Besides, this is old news. Literally. Essayist S. I. Hayakawa wrote a great piece on the use of arcane professional language way back in the 1970s...I believe it was in the Washington Star and syndicated to other papers...I'll have to try to go find it.

https://shotkit.com/camera-sur... 1%, kiddo

That's utterly laughable. I've almost never read of real, modern-day professional photographers using Leica. Leica is doing well because the obscenely rich are doing better than ever, and they buy Leica cameras as baubles. BTW you are also conflating rangefinder with mirrorless. Some actual professionals do use the Sony Alpha series, which is really what people mean by mirrorless.

If they are stable year over year, that's a sign they are still a fad. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

A master huckster like Hirst pulling something like this is further evidence we've truly hit 'peak mathematical parlor trick'...which is how I refer to the the whole crypto/NFT shebang. See also: any other recent NFT stories, btc dropping below 19k which "could never happen" according to crypto "experts" of 6 months ago.

The world stops wasting vast sums of energy on mathematical parlor tricks that create artificial scarcity? In other words, there are no more blockchain based 'currencies'?

these are the same people who were managing risk in the 2001-2008 real estate bubble.

Agreed. The issue with cryptocurrencies is any set of, ohhh, 2 or more masters level cryptographers can get together and create one. There's no reason to think these algorithmic widgets won't keep flowing off the assembly line until the whole investment class becomes a joke. That being said, like everyone else, I sure wish I bought some bitcoins back in 2010!

agreed - this is exceptionally pathetic. I could probably fix it myself with a long sql statement that would take 30 min to write. But then some contractor would be out a 5 million change order.

I'm not sure the branding was always the problem. cf: http://www.amazon.com/Cisco-SD2005-5-port-Gigabit-Switch/dp/B0000C20XG/

I guess you missed: The researchers found that the supplements restore the children's blood levels of amino acids to normal. As for their autism symptoms, Gleeson says, the “patients did not get any worse and their parents say they got better, but it’s anecdotal”. Doesn't sound promising. Since normal brain development is a process that starts in utero, these amino acids are something that might require treatment to start immediately after birth to have any effect at all. Somehow with all the folk experimentation that's gone on with autistic kids, which is not always a bad thing, I'd be very surprised if every possible combination of amino-acids hasn't already been tried out there by someone. Anyhow, moral of the story: don't marry your cousins, or anyone else you may be closely related to.

A thought about "audiophilia". Men (and some women) love expensive toys. But I think the reason this particular area is so out-of-control is that there's no easily quantifiable metric of "sounds better". Whereas, with something like a Leica camera lens, you can shoot a resolution target yourself and see how well the lens resolves it across the visual field. With fast cars, you can see how fast they go or accelerate. Above a couple thousand, any individual piece of sound reproduction equipment, if properly installed and adjusted, will sounds as good as any other to someone who isn't psychotic. The other funny thing is some moron will pay $1000+ for, let's say, an SPDIF or HMDI cable...but that movie or album was produced with standard commercial equipment and cables from the likes of BSW, Markertek, etc. Wouldn't that make the bits already damaged by inferiority by the time they were mastered for CD or DVD!?

Add me to the chorus. I only use my domain for my email address, but I will move off Godaddy at the next opportunity. This is just crazy.

Good job! LMAO! The late lamented show "VIP" (yes, Pamela Anderson's) had many such scenes.

thanks for providing the exact figure... this pesky old dinosaur needs to retire