They are fairly common if one looks, but does require looking at a real camera shop that carries used non digital equipment and likely also medium format gear. The K1000 is by far more common though and they also seem to have better lens availability if you wanted to go that route. They don't come up for sale as often as they did 10 years ago when everyone was switching to digital and had no collector value. They are built like a tank and do have some good lenses, it is just the lenses I want I can't afford because they are getting silly expensive. I have been using mine for almost 20 years now and it has taken awesome pictures on 6 continents in all sorts of awful extreme conditions. The Spotmatic F was the last of the series and the last of the M42 screw mount ones an went out of production in 1976 so my camera is at least 39 years old and while I get a hard time from people about my "antique" I can brag because I can take better pictures of things than they can. I did this with some co-workers when we were in Israel and got a nice clear full fram picture of Dome of the Rock from Mount of the Olives where you can clearly see the detail in the mosaic work on the outside while their pictures zoomed in you could tell it was just Dome of the Rock.
No they haven't succeeded 100% of the time. The TSA cannot point to any terrorist attack they have stopped but there have been attempts that were stopped by other means that we do know about so it seems that they actually fail 100% of the time at stopping attacks. There was the shoe bomber, and the underwear bomber who successfully got past security. What I have gleaned is that even though the TSA is about as effective at stopping terrorism as a jar of mayonnaise is, there are very very few actual terrorists, and those terrorists that are around are so incompetent I am surprised that they don't choke on their own tongue.
Easy, because too many people in the general population thing it is a good thing that they are "At least trying to do something", and "What ever it takes to keep us safe". There is also a running theme where if a politician speak out about these things they get questioned in the media about how would they feel if a terror attack happened and it is implied that the blame would be placed on them. Love Rand Paul or hate him at least he has had the spine to provide a retort to these kind of accusations when they were leveled at him after his actions on Sunday over the PATRIOT act.
The solution is to make it so that the politicians know that this is unacceptable. This can be done by contacting them by mail, e-mail, and phone, writing letters to the editor, talking to their campaign people and letting them know when they are out glad handing for votes, but all of this requires effort. Also even if the majority of people don't hold the position most are still apathetic so all that is needed is to give the impression that the majority (a very vocal minority) is against this and things will change, probably slower than we want. It helps if a few get bounced out of office in very public ways like getting primaried out in a safe seat. This requires more effort as one has to get enough people to show up a a prescient level to get a candidate on the ballot, and then get enough people out in the primary to get rid of the incumbent. The TEA Party did this with a number of republicans so it could be done again, but should be done in both parties so they both get the picture.
The difference in your example compared to the TSA is that even the Greek regular were professionals taking reasonable steps with proper training while the TSA has minimal training on ineffective measures of people who basically would otherwise likely be unemployable. It doesn't take a rocket surgeon to outsmart a TSA agent as people regularly get stuff past them that should easily have been caught by the old methods of screening and more so by the current ones. There was a story a while back about the number of people accidentally getting their firearms past the TSA. These were likely people who had a carry permit and just automatically carry their firearm everywhere without thinking about it, much like you do with your wallet, watch, phone, etc. as it is something done automatically without thinking.
Given what I have inadvertently brought through over the years: About a dozen 3" 12 gauge shot gun shells (magnum goose loads) An almost full box of 20 7.62x54r rifle ammunition A 4"lock blade knife with a brass handle (multiple times), A small 2.5" folding knife This really doesn't come as a surprise, and I wasn't even trying to sneak the stuff past them. The ammo was in coat pockets the went through the X-ray machine at different times and the pocket knives were just left in my pocket as I went through their metal detector. But every time I bring my camera, a Pentax Spotmatic F with assorted lenses, it is off to the extra screening area for a pat down, explosives check, a game of 20 questions, and for them to dig through my stuff. Also the bulb cable really confuses them and I get accused of bringing a weapon onto a plane as they push the button and the cable extends out the other end a bit
Might I make a suggestion here. I would go for them to be either to be drawn and quartered, or crucified. I would settle for just having them executed and their head placed on a pike as a warning to future generations though. Although we do seem to have a suitable pike already in DC so that would seem to be a lower cost option.
Well it gives us 2 day to contact our Senators and have them not listen to us. If you want to know who supported it you can find it here. I guess my 2 senators Al Franken and Amy Klobuchar really don't want people to keep their freedoms and want various agencies to take clearly unconstitutional actions like issuing general warrants. Maybe they need some public shaming so it will be clear that they want to take your freedoms away.
Well I was referring to the ones who in 8th grade were the little druggies so I doubt it was a lack of jobs at that point. They continued to be druggies throughout high school and if they can currently hold down a job it is a minimum wage one, like working the drive through window or working as an oil change monkey at Valvoline Instant Oil change. A number of them ended up in jail as well, and a few even ended up dying in car crashes when they were strung out. The point being that their destructive behavior started long before they entered the job market.
Then if you still want to die, at least you don't get a crappy decades-long decline.
I would be all for this. If I could tromp around in the woods hunting, camping and doing all the things I enjoy until 80 or 90 (what ever my life expectancy is) while being perfectly fine and then one night go to sleep and not wake up I would be find with that.
After my wife and I had our second child we both went and got fixed. We really don't want another child so why wouldn't this be the case here as well. My wife was actually shocked that I had so little reservation about getting a vasectomy.
While that would be nice it really shouldn't matter. I would love to not have lost my grandfather, he taught me things that my mother wouldn't let my father teach me like how to play poker well, how to count cards and beat the house at blackjack. He was not a professional gambler but had a PhD in Mathematics and loved to play card games of all sorts. Later on he even enjoyed MtG as it offered a more complex game than most others he had played. His mind was sharp and he was in good physical condition until he ended up going to the hospital when he had a wound get infected. In the hospital he laid in bed for a few weeks, then was sent home had a stroke ended up back in the hospital for a few more weeks, muscles atrophied and after that he basically went to hell mentally and physically.
That is only if he goes to the dealer which basically translates to grab the ankles and hope they use some lube. Outside of that it may cost slightly more than a domestic vehicle oil change of similar quality (synthetic, synthetic blend, or regular oil take your pick) only because the sumps have a larger capacity. My 325i has a 7 quart oil capacity while my Jeep with the inline 6 has only a 5 quart capacity, the filters cost about the same (the jeep on is slightly cheaper because it is dirt common) but it is the extra 2 quarts of oil that add the most cost.
Even if this doesn't extend life but makes it so that it is good up until the end I would be all for it. Who wants to be shitting themselves unable to walk for the last few years.
If only things worked that way. See this is one of those things that is so critical that it will enjoy broad partisan support. I mean how can we let the power of the state ever shrink. If we don't the party not currently in power won't be able to abuse it when they get back into power.
Well maybe he was like I was when I voted for GW in the first presidential election I could vote in. I was young and dumb and still in college and still believed the lie that if you vote 3rd party is is just a vote of the other guy. I did however believe that Bush was a better choice than Gore (keep in mind this is before the War on Terror) and it looked like the biggest issue was going to be economic. I Obama does seem to have one thing that Bush lacked which is a cult of personality.
So you are saying that you got a shitty job with what works out to bad pay. Big deal you got paid $200,000 but depending on how one parses your sentence you either worked something around 4200 hours or 8400 hours to acquire that. So in a best case you were getting something around $50/hr or $25/hr in a worse case and apart from a pile of money you got to basically work, shit, and sleep for 2 years. If it was the latter amount then I did better than you on a per hour basis (go go double time, shift differentials, and the scholarship program they offered) when I worked at a gas station almost 20 years ago when I would pull similar shitty hours to get enough money over the summer to pay for college.
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They are fairly common if one looks, but does require looking at a real camera shop that carries used non digital equipment and likely also medium format gear. The K1000 is by far more common though and they also seem to have better lens availability if you wanted to go that route. They don't come up for sale as often as they did 10 years ago when everyone was switching to digital and had no collector value. They are built like a tank and do have some good lenses, it is just the lenses I want I can't afford because they are getting silly expensive. I have been using mine for almost 20 years now and it has taken awesome pictures on 6 continents in all sorts of awful extreme conditions. The Spotmatic F was the last of the series and the last of the M42 screw mount ones an went out of production in 1976 so my camera is at least 39 years old and while I get a hard time from people about my "antique" I can brag because I can take better pictures of things than they can. I did this with some co-workers when we were in Israel and got a nice clear full fram picture of Dome of the Rock from Mount of the Olives where you can clearly see the detail in the mosaic work on the outside while their pictures zoomed in you could tell it was just Dome of the Rock.
No they haven't succeeded 100% of the time. The TSA cannot point to any terrorist attack they have stopped but there have been attempts that were stopped by other means that we do know about so it seems that they actually fail 100% of the time at stopping attacks. There was the shoe bomber, and the underwear bomber who successfully got past security. What I have gleaned is that even though the TSA is about as effective at stopping terrorism as a jar of mayonnaise is, there are very very few actual terrorists, and those terrorists that are around are so incompetent I am surprised that they don't choke on their own tongue.
Easy, because too many people in the general population thing it is a good thing that they are "At least trying to do something", and "What ever it takes to keep us safe". There is also a running theme where if a politician speak out about these things they get questioned in the media about how would they feel if a terror attack happened and it is implied that the blame would be placed on them. Love Rand Paul or hate him at least he has had the spine to provide a retort to these kind of accusations when they were leveled at him after his actions on Sunday over the PATRIOT act.
The solution is to make it so that the politicians know that this is unacceptable. This can be done by contacting them by mail, e-mail, and phone, writing letters to the editor, talking to their campaign people and letting them know when they are out glad handing for votes, but all of this requires effort. Also even if the majority of people don't hold the position most are still apathetic so all that is needed is to give the impression that the majority (a very vocal minority) is against this and things will change, probably slower than we want. It helps if a few get bounced out of office in very public ways like getting primaried out in a safe seat. This requires more effort as one has to get enough people to show up a a prescient level to get a candidate on the ballot, and then get enough people out in the primary to get rid of the incumbent. The TEA Party did this with a number of republicans so it could be done again, but should be done in both parties so they both get the picture.
I doubt that but they probably got a higher percentage of them though.
The difference in your example compared to the TSA is that even the Greek regular were professionals taking reasonable steps with proper training while the TSA has minimal training on ineffective measures of people who basically would otherwise likely be unemployable. It doesn't take a rocket surgeon to outsmart a TSA agent as people regularly get stuff past them that should easily have been caught by the old methods of screening and more so by the current ones. There was a story a while back about the number of people accidentally getting their firearms past the TSA. These were likely people who had a carry permit and just automatically carry their firearm everywhere without thinking about it, much like you do with your wallet, watch, phone, etc. as it is something done automatically without thinking.
Given what I have inadvertently brought through over the years:
About a dozen 3" 12 gauge shot gun shells (magnum goose loads)
An almost full box of 20 7.62x54r rifle ammunition
A 4"lock blade knife with a brass handle (multiple times), A small 2.5" folding knife
This really doesn't come as a surprise, and I wasn't even trying to sneak the stuff past them. The ammo was in coat pockets the went through the X-ray machine at different times and the pocket knives were just left in my pocket as I went through their metal detector. But every time I bring my camera, a Pentax Spotmatic F with assorted lenses, it is off to the extra screening area for a pat down, explosives check, a game of 20 questions, and for them to dig through my stuff. Also the bulb cable really confuses them and I get accused of bringing a weapon onto a plane as they push the button and the cable extends out the other end a bit
A new standard has been set. Now I will demand a cat/cow analogy every time. Seriously this makes it clear why this is neat, at least to me it did.
That is why I don't play politics either, and yes I do document everything. For me it has saved my ass from stupid customers a number of times.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
Not quite. If you want to play office politics everyone is you enemy, just play them all off against each other so you don't have to deal with them.
Might I make a suggestion here. I would go for them to be either to be drawn and quartered, or crucified. I would settle for just having them executed and their head placed on a pike as a warning to future generations though. Although we do seem to have a suitable pike already in DC so that would seem to be a lower cost option.
I suggest: /dev/urandom | nc nsa.gov 25 /dev/urandom | nc nsa.gov 80
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Well it gives us 2 day to contact our Senators and have them not listen to us. If you want to know who supported it you can find it here. I guess my 2 senators Al Franken and Amy Klobuchar really don't want people to keep their freedoms and want various agencies to take clearly unconstitutional actions like issuing general warrants. Maybe they need some public shaming so it will be clear that they want to take your freedoms away.
Well I was referring to the ones who in 8th grade were the little druggies so I doubt it was a lack of jobs at that point. They continued to be druggies throughout high school and if they can currently hold down a job it is a minimum wage one, like working the drive through window or working as an oil change monkey at Valvoline Instant Oil change. A number of them ended up in jail as well, and a few even ended up dying in car crashes when they were strung out. The point being that their destructive behavior started long before they entered the job market.
Then if you still want to die, at least you don't get a crappy decades-long decline.
I would be all for this. If I could tromp around in the woods hunting, camping and doing all the things I enjoy until 80 or 90 (what ever my life expectancy is) while being perfectly fine and then one night go to sleep and not wake up I would be find with that.
After my wife and I had our second child we both went and got fixed. We really don't want another child so why wouldn't this be the case here as well. My wife was actually shocked that I had so little reservation about getting a vasectomy.
While that would be nice it really shouldn't matter. I would love to not have lost my grandfather, he taught me things that my mother wouldn't let my father teach me like how to play poker well, how to count cards and beat the house at blackjack. He was not a professional gambler but had a PhD in Mathematics and loved to play card games of all sorts. Later on he even enjoyed MtG as it offered a more complex game than most others he had played. His mind was sharp and he was in good physical condition until he ended up going to the hospital when he had a wound get infected. In the hospital he laid in bed for a few weeks, then was sent home had a stroke ended up back in the hospital for a few more weeks, muscles atrophied and after that he basically went to hell mentally and physically.
We will all find new and innovative reasons to kill each other.
FTFY
That is only if he goes to the dealer which basically translates to grab the ankles and hope they use some lube. Outside of that it may cost slightly more than a domestic vehicle oil change of similar quality (synthetic, synthetic blend, or regular oil take your pick) only because the sumps have a larger capacity. My 325i has a 7 quart oil capacity while my Jeep with the inline 6 has only a 5 quart capacity, the filters cost about the same (the jeep on is slightly cheaper because it is dirt common) but it is the extra 2 quarts of oil that add the most cost.
The average kid yes, the ones who chose to be druggies no.
Even if this doesn't extend life but makes it so that it is good up until the end I would be all for it. Who wants to be shitting themselves unable to walk for the last few years.
I meant that to say bi-partisan support.
If only things worked that way. See this is one of those things that is so critical that it will enjoy broad partisan support. I mean how can we let the power of the state ever shrink. If we don't the party not currently in power won't be able to abuse it when they get back into power.
Well maybe he was like I was when I voted for GW in the first presidential election I could vote in. I was young and dumb and still in college and still believed the lie that if you vote 3rd party is is just a vote of the other guy. I did however believe that Bush was a better choice than Gore (keep in mind this is before the War on Terror) and it looked like the biggest issue was going to be economic. I Obama does seem to have one thing that Bush lacked which is a cult of personality.
4 quarters, that is far too long of a horizon. 4 months is probably more like it but even that may be a bit too long term.
So you are saying that you got a shitty job with what works out to bad pay. Big deal you got paid $200,000 but depending on how one parses your sentence you either worked something around 4200 hours or 8400 hours to acquire that. So in a best case you were getting something around $50/hr or $25/hr in a worse case and apart from a pile of money you got to basically work, shit, and sleep for 2 years. If it was the latter amount then I did better than you on a per hour basis (go go double time, shift differentials, and the scholarship program they offered) when I worked at a gas station almost 20 years ago when I would pull similar shitty hours to get enough money over the summer to pay for college.