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Post by Intheswamp on Feb 18, 2021 11:39:33 GMT -5
Thanks everybody. Another notch on the stick!!!
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Post by Intheswamp on Feb 18, 2021 11:38:49 GMT -5
Intheswamp Don't see you posting much lately. Just checking in. Hope your Birthday is magical. Thanks fernwood! It *was* magical....I made it to it!!!!!<grin>
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Post by Intheswamp on Feb 7, 2018 23:20:23 GMT -5
Mr Rogers says, "Be yourself just as you are" I have no idea why you posted that, but I have to say I LOVE MR. ROGERS!!! I was really sad when he died. It was so nice to have a show that I knew the kids could watch.
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Post by Intheswamp on Dec 26, 2017 9:29:18 GMT -5
Happy belated birthday - I meant to say something last night but the Christmas Ale caught up with me a bit I guess Thanks, Tommy. I'm getting older and it's getting hard to hear myself fart...I bumped into my doctor the other evening at the grocery store and he said he could fix that...he could give me some medicine to make me fart louder.....
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Post by Intheswamp on Dec 25, 2017 3:33:00 GMT -5
Merry Christmas!!!
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Post by Intheswamp on Nov 27, 2017 8:45:49 GMT -5
Yeah, well at least the SEC had two teams in contention. James, it was a pitiful game for 'Bama. Ever since the Mississippi State game I've had some concerns about Alabama. Without the second layer being there (epidemic of linebacker injuries) the secondary was in shambles. Auburn played Alabama perfectly...they chewed them up. I'm an Alabama fan, but I also see in black-and-white...Alabama isn't the team it was the first of the year. Jalen Hurts wasn't the cool collected quarterback he's been in the past, either. BUT...Auburn played ball and beat'em, no short-changing the Tigers on what they've accomplished. When I saw them beat Georgia I new that they had something going on. It wouldn't surprise me to see them come away with the BCS championship trophy! And being from Alabama, I'd been proud of them. I'm one of those fans that Auburn nor Alabama likes. I'll pull for either of them until they play each other...then I pull for Alabama. And, if Auburn might have a chance at going to a playoff spot and Alabama doesn't I *might* pull a little for Auburn when they play each other. I want the state to do good. Like I said, I'm not a fan that either school's diehard fans fraternize with.
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Post by Intheswamp on Nov 9, 2017 8:27:59 GMT -5
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Post by Intheswamp on Nov 3, 2017 9:04:19 GMT -5
James, I'm not sure about your discrepancy between your RAW and jpeg file sizes. I find the opposite to be true....RAW being much larger than the resulting jpeg files.
RAW...data file, needs software to be able to process and display "image". Non-compressed info. Not an image file...a *data* file. Does not lose data when processed. Consider it your digital negative.
Jpeg...image file processed "in camera". Usually highly compressed. Can edit it, but usually is a lossy process.
Jpeg = 8 bit RAW = 12-14 bit
Different cameras perform differently. But, without a doubt, the jpeg that comes out of a digital camera will be inferior to the image processed from the RAW data. The camera is doing fast and dirty processing to present you with instant gratification on a tiny screen. I have several jpeg resolutions I can select with my camera, but the highest resolution (which produces a pretty decent jpeg) still doesn't equal the image created from the RAW file (I shoot RAW+jpeg). When you pull the RAW image into a RAW processor you should be getting an image derived from all the information available from that data file...and that data can be much more easily edited than trying to do lossy editing on a jpeg. Data is lost when jpegs are edited....with RAW no data is lost.
Some people think that post-processing is a cardinal sin, they don't like images that have been "photoshopped"....what they need to realize that as soon as the shutter button is pressed the image is being "post processed" by the camera to convert digital data to the jpeg that we see...the camera processes it to what it "thinks" the photographer wants to see.
I save my RAW files. If a RAW file isn't worth saving then the jpeg probably isn't, either. Naturally, if you're only wish is to post to a forum or Facebook or something then upload the image and delete both jpeg and RAW file, etc.,...but, hard-drive space is cheap.
I wonder...when Ansel Adams shot Jeffrey Pine did he throw away the negative after he printed it? I'm no expert...not even a half-decent amateur...just my take on things.
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Post by Intheswamp on Oct 5, 2017 8:49:40 GMT -5
Yep, it's the full-auto stuff that cooked the Tennessee guy's goose... Not actually. Most anyone (that is not a felon and a couple other exceptions) may purchase a full auto weapon. Just gotta jump through more hoops. And pay more money. The fact that he modified semi auto weapons to full auto himself and they had no serial #s on them is what's gonna have him behind bars. Had the serial #s been on the guns, the cops may have never looked further. Probably a really good idea to obey all traffic laws when carrying illegal anything in your vehicle. I guess I should've said "self-modded, no serial numbers, full-auto stuff", eh? Whatever the case, this guy should be feeling right now kinda like a wild hog on a spit being slowly turned over some hickory coals....he's cooked! Hmm, I just read that he had a mask and black fatigues in the vehicle, too. I guess he could claim he's kind of a "goth guy" or maybe a member of Antifa. Authorities also found another full-auto rifle at his house and about $6000 (by somebody's estimate) worth of ammo. What's the proper temperature for roasted pork?
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Post by Intheswamp on Oct 4, 2017 22:01:13 GMT -5
Yep, it's the full-auto stuff that cooked the Tennessee guy's goose...
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Post by Intheswamp on Oct 4, 2017 17:22:11 GMT -5
Hmm, I've seen a few articles about the shooter being prescribed valium and that valium can cause viloence in some people...the articles likened it to how some people go to sleep when they start drinking and some people get mean and want to fight. I guess if you throw that in with someone walking a thin pane of sanity their could (not saying it was) an issue. So this guy's doctor prescribes the shooter some anxiety pills and rather than getting mellowed out this guy gets wound up tighter and tighter and tighter. Interesting theory. So some doctor is standing their with the deer-in-the-headlight-look as a swat team is descending upon him... <sigh>
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Post by Intheswamp on Oct 4, 2017 13:17:16 GMT -5
I was thinkin'... maybe it's too soon for such decisions, but I bet some at the Mandalay Bay hotel are thinking on this. What are they going to do with that hotel room? No way they can rent it out ever again. Who would stay in that room?Creeps.
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Post by Intheswamp on Oct 4, 2017 9:18:17 GMT -5
It sure seems like he had it made, Mel. Multi-millionaire with no apparent financial concerns...something most of us would definitely appreciate. I agree, very weird/strange...or simply insane. Like I said earlier, he had a reason, but one that isn't understandable by sane people. Certainly he had no compassion or care for his fellow man or woman...no empathy at all in regards to their dreams, family love, futures, lives. Cold and calculated without a conscience.
Eventually the "experts" will decide the shooter's reason was that he had a grievance against "XYZ" and he had an agenda of "ABC". You, me, and everybody else has a grievance of some kind and have an agenda that runs counter to someone else's agenda. But, 99.99999999999999999999999999999% of us don't resort to mass murdering of folks we don't know (or folks we do know, for that matter) to state our grievances and promote our agenda. In this situation how in the hell does this atrocity promote his agenda??? It seems that if his "cause" or whatever is ever known that this will only harm that "cause". No logic in it...just madness.
About the only way I figure we'll ever come close to the "why" of this is if the authorities find a manifesto or something where he details his plans and reasoning, ever how bizarre that reasoning is. But, even that won't let us understand the logic of the shooters thinking...we're not wired that way.
You're right about the age-issue. I found one site that stated the average age was 34.....66 years old is an anomaly.
I looked through some photos of the victims this morning with short bios beneath the photos. Just regular folks you'd meet at the cafe, at work, at church, just regular folks making the best of the lives they had. Lots of sadness and misery from the actions of one disgustingly evil heartless being.
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Post by Intheswamp on Oct 4, 2017 7:38:02 GMT -5
You know the mind of a psycho?
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Post by Intheswamp on Oct 3, 2017 9:20:26 GMT -5
He seems to fit the mold of a psychopath...or of simply being evil. As for his age, I agree that most shooters are much younger...but evil is ageless...from a child burning kittens or a mustached, greasy-haired midget putting people in gas chambers...evil is evil. So, maybe not psychotic...just pure evil.
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Post by Intheswamp on Oct 3, 2017 8:58:53 GMT -5
True, source is 2nd hand info supposedly from Fed LEOs. He does not fit the mold for any of the speculation thus far... But, he does fit a "mold". Whether a person is a Muslim, a white supremacist, a black lives matter member, a southern Baptist, or the Pope...if they commit such a crime as this one then they have crossed the line of what (mostly) normal people can comprehend and they've entered into the realm of psychosis. This murderer had an agenda, he had a reason, and it was all-consuming for him...but, we will probably never really know what urged him to do this...we can't, as sane individuals, enter into the realm of his madness. Plenty of people experience problems in life, family issues, financial issues, personal issues, social issues, etc.,. But, most of the people who have problems deal with them in some way, they lower a shoulder and plod on. A very small percentage, step across a razor-sharp threshold into madness and never return...and they look completely normal to *us*. Or, it could simply be that the shooter submitted to the demons of the evil one... Whatever the case, my apologies at using the "R M" phrase here. It just seemed that many mass killings in recent (world) history of the last year or so have been carried out by members of a certain religion originating in the Middle East. After having my knee tapped so many times by by the media reporting about the jihad hammer I guess Pavlov's dog's reaction appeared in me. I did not know the phrase was now frowned upon around here... Again, my apologies to all and my heartfelt prayers for the wounded, their families, and for the families of those who were killed.
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Post by Intheswamp on Oct 2, 2017 9:05:39 GMT -5
meviva, I believe that the shooter had his reason...it's just that us normal people cannot understand the twisted, evil logic that these psychos use to justify what they do.
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Post by Intheswamp on Oct 2, 2017 8:56:34 GMT -5
With the media reporting the part about the smoke and fire alarms tipping the LEOs off as to the shooter's location...some weasel terrorist (homegrown or other) is making notes in his little filthy playbook.
I noticed where the shooter's brother stated that the murderer had no affiliations or issues with anybody or anything..."He was just a guy.". No, he was not "...just a guy"...he was a psycho and somebody knew he had some peculiarities about him.. It was mentioned that the local law "knew him", but yet it was reported that he didn't have a record of any arrests...so how did the law "know him"? Maybe from his apparent collection of firearms? I like guns, so no harm no foul in having several. Was he "friends" with the LEOs and flew completely below their radar? Very sinister, evil people are very smart and great at deception. I'm sure there are acquaintances of the shooter who are wracking their brains trying to figure this out.
I would wager that he was either a radical Muslim or simply a psycho,...but, that is redundant. Those seem, to me, to be the only creatures that would kill indiscriminately as was done in Las Vegas.
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Post by Intheswamp on Oct 2, 2017 7:15:10 GMT -5
There is so many soft targets in the USA (and in other countries) that a nutjob/psycho/terrorist can cause major damage with little equipment...it sounds like in this case the murderer(s) had some heavy equipment and knew how to use it. The motive will be interesting to find out...this guy had no intention of leaving that hotel room alive.
Prayers for all the victims and their families.
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Post by Intheswamp on Sept 10, 2017 22:59:28 GMT -5
You still with us captbob???
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