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Goals that I have been thinking about lately:
Save all money, pay off the Harley I got last year in a few more months. (Very doable)
Pay off student loans one piece of a time. (Very doable.)
Drink less, save more money. (Already doing this)
Get the Sony A7ii camera I want, take photos, it's a hobby of mine already with the GoPro. (I've been shopping around hitting up craiglist, will set me back about $1K)
Learn how to play guitar - I found I'm a lefty. I'm comfortable strumming with my left hand while grabbing the frets with my right hand. (This will be the hardest, but I love music).
Possibly quit my weekend job after all debts are paid (no debt would offset having the weekend job in the first place, but I love money, can be doable).
"Go be fat on someone else's time" - Henry Rollins
"i fascisti si dividono in due categorie: i fascisti e gli antifascisti" (there are two types of fascists: fascists and anti-fascists)
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(02-15-2017 12:46 AM)kaotic Wrote: Goals that I have been thinking about lately:
Save all money, pay off the Harley I got last year in a few more months. (Very doable)
Pay off student loans one piece of a time. (Very doable.)
Drink less, save more money. (Already doing this)
Get the Sony A7ii camera I want, take photos, it's a hobby of mine already with the GoPro. (I've been shopping around hitting up craiglist, will set me back about $1K)
Learn how to play guitar - I found I'm a lefty. I'm comfortable strumming with my left hand while grabbing the frets with my right hand. (This will be the hardest, but I love music).
Possibly quit my weekend job after all debts are paid (no debt would offset having the weekend job in the first place, but I love money, can be doable).
Rent it first. I use Lensrentals.com its a great way to test out the camera for 1/20th the price of buying it. I tried the A7ii and A7iiS, they are good but not so good that I need to throw out my current SLR and sell a kidney.
looking for a new signature.
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Chinese man trapped in India goes home after 50 years
Quote:A Chinese man who was trapped in India for more than 50 years has finally been reunited with his family.
The BBC had reported how Wang Qi, an army surveyor who says he accidentally crossed into India in 1963, had not been given the necessary documents to leave the country.
Following the report, he was visited by Chinese diplomats, who told him efforts were being made to take him back.
Mr Wang was met by family members when his flight landed in Beijing.
Later, in his home city of Xianyang, crowds met him with banners reading "Welcome home, soldier, it's been a rough journey".
Mr Wang flew out from Delhi on Friday night accompanied by his adult children.
Chinese officials took him and his family shopping in a Delhi mall before they boarded the flight.
Mr Wang had been given a document by the Indian Foreign Ministry stating that he was cleared to leave. His family were given Indian passports so that they could leave with him if they wished.
His wife, an Indian citizen, was sick and did not accompany him.
It is not clear if Mr Wang plans to return to India. He was never granted citizenship and was given a Chinese passport in 2013.
Mr Wang says he was "tasked with building roads for the Chinese army" and was captured when he "strayed erroneously" into India's territory in January 1963.
"I had gone out of my camp for a stroll but lost my way. I was tired and hungry. I saw a Red Cross vehicle and asked them to help me. They handed me over to the Indian army," he said.
He spent the next seven years in a number of different jails before a court ordered his release in 1969.
Police took him to Tirodi, a far-flung village in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. He had not been allowed to leave the country since.
Instead he worked at a flour mill, eventually marrying a local woman and raising a family. Neighbours said they lived in "utter poverty".
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(02-15-2017 01:32 PM)Dr. Howard Wrote: (02-15-2017 12:46 AM)kaotic Wrote: Goals that I have been thinking about lately:
Save all money, pay off the Harley I got last year in a few more months. (Very doable)
Pay off student loans one piece of a time. (Very doable.)
Drink less, save more money. (Already doing this)
Get the Sony A7ii camera I want, take photos, it's a hobby of mine already with the GoPro. (I've been shopping around hitting up craiglist, will set me back about $1K)
Learn how to play guitar - I found I'm a lefty. I'm comfortable strumming with my left hand while grabbing the frets with my right hand. (This will be the hardest, but I love music).
Possibly quit my weekend job after all debts are paid (no debt would offset having the weekend job in the first place, but I love money, can be doable).
Rent it first. I use Lensrentals.com its a great way to test out the camera for 1/20th the price of buying it. I tried the A7ii and A7iiS, they are good but not so good that I need to throw out my current SLR and sell a kidney.
Renting it doesn't look so bad, I'd have to rent a lens also.
I mentioned this in the travelers camera thread.
My thinking is, if I buy a lower end camera - I know i'll learn and want to upgrade to the sony anyways.
I have the money for the sony - so I figure I won't be needed to trade up for a very long time.
"Go be fat on someone else's time" - Henry Rollins
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(02-16-2017 04:06 AM)WalterBlack Wrote: Chinese man trapped in India goes home after 50 years
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Quote:A Chinese man who was trapped in India for more than 50 years has finally been reunited with his family.
The BBC had reported how Wang Qi, an army surveyor who says he accidentally crossed into India in 1963, had not been given the necessary documents to leave the country.
Following the report, he was visited by Chinese diplomats, who told him efforts were being made to take him back.
Mr Wang was met by family members when his flight landed in Beijing.
Later, in his home city of Xianyang, crowds met him with banners reading "Welcome home, soldier, it's been a rough journey".
Mr Wang flew out from Delhi on Friday night accompanied by his adult children.
Chinese officials took him and his family shopping in a Delhi mall before they boarded the flight.
Mr Wang had been given a document by the Indian Foreign Ministry stating that he was cleared to leave. His family were given Indian passports so that they could leave with him if they wished.
His wife, an Indian citizen, was sick and did not accompany him.
It is not clear if Mr Wang plans to return to India. He was never granted citizenship and was given a Chinese passport in 2013.
Mr Wang says he was "tasked with building roads for the Chinese army" and was captured when he "strayed erroneously" into India's territory in January 1963.
"I had gone out of my camp for a stroll but lost my way. I was tired and hungry. I saw a Red Cross vehicle and asked them to help me. They handed me over to the Indian army," he said.
He spent the next seven years in a number of different jails before a court ordered his release in 1969.
Police took him to Tirodi, a far-flung village in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. He had not been allowed to leave the country since.
Instead he worked at a flour mill, eventually marrying a local woman and raising a family. Neighbours said they lived in "utter poverty".
Color me ignorant, but is it really that hard to leave a country? I mean 50% of India is bordered by other countries. Is the entire country's border lined with a wall and armed guards? Couldn't you just get a ride to somewhere near the country's border and just walk through some fucking forest and be in a neighboring country? Hell, sounds like thats how this dude go in to India...
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(02-16-2017 03:39 PM)General Stalin Wrote: Anyone here use a Microsoft Surface Book with 3 monitors? If so, what is your video setup like?
I'm currently using the Dell D3100 dock which allows 3 displays linked up to the Surface Book dock via USB3.0 which then connects to the laptop. It works but all the monitors will disconnect and reconnect randomly at times, and it will often happen several times in a row and is frustrating as fuck while in the middle of working on something. Really makes me want to slam my dick in my desk drawer.
I thought surfaces had their own dock that worked well? Those USB docks are nothing but trouble, we used them at work for a while and then ditched them for the actual docks because they did the exact same shit.
Windows 8 and 10 seem to play nicer with them, W7 hated them. Anyways, we did solve some problems by updating drivers. Most of those USB docks use the same chipset made by DisplayLink, and they post their own drivers here:
http://www.displaylink.com/downloads/windows
EDIT: yep yours is displaylink, update those drivers. There is also usually a firmware update bundled in with them that installs automatically that can fix problems.
Here is the surface dock, can be bought used on eBay for less than $100
https://www.microsoft.com/surface/en-us/...rface-dock
It only has two displayport connectors but you should be able to connect to the third monitor direct to the computer.
(06-05-2017 03:47 AM)Leonard D Neubache Wrote: God-speed thy pelvis, young man, and pullest thou not out.
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