You can buy a laser record player in the mind 4-digit price range that will play a record without touching it and wearing it down, and you can still buy new records to play on it.
There's so much to learn that starting with the basics is mandatory.
Why not start more basic than that with a pin hole quaker oat box and contact prints? I know i'd be less sad if my niece killed a quaker oat box than my Olympus OM-1.
Don't get me wrong... I still like film as a medium. It's beautiful, high resolution per volume, and requires pretty base fundamental technologies. That old medium or large format camera from the early 20th century is still going to outperform digital in terms of raw resolution. Small format is debatable, esp since color resolution was getting close to that of old B&W the last time I checked. Contact prints, while lossy, is as low tech as you can get. I use to get away with using an old slide projector and an easel on the wall.
But who wants to work in a dark room? You've got the chemistry issue, bulky enlarger issue, and making a room light tight issue, not to speak of working under a safe light. And the printer market is so saturated that you can get an entry level photo printer for $100, an a5 dye sub for $300 and laser for $400. HP has their own photo gray cart for their printers, or you can go with bulk ink and B&W multitone ink.
If I was going to get back into B&W imagery... I'd get my self a $100 Canon i960 inkjet printer if not an Epson, hex black tone ink, and go print happy. Lots of control, buckish/page, Ilford classic pearl paper, and go print happy.
Hard to do as there are so much in common with those cultures.
Haematites is about as latin as you can get. Hematite is the more common spelling for Fe2O3 which i'm willing to bet, while not being a geologist, is a common enough mineral on Mars.
Hephaestus g. or Vulcanus r. would also be fitting, but less so as both are also assocated with fire/lava.
Aurora Aresonis, perhaps?
But you just said not to mix Latin with Greek. Ares is the greek god of war. Mars is the Roman god of war.
However, because Mars' magnetic field is too weak to create the phenomenon by similar means, the aurora is caused by a separate mechanism, namely the magnetic anomalies described in the article, which can occur anywhere on the planet. For this reason, it should not be called aurora borealis or aurora australis, but rather aurora [insert god of magnetic rocks here].
Valid point. I was thinking that the concept of a southern pole being at a 90 degree angle in relation to the path of travel of a celesteral body, but hey.
Aurora Hematitius - haematites r. lithos g.
{haima - blood) Either blood dawn or dawn of the iron oxide substance.
[note i'm not a geology expert, but some what fitting as it's related somewhat to the greek god] Arurora Hephaestus - Greek God of the Forge
Mars needs weapons Aurora Vulcanis - Roman God of the Forge
Mars might need weapons, but Mars doesn't have pointed ears Aurora Marsionis - Probally the most accurate.
Elicius springs to mind as well as in Jupiter Elicius, but that might not be fitting as Jupiter is right next door.
The terms "Borealis" and "Australis" are somewhat meaningless on Mars. The correct term is simply "Aurora". It's the editors who made the goof.
Borealis, Boreas - The great north wind; greek god of. aka Aquilo Australis, Auster - The great south wind; roman god of. aka Notus
Aurora - latin / middle english - Dawn
If you want to be anal about the subject, Aurora Aquilonis would be a bit more consistent with the Roman theme. But both words would apply on other planets just as well as they do on earth as it means the dawn north or south wind.
So if you plan to spend your life blaming someone for an unnecessary second bomb, blame the slow acting Japanese.
And we don't use Atomic weapons anymore because???
IIRC correctly their goverment was starting to fall apart. Hardly the best time to expect a swift definitive reply to an ultimatium. Making a choice to bomb basicly a civilian target is wrong in any book. And the hope that world opinion was on their side is like likely cause to any pussy footing about a final surrender.
Kokura was at least a nice military target that would have reduced their chance to make war. That and a nice submarine blockade would have at least been honorable. But no dropping the last atomic bomb was more cost effective and damn anyone who happened to be in the blast.
The blame is held by the people who ordered the trigger pulled. There were options available, this is what they picked.
What you fail to realize is that 1) The US originally had many more targets on their list, including Kyoto
Also Niigata and Yokohama. Kokura as well which IIRC was at least a big military value but due to cloud cover had to resort to Nagasaki. I often wondered if that bomb reduced the number of Christians in Japan. I met a person from there once, and she gave up the faith after her twin sister died but being spaired oddly enough by being under water at the time. Kyoto was on the list simply because it had not been bombed before, and what better city to hit to demoralize a people.
But needless to say I agree with you, and often wonder if either bomb was nessicary after of Battle of Okinawa. I wasn't alive at the time and can't judge. I live near McNeil island which was one choice other than Leavenworth of prisons to send Japanese-American refusing to be drafted, refusing for the reasons of their familys being shuttled off to concentration camps. I can see films from that time, from Christmas 1942 where families spent their life savings on their children, color film, and how to learn Japanese books as after one year of war it looked like we were fucked. I can see film of the CV-6 comming in to Bremerton with with it's dirty "Enterprise vs Japan" hanger sign. We still looked fucked but there was a glimmer of hope. And I can talk to people who were here at this time who saw all this, and were long great debates whether the first bomb was nessicary. But even among those who lived with the fear factor of losing everything west of Omaha, even those who who lived through Kamikaze raids, but not a single one can think of any reason for the second one other than to evoke terror and how shamefuly we acted. By that time with the threat of invasion gone there simply was no excuse.
I guess it was "downgraded" to an F2 tornado. The weather forecasters at KSL and KTVX were saying at the time it was F3.
I can understand the error. Utah doesn't get very many serious tornados, and it's hard to tell when it hits if the car it picked up was a Honda or Buick.
Logitech's MX900 mouse uses Bluetooth, but yeah, why they don't use it more often is beyond me too
Are all MX900s in the bluetooth edition?
I know this time last year they had the Cordless MX desktop for about $100 and also one marked bluetooth for $200. The non-bluetooth edition made it's way to closeout shops for about $50 or so, where the bluetooth edition stayed at at $200 for the pair.
But why don't they make more? Who would spend $200 on the bluetooth edition when the $100 were 100% mechanicaly the same?
Needless to say I have the MX900 non-bluetooth. Very nice mouse, very nice button placement. Paid well under $100 for both the mouse and keyboard. I like the idea of Bluetooth, and would go Bluetooth if it wasn't double the price.
If Utah doesn't get tornadoes, then explain the F3 tornado that hit downtown Salt Lake City a couple of years ago?
I can... my sister was there. She's got very bad luck.
It was Aug 1999. And I'm pretty sure it was an F2. The mid 80s buick wagon I was driving was hardly lifted off the ground and I didn't have to dodge flying cars. Come to think about it it was lots of fun.
I remember that day well, the tornado hit the hotel just as I was leaving on my way to pickup my sister in Ogden. Had I not had a wedding to go to, I would have hung around and got some shots.
Laser printing is the absolute cheapest with the Xerox color laser printers being the cheapest per page with their solid toner printers.
But what does that cost to operate a month? Not trying to flame ya just don't know the power consumption of either printer off the top of my head.
Inkjets are good for home use only or in LARGE format photo quality printing. Using then in an office is the absolutely stupidest thing in the world, you can recoup the cost of a $1900.00 Xerox color laser in less than 1 year with ink prices alone.... And yes, I know what I am talking about. We have a remote office of 3 employees and one manager, they were spending $225 a month in ink on two HP inkjets.
You mean the Phaser 6250? I have to admit a 8000p black cart for only $72.00 nice dropping black under penny/page. I'd have to buy 16 bci-6e carts (400ml about 13oz) for my canon to equal that at 12 bucks a pop.
Color isn't so cheap but reasonable at $250 each also high yeild 8000p. I would totally have to buy 28carts or about 12oz for my canon inkjet to equal that at 10 bucks a pop, and likely need a new printer soon after.
For now I think i'll contunue buying my ink at $24 a pint for my house printer and get someone else to buy the phaser. $24 * 5 + $100 printer = a wee bit less than one color toner cart and about the same yield.
I have a friend who spend good money on a Sony dual deck DVD/VHS and TV and he makes it a point to rent only VHS rather than DVD. His logic is that all the rental DVDs are scratched up and don't play as well as VHS. I've seen this and it holds 100% true on his deck. In fact, I can say that a new DVD will skip where the VHS plays flawlessly. I tried to point out that there was something seriously wrong with his deck, that he could get it replaced under warranty, but alas since the warranty falls under the sony VHS deck class and not a DVD you only get parts but not labor for a year, labor is a good deal less. I've met others who also have had bum DVD players did new DVDs ok, but rentals poorly, but most were smart enough to return them for another of the same model and get better results.
Even though I prefer DVD to VHS on all fronts I can agree that a VHS tape can take a bit more abuse than DVD and still be watchable. But don't take my word for it, watch a teething child with either and see the results for your self. Throw each out a moving car and see which one works better. Heck, sit on each one and see what happens.
Ah, I was just pulling one mormon group off the top of my head. But hey, more then happy to collect more information on other Mormons.
Imagine in 100 years time, the great move to texas, the holy city of Lubbock (for example) to escape the percussion and religious oppression of the "false believers". Following the footsets of our founders, we formed the new reformed church of the excommunicated our missionaries go off into the would seeking so spread an important message one of hope and eternal peace. Yay, not to be confused with those other messages of hope and eternal peace, this one is guaranteed your place in the celestial kingdom.
Don't get me wrong, I'm willing to believe there are printers out there it works well in. I have used it once is a C6578DN color cart, and I was pleased with the result but I didn't use the enclosed plugs. They are hard plastic and don't seal anything well. But from what i've seen they tend to leak out of Epsons and Canons alike. Will have to try it in an old canon BJ on it's last legs just for laughs. But my master plan is to dump it's ink and use the bottles for stuff bought elsewhere.
I've been ordering ink from http://www.inksupply.com/ . The average price is about $2.00 or $2.50/oz for ink at least matched to the printer. IIRC the IMS kit averages to about $1.00/oz. Like most bulk ink shops, they are more geared tward Epson esp for archival inks, but carry matching ink for most printers.
I was so close to buying either a 'clone' cartridge or refill for my Lexmark X1130 from the following page:
Please tell me one of the above is worth the investment. I don't mind less than perfect printouts, but I don't want to wreck the printer.
Ah yes, That Lexmark I at least know the it in it's Dell form.
IIRC that cart is 10ml and has a 410p count. Paying $32.00 at office depot roughly equals there and abouts of $12,112/gal.
A Color and black cart will run you $60. The Canon ip1500 comes with about the same amount of ink (9.5ml black IIRC bci-24(x)). and costs $50. Cost per page is highish, but your spending $6.00 a pop for 9.5ml of black rather than $30. The ip3000/ip4000 are better deals in terms of quality and cost per page and float at $60-$100. The black costs $12 for 500p/25ml and is as cost effective as many entry level lasers per page.
Buying new x1150 lexmarks are probally cheaper than buying carts. I'm not sure if it's actually true, but it's close, really close!
So is the above worth the investement? The worst thing that can happen typicaly is a clogged printhead, which comes with the cart anyway so no big deal. I imagine the absolute worst thing that can happen is it could leak if the ink is too thin. But you should be able to notice this before you put it in. But considering the value of the printer is about the value of the ink it would be no loss, in fact you would be better off in the long run taking your Lexmark All in one and never printing from it again. In all fairness I remember the software suite that came with the Lexmark AIOs as being pretty decent even if the printer wasn't very good.
So yea, refill till your printer breaks, save as much money as you can, and use it to buy another printer.
So, where are the negative consequences of this action? As far as I can see, there are none. Whose rights are being violated? The Porn industry? Please.
As soon as the allow the state to define morality opens the door the censorship. Your idea of indecent and my idea of indecent can be entirely different, but i'm not going to stop you from handcuffs and candle wax on the nipples if that's your poison as long as you respect my right to say not my bag.
And what comes after moral content is defined? Ban the dildos, vibrating cock rings, and inflatable ewe?
And the porn industry doesn't have rights?
So, the legislature of a state decides that
* it is extremely easy for its ISPs to implement an *optional* filth screen for their customers.
* The society would be better off without it
On point one, I'm all for the idea of parental controls. I'm not for a state run black list. If the state wants to get involved let them use their money to educate people about the options that already exist. I do understand that not all parents can watch their children 24/7. I'm not for the idea that it's the ISPs job. They are just a carrier and as a result are not directly accountable for content people request, but the state is forcing them to be when there are already 3rd party solutions that do the job perfectly well. If the state wants to create a black list, they can do it them selves, release software them selves, and maintain it them selves. I would be less offended if a church group took it upon them selves to create this system making it trully optional, but hey.
On point two, I don't think society would be better off with out it. I tend to believe sexual repression leads to much larger problems then having the ability to watch two or more people get it on. A lack of access to information regarding human sexuality can lead to teen preganacy. Little Billy might not understand that don't do anything bad means please don't stick your penis in the girl nextdoor's vagina cause you might make a baby. I don't know how churchs deal this this, but from what i've seen most are so soft footed about the subject you are left 100% confused.
I am pro enjoyment of sex. And if watching Debbie and the seven drunken dwarves gives you joy, more power to ya. Watch it with a loved one, a close friend, or by your self. Flog those God given joy bits, feel the love and spew till you tilt! If you're a parent and want to restrict access on your pc, get a Net Nanny. But don't make precedent that allows the state to black list anything. Next thing you know To Kill a Mocking Bird will be on that list.
OK. You're wrong on a couple of points. The self-called Mormons who practice polygamy are not official member of the LDS church, and are not referred to as Mormons by the LDS Church.
But the LDS church are also a group of self called Mormons. Even among Mormons there are some who don't agree with the LDS church, some who splintered off into their own groups to teach and practice what they belief is Mormonism.
I thought I was clear on this point. While the LDS church might not consider them to be Mormons, they seem to consider them selves Mormons. And given that polygamy was practiced in the founding days of Mormonism they do have every right to say they are practicing Mormons.
Is the The Community of Christ any less Mormon than the LDS Church?
This is the funny thing about faith. Faith is belief without question. But in the it's up to the followers to proclaim them selves and follow the beliefs to the best of their understanding.
The people who are moving to Texas are moving of their own accord. And its hardly credible to say that they are being persecuted away.
But they are being excommunicated for the LDS church, prosecuted by the state, and for some reason feel the need to live isolated communities. Sounds just like the days before Brigham Young and followers went to Utah to me? And did not Brigham Young have 27 wives and over 50 children? Did not Joseph Smith have 33 documented wives? Correct me if i'm wrong I am getting my info from LSD missionaries. Seems to me that these self-called Mormons are following in the footsteps of the founding fathers of the religion, and are moving elsewhere so they may enjoy more freedom to do so.
I think a large number actually are leaving Utah and moving to Texas, because of prosecution here.
So what you are saying the Moromons, who say they were persecuted in the past by non-believers only to splinter off into different groups, are repeating the same persecution of what the LDS describes as minority Mormons and forcing the polygamists to move to a place where they have the freedom to practice their religion their own way?
No no no... it's You've got questions? It's over there by the batteries. Want a cuecat?
I had to ask for a Cuecat. They even took the time to scan it's bar code and ask me for zero dollars and zero cents as well as my name and address. I didn't have a problem with this as I got x-mas cards from them with a $50 gift certificate and a coupon for some free batteries and $50 off $100. Must have been that time I spent in a small town and it was the only source for electronic supplies.
What I find interesting is not long after DC closed up shop radio shack stopped asking for people's names. I wonder if this is somehow connected to the Kenyon and Kenyon campain.
I have been told by employees that Plasma screens were plentiful (when they were $15,ooo each) and gold bathroom fixtures were the norm.
This I believe. It is the norm for startups or CEOs to spend more money on presentation then product. Must have the latest BMW and the plasma screen and generally look successful. I saw an interview with the guy and he seemed like one big child, with an idea, no focus what so ever but an idea.
The cuecat marketing was poor only in that it created a problem that sought a solution.
I never worked there, but I did ask support a few questions, which in turn forwarded my request for information to Digital Convergence them selves. I think I was asking something as simple as its power requirements. Anyways who ever got the e-mail from the support company ended up forwarding requests for information from potential to me. I wasn't feeling nice after the 500th e-mail and started to answer their the customers questions for them. "Hello... your question has reached some random end user who asked an entirely different question. I have nothing to do with cuecat, but I can see that you can easily subscribe to the service for $x.00. I would think you in your next correspondence to tell cuecat that my mail box is being flooded with forwards and has yet to address the problem."
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Print permanence: hundreds of years. How long will your chromogenic print last?
Accodring to Mediastreet. 100+ years without faiding with their papers and media.
$60 sounds fair for the equipment. How much time did you spend making a room dark?
You can buy a laser record player in the mind 4-digit price range that will play a record without touching it and wearing it down, and you can still buy new records to play on it.
And play colored vinyl too?
There's so much to learn that starting with the basics is mandatory.
Why not start more basic than that with a pin hole quaker oat box and contact prints? I know i'd be less sad if my niece killed a quaker oat box than my Olympus OM-1.
Don't get me wrong... I still like film as a medium. It's beautiful, high resolution per volume, and requires pretty base fundamental technologies. That old medium or large format camera from the early 20th century is still going to outperform digital in terms of raw resolution. Small format is debatable, esp since color resolution was getting close to that of old B&W the last time I checked. Contact prints, while lossy, is as low tech as you can get. I use to get away with using an old slide projector and an easel on the wall.
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But who wants to work in a dark room? You've got the chemistry issue, bulky enlarger issue, and making a room light tight issue, not to speak of working under a safe light. And the printer market is so saturated that you can get an entry level photo printer for $100, an a5 dye sub for $300 and laser for $400. HP has their own photo gray cart for their printers, or you can go with bulk ink and B&W multitone ink.
http://www.lyson.com/quad-black-tone.html
http://www.inksupply.com/bwpage.cfm
http://www.weink.com/ecom/catalog/chromiumbw_-_ma
If I was going to get back into B&W imagery... I'd get my self a $100 Canon i960 inkjet printer if not an Epson, hex black tone ink, and go print happy. Lots of control, buckish/page, Ilford classic pearl paper, and go print happy.
Please don't mix your latin and greek.
Hard to do as there are so much in common with those cultures.
Haematites is about as latin as you can get.
Hematite is the more common spelling for Fe2O3 which i'm willing to bet, while not being a geologist, is a common enough mineral on Mars.
Hephaestus g. or Vulcanus r. would also be fitting, but less so as both are also assocated with fire/lava.
Aurora Aresonis, perhaps?
But you just said not to mix Latin with Greek. Ares is the greek god of war. Mars is the Roman god of war.
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However, because Mars' magnetic field is too weak to create the phenomenon by similar means, the aurora is caused by a separate mechanism, namely the magnetic anomalies described in the article, which can occur anywhere on the planet. For this reason, it should not be called aurora borealis or aurora australis, but rather aurora [insert god of magnetic rocks here].
Valid point. I was thinking that the concept of a southern pole being at a 90 degree angle in relation to the path of travel of a celesteral body, but hey.
Aurora Hematitius - haematites r. lithos g.
{haima - blood) Either blood dawn or dawn of the iron oxide substance.
[note i'm not a geology expert, but some what fitting as it's related somewhat to the greek god]
Arurora Hephaestus - Greek God of the Forge
Mars needs weapons
Aurora Vulcanis - Roman God of the Forge
Mars might need weapons, but Mars doesn't have pointed ears
Aurora Marsionis - Probally the most accurate.
Elicius springs to mind as well as in Jupiter Elicius, but that might not be fitting as Jupiter is right next door.
The terms "Borealis" and "Australis" are somewhat meaningless on Mars. The correct term is simply "Aurora". It's the editors who made the goof.
Borealis, Boreas - The great north wind; greek god of. aka Aquilo
Australis, Auster - The great south wind; roman god of. aka Notus
Aurora - latin / middle english - Dawn
If you want to be anal about the subject, Aurora Aquilonis would be a bit more consistent with the Roman theme. But both words would apply on other planets just as well as they do on earth as it means the dawn north or south wind.
So if you plan to spend your life blaming someone for an unnecessary second bomb, blame the slow acting Japanese.
And we don't use Atomic weapons anymore because???
IIRC correctly their goverment was starting to fall apart. Hardly the best time to expect a swift definitive reply to an ultimatium. Making a choice to bomb basicly a civilian target is wrong in any book. And the hope that world opinion was on their side is like likely cause to any pussy footing about a final surrender.
Kokura was at least a nice military target that would have reduced their chance to make war. That and a nice submarine blockade would have at least been honorable. But no dropping the last atomic bomb was more cost effective and damn anyone who happened to be in the blast.
The blame is held by the people who ordered the trigger pulled. There were options available, this is what they picked.
What you fail to realize is that 1) The US originally had many more targets on their list, including Kyoto
Also Niigata and Yokohama. Kokura as well which IIRC was at least a big military value but due to cloud cover had to resort to Nagasaki. I often wondered if that bomb reduced the number of Christians in Japan. I met a person from there once, and she gave up the faith after her twin sister died but being spaired oddly enough by being under water at the time. Kyoto was on the list simply because it had not been bombed before, and what better city to hit to demoralize a people.
But needless to say I agree with you, and often wonder if either bomb was nessicary after of Battle of Okinawa. I wasn't alive at the time and can't judge. I live near McNeil island which was one choice other than Leavenworth of prisons to send Japanese-American refusing to be drafted, refusing for the reasons of their familys being shuttled off to concentration camps. I can see films from that time, from Christmas 1942 where families spent their life savings on their children, color film, and how to learn Japanese books as after one year of war it looked like we were fucked. I can see film of the CV-6 comming in to Bremerton with with it's dirty "Enterprise vs Japan" hanger sign. We still looked fucked but there was a glimmer of hope. And I can talk to people who were here at this time who saw all this, and were long great debates whether the first bomb was nessicary. But even among those who lived with the fear factor of losing everything west of Omaha, even those who who lived through Kamikaze raids, but not a single one can think of any reason for the second one other than to evoke terror and how shamefuly we acted. By that time with the threat of invasion gone there simply was no excuse.
I guess it was "downgraded" to an F2 tornado. The weather forecasters at KSL and KTVX were saying at the time it was F3.
I can understand the error. Utah doesn't get very many serious tornados, and it's hard to tell when it hits if the car it picked up was a Honda or Buick.
Logitech's MX900 mouse uses Bluetooth, but yeah, why they don't use it more often is beyond me too
Are all MX900s in the bluetooth edition?
I know this time last year they had the Cordless MX desktop for about $100 and also one marked bluetooth for $200. The non-bluetooth edition made it's way to closeout shops for about $50 or so, where the bluetooth edition stayed at at $200 for the pair.
But why don't they make more? Who would spend $200 on the bluetooth edition when the $100 were 100% mechanicaly the same?
Needless to say I have the MX900 non-bluetooth. Very nice mouse, very nice button placement. Paid well under $100 for both the mouse and keyboard. I like the idea of Bluetooth, and would go Bluetooth if it wasn't double the price.
If Utah doesn't get tornadoes, then explain the F3 tornado that hit downtown Salt Lake City a couple of years ago?
I can... my sister was there. She's got very bad luck.
It was Aug 1999. And I'm pretty sure it was an F2. The mid 80s buick wagon I was driving was hardly lifted off the ground and I didn't have to dodge flying cars. Come to think about it it was lots of fun.
Okay, its "tornadoes" and Utah doesn't get tornadoes
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All righty! That that big swirling thing in aug 1999 that hit my hotel an hour or so after checkout time wasn't tornado?
I guess I was just lucky to be in Salt Lake when they had an F2 class tornado.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_Lake_City_Torna
I remember that day well, the tornado hit the hotel just as I was leaving on my way to pickup my sister in Ogden. Had I not had a wedding to go to, I would have hung around and got some shots.
Laser printing is the absolute cheapest with the Xerox color laser printers being the cheapest per page with their solid toner printers.
But what does that cost to operate a month? Not trying to flame ya just don't know the power consumption of either printer off the top of my head.
Inkjets are good for home use only or in LARGE format photo quality printing. Using then in an office is the absolutely stupidest thing in the world, you can recoup the cost of a $1900.00 Xerox color laser in less than 1 year with ink prices alone.... And yes, I know what I am talking about. We have a remote office of 3 employees and one manager, they were spending $225 a month in ink on two HP inkjets.
You mean the Phaser 6250? I have to admit a 8000p black cart for only $72.00 nice dropping black under penny/page. I'd have to buy 16 bci-6e carts (400ml about 13oz) for my canon to equal that at 12 bucks a pop.
Color isn't so cheap but reasonable at $250 each also high yeild 8000p. I would totally have to buy 28carts or about 12oz for my canon inkjet to equal that at 10 bucks a pop, and likely need a new printer soon after.
For now I think i'll contunue buying my ink at $24 a pint for my house printer and get someone else to buy the phaser. $24 * 5 + $100 printer = a wee bit less than one color toner cart and about the same yield.
I have a friend who spend good money on a Sony dual deck DVD/VHS and TV and he makes it a point to rent only VHS rather than DVD. His logic is that all the rental DVDs are scratched up and don't play as well as VHS. I've seen this and it holds 100% true on his deck. In fact, I can say that a new DVD will skip where the VHS plays flawlessly. I tried to point out that there was something seriously wrong with his deck, that he could get it replaced under warranty, but alas since the warranty falls under the sony VHS deck class and not a DVD you only get parts but not labor for a year, labor is a good deal less. I've met others who also have had bum DVD players did new DVDs ok, but rentals poorly, but most were smart enough to return them for another of the same model and get better results.
Even though I prefer DVD to VHS on all fronts I can agree that a VHS tape can take a bit more abuse than DVD and still be watchable. But don't take my word for it, watch a teething child with either and see the results for your self. Throw each out a moving car and see which one works better. Heck, sit on each one and see what happens.
Actually, those moving to Texas are FLDS.
Ah, I was just pulling one mormon group off the top of my head. But hey, more then happy to collect more information on other Mormons.
Imagine in 100 years time, the great move to texas, the holy city of Lubbock (for example) to escape the percussion and religious oppression of the "false believers". Following the footsets of our founders, we formed the new reformed church of the excommunicated our missionaries go off into the would seeking so spread an important message one of hope and eternal peace. Yay, not to be confused with those other messages of hope and eternal peace, this one is guaranteed your place in the celestial kingdom.
To me it's a very familar story.
I bought a refill kit at Costco as it was the first one I'd found that had Photo Cyan, and Photo Magenta (for 6 color prints)
Oh gawd that stuff. IMS. http://www.ims-ink.com/
Don't get me wrong, I'm willing to believe there are printers out there it works well in. I have used it once is a C6578DN color cart, and I was pleased with the result but I didn't use the enclosed plugs. They are hard plastic and don't seal anything well. But from what i've seen they tend to leak out of Epsons and Canons alike. Will have to try it in an old canon BJ on it's last legs just for laughs. But my master plan is to dump it's ink and use the bottles for stuff bought elsewhere.
I've been ordering ink from http://www.inksupply.com/ . The average price is about $2.00 or $2.50/oz for ink at least matched to the printer. IIRC the IMS kit averages to about $1.00/oz. Like most bulk ink shops, they are more geared tward Epson esp for archival inks, but carry matching ink for most printers.
I was so close to buying either a 'clone' cartridge or refill for my Lexmark X1130 from the following page:
Please tell me one of the above is worth the investment. I don't mind less than perfect printouts, but I don't want to wreck the printer.
Ah yes, That Lexmark I at least know the it in it's Dell form.
IIRC that cart is 10ml and has a 410p count. Paying $32.00 at office depot roughly equals there and abouts of $12,112/gal.
A Color and black cart will run you $60. The Canon ip1500 comes with about the same amount of ink (9.5ml black IIRC bci-24(x)). and costs $50. Cost per page is highish, but your spending $6.00 a pop for 9.5ml of black rather than $30. The ip3000/ip4000 are better deals in terms of quality and cost per page and float at $60-$100. The black costs $12 for 500p/25ml and is as cost effective as many entry level lasers per page.
Buying new x1150 lexmarks are probally cheaper than buying carts. I'm not sure if it's actually true, but it's close, really close!
So is the above worth the investement? The worst thing that can happen typicaly is a clogged printhead, which comes with the cart anyway so no big deal. I imagine the absolute worst thing that can happen is it could leak if the ink is too thin. But you should be able to notice this before you put it in. But considering the value of the printer is about the value of the ink it would be no loss, in fact you would be better off in the long run taking your Lexmark All in one and never printing from it again. In all fairness I remember the software suite that came with the Lexmark AIOs as being pretty decent even if the printer wasn't very good.
So yea, refill till your printer breaks, save as much money as you can, and use it to buy another printer.
So, where are the negative consequences of this action? As far as I can see, there are none. Whose rights are being violated? The Porn industry? Please.
As soon as the allow the state to define morality opens the door the censorship. Your idea of indecent and my idea of indecent can be entirely different, but i'm not going to stop you from handcuffs and candle wax on the nipples if that's your poison as long as you respect my right to say not my bag.
And what comes after moral content is defined? Ban the dildos, vibrating cock rings, and inflatable ewe?
And the porn industry doesn't have rights?
So, the legislature of a state decides that
* it is extremely easy for its ISPs to implement an *optional* filth screen for their customers.
* The society would be better off without it
On point one, I'm all for the idea of parental controls. I'm not for a state run black list. If the state wants to get involved let them use their money to educate people about the options that already exist. I do understand that not all parents can watch their children 24/7. I'm not for the idea that it's the ISPs job. They are just a carrier and as a result are not directly accountable for content people request, but the state is forcing them to be when there are already 3rd party solutions that do the job perfectly well. If the state wants to create a black list, they can do it them selves, release software them selves, and maintain it them selves. I would be less offended if a church group took it upon them selves to create this system making it trully optional, but hey.
On point two, I don't think society would be better off with out it. I tend to believe sexual repression leads to much larger problems then having the ability to watch two or more people get it on. A lack of access to information regarding human sexuality can lead to teen preganacy. Little Billy might not understand that don't do anything bad means please don't stick your penis in the girl nextdoor's vagina cause you might make a baby. I don't know how churchs deal this this, but from what i've seen most are so soft footed about the subject you are left 100% confused.
I am pro enjoyment of sex. And if watching Debbie and the seven drunken dwarves gives you joy, more power to ya. Watch it with a loved one, a close friend, or by your self. Flog those God given joy bits, feel the love and spew till you tilt! If you're a parent and want to restrict access on your pc, get a Net Nanny. But don't make precedent that allows the state to black list anything. Next thing you know To Kill a Mocking Bird will be on that list.
OK. You're wrong on a couple of points. The self-called Mormons who practice polygamy are not official member of the LDS church, and are not referred to as Mormons by the LDS Church.
But the LDS church are also a group of self called Mormons. Even among Mormons there are some who don't agree with the LDS church, some who splintered off into their own groups to teach and practice what they belief is Mormonism.
I thought I was clear on this point. While the LDS church might not consider them to be Mormons, they seem to consider them selves Mormons. And given that polygamy was practiced in the founding days of Mormonism they do have every right to say they are practicing Mormons.
Is the The Community of Christ any less Mormon than the LDS Church?
This is the funny thing about faith. Faith is belief without question. But in the it's up to the followers to proclaim them selves and follow the beliefs to the best of their understanding.
The people who are moving to Texas are moving of their own accord. And its hardly credible to say that they are being persecuted away.
But they are being excommunicated for the LDS church, prosecuted by the state, and for some reason feel the need to live isolated communities. Sounds just like the days before Brigham Young and followers went to Utah to me? And did not Brigham Young have 27 wives and over 50 children? Did not Joseph Smith have 33 documented wives? Correct me if i'm wrong I am getting my info from LSD missionaries. Seems to me that these self-called Mormons are following in the footsteps of the founding fathers of the religion, and are moving elsewhere so they may enjoy more freedom to do so.
I think a large number actually are leaving Utah and moving to Texas, because of prosecution here.
So what you are saying the Moromons, who say they were persecuted in the past by non-believers only to splinter off into different groups, are repeating the same persecution of what the LDS describes as minority Mormons and forcing the polygamists to move to a place where they have the freedom to practice their religion their own way?
Does that sum up the situation?
You've got questions, We've got blank stares...OH...and FREE CueCats for all!!!
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You've got questions? It's over there by the batteries. Want a cuecat?
I had to ask for a Cuecat. They even took the time to scan it's bar code and ask me for zero dollars and zero cents as well as my name and address. I didn't have a problem with this as I got x-mas cards from them with a $50 gift certificate and a coupon for some free batteries and $50 off $100. Must have been that time I spent in a small town and it was the only source for electronic supplies.
What I find interesting is not long after DC closed up shop radio shack stopped asking for people's names. I wonder if this is somehow connected to the Kenyon and Kenyon campain.
Oh, and it seems they made lots of USB CueCats. Strange how people don't seem to talk about those. At least half of them on eBay are USB.
The only way I got a USB cuecat was ordering one from IBM with their catalog. IBM had a little class.
I have been told by employees that Plasma screens were plentiful (when they were $15,ooo each) and gold bathroom fixtures were the norm.
This I believe. It is the norm for startups or CEOs to spend more money on presentation then product. Must have the latest BMW and the plasma screen and generally look successful. I saw an interview with the guy and he seemed like one big child, with an idea, no focus what so ever but an idea.
The cuecat marketing was poor only in that it created a problem that sought a solution.
I never worked there, but I did ask support a few questions, which in turn forwarded my request for information to Digital Convergence them selves. I think I was asking something as simple as its power requirements. Anyways who ever got the e-mail from the support company ended up forwarding requests for information from potential to me. I wasn't feeling nice after the 500th e-mail and started to answer their the customers questions for them. "Hello... your question has reached some random end user who asked an entirely different question. I have nothing to do with cuecat, but I can see that you can easily subscribe to the service for $x.00. I would think you in your next correspondence to tell cuecat that my mail box is being flooded with forwards and has yet to address the problem."
Marketing wasn't their only problem.