No. Quite the opposite. Your comments are generally so infantile, and beneath me, that I don't even comment on the vast majority of the nonsense.
No. Quite the opposite. Your comments are generally so infantile, and beneath me, that I don't even comment on the vast majority of the nonsense.
Similarly, if you find, or have, a compact camera you like - buy another before they stop making it.
I did. One carries my Laowa 10mm f/2 or Panasonic Leica 9mm f/1.7, the other my Panasonic Leica 15mm or Panasonic Leica 25mm f/1.4.
I know of people who have bought 3 or 4 each. Fabulous little compact cameras.
@LeicaMan has written: @Ghundred has written:Not really. Only if you let them. Nothing stopping you turning it off, leaving it at home in the drawer, or even not owning one. . Lol.
I guess if you don't interact with the rest of the world, you could get away without one.
*I interact with the rest of the world just fine thanks. You certainly don't need a smartphone to make phone calls, send emails, use messenger or whatever your favourite flavour of communication happens to be. * However, in the functioning world, they are required for buying/going to most MLB
gamesWhat's an MLB game? I can go to the World Superbikes, Island classic, tractor pulls, local sports, car and bike shows just fine without a phone
, sporting events, many concerts... Most confirmations, verifications, mobile activity of ALL types require a smart-phone. Consequently, for most people, since they have to have a smart-phone for work, pleasure, recreation - they might as well use it for their photography. I still have a land-line but increasingly, almost exclusively, it receives robo-calls and unsolicited incoming calls. However, not having one is not an option for most.
a smart-phone.
I also have a smartphone. Once again, I'm tapping this post out right now on one. But like I wrote previously, I'm at work, eating brekky, I don't care who knows that. But I do care who knows where I am in the middle of a lockdown, where I'm riding my bicycle and motorcycles and at what speed, where I'm going shopping, where I'm eating, what I'm buying etc etc etc.
I control my phone. It doesn't control me. That's all I'm saying. Yet people get upset when I mention a few cons in regards to the favourite little electronic tracking device. I really can't see why
Honestly, if rattling on about all the things you could do before cell phones, even though we all know plenty well what we can and cannot do at any point in time, mystifies you, I don't know what to say. You are not speaking to a room full of chimps.
@Ghundred has written:I also have a smartphone. Once again, I'm tapping this post out right now on one. But like I wrote previously, I'm at work, eating brekky, I don't care who knows that. But I do care who knows where I am in the middle of a lockdown, where I'm riding my bicycle and motorcycles and at what speed, where I'm going shopping, where I'm eating, what I'm buying etc etc etc.
I control my phone. It doesn't control me. That's all I'm saying. Yet people get upset when I mention a few cons in regards to the favourite little electronic tracking device. I really can't see whyI think you may be confusing a few counter-points to your snarky statement (hopefully tongue-in-cheek) of, "or even not owning one", as being upset. I'm fine if you don't have one, don't want one, don't use one.... You couldn't upset me in the least if you never had a mobile device of any kind. But, to state that one might "not even have one", while you're typing away on yours is hilarious - and hypocritical. Thanks for the morning laugh. đ¤ Luckily for me, you're far more important than I, typing this on my smart-phone, in Yamagata City, Japan while I'm waiting for the rain to stop so I can get back to work, if you are concerned with someone "watching" you while you ride your bicycle. I, fortunately, don't have the least concern of anyone wanting to watch me do anything. I would be far more concerned about credit bureaus, credit cards, and other non-governmental entities letting my information out in a breach of cyber-security. However, I bet you won't be upset when you crash your bicycle in the wilderness and incopacitate yourself - while the rescue team hones in your cellular signal to save you. đđźââď¸
Edward Snowden certainly wasted his time on ignorant folks like you!
I don't know what to say. You are not speaking to a room full of chimps
Yet it appears people are incapable of functioning in normal, everyday life, without their own personal little electronic tracking tag đ¤ˇđ¤ˇ
My buddy Chuck could teach you a thing or two about tracking. lol

@Mackiesback has written:I don't know what to say. You are not speaking to a room full of chimps
Yet it appears people are incapable of functioning in normal, everyday life, without their own personal little electronic tracking tag đ¤ˇđ¤ˇ
That's because life has integrated into the technology. I worked in an office park once where a backhoe severed a fiber optics cable while digging. No electricity, no computers. etc. We did have phone service, but no way to took up phone numbers to call customers. It's times like that when you realize most businesses, and to a similar extent, individuals are extremely dependent on the technology we have created. And we do it that way because the majority of us think it is better to have the tech than not have it.
Grumbling about the way things are is 100% pointless. Could our business go back to rolodexes and manual ledgers to run the office? Of course, no point in bragging about dumb tech, we did it before we can do it again. But why would we. It would be an exercise in stupidity.
@Mackiesback has written:I don't know what to say. You are not speaking to a room full of chimps
Yet it appears people are incapable of functioning in normal, everyday life, without their own personal little electronic tracking tag đ¤ˇđ¤ˇ
I'm not a big phone lover myself, but your obsession with tracking just makes you sound tinfoil-hat. Our government, for one, are arseholes of the highest order, but I would happily bet you ÂŁ1000 that they have not, and do not track the population with our phones.
@Ghundred has written: @Mackiesback has written:I don't know what to say. You are not speaking to a room full of chimps
Yet it appears people are incapable of functioning in normal, everyday life, without their own personal little electronic tracking tag đ¤ˇđ¤ˇ
I'm not a big phone lover myself, but your obsession with tracking just makes you sound tinfoil-hat. Our government, for one, are arseholes of the highest order, but I would happily bet you ÂŁ1000 that they have not, and do not track the population with our phones.
That is funny- where were you when this all happened:
www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-23123964
years ago yes, but it still happens whether you want to be in denial or not...
@Ghundred has written: @LeicaMan has written: @Ghundred has written:Not really. Only if you let them. Nothing stopping you turning it off, leaving it at home in the drawer, or even not owning one. . Lol.
I guess if you don't interact with the rest of the world, you could get away without one.
*I interact with the rest of the world just fine thanks. You certainly don't need a smartphone to make phone calls, send emails, use messenger or whatever your favourite flavour of communication happens to be. * However, in the functioning world, they are required for buying/going to most MLB
gamesWhat's an MLB game? I can go to the World Superbikes, Island classic, tractor pulls, local sports, car and bike shows just fine without a phone
, sporting events, many concerts... Most confirmations, verifications, mobile activity of ALL types require a smart-phone. Consequently, for most people, since they have to have a smart-phone for work, pleasure, recreation - they might as well use it for their photography. I still have a land-line but increasingly, almost exclusively, it receives robo-calls and unsolicited incoming calls. However, not having one is not an option for most.
a smart-phone.
I also have a smartphone. Once again, I'm tapping this post out right now on one. But like I wrote previously, I'm at work, eating brekky, I don't care who knows that. But I do care who knows where I am in the middle of a lockdown, where I'm riding my bicycle and motorcycles and at what speed, where I'm going shopping, where I'm eating, what I'm buying etc etc etc.
I control my phone. It doesn't control me. That's all I'm saying. Yet people get upset when I mention a few cons in regards to the favourite little electronic tracking device. I really can't see whyHonestly, if rattling on about all the things you could do before cell phones, even though we all know plenty well what we can and cannot do at any point in time, mystifies you, I don't know what to say. You are not speaking to a room full of chimps.
Room full of 5th graders more like it. You phonetard crusaders get tiresome real fast.
Do you make a habit of insulting people? Some of us don't like it.
@Mackiesback has written: @Ghundred has written: @LeicaMan has written: @Ghundred has written:Not really. Only if you let them. Nothing stopping you turning it off, leaving it at home in the drawer, or even not owning one. . Lol.
I guess if you don't interact with the rest of the world, you could get away without one.
*I interact with the rest of the world just fine thanks. You certainly don't need a smartphone to make phone calls, send emails, use messenger or whatever your favourite flavour of communication happens to be. * However, in the functioning world, they are required for buying/going to most MLB
gamesWhat's an MLB game? I can go to the World Superbikes, Island classic, tractor pulls, local sports, car and bike shows just fine without a phone
, sporting events, many concerts... Most confirmations, verifications, mobile activity of ALL types require a smart-phone. Consequently, for most people, since they have to have a smart-phone for work, pleasure, recreation - they might as well use it for their photography. I still have a land-line but increasingly, almost exclusively, it receives robo-calls and unsolicited incoming calls. However, not having one is not an option for most.
a smart-phone.
I also have a smartphone. Once again, I'm tapping this post out right now on one. But like I wrote previously, I'm at work, eating brekky, I don't care who knows that. But I do care who knows where I am in the middle of a lockdown, where I'm riding my bicycle and motorcycles and at what speed, where I'm going shopping, where I'm eating, what I'm buying etc etc etc.
I control my phone. It doesn't control me. That's all I'm saying. Yet people get upset when I mention a few cons in regards to the favourite little electronic tracking device. I really can't see whyHonestly, if rattling on about all the things you could do before cell phones, even though we all know plenty well what we can and cannot do at any point in time, mystifies you, I don't know what to say. You are not speaking to a room full of chimps.
Room full of 5th graders more like it. You phonetard crusaders get tiresome real fast.
Oh cool. Labels! We are on a forum for dedicated cameras, this is not hard to figure out....well not for most anyway.
Do you make a habit of insulting people? Some of us don't like it.
Not really, in fact quite the opposite. But then, I have a very low tolerance for some of the ignorant A-holes on this site. Reminds me of this:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGh2ehh317Y
Many are in this video explaination.
@Stillstihl has written: @Ghundred has written: @Mackiesback has written:I don't know what to say. You are not speaking to a room full of chimps
Yet it appears people are incapable of functioning in normal, everyday life, without their own personal little electronic tracking tag đ¤ˇđ¤ˇ
I'm not a big phone lover myself, but your obsession with tracking just makes you sound tinfoil-hat. Our government, for one, are arseholes of the highest order, but I would happily bet you ÂŁ1000 that they have not, and do not track the population with our phones.
That is funny- where were you when this all happened:
www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-23123964
years ago yes, but it still happens whether you want to be in denial or not...
Er, I said they're not routinely tracking everyone's movements, which is a very different thing to listening in on some phone calls. Phone tapping was around long, long before mobile phones, so you've proved absolutely nothing.
I have a very low tolerance for some of the ignorant A-holes on this site
On this we agreeâŚ
Our government, for one, are arseholes of the highest order, but I would happily bet you ÂŁ1000 that they have not, and do not track the population with our phones.
@Stillstihl has written:Our government, for one, are arseholes of the highest order, but I would happily bet you ÂŁ1000 that they have not, and do not track the population with our phones.
Still not an example of general tracking of the population. I understand that you may be troubled by this. My not sharing your concern, at least not to the degree that you do, is not indicative of unawareness or ignorance on my part. I recognize that there are valid concerns about carrying a tracking device 24/7. So far, the advantages outweigh the disadvantages in my personal calculus.