That is what I was taught years ago as well but what I wonder is if photography is still really taught other than here is how to use this specific device.
While pixel count matters we have probably already crossed into the realm where lenses are going to be more important for picture quality than pixel count unless you have a Hasselblad with a full frame digital back. Most people understand megapixels and for a long time a higher count meant you would get better pictures but as soon as you mention diffraction limits you have lost them. This was something that I was taught about years ago in high school in the photography class using Pentax K1000s and ISO100 black and white film with the general rule that for crisp pictures don't stop the lens down beyond f/8. There are exceptions like you really want a very high depth of focus or you are doing a very long exposure but you understood why you were doing those things.
The GP is also right in that now days camera chassis are fairly disposable unless you are looking at the very high end ones. I still have my Pentax Spotmatic F with close to a full complement of good lenses (looking for an M42 screw mount 17mm fisheye and 400-500mm range telephoto at reasonable prices) and as long as the camera shop near me exists I will keep on using it. My wife however is on her 4th digital camera in 10 years as they just don't last even though my SpotmaticF has been exposed to substantially harsher conditions while I have owned it for almost the last 20 years.
I'd tell them they can install it on my vehicle and let them sort out a positive ground pre-emissions little british roadster. Of course the Lucas Electric components may let magic smoke out of their device but it wouldn't be my problem.
I don't think I pay $1200 a year to insure all 3 vehicles in my household. It probably cost a little more than $1000, but $1200 a year for a single vehicle seems on the high side of things.
When the Black man does it, everyone starts screaming bloody murder.
Close but much more likely is when the other party does it scream bloody murder. Remember Bush and how all the democrats screamed about the stuff he did while the republicans kept their pie holes shut. Now that Obama is president and doing the same things the democrats are the ones keeping their pie holes shut and the republicans are screaming about it.
To be fair that was a rather odd but close election. The sitting senator Norm Colman initially had won but by a very slim margin (surprising since I figured he would have lost by a large margin after his TV commercial basically telling Minnesotans to STFU about the bailouts just before the election) and it was only during the recount that Franken came out ahead. From the news on it there were some questionable things that happened plus the Minnesota law on recounts states that the ballot judges need to determine "voter intent". So it wasn't really the Minnesota GOP trying to be dicks any more than the process playing out in a very close and contentious election with some bad laws that are open to personal bias. On this topic I remember there being a controversy about a found ballot box in someone's vehicle that was from Minneapolis, but didn't see or hear much follow up on it. I do remember that was a major point of contention since from what I remember it was that box that put Franken over the top.
Yup. I still have the scars on my forearm from when I was little and skidded out on my bike on a city street that had been freshly tared and coated with fresh gravel. I had to drag my bike home as I bent the front wheel too much for it to roll and that was probably a good mile walk. That sucked.
At the other end you have cases that are so clear showing CPS should have intervened but didn't that it seems like the whole system needs to be redone.
Part of me wonders if they are taking a similar approach to that of cops, why go after the real problems which might turn out to be dangerous and instead come down real hard on those in which they face no real danger.
I find CPS to be unqualified arrogant assholes who have seen so much of the worst of society, they assume its there in every visit, and if they cant find it, they just haven't looked hard enough.
I have a friend who's wife is part of that whole mess and that basically sums it up. Add in that she is so afraid of punishing their children and he is a giant pushover they have the worst behaved children I have ever see and that includes some with some rather bad physical and mental difficulties. Everything for their children is a choice and they have been shocked at how different my children are.
The best example of this was the one time a bunch of us were over there palying cards and my friend's oldest daughter didn't want to go to bed and kept taking candy she wasn't suppose to have. My friend was trying to get her to go to bed by saying "Amy could you maybe please go get ready for bed?" and "Amy could you go get you jammies on?" of course since this was a choice her response was no. I asked if I could try something and it went like this: Me:"Amy come over here."
she looks at me strangely. Me:"Amy come over here."
she walks over Me:"Put the candy in my hand."
I hold out my hand and she put the candy in. Me:"Go up stairs and put your jammies on."
She then goes up stairs puts her jammies on and comes back down about 5 minutes later. Amy:"Can I have my candy back?" Me:"No. Now go say good night and have your dad put you to bed"
She goes over to my friend does the good night thing and he puts her to bed.
He was shocked that this worked and didn't know that there was something between beating the piss out of your children and letting them run roughshod over you that worked. Sometimes all that is needed is making it clear that this isn't a choice. I have been told by the mother that I am too strict with my children and I have had to explain that there are very few rules in my house but I do expect those rules to be followed and the punishments are doled out immediately.
Sounds not legally binding to me as it would have been signed under duress. Unfortunately anyone who has children seems to be one step away from this sort of thing.
In my exchanges with him he was always at least willing to listen which is more than I can say for a lot of the representatives I have dealt with, only Phil Sterner was worse than Klobuchar in that respect but John Kline isn't too far behind them. On a number of the social issues he probably could have been swayed but on gay marriage or abortion I doubt there was ever going to be movement given how religious he is. At the same time I was willing to give a pass to him on those since I doubted much head way would have been made in congress on social issues and felt that he would be good from the economic and financial issues. At the same time I do realize that I was in a rather unique spot in that I had known him for a long time as a teacher, later a friend (we would run into each other at the gym), and as my rep to the state house.
Yes but the only thing that wasn't on the high end in that box at the time was the graphics card, everything else was on the higher end but it becomes much harder to justify a very marginal increase in performance for a massive increase in cost. I could have jumped up one more level in processor but that would have added over $100 I could have gone with the fastest ram but that would have cost double and required playing with the default settings I could have gotten the largest and fastest SSDs but at over 10x the cost of the smaller but highly reliable ones I did get. I did say that I was building a machine to meet a specific need and it meets it just fine with room to grow. Apart from the graphics card most of the machine was build out of penultimate parts and the graphics card would have been up near top of the line 2 or 3 years before I bought it.
It's the reason security clearances thru airports now involve removing shoes, belts, coats and putting them in baggage trays.
Wrong. The reason we have to do that crap is to give the appearance of actually doing something instead of actually doing something. Add in that we are told that these actions are necessary for our protection and it makes people accustomed to hearing that so that other things (NSA domestic spying, terror watch lists, no fly lists, border checks not at the border, FISA court) also seem acceptable. This gives people like my mother the false sense of security and she will parrot lines like "if you have nothing to hide", and "if it stops even one terrorist" while telling people how great these programs are and she really didn't give up anything of value.
What has prevented another 9/11 even was 2 things, installing locking hardened cockpit doors, and the fact that if some terrorist tries to hijack a plane they will quickly become a red smear on the carpet with their remains stuffed into a airplane toilet. There are plenty of soft targets and anyone could build a bomb or take a semi auto hand gun into an airport security line and law waste to a large number of people but they don't. The simple fact that we don't see daily terrorist attacks tells me that there really aren't that many terrorists or that the ones that do exist are so phenomenally dumb that I am surprised they don't choke on their own tongues. Reality tells me that is it likely both as the few that are caught are so dumb that I find it hard to believe that they managed to find food without help. Take the latest one in the US with the guy wanted to go shoot up the US capitol. How hard is it to buy a firearm and not get noticed in the US. If you have a criminal record or might be being watched, should be assumed if you are planning a terrorist plot, go fucking buy one off Craig's list or out of the newspaper classified from a private seller. Also 600 rounds of ammo isn't much, at deer camp we call that just getting warmed up and will usually go through close to 2000 round putting holes in cans or other things that aren't deer.
No that isn't how you do it. As one of my foreign friends in college would put it when he got drunk:
FUCK YOU! I FUCKING KILL YOU YOU FUCKING BASTARD! I KILL MORE FUCKING PEOPLE THAN YOU CAN FUCKING COUNT ON YOUR FUCKING FINGERS!
And usually at this point he would go and lock himself in the women's rest room in the lobby of the dorm until morning or someone called security to pull him out.
lawyers don't like people who can see through their bullshit
Depends on the case. The one time I was on a jury was for a civil case over a car accident. The person who brought it was basically trying to avoid being at fault since he would have lost his job and also driver's license. The case was so clear cut it was a waste of time but he did get his day in court. In that case being educated and able to reason meant that you were one of the people that the defense wanted to keep. It took us about 3 minutes from when we were dismissed to when we had our ruling and we even had a question for the judge as we wanted to know if there was a way of preventing this guy from appealing our ruling. Afterwards the judge met with us to answer any questions we had and the big one was why did this even make it this far? The answer we got is that everyone is entitled to have their case heard in front of a jury and that the judge thought the plaintiff was trying every last ditch effort he could to not lose his job and license.
Because they seem to like to violate the constitution that they have sworn an oath to uphold. Add in that they like to fire drones at individuals whom happen to be in foreign countries as well as harass and arrest individuals in the US who happen to espouse ideas contrary to the current view of the leadership. Finally it is none of their goddamn business.
That is only half of the problem. You also need to vote the Democrats out as well. Amy Klobuchar a democrat from MN has been pusing legislation like this for a while now. She was behind that last one that had the larger cap of 300k in 2013. Both sides seem to hate good paying middle class jobs.
I think a good indication that a politician is corrupt is that if you know who they are and they are not from your state. Take Orrin Hatch from your example what possible reason do I have to know that he is the senator for Utah, he just recently became the President pro tempore of the United States Senate which I looked up to see if he was in a leadership position but he isn't the senate majority leader and I knew his name long before now, he isn't one of my two senators, he has done nothing but be a politician from a sparsely populated western state, yet I know who he is. Yet at the same time I cant tell you off the top of my head who is the congress person from the arrowhead region Minnesota which while not my congressional district is still in my state.
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That is what I was taught years ago as well but what I wonder is if photography is still really taught other than here is how to use this specific device.
While pixel count matters we have probably already crossed into the realm where lenses are going to be more important for picture quality than pixel count unless you have a Hasselblad with a full frame digital back. Most people understand megapixels and for a long time a higher count meant you would get better pictures but as soon as you mention diffraction limits you have lost them. This was something that I was taught about years ago in high school in the photography class using Pentax K1000s and ISO100 black and white film with the general rule that for crisp pictures don't stop the lens down beyond f/8. There are exceptions like you really want a very high depth of focus or you are doing a very long exposure but you understood why you were doing those things.
The GP is also right in that now days camera chassis are fairly disposable unless you are looking at the very high end ones. I still have my Pentax Spotmatic F with close to a full complement of good lenses (looking for an M42 screw mount 17mm fisheye and 400-500mm range telephoto at reasonable prices) and as long as the camera shop near me exists I will keep on using it. My wife however is on her 4th digital camera in 10 years as they just don't last even though my SpotmaticF has been exposed to substantially harsher conditions while I have owned it for almost the last 20 years.
I'd tell them they can install it on my vehicle and let them sort out a positive ground pre-emissions little british roadster. Of course the Lucas Electric components may let magic smoke out of their device but it wouldn't be my problem.
I don't think I pay $1200 a year to insure all 3 vehicles in my household. It probably cost a little more than $1000, but $1200 a year for a single vehicle seems on the high side of things.
When the Black man does it, everyone starts screaming bloody murder.
Close but much more likely is when the other party does it scream bloody murder.
Remember Bush and how all the democrats screamed about the stuff he did while the republicans kept their pie holes shut. Now that Obama is president and doing the same things the democrats are the ones keeping their pie holes shut and the republicans are screaming about it.
To be fair that was a rather odd but close election. The sitting senator Norm Colman initially had won but by a very slim margin (surprising since I figured he would have lost by a large margin after his TV commercial basically telling Minnesotans to STFU about the bailouts just before the election) and it was only during the recount that Franken came out ahead. From the news on it there were some questionable things that happened plus the Minnesota law on recounts states that the ballot judges need to determine "voter intent". So it wasn't really the Minnesota GOP trying to be dicks any more than the process playing out in a very close and contentious election with some bad laws that are open to personal bias. On this topic I remember there being a controversy about a found ballot box in someone's vehicle that was from Minneapolis, but didn't see or hear much follow up on it. I do remember that was a major point of contention since from what I remember it was that box that put Franken over the top.
Yup. I still have the scars on my forearm from when I was little and skidded out on my bike on a city street that had been freshly tared and coated with fresh gravel. I had to drag my bike home as I bent the front wheel too much for it to roll and that was probably a good mile walk. That sucked.
At the other end you have cases that are so clear showing CPS should have intervened but didn't that it seems like the whole system needs to be redone.
Part of me wonders if they are taking a similar approach to that of cops, why go after the real problems which might turn out to be dangerous and instead come down real hard on those in which they face no real danger.
Sounds similar to my experience except replace scotch with Blatz.
I find CPS to be unqualified arrogant assholes who have seen so much of the worst of society, they assume its there in every visit, and if they cant find it, they just haven't looked hard enough.
I have a friend who's wife is part of that whole mess and that basically sums it up. Add in that she is so afraid of punishing their children and he is a giant pushover they have the worst behaved children I have ever see and that includes some with some rather bad physical and mental difficulties. Everything for their children is a choice and they have been shocked at how different my children are.
The best example of this was the one time a bunch of us were over there palying cards and my friend's oldest daughter didn't want to go to bed and kept taking candy she wasn't suppose to have. My friend was trying to get her to go to bed by saying "Amy could you maybe please go get ready for bed?" and "Amy could you go get you jammies on?" of course since this was a choice her response was no. I asked if I could try something and it went like this:
Me:"Amy come over here."
she looks at me strangely.
Me:"Amy come over here."
she walks over
Me:"Put the candy in my hand."
I hold out my hand and she put the candy in.
Me:"Go up stairs and put your jammies on."
She then goes up stairs puts her jammies on and comes back down about 5 minutes later.
Amy:"Can I have my candy back?"
Me:"No. Now go say good night and have your dad put you to bed"
She goes over to my friend does the good night thing and he puts her to bed.
He was shocked that this worked and didn't know that there was something between beating the piss out of your children and letting them run roughshod over you that worked. Sometimes all that is needed is making it clear that this isn't a choice. I have been told by the mother that I am too strict with my children and I have had to explain that there are very few rules in my house but I do expect those rules to be followed and the punishments are doled out immediately.
Sounds not legally binding to me as it would have been signed under duress. Unfortunately anyone who has children seems to be one step away from this sort of thing.
In my exchanges with him he was always at least willing to listen which is more than I can say for a lot of the representatives I have dealt with, only Phil Sterner was worse than Klobuchar in that respect but John Kline isn't too far behind them. On a number of the social issues he probably could have been swayed but on gay marriage or abortion I doubt there was ever going to be movement given how religious he is. At the same time I was willing to give a pass to him on those since I doubted much head way would have been made in congress on social issues and felt that he would be good from the economic and financial issues. At the same time I do realize that I was in a rather unique spot in that I had known him for a long time as a teacher, later a friend (we would run into each other at the gym), and as my rep to the state house.
Yes but the only thing that wasn't on the high end in that box at the time was the graphics card, everything else was on the higher end but it becomes much harder to justify a very marginal increase in performance for a massive increase in cost.
I could have jumped up one more level in processor but that would have added over $100
I could have gone with the fastest ram but that would have cost double and required playing with the default settings
I could have gotten the largest and fastest SSDs but at over 10x the cost of the smaller but highly reliable ones I did get. I did say that I was building a machine to meet a specific need and it meets it just fine with room to grow. Apart from the graphics card most of the machine was build out of penultimate parts and the graphics card would have been up near top of the line 2 or 3 years before I bought it.
It's the reason security clearances thru airports now involve removing shoes, belts, coats and putting them in baggage trays.
Wrong. The reason we have to do that crap is to give the appearance of actually doing something instead of actually doing something. Add in that we are told that these actions are necessary for our protection and it makes people accustomed to hearing that so that other things (NSA domestic spying, terror watch lists, no fly lists, border checks not at the border, FISA court) also seem acceptable. This gives people like my mother the false sense of security and she will parrot lines like "if you have nothing to hide", and "if it stops even one terrorist" while telling people how great these programs are and she really didn't give up anything of value.
What has prevented another 9/11 even was 2 things, installing locking hardened cockpit doors, and the fact that if some terrorist tries to hijack a plane they will quickly become a red smear on the carpet with their remains stuffed into a airplane toilet. There are plenty of soft targets and anyone could build a bomb or take a semi auto hand gun into an airport security line and law waste to a large number of people but they don't. The simple fact that we don't see daily terrorist attacks tells me that there really aren't that many terrorists or that the ones that do exist are so phenomenally dumb that I am surprised they don't choke on their own tongues. Reality tells me that is it likely both as the few that are caught are so dumb that I find it hard to believe that they managed to find food without help. Take the latest one in the US with the guy wanted to go shoot up the US capitol. How hard is it to buy a firearm and not get noticed in the US. If you have a criminal record or might be being watched, should be assumed if you are planning a terrorist plot, go fucking buy one off Craig's list or out of the newspaper classified from a private seller. Also 600 rounds of ammo isn't much, at deer camp we call that just getting warmed up and will usually go through close to 2000 round putting holes in cans or other things that aren't deer.
Well that would require removing Turkey form the EU with that whole freedom of movement thing
What do you think would happen if France had laws so that the manufacturer of a weapon used in a terrorist attack gets a _massive_ fine?
No small arms manufacturer would ever directly sell to any French government agency.
No that isn't how you do it. As one of my foreign friends in college would put it when he got drunk:
FUCK YOU! I FUCKING KILL YOU YOU FUCKING BASTARD! I KILL MORE FUCKING PEOPLE THAN YOU CAN FUCKING COUNT ON YOUR FUCKING FINGERS!
And usually at this point he would go and lock himself in the women's rest room in the lobby of the dorm until morning or someone called security to pull him out.
lawyers don't like people who can see through their bullshit
Depends on the case. The one time I was on a jury was for a civil case over a car accident. The person who brought it was basically trying to avoid being at fault since he would have lost his job and also driver's license. The case was so clear cut it was a waste of time but he did get his day in court. In that case being educated and able to reason meant that you were one of the people that the defense wanted to keep. It took us about 3 minutes from when we were dismissed to when we had our ruling and we even had a question for the judge as we wanted to know if there was a way of preventing this guy from appealing our ruling. Afterwards the judge met with us to answer any questions we had and the big one was why did this even make it this far? The answer we got is that everyone is entitled to have their case heard in front of a jury and that the judge thought the plaintiff was trying every last ditch effort he could to not lose his job and license.
If you were going for a fictional account you could also go with one like Gilbert and Sullivan's Trial by Jury.
and a short essay on why you fear the government
Because they seem to like to violate the constitution that they have sworn an oath to uphold. Add in that they like to fire drones at individuals whom happen to be in foreign countries as well as harass and arrest individuals in the US who happen to espouse ideas contrary to the current view of the leadership. Finally it is none of their goddamn business.
That is only half of the problem. You also need to vote the Democrats out as well. Amy Klobuchar a democrat from MN has been pusing legislation like this for a while now. She was behind that last one that had the larger cap of 300k in 2013. Both sides seem to hate good paying middle class jobs.
So create a visa that allows working in any job paying over three times the median wage, or whatever.
So for bankers, manages, and executives then?
Why just senators I would like to see some H-1B managers and board members.
I think a good indication that a politician is corrupt is that if you know who they are and they are not from your state. Take Orrin Hatch from your example what possible reason do I have to know that he is the senator for Utah, he just recently became the President pro tempore of the United States Senate which I looked up to see if he was in a leadership position but he isn't the senate majority leader and I knew his name long before now, he isn't one of my two senators, he has done nothing but be a politician from a sparsely populated western state, yet I know who he is. Yet at the same time I cant tell you off the top of my head who is the congress person from the arrowhead region Minnesota which while not my congressional district is still in my state.