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.

I still find slashdot entertaining, due to the humour, the culture, etc... I just don't learn much from it any more. Back in the early days, there was always something new to be learned about technology, open source, computer security. I think both slashdot and I have evolved. I simply know more now, and slashdot might have gone down a the drain a little bit. However, I say that with the knowledge that other forums never even had the level of conversation one gets here, even now.

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.

Google it. Takes a bit to set up but its great. Smaller then 1 mb.

My Indian friends come from India. Or Leicester, but don't open _that_ can of worms..

So much the same as pretty much every other religion 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.

"So what's the problem with that?"

The become a member they existing members have to vote them in unanimously.
And for some reason I'm thinking some countries might object and veto.

England obviously.
France, so not to give ideas to Corsica.
Spain, Basques and Catalans
Belgium, ...
etc

"There's no way you could be as stupid as Metal guys were portrayed in those movies, and put on a live show."

It worked for metallica.

On the other hand, any of us that have worked in science or tech has known someone that is like sheldon..... EXACTLY like sheldon....
But then I have also worked with a Moss clone from the IT crowd...

"if we won't do something about these ISIS people, they will not stop until they reach the borders of the western world, and by then it will be too late. "

Only if dipshits vote for and pass laws disarming the american citizens.

You want to know why Japan never tried an attack on the US mainland? They knew the citizens outgunned their army 40 to 1.

You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass." - Soroku Yamamoto.

Actually technically he is right if we kill them all very fast.

nuke 80% of the middle east, full on carpet bomb every square mile with overlapping bursts and you will not have 2 more spring up. you will actually wipe them all out for good and not have any problems with middle eastern terrorisim.

The problem is surviving the 60 year nuclear winter afterwards.