I feel like most if not all countries would do or have already done this to their respective citizens on their soil at some point.

DSLR's are medium-high end cameras, they're pricey (cheapest are somewhere around £5-600) and they're sorta bulky, but only to accommodate all the lenses and shit they need to take really good pictures, with MegaPixels (MP)'s well beyond everything else with picture-taking abilities, and most are also able to be used as a video camera. These are not really suited for amateurs or as starter cameras as they cost a bomb, and although they have an automatic setting, you won't get the most out of the camera's power to make real use out of it without knowing a bit about ISO's, light intensities, apertures, lenses, and shutter speeds, as well as what a RAW file is.

Compacts are what it says on the tin; small enough to fit in your pocket, at the cost of higher quality (similar MP-resolutions as a high-end phone), but are significantly cheaper, which can be under £100 if you get an old model. Great and cheap for starters, but may be limited in features such as only producing JPEG images that are harder to edit later on, might not have filming capabilities, and may or may not be limited to an auto-only setting (so you can't do specific focus on a subject, change the aperture, etc). Compacts can also have niche features, like being waterproof (good for diving or underwater photos), or being generally more rugged than a DSLR.

Compact DSLR's are a more recent thing - more compact than a DSLR, more features and quality than a compact, and somewhat in between the two for cost (between £3-400, but getting ever-cheaper). They may not have DSLR super MP quality, but are far less bulky, have filming capabilities, can have the niche features of compacts, and have slightly cheaper options available.

There's also the older SLR's (the D being Digital in the above) and 35mm film cameras. These can be dirt cheap because of their age unless it's some "classic/vintage model", but are a lot more finnicky because the tech is likely to have come from the 90's or earlier (i.e. no pre-/post-shot preview screens, limited indicators on shutter speed/aperture/light intensity, film is far more fragile to heat/light/cold/humidity/water/dust, x-rays and other radiation, etc), plus it's a constant cost to replenish the film, which depending on the camera and film type, can be very rare and/or expensive. The upside is you get a "classic" camera, with the mechanical bits and clicks, actual film, getting back negatives and actual photos, that sorta thing. It's kinda popular with hipster types, old folks and hobbyists.

I myself have a compact DSLR (Panasonic Lumix something or other) and an old Minolta 35mm from the 80's. I've been using the Lumix for ages now to learn how to do all the settings manually with the help of the preview screen to see the results before I click, so that I can transfer over and use the totally featureless 35mm and gauge what settings I need at the time to get a decent photo out of it.

Man, people are throwing stats and country factfiles around like crazy on Twitter. Should change #GunControl to #AmericanControl.

On a more serious note, that's an insane amount of casualties. The BBC tells me that Nevada has one of the most (if not THE most) laxed gun laws, why? Not many shootings there to justify stricter laws, less guncrime, etc?

Go in there and show them your ID.  Become their mascot

Already did, nearly got a free pint out of it. Shocked the shit outta the staff there though.

I've been eating Durians and Dragonfruit recently.

And you can't get a good tasting one of the the former unless you eat it in the host country.

Currently couch surfing at university accommodation in Cardiff and Bristol after being unable to get a lift home from Carmarthen after spending 2 weeks in Malaysia.

That's a lotta locations in a short space of time, and this last week was an entirely impulsive decision since I have nothing better to do at home, except maybe find a job. Pretending to be a Fresher again is nice though, plenty of freebies.

Need to get Trump off the speakers seat.

He keeps goading KJ with rhetoric that matches NK's levels of fantasy to save face for idiots, but just like how everyone laughed at NK before, everyone rational is laughing at Trump now. That's why we're seeing other sanctioned countries like Iran reacting to Trump like he's a little yappy dog in a handbag.

It went from the regular sabre rattling for rations and the occasional bomb test from an otherwise controlled border country to others crossing lines that took years of diplomacy to establish in the first place.

Id probably have learnt French by now.

Oh well, only a temporary setback.

NK will just keep trailing along until either a famine gets too out of hand or the iron grip of the elite in the society falters and there's another refugee crisis. Famine is nore unlikely as CN/RU don't want to have their buffer zone/western distraction device backfire on them.

The news will keep churning out "oh he's test fired another one, the crafty bastard" or "Kim says he's got hydrogen bombs now, and 5 more in production".

We'll get used to it and joke about it as we did previously, only now about shoddy chinese nukes than NK's air-pump operated rocket program.

Can someone explain why people choose to stay in high risk places like the keys when a hurricane comes.

I understand being stuck there or otherwise unable to leave, but staying is a retarded notion.

I literally just did this to my Doom case now.

I didn't even know there were inside covers on these things.

Most don't, and it's surprisibg that such a small cosmetic change can really have an impacr.

Borderlands 2 is another exception, and one of the first that I distinctly remember.

Doom has a pretty fucking great flipside, like it was designed for it.



Edit: Beat me to it.

I think anonymity is good, it shows what people really think when there aren't risks of losing social standing, or other more serious ramifications.

You get better discourse as you can have the confidence/hide behind the anonymity to argue a claim or standpoint, even if it isn't the most popular, or outright hated. Even if it's a viewpoint that is vilified for legitimate reasons, it can show others how many people support that view in reality behind closed doors behind a more civil facade, and allows planners to actually combat it.

Take a general example such as racism. Most people are civil and respectable until some loon with the balls to start a riot over it pulls enough support to drag the more moderate/civil bystanders into the protest, and then all hell breaks loose. If the police knew that 25% of the population held those beliefs but didn't act on them normally, they could have more officers on standby for when said loon gets a riot going, and control it faster before anything more serious happened.

It doesn't matter who actually holds those beliefs, only how many when something like that is going to happen, so when a violent protest or a more serious scenario like a mob lynching or whatever happens it can be dealt with who they are then.

I wish I could explain that better, but unfortunately I am not a genius.

Beck - Odelay
2 - Hotwax (No covers available)
5 - Derelict (No covers available)
12 - "High 5 (Rock the Catskills)" (No covers available)

It's quite difficult to find any covers of his less popular songs, and harder still to find good ones. While searching I did find a neat chronology of songs;


as well as himself doing a damn good cover of other people's work:

Why you didn't grab them off the ledge of the bridge when it seems sorta obvious what was next is a complete mystery.