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Forum: General Talk
11-16-2012, 07:48 PM
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We got rid of the dangerously incompetent crowd in 2008--you know, the ones who blew out the budget on tax cuts for the wealthy and idiotic military adventures.
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Forum: General Talk
11-09-2012, 04:54 AM
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I hope that they learned that they cannot spend four years obstructing every bill that comes through congress to try and manufacture the appearance that the president is a super liberal partisan hack and unable to get anything done (when in face he is quite moderate and willing ot compromise...just not willing to drop all democrat ideals). This is the number one reason I voted for Obama. I did not want to validate this strategy, and I never want to see it used again.
The second lesson I hoped they learned is that the Republican party should be an inclusive party instead of an exclusive party. When you alianate gay people, minorities, and women, it is a bit hard to win an ellection.
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Forum: Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Other Camera Brands
11-01-2012, 07:35 AM
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Can they put the same effort into their autofocus system that they put into making the sensor shine?
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Forum: Pentax K-5 & K-5 II
05-15-2012, 01:43 AM
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tragic isnt it, especially since you can get a replacement battery cheaper than 4 decent aas
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Forum: General Talk
02-08-2012, 08:35 PM
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A few others who benefitted from the first term:
Tens of millions of people who couldn't otherwise get insurance
88 million people who will receive better preventive care
People making middle class incomes
People who had exhausted unemployment benefits
People who deal with banks
2.6 million people who didn't have jobs
1.4 million People who work in automobile manufacture, sales, transportation, parts, etc.
People who own small businesses (who received 17 tax cuts)
People who pay FICA taxes
People who use debit cards
People who breathe
Troops in Iraq
People who might suffer from nuclear weapons stored in Russia
Veterans who want an education
Community colleges
9.4 million College students
Women who work
Who did not benefit:
Al Qaeda
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Forum: General Talk
01-30-2012, 09:15 AM
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It doesn't appear as though your guidance will be heeded, but would be nice if we could have a discussion about religion without the thread being taken over by someone's need to relive wrongs (real or imagined) done to them. Hearing about it once may even be too much, but hearing about it for years over and over and over again, and then repeated in single threads over and over and . . . it essentially amounts to a hijack. I know I drop out when it starts because any chance for a rational exchange of ideas with a variety of participants becomes more remote than distant galaxies.
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Forum: General Talk
11-26-2011, 09:55 PM
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A lift ticket and a great day of skiing!
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Forum: Pentax DSLR Discussion
09-23-2011, 08:08 PM
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I think dxo lost all credibility after their review of the canon 70-200mm f2.8L is II. As far as I'm concerned. The whole assigning a number rating for a sensor or even more so for a lens is pretty arbitrary. Just my 2 cents.:)
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
09-08-2011, 11:46 AM
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Not if you're a McDonald's shareholder, employee, supplier, or creditor, they are not.
The only false assumption is the insistence of YOUR perspective. Just because YOU say a relationship is mutually exclusive does not mean that this is true for ALL perspectives.
When someone disagrees with you in an argument, it's because you cannot escape from your own circular reasoning. Just because you think they are mutually exclusive, doesn't mean they are.
An economist cuts through that by looking at where people vote with their $$$. By economic stats, the Big Mac is the best hamburger ever because it probably returned more profit to more shareholders than any other burger in history. I cannot ever get consensus on whether it tastes the best, but that's a moot subjective. It sold the best. It sold the best even if all 5 million who bought it thought it tasted like crap. 1,000 year from now is someone is doing a thesis on food habits of our generation, and they want to write their piece on the best hamburger, if the #'s are still around, they'll easily be able to say which hamburger was the best over the last 20 years, and prove it using sales data, because you will not be around to argue with them.
Why do you think marketers religiously use the terms best-selling or best-in-class rather than simply the best? Because they can defend themselves against false advertising by rolling out sales data or checklists of comparative features per pricing unit. You can argue until you are blue about the term best being subjective and mutually exclusive, and the guy holding McD stock merely looks at his 20 year profit return to know better.
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Forum: Pentax K-5 & K-5 II
01-21-2011, 10:21 PM
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I think this thread deserves an award for containing the largest amount of incorrect, flawed and baseless guesses on a single page.
Fake ISO that results in a loss of dynamic range?!?
Lamp flicker at 1/30 shutter speed?!?
Limited CPU because of heat/size?!?
Are you people serious?!?!?!?
There's nothing magical about tiny exposure differences from one shot to the next when you're changing parameters!!! This is a complete non-issue!!!
edit: Obviously this is because of the magical gnomes that live inside the camera and operate the light meter. They require a daily feeding of Kraft Mac & Cheese to operate at peak efficiency. Otherwise these variances become more apparent. Just push a couple of pieces of Mac & Cheese pasta through the lens mount, squished up against the mirror. Then mount the lens and let the camera rest for 2 hours while the gnomes feast.
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