I'd also mention that it has a self-timer, depth-of-field preview, hot-shoe *and* jack for external flash, a wide selection of high quality lenses still available, through-the-lense view of exposure meter, f-stop, and shutter speed, as well as two different focussing aids (split screen and the little fresnel-like one [can't remember its name right now]). Not as important, but useful as heck, it has a little bracket on the back which holds the end-panel from a box of film....really useful to remember what kind of film you have in at the moment.
Like the camera mentioned in the first post (the Pentax K-1000), this one is fully manual. One of the best benefits of a full manual is that it will still work even without a battery (of course, the exposure meter won't work, but after a bit of experience, you'll learn what exposures to use...hence the original posters comment about understanding photography better. Granted, you typically keep a good battery in it so you have the exposure meter, but it's really nice when the camera will at least work without it rather than shutting down completely).
I recommend the Minolta SRT-202 simply because it's a workhorse/tank....I bought mine in 1978 and it's still going strong with NO problems.
A small local news and events site in central Virginia, farmville.net, was one of the first news outlets to cover the April 24th fire at Longwood College. The fire was reported at 9:20pm; the farmville.net reporters were there by 9:45pm, shooting stills and video. The initial story was on the net by 4:30am the next day (while the fire was still going on). According to emails, the site was crucially important to alums and parents of students in other states & countries as their local news didn't cover the event.
The article was updated continously throughout the day with new pictures and information, as well as several times over the next couple of days.
Further, this site was the first to break the news that there were two (minor) injuries rather than simply repeating the "no injuries" line from the official press release.
Therefore, I suggest "Major Fire Hits Longwood College" as an entry in the breaking news category for an independent organization.
The only thing you can accurately describe as "Scotch" is a sticky tape made by 3M.
Funny, my bottle of Glenfiddich says "Scotch Whisky" on the front. Care you to argue the use of the word Scotch with that family (to invest in our company, marry our sister....Glenfiddich ad)?
While the bad parts are numerous and have already been mentioned (1-it sucks, 2-as an ISP, I don't want to have to collect it for the gov't, and 3-it sucks), there IS one good aspect of an outbound email tax....
It'd stop SPAM in its tracks. Well, maybe not all of it, but companies would have to actually target the spam. No more sending crapola to "1 million addresses on CD".
Personally, if I had to guess the name of AOL's search, I'd first try search.aol.com. Of course, if they used that, they wouldn't have to ask anybody or raise any uproar.
And what is a 'child' exactly? Less than 8? Less than 12? Less than 18? Does the attainment of a given birthday automatically make all given people 'ready to handle' so-called 'inappropriate content'?
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I'd also mention that it has a self-timer, depth-of-field preview, hot-shoe *and* jack for external flash, a wide selection of high quality lenses still available, through-the-lense view of exposure meter, f-stop, and shutter speed, as well as two different focussing aids (split screen and the little fresnel-like one [can't remember its name right now]). Not as important, but useful as heck, it has a little bracket on the back which holds the end-panel from a box of film....really useful to remember what kind of film you have in at the moment.
Like the camera mentioned in the first post (the Pentax K-1000), this one is fully manual. One of the best benefits of a full manual is that it will still work even without a battery (of course, the exposure meter won't work, but after a bit of experience, you'll learn what exposures to use...hence the original posters comment about understanding photography better. Granted, you typically keep a good battery in it so you have the exposure meter, but it's really nice when the camera will at least work without it rather than shutting down completely).
I recommend the Minolta SRT-202 simply because it's a workhorse/tank....I bought mine in 1978 and it's still going strong with NO problems.
A small local news and events site in central Virginia, farmville.net, was one of the first news outlets to cover the April 24th fire at Longwood College. The fire was reported at 9:20pm; the farmville.net reporters were there by 9:45pm, shooting stills and video. The initial story was on the net by 4:30am the next day (while the fire was still going on). According to emails, the site was crucially important to alums and parents of students in other states & countries as their local news didn't cover the event.
The article was updated continously throughout the day with new pictures and information, as well as several times over the next couple of days.
Further, this site was the first to break the news that there were two (minor) injuries rather than simply repeating the "no injuries" line from the official press release.
Therefore, I suggest "Major Fire Hits Longwood College" as an entry in the breaking news category for an independent organization.
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The only thing you can accurately describe as "Scotch" is a sticky tape made by 3M.
Funny, my bottle of Glenfiddich says "Scotch Whisky" on the front. Care you to argue the use of the word Scotch with that family (to invest in our company, marry our sister....Glenfiddich ad)?
While the bad parts are numerous and have already been mentioned (1-it sucks, 2-as an ISP, I don't want to have to collect it for the gov't, and 3-it sucks), there IS one good aspect of an outbound email tax....
It'd stop SPAM in its tracks. Well, maybe not all of it, but companies would have to actually target the spam. No more sending crapola to "1 million addresses on CD".
Personally, if I had to guess the name of AOL's search, I'd first try search.aol.com. Of course, if they used that, they wouldn't have to ask
anybody or raise any uproar.
Who decides what's appropriate for children?
And what is a 'child' exactly? Less than 8? Less than 12? Less than 18? Does the attainment of a given birthday automatically make all given people 'ready to handle' so-called 'inappropriate content'?