jerryc41 wrote:
I posted about how I was going to replace the touch screen in a Sony camcorder. I found many sellers on eBay, so I ordered one. After receiving it, I removed the old screen, and I was ready to install the new one. Unfortunately, the new one was missing a ribbon cable. Mine had four, but the one I received had only three. It wasn't defective; it was made that way. The video I watched on YouTube showed someone replacing the screen, and that had four cables.
Obviously, I wasn't going to use the new LCD, so I emailed the seller, and I just received a reply. I can return it for a refund because I "bought the wrong item." His lengthy reply emphasized the fact that it was all my fault, but he would allow me to return it for a refund if I said I was returning it because I bought the wrong item. "It is because you purchased the wrong product."
What's odd is that every seller is offering the same three-cable item, and I doubt that Sony made two different camcorders with the same model number but different connectors. I hate giving up on this camera because it works otherwise. If Sony didn't give it a touch screen, it would still be working.
Me being me, I bought a used Sony HDR-SR11 camcorder from KEH for a reasonable price, described as EX, so I sort of got the old one working. I'm going to keep looking for an LCD for the old one and hope that I remember how to reassemble it when the time comes.
EDITED: This was sold by a Chinese company, but it was shipped from Kentucky. However, I must return it to China! š I don't think it's worth the trouble for a $22 item.
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Just wait until you find out how much it costs to return it to China! Bet the cheapest shipment is about six-seven times more than $22.
Scruples wrote:
This weekās work load was rough. It started on Monday concluding a two year long contract negotiation with New York City Department of Labor. I will write the contract Thant we fought for didnāt offer everyone everything. We were able to put in place, longevity, raises across the board and have good language for the next generation of kiddos. Tuesday, I was so exhausted that I could not go to work. Mostly I lounged around shaking my head and rereading what we had done. Wednesday came the usual grind of work and constant calls from all asking to see the contract. Thursday and Friday was the same. Many more handshakes and pats on the back from co-workers. Saturday was a day off and my wife, her sister and I head over to the New York Botanic Garden. It is my favorite to see, photograph and enjoy the Orchid Show. (Photos to Follow) Sunday breakfast is a day to indulge my wife, my son, his girlfriend (both from Afton, NY) and I with a nice breakfast. I picked up a bunch of different bagels, cream cheese, Hummus and Lox. I mixed up some honey mustard and dill sauce. I brewed up some coffee and we all sat down at the kitchen table. My son and his girlfriend told us of the Shen Yun show and we shared our weekly events.
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Wow! I had Sunday breakfast too!
TriX wrote:
Inconvenient facts
Notice that all the graphs displayed show only very recent times (roughly from 1960 onward) that are interpreted to support a crisis narrative, not long-term periods of the Earth's 4.5 billion years of history. They all conceal the fact that CO2 has been as much as 10 times higher in the distant past than it currently is. And the world did not end! They ignore the historical scientific record that actually shows inconsequential temperature change from 300 years ago. And they conceal the fact that the temperatures selected for "climate" studies are taken within large cities, which are "heat islands" that average several degrees hotter (and increasing over time) than in the rural countryside that constitutes the vast majority of the Earth's surface. Finally, they don't show NASA's satellite records that show temperature increases over the oceans are not increasing in relation to land temperatures. If atmospheric CO2 were the climate driver, they would be increasing equally.
Indeed, the "facts" are quite different from what the climate industry and power-centric governments want us to believe. We are being fed only the propaganda intended to create an "existential crisis" that requires massive government expansion and control.
So much for the "G****l W*****g Due to humans studies"
andesbill wrote:
Since we started burning f****l f**ls in earnest, the CO2 and the temperature have risen in lock step. The world is hotter today than at any time since the CO2 was this high, a long, long, time ago.
The hotter temperatures are k*****g living things, destroying the environment, and exacerbating weather extremes, such as heat waves, hurricanes, tornadoes, etc.
CO2 is a proven green house gas. CO2 is produced by burning f****l f**ls. CO2 is a waste product, itās garbage. Why do people have trouble understanding that just like with household garbage and with sewage, we have to clean it up or it will sicken us?
Why do morons like that Greek jerk, think that itās ok not to clean up after ourselves? Do you leave garbage all over your house? Do you use your bathtub for sewage? Iāve known people who have done both. You wouldnāt want to walk into those apartments (they were junkies).
Letās just clean it up, because itās the right thing to do.
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You go right ahead and clean up after yourself if makes you feel better. I don't mind. I appreciate you're not dumping trash and sewage. Nor do I. But, I'm not falling for junk science, either.
Humans have existed, including in most primitive forms, for only 300,000 years. But the Earth is 4.5 billion years old. What the c*****e c****e hysterics fail to address is what caused the earth to go through long, repeated cycles of getting hotter, then colder, for 4.5 billion years! And it has gone through these g****l w*****g and cooling cycles when there were no human activities to influence it. No cars, no coal mines, no oil production, factories, no excessive burning of anything! The CO2 narrative falls flat when examined against this long-term science.
What we do know is that the sun goes through long periodic cycles of changes in solar eruptions that affect life on Earth. And the Earth's orbit around the sun is not circular, but elliptical. And the Earth's inclination is changing over time, as is the movement of the magnetic poles, which appear to be trending towards reversing again. Who's looking at these natural cycles?
Notably also, when the Earth gets warmer, vegetation increases. When vegetation increases, plants absorb more CO2 and emit more oxygen--which is very good for humans and all other living creatures. I look forward to a warmer Earth, and only worry about a colder Earth. I can adapt to warmth but cannot survive freezing, particularly in the absence of fuel.
Scientists should be spending more time studying the natural cycles of the sun and Earth instead of jumping to a fixation on CO2 produced by humans. But, since political decisions drive granting money only to studies that support the CO2 narrative, we will wind up chasing our tails until we bankrupt ourselves and have to revert to primitive living conditions.
Foto Jo wrote:
I have a Mac that I just cannot get used to. I am going back to a Windows laptop. I am asking for help in which is best for photography, specifically. Especially how big space wise I should buy. I will be placing images on external hard drive but would still like to have a larger capacity laptop to hold edited images. I am interested in Dell or Lenovo.
If I decide to sell my Mac rather than give to a family member I will list on UHH.
I have had several brands of both desktop and laptop computers in the past but have become a repeat Dell customer for both. My requirements may be greater than yours since I need extra RAM, processing speed and internal memory to work with massive spreadsheets in addition to photo post processing. So, I custom design the specs of each Dell that I buy. That said, Dell has a large selection of desktop and laptops to suit anybody's desires. They are reliable and will last as long as you need.
Mac wrote:
https://nypost.com/2024/04/07/us-news/harrowing-video-shows-engine-of-southwest-airlines-boeing-737-ripping-apart-on-takeoff/?utm_source=sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=news_alert&utm_content=20240407%3F&utm_source=sailthru&lctg=60db4c06d70e0f5797204007
More evidence of the lack of integrity and professionalism in today's journalism. The hysterical headline proclaims a "terrifying video" and says the "engine" of a 737 is "ripping apart" during takeoff. BS. The sheet metal cowling over the engine was obviously not properly fastened (a simple task) after a ground person performed a routine check of the engine. So, it came off in flight. But the ENGINE was NOT RIPPING APART! It was undamaged and continued to perform normally.
It does that because of magnetic interference from the New Jersey Earthquake.
bobbyjohn wrote:
A little town in New Hampshire got $20 Million recently to install "heated sidewalks." Huh???
Pure waste of taxpayer dollars. You can bet it's Federal dollars, maybe sponsored by Berne Sanders.
jerryc41 wrote:
It seems that "Poor construction and Poor Maintenance" is the basis for much construction. In the 1970s, the City of Kingston, NY had canopies built over the sidewalks on Wall Street, the uptown shopping area. The design was done by artist John Pike. There is now a proposal to tear down those canopies because they are in bad condition.
The problem is they weren't built very well, and they weren't maintained very well. Most people want to keep them because they offer people protection from the weather, they look nice, and they've been in place for fifty years. Those in authority know that they are in bad condition, and they don't want them to collapse on top of people. Tearing them down will cost a fortune, interfere with traffic, and hurt business for the local stores.
The perfect solution would be to get into a time machine, go back to 1970, and build them correctly. That would be followed up with regular inspections and repairs. Unfortunately, although inspections are common throughout the country, doing repairs based on those inspections is not the usual practice.
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Governments are very fond of buying new things with no thought to the lifetime cost of maintaining them. After splurging on "new toys" there is not enough money later to spend on maintenance.
SIMIBILL wrote:
I am thinking about getting lightroom.
Version 5 and 6 are for sale on Ebay on a disc for about $120.00 one time purchase.
Subscription for lightroom only is $10.00 per month.
What are your thoughts about buying it on disc that adobe stopped selling in 2019.
Are the updates and lmprovements that good to pay the subscription price forever?
You may be buying a fraud. Lightroom requires registration with identification and password. I had an old disc with all that, but Lightroom cancelled the registration so I would have to buy a subscription. The disc was worthless once they cancelled the registration.