Ah, another one. Is this what you talk about back at the cave when your about to eat one of your own kind?

My, My, don't you feel proud of yourself, able to use such language, and tell everyone off.

But seriously, what are you trying to say?

What's a feeders laws? When I Google that all I get is information on using bate in hunting.

Unfortunately we're all in this life boat together. That goes back to my statement about an informed voting public as the answer. And if everyone walks away from politics we end up with a dictatorship, so think about that for a moment.

No, an informed and voting public is the answer. All term limits do is insure the loss of institutional expertise and having elected officials who know very little about what they are supposed to be doing over time.

And so does my wife. Having a masters degree does not mean you necessarily know what your talking about. Sorry, but if slavery had been eliminated at the constitutional convention there would not have been a civil war. Instead the can got kicked down the road until Lincoln was elected. At that point there was a "rush for the door."

NO!

The history books used in southern states have used such excuses for the civil war to avoid the ugly truth for a very long time.

And please explain to us how you separate the economy of the South from slavery? That is indeed why the South left the union, call it what you want to.

I feel sorry for all of you folks who feel this way. The goal of the Southern generals was to support the separation from the union in order to maintain ownership of slaves. The goal of the founding fathers, Washington, Jefferson, etc. was to create the union (big difference.) Nobody's taking down a Washington statue. To proclaim otherwise is to just sip more of the "Kool Aid".

As was pointed out above these statues were erected for the sole purpose of letting blacks know who was still in charge. Decedents of both Robert E Lee and Stone Wall Jackson have publicly stated they should come down.

I have looked at politics from both sides as I voted Republican up until the 2004 election when I could no longer stomach the Republican lies.

If there is a parallel to be drawn between today and 1860 it is the fact that the vast majority of the south were not slave owners yet they fought and died to support that institution. Today most of the Republicans vote against their own economic best interest in favor of the interests of the Koch brothers.

The general mode of most manufacturers seems to be to move in the direction of disposable hardware. That is, about the time the warranty runs out the hardware suffers a failure that is not economical to repair. So then its off to the internet to buy a new one. This is what keeps the revenue stream going. It doesn't pay to make a product that lasts forever, or is economical to repair and maintain.

Just my cynicism showing,

It seems like I remember reading somewhere that modern electronic shutters were controlled by a feedback loop that took its timing information off the camera's clock. We all do realize that these things are computers and not really cameras, right. So if your camera works as it should and keeps the correct time and date in memory my guess is that the shutter speed is as the maker wanted it to be. Or else you'd get an error message.

Great article. I'm going to check out some of the articles he recommends at the bottom of the page as well.

Thanks!

I'm impressed with the number of folks on this site that, like myself, still like to shoot film. I, personally, am about to take the plunge into medium format (film of course.)