For most people the cellphone camera is more camera than they will ever need. Their ability as a photographer will never outstrip the camera's ability to capture the image. Also there is a big difference between image quality (measurable attributes like pixel count, pixel density, noise, sharpness, how it handles bokeh, etc) and picture quality (subjective items like framing, subject matter, etc). Any camera is capable of capturing a good picture in most cases as that is mostly operator dependent. However the pissing contests over cameras that most people get into is all over image quality not ability to capture the picture they want. For that I would be willing to put my entry level 10 year old DSLR with kit lens, APS-C 10MP CCD sensor, and max ISO of 3200 up against current cell phone cameras and it would beat most and be a very strong competitor to the best. Let me stick my best glass on it and it will crush them. This ignores my one generation back flagship pro level digital or my ancient all manual but high end film body, both of which again would crush any cellphone. There are just hard physical limits that you very quickly run into with tiny sensors.

I believe that is pinterest.

I believe with MtG the breakdown per pack is 1 rare (1:8 chance of it being mythic rare) 3 uncommons, 10 commons, 1 basic land with 1:4 packs containing a foil card of any rarity that replaces one of the commons.

Not as expensive as one would think. NGK makes containerized soidum-sulfur batteries that are great for grid level storage and have been available for close to 20 years now. I would expect that such things will be deployed at sub stations eventually as rooftop solar becomes more widespread as they will help with load leveling and grid stability as more intermittent renewables are added.

Have you considered investing in one of these?

From what I read of it, it is fairly long, it seems like it is pretty good. Then again there are a number of change these words to these other words in existing law which is usually where things go sideways. In the senate it looks like 16 democrats and 1 independent also voted for it. In the house it looks like 33 democrats voted for it too. So while not a strongly bipartisian bill it seems like there is support from both sides and from what little reporting on I have seen seems to indicate that it did roll back some of the Dodd-Frank regulations so that may be why there wasn't as strong of democrat support. Then again I don't really know if those roll backs were good or bad as I just don't have enough knowledge in that area.

Too bad neither of my state senators voted for it but then one really can't expect much out of Amy Klobuchar. At least my Representative in the House voted for it.

Looks like I may have some things to get setup in a couple of weeks when things go into effect on Sept 21.

As was Hung Far Lo

I'll drink to that

Those ensure you go straight to GITMO.

I have never felt a greater need to put some of these stickers on things in my life. For those afraid to click it is a Hello Kitty Punisher sticker.

I was going for a funny but apparently got a woosh.

You mean Welsh, right?

These large wild fires happen several times a year. I believe there are 3 major ones now in CA and several smaller ones. That 31 square miles is tiny, there is a WMA not far from my lake property it is about 67 square miles and gets regular controlled burns. Even the large county park near me has started doing controlled burns over its 4 square mile area. They ran some big brush hogs through the woods several years ago and have been having controlled burns since in the woods and as part of an ongoing prairie restoration project.