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We all hate having to pay more for something because the seller maniuplates you into believing that the 'market' demands that price. Especially for something we can't chose to not buy (medications etc). Here's an example... Ever heard of the guys who drive up to you at gas stations / parking lots etc and try to sell you sell speakers out the back of their van "Left over after deliveries" kind of thing. At one time they called themselves OmniAudio. They tried that on me a few times. One time they handed me an audiophile magazine with an ad for their speakers quoting a price of $1600. They they asked me for $1000 for the pair. Well, it turns out they never sell at $1600, they put that fake advert in there to make you think they are worth that. In reality they are a decent speaker fro the non-autiophile, but probbaly only worth $100. So is it good business, or is it a scam/con? As slimy as that is, anyone (talking generalization here, not individuals) that takes any action that drives up the price of something they sell (by intentionally temporarily limiting quantities, or by bidding up auctions similar items hoping to not have to buy them just to increase the average price that type of item sells for) is hurting many poeple for thier own gain. I'm sure they can rationalize it to themselves, but the rest of us are going to be tougher to convince. "So the Lexus I was going to pay 5k for I instead wound up paying 6k for because you placed bids that you did not intend to be successful just bid it up to 6k... Just so that when YOU sold YOUR lexus it would go for 6k because people would look other auctions to determine the value." This is not the market in action. This is market manipulation. Don't know if I can point to a law that forbids it, but then I can't point at a law that forbids you to eat dog poop either - doesn't make it right.

Don't forget you can get g-strings in XXXL.

What section did he cite you for? Reckless Op? Failure to maintain control?

Useless without video...

That's one mean-assed looking dog.

I've seen a version of that where she tried to get his attention with sex, and the punchline was; "Work sucked today, but at least I got laid."

What is your criteria for judging available traction? For me, frost = not worth the risk.

I don't have heated gear (except grips) becuase by the time it's too cold for me to ride (low 30's) I worry about traction more than the cold.

The $50 is the fee for picking your own digits. My bike plate is my first name and it costs $50/yr over-and-above the standard plate.

Bidding on stuff you don't want to buy just to drive up the average price is wrong. Just because it makes you more money doesnt mean it's "good business." You only bought the laptop because you accidentally won it.

I don't know if I believe in ghosts. But I do believe energy can be stored in ways we don't yet understand. 200 years ago Electricity would have been viewed as magic, now it is understood. Radioactivity woudl have been viewed as witchraft. Wasn't long ago that turning chemicals into light hot enough to destroy missiles would be just crazy talk. So can sound be converted to, and stored as, a type of energey we haven't discovered yet? I don't know, but I don't discount the possibility. We don't know it all.

Objects in the mirror are squidlier than they appear?

Does anyone else see the pink octopus in the mirror? Or did my meds wear off again?

How about a leaf falling past the camera just as the pic was taken?

Oh, you were being sarcastic. I thought you were being dead honest and insulting my good faith efforts to investigate this.

Good PSa poster would be for a makeup expert to do a version of this type of picuter but showing the injuries that this exposed skin can suffer. Road rash over the legs and arms, the shirt and shorts torn revealing more road rash, broken ankle hanging at an improbable angle, toes and fingers broken and missing and a caved-in skull. I think that would be a pretty powerful poster.

Dang. With her mass and momentum if she comes off the bike at 100mph she won't quit rolling until two counties over.

The type of camera is important as I need to know where the flash is. If the object covers the flash (because the flash is on the left of the lens) then why does the flash reflect from some people's bike gear? Turns out the S1414 has the flash on the top-right, so most of the light makes it past the object. Buildit.... What gloves did you have on? What type of material did you have on your sleeves? Could there have been any rough wooly/fleecy material near the camera while you were taking this pic?

So, now that we know for sure it used flash (says so in the jpg metadata) we have to wonder if something that close to the lens could be lit up by the flash and whiteout because of it. These are NOT dead pixels as far as I can tell - they are white but they have color variance too. Not all nulled out. I will do some testing at home with some digital cameras I have - and I will be testing my best guess... ahem.. theory... that this is a wool/fleece/similar material that is very close to the camera and is lit up by the flash, causing it to be whited out.

Sure it's a Sony camera? Looks like a Sanyo S1414 using f/2.8 on a 1/122th sec exposure time, 5mm focal length using flash in auto mode.

Saw one of those at work the other day. Meh, didn't even look twice. Oh well, better than those truck nutz or whatever the call them.

Auction rules are set by the auction house. Ebay in thie case. You can lower the reserve price but not raise it. You cna make a second chance offer, you can so a few different things - but it's all BS really as at no point is either the seller or the buyer under any legal obligation to complete the sale.

You say no flash, but I see retroreflective bits of safety gear lit up... (look at gloves of the guy inside the building doorway) Maybe flash was on Auto?

If you open the original image in paint etc then do all the pixels in the white area have the same RBG value of 0xFFFFFF? The indicates null values from the CCD sensor. I will exclude the possibility of light overloaded on the vertical CCD sensor strips (or what ever the technical term is) because in that cae all CCD pixels UNDER a bright spot (like the sun) would be nulled out. The pic below is an example of a bright spot nulling pixels below it. Was the flash used? Was the camera near a tree? I'm going to suggest maybe the flash lit up an object right next to the lens (strap? Was the camera rested on a branch? Finger of a glove?)

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