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The old rule is 'Follow the money'. The various members of the European Parliament all have side jobs, sinecures but often very lucrative ones, sponsored by special interest entities. Vote correctly and keep the job, vote wrong and probably lose it. Human frailty does the rest. The 'public interest' is easily suborned.

The forum discussions are one of the principal attractions of this site, we get unvarnished experiences garnered by experts. Here we have a thought provoking discussion triggered by a surprising, but well articulated system switch. I don't see how that falls under the GAS rubric, so just a silly comment.

Is there some way to tell whether the lens was stolen if one is offered on Ebay? Serial numbers or some more specific model details would help a lot.