My father-in-law is 94 years old and going strong. But they did take away his driver's license a couple of years ago. (Didn't stop him from driving of course). But he is still p.o.'d As he tells it, when he got his drivers license for $.50 in 1926, they told him that it was good for life. And then 70-80 years later they changed the rules on him!
Reminds me of some of what I have seen on this series of discussions. Stan On Oct 13, 2006, at 5:23 PM, DagT wrote: > You sound like someone who has invested too much in old equipment and > find that the value is reduced by changing marketing philosophy from > the producer. So, you are loosing money on your investments. Panic! > > The producer doesn´t care, unless you buy a lot of new stocks, not > old lenses .-) > > DagT > > > Den 13. okt. 2006 kl. 23.05 skrev J. C. O'Connell: > >> You really are a f*(%ing idiot. Only Nikon and Pentax >> Have current mounts that are not incompatable with >> Their old mounts. You accept crap for all the wrong >> Flawed logic reasons. It does not matter one IOTA >> What Canon and minolta did with their mounts, it matters >> What pentax did and Pentax has NOT changed their >> Mounts ( no new features or changes for DSLR ) at all that prevent K/M >> support. If you cant understand that you are just what I called you. >> jco >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On >> Behalf Of >> John Celio >> Sent: Friday, October 13, 2006 4:49 PM >> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> Subject: A Call to STFU About JCO >> >> This is a call for everyone to just shut the f*ck up about J.C. >> O'Connell's >> ranting and ravings over the aperture simulator. After this post, I >> will >> not contribute to this insanity any further. >> >> He obvously has too thick a skull to understand what is being said to >> him, >> and he doesn't have the patience (or grammatical skills) to try to >> communicate in a calm and reasonable manner. >> >> Thus, we all keep going in circles. >> >> There are many things I'd like to try to explain to JCO, but he >> refuses >> to >> listen. He takes Pentax's removal of the aperture simulator mechanism >> personally. >> >> He doesn't understand economics as he likes to believe he does. >> >> He doesn't understand the business of staying alive in the camera >> industry. >> >> He overestimates his value to Pentax, as well as the value of old >> lenses >> and >> owners who don't buy new equipment. >> >> He doesn't realize he should be jumping for joy that Pentax >> supports old >> >> lenses at all, even if not completely. No one else, aside from Nikon, >> does >> this. If a person owned a range of nice lenses in mounts such as >> Olympus >> OM, Yashica, Konica, Minolta MD, Canon FT/FD, Chinon, etc., they're >> shit >> out >> of luck. Not so with Pentax. This is not something they have to do, >> but >> they do it anyway. He shouldn't look a gift horse in the mouth, >> but he >> does. >> >> I even took apart an ME Super last night just to see how the aperture >> simulator worked. I don't think reintroducing it in a dSLR would >> be as >> easy >> as JC would like to believe, but I won't be posting my (admittedly >> unscientific) findings now. I'm done with this topic, and I hope the >> rest >> of the list sees the futility of trying to be reasonable and logical >> with >> JCO. >> >> Thanks for reading. Now back to your regularly-scheduled insanity. >> >> John Celio >> >> -- >> >> http://www.neovenator.com >> >> AIM: Neopifex >> >> "Hey, I'm an artist. I can do whatever I want and pretend I'm >> making a >> statement." >> >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > DagT > http://dag.foto.no > > Beware of internet links. You never know what is on the other side. > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
