Posts by BenWilson
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Auckland is the only airport I've ever had my bags searched. They also swabbed them and told me they contained "Strong traces of heroin and explosives". I can only assume it's a trick, because the bags had never contained either one, and I was not delayed much longer. Also, seriously, who is going to carry their heroin in the same bag as their explosives, and then take it through an airport?
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Ben: True enough, as far as it goes. But it's rather cold comfort when you've seen the margin that pays for some modest comforts vanish.
It would be colder comfort if you'd actually lost capital too, like everyone else. It's not savers I'm worried about at the moment, they are in a sweet position really, since they can pick their time to start buying bargains. It's the people who have lost their shirts that are the problem.
Now that we are where we are in the political cycle, there won't be any chance to fix this for a good number of years.
Caleb, now is exactly the time for a revision of all the things you lament were not done. I don't see anything about the 'political cycle' that makes it impossible, quite the opposite, it would receive bipartisan support. Only ACT would be opposed because they are nutcases or crooks or both.
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I don't fully buy that savers are losing out in any way at the moment. Savings have been the best class of investment for a good 6 months. If any time were proof of the value of savings, it is now. Interest rates dropping doesn't help them, sure, but at least their investments are still growing. Most other types have been contracting. So they are 'outperforming the market' hugely.
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Problem being that any camera with a light meter sort of takes the average of the pretty faraway stuff and the blazing bright nearby stuff, and thus the view is wrecked.
Yup I always use spot mode personally. It's one of the beauties of digital photography, that you can actually see what the contrast will be like.
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I guess part of the point is that the flash doesn't harm the shot of something that it fails to illuminate, but it might illuminate close things a whole lot better...so why not?
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Pretty sure most camera vendors just err on the side of caution in flashing automatically. Probably they figure most people using the camera are taking pictures primarily of the people nearby.
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Yes the photograph itself is considered to be an artwork.
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Well the Mrs is pregnant again, so if it happens again, I'll have a better retort ready.
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Mark, bizarre anecdote for you. After the extremely troubled birth of my son, when we were finally released from hospital, I naturally wanted to take some shots of the momentous occasion, as we left the place. But some old security guard refused to let me, saying that it was not legal to take photographs of the hospital.
Now I had trouble believing him, but I didn't want to crush the buzz of taking my baby home by having a yelling match with some bureaucratic dickhead.
I think a lot of these creeps just try it on.
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I'll just point out the obvious. Streetcam is not a live feed. Whether or not I'd be disturbed by a live feed (that would probably depend who had access), it's got little bearing on this technology.
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