Popular Photography magazine
Apr 29, 2017 15:44:15 #
James Slick
Loc: Pittsburgh,PA
Rab-Eye wrote:
There can only be a clip vs. magazine argument between people who don't know the difference!
True
Apr 29, 2017 15:57:30 #
James Slick wrote:
Whoa, relax, It's not that important enough to blow a gasket on a Saturday about.
i am relaxed...i am relaxed...i am relaxed...ohmmmmmmmmmm...
Apr 29, 2017 16:05:34 #
James Slick
Loc: Pittsburgh,PA
OddJobber wrote:
i am relaxed...i am relaxed...i am relaxed...ohmmmmmmmmmm...
"Ohmmmmmmm..."
Why are we talking about electrical resistance on a photography site?
Just Kidding
!Apr 29, 2017 18:38:16 #
OddJobber wrote:
WHY ARE YOU PEOPLE WRITING ABOUT GUNS WHEN THE QUESTION WAS ABOUT POPULAR PHOTOGRAPHY???
Because us people like guns. I tried to hijack the topic down a Star Trek trivia path, unfortunately went over like a lead balloon. Now, about your caps lock key ...
Apr 29, 2017 19:43:21 #
Rab-Eye wrote:
Well, maybe I'll learn something. Do you think the last issue of Pop Photo will become a collectors item? Mine is guaranteed to stay in mint condition. It's digital. 😜
Yes, in 25 years it will be priced at $5 on ebay.
Apr 29, 2017 20:00:08 #
Rab-Eye wrote:
April 2017 was their last issue. They are giving subscribers Popular Science for the remainder of our subscriptions. Swell. I would have preferred a refund.
I subscribed thru Amazon and got a $0.56 refund.
Apr 29, 2017 20:27:46 #
lautenk2 wrote:
Because us people like guns. I tried to hijack the topic down a Star Trek trivia path, unfortunately went over like a lead balloon. Now, about your caps lock key ...
Perhaps you should just take a selfie! That might eliminate the problem!
Apr 29, 2017 20:51:47 #
Apr 29, 2017 21:02:03 #
James Slick wrote:
Calling semiautomatic pistols "automatics" is perfectly valid. That's what the were originally called. (.45acp from Colt Automatic Pistol for example.) I have a 1915 dictionary that gives it as a definition for "automatic" So your use of the term is fine.👍 I only go all gun geek over the "clip vs. magazine" argument. 😀
Doncha think we need to be a bit more concise with our terms, among today's mal-educated hoplophobic masses? I like the use of "semi"-automatic.
Apr 29, 2017 21:16:08 #
le boecere wrote:
Doncha think we need to be more concise with our terms, among today's mal-educated hoplophobic masses? I like the use of "semi"-automatic.
Hoplophobic? You're afraid of rabbits?
Apr 29, 2017 21:19:49 #
James Slick wrote:
"Ohmmmmmmm..."
Why are we talking about electrical resistance on a photography site?
Why are we talking about electrical resistance on a photography site?
Perhaps because resistance is never futile! Even when the Ferengi are involved!
Apr 29, 2017 21:25:32 #
Apr 29, 2017 21:28:37 #
James Slick
Loc: Pittsburgh,PA
le boecere wrote:
Doncha think we need to be more concise with our terms, among today's mal-educated hoplophobic masses? I like the use of "semi"-automatic.
Perhaps, But I also respect history and just was pointing out the fact that both terms are technically correct. Trying to explain firearms to the hoplophobe is not productive anyway. If we gun owners finally get them to understand that semi-automatic means one round fired per trigger pull, Then they'd just use that knowledge to try regulate double action revolvers as "assult weapons". 😉
Apr 29, 2017 21:47:51 #
James Slick wrote:
Perhaps, But I also respect history and just was pointing out the fact that both terms are technically correct. Trying to explain firearms to the hoplophobe is not productive anyway. If we gun owners finally get them to understand that semi-automatic means one round fired per trigger pull, Then they'd just use that knowledge to try regulate double action revolvers as "assault weapons". 😉
Not necessarily, but it's time to take this discussion to either chit chat or to the attic, it is now getting too far off target to be relevant in a photography section. The discussion of terminology is interesting, but this is not really the place for a whole number of reasons.
Apr 29, 2017 22:26:41 #
James Slick
Loc: Pittsburgh,PA
Peterff wrote:
Not necessarily, but it's time to take this discussion to either chit chat or to the attic, it is now getting too far off target to be relevant in a photography section. The discussion of terminology is interesting, but this is not really the place for a whole number of reasons.
The Attic?!? Great suggestion from someone (you) who told another user to shoothim self:
Remember this snarky bit you wrote to the guy who liked guns?
"Perhaps you should just take a selfie! That might eliminate the problem!"
YOU belong confined to "The Attic".
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