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Post by Deleted on Dec 30, 2012 17:33:27 GMT
Frankly, I think that we have lost just about all privacy when we are out in public now. Living in the most visited and probably the most photographed city in the world, I now expect to appear in at least 50 photographs whenever I am in a tourist area -- often just as a tiny detail, but sometimes I am right there in front for all to see.
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Post by htmb on Dec 30, 2012 17:51:59 GMT
In June I took a photo of friends standing near the Place de la Concorde. The wife posted the picture on FB and immediately got a call from another friend who said the woman walking in the background of my photo was his sister in-law who was in Paris on vacation.
So, yes, I understand your take on it, Kerouac. I just sometimes feel invasive when I'm thinking about taking a picture if someone who is down on their luck, or someone very young. I liked your photo of the people sleeping on the street next to the Christmas tree for several reasons, but I appreciated very much the fact that, for the most part, the individuals are not identifiable.
Sort of along the same lines, there is a photo montage in our local newspaper today. It features all the favorite photos taken by staff photographers during 2012. One of the favorites included the same little boy in the robot costume who I had photographed when I was "Searching for Color." This time he was visiting an actual Halloween event at the local zoo.
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Post by rikita on Dec 30, 2012 18:16:21 GMT
yeah true, people who are in difficult conditions or children are a different deal somehow. and also, there's a difference between someone standing in a photo by coincidence, or taking a portrait...
on the other hand, i bet i am on lots of indian face book pages now (if face book is common there), because people kept wanting to take their picture with me - so i think me taking pictures of people while i traveled there nad putting them on my flickr album is alright too...
legally, afaik, portraits without permission aren't allowed in germany, and even less so distributing those pictures in any way - but when it comes to non-commercial distribution (like online albums) i think it is not 100 % clear...
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Post by patricklondon on Dec 31, 2012 10:01:05 GMT
yeah true, people who are in difficult conditions or children are a different deal somehow. and also, there's a difference between someone standing in a photo by coincidence, or taking a portrait... ..... legally, afaik, portraits without permission aren't allowed in germany, and even less so distributing those pictures in any way - but when it comes to non-commercial distribution (like online albums) i think it is not 100 % clear... There are obviously local historical reasons in Germany for anxiety about people being photographed surreptitiously - I think EU data protection law would only apply if you had some sort of information retrieval system attached to your photos to identify the people concerned. Where other people's children are concerned, you have to be extra-cautious, both out of courtesy and because of the risk of some people downloading them for their own nefarious purposes. I make sure photos of my brother's grandchildren that I put on Facebook are only visible to people in my Family list.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 31, 2012 17:48:46 GMT
Photobucket changed everything again. I am ready to go ballistic.
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Post by onlymark on Dec 31, 2012 19:24:48 GMT
It's been a while since I needed to go to Photobucket and I did so tonight. I'm with you k2. What I can't understand is there is a link to go back to the old style, but it doesn't seem to work for me at all.
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 31, 2012 19:29:19 GMT
One fun thing I discovered is that you have to have the pointer just so on Photobucket or it won't turn into the little hand that clicks.
Don't y'all like the way that it makes everything else on the whole computer either freeze or not work at all?
I just loaded four pictures after a good ten or fifteen minutes of fighting. I was going to load more, but P'bucket willy-nilly closed down a window I had open then arbitrarily loaded those four. They're also asking me to sign up for Pro, despite the fact that I already have it.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 31, 2012 20:15:09 GMT
I managed to go back to the old version of Photobucket on my third try. And since they want remarks, I write all of the nasty things I am thinking about them each time -- and always different.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 1, 2013 3:59:34 GMT
I was severely rude to them the first time they asked. Nevertheless, today I found myself switched against my will to the new version. This time I didn't bother responding to their perky fake request for "feedback".
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Post by BigIain on Jan 2, 2013 11:49:59 GMT
My debut on this thread, hopefully I'm in the correct spirit?
My partner, the CLB as she is known online, is returning from skiing vacation with 2 of the 3 kids (not mine but treated very much as mine) at around 4 this afternoon. So I should be getting the house cleaned up, laundry up to date, changing the bedlinnen etc. the problem is...I've just partaken of the first glass of very ordinary quality red wine. Suddenly the importance of housework has faded. I know that I should get the chores done but, c'mon guys...there is wine, cheese and sport on TV to be had. It's traumatic!
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Post by mossie on Jan 2, 2013 14:38:25 GMT
Get off down to the pub while you are still able to walk ;D ;D ;D
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Post by htmb on Jan 2, 2013 14:44:09 GMT
I'd say, if CLB has been away on a skiing vacation and left you at home alone over Christmas, then perhaps a glass of wine, messy house, and a sit on the couch in front of the TV are called for.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 2, 2013 16:14:45 GMT
From the tone of your post, Iain, it doesn't sound at all as though you're in tit-for-tat mode, simply that you don't feel like cleaning up the house. I'd say get the dirty clothes into the hamper (shows good intentions), make up the bed without changing it, do a sweep through the house to make the bathroom & the living room at least look presentable, then wash any dirty dishes. If you do too good of a job of cleaning you'll just make her feel guilty. That wouldn't be nice.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 2, 2013 17:22:47 GMT
Or she'll get suspicious.
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Post by BigIain on Jan 2, 2013 22:25:56 GMT
Changed the beds, put on some laundry, drank wine! Then made dinner just to remind her that she is the boss!
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Post by onlymark on Jan 3, 2013 0:31:24 GMT
My wife was so sick this morning I had to carry her to the kitchen to make my breakfast.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 3, 2013 4:44:31 GMT
;D I think that even without avatars or handles, it's very obvious which of #s 185 and 186 is female and which is male. #187 is a Very Wise Man indeed! Ay, Mark, ay ay ay. I have two personal traumas to report: 1) Yesterday while at a party I realized that I'd misspelled a word in my new thread. Yikes! Luckily either no one noticed, or at least didn't mention it. 2) This trauma is in the nature of a shameful admission. Yesterday I laughed at the antics of a clown. Not just once, either, but often and heartily.
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Post by BigIain on Jan 3, 2013 12:45:48 GMT
I get to laugh at clowns every time my football team, Hibs, play. this evening they are playing against the other Edinburgh team. Today's trauma... I've got a ticket and feel bound by honour to go see it. They will find a way to lose! I've got to go.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 3, 2013 16:02:25 GMT
Sounds as though you laugh to keep from crying!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 3, 2013 18:05:22 GMT
I really have to get down and write my testimony for my former Bangladeshi colleague who is suing our former employer. Since I already did the same thing for another former colleague, and it appears that I am the only person who dares to support these people, I am starting to worry myself whether the company can take any action against me.
After all, excluding the "normal" termination indemnities, the company also paid me 35,000€ hush money to never complain about my employment status error and then another 24,000€ hush money to never complain about being officially screwed on my termination indemnities (due to being delayed and being much more taxed than the others).
So they might be annoyed about my support of additional lawsuits against them.
On the plus side, I have remained in the trade union so far, so if the shit hits the fan, I can get some support from the union.
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Post by htmb on Jan 3, 2013 21:51:07 GMT
Sounds to me like you are wise to be a bit concerned.
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Post by mich64 on Jan 3, 2013 22:38:39 GMT
Kerouac, if you are supporting/witnessing the former employee's claims and not your own situation, then there is nothing they can do to you.
The way I read your payouts, they were to paid to you regarding your issues, "never to complain about MY employement status error" or "never to complain about being officially screwed on MY termination indemnities".
As long as you keep your testimony to your knowledge of the situation of the "other person" then you should not be breaking the agreement in regards to your termination.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 10, 2013 19:42:33 GMT
I'm pretty sure about that, too, which is why I'm doing it. And even if there was something about not criticizing my (former) employer in any way, I figure that I can easily prove that I am trying to make the company better by stamping out injustice.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 24, 2013 15:52:21 GMT
Tomorrow, I'll have to go in person to the electricity company for the first time in about 20 years. Their computer finally figured out that my meter is broken when I tried to send in my meter reading over the internet -- it has been blocked in the night rate position for the last 3 months and no longer advances at all on the day rate. They had better not punish me, because it is not my fault!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2013 16:39:12 GMT
I went down to my cellar today for about the first time in 3 years. The only real items that I ever put down there were some office cupboards and a small work table from when my office moved in 1991, but I have never had any use for them up to now, so I don't really care about my cellar, even though I chose the biggest one when I moved in. I was the first resident to repopulate the building in 1991 and nobody was able to tell me which cellar I actually owned. "Take whichever one you want" said the real estate agent.
Anyway one of my neighbours asked if I had been down there lately because one of the new owners had apparently dumped building rubble in an unoccupied cellar.
So I had to go down and look. It is easy to remember why I never go down there the moment I open the cellar door and am overpowered by the musty smell. The cellar is as old as the building but has never been modernized, except for putting in electricity in the corridors in 1990 when they started selling the apartments. It is all packed earth and stone arches from the end of the 18th century. Naturally, the lights were not working at my end of the corridor, around a corner, so that no light penetrated. I went and got my flashlight (although a torch of the 'oily rag wrapped around a stick' variety would have been more appropriate).
Well my cellar had not changed all that much except that other people tend to put things every now and then -- I saw some pressed wood, even of the Ikea sort, that did not belong to me. I decided, though, that my trip should at least be useful, so I decided to remove some old boxes that have been there forever -- my previous television carton, a toaster oven box, and another box that was not mine. Well, what a mistake, because all of a sudden all of the old cobwebs collapsed on me. These are not those nice clean Hollywood cobwebs that Indiana Jones sweeps aside. These are nasty black cobwebs covered with soot and all sorts of toxic substances. The horror!
I made it out of there somehow. I even got a small reward, because the mystery box turned out to contain an unopened bottle of very expensive wine. My old neighbour lady who died 4 years ago had used my cellar as a hiding place for her extra bottles (she asked my permission) because somebody had taken some bottles from her own cellar.
The moment I saw my face in the mirror crisscrossed with vile black cobwebs, I jumped in the shower. Maybe I will burn my clothes.
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Post by tod2 on Mar 30, 2013 16:52:03 GMT
Sorry Kerouac, but I had to have a little giggle when my mind pictured you in the moment the cobwebs descended! ;D Yes, it must have been awful and luckily it's never happened to me but I have walked into a few horrible ones. I hope the wine was good???
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Post by mich64 on Mar 30, 2013 18:33:33 GMT
Kerouac, I now imagine you making some extra Euros giving cellar tours! You know we tourists would probably sign up for experiencing the underground of an 18th Century building. Brought images of an Anne Rice novel to mind.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2013 18:58:37 GMT
Frankly, it was not exciting, just disgusting. What made all of the spiderwebs collapse on me was touching the television carton. It was in the centre of my cellar and therefore was the focal point of all of those huge spiders who live in total darkness. Shelob?
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Post by htmb on Mar 30, 2013 20:33:30 GMT
Gross!!! But I certainly enjoyed your telling of the adventure, Kerouac. ;D
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Post by Deleted on Apr 3, 2013 11:40:08 GMT
Imagine how one feels when one's camera is working perfectly the day before a trip, but it is discovered that it is out of order upon arrival.
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