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Saturday, February 11, 2017

Will Private Property Disappear in Our Lifetimes?

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That's the provocative title of posting of Bill Bonner's Diary yesterday . It's not Bill's prediction; it's a question...
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Friday, February 10, 2017

Our Annual Trip to the Land of the Mouse

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Orlando is best known as home to Walt Disney World and a host of other theme parks, but no mice, killer whales, or movie characters were inv...
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Wednesday, February 8, 2017

Tweaking And Verifying the Mill

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As said last week when I said the main construction phase on my CNC mill was complete, it was time to move from construction to optimizing, ...
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Tuesday, February 7, 2017

Tab Clearing

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Item of the first:  the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) has ruined my joke. Back in January, the FWC released info...
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Monday, February 6, 2017

Harvard Claims to Have Produced Solid Metallic Hydrogen

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A group of scientists at Harvard have claimed and offered evidence that they have produced metallic hydrogen.  The critics are skeptical. ...
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Sunday, February 5, 2017

A Man With Two Watches Never Knows What Time It Is

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That's one of my favorite modern proverbs, one with which almost everyone can identify - at least if you remember depending on a watch w...
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Saturday, February 4, 2017

Obama Issued Regulations Costing Nearly $900 Billion

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According to an American Action Forum report, the 8 years of the Obama administration issued regulations costing the US $890 Billion.  In t...
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Thursday, February 2, 2017

“Now, Witness the Power of This Fully Operational Death Star.”

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Not really.  It's just that, “Now, witness the power of this fully operational CNC Mill.” didn't sound anywhere near as sexy. As...
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Wednesday, February 1, 2017

A Preview

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I had a heck of a time getting to this point: The X-axis would bind and wouldn't move, even when I tried by hand with a hand wheel o...
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Tuesday, January 31, 2017

Info Bleg for Precision Shooters Who Read Here

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I know of two online sources for information:  Accurate Shooter and Precision Rifle Blog .  Of the two, Accurate Shooter, which includes 6m...
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Monday, January 30, 2017

Had To Adult Today

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More than usual.  Is there a world out there?   What's going on besides the Muslim immigration ban that really isn't a Muslim immigr...
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Sunday, January 29, 2017

The Clearance Problem Has Been Cleared Up

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A couple of days ago , I wrote about putting the table back on my G0704 mill and finding a problem with clearance around the oil tube to the...
Saturday, January 28, 2017

Gun Show Today

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This weekend, there's a Military Expo and Gun Show going on just to the south of us in Vero Beach.  We've gone to that gunshow befo...
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Friday, January 27, 2017

We Begin NASA's Worst Week

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It's a peculiar coincidence that all NASA missions that ended in the crew being killed and vehicle destroyed occurred in the same calen...
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Wednesday, January 25, 2017

Small Steps Forward...

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Small steps forward are better than small steps backward or standing still.  The work on my CNC conversion continues.  After getting the Z...
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Tuesday, January 24, 2017

Samsung: It Wasn't Our Design, It Was the Batteries

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Since I wrote two weeks ago about an independent consulting group's report laying the blame for the burning Samsung Galaxy Note 7 phone...
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Monday, January 23, 2017

NHTSA Lets Tesla Off the Hook

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We've written in this space before about a Tesla "autonomous" car that mistook a truck for the sky and got its driver killed ...
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Sunday, January 22, 2017

Oh, The Humanity!

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No wieners were harmed in the accident, that I can tell.  This was on December 15th, although the location is gone from my notes.  Stran...
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Saturday, January 21, 2017

Silencers, Sound Levels, Decibels, and How to Know

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A few days ago, I posted a little on the Hearing Protection Act.  If you've paid attention to the SHOT show coverage, you've seen pe...
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