. This is precisely what is stopped by perpetual license. I am not opposed to subscription, but I MUST have a way to pay it outright and call it a day.

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I will try to keep it short and hopefully sweet.

Someone took the trouble and spent (maybe) even a little time to comment. Maybe you should be thankful of that.

Glass could be half full or half empty, depending on your perspective.

Not sure how many people shoot film here, but I could have one look at the lite version processing and say this is just an emulation, especially in the shadows. The grain is predictable unlike "real" film.

Funny that people will spend so much time, money and effort in making digital photos look like film, but refuse to shoot film. Just sad. :(

Wow. You are lucky. Pretty much all employers except two, I have been asked to do this.

I have heard both ways. I personaly don't think this is a very useful exercise. Although I have had people tell me that it is a good time to reevaluate ones actions and decide what work and what does not.

Could you please share the source you mentioned above. Although a computer scientist by profession, I had to "just accept" lots of basic electrical engineer concepts in my undergrad days just because there was no one available that I could ask.

I think I have gone through more than 500 crimps for RJ45s and it is as strong as new. I watch a lot of cableporn and have re-done all the rat's nest at work.