Proof that photos and real life can and do differ?
Hmmmm.... Imagine that. Congratulations on rediscovering what art discovered centuries ago.
This idea that the technical details of an image have a large affect in how we perceive the subject of the photo has been well understood for decades, even if it's not be well practiced by your every day "point and shoot" photographer. Just walk into even a low end portrait studio and think about how they all use the same kinds of lighting, flash, backgrounds, focal lengths and narrow depth of fields etc. There is a REASON they all look generally the same and it's not because they share the same studio designer, but that it's how you take good looking pictures. Now we have all this taking place digitally, with digital enhancement tools to take a so-so image and altering it to make it seem like a better one.
But even this is not new and predates the development of photography. The development of these ideas is evident if you follow the development of art though ages past. Go look at the more famous artworks and you will see similar characteristics develop in say painting, where we move from crude outlines on cave walls to near photo realistic efforts and beyond.
So us technical guys need to stop complaining about needing to take that "art history" course in college because there just *might* be something of value there, even to us... (smile)
Well, I got to hand it to you, you keep believing. I thought we put the traveling medicine man snake oil folks out of business decades ago. Your call if you want to keep the tradition alive and buy this stuff.
Personally, I'm going to stick with the proven effective stuff (according to the FDA) and leave the experimentation with herbal "medicine" to others. If you want to be a lab rat in an unscientific study and pay others for the privilege, who am I to stop you. It's a free country and all..
It might be harder for the government to track you down by dumping subpoenas on banks like they are accustomed to, but you got to understand, BitCoin is just as traceable (if not more). All the data they need to trace every transaction a Coin has bee though is in the block chain for that coin, and every transaction gets published to the mining community for verification of the block chain. Once they figure out which is your wallet, all they need to do is search the records and find every transaction it's been involved in.
Ulbricht created a marketplace that was free from government interference to facilitate free and open transactions with anonymity,
Obviously THAT's not true now is it? He just got convicted of 7 criminal charges and is likely to do time in prison for profiting from this "free from government interference" marketplace... If that's not government interference, what is?
Personally I observe an 1000 foot AGL 3-5 Miles from the airport version of this when I'm flying with passengers. Basically when I'm in the pattern or talking to approach/departure, I'm pretty much going to ignore passengers. I warn them about this as part of the preflight and then on approach I'll tell them we can talk again once we are parked on the ground.
Sometimes when I'm in "teaching mode" and they are enjoying the experience, I'll enlist them to perform a specific tasks like looking for traffic, setting flaps, carb heat, or even adjusting the throttle at my request but I do the flying. It's amazing how "professional" people get when they have something to do. Not to mention it usually thrills them to tell others that they "helped". Just be careful with that.
I think the difference between "conservative" and "Liberal" is their philosophical approach to solving problems. The liberal says "the government should fix that problem" and the conservative says "how can the market fix this and how can I help?" If your first response to a problem is to ask for new regulations or programs from your government, you are liberal. If you look for ways for people to solve problems on their own first, you are a conservative.
Even that's not new. My CFI took his cell phone along on most of our trips and once in a while actually made a call. Once he called the Flight Service Station to file an IFR flight plan when we where VFR at night but the weather went south and the radios didn't seem to be working well enough to get it filed that way.
Don't fly much eh? Spatial Disorientation is a REAL problem for pilots, especially VFR at night. Ahla JFK Jr. Then you add temporary blindness caused by the flash and it make sense to me...
Actually the FAA demands for pilots of commercial aircraft that you not engage in ANYTHING other than flying the aircraft under 10,000ft AGL. It is known as the sterile cockpit rule. A pilot is only allowed to discuss or do things related to flying the airplane during this time. So no fumbling with taking pictures or digging out your cell phone or discussing sports scores.
JFK Jr. wasn't taking selfies... He was just a VFR pilot who wasn't properly prepared for the flight he attempted. VFR at night over Water is dangerous territory for those who's IFR skills are not up to par. Doing it in a high performance aircraft is even more risky.
Personally, if I had attempted this flight VFR, I would have conducted it *like* an IFR flight, including flight following and asking for a "practice IFR" approach from the controller. I'd do this to keep it in the front of my mind that I had to stay on the gauges in this situation as much as possible.
I can see you don't fly much... Spatial disorientation can be caused by just turning your head to look out the side window and if you are not specifically trained to recognize it and fly the gauges instead of what your inner ears are telling you, spatial disorientation will kill you. It's called a "death spiral" for a reason and VFR pilots who wonder into IFR conditions often unknowingly kill themselves when they don't recognize the problem and fly the gauges.
I can tell you that it is REALLY HARD to tell yourself that what you feel may not be what's actually happening and when the gauges and the inner ear are in conflict it's pretty difficult to do what the gauges tell you unless you have practiced it. VFR pilots don't practice this that much because it takes "flying under the hood" which requires a safety pilot to be riding along and you have to do stuff to induce the disorientation feeling purposely. Most VFR only pilots don't take the time to do such training.
Now if you are blinded and cannot see the gauges.... You have serious problems and your best bet is to throttle up a bit and go hands off holding your head straight for about 30 seconds. Hopefully you have a well trimmed aircraft and won't crash before the fluid in your ears stops moving and you can fly again.
Controlled flight into Fixed Terrain is NOT difficult. How do I know? I've almost done it a number of times, twice in one day actually. I was lucky, I didn't crash but it showed me that my hubris was going to kill me if I didn't start paying attention so I didn't get into dangerous situations and keep working on being the best pilot I could. The next week I started my instrument rating and started working on my commercial ticket, not that I was going to use either of them much, but that I needed to have the skills in case my simple VFR trip on sever clear day went bad.
ANYBODY flying low and slow needs to put down the cell phone distractor device and keep your mind on the flying task. At 1,500 ft AGL you don't have much margin and doing stupid stuff at that height is unnecessarily risky. There is a REASON the FAA has the sterile cockpit rule (No idle chit chat between pilots below 10,000 ft, nothing discussed but the flying of the aircraft) and private pilots would be wise to adopt similar personal rules. For instance, I don't engage passengers in conversation below about 2,000 AGL or within 5 miles of an airport. I tell them as part of a preflight briefing that my FIRST responsibility is to fly the aircraft and that I may not respond to them if I'm busy doing that. I also tell them to put the cell phones away until we get out of the pattern...
I'm not going to "define" over regulation for you, but I'll venture to describe the criteria we should strive to meet with regulations and government.
Government is/was intended to be as small as possible and the least intrusive as possible. Government and regulation are both necessary evils and we should error on the side of smaller, less intrusive.
You see, the mindset that government/regulation is the solution to ANY and all problems is wrong headed. It is not government that makes this country great but the individual striving for a better life though innovation and hard work that did that. We seem to have a default setting that government has to "do something" about things like this, when it really should be individuals who solve the problem. When you start your thinking with "There aught to be a law that prevents this!" you've already set foot on the wrong path because you cannot legislate morality by making a law. What you *should* say is "How irresponsible of that person, how short sighted to cheat his/her customers" and we should then let the market take care of it because they just gave somebody else, who won't be dishonest, an opening to take their business away.
So in this case, having a fair court system and applying existing "truth in advertising laws" is all that is necessary.... We don't need the government involved in writing new regulations...
It's like some conspiracy theory with your type... There isn't any *value* there and *that's* why the drug makers ignore this stuff. If there was an effective treatment, believe me, the drug makers would have been all over it decades ago and come up with a patentable compound or process to make money on it. Don't trick your mind into believing otherwise. They spend big bucks doing research on this kind of thing all the time, looking for natural occurring compounds with interesting properties. I can assure you, they've evaluated these.
Oh, and we DID land on the moon and Area 51 was just a place where they did flight testing of classified aircraft (no aliens where ever there)..
To eventually fix itself, the fine would need to exceed the profits. That never happens.
Oh come on, sure it does. These guys don't have money to burn. They are running on razor thin margins as large retailers have pressed them on price. The manufacturers are NOT making billions upon billions ripping people off in most cases, they are struggling to keep afloat while the likes of Wal-Mart beat them down on price, ask for placement fees trim their margins so the retailer can turn more product though their inventory. Big Retail is about turning your inventory dollars as fast as you can (which is why Radio Shack bit the big one). Turning inventory requires that you do VOLUME and that requires the perception that your PRICE is the best so the customers will come to you, spend their money buying the stuff you have in the store.
Margins are razor thin for everybody in these cases and everybody has to focus on turning inventory over as fast as they can.
A few million dollars lost to lawsuits will be huge problems for all but the largest of these companies. Even the big boys would shy away from the publicity and costs of loosing a lawsuit like this.
That is bunk... If there is a useful effective treatment there, then they can make money on it. If there isn't enough money to be made selling the proven FDA approved treatment, then there really isn't much of use there to start with.
It's not all that expensive to isolate a compound in something everybody can grow, test it, figure out how to manufacture it in bulk and sell it. Trust me, if there was any value there, they can come up with a way to patent it, the process to produce it or something *like* it that works too. The problem is that there isn't anything there in 99.999% of the herbal supplements you can find on store shelves, and usually any possible desired effect is FAR outweighed by the undesired side effects.
Herbal medicine is mostly snake oil and the power of suggestion coupled with a placebo, and who wants to admit they fell for the charlatan selling tonics armed with unscientific personal testimonials of past "happy customers". Don't get taken, don't be a rube. Leave that stuff on the store shelves so they will stop selling it.
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Easy AC... The dreams/nightmares do fade over time, but never really go away. I'm sorry, but I'm afraid we are all scarred for life...
Different management team.
Nail on the head... Whish I had mod points today..
Goodbye old friend.
Although, I thought you had died years ago.
Oh they did die years ago, it's just nobody found out until now...
Then maybe it WAS a true Turing test? After all, the computer is allowed to lie during the test...
WTF has become of /.
It's just a bot that has thousands of personalities that all fail to pass the Turing test, except for me, I'm a real human here....
Proof that photos and real life can and do differ?
Hmmmm.... Imagine that. Congratulations on rediscovering what art discovered centuries ago.
This idea that the technical details of an image have a large affect in how we perceive the subject of the photo has been well understood for decades, even if it's not be well practiced by your every day "point and shoot" photographer. Just walk into even a low end portrait studio and think about how they all use the same kinds of lighting, flash, backgrounds, focal lengths and narrow depth of fields etc. There is a REASON they all look generally the same and it's not because they share the same studio designer, but that it's how you take good looking pictures. Now we have all this taking place digitally, with digital enhancement tools to take a so-so image and altering it to make it seem like a better one.
But even this is not new and predates the development of photography. The development of these ideas is evident if you follow the development of art though ages past. Go look at the more famous artworks and you will see similar characteristics develop in say painting, where we move from crude outlines on cave walls to near photo realistic efforts and beyond.
So us technical guys need to stop complaining about needing to take that "art history" course in college because there just *might* be something of value there, even to us... (smile)
Well, I got to hand it to you, you keep believing. I thought we put the traveling medicine man snake oil folks out of business decades ago. Your call if you want to keep the tradition alive and buy this stuff.
Personally, I'm going to stick with the proven effective stuff (according to the FDA) and leave the experimentation with herbal "medicine" to others. If you want to be a lab rat in an unscientific study and pay others for the privilege, who am I to stop you. It's a free country and all..
Yea, not so well for this guy.
It might be harder for the government to track you down by dumping subpoenas on banks like they are accustomed to, but you got to understand, BitCoin is just as traceable (if not more). All the data they need to trace every transaction a Coin has bee though is in the block chain for that coin, and every transaction gets published to the mining community for verification of the block chain. Once they figure out which is your wallet, all they need to do is search the records and find every transaction it's been involved in.
Ulbricht created a marketplace that was free from government interference to facilitate free and open transactions with anonymity,
Obviously THAT's not true now is it? He just got convicted of 7 criminal charges and is likely to do time in prison for profiting from this "free from government interference" marketplace... If that's not government interference, what is?
Yea, and my Russian is bad too... ;) Did I mention I cannot spell? Oh you knew that? Sorry.
Personally I observe an 1000 foot AGL 3-5 Miles from the airport version of this when I'm flying with passengers. Basically when I'm in the pattern or talking to approach/departure, I'm pretty much going to ignore passengers. I warn them about this as part of the preflight and then on approach I'll tell them we can talk again once we are parked on the ground.
Sometimes when I'm in "teaching mode" and they are enjoying the experience, I'll enlist them to perform a specific tasks like looking for traffic, setting flaps, carb heat, or even adjusting the throttle at my request but I do the flying. It's amazing how "professional" people get when they have something to do. Not to mention it usually thrills them to tell others that they "helped". Just be careful with that.
Time to reload comrade, or I'm in charge now pheasant.
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I think the difference between "conservative" and "Liberal" is their philosophical approach to solving problems. The liberal says "the government should fix that problem" and the conservative says "how can the market fix this and how can I help?" If your first response to a problem is to ask for new regulations or programs from your government, you are liberal. If you look for ways for people to solve problems on their own first, you are a conservative.
NOT...
In general this will not be good for you...
Even that's not new. My CFI took his cell phone along on most of our trips and once in a while actually made a call. Once he called the Flight Service Station to file an IFR flight plan when we where VFR at night but the weather went south and the radios didn't seem to be working well enough to get it filed that way.
Oh and that was 30 years ago...
Don't fly much eh? Spatial Disorientation is a REAL problem for pilots, especially VFR at night. Ahla JFK Jr. Then you add temporary blindness caused by the flash and it make sense to me...
Actually the FAA demands for pilots of commercial aircraft that you not engage in ANYTHING other than flying the aircraft under 10,000ft AGL. It is known as the sterile cockpit rule. A pilot is only allowed to discuss or do things related to flying the airplane during this time. So no fumbling with taking pictures or digging out your cell phone or discussing sports scores.
JFK Jr. wasn't taking selfies... He was just a VFR pilot who wasn't properly prepared for the flight he attempted. VFR at night over Water is dangerous territory for those who's IFR skills are not up to par. Doing it in a high performance aircraft is even more risky.
Personally, if I had attempted this flight VFR, I would have conducted it *like* an IFR flight, including flight following and asking for a "practice IFR" approach from the controller. I'd do this to keep it in the front of my mind that I had to stay on the gauges in this situation as much as possible.
I can see you don't fly much... Spatial disorientation can be caused by just turning your head to look out the side window and if you are not specifically trained to recognize it and fly the gauges instead of what your inner ears are telling you, spatial disorientation will kill you. It's called a "death spiral" for a reason and VFR pilots who wonder into IFR conditions often unknowingly kill themselves when they don't recognize the problem and fly the gauges.
I can tell you that it is REALLY HARD to tell yourself that what you feel may not be what's actually happening and when the gauges and the inner ear are in conflict it's pretty difficult to do what the gauges tell you unless you have practiced it. VFR pilots don't practice this that much because it takes "flying under the hood" which requires a safety pilot to be riding along and you have to do stuff to induce the disorientation feeling purposely. Most VFR only pilots don't take the time to do such training.
Now if you are blinded and cannot see the gauges.... You have serious problems and your best bet is to throttle up a bit and go hands off holding your head straight for about 30 seconds. Hopefully you have a well trimmed aircraft and won't crash before the fluid in your ears stops moving and you can fly again.
Controlled flight into Fixed Terrain is NOT difficult. How do I know? I've almost done it a number of times, twice in one day actually. I was lucky, I didn't crash but it showed me that my hubris was going to kill me if I didn't start paying attention so I didn't get into dangerous situations and keep working on being the best pilot I could. The next week I started my instrument rating and started working on my commercial ticket, not that I was going to use either of them much, but that I needed to have the skills in case my simple VFR trip on sever clear day went bad.
ANYBODY flying low and slow needs to put down the cell phone distractor device and keep your mind on the flying task. At 1,500 ft AGL you don't have much margin and doing stupid stuff at that height is unnecessarily risky. There is a REASON the FAA has the sterile cockpit rule (No idle chit chat between pilots below 10,000 ft, nothing discussed but the flying of the aircraft) and private pilots would be wise to adopt similar personal rules. For instance, I don't engage passengers in conversation below about 2,000 AGL or within 5 miles of an airport. I tell them as part of a preflight briefing that my FIRST responsibility is to fly the aircraft and that I may not respond to them if I'm busy doing that. I also tell them to put the cell phones away until we get out of the pattern...
I'm not going to "define" over regulation for you, but I'll venture to describe the criteria we should strive to meet with regulations and government.
Government is/was intended to be as small as possible and the least intrusive as possible. Government and regulation are both necessary evils and we should error on the side of smaller, less intrusive.
You see, the mindset that government/regulation is the solution to ANY and all problems is wrong headed. It is not government that makes this country great but the individual striving for a better life though innovation and hard work that did that. We seem to have a default setting that government has to "do something" about things like this, when it really should be individuals who solve the problem. When you start your thinking with "There aught to be a law that prevents this!" you've already set foot on the wrong path because you cannot legislate morality by making a law. What you *should* say is "How irresponsible of that person, how short sighted to cheat his/her customers" and we should then let the market take care of it because they just gave somebody else, who won't be dishonest, an opening to take their business away.
So in this case, having a fair court system and applying existing "truth in advertising laws" is all that is necessary.... We don't need the government involved in writing new regulations...
It's like some conspiracy theory with your type... There isn't any *value* there and *that's* why the drug makers ignore this stuff. If there was an effective treatment, believe me, the drug makers would have been all over it decades ago and come up with a patentable compound or process to make money on it. Don't trick your mind into believing otherwise. They spend big bucks doing research on this kind of thing all the time, looking for natural occurring compounds with interesting properties. I can assure you, they've evaluated these.
Oh, and we DID land on the moon and Area 51 was just a place where they did flight testing of classified aircraft (no aliens where ever there)..
To eventually fix itself, the fine would need to exceed the profits. That never happens.
Oh come on, sure it does. These guys don't have money to burn. They are running on razor thin margins as large retailers have pressed them on price. The manufacturers are NOT making billions upon billions ripping people off in most cases, they are struggling to keep afloat while the likes of Wal-Mart beat them down on price, ask for placement fees trim their margins so the retailer can turn more product though their inventory. Big Retail is about turning your inventory dollars as fast as you can (which is why Radio Shack bit the big one). Turning inventory requires that you do VOLUME and that requires the perception that your PRICE is the best so the customers will come to you, spend their money buying the stuff you have in the store.
Margins are razor thin for everybody in these cases and everybody has to focus on turning inventory over as fast as they can.
A few million dollars lost to lawsuits will be huge problems for all but the largest of these companies. Even the big boys would shy away from the publicity and costs of loosing a lawsuit like this.
That is bunk... If there is a useful effective treatment there, then they can make money on it. If there isn't enough money to be made selling the proven FDA approved treatment, then there really isn't much of use there to start with.
It's not all that expensive to isolate a compound in something everybody can grow, test it, figure out how to manufacture it in bulk and sell it. Trust me, if there was any value there, they can come up with a way to patent it, the process to produce it or something *like* it that works too. The problem is that there isn't anything there in 99.999% of the herbal supplements you can find on store shelves, and usually any possible desired effect is FAR outweighed by the undesired side effects.
Herbal medicine is mostly snake oil and the power of suggestion coupled with a placebo, and who wants to admit they fell for the charlatan selling tonics armed with unscientific personal testimonials of past "happy customers". Don't get taken, don't be a rube. Leave that stuff on the store shelves so they will stop selling it.