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Wow. Partisan political abuse. Not a single citation, a two misspellings (it's 'thing' and 'debunked') and then you reference the Dunning Kruger effect.

Sort yourself out, bucko! Clean your room!

I keep getting ads on my phone for stuff I've searched for at work, probably because I connect my phone onto works wifi but I'm not sure how they associate the two. Probably from some third common factor but anyway I'm definitely not buying a learning management system or vle for my personal use.

The best one is though, I have a couple shirts on that redbubble site (sly link drop https://www.redbubble.com/peop...) and it keeps advertising my own designs back to me.

And the default position since Trump got elected has to been to hail him for the rise of the stock market
Well when the entire left was saying for MONTHS how the market was going to crash I can see why they trumpet it every time it goes up.

"The buck stops here."
Sure does.

"Fake news!" every time his words and deeds are reported,
Yet most of them ended up being leak hunts he puts out there. He KNOWS it is fake news because he made it UP! The media is desperate for anything dirty on him they will run with anything with zero vetting if the story is remotely true. You blame trump for doing the same thing not 1 paragraph ago. Dont get it both ways.

If Hillary had said any of the above you would be on here pointing out she was a lunatic
She did say the same thing. https://www.redbubble.com/peop...

the force that oppose the SJWs make merchandise.

If by "make" you mean, "don't really make".

http://www.redbubble.com/shop/...

http://www.redbubble.com/peopl...

I can almost prove my point by reductio ad absurdum. For example, Clair De Lune, Rhapsody in Blue, or [insert your fave pop/rock piece here] is as good as the sound of a mosquito in your ear according to you and other relativists.

I'm sorry but you haven't come close to proving anything. Some people might well find a mosquito whine more pleasing than [insert "great" piece of music here]. I mean, people choose to listen to dubstep and death metal -- mosquito whine jazz isn't really absurd. If someone says, "I like mosquito whine jazz", you cannot demonstrate that they are wrong.

Also it would mean a featureless or noisy blur is as good as say this: http://mandelbulbs.s3.amazonaws.com/gallery/400/LimeSpine2.jpg

I have no idea WTF that unattractive image is supposed to be, but I've seen paintings in museums that were far closer to featureless or noisy blurs than to that. If someone says "I like this blurry image", you cannot demonstrate that they are wrong.

At last, a use for 3d printers, even if it is a bit of a niche. It'd be pretty cool for your character to look like you.

For vanity on a larger scale, try Top Gear's James May.

You mean Blinky?

http://www.redbubble.com/people/tioem/works/7599891-blinky

Under Tim Cook, pinch hitting for Jobs, Apple did very very well.

Look people, this is not 1985 any more. The bean counters that had control of the company back then are no longer in control, (one has to ask who put them in control in the first place back then...).

This a different Apple, and one that does not rely on Jobs.

Its time for him to move out of the day to day control.

In spite of the rampant fanboyism Jobs is hurting Apple more than he is helping it these days. The ever tightening lock down, the clutching greed to get 30% of everything that comes on to the device, the total restructuring of the Ebook industry to serve Apple's interest and kill off the First Sale Doctrine, and the total paranoia about petty patent claims is seriously damaging Apple's brand. They have become what they sought to destroy in their Iconic Superbowl Commercial. All of that was Jobs.

Under Cook significant new features were added to IOS, long blocked by Jobs until he had to have his "hormonal imbalance" operated upon. New application models (like in-app purchases) were allowed into the App store, since shut down by Jobs.

Frankly this all things to Chairman Mao nonsense is getting a little tiresome. Cult figures are so over done. All we are missing here is the Che Guevara tee shirt of Steve. Oh, wait, too late.

I'll believe this the second you can show me a true Scots man.

http://www.redbubble.com/people/dido/art/2239982-true-scotsman

Crispian Jago is also the creator of the awesome "Periodic Table of Irrational Nonsense" T-Shirt that I was wearing when a nice husband and wife pair of Baptists stopped by to invite me to their church. Uncomfortable!

Do you know that it's a drought in Australia right now?

http://www.redbubble.com/people/ausphotoall/calendars/1699709-8-australian-photographers-alliance-2010-drought-relief-calendar

It would be very interesting to close off part of a disused city or even a whole city and leave it as it is to see how nature would take over without human influences. Would it decay as some predict?. Would nature take over tower blocks for high rise living?

Welcome to Gary, Indiana.

Except, of course, the examples touch on corner cases that most people will never have to deal with.

I often find that even 16 bit isn't enough to capture the full spectrum of, say, a cityscape at sunset, which is why I often bracket and merge into 32 bit HDR then tone map.

To me, this looks just like an audiophile trying to justify the need for a $1000 power cable for his stereo system

To you it may look like that, but to me a better analogy would be an audiophile trying to justify the need for 192kbit mp3 bitrate because it just sounds so much better than 96. I am not necessarily saying 'go out and buy photoshop' to someone who uses GIMP and likes it, I am simply saying that support for 16 and higher bit imaging is a very important aspect most professionals working with images consider when choosing their software. This is why CinePaint exists (and a major component of why it was forked from GIMP, for that matter), and why most other free and commercial software supports at least 16 bit and is moving beyond (eg. Krita now supports 32 bit HDR, and photoshop introduced support for this in CS2).

Amateurs wouldn't care (for the most part) about the 8-bit vs. 16-bit difference

Which I guess is why software with native 16 bit and 32 bit imaging capability dominates in enthusiast and professional imaging circles.

he ought to have better equipments (camera with fast lenses ...

A camera with a fast lens is no help when you have a scene in front of you with an enormous tonal range. All it lets you do is shoot the same scene faster at a higher aperture (which may not be what you want anyway, especially if you want a high depth of field in the image ... but I digress).

... scanners that can do this sort of adjustment while scanning, not after the fact)

Many dedicated film scanners do precisely this (however many of them also provide significantly inferior controls), but I can't for the life of me fathom why you would want to downsample an image's bit depth simply to cater for software limitations.

you can't actually do most of the work in 16-bit, since most actions are disabled in Photoshop until you convert that picture to 8-bit

I guess you haven't used photoshop lately. Or Corel Photopaint (a very worthy equivalent at a tenth of the price of photoshop).

I'm not saying that flexibility 16-bit gives ... isn't good. I'm just saying it's not *that* good.

That's great, stick with 8 bit then. Just don't begrudge those who have a significantly different opinion, and prefer to work in a format that offers more flexibility and allows you to completely change the lighting and tone in an image, at will, without compressing the tones to a point where banding is visible, or reshooting. *shakes head*

Believe me, I am a fan of GIMP and am waiting for the day it supports 16 and 32 bit imaging natively so that I can use it more often for the type of imaging work I like to do. I just get a little more cynical when I look at every version update and see that it is 'on the horizon'.