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oileanach says...

Wow I was wondering about an eia call as he walks in front of that giant flappy belt with his giant flappy shirttails... and then he leans in with that beard....

Still a lovely thing to look at though!

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oileanach says...

Well now I`m actually feeling terrorized. This is appalling and unfortunately not unique to Miami. I`ve been yelled at by employees in many transit agencies across North America (yes it happens in Canada too) for taking photos (I like trains!). It`s a cliché perhaps, but when our own governments and their employees restrict our freedoms under the guise of security, then the terrorists have succeeded in a remarkable transformation of our way of life, with relatively little effort. Fear has got to be the most powerful force there is. I am saddened.

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oileanach says...

Apart from everything else, how can it be that the content of the chemicals is secret and can't be provided to doctors treating affected employees? Is this not covered by some sort of WHMIS thing in the U.S.? If not, then the "land of the free" seems more like they never got rid of slavery. Government, industry, whatever you want to call it, it's all run by a few pathologically greedy bastards with no natural sense of empathy it seems.

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oileanach says...

That's not my point. If you knew this couple personally already, then yes the odds of them specifically being captured on film this way would be pretty damn low. However, my point is that it is likely that there are couples in this circumstance, and as humans are built to pick out things they think are unusual, eventually one instance would appear in the media, so we should not be surprised or impressed at all that this has taken place.

It's not magic or karma or anything, it's just probability. If you flip a fair coin 10 times and it's always heads, that seems weird (even though each flip is an independent event). However if you flip a coin 10^9 times, getting 10 heads in a row is to be expected many times.

As for who you are in picture with, in a place as popular and camera-clogged as Disney Land I think there are many times more photos you are in that you are not aware of, than photos you are in that you do know about, and I'm just talking about tourist snaps, not surveillance cameras. You also don't know that they didn't cross paths many times that day, as tourists often travel a similar route through such parks, but again since they didn't know each other, that would not have been noticed. They may have sat in adjacent tables for an hour at lunch for example.

Perhaps it's just me, but I simply don't see this as that remarkable. >> ^handmethekeysyou:

The reason this is remarkable is that it was captured on film.
I've probably crossed paths with millions of people, but outside of my friends and family, how many am I in a picture with? Very, very few.
If you counted each picture of you as one frame of a film, you would need 1,440 pictures to make a one minute long movie. Even though that number of photos seems high, let's assume it's a reasonable average (remembering they probably met early into digital photography). These two people crossed paths during the one minute of theirs lives that's recorded on film.



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