Animal cruelty charges should be brought, they allowed 4 pets to die...frankly I would be more pissed about that than losing my stuff.
I wonder if you're joking. Frankly I don't much care if his house and all his possessions burn, but as a somewhat stereotypical pet lover I think it is wrong to let the animals die in the fire. I mean they wouldn't just stand there and let a *person* die... I wonder what Peter Singer would say.
Of course that raises the question of which animals they should be required to save. Other primates? Yes. Dogs and cats? Sure. Iguanas? Cockatoos? Ant farms?
See? It's just easier all around if the fire department puts out the fire without question in the first place.
because the question there is whether the US federal government has lawful authority under the Constitution to order people to buy things.
Huh? I believe that I'm "forced" to pay for Interstate Highways, Federal Police, the Military, and plenty of other things which are of only indirect benefit. If you don't like the health care proposal, do us all a favor and dislike it for a real reason, ok?
Yes, but you are "forced" to make payments to the government itself for those services. The new health care mandate forces us to pay *private companies* for services they render. Has this ever been the case before in the U.S.?
I wonder how long before "now in 3D!" becomes as distasteful as "now in color!".
That didn't take long, did it?
the Nikon CLS and Canon ETTL require a Nikon SB800 or a Canon 580EX II to control the remote flashes if you're talking CLS and ETTL.
Not so with Nikon. The pop-up flash in the D300, at least, will act as commander for external CLS flashguns. I use mine to control an SB900 off camera.
And I use the pop-up flash on my D90 to act as a commander for my SB600 off camera. (My budget is obviously smaller than yours!) Seriously, Nikon's CLS system is wonderful.
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