🚀 go-pugleaf

If anyone else were to quote one of my postings from way back in January 
of this year, I might be flattered.

However, when "Mapi" goes about trolling for something to use as fuel 
for his typical neo-con, inflammatory rhetoric and snags one of my "just 
in passing" commentaries, it's just embarrassing and turns my stomach.

What Moore's law failed to mention is that the same multiplier factors 
that allow for invention and progress in electronics, unfortunately also 
allows for nut cases like Mapi to have access to a wider audience to 
annoy with his racist, bigoted rants and slurs.

Yeap, technology is a double edged sword. But humans are evolving beyond 
the goo he's still stuck in.  If you happen to notice him while walking 
past a tar pit, just wave as he sinks into the muck.

Art

Mapanari wrote:

> Arthur Entlich <artistic@telus.net> wrotenews:WANHd.11656$u_1.10770
> @edtnps91:
> 
> 
>>I have been working on several printing project the last week using 
>>several different programs, including Photoshop, Corel Draw, 
>>WordPerfect, and so on.
>>
>>During a printing of a WordPerfect document, something apparently 
>>crashed in the print driver.  What came out of my printer (in this case 
>>a rather old Epson SC850 running on plain paper at 720 dpi) appeared to 
>>be just a bunch of very fine dotted and dashed lines.
>>
>>I tried make some changes and printed another time, and the same problem 
>>developed although the spacing of these dots and dashes were a bit 
>>different.
>>
>>Fixing the problem required a reboot... no big deal, but later on that 
>>day, I was taking a much closer look at the pages with the dots and 
>>dashes, to try to determine if the problem was the Epson driver or the 
>>printer driver WordPerfect uses.
>>
>>Since I am rather nearsighted, I removed my glasses to look more closely 
>>at these very tiny dotted lines, and I thought I was imagining things, 
>>so I got my loupe out and looked again...
>>
>>Much to my amazement, I found when looking through the loupe, those dots 
>>and dashes became words, and the words we fully and quite easily 
>>readable.  Looking at what happened to the file I printed, I realized 
>>something had set the aril font to 2 point size.   Keep in mind this is 
>>on plain bond paper, using the plain paper driver setting at 720 dpi on 
>>a printer that's about seven years old...
>>
>>And people tell me I should throw this printer OUT because it isn't fast 
>>as the new ones, or because the current drivers don't support the latest 
>>OS, or because they now have 6, 7, 8 color printers?
>>
>>This technology is amazing.  To think this printer using just small dots 
>>could print microprinting that was fully readable under magnification, 
>>says a lot about how advanced these printers were even seven years ago.
>>
>>Now I know if I ever get really tight on paper, I can print at 2 point 
>>and still decipher it later ;-)
>>
>>But in all seriousness, it was quite unexpected.  Now, I guess I'll have 
>>to try 1 point type with 1440 dpi on proper inkjet paper and see what 
>>happens.
>>
>>
>>Art
>>
>>
> 
> 
> I think we all forget the power of capitalism, greed and plain old yankee 
> inguinuity.
> 
> Moore's law and it's attendant technological counterparts have demonstrated 
> time and time again that given freedom, capitalism, low taxes and little 
> regulation mankind moves at light speed.
> 
> Put a technology under government control, bueracracy and unions, with no 
> rewards for good work, and you get NASA and we still haven't put a man on 
> mars.
> 
> If the NASA program had moved as fast and been free and capitalistic as the 
> computer industry, we'd all be on that Pan Am clipper Starships watching 
> the moons of Venus rotate in our comfy longe chairs on the observation deck 
> before the FTL drive kicks in and takes us to the beaches on Antaries 
> Prime.
> 
> Halfway through the voyage, of course, a muslim fundamentlist bomb would 
> have exploded, thousands of sobbing liberals back on earth would have 
> castigated President Teddy Kennedy for not doing enough for safety and 
> Space Ship Ambulance chasers would be suing the Pan Am company into 
> bankruptcy....and so it goes and nothing really changes.
> 
> Oh, and just before they all implode into space and die quick decompression 
> deaths, some of the passengers would be using Epson Dot 9 pin Matrix 
> printers in the Osborn Server room to print out their reports.
> 
> Hey!  I didn't say in my future everything went the same way, did I?
> 
> mapi