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You might want to start listening to some of those loud voices (or soft ones) as your understanding is wrong. Perfectly legal and undocumented private party sales take place every day in various parts of the country. Now you can't claim you're an unregulated private party if you're selling 50 or 100 guns a month or something as then you're considered to be "in business" and subject to dealer regs, but occasional sales are fine and are subject to minimal regulations in most states. There are a few like CA that require private sellers to go through a licensed dealer and do a background check, etc., but most only prohibit transfer to persons known to be ineligible to possess a firearm (underage, intoxicated, known felons, etc.), and don't require any documentation be made or kept.

According to what? There are a few states with such a requirement (like CA), but private party sales to a buyer in the same state are mostly unregulated as far as I know.

Congrats! Looks great!

Think about the level of incompetence required to totally screw over a customer whom you know is a significant tuber and is planning to extensively publicize his experience with you. That's like a promising young singer showing up blind drunk to sing the national anthem at the Super Bowl.

Can't wrap my head around why someone would send an expensive car to a shop without an extensive track record of modifying similar cars. Crazy.

Excellent, thanks!

Looks good. How much did you lower it, and how thick are the Novitec spacers?

A lot of it is because Hennessey still gets regular, favorable press coverage in the mainstream car mags. How he cultivated those connections I don't know, but he did, and they're still shilling for him. Lots of people see a tuner and his latest offering being written about in Car & Driver or one of the other major mags and figure he must be legit, and don't bother to do an online search on him. And if they contact him, he's a great salesman/marketer. BTW, anyone who sends a Huracan to a tuner who hasn't spent a ton of time on them (and that's essentially anyone other than UR or maybe Heffner) at this point is playing with fire IMO. Getting the DCT to work well with TT's is complicated, even at bolt-on levels, and there are a number of cars out there now with a Joe's Speed Shop bolt-on setup and either outright tranny problems or a poorly shifting tranny.

That dealer seems to specialize in exotics with wrecks, thefts, etc. and is not particularly up front about disclosing the issues (this ad says clean carfax, and it may or may not be clean, but I can promise you they know about the history and bought it accordingly). Not sure why anyone would want to deal with a dealer like that.

Lol. That last one linked above is in fact the house used to portray the Clampett's mansion on the Beverly Hillbillies, but you probably already knew that!

I don't think anyone is too worried about losing American lives in the U.S. The 30k U.S. troops in SK are another story, as are the millions of SK citizens that are within easy reach of conventional NK artillery. I'd hate to be the one making the decision on this one.

Yeah what I read indicated both their pro drivers had races this weekend and had to leave, and it sounded like they were telling people to go back to contributing money online with the hope of trying it again next month. Not sure if they'll do that or not, or how long the dealer who supplied the cars would be willing to leave them over there (I can't imagine they'd ship them back and forth again), but I think this week's effort is done.

I'm not sure I'm buying that the 580 has been detuned that much, and we know it's lighter.

It's just like the E-gear.

Very odd choice of coilovers for a car with so much track stuff dumped into it (presumably the previous owner was more interested in the lift/slamming capability of the air system than in actual track performance), and yeah the fitment on some of the aftermarket body panels leaves much to be desired (not unusual), but if everything else checks out and the price is right it should be fine. BTW launching a '15 isn't really hard on the trans either. The trans and especially the software has changed a good bit from the early cars, and it was really only the '09's that had somewhat of an issue there (mainly morons that thought launching the car 10 times in a row without letting things cool down was a great idea).

Yes. I wish it were otherwise, but McGregor won't be able to land anything effective at all IMO. The whole thing is a sham.

Well it was 7 a.m. I'm guessing they planned to be at work before 9.

NBC just said he's not dead.

The analysis is the same. Prosecutors in some places do initiate investigations (or not), and LE has discretion as to how it allocates its investigative resources and which crimes it investigates. Discretion is employed throughout the system, from whether a traffic cop pulls over a speeder or ignores him all the way up. Now if that discretion is exercised for a corrupt reason (like a bribe), that's another matter, but generally speaking LE has no duty to investigate every potential crime that is reported to it.

It's the old prosecutorial (and apparently investigative as well) discretion. A prosecutor doesn't have to pursue every case presented to him even if he thinks there is enough evidence to get a conviction, and the President, as head of the executive branch, can't have less authority in that regard than his subordinates. But the prosecutors are usually in the best position to know all the circumstances and exercise that discretion, so Presidents normally don't get involved in shutting down criminal investigations or telling prosecutors not to prosecute. So it's rather unseemly, but legal. But yeah, the whole "what did Trump mean" is really a moot point, and it had no effect on what Comey did anyway.

Not only that, Comey admitted that Trump had the legal authority to simply order him (the FBI) to close an investigation if he wanted. That is something modern Presidents normally don't do, but there is no legal prohibition against it. I'm not sure why this isn't receiving more attention--maybe because it would leave the MSM with nothing to report on regarding the "obstruction" angle.

That's what happens when you marry your teacher.

Thanks for making me ruin a perfectly good keyboard when I spit the water I was drinking all over it.

This is complete BS, and has been explained to you numerous times already (obviously it isn't sinking in because you have embedded this "woe is me" attitude so deeply you can't hear the explanation). There is plenty of incentive not to remain a hungry worker bee "willing to do it for less" and to move to something that pays better. Whether through additional education or training, by doing a bang up job and moving up within the organization, by starting a business, etc. Again, this is exactly backward. Government workers often make more than their private sector equivalents because the government can extract taxes at will and doesn't have to make a profit or even break even. Now that is unfair to the taxpayers, but you don't see that problem at all; instead you see the problem as private business owners paying too little. Who gets to decide how much a business owner should pay its workers? You? The government? I think I'll stick with letting the free market set those terms, as would anyone who believes in individual liberty (for employers and workers).

And there it is. Give us some of your stuff or we'll take it. Because we deserve it. In other words, your individual liberty only goes as far as my needs may allow. BTW, capitalism has raised the standard of living for more people all over the world than every other factor combined, but there are still millions of people who would be helped by it "spiraling out of control" a bit more.