I still don't get it...
What good is legislation that just gives ISP's the authority to do something they already have the authority to do?
They should call this 'The department of redundancy department' legislation.
DE

@thoscon said:

Jesus has already made sufficient sacrifice and paid your sin debt in total. No one can add to or take away from the completeness and perfection of his payment. We are under grace not law and are not required to make sacrifices. The wages of sin is death and permenent seperation from God. God's justice required that a perfectly innocent man be sacrificed to pay the sin debt of man. All of us have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. No action we can take on our own can pay any part of the debt or make any difference in our salvation. Religions that suggest otherwise are not recognizing the age (grace) that we are in now but are looking back to an age of old.
Sincerely,
Thomas

Priest: Michael, do you believe in God, the Father Almighty -- Creator of Heaven and Earth?
Michael: I do.
Priest: Do you believe in Jesus Christ, His only Son our Lord?
Michael: I do.
Priest: Do you believe in the Holy Ghost -- the Holy Catholic Church?
Michael: I do.
Priest: Michael Francis Rizzi -- do you renounce Satan?
Michael: I do renounce him.

I'll sell this technology for $20.00... shovels are a little more.

I'm not sure what this 'law' accomplishes. When you sign up with an ISP you sign a disclaimer agreement stating that you will not download illegally and P2P sites like Limewire also have similar disclaimers.
Many countries such as China and the (gulp) USA vigilantly monitor the Internet and other communication devices such as Cell phones. What benefit would an ISP provider derive from spending gazillions of dollars monitoring subscribers and then having to fend off the lawsuits. Cafes and libraries? I cannot see how this law can possibly be enforced.
Does anyone know where it originated? I'm guessing the Music and Movie biz.
DE

[/quote] i really like the lighting here DE...is this the office where you work?[/quote]
They are gaffers rigging light coops for a movie set I designed.

[/quote] I like this donkey cart as a subject. but more to that indeed is how yuo use the lighitng in your scene DE[/quote][quote="nomeradona"]≈
Thanks... it's all about the light.

Nice classroom shots.

Another Cuba shot.

Here's one to keep the thread going.
A day at the office.

@xrok1 said:

linea, you should be proud that your eyes are open, so am i. you should also be sad that society as a whole is blind to it. if you watch 'religulous' the mike myers movie, its the same way with a lot of important issues.

I think you mean Bill Maher.

@pbacot said:

DE

SketchUcation should give out a Best (ongoing) Avatar award. And you should get it for your tireless efforts.

P.S. I like the second cover you post, of the history comics. El Cid driving out the Moors. How ironical in Europe's "struggle for civilization". That alone put "civilization" back a couple centuries, I guess.

P

Thanks...
I wonder what today's cover would be?

@pbacot said:

I think it was Robert Reich who remarked on how we need to get real on this. Corporations are not people; they are formed to make money for a loose array of people, but we should treat corporations as entities that need strict regulation and have NO rights, beyond the laws of commerce. We shouldn't expect them to act like humans, nor give them the same freedoms.

(That goes for robots too, Googlebot.)

There you go.

@sorgesu said:

http://www.goveg.com/factoryfarming_chickens.asp

So do you eat chicken?

I was just agreeing with your 'being a better person' supposition. And NO I don't eat chicken.

@sorgesu said:

I suppose I personally could be a "better" person if I opted to boycott products that were not essential to my daily life if those products were known to be brought to market through some unfair practice. I guess I should really be careful about which grapes I am buying. I suppose I really shouldn't eat milk-fed veal...

Yes you could... and no you shouldn't.
As the saying goes_'if you're not part of the solution - you are part of the problem'.

Required reading...

THE SCENE OF THE CRIME.

This will never be resolved. Play nice.

GREAT MOMENTS IN GNOMERICAN ART...

Very nice Ecuadorian.
I love it when you just happen to be in the right place, wing it and the shot works out.

@hebrides said:

@unknownuser said:

a new camera that allows me to bracket and shoot

Be careful with the camera selection. Most auto bracket features will bracket +1 stop and -1 stop only, or sometimes in half stops. so you end up with a prett narrow exposure range accross 2 or 4 photos. Most HDRI construction software allows for the combining of many images accross a very wide range of exposures. Photomatics was mentioned, I believe you can combine 16 images with it. So bracketing is not enough. You want to shoot at as many stops as you can so you need to purchase an SLR that allows you to manually set all stops accross the range that the lens is capable of or at least accross the full range of exposures you want to collect data for.

Thanks. HDRI seems to be the flavor of the month. I doubt that I will become too infatuated with it.
DE

@nomeradona said:

Photo raw... that was really the advise of most photographers. but me no.. dont know why... perhaps saving space. i think i should right?

The theory is that Raw gives you the closest image to film and allows you to make all the 'developing' decisions. There is also the 'bit' (8-12-16etc.) considerations, that I am still figuring out. I still don't actually understand all the ramifications. Obviously, the next best option is tif. since the file doesn't degrade like a jpg.
Lots of questions.
Nice still life shots. BTW.
DE

nomeradona,
I actually downloaded the trial a few days ago, but haven't had a chance to get into it.
Apparently you can also use a single photo that you have altered to make three exposures.
Do you shoot all your photos RAW?
DE