It still has the inherent flaw of getting ink all over your hand.

Ugh. I just inked myself.

I have very good handwriting, but unfortunately I am left-handed so I don't think I'd be able to give one of these pens a whirl without getting ink all over the place.

@Quboid - I dunno about "Luddites", but to each his own. If people don't find a smartphone/tablet/whatever useful, then they shouldn't buy one. Cost/benefit isn't the same for everyone.

I have a Galaxy S 2 also, but I'm not much of a "cloud" person. I have gmail and some picasa galleries to share photos with my folks, and that is about it. No facebook or anything like that. I mainly use the phone for games, eBook reading (took me forever to be a convert to this, but "night" modes with white text on black background fixed eyestrain issues I originally had with moving away from ink on paper), music, and roadtrip GPS.

None of that is exactly universal must-have functionality. So while I'm personally happy with my purchase, I fully understand the folks that are resistant or hesitant to jump on the new-tech bandwagon.

It's not as instant as it seems. The skin responds immediately to the burning, but the ink will still be well visible after the burn has healed.

If the tattoo was done by a professional, it will take fewer sessions and be more complete. Amateur tattooists can penetrate your skin too deep making removal much more difficult or just impossible.

The pain is pretty bad and, yes, worse than the original tattoo. Getting a tattoo feels like someone dragging the tip of an Xacto knife backwards over your skin, whereas the laser feels like drops of boiling oil being repeatedly splashed onto your skin.

The laser if wielded by an experienced practitioner (typically not a doctor) will not leave a scar, however the inexperienced may use too much power which causes a more severe burn and does leave a scar, unfortunately. So if you're going to have it done, make sure the person performing the procedure has had many, many hours of experience.

How much of the "instant off" is due to ink removal and how much due to skin reaction?

>> ^RhesusMonk:

Yup. The laser boils the ink, which is embedded in the live tissue dermis, forcing it to evaporate and escape through the layers of skin. Boiling ink escaping as vapor through your skin. Yup, it hurts.>> ^ant:
Does it hurt?



Which hurts more? Getting a tattoo or boiling it away?

Yup. The laser boils the ink, which is embedded in the live tissue dermis, forcing it to evaporate and escape through the layers of skin. Boiling ink escaping as vapor through your skin. Yup, it hurts.>> ^ant:

Does it hurt?

The Twain quote that I have on my business card:

"You can't trust your eyes if your imagination is out of focus.">> ^Auger8:

Ok I obviously can't show you a video as this man died before the invention of video but Mark Twain had a very thick southern accent but was one of the smartest men to ever be born in the south. Here's my proof.
All generalizations are false, including this one.
Mark Twain
A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.
Mark Twain
Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
Mark Twain
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
Mark Twain
Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
Mark Twain
Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
Mark Twain
I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
Mark Twain
It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.
Mark Twain
It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress.
Mark Twain
It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.
Mark Twain
It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
Mark Twain
Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.
Mark Twain
Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
Mark Twain
Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
Mark Twain
The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.
Mark Twain
The educated Southerner has no use for an 'R', except at the beginning of a word.
Mark Twain
The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.
Mark Twain
The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
Mark Twain
There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.
Mark Twain
We Americans... bear the ark of liberties of the world.
Mark Twain
We have the best government that money can buy.
Mark Twain
What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.
Mark Twain
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
Mark Twain
Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.
Mark Twain
A man ahead of his time and the smartest southerner I know. But I let the sift be the judge of that.

>> ^spoco2:
Holy crap that is an amazing level of stupidity.
Such a hate filled women. Hate for people who are smarter than her. Hate for people who are different to her.
Wow.
Now, here's a question for the sift. Can someone point me to a video of someone speaking with that accent and saying something of intelligence? Because I can only think 'STUPID BIGOT!' whenever I hear that accent, and that can't be correct, there must be smart people in the areas that have that accent.

Ok I obviously can't show you a video as this man died before the invention of video but Mark Twain had a very thick southern accent but was one of the smartest men to ever be born in the south. Here's my proof.

All generalizations are false, including this one.
Mark Twain

A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.
Mark Twain

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
Mark Twain

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
Mark Twain

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
Mark Twain

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
Mark Twain

I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places.
Mark Twain

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
Mark Twain

It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.
Mark Twain

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress.
Mark Twain

It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.
Mark Twain

It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
Mark Twain

Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.
Mark Twain

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
Mark Twain

Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
Mark Twain

The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.
Mark Twain

The educated Southerner has no use for an 'R', except at the beginning of a word.
Mark Twain

The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.
Mark Twain

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
Mark Twain

There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.
Mark Twain

We Americans... bear the ark of liberties of the world.
Mark Twain

We have the best government that money can buy.
Mark Twain

What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.
Mark Twain

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
Mark Twain

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.
Mark Twain

A man ahead of his time and the smartest southerner I know. But I let the sift be the judge of that.


>> ^spoco2:

Holy crap that is an amazing level of stupidity.
Such a hate filled women. Hate for people who are smarter than her. Hate for people who are different to her.
Wow.
Now, here's a question for the sift. Can someone point me to a video of someone speaking with that accent and saying something of intelligence? Because I can only think 'STUPID BIGOT!' whenever I hear that accent, and that can't be correct, there must be smart people in the areas that have that accent.

@critical_d Don't listen to these fools.

If you want something that will take the place of books, get a dedicated E-reader.
I own a Nook ($99) and thoroughly enjoy the following aspects of it:

1) The text/display looks like paper/ink
2) You can read it in the very bright environments (even in direct sunlight)
3) You don't have to charge it after 4 hours of reading, instead, I charge mine about once every other month. Yes, you read that right, I only need to charge it every-other-month.

Yes, nay-sayers will tell you "but it can't do __________ and it can't do ___________"

To them I say "it does ONE thing REALLY WELL, it allows me to read books/newspapers"

See:


Now, IF you have your heart set on just reading comic books, yes the Kindle Fire is your best bang for your buck currently: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/11/16/142310104/why-amazon-loses-money-on-every-kindle-fire

p.s. If you've not read it, Alan Moore's The Saga of the Swamp Thing is VERY FUCKING GOOD. It's much better than The Watchmen imho.

I just discovered this artist, and am completely hooked. I sifted one of her pieces already, but then saw this one, and immediately thought of you, @dystopianfuturetoday and wee Frankie. If you sift it, lemme know so's I can up'mote it and stuff!

@robbersdog49
This will forever be a discussion between people who work with colours.
In the print industry, the photographic industry or the artists of the world.

The truth is it's different for what ever your process is.
RGB for Light
CMYK for Print
& RYB for artists
I work in all three industries and need to switch my brain back and forth between them constantly.

What they are showing here at the most primary level is the RYB colour wheel that kids learn first. It's basic paints and crayons. These are the base pigments used in paints; Cadmium Yellow & Red, Phthalocyanine (Phthalo) Blue or Cobalt Blue. The closest paint colour to magenta would be a Quinacridone.
The primary colours are the ones all others are made from. These are the ones you can't make by adding something else. We use the chemicals that are the absolute most pure to create these pigmants. They are the highest level of purity and intensity a colour can be. Once you start mixing them, the intensity can only be reduced.
Of course these would be balanced using a titanium white, Iron Oxide Black (plus Umber & Sienna).

As we get older, science class points out that light works differently and is a process that works in subtractive colour. Light being white and the other colours being made by adding filters to block various parts of the spectrum.A blue surface isn't so much blue as it just holds on to all wavelengths of the spectrum but reflects the part of the spectrum that is blue. (Etc.)

In indusry, (and most people still don't under stand this process), the printing process uses Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Key (Black) (in a transparent or dot)layered fashion to simulate a full colour image.

And don't forget Hexachrome (CMYKOG) which also ads the Orange and Green coloured inks (because simple CMYK cannot simulate every colour).

The CMYK colour system is a simulation of colour and are NOT primary colours. Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black are the primary colours within that system only.

ROY G BIV
R Y B are more accurately the Primary Colours in the light and colour spectrum. The coulours between them OG(I)V are all Secondary colours.

*Sidenote: Magenta is an odd coulour which comes from that one man out theory. Indigo is the invisible colour in the spectrum that breaks the rule. That's why in order to create a Cyan colour in paint, we use a Quinacridone pigment. Quinacridone is a transparent colour only and can't be made opaque without mixing it with another pigment and loosing it's purity. It's a damm expensive pigment so it's rarely used.

>> ^robbersdog49:

Primary colours of light are Red Green and Blue.
Primary colours of pigment are Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black.
I'm a geeky printer so this bugs the hell out of me. Blue is a mix of Cyan and Magenta, so it's not primary. It's a mix. Red is a mix of Magenta and Yellow.
Maybe they just weren't clever enough to find rhymes for Magenta or Cyan. It's just a shame they had to be wrong.

@MilkmanDan a lot of ink has been spilled around the interwebs over this particular Politifact finding, but I gotta say what they did here was completely wrong.

Obama said the incontestable truth here:

Most of the job losses happened before he was sworn in.
The rest of the decline happened before any of his policies took effect.
In the last 22 months businesses created 3 million jobs.

Now, what's Politifact calling a lie? Did Obama claim personal credit for every job? No. Did Obama claim partial credit? Only in the most oblique and indirect way possible.

So is Politifact saying Obama definitely deserves no credit for the job creation? If so, that's pants-on-fire false, according to Politifact.

So again, what's their objection? That Obama presented accurate, non-misleading facts that support the notion that he's actually doing a good job on the economy? That's not lying, that's making an argument, and using facts to support it. It's how honest people try to make their case.

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