Bhairitu, I apologize for blessing you with poverty. May you never become rich,
instead.
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From: Mike Dixon <mdixon.6...@yahoo.com>
To: "FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 1, 2012 1:34 PM
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Happy Boxing Day!
My blessing for you then is, may you always remain poor.
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From: Bhairitu <noozg...@sbcglobal.net>
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, December 30, 2011 1:21 PM
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Happy Boxing Day!
I'd have to be rich first to do that. I'm not rich like you, Mike.
Given the current economy that may never be possible. The rich became
rich because our government allowed them to so they owe back the
public. Greed is a mental illness and we can reopen the closed public
mental hospitals to treat the greedy rich.
On 12/30/2011 12:44 PM, Mike Dixon wrote:
> But, but .... you could start a new *tradition* that would be much more
> altruistic. You could make some rich person's servants love you more than the
> people that pay them for their labor.OR, we could just let the government buy
> them gifts and make the rich pay for them.
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> From: Bhairitu<noozg...@sbcglobal.net>
> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2011 12:01 PM
> Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Happy Boxing Day!
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> That's not the tradition. I heard Nicole Sandler explain it on her show
> and the tradition was that the rich only gave gifts to their peers on
> Christmas and then on the day after to their servants.
>
> On 12/27/2011 10:41 AM, Mike Dixon wrote:
>> Why not give a box of goodies to somebody else's servants?
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>> From: Bhairitu<noozg...@sbcglobal.net>
>> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
>> Sent: Monday, December 26, 2011 12:43 PM
>> Subject: [FairfieldLife] Happy Boxing Day!
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>> Be sure to give some gifts to your servants!
>>
>> I don't have any servants because I'm not one of the 1%. But I've been
>> getting acquainted with my new camera to find what all it does and
>> doesn't do. One little unclear bit of information is that the camera
>> does shoot in Apple's iFrame mode which is probably NOT of much use.
>> iFrame was developed to make HD video editing easier but only supports a
>> resolution of 960x540 which is kinda halfway between SD and HD. Netflix
>> actually streams some of their non-HD offerings in this resolution.
>> iFrame stores each picture as a full frame or what is known in MPEG
>> compression parlance as an i-frame.
>>
>> Though I had my eyes set on a Canon T3i DSLR I couldn't justify the
>> expenditure at this time and since I was given a Best Buy gift care a
>> little over a week ago used it to buy a Canon PowerShot 310 HS. This
>> camera supports iFrame but you have to use it from the manual settings.
>> The camera does not have a 960x540 setting but apparently stretches the
>> 960x540 image to 1280x720. Ugh, not so good as 720p should have more
>> detail than that. So iFrame is of not much use.
>>
>> But the 1080p setting shoots at 24 fps which is what I've been wanting
>> for years and the image is crisp. One 1.5 minute video I shot Christmas
>> eve created a 440 MB QuickTime MOV file so there is little compression
>> going on using the AVCHD format anyways and the file loaded fine into my
>> editing software. Video analysis software showed it was pretty much as
>> standard AVCHD file mostly of p-frames and some i-frames. My bet is the
>> p-frames don't use a lot of compression. This camera shoots better
>> video than my 2005 $1800 Sony camcorder which only did 1440x1080i and
>> the Canon was only $180. The camera has both an USB port and an HDMI
>> port. I'm using Class 10 sdcards with this camera which happened to be
>> on sale this last week for $15. The higher speed card is recommended to
>> prevent dropouts.
>>
>> And of course the camera takes great stills. I haven't had a really
>> good still camera since I had an SLR back in the 1970s.
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