Picture Of The Week (POW) Information and Submissions

[stratman]

Read your post Jan 14th 2015 to me.

Please post the link.

If Google runs the show then Google gets to make the rules. It is no different than you making the rules in your own home. Since there are other choices for web site collaboration, and I do not mean that in a Vichy government way but in the spirit of good partnership, what Google makes as their rules in no way compares to true censorship by a government. At this time, government censorship in the US is not from conservatism. YMMV

there is a pop up on behaf of the ANZ Bank offering a Visa Credit Card to kids over 14.

Rob may not have control over the advertising that is pushed to forum members. Obviously the ANZ Bank ad is specific to your location and would not be displayed to me.

Quickly looking at ANZ Bank's credit card's "Conditions of Use", a minor of 12 years of age may have a certain account. Wow! I had a savings account at that age. When I hit 16 and began driving I had one of John D. Rockefeller's filling station credit cards. I agree that this kind of offer to attract minors is suspect and may be inappropriate.

Yet, we're heading towards a cashless world. In the future, 5 year olds will have a credit/debit card of some type to purchase "penny" candy and pencil erasers.

We are getting old and the world does not wait.

 

[turbguy]

I remember having a SOHIO (Standard Oil of Ohio, JD Rockefeller's original company) credit card. It worked at any gas station whose sign was red, white, and blue! Really convenient on long road trip way back when...

 

[Ink stained Fingers]

Goolge - o.k., it is as it is.

I got into my archive and recovered an image from some time ago, last millenium, I took
almost exactly 40 years ago, on the month.



It looks into the gap between the head of an impact printer and the paper, with the ribbon removed, and some of the needles touching the paper as they print normally - the needles were fixed for the photo. That was typical technology at that time, 7 needles to get the text onto the paper, not 6 x 128 nozzles or something.

 

[3dogs]

Please post the link.

If Google runs the show then Google gets to make the rules. It is no different than you making the rules in your own home. Since there are other choices for web site collaboration, and I do not mean that in a Vichy government way but in the spirit of good partnership, what Google makes as their rules in no way compares to true censorship by a government. At this time, government censorship in the US is not from conservatism. YMMV


Rob may not have control over the advertising that is pushed to forum members. Obviously the ANZ Bank ad is specific to your location and would not be displayed to me.

Quickly looking at ANZ Bank's credit card's "Conditions of Use", a minor of 12 years of age may have a certain account. Wow! I had a savings account at that age. When I hit 16 and began driving I had one of John D. Rockefeller's filling station credit cards. I agree that this kind of offer to attract minors is suspect and may be inappropriate.

Yet, we're heading towards a cashless world. In the future, 5 year olds will have a credit/debit card of some type to purchase "penny" candy and pencil erasers.

We are getting old and the world does not wait.

Progress you call it.......like the new crop of printers are progress????

Dont get me wrong, I believe that pulling that post was an insult to the forum and a wrong to you...

 

[Emulator]

Nature's Pearls

I had to get out of the armchair and open the sliding window for this one.

As a side note, set to f4 i.e. max aperture on this lens, I found that the auto focus would not focus on the web, but insisted on focusing on the background foliage. It was necessary to focus on the branch and re-position, but that did not give accurate focus, for the centre of the web. I should have stopped down to f7.1 or higher.

Must be a right pain for the spider. Two hours later it has all evaporated.

 

[The Hat]

Thanks for that @Emulator, the World Wide Spider Webs Wet Tee Shirt Competition, let’s hope Google likes this one, a true artist at work.

@Emulator got some great exercise out of it even if it was only to move ten paces, it was well worth the effort.

I reckoned the big elbow photo was Border line and maybe subject to sanction but in all honesty I taught it was harmless to everyone and typical of @stratmans humour, it was brilliant in fact.

But rules are rules and if it was necessary to pull the photo JUST in case it offended or over stepped Googles' silly stupid rules then Rob was right, I don’t agree with the decision either but I can live with that, so what’s all the fuss about.

Quote:- “A picture is worth a thousands words”. Unquote, too bloody right..

 

[3dogs]

@fotofreek -- you delete what you feel you have to.........even this. I guess it will soon be "political" to compare the comparative costs of ink or printers.......for fear of offending the OEM's.......

Cheers,

And no hard feeings....just another sadness at the sickness that is being allowed to pervade our society.

 

[fotofreek]

@fotofreek -- you delete what you feel you have to.........even this. I guess it will soon be "political" to compare the comparative costs of ink or printers.......for fear of offending the OEM's.......

Cheers,

And no hard feeings....just another sadness at the sickness that is being allowed to pervade our society.

I do agree about the creeping censorship that Google lays on something as benign as our forum. And I'm all in favor of offending the OEM's with regard to ink prices.

 

[Roy Sletcher]

I do agree about the creeping censorship that Google lays on something as benign as our forum. And I'm all in favor of offending the OEM's with regard to ink prices.

Freedom is an emotive concept that comes in many forms, most with some form of associated responsibilities.

Example Google buys a big tent and invites groups like Printer Knowledge to use a portion if they follow Google's terms and conditions (rules to us peons). Seems fair to me. Printer Knowledge in turn invites like minded people to participate in discussions in a smaller room he leases in that tent provided we follow Goggle's PLUS his rules. Again it all seems reasonable and fair to me, and I do not view it a impinging on my concept of freedom. Their houses, their rules. I remember telling my teenage kids exactly the same thing about my house.

Anybody who bristles at this setup is can exercise their FREEDOM to get their own big tent and pay for providing a rule free environment for inhabitants to do as they wish.

Sorry to get all preachy about this, but I come across so many people insisting on excising all their perceived freedoms, whilst overlooking the reality of associated obligations and responsibilities necessary for good order in society, and to preserve that concept of freedom.

As the old satirical magazine Krokodil joked in the former USSR, "YES, but in the West they have FREEDOM after speech"

Rant off - Back to normal programming. ZZZzzzz

rs

PS - Emu - loved your Spider web. I know how hard it is to get a good image of one!

 

[stratman]

Progress you call it.......like the new crop of printers are progress???

No, I do not call all change progress. Some of it is regressive, like businesses preying on children (your ANZ Bank example). Some of it is the way things have always gone, like making a product with less expensive parts and manufacturing processes as with printers, cars, furniture, buildings, etc.

Anyhoo, bringing it back around to topic for the Mod'ster -- one thing that has endured is a pretty picture, like those in our POW thread.