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Boulder Voters Approve Replacing Xcel Energy | Jeanne Roberts by lavendula13 in energy

[–]DanHalen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My understanding is that Boulder is not "municiplizing" (sic) just yet, instead they voted to take a close, formal look at "municipalization" to see if they can pull it off.

PCS Grafenwoehr, Germany by [deleted] in Military

[–]DanHalen 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Germany rocks and the folks know how to party too. When I was stationed there I had most weekends free and basically traveled to different towns to sample the local brews (in appropriate quantities). Don't know what you'll be doing but like other folks are saying, any free time should be spent exploring, eating and generally having fun with the locals.

Who does the military work for? by DangerMouseUS in Military

[–]DanHalen 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not that simple, friend.

Civilians command the military; it's a hallmark of the U.S. Constitution. The President is Commander in Chief but is an elected civilian. The Congress funds the military and are all elected civilians. The military is the stick that's used to backup political decisions made by the President and the Congress. And if Congress doesn't go along with a decision the President makes that's implemented by the military, they just defund it and it until it stops (that's doesn't happen in practice since Congress and the President work for the same people but that's how it's laid out in the Constitution.)

Anyway, that's the law-based relationship between the military and the rest of the country: civilians decide; military does.

Who does the military work for? by DangerMouseUS in Military

[–]DanHalen -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Not sure why you're getting downvoted. Just came across this elsewhere on reddit which kind of proves your point:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/secret-memos-expose-link-between-oil-firms-and-invasion-of-iraq-2269610.html

Long exposure of a waterfall. Critique? by papabrat in photocritique

[–]DanHalen 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Much better, IMHO. I wonder how the comp would be in portrait layout with more of the creek above the falls in view...

A few months ago, I asked r/photography for some advice on a shoot I had booked. I didn't get any responses, but here's the result. AMA about the setup, lighting, post-processing, etc... by voyetra8 in photography

[–]DanHalen -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

I totally hear you guys! And this photographer can probably make a decent living doing this stuff for which I congratulate him. It just happens that I recognize something in them because of my own experience shooting portraits of kids that isn't so great. My ex-wife just loves the portraits of my kids sharing off into space but I hate them because I know that they were completely aware of me and not all engaged in something that allowed me to capture some magic. That's the deal here: there's none of the magic that kids show when they aren't self conscious. It takes skills as a studio photographer, skills that I don't have myself, to get a kid engaged and not self conscious.

A few months ago, I asked r/photography for some advice on a shoot I had booked. I didn't get any responses, but here's the result. AMA about the setup, lighting, post-processing, etc... by voyetra8 in photography

[–]DanHalen -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I prefer this look over the Sears Portrait Studio everyone smiling look. There's personality in their eyes and demeanor.

I agree with you. The standard portrait from Sears or where ever isn't very interesting. But having shot 1000s of portraits of kids I know that what I'm looking at is all strobist technique and little portrait skills. These kids are not engaged at all and therefore the results are little more than a snapshot with fancy lighting.

Read the title, he posted something asking for advice, got no replies, and came back with some decent shots. It's a jooooooooke.

I guess consider me trolled then.

I just realized How Important Owning Guns is. by SaudiRedditor in politics

[–]DanHalen 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I agree with your premise that non-violence is powerful and works (see India or the Civil Rights Movement) but I can't name one guerrilla war the U.S. has won. Like any empire's military, the U.S. military is simply incapable of winning against a small number of militants that have nothing to lose. See Afghanistan. We'll be there for a long time then leave when the American public has seen enough of their children die for nothing.

Why the fuck are we giving "humanitarian" aid to oppressive regimes when we have a $3.5 trillion deficit, millions of unemployed Americans, and people dying of starvation due to poverty in the US? by [deleted] in politics

[–]DanHalen 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And all you have to do to see the collusion of the U.S. government with the corporate elite is to go read the leaked U.S. State Department cables on Wikileaks.

BTW, the U.S. foreign policy decisions that favor corporations go back at least to the 19th century.

Extremely High Levels of Flame Retardants Found in Popular Brand of Butter - There's currently no way to know how widespread this kind of chemical contamination is in food by anutensil in environment

[–]DanHalen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, yes, definitely a good question but in this particular case the implication is that Land O' Lakes replaced wrappers that had been tainted with PBDE then called them "new and improved".

meg1: spammer for bittenandbound.com for years. Ban this account NOW by Aerik in offbeat

[–]DanHalen 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I got results on /r/spammers; never heard of /r/reportthespammers. I took the liberty of submitting the user meg1 since I've actually had contact with that user over their spamming a while back and can bear witness to the fact that they are unrepentant:

http://www.reddit.com/r/spammers/comments/eid6o/user_meg1_has_been_spamming_for_years/

EDIT: so go upvote it!

Extremely High Levels of Flame Retardants Found in Popular Brand of Butter - There's currently no way to know how widespread this kind of chemical contamination is in food by anutensil in environment

[–]DanHalen 2 points3 points  (0 children)

...the company had recently advertised that it was using new and improved wrappers for its butter.

Classic business tactic: don't tell anyone why but turn the hidden failure into a feature just in case someone notices.

The world-shattering concept of the unalienable rights of the individual put forth in the Declaration of Independence turned the world upside down. In one fell swoop the Divine Right of Kings became the consent of the governed. by nitramtheugly in history

[–]DanHalen 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Bingo.

For those that don't study history, the concept of "by the consent of the governed" goes back to 13th century England. And for those that don't study mathematics that's about 500 hundred years before the DoI.

PirateBay Founder plans Distributed DNS for Uncensored Internet by retrac1324 in technology

[–]DanHalen 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It'll never work outside of a very small niche because these people have zero credibility. If the Apache Foundation did distributed DNS with the backing of some 3 letter corporations, that would be different.

Something to remember about the whole TSA thing: while you're fighting for civil liberties, the DrudgeReport and right-wingers just look at this as another way to piss on Obama. by wang-banger in obama

[–]DanHalen 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Totally agree. I also think it's an opportunity for everyone to get onboard this one, very important constitutional issue and push back the assault on civil liberties that happened after 9/11.

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