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    Fixed lens turret smaller in size than a varifocal?

    If you have a pre-S3 5442, the S3 drops right into its mount. I don't like the new mount either.
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    The official "WTF" thread

    I don't think there's any way to stop boys from playing with fire.
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    US Elections (& Politics) :)

    Here's an example of how the press convinces uninformed people that conservatives are more violent than liberals: "...an anonymous agent has publicly warned that the domestic counter-terrorism strategy could switch from inquiries against the hyper-violent far right to leftwing protest...
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    bidens incredible transition to electric cars

    Wow, it's even worse than I realized. I could write a mini novel about all the things that suck in our 2019 Subaru. Two of my "favorites" are that the radio crashes, and the dash display sometimes says to shut the engine off when it's not running. Without the screwed up tech, it's a good car.
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    bidens incredible transition to electric cars

    This is an article about one of my hot points with the newer cars, EV or not. Last car I bought I purposely went to a last year's model to have real buttons for the climate controls instead of having to hit the right button on the touchscreen. I have 2 cars now where it's a pain in the ass to...
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    Money & Economics

    I been noticing the coordinated Trump doom messages from multiple media outlets. Yesterday it was Trump starting WW III, today it was Trump crashing the economy. Did the doom articles cause the downturn today? They were out long before the markets closed. Once you get the herd moving in one...
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    US Elections (& Politics) :)

    Very true, but they have about half the population convinced otherwise. Same thing with race discrimination, the dems fought to keep minorities enslaved, yet the minorities think its the dems that fought for them. They've got one heck of an effective brainwashing capability.
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    US Elections (& Politics) :)

    "Wow. @elonmusk says the cyberattack on @X today originated from IP addresses in Ukraine." Just to throw possibilities out there, it could be a false flag. Elon throws the switch and blames it on Ukraine. I don't know what the motive would be, I don't know how to play 4D chess. Heck, for...
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    Owl with prey, or moving a baby owl?

    I can't decide which . Flew straight at the camera for a few seconds.
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    The official "WTF" thread

    Blocks with integrated insulation are one way. I imagine that is newer technology. If you want to spend 12 minutes on an overview this struck me as a fairly decent video. Seems to me this type of construction is less tolerant of shoddy workmanship than with a stick-built house.
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    Ukraine related: Was Ukraine Government Is Handing Out Guns To Citizens, What Happened to Gun Control?

    It would be nice if the cycle could be broken this time and many thousands of lives saved. Trump is the first president in a long time that doesn't like wars. Don't forget that the victors of war write the history, so you'd have to wonder whose version would be repeating.
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    The official "WTF" thread

    The standard German house is "built like a tank" compared to USA houses. The exterior walls are over a foot thick, built with clay blocks. The interior walls are also blocks. Floors are poured concrete, even for a second story floor, and the roofs are tile. In the last decade or so, wood...
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    PTZ control quit working with SD4A425DB-HNY

    Yep, weird. I shut off the ONVIF login authentication and the yellow triangle immediately went away. PTZ still didn't work. On a whim I did a BI restart camera. Now the PTZ controls work. I'll file this in the random computer weirdness bucket. 2 problems fixed, thanks for the help.
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    PTZ control quit working with SD4A425DB-HNY

    Thanks for the hints. No luck with trying other PTZ protocols. It was originally set to ONVIF, the PTZ controls worked a couple of days ago, and I haven't updated anything. The only thing I've done is I turned the dome by hand today, but since PTZ works on the other interfaces I'm ruling that...
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    PTZ control quit working with SD4A425DB-HNY

    All of a sudden the BI PTZ controls quit working on my SD4A425DB-HNY mini PTZ camera. They still work on the camera's web interface and smartPSS. I rebooted the camera and the BI machine with no luck. I don't recall changing anything that should affect this. Any hints on what to look at? An...
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    Ukraine related: Was Ukraine Government Is Handing Out Guns To Citizens, What Happened to Gun Control?

    I didn't mean to suggest that the US paid for European healthcare. What I mean is not having a large defense budget meant that what was spent for defense in the US was available to spend on other things in European countries. Right now, social programs are the biggest US budget item, but for a...
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    US Elections (& Politics) :)

    Not me. You'd have to be dead to not see the favoritism and double standard.
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    Ukraine related: Was Ukraine Government Is Handing Out Guns To Citizens, What Happened to Gun Control?

    This is a 2-minute point-of-view video by a British pundit. He starts with: "A lot of people who like to start wars are suddenly angry with one guy who wants to stop this war." Other points: -We are seeing changing geopolitics -Americans are tired of wars -Americans are tired of Europe not...
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    Mini-Review EmpireTech IPC-Color4M-T

    I'd be asking the same question if the 3449 had animal detection, but since not, it's moot for me. I'm fairly close to a river and need to know if any gators start showing up.
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    Seeing IVS triggers on past events in BI?

    There must be a way it could be done, because the blinking lines also show up when viewing NVR recordings with smartPss. Some proprietary mechanism I would think. On the big NVR vs. BI list, this is one thing that falls in the pro-NVR column, and I do miss it with BI. If BI 6 were to support...
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    Ukraine related: Was Ukraine Government Is Handing Out Guns To Citizens, What Happened to Gun Control?

    Once again I stated what I though was a simple easy to understand fact, and you figured out how to warp it. You get the last word because there's no more to it than what I said. A 2024 anniversary of something that happened in 1991 is 33 years. I just can't see how that's debatable. or how to...
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    Ukraine related: Was Ukraine Government Is Handing Out Guns To Citizens, What Happened to Gun Control?

    Just for discussion from looking at it from the opposite end... After WW II, US provided all of the defense for the western European countries for a long time. In the past I wondered how those countries were becoming wealthier than the US, then realized that the US paid for the European...
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    2023 and 2024 Models Update

    I agree with you on this, but look at it a little differently. My bigger hot button is wishing they'd add animal detection to the firmware for recent camera lines. That said, I view it more like political promises, that maybe they'll add something for current and recent cameras, but if I hold...
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    Pandemic threat? Anyone else concerned?

    ^^^^^ Chalk up another non-vaccinated measles death to help the pro-vax stats :confused:
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    US Elections (& Politics) :)

    As an example of lies and damn statistics, here's a different "truth" from the approximately same raw data (CBS vs. CNN poll): Trump Hit With Devastating Poll Result After Bonkers Speech "Apparently, only 44 percent of viewers had a very positive reaction to the president’s address...
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    Ukraine related: Was Ukraine Government Is Handing Out Guns To Citizens, What Happened to Gun Control?

    I think I can help out on this one! Hopefully without putting words in anybody's mouth. The current Ukraine is 33 years old, after having declared its independence from the Soviet Union on August 24, 1991.
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    Ukraine related: Was Ukraine Government Is Handing Out Guns To Citizens, What Happened to Gun Control?

    Right. Instead they get rapes, no-go zones, murder by stabbing instead of firearms, and people run down by cars.
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    Ukraine related: Was Ukraine Government Is Handing Out Guns To Citizens, What Happened to Gun Control?

    It is interesting how the leaders say they're worried about Russia invading, yet these same leaders have fought for and encouraged invasions over their open borders.
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    US Elections (& Politics) :)

    This sounds nice on the surface, and I'm thinking that it's trying to leave the impression that 76% of the population supported the speech. But since it's likely that the collection of viewers heavily leaned to Trump supporters, it's actually an expected and meaningless statistic.
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    Ukraine related: Was Ukraine Government Is Handing Out Guns To Citizens, What Happened to Gun Control?

    There's a video in this article of Senator Chris Murphy in 2014 bragging how USA helped overthrow the elected Ukraine government. If you're not convinced from the beginning of the video, jump to 3:15 where he admits that Yanukovych was elected, and the US believes in elections, but in this case...
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