Re: The good old days of rpd

On Mon, 27 Jul 2009 08:55:58 -0500, George Kerby <ghost_topper@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:




On 7/26/09 7:07 PM, in article 0orp65tbskb37lb6dntqqq62g9ebkae7ev@xxxxxxx,
"Oh The Reality Of It All" <otroia@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Sun, 26 Jul 2009 15:58:36 -0400, ASAAR <caught@xxxxxx> wrote:

On Sat, 25 Jul 2009 12:53:38 -0400, David Ruether wrote:

I can remember when this was a relatively young newsgroup. By
far the majority of the messages involved arguments about which
was better, digital or film.

By then, this NG was quite old and "creaky"...;-) It was Nikon
vs. Canon earlier, and digital was but a twinkle in some engineers
eye, for use with P&S cameras using floppy disks. Who then would
have taken digital imaging seriously? ;-)

Me, for one. I shelved my Nikon SLRs nine years ago when I got
Canon's 2mp S10 and 3mp S20. Floppy disks? Don't forget those
big-little Hitachi and IBM 170MB and 340MB CF cards that contained
hard drives. I'm happy to have passed on them and stuck with cooler
running flash cards. :) The later Nikon vs. Canon wars weren't very
bloody, more like sophomoric razzing, sometimes good natured,
sometimes not. Much more brutal was the anti-Sigma mob mentality.
There was some of that too, but not quite to the same degree
regarding Olympus's 4/3 cameras. Something about those slightly
smaller sensors seemed to really irritate some of the more vocal
DSLR owners, who tended to be Canonistas, IIRC.

I won't say whether things are better or worse these days, but in
my opinion there are a lot of long threads that suck up too much of
the ng's activity and which serves little purpose. Often straying
from photography and cameras, not in the good sense of cameraderie
(sic), or friends just having an interesting discussion about
whatever, it's more often about arguing for its own sake, and
frequently not very pleasant.

Yes, you need a safe and virtually-warm & virtually-fuzzy place to play out
your imaginary friendships, since nobody wants to ever know you in real
life. Just like you like to role-play your knowing anything about cameras
and photography. Pretend friends, pretend cameras, what's the difference to
a psychotic imaginary-life role-playing troll like you.



The absolute definition of the term "projection" is in the paragraph
immediately above.

The absolute definition of the phrase "the shoe fits" is in the sentence
immediately above. Otherwise it wouldn't bother you in the least.

LOL

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