https://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussions/tagged/stupidity/feed.rss Fri, 03 May 24 04:52:18 +0000 Tagged with stupidity - Personal View Talks en-CA https://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/138/beware-of-kenrockwell.com Thu, 26 May 2011 00:45:45 +0000 Vitaliy_Kiselev 138@/talks/discussions http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/samyang/14mm-f28.htm
This is worst shit I ever read.
Article is about one of the sharpest, if not the sharpest 14mm ever made.
I know that he loves ultrazooms and thinks that you can replace anything with, say, 12x zoom (out of pure economical reasons - ultrazooms are amongs most popular first separate purchase, and he is living from affilate).
But this...
He also post reviews of things he never touched actually.

I know one other mazohistic idiot who write how Pentax is producing crap - http://ricehigh.blogspot.com/]]> https://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/221/cars Sun, 12 Jun 2011 12:33:54 +0000 Vitaliy_Kiselev 221@/talks/discussions Personal car. In poor countries - at least one car in a family.
In rich countries - second car for each family member (and it is time to buy one for your doggy, isnt' it?).
Most of the time it is no longer time saver even, instead it is big time and health waste.
Millions of motherfuckers sitting in steel boxes creeping at 5-10km/h.
Fuck'em all.
Same motherfuckers driving their car to their nearest mall or mini-market,
Thanks to them, instead of normal yards full of trees, we now have huge parking lots.
Each fucking car needs many parking lots. One near home. One near mall. One near office. One in protected parking, in not so rich countries people like to steal your car at nigh, you know. And at least few on the road.
It is plain stupid to demand from drivers to keep distance, if they won't do it you'll need build less roads, pure mathematics, and because of less distance you'll have more incedents resulting in less remaining drivers, so, even less roads.

What do you think?]]> https://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/81/panasonic-g3-official-topic Thu, 12 May 2011 08:35:42 +0000 Vitaliy_Kiselev 81@/talks/discussions

More details at - http://www.43rumors.com/continually-updated-panasonic-g3-announced/

To be short:

* Less buttons (you do not need AEL, right?).
* No eye sensor (You like play quest games enabling EVF via touch menu?)
* Noisier sensor compensated by math (read - more details blur).
* Intelligent resolution (read - more sharpness accentuating even minor flaws).
* And this magic button, ouch forget how it is called, something like Super-Druper-Auto-Everything-Intelligence-Not-From-This-Planet.
I think that it decides then you must take your pictures and prevents you to take any picture if it does not like this sour mugs ;-)
But I may misread something.

Overall, looks pretty cool for young girl.
Panasonic, why we don't see it in pink? Look at Pentax!



It'll be so better!]]> https://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/164/rich-get-richer Thu, 02 Jun 2011 03:54:07 +0000 Vitaliy_Kiselev 164@/talks/discussions


You know how I define the economic and social classes in this country? The upper class keeps all of the money, pays none of the taxes. The middle class pays all of the taxes, does all of the work. The poor are there... just to scare the shit out of the middle class. Keep 'em showing up at those jobs. (c)

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And, overall, interesting read:

http://elsa.berkeley.edu/~saez/saez-UStopincomes-2007.pdf

The two big mistakes were the belief in a sky god -- that there's a man in the sky with ten things he doesn't want you to do and you'll burn for a long time if you do them -- and private property, which I think is at the core of our failure as a species. (c)]]> https://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/1180/us-lies-and-deception Fri, 14 Oct 2011 00:52:30 +0000 Vitaliy_Kiselev 1180@/talks/discussions
President Barack Obama warned Iran on Thursday it would face the toughest possible sanctions for an alleged plot to kill the Saudi ambassador in Washington, as Treasury officials eyed action against the Iranian central bank.

Saudi Arabia on Thursday accused Iran of fomenting instability but pledged a "measured response" over the alleged conspiracy that has heightened tensions between OPEC's two top oil producers.

Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal, on a visit to Austria, said that the evidence showed "Iran is responsible" for the suspected assassination plan and said Tehran had tried to "meddle" in the affairs of Arab states before.

In Washington, Obama told a news conference that the United States would not take any options off the table in dealing with Iran, a phrase U.S. officials regularly use toward Tehran that is diplomatic code for the possibility of military action.

"This is part of a pattern of dangerous and reckless behavior by the Iranian government," Obama said in his first public comments on the affair.

U.S. authorities on Tuesday said they had broken up a plot by two men linked to Iran's security agencies to assassinate Saudi Ambassador Adel al-Jubeir. One was arrested last month while the other was believed to be in Iran.

Via: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/13/us-usa-security-iran-idUSTRE79A5E020111013?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews

I have only one comment:

Feckity, feckity, feckity, feck, feck, feck. (c)
]]> https://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/1071/us-boa-to-charge-5-monthly-debit-card-fee- Fri, 30 Sep 2011 07:39:26 +0000 Vitaliy_Kiselev 1071@/talks/discussions
Whether you use your card for one purchase a month or 20, you will pay $5 per month starting in 2012. It doesn't matter if you select "debit" or "credit" at the point of sale.

If you don't use your card at all, you won't be assessed a fee, and you can still use ATMs as much as you want without getting hit with the new charge. Plus, customers with certain premium accounts will be exempt from the charge.

Other banks have been flirting with the idea of introducing a fee for debit card usage, but Bank of America (BAC, Fortune 500) is one of the first major institutions to announce that it will make this a reality for active debit card customers.

Via: http://money.cnn.com/2011/09/29/pf/bank_of_america_debit_fee/index.htm
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]]> https://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/827/libya-freedom-galore Thu, 01 Sep 2011 04:15:25 +0000 Vitaliy_Kiselev 827@/talks/discussions

And official lady Gaga:

It seems strange but this fucking Libyans are still fighting.
Even despite saving people(tm) through mass bombardment of the cities (according to mr, Rasmussen NATO bombs can kill only wrong people, so all is ok)]]> https://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/17/philips-is-selling-70-percent-stake-of-its-hdtv-business-to-hk-based-company Tue, 19 Apr 2011 06:09:45 +0000 Vitaliy_Kiselev 17@/talks/discussions Even more funny is to read many comments about "end of TV era" and "Apple to enter TV market" (supposely to destroy it).
Get real. People are not stupid. Design house can't live for very long time.
Especially if it thinks that he can sue normal manufacturers.]]> https://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/730/libya-informational-war-at-full-scale Mon, 22 Aug 2011 04:08:28 +0000 Vitaliy_Kiselev 730@/talks/discussions
But most TV channels remind me of 08/08/08.

Most probably, economic events similar to 2008 will follow soon.]]> https://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/156/fed.-we-need-money-to-live. Tue, 31 May 2011 03:57:33 +0000 Vitaliy_Kiselev 156@/talks/discussions They just moved all new amounts to Debt Not Subject to Limit :-)
Love this motherfuckers.

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Now, Fed plans for June.



Especially one day will be fun. $234 billions in a day.
Fuck Greece. Serious people are making this fucking world new big trouble.
Do not stand on their way.

During their making they caused big troubles in one of the last countries that produces anything other than offices and paper - Belarus.
But we'll come to detailed discussion about this operation slightly later.]]> https://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/368/us-obesity Sun, 10 Jul 2011 17:38:14 +0000 Vitaliy_Kiselev 368@/talks/discussions

Read more interesting data at:
http://healthyamericans.org/reports/obesity2011/Obesity2011Report.pdf]]> https://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/347/panasonic-lumix-division-it-is-time-to-change Thu, 07 Jul 2011 07:26:22 +0000 Vitaliy_Kiselev 347@/talks/discussions

If other divisions can do it, why can't you?

http://developer.vieraconnect.com/

P.S. And I must say that they are not alone, all major TV manufacturers introduced or plan to introduce similar approach for their TV sets.]]> https://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/312/pentax-sold-to-ricoh Fri, 01 Jul 2011 07:46:00 +0000 Vitaliy_Kiselev 312@/talks/discussions HOYA Corporation (“HOYA”) and Ricoh Company, Ltd. (“Ricoh”) hereby announce that pursuant to decisions by the President and CEO of HOYA and Representative Director of Ricoh, respectively, HOYA and Ricoh have executed an agreement as of today to transfer HOYA’s PENTAX Imaging Systems Business (the business of developing, manufacturing and selling optical instruments such as digital cameras and replacement lenses, digital camera accessories, security camera-related products, and binoculars) (the “PENTAX Imaging Systems Business”) to Ricoh. HOYA will effectuate this transfer by incorporating a new corporation (“NewCo”), cause NewCo to succeed the PENTAX Imaging Systems Business by way of a corporate split (kyushu bunkatsu) (the “Corporate Split”), and transfer all shares of NewCo to Ricoh (such split and transfer shall be referred to as the “Split/Transfer”) as of October 1, 2011 (Estimated).

Prior to the Split/Transfer, HOYA intends to transfer its interests in PENTAX VN CO., Ltd., an overseas subsidiary of HOYA in relation to the PENTAX Imaging Systems Business, to NewCo.

Please note, that since the Corporate Split is a simplified corporate split (kan-i kyushu bunkatsu), disclosure items/content have been partially abbreviated.
Further, HOYA will continue to develop its businesses assigned from PENTAX Corporation which was merged (kyushu gappei) into HOYA on March 31, 2008 other than the PENTAX Imaging Systems Business, such as its businesses regarding digital camera modules, DVD pickup lenses, endoscopes, artificial bones, and voice synthesis.

1. Background of the Split/Transfer
HOYA merged (kyushu gappei) with PENTAX Corporation on March 31, 2008, and has developed the PENTAX Imaging Systems Business assigned from PENTAX Corporation until now.
As part of selecting and focusing its management resources, HOYA has decided to cause NewCo to succeed the PENTAX Imaging Systems Business via the Corporate Split, transfer the business and shares, etc. of HOYA’s Imaging Systems business subsidiary to NewCo via a business transfer and share/interests transfer, and thereafter, transfer all shares of NewCo to Ricoh.

Ricoh’s core business is office solutions focusing on MFPs, Ricoh has also introduced many cameras to the market since its inception in 1936. Ricoh was one of the first manufacturers to launch digital cameras in 1995 and Ricoh’s current high-end compact digital cameras are well regarded in the industry.
Now Ricoh aims to establish a consumer business. As a first step to achieve this goal, Ricoh strengthens its camera businesses. Ricoh takes it as an indispensable initiative to obtain the small and lightweight interchangeable lens camera technology, lens technology and sales channels held by the Pentax Imaging Systems Division to pave the way for further advancement and innovations in the digital camera market.

Through this acquisition, Ricoh plans to 1) enhance its digital camera businesses (especially the interchangeable lens camera market which is expected to grow), 2) create value-added businesses for taken photographs (creation and development of value-added services that encourage seeing, storing and refinishing photographs and utilize photographs as communication tools), and 3) expand to other fields (study of entry into the image archiving business using medium-format digital cameras and enhancement of security-related products)

Links to official press-releases:
http://www.hoya.co.jp/english/news/latest/d0h4dj0000001fv8-att/d0h4dj0000001fwi.pdf

P.S. It is fun that in logo of this site Pentax and Ricoh logos parts are neightbours (2nd and 3rd letters) :-)

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Good primer of video that you must never make public (see topic about 10 commandments)]]> https://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/246/meat-from-human-feces.-good-idea. Fri, 17 Jun 2011 18:03:15 +0000 Vitaliy_Kiselev 246@/talks/discussions It's being called the "poop burger". Japanese scientists have found a way to create artificial meat from sewage containing human feces.

Somehow this feels like a Vonnegut plotline: population boom equals food shortage. Solution? Synthesize food from human waste matter. Absurd yes, but Japanese scientists have actually discovered a way to create edible steaks from human feces.

Mitsuyuki Ikeda, a researcher from the Okayama Laboratory, has developed steaks based on proteins from human excrement. Tokyo Sewage approached the scientist because of an overabundance of sewage mud. They asked him to explore the possible uses of the sewage and Ikeda found that the mud contained a great deal of protein because of all the bacteria.

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The researchers then extracted those proteins, combined them with a reaction enhancer and put it in an exploder which created the artificial steak. The “meat” is 63% proteins, 25% carbohydrates, 3% lipids and 9% minerals. The researchers color the poop meat red with food coloring and enhance the flavor with soy protein. Initial tests have people saying it even tastes like beef.


Read rest here - http://www.digitaltrends.com/international/japanese-scientists-creates-meat-out-of-feces/

Made idea into reality :-)
"Кто сдаёт продукт вторичный - тот питается отлично!" (c)
http://books.rusf.ru/unzip/add-on/xussr_av/voynov01.htm?1/46]]> https://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/171/libya-opinion Fri, 03 Jun 2011 00:24:04 +0000 Vitaliy_Kiselev 171@/talks/discussions
Two questions troubled me over Memorial Day: Why is the United States destroying Libya, and why do I care?

For nearly three months America and its pony pal Pokeys -- Denmark, France, Italy, Norway and the United Kingdom -- have been busily destroying Libya.

The war started out as at least vaguely comprehensible and well-meaning. Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi had responded to the Arab Spring stirrings against his government with furious threats against the Libyan population. The U.N. Security Council, at the urging of three permanent members (France, the United Kingdom and the United States) but with significant abstentions by Brazil, China, Germany, India and Russia, agreed to military action to protect Libyan civilians from the potential ravages of the government's armed forces. That limited objective made some sense in humanitarian terms.

Libyan rebels launched an effort to oust Mr. Gadhafi from power but quickly ran out of gas. The allies began fighting under the banner of NATO, with the United States in principle having handed over leadership of the effort -- which became, clearly, aimed at regime change, allegedly a "no, no" for the regime of President Barack Obama because it saw this as a major fault of the preceding administration of President George W. Bush. The allies, having eliminated Mr. Gadhafi's air power, began bombing not only government military targets but also making parts of Tripoli, the Libyan capital, look like Joplin, Missouri, after the tornado. This was done in the name of hitting military installations, although it has become evident that Mr. Gadhafi himself was their real target.


Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11152/1150408-374-0.stm#ixzz1OBRDRQr5

Funny to read. Cinical position about operation that, ideally, must make leaders of US,UK and Frace being prisoners in War Tribunal.]]> https://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/115/do-you-really-need-education Fri, 20 May 2011 00:36:22 +0000 Vitaliy_Kiselev 115@/talks/discussions

General humanities specialities are less and less required.

You will see fierce competition in wedding shooting market soon :-)]]> https://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/100/poor-poor-dsk Tue, 17 May 2011 08:49:57 +0000 Vitaliy_Kiselev 100@/talks/discussions But not some random victim, as all this things become possible due to extremely fast degradation of "democratic" massmedia.
First, they started to mass falsify(or made false ones froms scratch) reports from Libya (and still continue to do so).
Next goes Sirya.
Inexpirienced man on the street could think that virtual murder of virtual Osama had been real pinnacle :-)
But no.

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They jailed head of IMF due to report from black maid.
And all massmedia seriously discuss it, especially why DSK career is over.
Instead of discussing why US need all this events to happen (and be covered by such methods).
Generally, this is quite simple.
Debt problems. All main foreign banks are pulling their money from US why they can.
Only US owned offshores (some via UK) still invest in treasures (doing same as FED, reinvesting US money in US debt).
What we must expect?
More and more fun. Accompanied with "point" weapon strikes.
US officials already outlined that Libya do not deserve to have any infrastructure.
Who'll be next?]]> https://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/206/vegatables-instead-of-brains Thu, 09 Jun 2011 09:58:34 +0000 Vitaliy_Kiselev 206@/talks/discussions Millions lost. Vegetables selling going down (our exaggerating mass-media tell that almost to zero at Germany).
Idiots on the screen galore.
No one really knows anything.
Mass-media are afraid to tell you big secret - that you must wash vegetables before eating them.
And that E. Coli do not live above 100 degrees C (normally 60 C is enough).

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My own theory is that all this is related to inflation.
Two parts that played key role in inflation rise are energy and food.
So, Caddafy and Libya are hurting because Europe wants free energy.
And vegetables because Europe wants much cheaper food (at least they can compensate raise in other food sectors).]]> https://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/145/ten-commandments Fri, 27 May 2011 15:14:25 +0000 Vitaliy_Kiselev 145@/talks/discussions
Juncker: I already have an idea of what you are getting at.

SPIEGEL: Are you familiar with the Eighth Commandment?

Juncker: Of course. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.

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SPIEGEL: Apparently you don’t take it very seriously. More than two weeks ago, you denied a report by SPIEGEL ONLINE about a secret meeting of several European Union finance ministers to discuss the situation in Greece, even though the official limousines were already pulling up in Luxembourg.

Juncker: The most important commandment is not to inflict harm on others. Although it isn’t stated quite that way in the Ten Commandments, it follows from them. The finance ministers of several Euro Group nations had agreed to meet on Friday with the president of the European Central Bank (ECB), Jean-Claude Trichet. Because the financial markets in Europe were still open and trading was still underway on Wall Street, we had to deny the existence of the meeting. Otherwise the course of the euro against the dollar, which had already fallen as a result of your report, would have plunged disastrously.

SPIEGEL: With this false denial, you not only harmed your own credibility, but that of European financial policy as well.

Juncker: And it didn’t exactly enhance the credibility of SPIEGEL ONLINE to disseminate the false report that we were meeting in Luxembourg to discuss Greece’s withdrawal from the monetary union.

Read the rest here - http://www.peopleunlikeus.com/?p=3663

Or better watch this instead of reading lies new from this motherfucker (and you must be sure that they won't tell you the truth):

]]> https://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/122/fed.-road-to-hell.- Sun, 22 May 2011 01:53:05 +0000 Vitaliy_Kiselev 122@/talks/discussions
Let's look.

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Since October 2010 on Fed balance you see 675 billlions increase (for securities). National debt increased by 783 billions at the same time.
So, about 86% of debt increase had been sponsored by Fed :-)
In last three months since 18 February till 19 May, US debt increased by 221 milliards, in the same time Fed balance increased by 304 billions.
This will be about 137% of debt issued.
Plus US have problems with debt limit, so are forced to stop many payments to pension funds and go to over markets to finance staggering deficit.
]]> https://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/72/sometimes-you-have-to-pay... Mon, 09 May 2011 22:57:10 +0000 Vitaliy_Kiselev 72@/talks/discussions


http://www.scribd.com/doc/53525577/European-Greek-Restructuring

Japan and USA are, in fact, in much worse state.]]> https://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/78/thom-strikes-again Wed, 11 May 2011 18:18:36 +0000 Vitaliy_Kiselev 78@/talks/discussions
Generally, from my pov it can be concluded to three simple facts.
1. Companies must add more special advanced analytics who'll interpret sales differently to actual numbers (because supply problems, wrong showcase design, etc)
2. Companies must introduce special weighting techniques. As real ppofessionals must count about 25x times compared to simple lemming who just bought this mirrorless camera and clearly do not have any photography skills.
3. Video must be removed from cameras, as it prevents camera to be pure professional tool to take stills (less clear, so you must read previous notes to get it)

My opinion about all of them - here companies are right and Thoms is wrong.
Btw, usually photo professionals are wrong in any relatively long term thing and managers learned it badly.]]> https://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/45/3rd-of-may-that-looks-like-1st-of-april Tue, 03 May 2011 02:51:38 +0000 Vitaliy_Kiselev 45@/talks/discussions Yes, we tried to capture him using few shots in the head. Unfortunately he didn't survive.
You ask about video? Sorry, all SD cards failed.
Anyone who saw this actually? We don't know such men except president, his wife, doughters and pets.
Even they saw this only online and quality was terrible.
May be we could look at the body? No we thrown it into the ocean, it happened to be in the near 1500km. Accidently."

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It seems like we are going in the right direction.
Amount of agitation and disinformation in main TV broadcast corporations is close to 100%
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]]> https://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/29/panasonic-planning-to-cut-17000-jobs Thu, 28 Apr 2011 08:15:54 +0000 Vitaliy_Kiselev 29@/talks/discussions
See more at - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/13218920

My comment.
We'll see more cuts in the future. 15.3% March sales slump in Japan also do not help.
Panasonic life will be tougher and tougher. I expect especially big hits in pro department.
]]> https://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/20/22nd-of-april Fri, 22 Apr 2011 00:45:04 +0000 Vitaliy_Kiselev 20@/talks/discussions And today we finished money collection for GH1 project that will be named after this famous man.



Advanced "democratic" humankind is celebrating Good Friday today.
While their political bosses continue to dismantle social guarantees obtained because of this man.
Isn't it weird?]]>