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Been there for two of them, and one of those (the one that started this meme) happened to be mine. Still haven't seen a Kat complete the run, although I admit I haven't been looking very hard. They're very much a love-it-or-hate-it looking bike, I was a fan of the fairings but not a fan of the weight, and CERTAINLY not a fan of the carbs once I got my hands around a FI engine. I think there are better options out there, but if you come across a deal for $1500 or so it might not be a terrible thing.

My number is one digit off from Wal-Mart in Reynoldsburg. I always answer my phone with "This is Jeff", so if you're paying attention you have fair warning that this is not, in fact, Wal-Mart. The people that I hear immediately screaming for managers or whatever I have a LOT of fun with. On the other hand, I've helped out some people too, so that should even things out.

CCNA ICND2. Spoiler alert, the packet dies in the end.

Heh, the notification thingy must be borked for me because I didn't see anything, just saw someone looking for a packet plumber. Thanks for thinking of me though. Scubs, sending you a PM.

In the flesh and on your screen. How's the twins coming along?

Please tell me that's sarcasm.

I'll do you one better: During the Dorner manhunt, the LAPD pumping 102 rounds into a blue truck occupied by two women that looked nothing like Dorner, inside a truck that looked nothing like the grey truck Dorner was driving. How they both survived is a mystery to me, but the 8(!) officers involved had no criminal charges brought, and it's unclear exactly what kind of punishment they received since they weren't even named. I understand that there are a ton of good cops out there, but when the stakes are this high that I have to be concerned about police with itchy trigger fingers that prefer to fire first and ask questions/make up the story later, I can't afford to automatically treat all police with the benefit of the doubt.

The standard has gotten so low in America that even bringing charges is a big deal, especially when those charges are so overblown to try and generate temporary, short-term order that getting a conviction on them is impossible and the cycle begins anew. I honestly believe the Slager trial in South Carolina is the canary in the coal mine. The guy shot Walter Scott in the back while fleeing, and subsequently lied on his police report about him going for his Taser. The Union's turned their back on him, but there are still plenty of layers to go.

This I can get behind. They tried to take the crowdsource mentality of Occupy and apply it to a different movement. The problem is they took the part of Occupy that didn't work so well (leaderless, groupthink mentality) and tried to pin it to the only part of BLM that did work initially (the message that Black people were being disproportionately targeted/killed by police) until the former ate the latter. My pasty white guy take on this is simple: When you remove, or are perceived to have removed, all possible forms of legitimate accountability for people in positions of power, the only thing that the people are left with is vengeance. I think a viable solution can be found to make everyone push back from the edge a bit, however that solution involves the PD's doing something that they really don't like: admitting when they're wrong. There are so many layers of protections to hide behind; qualified immunity, Garrity, the Union, and even each other that to the general public it's almost impossible to determine where an investigation is at, or if they even started one in the first place.

You do realize that bitcoin is ridiculously easy to manipulate, right? I'm not one to tell someone how to spend their money, but if you didn't get into BTC in 2009/early 2010 then I think you missed the boat. I'm in a similar boat as Tpoppa, I've been sitting on a mix of S&P index funds and long-term Vanguard mutual funds since I consolidated everything earlier this year and am down just slightly, but I still have about 10k unallocated in the 401k to plow into something new.

Damn that's tempting. I'm currently looking at a 2008 Yammy Morphous scoot, but this has me second guessing myself.

It's an interesting idea. I've kinda set a budget of 4K for this which the Duke would blow out, but it's not going to kill me. I wanted to stay away from the supersport riding position though, am i going to be right back to it with this?

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You mean like the Aprilia SR50? Sat on one of those too at IP, I feel like I'm too much of a fatass for a fitty, I'd have to rev the tits off it to get it to go anywhere.

Wsa debating between that or a Grom, but after reading a bit of the Grom thread I don't think it's for me. I sat on a CB300F at IP and was pretty impressed, any owners out there have any insights? This is just a screw-around bike, I've been without for a few years now. Riding position on a supersport bothered me too much and I wasn't able to get a lot of ride time, I was thinking with the better upright position that it'd be better for my wrists and hands.