If Scotland gets an even larger share of the tax pot than it already does while Scottish MPs continue to vote for tuition fees, prescription charges and austerity in England, expect riots.
In that sense, the technical stuff you covet is a waste of a good photographer's time.
I learned photography on a.3Mp (not a typo... POINT 3Mp) camera and even today, 13 years later, those old photographs tickle the eyeballs. It didn't have any knobs, so screw the technical bullshit like ISO and F-stop.
It's all about the photograph.
The photograph is incredibly different depending on f-stop. I can use the same exposure (shutter/fstop combination), the same framing, the same ISO, the same lighting, the same subject, the same camera, the same lens and give you two entirely visually and artistically different photographs just by changing the f-stop.
Now tell me, if it's all about the photograph, which of those two photographs is it about? Are you going to trust to random luck or are you going to use the technical stuff that's a waste of time to consciously choose between them?
They can call it a religion all they want, but that don't make it so! Their version is really a perversion of religion, twisting things to try to justify their insanity.
So much the same as pretty much every other religion then?
Even at 1:2, you really have a camera with a 6cm wide sensor?
Actually, no, ignore that question. They could easily have use medium format film cameras with a macro lens (can you get medium format macro lenses? surely?) then just scanned it in.
Personally I suspect they just photoshopped the fucker though, but I'm biased.
As easy as it is to mock people getting upset at a free album, I do agree with you.
I use a third party music app on my Android phone exactly because Google's default app does its utmost to obscure my music (loaded onto my phone) with their cloud based store.
Why shouldn't people know the basics of farming, of how cars and engines work, how to manage a business. Shit, Lazarus Long expects a fuck of a lot more than that.
Your interpretation is illogical and incorrect. Your reading comprehension is as absent as the fairies. You should find an adult to help you with this.
At no point does he state that there are two things he disbelieves in (within this conversation thread - I haven't checked his lifetime utterances)
He does state 'either of those', implying two things, but that refers to his state of belief on existance of a god, and his state of belief on "a universe created and watched over" by fairies. Oh look, the 'and' refers to the actions of the fucking fairies.
He did write it. The rest of that sentence doesn't really alter that statement, but discusses a new topic. So, I didn't actually "invent something," did I?
Ok, you fail reading comprehension then, as well as being an idiot.
He actually said
I don't believe that the universe was created and is watched over by an infinite number of tiny, invisible fairies.
Tell me, which Catholic fucking priest proposed a big bang theory involving infinite fucking fairies?
Please, tell me you're not talking about that fraudulent practice of 'faith healing', debunked and replicated through the same charlatan means by people trying to save gullible idiots from giving their money to exploitative conmen?
Or do you mean healing using manufactured drugs, developed and tested through the use of science?
Of course, traditionally it has not proven to be a particularly intelligent strategy to tell the Germans to F*** Off! since they tend to react badly to that (read: Invasions, panzers, stukas, u-boats, V-1 cruise missiles, V-2 rockets... etc)
Nonsense. I am a customer of Slashdot. They provide me with community, entertainment and a means of venting my ire at online idiots.
In return I contribute to that community, making their product more valuable and generating more ad views for them from the anonymous cowards that reply in horror at the posts in which I vent my ire.
I am a customer, and I'm represented in Slashdot's accounts as an asset.
But hey, I'm not an accountant. I got a proper job instead.
Sorry, I invited you to provide evidence, and you merely restated your assumption. I give your assumption no credence, and your entire argument thus fails.
Clearly the guy that posted it did. He's allowed a sense of humour. It's not indicative of his attitudes towards atheists, women, marines, college professors or beholders. It doesn't mean that he'll act with prejudice. It means he has a sense of humour - whether that's good or bad.
Tell you what: Find the evidence that he didn't post the joke to mock the marine mentality, or to show that people with archaic superstitions can't bear to be successfully challenged. Because that's just as legitimate a reason as the imputation that he posted it because he hates atheists and he wants to remove them all from positions within government sanctioned bodies.
Did you even fucking read the website I linked you to? I know you're a fucking Apple fan but is even the tiniest bit of common fucking sense and intelligence too much to ask?
30 feet of resistance in static water is nowhere near the pressure the moment you move your fucking arm underwater. Do try and keep up with basic fucking physics.
Shit, I just saved you $350 replacing your new fucking toy and you're insisting on killing it anyway and suggesting that watchmakers worldwide are fraudulent. Fuck you.
Yeah, I've made a few Apple tablet owners insanely jealous with my "Samsung Note 10.1 2014 Edition". Shite name, gorgeous tablet and for handwritten notes and diagrams in the office/meetings it's genuinely excellent.
No reason at all that Apple couldn't match it, it's just a proper pressure sensitive stylus with sensible software support.
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If Scotland gets an even larger share of the tax pot than it already does while Scottish MPs continue to vote for tuition fees, prescription charges and austerity in England, expect riots.
The country is changing.
It matters because some fucking dork with no understanding wont take two pictures, they'll take one.
So basically you're going on blind random fucking luck, not actually using skill and intent to take the right photograph.
It is indeed all about the photograph. Shame that your approach means you'll often miss out on it.
The issue isn't inanity - each photo posted on Facebook means something to someone.
The challenge is curation. How do you find the great photographs.
In that sense, the technical stuff you covet is a waste of a good photographer's time.
I learned photography on a .3Mp (not a typo ... POINT 3Mp) camera and even today, 13 years later, those old photographs tickle the eyeballs. It didn't have any knobs, so screw the technical bullshit like ISO and F-stop.
It's all about the photograph.
The photograph is incredibly different depending on f-stop. I can use the same exposure (shutter/fstop combination), the same framing, the same ISO, the same lighting, the same subject, the same camera, the same lens and give you two entirely visually and artistically different photographs just by changing the f-stop.
Now tell me, if it's all about the photograph, which of those two photographs is it about? Are you going to trust to random luck or are you going to use the technical stuff that's a waste of time to consciously choose between them?
You mock, but I know that a lot of my best photographs are because my camera's bloody good, not because I am.
My Indian friends come from India. Or Leicester, but don't open _that_ can of worms..
They can call it a religion all they want, but that don't make it so! Their version is really a perversion of religion, twisting things to try to justify their insanity.
So much the same as pretty much every other religion then?
Not much of a bomb, then.
No, probably wouldn't kill more than 2-3 million outright and another 4-5 million over the next decade. Barely worth having really.
It's a nuclear fucking weapon parked next to a city of 9 million people. I'd say that's all the fucking bomb you need.
Even at 1:2, you really have a camera with a 6cm wide sensor?
Actually, no, ignore that question. They could easily have use medium format film cameras with a macro lens (can you get medium format macro lenses? surely?) then just scanned it in.
Personally I suspect they just photoshopped the fucker though, but I'm biased.
I'm not sure whether to be appalled, impressed, distressed or just take part.
I'll settle for joining you: what the fuck...
As easy as it is to mock people getting upset at a free album, I do agree with you.
I use a third party music app on my Android phone exactly because Google's default app does its utmost to obscure my music (loaded onto my phone) with their cloud based store.
Would probably help a lot on the obesity front.
Why shouldn't people know the basics of farming, of how cars and engines work, how to manage a business. Shit, Lazarus Long expects a fuck of a lot more than that.
Your interpretation is illogical and incorrect. Your reading comprehension is as absent as the fairies. You should find an adult to help you with this.
At no point does he state that there are two things he disbelieves in (within this conversation thread - I haven't checked his lifetime utterances)
He does state 'either of those', implying two things, but that refers to his state of belief on existance of a god, and his state of belief on "a universe created and watched over" by fairies. Oh look, the 'and' refers to the actions of the fucking fairies.
Which still don't appear to exist.
He did write it. The rest of that sentence doesn't really alter that statement, but discusses a new topic. So, I didn't actually "invent something," did I?
Ok, you fail reading comprehension then, as well as being an idiot.
He actually said
I don't believe that the universe was created and is watched over by an infinite number of tiny, invisible fairies.
Tell me, which Catholic fucking priest proposed a big bang theory involving infinite fucking fairies?
If I. as a Christian who has seen healings
Please, tell me you're not talking about that fraudulent practice of 'faith healing', debunked and replicated through the same charlatan means by people trying to save gullible idiots from giving their money to exploitative conmen?
Or do you mean healing using manufactured drugs, developed and tested through the use of science?
Of course, traditionally it has not proven to be a particularly intelligent strategy to tell the Germans to F*** Off! since they tend to react badly to that (read: Invasions, panzers, stukas, u-boats, V-1 cruise missiles, V-2 rockets... etc)
I'm British, the rules are different for us.
Nonsense. I am a customer of Slashdot. They provide me with community, entertainment and a means of venting my ire at online idiots.
In return I contribute to that community, making their product more valuable and generating more ad views for them from the anonymous cowards that reply in horror at the posts in which I vent my ire.
I am a customer, and I'm represented in Slashdot's accounts as an asset.
But hey, I'm not an accountant. I got a proper job instead.
Sorry, I invited you to provide evidence, and you merely restated your assumption. I give your assumption no credence, and your entire argument thus fails.
Clearly the guy that posted it did. He's allowed a sense of humour. It's not indicative of his attitudes towards atheists, women, marines, college professors or beholders. It doesn't mean that he'll act with prejudice. It means he has a sense of humour - whether that's good or bad.
Tell you what: Find the evidence that he didn't post the joke to mock the marine mentality, or to show that people with archaic superstitions can't bear to be successfully challenged. Because that's just as legitimate a reason as the imputation that he posted it because he hates atheists and he wants to remove them all from positions within government sanctioned bodies.
Priests maybe, but what about a sexist joke followed by investigating men? Jokes are just jokes, sorry.
Sorry but funny jokes are funny. I laugh at racist jokes. I laugh at sexist jokes. I laugh at jokes about Catholic priests raping small children.
I may or may not be sexist or racist, but it's pretty clear that I'm not a Catholic priest. Would you say I advocate raping small children?
Disabling the phone is a response to someone breaking the fucking law. It's part of the punishment.
If you don't text while driving, you wont break that particular law, and you wont get your phone disabled. Pretty fucking simple really.
Did you even fucking read the website I linked you to? I know you're a fucking Apple fan but is even the tiniest bit of common fucking sense and intelligence too much to ask?
30 feet of resistance in static water is nowhere near the pressure the moment you move your fucking arm underwater. Do try and keep up with basic fucking physics.
Shit, I just saved you $350 replacing your new fucking toy and you're insisting on killing it anyway and suggesting that watchmakers worldwide are fraudulent. Fuck you.
Yeah, I've made a few Apple tablet owners insanely jealous with my "Samsung Note 10.1 2014 Edition". Shite name, gorgeous tablet and for handwritten notes and diagrams in the office/meetings it's genuinely excellent.
No reason at all that Apple couldn't match it, it's just a proper pressure sensitive stylus with sensible software support.