CommieGIR posted:

AK or get the gently caress out with your tactilol ARs.

fyodor posted:

Yay gunchat.

SCA Enthusiast posted:

If it doesn't have a wooden stock I'm not interested.

fyodor posted:

Yay gunchat.

the spyder posted:

Found Electric City (Akihabara) last night and went back today. I've never seen another place like it in my life. Literally any electronic item, component, and piece of tech you could dream of, all within walking distance of each other. Oh and more manga/anime (and other) then you could ever ingest in your lifetime. I bought a few models and toys for my son. Going back tomorrow to make sure we didn't miss anything and buy tools.

Sigma X posted:

I was thinking about taking leave during the 4th of July week, nothing special, just chilling and take a break from work; and looked at my PTO balance.

105 hours? What the gently caress? I've been working here 14 months and I've already taken like 20 hours.

I never actually paid attention during hiring to what my leave accumulation is like (because it's different depending on job title and seniority).
Just quickly calculated that I get 170 hours a year of leave, plus 18 hours of floating holiday. Jesus. What am I gonna do a MONTH of leave a year?

CornHolio posted:

Man I hate looking at craigslist.

Throwing the idea around of a fun car I can autocross, and came across this.

I was also thinking E36s, 944s, first gen Neon R/Ts for the budget option... budget would be like four grand, probably next year. It'd be nice to daily it though, at least sometimes. A cheap Cooper S would fit the bill nicely I think, though. And I'm familiar enough with them.

SCA Enthusiast posted:

If it doesn't have a wooden stock and a lever or pump action I'm not interested.

The Locator posted:

Just be aware, that Mini's absolutely eat front tires when autocrossing. Like a set of Hoosiers will be cording after 30-40 runs based on what I've seen (disclaimer, I've never owned one - based on the results of numerous people in my area that autocross them).

Sandbagger SA posted:

There's nothing wrong with the Mini 14 but it will never reach the level of popularity that ARs have achieved.

I'm 6' myself. That's not a problem though because AR's can be built with adjustable stocks that go from super short to ridiculously long.

I think if I didn't already have an AR I might be interested in a CZ 805 or a Sig.

Sigma X posted:

I was thinking about taking leave during the 4th of July week, nothing special, just chilling and take a break from work; and looked at my PTO balance.

105 hours? What the gently caress? I've been working here 14 months and I've already taken like 20 hours.

I never actually paid attention during hiring to what my leave accumulation is like (because it's different depending on job title and seniority).
Just quickly calculated that I get 170 hours a year of leave, plus 18 hours of floating holiday. Jesus. What am I gonna do a MONTH of leave a year?

SCA Enthusiast posted:

If it doesn't have a wooden stock I'm not interested.

Tide posted:

Whaddup fellow shitload of vacation time haver

8 weeks vacation plus 1 week personal/sick plus holidays. Bereavement and jury duty is separate.

Working for a European based company kicks rear end most of the time.

Tide posted:

Whaddup fellow shitload of vacation time haver

8 weeks vacation plus 1 week personal/sick plus holidays. Bereavement and jury duty is separate.

Working for a European based company kicks rear end most of the time.

Larrymer posted:

I thought you were European as soon as I saw that. Makes sense. 4 weeks and a decent amount of holiday time (13 days I think) here.

Sandbagger SA posted:

keykey posted:

drat, I take 2 weeks off and come back to GunChat.txt. Ain't that some poo poo..

Seat Safety Switch posted:

Are they hiring? The last European based company I worked for tied compensation and vacation time to "local norms" which meant 2 weeks since that was the legal minimum.

88h88 posted:

Hello, what did you get up to these past two weeks?

keykey posted:

Normal life stuff, nothing cool I can assure you. I usually only browse AI while I'm at work and we just finished moving a poo poo ton more servers to VM's since we've been planning it for the past year. What would take a normal business 1 week to say "Hey, this is the best move to make for cost effective reasons and it end users won't notice anything." and it's a done deal takes a college 1 year. You have to notify people, then they want to set up committee's for involvement which there are usually 1 for each competing faction on campus so students, faculty, classified, and management. Then they fight it out about what they want to get out of it and ask insane questions like will their VM be faster than the other VM. All the while you just sit back and think, goddamn I really hate government poo poo because everybody thinks they have to get political about simply moving some poo poo from 1 place to another to save money. Now I'm pretty sure we're way negative money because all those people got paid to sit on their asses and complain about poo poo that doesn't make a single bit of difference.

keykey posted:

Normal life stuff, nothing cool I can assure you. I usually only browse AI while I'm at work and we just finished moving a poo poo ton more servers to VM's since we've been planning it for the past year. What would take a normal business 1 week to say "Hey, this is the best move to make for cost effective reasons and it end users won't notice anything." and it's a done deal takes a college 1 year. You have to notify people, then they want to set up committee's for involvement which there are usually 1 for each competing faction on campus so students, faculty, classified, and management. Then they fight it out about what they want to get out of it and ask insane questions like will their VM be faster than the other VM. All the while you just sit back and think, goddamn I really hate government poo poo because everybody thinks they have to get political about simply moving some poo poo from 1 place to another to save money. Now I'm pretty sure we're way negative money because all those people got paid to sit on their asses and complain about poo poo that doesn't make a single bit of difference.

QuarkMartial posted:

My in-laws are driving us nuts about a house.

Like 30 years ago, my father-in-law and his sister sold their mother's house. He wanted to keep it as a rental property, but his sister was adamant that they sell it. She refused to be bought out of her part of it and just wanted it sold. So, they sold it. Note: She also has a very low IQ, so it's literally like dealing with a child sometimes. She can't read and has a whole host of mental issues... mainly dealing with her mother. As in, she believes her mother, after dying, sent her her dog. Or her dog is her mother reincarnated. I forget which, but both are equally crazy. FIL has mom issues, too, but not quite that bad. Nashville is a hot spot now, so everything is through the roof pricing-wise. It's a cute house in the city, but a lot of houses are sold before ever coming on the market, bulldozed, and replaced with new construction.

Well, now the house has a sign in the yard saying "Coming soon" for sale.It isn't even for sale yet! So now she wants to buy the house, but can't because she makes no money (lives off of disability). Who needs a house? My wife and I. So the push is for us to buy it. Except, well, we can't. The house isn't on the market. I called, they plan to sell it for $199,999; the trend is to offer more than the asking price, so we'd have to start at 205k, minimum, for a house that last appraised for 85k in 2011 (if I'm reading zillow/trulia correctly).

I have zero interest in owning this house. I have no interest in paying 200+ thousand dollars for a house that last appraised for 85k and last sold for something like 150k. I have no interest in owning a house where the sister will go "You have to decorate this like momma had it," or "You can't tear down that wall in momma's house," or her telling our future kids that her mom died in the hallway (I don't even think she died in the house!) or any other number of crazy things that she'd do. Nor can I stand hearing my father-in-law say, "We should never have sold this house. You know back in the day..." literally every time he comes over or our house came up. Plus, we outright can't afford it. We looked into buying a family member's house last year, and with no down payment and mortgage insurance, the monthly payment was something like 1300 dollars a month, which we couldn't afford. Or we could, but then we'd not be able to do anything but pay utilities, mortgage, and eat at home with no TV or anything else we like to do. And that was for a house in the 180,000 dollar range!

CommieGIR posted:

VMs are awesome, and why should they have any say on what their systems are hosted on outside of whether their application will be compatible with the move to VMs? (Hint: It will be)

88h88 posted:

This actually sounds rather similar to what happens at our university. I'm lucky we're not really involved in such things, I'm just trying to get the big boss to give us £100k for a new speaker setup as the one we currently have installed, he doesn't like (which is fair, it's installed badly and used by monkeys).

Liquid Communism posted:

That's actually the more merciful thing. We killed all their predators. If we don't kill enough deer, they'll overpopulate and die of disease, starvation in the bad years, and cars. A number of the diseases can jump to cattle as well, which is even more of a problem.

CommieGIR posted:

Its kind of funny because our Physics and Math department at Georgia Tech is full of tech nerds.

QuarkMartial posted:

My in-laws are driving us nuts about a house.

Like 30 years ago, my father-in-law and his sister sold their mother's house. He wanted to keep it as a rental property, but his sister was adamant that they sell it. She refused to be bought out of her part of it and just wanted it sold. So, they sold it. Note: She also has a very low IQ, so it's literally like dealing with a child sometimes. She can't read and has a whole host of mental issues... mainly dealing with her mother. As in, she believes her mother, after dying, sent her her dog. Or her dog is her mother reincarnated. I forget which, but both are equally crazy. FIL has mom issues, too, but not quite that bad. Nashville is a hot spot now, so everything is through the roof pricing-wise. It's a cute house in the city, but a lot of houses are sold before ever coming on the market, bulldozed, and replaced with new construction.

Well, now the house has a sign in the yard saying "Coming soon" for sale.It isn't even for sale yet! So now she wants to buy the house, but can't because she makes no money (lives off of disability). Who needs a house? My wife and I. So the push is for us to buy it. Except, well, we can't. The house isn't on the market. I called, they plan to sell it for $199,999; the trend is to offer more than the asking price, so we'd have to start at 205k, minimum, for a house that last appraised for 85k in 2011 (if I'm reading zillow/trulia correctly).

I have zero interest in owning this house. I have no interest in paying 200+ thousand dollars for a house that last appraised for 85k and last sold for something like 150k. I have no interest in owning a house where the sister will go "You have to decorate this like momma had it," or "You can't tear down that wall in momma's house," or her telling our future kids that her mom died in the hallway (I don't even think she died in the house!) or any other number of crazy things that she'd do. Nor can I stand hearing my father-in-law say, "We should never have sold this house. You know back in the day..." literally every time he comes over or our house came up. Plus, we outright can't afford it. We looked into buying a family member's house last year, and with no down payment and mortgage insurance, the monthly payment was something like 1300 dollars a month, which we couldn't afford. Or we could, but then we'd not be able to do anything but pay utilities, mortgage, and eat at home with no TV or anything else we like to do. And that was for a house in the 180,000 dollar range!

Cakefool posted:

So how difficult is a clutch in a fwd van?

E: for someone who's never done a clutch, has no special tools, no lift or hoist?

ilkhan posted:

Gun people tend to get annoyed when non-gun-people start trying to talk about guns. Just like car people tend to get annoyed when non-car-people start trying to talk about cars and get all the terms wrong.

QuarkMartial posted:

My in-laws are driving us nuts about a house.

QuarkMartial posted:

My in-laws are driving us nuts about a house.

Like 30 years ago, my father-in-law and his sister sold their mother's house. He wanted to keep it as a rental property, but his sister was adamant that they sell it. She refused to be bought out of her part of it and just wanted it sold. So, they sold it. Note: She also has a very low IQ, so it's literally like dealing with a child sometimes. She can't read and has a whole host of mental issues... mainly dealing with her mother. As in, she believes her mother, after dying, sent her her dog. Or her dog is her mother reincarnated. I forget which, but both are equally crazy. FIL has mom issues, too, but not quite that bad. Nashville is a hot spot now, so everything is through the roof pricing-wise. It's a cute house in the city, but a lot of houses are sold before ever coming on the market, bulldozed, and replaced with new construction.

Well, now the house has a sign in the yard saying "Coming soon" for sale.It isn't even for sale yet! So now she wants to buy the house, but can't because she makes no money (lives off of disability). Who needs a house? My wife and I. So the push is for us to buy it. Except, well, we can't. The house isn't on the market. I called, they plan to sell it for $199,999; the trend is to offer more than the asking price, so we'd have to start at 205k, minimum, for a house that last appraised for 85k in 2011 (if I'm reading zillow/trulia correctly).

I have zero interest in owning this house. I have no interest in paying 200+ thousand dollars for a house that last appraised for 85k and last sold for something like 150k. I have no interest in owning a house where the sister will go "You have to decorate this like momma had it," or "You can't tear down that wall in momma's house," or her telling our future kids that her mom died in the hallway (I don't even think she died in the house!) or any other number of crazy things that she'd do. Nor can I stand hearing my father-in-law say, "We should never have sold this house. You know back in the day..." literally every time he comes over or our house came up. Plus, we outright can't afford it. We looked into buying a family member's house last year, and with no down payment and mortgage insurance, the monthly payment was something like 1300 dollars a month, which we couldn't afford. Or we could, but then we'd not be able to do anything but pay utilities, mortgage, and eat at home with no TV or anything else we like to do. And that was for a house in the 180,000 dollar range!

CornHolio posted:

Really? Huh. Though I imagine autocrossing would eat tires on just about anything...

keykey posted:

What would take a normal business 1 week to say "Hey, this is the best move to make for cost effective reasons and it end users won't notice anything." and it's a done deal takes a college 1 year.

QuarkMartial posted:

My in-laws are driving us nuts about a house...