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Quote: Rigondeaux[
Police often use stronger methods than she does. The implication is that we've been hanging innocent people forever.
I expect to eventually hear of some cases where someone is executed because of too much reliance on DNA. I mean, if you want to frame someone for something you would get their DNA into the crime scene.
Quote: rxwineI expect to eventually hear of some cases where someone is executed because of too much reliance on DNA. I mean, if you want to frame someone for something you would get their DNA into the crime scene.
There have been abuses. There was a Texas case where the wrong people were convicted due to DNA labwork involving mixed DNA, more than one person's DNA in the sample in other words. In those cases it gets very complicated evidently, and a lab had people not competent to handle such screwing it up. Watched a program on this and one problem cited too is that judge and jury have grown to have complete faith in DNA evidence - something that prosecutors and police know all too well.
To be fair the number of people getting their convictions reversed due to DNA evidence now available is monumental, just astounding. People in prison 30+ years often. Google that!
PS: I did google this, seems that thousands of Texas cases of mixed DNA are being reviewed now.
https://www.google.com/search?q=texas+mixed+dna+wrongly+convicted&oq=texas+mixed+dna+wrongly+convicted&gs_l=psy-ab.12...32520.38407.0.41319.12.12.0.0.0.0.1259.3531.7-3.3.0....0...1.1.64.psy-ab..9.1.1259...35i39k1.hc6d7F4SK2M
Smart phone for 1k. Are you really that smart for buying one? Maybe that you can buy one because you have plenty of disposable income, but smart, I don't know.
Quote: rxwineApple's new i-phone 10. $1000
Smart phone for 1k. Are you really that smart for buying one? Maybe that you can buy one because you have plenty of disposable income, but smart, I don't know.
I mean, there's way worse ways to spend $1k.
For the amount of time I spend using my phone (for better or for worse), I like to have one of the better one's I can get.
No internet service: don't need it, don't want it.
PC's work well enough for me, and I feel having all that power at my finger tips would corrupt me.
Stayin' pure.
Quote: onenickelmiracleyou're going to be directly connected to the internet through your brain
It'll be free because it will be involuntary - and anyone seen wearing aluminum foil helmets will be immediately lined up against a wall and shot, without a trial.
Quote: odiousgambitIt'll be free because it will be involuntary - and anyone seen wearing aluminum foil helmets will be immediately lined up against a wall and shot, without a trial.
Coming investment opportunity; wigs woven thru RF shields. Men's and women's. Hide your resistance!
Irma update. Still without power. So not on much. Resenting load time for this site with little battery power. Wth, Zuga?
Quote: onenickelmiracleIt's real. Laugh all you want, it's going to be happening. People are going to have cranial implants in 10 years. For a bet's sake, I'd say 15 years to be safe and offer 2/1.
I'm agreeing, not.mocking. the Matrix is upon us.
The matrix is 20 years away, just waiting on computing power advancements too.Quote: beachbumbabsI'm agreeing, not.mocking. the Matrix is upon us.
Cons: Big biz/gov will monitor everything you say and do.
Pros: Never again will you see something that could get a thousand retweets and not have time to take a picture.
We'd make that trade of in a heartbeat.
I discovered a huge bright green spider on my jacket yesterday. We took a picture, but it was hard to get a good shot. It also had two pseudo eyes on its thorax, reddish pink with yellow pupils. I bet it was very possibly poisonous with it's bright colors and possibly never discovered. Possible fame for discovering it didn't seem worth more than the odds of it dying in captivity within 24 hours. Ive never heard of such a spider before, odds are it was just as well common.Quote: RigondeauxI'm pretty sure we'll all have built in body cams. Which, obviously, the government will hack and/or the TOS will say Google has the rights to access all of the data for purely benevolent purposes.
Cons: Big biz/gov will monitor everything you say and do.
Pros: Never again will you see something that could get a thousand retweets and not have time to take a picture.
We'd make that trade of in a heartbeat.
Added: Whatever it was, nothing is even close in a google image search using the description I gave.
Quote: beachbumbabsIrma update. Still without power. So not on much. Resenting load time for this site with little battery power. Wth, Zuga?
I only suffered a short internet and cable outage.
I heard one of the reporters ask someone who lost a lot of stuff, "Do you feel lucky?"
All I could think of was the Clint Eastwood line from "Dirty Harry", while he has his gun pointed at a guy. Didn't turn out to be too lucky.
Quote: onenickelmiracleAdded: Whatever it was, nothing is even close in a google image search using the description I gave.
Google has an actual image search. I tried it on a fuzzy image of something flying around a flowering plant, but the image wasn't clear enough for it to match anything.
I know I've done it on a computer, but it's hard on a phone. There is supposed to be a way to use a certain website to google image search, but it didn't work when I tried it. What I meant, I used a text search, clicked on images and saw nothing like it in the first 20 pages, so I gave up.Quote: rxwineGoogle has an actual image search. I tried it on a fuzzy image of something flying around a flowering plant, but the image wasn't clear enough for it to match anything.
Quote: onenickelmiracleI discovered a huge bright green spider on my jacket yesterday. We took a picture, but it was hard to get a good shot. It also had two pseudo eyes on its thorax, reddish pink with yellow pupils. I bet it was very possibly poisonous with it's bright colors and possibly never discovered. Possible fame for discovering it didn't seem worth more than the odds of it dying in captivity within 24 hours. Ive never heard of such a spider before, odds are it was just as well common.
Added: Whatever it was, nothing is even close in a google image search using the description I gave.
Does it look like any of these pictures of the orchard orbweaver?
I'm familiar with the golden orb weaver, but this the first I've heard of the orchard orb weaver.
I can't get it to work anymore, I've uninstalled and reinstalled with no luck.
No. It's thorax was round like a ball, just a little bigger than a kernel of corn. My bro was the one who took the pic, said it was kind of blurry. Not sure if he deleted it or not. Legs were short as I remember, maybe it wasn't even a spider, pretty sure it was, but you never know.Quote: ChesterDogDoes it look like any of these pictures of the orchard orbweaver?
I'm familiar with the golden orb weaver, but this the first I've heard of the orchard orb weaver.
I finally got around to doing something that I have been putting off for more than five years. Rather than resurrecting some very old threads, I thought I would post the updated info in this thread. The topic is panoramic photography, and I'll begin with the background.
In December 2010, I posted a panoramic photo I had captured from the roof of the Rio, showing the Las Vegas strip at night as viewed from the west. Then, in May 2012, I posted a similar panoramic photo I shot from the Paris Las Vegas version of the Eiffel Tower, showing the view of the opposite side of some of those same strip facilities. Finally, in February 2014, I posted a 270° panorama taken from a balcony at the Cosmopolitan LV.
If you're not interested in reading the old posts and just want to take a look at the photos again, you can see them here:
Strip as seen from the Rio
Strip as seen from the Eiffel tower
View from the Cosmopolitan balcony
Now for the updated comments. In the very last post of that 2012 thread about the shot from the Eiffel tower, I said:
Quote: DocI plan to get a print made to hang in my condo. When I got the 8" x 64" print of the view from the top of the Rio, I wasted money. I paid for a 24" x 64" print that was 2/3 blank. If I had planned better, I could have gotten three identical images on the paper for the same price.
This time around, I don't want to make the same mistake. I plan to get a 36" x 48" print that includes four copies of the view from atop the Eiffel Tower with each about 8.8" x 48". I don't really need but one print, so I thought I would check to see whether there are others here who would like to have a print and share the cost. (I'm not really trying to make any money here.) I think I can get the 4-image print at a cost that would make each of the individual ones be somewhere around $20 or $25, plus the cost of a mailing tube and postage to anyone who is interested.
I warn you, if you plan to have such a print custom framed as I will, the framing job will cost one heck of a lot more than the print.
Let me know if you are interested, and I will check further into the cost of the printing.
Nobody here showed any interest in owning such a print, and I just now (five+ years later) got around to purchasing the multi-image print. I turned in one of the images to be custom framed, and as I said back then, the framing is much more expensive than the print itself.
The purpose of this rambling post is to assess once more whether anyone here is interested in having a print of their own. Let me know.
Update:
Evacuated at last minute to a former state shelter that lost its power and water during the storm. Emergency generator kept kicking in and kicking out for almost two days.
Water was down.
Its technically 'on' now but five minute boil is advised.
I've had all the macaroni and cheese and flax cereal I ever want to see. Why do people living in extremely close quarters get served beans???
My home was not really habitable early but now it at six feet of water so everything is ruined.
Rescue checks still being conducted by boat and swamp buggies.
Finally got my routingnumber for FEMA use.
glad every member in Florida seems to have survived, albeit with some worries and difficulties.
Update:
Evacuated at last minute to a former state shelter that lost its power and water during the storm. Emergency generator kept kicking in and kicking out for almost two days.
Water was down.
Its technically 'on' now but five minute boil is advised.
I've had all the macaroni and cheese and flax cereal I ever want to see. Why do people living in extremely close quarters get served beans???
My home was not really habitable early but now it at six feet of water so everything is ruined.
Rescue checks still being conducted by boat and swamp buggies.
Finally got my routingnumber for FEMA use.
glad every member in Florida seems to have survived, albeit with some worries and difficulties.
Quote: FleaStiffNo thanks, I couldn't afford a print and ain't got no wall to hang it on anymore.
Update:
Evacuated at last minute to a former state shelter that lost its power and water during the storm. Emergency generator kept kicking in and kicking out for almost two days.
Water was down.
Its technically 'on' now but five minute boil is advised.
I've had all the macaroni and cheese and flax cereal I ever want to see. Why do people living in extremely close quarters get served beans???
My home was not really habitable early but now it at six feet of water so everything is ruined.
Rescue checks still being conducted by boat and swamp buggies.
Finally got my routingnumber for FEMA use.
glad every member in Florida seems to have survived, albeit with some worries and difficulties.
I'm glad that you survived and you evacuated. Hope that your home gets restored sometime soon.
Quote: RSIt's actually interesting.
What fun. I hadn't seen Bell's Theorem presented quite in this fashion before. Went down the rabbit hole for 2 hours. Came back to (what passes for) reality with 7 pages of notes and books from my personal library scattered about, each open to some aspect of the discussion.
Einstein (and Podolsky & Rosen, co-authors) tried to prove that quantum theory was an incomplete description of reality. Quantum theory suggested that the measurement process used on one quantum object (for example a photon or an electron) could affect the reality of a second, separate quantum object, even though the measurement process itself does not disturb the second quantum object in any way. Conclusion: "No reasonable definition of reality could be expected to permit this."
Then, John Bell (and many after him) came along and demonstrated reality -- reasonable or not -- does exactly that. At one point, the Physics World internet site described this body of work with the headline, "Quantum physics says goodbye to reality."
Quote: Doc-snip-
If you're not interested in reading the old posts and just want to take a look at the photos again, you can see them here:
Strip as seen from the Rio
Strip as seen from the Eiffel tower
View from the Cosmopolitan balcony
-snip-
Really enjoyed these photos. Thanks for posting.
My fav is the Eiffel tower one. I wonder if the Bellagio fountain display (in motion) would turn out in a panoramic? A daytime vs nighttime panoramic comparison may make for an interesting (top/bottom) framed combo.
The "Eiffel tower one" is the one for which I have a few prints available. The omission of the Bellagio fountains from the image is one of my disappointments. In order to get the horizontal panorama, I kept the camera level and took multiple shots around. Shooting from the tower's observation platform, I had plenty of black sky at the top (trimmed just above the Cosmopolitan), but I could not capture the fountain itself.Quote: KeeneoneMy fav is the Eiffel tower one. I wonder if the Bellagio fountain display (in motion) would turn out in a panoramic?
Decades ago, when trying to capture a similar composite image from the south rim of the Grand Canyon, I learned that you cannot tilt the camera to look down -- when the images are joined for a flat print, there is just way too much distortion. (Yes, if you have the right kind of camera, you can keep the film/detector in the vertical plane and shift the lens much lower to project low-elevation objects onto the film/detector without the distortion, but I've never had that kind of camera.)
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I hear this piercing, whiny voice: O.M.G.? Like, he totally should try to hit the baseball? Wow. Just wow. Why aren't we talking about domestic violence? They should kick Cam Newton out of baseball? Oh wow that reminds me? I went to the gas station today... well, before I went to the gas station I was putting on my shoes? And I thought one of them had shrunk? But it turned out it hadn't? So then I decided to have a yogurt, but we were out of yogurt so I had some oatmeal? Oh, do you like Sarah's brother's new girlfriend? I think she's a bitch.
I'm exaggerating a bit, but the game was unlistenable. I gave it a try but I had to turn it off in under 5 minutes.
With TV, you can at least turn the commentary off or down, which I often do anyway. With radio, and most of all with baseball on the radio, women just don't work. A good baseball announcer like Vin Scully is the antithesis of listening to a woman talking.
It also messes up the dynamic in the booth because you can't rib a woman, or correct her. You have to be extra nice and sugar coat everything and overpraise her.
Can we just have a few hours here and there to ourselves?
I think it's less politically driven than economically. Same as the WNBA being forcefed. Guys already like sports. They want to get more girls buying jerseys and paying $400 for sneakers. This is a tactic to real them in. But I'd be surprised for a radio baseball game, if ratings didn't fall off by at least 10% simply because guys are not listening to ball games so they can hear women talking.
Quote: RigondeauxToday I was victimized, much like MaxPen was earlier. I was driving and found the baseball game on the radio, which always makes me happy. Baseball plays so well on the radio and it's thrived there for many decades. The play by play guy makes his comment and goes to the colerr commentator.
I hear this piercing, whiny voice: O.M.G.? Like, he totally should try to hit the baseball? Wow. Just wow. Why aren't we talking about domestic violence? They should kick Cam Newton out of baseball? Oh wow that reminds me? I went to the gas station today... well, before I went to the gas station I was putting on my shoes? And I thought one of them had shrunk? But it turned out it hadn't? So then I decided to have a yogurt, but we were out of yogurt so I had some oatmeal? Oh, do you like Sarah's brother's new girlfriend? I think she's a bitch.
I'm exaggerating a bit, but the game was unlistenable. I gave it a try but I had to turn it off in under 5 minutes.
With TV, you can at least turn the commentary off or down, which I often do anyway. With radio, and most of all with baseball on the radio, women just don't work. A good baseball announcer like Vin Scully is the antithesis of listening to a woman talking.
It also messes up the dynamic in the booth because you can't rib a woman, or correct her. You have to be extra nice and sugar coat everything and overpraise her.
Can we just have a few hours here and there to ourselves?
I think it's less politically driven than economically. Same as the WNBA being forcefed. Guys already like sports. They want to get more girls buying jerseys and paying $400 for sneakers. This is a tactic to real them in. But I'd be surprised for a radio baseball game, if ratings didn't fall off by at least 10% simply because guys are not listening to ball games so they can hear women talking.
I wasn't sure what you meant about MaxPen being victimized earlier, so I thought I'd search for it. I was google searching, "How was MaxPen vict...." then realized it's likely not going to show up on a google search. :(
You probably under-exaggerated(?) what the announcer was saying. It probably would have filled up a full page of text.
I don't watch sports often or listen to it on the radio (still don't know how to tune to AM on my radio, but I have Sirius XM, so yolo), but it seems like it's always only guys announcing. I don't think there's a problem with only guys announcing football, baseball, and other man sports. I think it'd be kind of weird if they had guys announcing women's (okay, the "women's" part is rhetorical) under-water basket-weaving. Do women want commercials with men talking tampons and other weird sh**?
Quote: MaxPenThis is awful. Who in their right mind wants to listen to a woman announcing a football game. Especially with her nasally pinched voice. SJW's always have to change the way things have always been. Have they ever changed or done things the way other people do things without calling them Hitler. Tuning out. Think I'm done. Damn players can't even stand for the anthem. This loser is the final straw.
Maybe the NFL could give females jobs as bikini clad chain holders. That would satisfy everyone, correct? Women would have jobs and manly men wouldn't be forced outside their comfort zone.
It's bad enough we have to listen to them while dating, who wants to hear them during a sporting event.
Quote: billryanReally. Why can't we go back to that good old time where women and minorities knew their place.
Maybe the NFL could give females jobs as bikini clad chain holders. That would satisfy everyone, correct? Women would have jobs and manly men wouldn't be forced outside their comfort zone.
It's bad enough we have to listen to them while dating, who wants to hear them during a sporting event.
Might surprise you.that I'm saying this, but I agree with Max about women talking heads, whether sports or news. High-pitched nasal voices are annoying. There are some good female sportscasters, but imo only those you want to listen to. Mary Carillo (olympics, maybe tennis too), Erin what's her name (football sidelines ), other low-pitched, well-trained speakers are fine. Katie Couric is borderline, but pretty good, just a little high-pitched.
True as well for men with high, thin, nasal voices. A lot of political and sports commentators and reporters these days have a voice made for newspapers. Either gender.
I really do think that women should take media and speech training to use their deepest, most non-nasal voice.
Not talking content or expertise in making these comments. But a well-modulated voice should be a requirement if you're going to work on TV or radio.
It was a handicap for me when starting out in ATC. I sound like Delilah, the midnight FM dj. And the pilots would flirt, but they wouldn't listen or react promptly. I had to change my inflection, putting a mental "you WILL" into my voice to start every transmission, before they would do what I said. That was a job requirement for me as well.
Seems similar to this, at least to me. It's the job, not the women doing it.
Men can be extremely tedious, mainly because of the fragility of their egos. Like when you play poker and they constantly explain how they played every hand perfectly.
However, if I made the above statement in a vacuum nobody would bat an eye. But because I said something about women, now I have to say something negative about men. Because you are only supposed to say nice things to and about women.
If you have any manners you change your behavior around women, never mind dealing with them directly
Cam Newton just lost millions for failing to do so and simply making a pretty banal observation. Because you can't do that with women.
Greg popovic did his normal routine of abrupt answers with a female reporter and she admited that she broke down crying afterwards. Most of us don't want to make women cry. So you can't treat them like men.
Anyway, it's nice to take a break. Sportscasts especially on the radio especially baseball are about kicking back and relaxing and telling stories. The announcers rib each other for gaining weight or being cheap.
The color guy is almost always a former player. He has stories from his playing days an first hand insites into the situations at hand.
I don't want him replaced by an unqualified person who breaks up the normal social dynamics of the broadcast just to prove a point or sell more stuff.
There's nothing wrong with wanting to relax and bro out occasionally.
Ps I also hate the trend of sportscaster who scream like the four horseman just rode over the horizon ever time their team scores. Ridiculous and phony. It's just an effing game
Quote: RigondeauxI guess you must want to bring back slavery then babs.
Men can be extremely tedious, mainly because of the fragility of their egos. Like when you play poker and they constantly explain how they played every hand perfectly.
However, if I made the above statement in a vacuum nobody would bat an eye. But because I said something about women, now I have to say something negative about men. Because you are only supposed to say nice things to and about women.
If you have any manners you change your behavior around women, never mind dealing with them directly
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Ps I also hate the trend of sportscaster who scream like the four horseman just rode over the horizon ever time their team scores. Ridiculous and phony. It's just an effing game
Ummm. What? I have NO idea what you mean about slavery.
I think color is best coming from someone who used to play the game at a superior level. In most cases, that takes someone of the same gender. Someone calling the game (sportscaster) should be VERY well versed in the particular team and the game as well.
I don't know why anybody watches the sideline reports. I get nothing out of them. So I don't really care if it's a man or woman.
But the people in the booth should really know the sport and the players. They should have interesting things to say, and have a broadcaster voice to say them in.
That's all I want from them. Not sure why they have to go past that.Very specific. Very basic skills. But those few things should be required.
PS I agree about the screaming. Occasionally it seems natural, when it's a surprise or a reversa that chanhe's the game. Usually it's fake and stupid. Gooooooooooal leftover imo.
In hindsight, we undervalued Howard Cosell, especially with boxing.
The worst today has got to be Chip Kelly on ESPN.
He was Dr. J before Dr. J.
Check out the incredible moves in these two vids.
RIP Connie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cp3UXNVqR9E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0P0g71TsmE
Quote: beachbumbabsFwiw : for me, Al Michaels and Chris Collingsworth are the best on tv.
At first I didnt like Collingsworth, but when I realized he made an effort to cover the offensive and defensive line as much as he could, he won me over.
You serious RS? What you want to deprive him of his fun for? Those motorized carts are great.Quote: RSMy friend has a serious grocery shopping addiction and he needs help. Time for an intervention?
You serious RS? What you want to deprive him of his fun for? Those motorized carts are great.Quote: RSMy friend has a serious grocery shopping addiction and he needs help. Time for an intervention?
