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Comment Re:Why does Obama keep doing this? (Score 1) 211

Till the Republicans can put forth a candidate that isn't a looney toon the Democrats won't have any incentive to do a thing for this country.

A looney toon would be an improvement. As long as it's not Harper, there are a number of Canadian politicians that would do better than Bush Jr / McCain / Palin / Milt or the rest of the crazies in the Republican primaries. Really guys, if Romney was the absolute best you could do and if anyone is even thinking about Bush III, the democrats are going to win no matter who they stuff up there.

Comment Re:Obama (Score 4, Interesting) 211

Oh you are quite wrong. The ACA (Obamacare) is not a giveaway to the pharmaceutical industry. That would be very low. It is, in fact, a giveaway to the insurance industry. And the lawyers.

The insurance industry and lawyers are like the laws of thermodynamics - you can't win any battles with them, you can't even battle to a draw, and you have to play with them.

Comment Re:Sheer insanity (Score 1) 214

Yes, RAW does. A Nikon D800 RAW file is 36 MB or so. I use 16 GB cards in my cameras and really have trouble filling them in a whole day shooting. If you're shooting between 2 and 5 16 GB cards for still images on a daily you might want to review that. You're shooting too often. Slow down and look. Even if you're only editing 10% of that you have 9 GB of files - that's roughly 250 edited images on a daily basis.

You'll never get out of the basement alive.

Comment Re:Check some Facts (Score 1) 214

Of course there are no 'hard facts' - nothing has happened yet and both Adobe and Apple are renown for not being especially forthcoming.

Yes, Hogan (along with half the planet) doesn't like Adobe. He's been pretty negative about the whole Creative Clown, er Cloud, thing. But his underlying premise is interesting - that this is the first step in Apple rationalizing a photography workflow. It's not 'the' photography workflow and may not fit many professional / prosumer goals - but that doesn't appear to be Apples audience. Perhaps. Hard to say since, again, Apple isn't terribly forthcoming.

But you have two big hitters in this space: Apple and Adobe. It will be interesting to see how this falls out. For my purposes, I've never liked Aperture / iPhoto. The workflow just doesn't fit with how I do things and isn't terribly flexible. I've actually enjoyed Creative Clown as I get to use After Effects and Illustrator for a perfectly reasonable price but YMMV, but I can't stand Lightroom. No matter, Adobe has recently started behaving better. You can now keep old versions running for as long as you like. You can download CS6 - forever. Yes, subscriptions are annoying but so is pretty much everything else these days.

Comment Weather is NOT climate (Score 5, Insightful) 567

Repeat that after me, Mr. Fjord.

It is expected that there will be areas of happy, mild weather in any scenario you care to imagine. It is to be expected that a bunch of locals in regions suffering from happy, mild weather might not be as concerned about the issue as someone who had their house wiped out by a tornado.

But it the concerns and insights of either set of persons would be irrelevant to the discussion of GLOBAL climate change (hint, the word that is BOLDED is important).

Climate in not weather. Weather is not climate.

Comment Re:Not surprised, mixed feelings (Score 1) 268

The American Medical Association? I should think not. If you did that, each drone would cost something north of 5 figures and could only be used by someone who went through a decades long training program while channeling hallucinations from some old dead Greek guy.

Not a very good idea.

Comment Re:Not surprised, mixed feelings (Score 1, Insightful) 268

That said, I don't see how the FAA's rules are enforceable, nor do I see how the FAA can actually claim to have the authority to make rules in an an area that, as far as I can tell, congress has never granted them the power to do.

Enforceability is one thing but a few high profile cases will take the wind out of many peoples rotors. As to whether or not the FAA can regulate UAVs - it's pretty clear that they have broad powers of regulation when it comes to aircraft safety. UAVs that potentially serve as hazards to aircraft in flight or around a runway would easily fall under FAA jurisdiction. Kids flying something in their back yard - that's the big issue. If you look at the one 'hobby' that UAVs most closely resemble, model rocketry, you find a reasonable distinction between activities that are regulated by the FAA and ones that are not. It did take an act of Congress to carve this 'exception' out so the assumption is that, yes, the FAA could do this but the Congress doesn't want them to.

We may need to see something similar.

Comment Re:"drinking" eh? (Score 1) 454

But here is the thing, alcohol is a carbohydrate and a good amount of the damage it does is really not all that different from fructose.

Incorrect. The physical damage from alcohol is due to two factors: direct toxic effect of the alcohol, mostly on various bits of the nervous system and aldehyde and ketone formation with subsequent liver damage. Alcohol does contribute to calorie intake but this is only a modestly important part of the disease.

You can keep you sugar bogey man bottled up for now.

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