Bit of fun for our amusement. 
Add to the thread by QUOTING what you consider is a lazy question from a lazy poster...
Lack of hardware or system details wont usually count...and be careful about second language situations.
Rule: NO discussions in the thread. Let the quote speak for itself and stand alone.
Be careful it doesnt back fire on you 
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oh, and that includes saying, " no I am not setting up the camera on that rallraod tressle .. you moron ! ... unless you get some railroad person here with flags and lights and signals and walkie talkies .. so I know I"m not gonna get squished like a bug and die out there ! "
union or not ( member or not ) jurusidiction is another thing.. ( my union was NYC .. if I went to Africa I aint crying to the union about rules..and to be honest I AM THE UNION .. ITS NOT ANYTHING MORE THAN YOU AND ME ... h
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The foundation of knowledge is.... "how to ask a question" in the first place.
Me: "How do I get an answer Snarky?"
So if I posted that to you ..whats your helpful answer Snarky
Get it correct and I will give you a Correct Answer tick...and those will be the first points you have got from anyone.
I bet most young people have a totally different attitude toward technology and digital " tools " than older people like me. I thought it was really amazing and fascinating when computers came out for homes ( first IBM's, atari, commodore etc ) and wanted to learn about the programming ( basic ) and guts of the machines.. eventuall building a few pc's and really being into the internal stuff of hardware ( IRQ settings, Drive format types ( FAT ) and all that stuff...
I think younger people buy something, plug in the usb charger and expect it to just WORK.. period. There friends probably tell them what is cool to get and so on. I don't think they have the fascination or enthusiasm about the guts of the tools or the technologies involved ( same goes for digital cameras and is why everyone thinks they can shoot their own commercials and weddings and events and movies ) and I suppose that's just natural. Those posting fast questions without any info about whats up or what they are using probably have no clue it matters... they just want things to " work ". I doubt any of them would spend the time searching the forums to find this forum and this thread.. and find out how silly the questions might have been to the old timers or those who specialize in the technology and so on. So I really don't think there's a risk of hurting anyone's feelings.. and I'm sure that's not the purpose of this thread anyway..
It's more a sharing of mild amusement at some of the more silly posts ( like the joke about that person who tried to use thier CD drive as a coffee holder ).
if only your powers of observation were as strong
as your contempt for inexperienced users
Hundreds of posts to inexperienced and less expereinced users proves you wrong in regard to any contempt.
I agree about my powers of observation. I have no idea who your masquerade covers or why you do so.
Congratulations on your 5 pts between yesterday and today. You are now a peon.
when one of you gets that free lobster dinner from adobe for having the most points.. can I have a little piece of bread or something for my 5 points ?? I will just sit under the table and not be in the way...
you might have to crumble the bread up into really little pieces, like crumbs basically, so I can LICK them up... due to tooth problems...
There is, however, a free BREAKFAST, sponsored by St. John's Church.. on 4/29/2014, of pancakes, special locally made sausages, and some other stuff... in the community room where I live.
Sign up so that they know how much batter to bring etc... and eat FAST.. cause it is only goin to be happening for ONE HOUR !!!!!
I plan to bring a shoulder bag lined with plastic ... so I can get one load of stuff and put it in my shoulder bag to eat later... and go back for 2nds right away ....and eat that in the community room.. therefore getting A FREE LUNCH too !
Speaking of free lunches... one more note...
I have some rib eye steaks and special nice hamburgers from Omaha Steaks that I can't eat because I end up choking on stuff I can't chew.. large chunks of meat end up stuck halfway down my throat and I have to throw myself across the coffee table to simulate a self administered Heimlich maneuver....so I have all this STUFF just sitting in the freezer...so if you are driving anywhere around Mound MN. feel free to stop by and I will give it to you. It is in the original nice plastic super cold plastic stuff that Omaha Steak uses to make stuff last a long time and taste good. That could be a " free lunch " for you someday then. But don't think you can bar b q it around here cause there is currently a super scary snow storm warning and flooding warnings and tornado warnings and so on. I think the weatherman likes to scare people cause he gave all those warnings with a big smile on TV this morning.
When I first got into the film biz ( as a crew member, grip ) there were some non union jobs around where some people asked me if I was available to work on certain jobs. There was even a guy who called me to advise about some still photo tricks to get certain " shots" ( using still camera with fast frame rates to shoot some stuff for a movie being shot in Atlantic City .. some card playing thing using a time lapse thing... at that time the fastest frame rate was about 3 frames per second but you could bump it up if you locked the mirror up .. think it was nikon camera back then.. like around 1980 ? ). I am old and keep thinking of the past now... so , sorry.. I haven't yet got into shooting out the window today so I can live in the " present ". But anyway, try to remember that 'union' film workers are really freelance workers ( not like employees who work in some factory every day, like staff or permanent employees ... it's a different animal.. so even union members of film stuff get called about non union jobs .. cause it's all word of mouth mostly among crazy people )
So anyway, I got called and asked if I would work on some porn movie.
Oddly enough it was a call from the same guy that asked me for help about the still camera thing ( which I advised him on and they did what they did to some extent based on my cool advice ).
So I was thinking about what working on a porn movie might be like.. who wouldn't ??? And my first thought was " those who can, do.. those who can't teach, or else they film OTHER people DOING ! "
I figured I would get really horny moving the camera around and helping to light the scenes and getting the actors to hit their marks ... and in the end declined working on porn movies in this lifetime. I think it must be way more fun to be able to DO instead of TEACH that stuff... and I figure anyone who can do neither one.. just FILM IT must be really bummed out ...
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well, back to my new hobby.. shooting out the window...
and guess what ? YES ! ITS BEER THIRTY ! YIPEE !
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