Actually, I think that it will die a year after. We'll get our hopes up, because we'll finally have the year of Linux on the desktop, and then the rug of reality will be pulled out from us.
Do they use any particular paper size? I ask, because consumers of this stuff probably don't care about the size. If I were committed to printing the news for somebody, then I would probably use legal size as the default, unless I could get my hands on A4 or even larger.
Do you know what software they use? Do they just use Word or OpenOffice.org? I ask, because I like making OpenOffice.org templates, and would be willing to help them with a template. I should probably phone around and ask for myself.
No, they won't send a coupon. They'll send a small message saying, "For a free coupon, go to http://coupons.com/default?adsf:3987w3rklxcvjhflk. You can print it out and share it with your friends.".
For the American and Canadian audience, they'll send it on A4, so that the extra few millimeters will force another black page out. The page should be written in HTML with a whole bunch of BR elements, that force yet another page, and at the bottom of the "blank" page, it will say, "W3C HTML Compliant". So, let's tally it up. The coupon page, plus the "blank" page forces 2 pages out, and the A4 sizing will double that, bringing us to 4 glorious pages for a 10 word coupon, that didn't even need to exist in the first place.
Maybe we can send them another ad, encouraging them to buy hole punches, paper clips and binders, to store their coupons. Maybe we could encourage them to buy highlighters, so that they make each coupon easier for themselves to read that 1 sentence. Maybe the highlighters can come without caps, so that they dry out faster.
I could go on for days. I'm surprised that HP isn't beating down my doors.
On an unrelated note, if they are going to print out test pages, then they might as well print out coupons.
Yep. I actually feel belittled. Essentially, they believe that I'm dumb enough to fall for it. 1 day, I might start clicking on ads, just to make them pay for it. It'll waste my time more than their time, though.
A free market would require people and organizations to take responsibility over their actions.
The BP spill is a classic example of the tragedy of the commons. I don't know all the details of the spill, but the problem is definitely BP or 1 of the organizations that it works with. The government is partially responsible, because it didn't hold the participants responsible, but other than that, the government isn't at fault.
I'm all for more regulations or banning of off-shore drilling. That would be consistent with the free market.
Chaos, the commons, and Communism have more in common than you and others realize.
In the discussion above, there was mention of finding new jobs. It seems so consistent with the free market to just tell somebody to find another job. This is fine with basic unskilled labour, especially when there are competitive companies around. However, problems occur when jobs go overseas, and people have to get retrained. Another way of looking at it would be to ask, would any of us take those jobs, if we knew that it would take an immense amount of training, and we would lose our jobs in a few years, and our training would no longer be useful after? I doubt that we would take those jobs, because after all that effort, we would be just like unskilled labourers. The workers make a huge investment, and need time to retrain or find jobs again. Therefore it would be consistent with the free market to hold the companies responsible, as opposed to just telling the workers to find another job. We'd need some kind of rule that lets the company do what it wants, but still find a way to fulfill the needs of the workers. My suggestion is to slow the movement of jobs overseas, and put a freeze on hiring locally, thus giving the employee time to shift into a new career. A law requiring funding from the company for re-education [i.e. of the good kind, not the political kind:^)] would go a long ways to stabilizing the economy, without taking away the business initiative.
I'm very interested in what you have to say about what I've wrote. I believe that this type of mind set would be perfectly balanced. It wouldn't require government micromanagement, yet it wouldn't give free reign to companies.
I went into our local gas station's bathroom, and did just that. I pushed the button and waited for so long that my hands were all dry, and still no bacon. That's false advertisement.
Note: the coupon will be white lettering on a black background and will probably take an entire 8x11 sheet of paper...
That's what I call masterful humour. I would have never thought of that in a million years, but going along that train of thought, I would make the printer try to print a 8.5" x 11.5" document on a 8.5" x 11" sheet of paper, thus, forcing out 2 pieces of paper due to a "bug". Of course, the second page should contain the exact same blank black background.
It would be an interesting discussion to see what would happen.
In Canada, I would imagine that the banks would try to pin the responsibility on the small guy, but how could the bank prove that there was even a house there? Perhaps civic records? If the civic records could prove it, then the small guy could tell the bank to take the house back.
Ultimately, I blame the bank for accepting the loan, but not the responsibility. The small guy can't know that a hole would appear. If the small guy could know, then the bank could know also, and thus, give better value for the loan.
I personally don't know the answer, and can't be bothered to look it up. I'd be surprised, though to find out that they based it on news groups. News groups seem to be outdated technology to me. There'd be too much spam for it to be worth while.
Why do you feel that news groups are better than anything at all?
Wow. All I can say is "Wow.". I never bothered to look it up, because I've never heard the word until the last year or so. I thought that some idiot couldn't be bothered to learn English. Every time I hear/read that word, I feel like going into spasms, and scratching my skin off.
Only at this point in time I find out it's a legit. word? What the...?
Wow.
Thanks for looking it up. I would never have even considered looking it up, if it weren't for you. I really appreciate it.
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Actually, I think that it will die a year after. We'll get our hopes up, because we'll finally have the year of Linux on the desktop, and then the rug of reality will be pulled out from us.
Occam's Razor.
God wants to take out the trash.
I agree.
Because they don't stay where they belong, they end up killing 2 nerds with 1 storm. What turn of events!
That makes sense. Thanks.
I believe you, but how does all that get into there? Was the spacing getting wider over the years?
Do they use any particular paper size? I ask, because consumers of this stuff probably don't care about the size. If I were committed to printing the news for somebody, then I would probably use legal size as the default, unless I could get my hands on A4 or even larger.
Do you know what software they use? Do they just use Word or OpenOffice.org? I ask, because I like making OpenOffice.org templates, and would be willing to help them with a template. I should probably phone around and ask for myself.
No, they won't send a coupon. They'll send a small message saying, "For a free coupon, go to http://coupons.com/default?adsf:3987w3rklxcvjhflk. You can print it out and share it with your friends.".
For the American and Canadian audience, they'll send it on A4, so that the extra few millimeters will force another black page out. The page should be written in HTML with a whole bunch of BR elements, that force yet another page, and at the bottom of the "blank" page, it will say, "W3C HTML Compliant". So, let's tally it up. The coupon page, plus the "blank" page forces 2 pages out, and the A4 sizing will double that, bringing us to 4 glorious pages for a 10 word coupon, that didn't even need to exist in the first place.
Maybe we can send them another ad, encouraging them to buy hole punches, paper clips and binders, to store their coupons. Maybe we could encourage them to buy highlighters, so that they make each coupon easier for themselves to read that 1 sentence. Maybe the highlighters can come without caps, so that they dry out faster.
I could go on for days. I'm surprised that HP isn't beating down my doors.
On an unrelated note, if they are going to print out test pages, then they might as well print out coupons.
Hmm, I don't know. It still seems expensive. Does it come with a laundry machine?
Yep. I actually feel belittled. Essentially, they believe that I'm dumb enough to fall for it. 1 day, I might start clicking on ads, just to make them pay for it. It'll waste my time more than their time, though.
They are both inaccurate.
When it comes to saving money to get out of the dumps of life, I agree with you. The poor suffer so much due to their own mismanagement.
A free market would require people and organizations to take responsibility over their actions.
The BP spill is a classic example of the tragedy of the commons. I don't know all the details of the spill, but the problem is definitely BP or 1 of the organizations that it works with. The government is partially responsible, because it didn't hold the participants responsible, but other than that, the government isn't at fault.
I'm all for more regulations or banning of off-shore drilling. That would be consistent with the free market.
Chaos, the commons, and Communism have more in common than you and others realize.
In the discussion above, there was mention of finding new jobs. It seems so consistent with the free market to just tell somebody to find another job. This is fine with basic unskilled labour, especially when there are competitive companies around. However, problems occur when jobs go overseas, and people have to get retrained. Another way of looking at it would be to ask, would any of us take those jobs, if we knew that it would take an immense amount of training, and we would lose our jobs in a few years, and our training would no longer be useful after? I doubt that we would take those jobs, because after all that effort, we would be just like unskilled labourers. The workers make a huge investment, and need time to retrain or find jobs again. Therefore it would be consistent with the free market to hold the companies responsible, as opposed to just telling the workers to find another job. We'd need some kind of rule that lets the company do what it wants, but still find a way to fulfill the needs of the workers. My suggestion is to slow the movement of jobs overseas, and put a freeze on hiring locally, thus giving the employee time to shift into a new career. A law requiring funding from the company for re-education [i.e. of the good kind, not the political kind :^)] would go a long ways to stabilizing the economy, without taking away the business initiative.
I'm very interested in what you have to say about what I've wrote. I believe that this type of mind set would be perfectly balanced. It wouldn't require government micromanagement, yet it wouldn't give free reign to companies.
Are you a gas station shill or something?
I went into our local gas station's bathroom, and did just that. I pushed the button and waited for so long that my hands were all dry, and still no bacon. That's false advertisement.
Note: the coupon will be white lettering on a black background and will probably take an entire 8x11 sheet of paper...
That's what I call masterful humour. I would have never thought of that in a million years, but going along that train of thought, I would make the printer try to print a 8.5" x 11.5" document on a 8.5" x 11" sheet of paper, thus, forcing out 2 pieces of paper due to a "bug". Of course, the second page should contain the exact same blank black background.
They'd do anything to compete with the US. It's frustrating.
It would be an interesting discussion to see what would happen.
In Canada, I would imagine that the banks would try to pin the responsibility on the small guy, but how could the bank prove that there was even a house there? Perhaps civic records? If the civic records could prove it, then the small guy could tell the bank to take the house back.
Ultimately, I blame the bank for accepting the loan, but not the responsibility. The small guy can't know that a hole would appear. If the small guy could know, then the bank could know also, and thus, give better value for the loan.
Well, obviously, many people refused to move. Therefore, unfortunately, there is always demand for the home.
That being said, it seems rather foolish to stay there, even though you're going to die, just to avoid a financial hit.
That being said, he did write, "if given the chance".
I personally don't know the answer, and can't be bothered to look it up. I'd be surprised, though to find out that they based it on news groups. News groups seem to be outdated technology to me. There'd be too much spam for it to be worth while.
Why do you feel that news groups are better than anything at all?
It's because there's nothing to see here. Just take a hint and move along.
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You are right. Many web sites use very cryptic URLs, so it's hard to check.
I blame big government colluding with the oil companies. Why would the government allow itself to pay for somebody else's mistake?
Thank you for looking it up and saying that you did. It never occurred to me that I should do it. It turned out to be very funny. I appreciate it.
I wish that somebody had told me this before. I wouldn't have guessed.
Thanks for spelling this out.
Wow. All I can say is "Wow.". I never bothered to look it up, because I've never heard the word until the last year or so. I thought that some idiot couldn't be bothered to learn English. Every time I hear/read that word, I feel like going into spasms, and scratching my skin off.
Only at this point in time I find out it's a legit. word? What the...?
Wow.
Thanks for looking it up. I would never have even considered looking it up, if it weren't for you. I really appreciate it.
Why would you want to "scratch that"? Your first post seemed to make sense; I hate the usage of "healthful", etc.