I am sure that modernization will include cramming an extra hundred or so passengers in. Anything to make it more comfortable for the flying public.

Sorry, I posted this initially in discussion. It belongs here.

I found this fir cone and couldn't resist getting a picture of it.

Shot with canon 90D and canon 100mm macro.
This is a stack of 150 images processed in Affinity Photo. This is as shot except a slight brightening overall.

If you read the post, it says that the individual was arrested for DWI. He has already been arrested and that becomes the probable cause for the search of the car. Anything found can and will be used in court the same as anything that you might say.

Unlikely that this one would be tossed.

But you have already arrested them. Presumably they failed a breath test first. That becomes a probable cause and you are just adding charges to the DWI.

True, they could be hiding something, or maybe they are standing on their civil rights against search without a warrant.

I have to say that I love the new format. I especially like having to search for the threads that I want to read even more than before. The frustration that this gives is awesome. Joined with the frustration of modern life it just fits right in. Politics has nothing on this change. Way to go!

I am thinking about a day of fly fishing for muskie. Will take a waterproof camera.

There are two sides to opioid use/abuse. As others have mentioned there is a very high cost to society beyond the deaths from abuse. This is a real issue that society does need to deal with. But as usual they way to deal with it is to knee jerk and limit all use of the opioids. And while there is definitely some cause for the argument that there was over prescription (there was some) it is wrong to say that most addicts started from over prescription. There were also some doctors that saw a cash cow and prescribed to addicts. They were not the norm by any means. Most addicts started on the street with street drugs.

The knee jerk is to make it more difficult for doctors to prescribe strong pain control when it is needed. I have generally been fortunate to have providers that will prescribe but I know providers that will give a minimum dose for a very short time even after major surgery. There were doctors that would say that pain is a normal part of life so buck up even though research shows that recovery is better when a person is not stressed by pain.

Along the same lines we have research showing that in general doctors prescribe less pain management for women and persons of color.

Long winded way of saying that opioids have a place, a very necessary place, and it would be best if there were leveler heads making policy.

"$100,000 is a stack of $1 bills about 67 feet tall (wrapped tightly)."

Anybody who would stack 100,000 $1 bills is not wrapped too tightly and would unlikely be unable to wrap the bills too tightly by they time they were done.

It was the copyright appeals office that made that ruling. It was based on a very large image that was in no way a photograph. While the base image was created using AI it was strongly manipulated in LR and later gigapixel. I suspect that this case will eventually end up in court with the copyright office being the defendant and it will eventually go the the supreme court.

I have looked at the image and read what was involved in actually making the image. In addition to over 600 individual instruction sets being given to the AI there were hours of work on LR to achieve the final image. I believe that the copyright office was wrong.

These images are excellent and in the area of stock photos they are quite interesting.

I didn't do any description before. Picture of bull in car.


https://apple.news/A2zvEZ57AR6qlhtjbCFEJjQ

I have been receiving emails saying that my accounts are being canceled if I don't act at once. Some of them are accounts where I don't even have accounts. I did reply about two years ago to a Geek Squad one and they almost got me. I always check the email address on any of these things and the fakes always have an email that looks off.

Be careful. Just because you are paranoid doesn't mean that they aren't trying to get you.

Did you have to walk uphill to school and home in the 6 foot deep snow too.

Actually I agree with you on this. but a real experience would be to start doing daguerreotype for some similar process with the big box camera. And for a real experience try doing it in 8X10 or larger format. Of course the one negative to all this is that you have to mark everything as a hazardous chemical. But think of the convenience of a large format and all that goes with it. and of course using a tray of flash powder would be a blast.

While fakes are possible the law enforcement agencies (at least the ones that follow the rules) rely on chain of custody rules even now and always before. This at least provides some protections that the digital or film files have not been altered. Of course it presumes that the photographer has integrity and is not altering the images.

Almost as long as photography has existed people have manipulated images to make them other than what the camera initially saw. I bet it has even existed almost as long as taking nudes or flat out porn.

Just a few taken over the past year

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