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by 12xo 4y ago
Nikon FM2. The best beginner SLR ever made. Add a 85mm 1.4 or a 110mm and a 35mm 1.4 lens and you're on your way.
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by 12xo 6y ago
Understood, its your prerogative and your choice. I feel that inference is not derogatory nor offensive, and I would rather be banned that be required to coddle those who are incapable of receiving or digesting criticism or engaging in diff
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by 12xo 6y ago
No one ever stopped people from making the films, they only disallowed the distribution and showings via their operations. The Gov, banning a film (porn)was censorship by the Gov and thus was struck down by the Warren court. But you know th
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by 12xo 6y ago
They obviously can choose what content they choose to host and display. That is their right as long as it is not discriminatory or in violation of US law. While that is the literal definition of censorship, the issue is not about a free mar
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by 12xo 6y ago
You mean bias like Rush Limbaugh or FoxNews bias? Where other ideas are not only never presented, they are openly mocked? And that happens mind you, on the PUBLICLY OWNED airwaves and spectrum....
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by 12xo 6y ago
You do realize that the literal meaning and the legal meaning are two separate things, right? Censorship in a privately owned entity is 100% legal. As is bias...
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by 12xo 6y ago
Censorship is when the government, not private enterprises, stifle speech. When it a private entity, it’s called free market. This is a difficult concept for whiners to accept.
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by 12xo 6y ago
The worst part is that there is no market what-so-ever for FB or Google ads. The prices are not set by competition, or the market, they are set by the seller. They decide that something's baseline price is $10 per X, not the market. T
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by 12xo 6y ago
And yet, they keep spending money... This is a problem. The fact that they offer no service, no communication, so resolutions and yet buyers are still dumping 100's of thousands a month because, they dont have any other options... Can
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by 12xo 6y ago
Forest v Trees 2020...
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by 12xo 6y ago
If you think the retraction of voting rights is due to the actions of men some 300 years ago, I dont really have much to say... You might as well go back a few thousand years. However, if you're interested in the actual cause and effec
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by 12xo 6y ago
One has to understand the root of the cause if you wish to treat the illness. It is no secret that the removal of the Fairness Doctrine paired with the deregulation of media and the removal of Congress's oversight and license requireme
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by 12xo 6y ago
I am not. My point is that the reason we are here, that this repression even exists, is due to the media marketplace. Without it, this kind of blatant repression isn’t possible. It is here because of decades of propaganda and distraction by
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by 12xo 6y ago
In other words: The lines are a result of the Right using media to create distractions and issues that allow them to get away with these types of repressive acts. Without their propaganda machines working in sync, enraging their audiences w
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by 12xo 6y ago
Its relevant - albeit a little out of the purview, because without the rise of sensationalist based media creating the distractions, none of this is possible. The lies, the distractions, the propaganda, the amplification of issues that sim
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by 12xo 6y ago
A little out of left field but here is my opinion on why we are here. None of this is possible without the perverted media market that view based advertising has created. The entire political landscape has grown to this mess because of &quo
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by 12xo 6y ago
People should know that regardless of how they consume TV, , their viewing habits are logged, tracked and ultimately sold. Cable, satellite, IPTV, web, mobile etc. Its all being gathered and parsed by dozens, if not hundreds of entities. Th
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by 12xo 6y ago
This is very interesting. So basically, we'll all use fake personas managed by AI. And nothing online will be real...
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by 12xo 6y ago
Social media is fast food. Cheap, easy, filling, tasty and very, very, very unhealthy. Eating it once in a while is fine, but eat it every day and you'll get sick.
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by 12xo 6y ago
Without FoxNews and Limbaugh, this isnt possible. So why do they want Americans to die? Why do they want them fighting each other? That's the real issue and one that I am sad to say far too many HN posters are working on and against da
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by 12xo 6y ago
People find a lot of comfort with the validation of their own ideas from others. And since that comfort translates into community, they seek out others of similar feather. I am afraid that this behavior paired with the "personalized&qu
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by 12xo 6y ago
The personal data industry is truly disgusting but the really funny thing is that most of the data is actually worthless. Its collected only because it can be. Not because its valuable or worthwhile. These companies are basically hoarders.
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by 12xo 6y ago
In this case its hard not to... These two entities, not the thousands of other Chinese and foreign entities that do business in our country, are being targeted by what is effectively an authoritarian action. There is no national security i
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by 12xo 6y ago
By far the most egregious overreach of Federal authority in recent memory. Noting about this is reasonable. Its 100% the act of a desperate and weak minded despot who knows nothing about technology but acts out of ignorance and pettiness. A
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by 12xo 6y ago
This. We created an unrealistic climate where politics is personal and not to be discussed. Its anything but personal and it should be discussed at length whenever possible where ever possible. The worst thing we as a society can do, is con
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by 12xo 6y ago
Seriously? Where did you go to school? Start with the US revolution... and then find your way up through the 20th century. There are thousands of instances.
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by 12xo 6y ago
Wait, I was under the impression that the spun material used to make the masks was the challenge, not the actual manufacturing of the masks. Which is actually rather simple.
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by 12xo 6y ago
I call this simplifying madness, Fisher Pricing.
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by 12xo 6y ago
Yeah but those are not my comments, and it's not today. It is not competition that will kill Facebook, its the change in people's behavior. Very different from the competitive view you take. The death of Facebook will be from both
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by 12xo 6y ago
Facebook is AOL circa 1997. When it seemed that they'd be a dominate player forever... Fast forward a few years and were are almost non-existent. A few more and they were gone all together. Never forget that the internet is awash in de

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