Even that is a fallacy. A myth of marketing. While true that a canon camera lens can be physically be mounted to any Canon, Nikon lens to Nikon body, etc, that doesn't mean they actually work. Many don't. Nikon has all sorts of levels of unintentional physical and intentional artificial firmware locking to prevent their own lenses from working on their cameras interchangeably. Canon doesn't gimp their cameras firmware, but physical issues still apply with lenses not meant to work on the pro cameras due to optical limitations. Even if you have a lens you can keep and move from a $500 to a $5000 body, by that point you ostensibly no longer desire to use those original plastic, slow, $100 amateur lenses on that pro body. The fact of the matter is that you have to dump your initial gear and lenses (often several times) on that upgrade treadmill, same brand or not. Assuming you even are one of the extraordinarily rare individuals that does eventually climb up into owning 5 figures of pro gear. The 'upgrade path' is a myth, and a useless one to almost every consumer even -IF- it were remotely true.

You have to understand that for some the gear itself is a religion. They own dozens of camera yet take no pictures. The brand is the thing. Even if OP wanted an SLR, Pentax makes far better entry level/consumer SLR's, and there are other companies as well. The mantra of CANON/NIKON is due solely to the fact they are the only two companies that make full-bore pro level products costing many thousands. Not that that should be relevant to someone wanting a consumer camera, but for the brand worshipers, having one of those two nameplates is the single most important aspect of camera ownership.

You have conservative Christian 'law schools' that focus specifically on teaching how to use and apply law toward the explicit agenda of moving it in the direction of biblical principles. By definition, they are designed to only turn out activists. It is their express stated intent, and the way those schools promote themselves as different from traditional law schools they compete with. Is it any surprise then that the only real sizable pool of 'activist' judges are conservative/christian supremacist types?

I am stuck on 1 as well, and no longer get mod points either. I contributed for years and had stellar karma, then I said one factual but inconvenient thing. Now I am stuck on 1 point forever as well. Actually, this is the first time I have contributed in a long time. The mod system did a very good job of driving me away from /. as a whole, which was probably its intended job the way it was constructed.

I would agree wholeheartedly, but no one will be able to read this comment as I had years of good karma wrecked by making only one constructive but non-groupthink comment, so this post now won't get enough points to appear on anyone's screen to begin with. The moderation system here is now an exercise in removal of people voices that don't adhere to strict orthodoxy.

Then lowered and have some 19" alloys and a sound system put on it.

More than ten years? I have had to do recovery from code stored on paper tape and Hollerith cards. I am sure that recovery of stuff 40+ years old is not all that uncommon actually.

I assume everyone here will assume hes innocent just because he is their favorite superhero. Sure they went all out using this as an excuse to issue an Interpol warrant when they likely wouldn't have for some lower profile shmuck, but I don't know why people find it so hard to believe he might have sexually coerced two women. He's a vain, self-absorbed megalomaniac with a messiah complex who seems to think the world revolves around him. My karma went from excellent that was built up for years to nothing due to people using orthodoxy points (you know, the things that started as mod points before it became fashionable to enforce groupthink through censorship) to silence me earlier today. For, of all things, simply pointing out he seems only to target the US lately. This is my attempt to see if my karma can go negative before I leave the hivemind that /. has become. Mod away.

they say they have more to release than they can and so will have to choose what is most important. for more than a year they have only chosen to release thing targeted at the US, nothing else they have done this at the expense of refusing to reveal and even pulling previously revealed information about anything or anyone else. i am not a big fan of the US gov't or what they do. however, no matter what the target, if Assange shows us they only exist to grind a single axe with one single entity - whether that entity be the USA, kazoo manufacturers, Wherethefuckistan, or someones ex-girlfriend - if they lose perspective and balance then they lose a lot of the reason we support them.

I don't see how anyone could mistake the difference between an open documents whistleblower site, and one hijacked by one individual restricting information released to just that which attacks just one specific entity for personal reasons. I don't care if the country he picked was Wherethefuckistan, or just a company he didn't like, or his ex-girlfriend.

first, who cares what he had focused on - the US or something else. The wikileaks went from an open org to make information free and turned into one guy trying to hurt one entity. totally different things. second, there ARE juicy leaks about other countries, they just won't put them up anymore. talk about information being free and uncensored. assange is bullshit, and after he gets assassinated maybe wikileaks will become a decent leaks group again

I would like to see those leaks too. I see a distinct difference between a leaks site and a political hack. I would bet we don't see all anyway - with his obvious bias, he won't publish a lot of leaks he doesn't want out. How much did he redact from this?

Where did all the other leaks, private and government go then? Why did they pull even the old ones from their archives? Justify that.

don't censor it with mod points just because you don't want to accept it. That wasn't a troll.

But isn't he currently a rape suspect? As well as being a fugitive, and engaging in flight to avoid prosecution? All of these things are true, and all your fond hopes and wishes that it was all trumped up to stop him are just that - you don;t know if they are true or not. you just want it to be a conspiracy so you can continue to worship the guy regardless of fact.