Interesting 20D accident thread (plastic loses again)
Rich
accident with their 20D.
Check the thread titled:
The Fall of the 20D
I noted that the only part of the camera that sustained any damage
(the camera is magnesium) was the battery door.
Luckily, the battery cover replacement only costs $15. Almost like
Canon expected this to happen. Ah plastic!
-Rich
C J Southern
started by a given individual?
Battleax
"C J Southern" <spamr...@xtra.co.nz> wrote in message
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> Does anyone know of a way to automatically kill an entire thread if it's
> started by a given individual?
>
>
In outlook express create a new View (View menu - Current View - Define
Views). Create a view rule to HIDE messages that are IGNORED, name it Hide
Ignored.
Click the Watch/Ignore column to set the thread to ignore. Then use the
Views toolbar dropdown list to select the Hide Ignored view.
Brian
Oh well, I guess a metal door would more likely have bent and been
unopenable. The replacement cost of that may been more like $30.
Long live plastic!
C J Southern
"Battleax" <unava...@thistime.net> wrote in message
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Ya ... I already do that. What I'm after is a way to kill entire threads
that are started by people on my kill file list.
Thanks anyway.
Cheers,
Steve Franklin
falls from a height of roughly one meter, onto a wooden floor that it's
possible that it will continue to function.
I wonder though, would what happen if a plastic camera you'll never own fell
from height of roughly one meter, onto a wooden floor? Would it also
continue to function?
Because I guess if we could repeat the experiment, we could conclude if
there was a winner or a loser.(to talk in your terms)
I'm starting to come around to your way of thinking though.
For instance, what would happen if say someone say made a homemade mortar
and was firing bowling balls from it down the freeway? I know which car I'd
rather be in when that Brunswick 16lb ball comes back to earth at 180km/hr
and it wouldn't be a Prius. Nope I'd definitely choose to be in an Abrams
class tank - I mean if a little bit of metal is good then a lot of metal is
a whole lot better right?
Or what about, just say for instance Rich you were in San Francisco when a
magnitude 9 Earthquake goes through the place and levels the entire city.
Being a touristy city, the National Guard decides to sweep the area with a
gigantic magnet in the hope that those with a metal camera around their
necks will be plucked out of the wreckage.
Just think how vindicated you'd be! That out of all the imaginary cameras
you could have thought about buying - you made the decision that your
imaginary camera of choice would be a metal one.
Of course because you don't actual own a metal or plastic camera you would
be left to rot in the wreckage and we would be robbed of your thoughtful,
intellectual insights.
zog
> Does anyone know of a way to automatically kill an entire thread if it's
> started by a given individual?
>
>
in Thunderbird just hit K
nv
Steve Franklin <hon...@lips.com> scribed:
<snipped>
> Of course because you don't actual own a metal or plastic camera you would
> be left to rot in the wreckage and we would be robbed of your thoughtful,
> intellectual insights.
I think of it this way. If Rich never posted, I'd never get a laugh from him
OR you.
You're both very good VFM, in a world that often takes itself too seriously.
:-)
Eternal thanks
Nigel
Battleax
Well making the whole thread invisible is as "kill" as you you'll get.
Gormless
"Rich" <no...@none.com> wrote in message
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> Canon expected this to happen. Ah plastic!
You bloody oaf.
I'm sure there are treatments for obsession. Find out.
And while you're doing so, stay away from here.
Paul Floyd
> Or what about, just say for instance Rich you were in San Francisco when a
> magnitude 9 Earthquake goes through the place and levels the entire city.
> Being a touristy city, the National Guard decides to sweep the area with a
> gigantic magnet in the hope that those with a metal camera around their
> necks will be plucked out of the wreckage.
Make that 'those with a steel[1] camera'.
A bientot
Paul
[1] or any other ferromagnetic material, for the even more pedantic.
--
Paul Floyd http://paulf.free.fr (for what it's worth)
Surgery: ennobled Gerald.
Charles Schuler
deny them that and they will quickly wither and die.
Rich
wrote:
Hey! Maybe they can design cameras like F-1 racecars and have them
"explode" on minor impact, dissipating energy and thereby protecting
the insides?
-Rich
Rich
wrote:
>It's must be incredibly comforting to know that camera you'll never own,
>falls from a height of roughly one meter, onto a wooden floor that it's
>possible that it will continue to function.
>
>I wonder though, would what happen if a plastic camera you'll never own fell
>from height of roughly one meter, onto a wooden floor? Would it also
>continue to function?
>
It would probably end up like the door, cracked in half.
-Rich
Michael Johnson, PE
> If nobody responded, Rich would go away. Trolls only exist for feedback ...
> deny them that and they will quickly wither and die.
Amen, brother.
imo...@tpg.com.au
Rich loves being abused! I wasn't sure at first, but now I can see that
he loves to bait the group and wait for the bashing.
For me, well, I don't play squash or have a cat to kick, and well he
just screams 'kick me' - just think of him as the newsgroup Piñata,
take a stick and have a bash.
If that doesn't float your boat then just desist. If you take the view
that almost all his posts are crap (which I'm sure you do) then it
shouldn't bother you what goes on within a post started by him.
In the meantime just wait...there's another plastic/kit lens/useless
musing around the corner.
Batter up.
Steve Franklin
G.T.
> If nobody responded, Rich would go away. Trolls only exist for feedback ...
> deny them that and they will quickly wither and die.
I'm not so sure that would work with Rich.
Greg
--
"All my time I spent in heaven
Revelries of dance and wine
Waking to the sound of laughter
Up I'd rise and kiss the sky" - The Mekons
Stacey
> Rich wrote:
>> I saw a thread on rec.photo.digital about someone who had a fall
>> accident with their 20D.
>> Check the thread titled:
>> The Fall of the 20D
>>
>> I noted that the only part of the camera that sustained any damage
>> (the camera is magnesium) was the battery door.
>> Luckily, the battery cover replacement only costs $15. Almost like
>> Canon expected this to happen. Ah plastic!
>> -Rich
>
> Oh well, I guess a metal door would more likely have bent
No, the metal door would have broken the mount for the door on the metal
body and totaled the whole camera!
--
Stacey
Skip M
news:11tbap2...@corp.supernews.com...
> Charles Schuler wrote:
>> If nobody responded, Rich would go away. Trolls only exist for feedback
>> ... deny them that and they will quickly wither and die.
>
> I'm not so sure that would work with Rich.
>
> Greg
>
I think he likes the sound of his own metaphorical voice for that to work.
I agree.
--
Skip Middleton
http://www.shadowcatcherimagery.com
Michael Johnson, PE
> "G.T." <getn...@dslextreme.com> wrote in message
> news:11tbap2...@corp.supernews.com...
>> Charles Schuler wrote:
>>> If nobody responded, Rich would go away. Trolls only exist for feedback
>>> ... deny them that and they will quickly wither and die.
>> I'm not so sure that would work with Rich.
>>
>> Greg
>>
>
> I think he likes the sound of his own metaphorical voice for that to work.
> I agree.
He likes that every idiotic thread he starts gets far more posts than it
deserves. Look at them and you'll see he generally gets more responses
than the legitimate posters. If we, as a group, wouldn't respond he
would leave or at the least minimize his pleasure. He is playing us
like a violin and grinning all the time he is doing it. I have him lill
filed and still have to see his drivel because people can't seem to
resist the bait he dangles in front of them.
nrh
Michael Johnson, PE <c...@erols.com> scribed:
So, why do you persist? Because it's an intrinsic part of human nature and
it fulfills a physiological need to hammer someone else. It's animal in its
origins, I believe. To take out another creature that shows a weakness (in
their own terms). I guess it makes some feel better about themselves, or
superior, or both. And the victims often don't seem to mind either, which
only serves to perpetuate the problem. I guess we're all winners then. :-)
Cheers
N.
Michael Johnson, PE
I am admittedly adding to this particular thread but it is in hope that
some will take my suggestion and not respond to him in the future. When
the novelty of smacking him around wears off maybe then he will be
ignored. I would just prefer to get to that point sooner rather than
later. I guess I am tired of him now because I get a double dose of his
worthless ranting since he does the same thing in a Mustang newsgroup I
frequent.
Gormless
>
> It would probably end up like the door, cracked in half.
> -Rich
We live in the greatest hope that this might soon happen to your fool head.
Or, hang on, maybe this has already happened, which would explain the
ridiculous obsessions you display.
G.T.
"Michael Johnson, PE" <c...@erols.com> wrote in message
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He it does it to the astronomy newsgroup, too. But as opposed to here he
actually sometimes gives decent information there.
Greg
Michael Johnson, PE
In the Mustang newsgroup he appeared to be quite normal for awhile and
then, one day, his IQ dropped to single digits. He pissed off most
people there in record time. Here in Usenet he must think he is the
equivalent of the ticker that CNN, MSNBC, Fox News etc. has running at
the bottom of their screen. Why he is here in this group is really a
mystery since he doesn't own a DSLR and he never plans to buy one
(unless they machine it from a solid block of titanium and it costs $29.95).
Charles Schuler
> DSLR and he never plans to buy one (unless they machine it from a solid
> block of titanium and it costs $29.95).
And has no plastic parts. He is the most successful troll on this group
since "George Preddy" and all of his aliases. Kill file this turd!
Rich
Don't let your 1965 leak transfluid on your front lawn.
-Rich
nrh
> then, one day, his IQ dropped to single digits. He pissed off most
> people there in record time. Here in Usenet he must think he is the
> equivalent of the ticker that CNN, MSNBC, Fox News etc. has running at
> the bottom of their screen. Why he is here in this group is really a
> mystery since he doesn't own a DSLR and he never plans to buy one
> (unless they machine it from a solid block of titanium and it costs
> $29.95).
<chortle>
nrh
> some will take my suggestion and not respond to him in the future. When
> the novelty of smacking him around wears off maybe then he will be
> ignored. I would just prefer to get to that point sooner rather than
Yes, that really is the best way in these circs. But it's a bit like trying
not to chew on a fruit pastel.
A man's gotta chew, what a man's gotta chew.
:-)
N.
Michael Johnson, PE
LOL!
-hh
Michael Johnson, PE wrote:
>
> I am admittedly adding to this particular thread but it is in hope that
> some will take my suggestion and not respond to him in the future.
That's pretty much the only thing that will motivate Trolls to move on
to greener pastures.
My suggestion is that for all future threads, whoever is the first to
see one of Rich's nonsensical posts simply post the following retort:
"The Titanic had a 100% Steel hull. A lot of good it did them".
...and the rest of us can then read the first response and if it is the
above, take it as the sign to not bother to make any further repies.
-hh
Brian
Yes, you are probably right Stacey!
Steve Franklin
http://www.dailytelegraph.news.com.au/story/0,20281,17882642-5001022,00.html
"Our understanding is that after he'd pinched the camera from the
photographer at the Hungry Jack's car park he sped off, took it home, took
it into the shed and basically systematically destroyed it with what looks
like a hammer.
"It is in several hundred pieces - it's incredible."
nrh
Rich
wrote:
>Hey Rich, thought you might like to jerk off to this...
See what it takes to destroy a good metal camera?
A crazy leftist and a sledge hammer!
-Rich