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(Msg. 16) Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2010 11:26 am
Post subject: Re: Another plastic body bites the dust [Login to view extended thread Info.]
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On 17/09/2010 16:07, Superzooms Still Win wrote:
> "Belief is not the beginning but the end of all knowledge." - Johann
> Wolfgang von Goethe
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> I, for one, refuse to give up on knowledge by just assuming a belief that
> all others agree on, because it's so much more convenient for them that
> way. Their bliss of self-induced ignorance borne of lazy minds and spirits.
So, before posting here, you have made sure that you can rebuild from
plain sand and other minerals all the computers used to make your prose
available here (starting with your own) as well rewrite all the
necessary software and redemonstrate all the math involved... So where
are your first posts in Morse code?
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(Msg. 17) Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2010 11:26 am
Post subject: Re: Another plastic body bites the dust [Login to view extended thread Info.]
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On Fri, 17 Sep 2010 16:43:32 +0200, Ofnuts
wrote:
>On 17/09/2010 16:07, Superzooms Still Win wrote:
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>> "Belief is not the beginning but the end of all knowledge." - Johann
>> Wolfgang von Goethe
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>> I, for one, refuse to give up on knowledge by just assuming a belief that
>> all others agree on, because it's so much more convenient for them that
>> way. Their bliss of self-induced ignorance borne of lazy minds and spirits.
>
>So, before posting here, you have made sure that you can rebuild from
>plain sand and other minerals all the computers used to make your prose
>available here (starting with your own) as well rewrite all the
>necessary software and redemonstrate all the math involved... So where
>are your first posts in Morse code?
Oh look, a troll idiot assuming that just because it's software or a
computer that it's always going to work just because you believe it will.
Got any other pea-brained flea-bitten analogies that you can pull out of
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(Msg. 18) Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2010 1:25 pm
Post subject: Re: Another plastic body bites the dust [Login to view extended thread Info.]
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Superzooms Still Win wrote:
>On Fri, 17 Sep 2010 14:35:14 +0100, Bruce wrote:
>>Why do you - repeatedly - have to spoil what could have been an
>>intelligent and well-reasoned contribution to a discussion by
>>obsessive personal attacks and insults that are so often misdirected?
>>Perhaps you are equally as afraid of people agreeing with you as
>>arguing with you.
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>Not misdirected. The "you" in my above comment is being directed to all in
>these newsgroups. Hence, the "You all ..." opener.
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>Worse than having someone disagree with you is having them agree with you.
>I neither want nor need anyone agreeing with me in life. There's nothing
>worse in the world than encouraging people into becoming just more mindless
>followers. I never assume something to be true just because people agree.
>This is precisely how I found out what total idiots write up the reviews at
>dpreview. Not to mention the supreme folly of "dslr superiority". By doing
>my own independent tests and not becoming just another mindless follower
>parroting the biased stupidity and ignorance of others--no matter how much
>of an "x-spurt" that they themselves or others might claim them to be. They
>could have twenty sheepskins on their wall and they still might be complete
>morons. I've met people like that during my travels in life. Only when I
>have removed all doubt, on my own, independently of all others, can I be
>99% certain of what I claim. I welcome the person who might have the
>missing 1% to prove me wrong, so I am then forced to reconsider my
>near-certain assessment with further research. People with the intellect
>and experience capable of providing that missing 1% of information that
>could make me reconsider what I have discovered on my own are far and few
>between, nearly non-existent.
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>"Belief is not the beginning but the end of all knowledge." - Johann
>Wolfgang von Goethe
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>I, for one, refuse to give up on knowledge by just assuming a belief that
>all others agree on, because it's so much more convenient for them that
>way. Their bliss of self-induced ignorance borne of lazy minds and spirits.
Well, I tried.  >> Stay informed about: Another plastic body bites the dust |
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(Msg. 19) Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2010 1:36 pm
Post subject: Re: Another plastic body bites the dust [Login to view extended thread Info.]
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On 16 Sep 2010 23:56:30 GMT, Andrew Reilly
wrote:
>On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 10:07:32 -0400, Bowser wrote:
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>> On Wed, 15 Sep 2010 20:53:59 -0700 (PDT), RichA
>> wrote:
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>>>The Nikon D90 becomes the D7000, body goes from plastic to metal.
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>> Only the top and bottom plates. The rest is plastic.
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>Doesn't look like that here:
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>From the dpreview preview:
>http://a.img-dpreview.com/news/1009/nikond7000/D7000_Mgbody_2_l.jpg
My mistake, only the top and rear plates. It is NOT a fully metal
construction. >> Stay informed about: Another plastic body bites the dust |
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(Msg. 20) Posted: Sat Sep 18, 2010 11:13 pm
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On Fri, 17 Sep 2010 08:05:21 -0500, Superzooms Still Win
wrote:
: Yet structurally the combination might surpass the performance of both
: materials when used independently. This is why some car bodies and other
: items are constructed with a metal layer over plastics, and vice-versa,
: to make them nearly dent-proof with greater structural integrity. You
: all just love to assume so much about things with which you have no
: experience whatsoever. Then others equally ignorant mindlessly parrot
: it like they are some kind of now well-known facts. There should be a
: new word to define this behavior. Perhaps something like "blignorance".
: For the bliss attained while in a state of ignorance by psychotically
: assuming one is correct. These newsgroups are crawling wall-to-wall
: with people displaying this behavior.
Supy manages to work the term "psychotic" into virtually every post nowsdays.
I wonder if it means that he's starting to listen to his headshrinker.
Bob >> Stay informed about: Another plastic body bites the dust |
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