Best Coolpix for HD and low light too?

CHDK stands for Canon Hack Development Kit?

Huh?

Whew, that sounds esoteric...

I thought maybe the camera could do all that on its own.




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- Jane Galt

"Neil Harrington" wrote in message
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"David Ruether" wrote in message ...

Perhaps more basic are questions like: why are there genders,

That's easy. Generally speaking, they are necessary for reproduction. If there weren't two genders, none of us would be here
having this discussion.

Yes, I essentially said this earlier...;-)

why/how is there such a thing as gender identity,

Why would there NOT be? Knowing who and what you are is a useful thing.

Agreed - but this does not mean that the mental gender identity necessarily
coincides with the physical gender identity, and it does not mean that anyone
knows *how* that identity is established/works (which was my point).

Those who are confused about their "gender identity" obviously have a harder time of it as a result.

I would not use the word "confused". Those whose mental and physical
gender identities are different from each other know *exactly* what their
situation is and what/who they are.

and why/how are there gender or
other attractions. The first can be answered easily and logically, but the
other two still cannot be answered, and these commonly also show the
widest range of possible variations in people/animals who are "normal"...

Reproduction is still the easy answer.

But it is VERY incomplete, since it doesn't answer the other questions, just
the first.

You believe questions "cannot be answered" when you know the answers are really there,

Name a reliable source - even one, if you can...

but inconvenient to your sexual politics.

It would appear that you have considered only one part of the question
of sexuality and have ignored the others - but from past exchanges with
you, this is not surprising since you refused to acknowledge the existence
of inherent homosexuality as being "real", let alone other sexual variations
(hence my surprise when you appeared to be more open in your views...).
--DR

"Jane Galt" wrote in message
. ..
"Neil Harrington" wrote :

I don't, particularly, but I'm still curious as to why anyone would fake
his gender. If for example I were at a large cocktail party with roughly
equal numbers of men and women, I'd be equally at ease with all
regardless of sex, but probably not with a man who was there dressed as
a woman. Perhaps you wouldn't find such a person remarkable in the
least, but I would.

Ask yourself why - it can be the first step toward working through one of
your own prejudices...

If we lived in a truly free society, people would dress any way they pleased
and no one would care a thing about it.

60 years ago, I think women wearing pants was frowned upon, was it not?
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- Jane Galt

Yes. I remember when I was a kid that women "dressed up" to go to
the grocery store (at least in the southern US). Only today, though,
I was surprised (and pleased) to see two men walking down the street
holding hands. What does it hurt anyone to simply accept people for
who they are?
--DR

"David Ruether" wrote :



Most people use pseudonyms on usenet anyway, to avoid things like death
threats. Is this a surrise?
--
- Jane Galt

I've used my own name on several NGs since 1995, and I have been
open about my being gay, without problems...
--DR

I'm not talking about gay, I'm talking about politics. I post in political
groups and have had local fools in the past who actually tried to track me
down for my political views, and came relatively close!

The far left has gotten extremely nasty in recent years and it's getting
worse.

As Glenn Beck has pointed out, some of them have become orgasmic over the
fact that we now have, for the first time, a President who was mentored as
a teen, by an avowed communist ( Frank Marshall Davis ) and has surrounded
himself with such people in the White House. There are now open calls for
communist revolution going on in this country, using any means necessary.

If you aint watching Glenn Beck, you likely have NO IDEA this is going on.
And like he says, it's not "conspiracy theory", it's in the open.

"To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The
more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos.
The Marxist professors and structural feminists." - Barack Obama

"Oooh. Van Jones, alright! So, Van Jones. We were so delighted to be able
to recruit him into the White House. We were watching him, uh, really, he’s
not that old, for as long as he’s been active out in Oakland. And all the
creative ideas he has. And so now, we have captured that. And we have all
that energy in the White House." - Valerie Jarrett, senior advisor and
assistant to the president for Public Engagement and Intergovernmental
Affairs for the Obama administration.

Van Jones:

"I was a rowdy nationalist on April 28th, and then the verdicts came down
on April 29th," he said. "By August, I was a communist.

"I met all these young radical people of color - I mean really radical:
communists and anarchists. And it was, like, 'This is what I need to be a
part of.' I spent the next 10 years of my life working with a lot of those
people I met in jail, trying to be a revolutionary," he said." ( 2002 )

"I'm willing to forego the cheap satisfaction of the radical pose for the
deep satisfaction of radical ends." -- Van Jones, 2009, after he was
transferred out of the White House when the above statements were exposed
on the Glenn Beck Program.




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- Jane Galt

"Tzortzakakis Dimitris" wrote :


http://www.flickr.com/photos/44148682@N02/4718346638/
I haven't got an actual photo of the .50 BMG, unfortunately... I didn't
have the pleasure either to shoot one, but I had the pleasure to drive
the "Leonidas", I even passed the exams for its driving license,
following the 1 month course...I even passed the medical, of course.

I like the name "Leonidas" and know the story. Molon lave!





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- Jane Galt

"David Ruether" wrote :


"Jane Galt" wrote in message
. ..

Tried finding any handgun ammo on the shelves at Walmart, since Obama
Nation got into office? It's 18 months later and the shelves are STILL
bare, people are still scared and hoarding.

Kinda demonstrates that stupidity is catching, I guess...
--DR

Fear. When someone who was mentored by a communist gets into office,
promising to "radically transform America" and:

"I don't believe people should be able to own guns." -- Barack Obama




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- Jane Galt

J. Caldwell wrote :

On Sun, 20 Jun 2010 15:27:28 -0400, "David Ruether"
wrote:


"Jane Galt" wrote in message
2...

Tried finding any handgun ammo on the shelves at Walmart, since Obama
Nation got into office? It's 18 months later and the shelves are STILL
bare, people are still scared and hoarding.

Kinda demonstrates that stupidity is catching, I guess...
--DR


Actually most of the runs on ammo this year are due to them changing the
manufacturing process, not any overthrow-the-government conspiracies
(though it's getting there). All new ammo of any gauge is now micro-tagged.

Did they pass that? I thought that was only in the People's Republic of
California.


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- Jane Galt

"Gilford Brimly" wrote in message
...
On Sun, 20 Jun 2010 16:46:30 -0400, "David Ruether"
wrote:

So, what do you need untagged ammo for...?

So what do you need tagged ammo for? The reasons are identical.

A good point, but only relevant if/when the shooting begins, which
would be a stupid/pointless thing to have happen, regardless of who
started it - but from hearing the rhetoric on the right, it seems more
likely to start there (BTW, that's called "treason" since we *vote*
what we want, or accept the point of view of the opposition if that
receives more votes - we *do not* shoot to make changes in
government unless we are ***EXTREMELY*** foolish and
short-sighted...).
--DR

"David Ruether" wrote :


"Better Info" wrote in message
...
On Sat, 19 Jun 2010 21:22:42 -0400, "Neil Harrington"
wrote:

Read the book "Handgun Stopping Power: The Definitive Study" by Evan
Marshall and Edwin Sanow. They are (or were) two cops who spent years
evaluating actual shootings and comparing the ammunition used in terms
of "one-shot stops" -- actual shootings of people, not just theories
about the subject or blowing holes in ballistic gelatin. Their
conclusion: the best 9mm JHP load did the job better than any .45 or
other cartridge in their accumulated data. Now that was their first
book and they've written a couple of others since, which I haven't
read, so maybe that has changed.

An inexpensive cross-bow has more stopping-power than any handgun. Plus
it's quiet without any illegal silencer. It's the only inexpensive and
readily available weapon that will consistently pierce a flak-jacket.
It's due to the mass of the bolt and the inertia behind it. A little
known fact that the "powers that be" don't want widely known. After
recently purchasing a nice 3-9x 40mm illuminated reticle sight for my
rife, I put the old favorite rifle-site on my cross-bow. Bulls-eyes at
75 yards every time. Trespassers (civilian or government) should take
the "Armed Response" sign at the end of my driveway seriously. If they
don't, their loss.

YIKES!
I had no idea this NG had so many kooks! Time to grow up and
stop playing cowboys and indians and cops and robbers, don't you
think...?
--DR




People are "kooks" for being into self defense?

You mentioned being gay?:

http://www.pinkpistols.org/index2.html

"Thirty-one states allow all qualified citizens to carry concealed weapons.
In those states, homosexuals should embark on organized efforts to become
comfortable with guns, learn to use them safely and carry them. They should
set up Pink Pistols task forces, sponsor shooting courses and help
homosexuals get licensed to carry. And they should do it in a way that gets
as much publicity as possible. " -- Jonathan Rauch, gay RKBA activist,
Salon Magazine, March 13, 2000


And this one is personally poignant to me.
http://www.jpfo.org/

Half my family line disappeared in Poland, yet 90% of American jews are
pacifist and anti-gun. It nauseates and shames me to think about it.




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- Jane Galt

Better Info wrote :


YIKES!
I had no idea that this NG had so many kooks! Time to grow up and learn
to defend yourself instead of laying dead in a pool of blood while
waiting for your mommy-figure and daddy-figure cops to arrive, if you
managed to call them at all that is. Don't you think...? At all?



Someone in another group likes to say:
"I carry a gun because I cant carry a cop".

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- Jane Galt