""There is a lot of anecdotal evidence out there, but it's not evidence at all," said Nance, a former Air Force and commercial pilot. "

Anecdotal evidence is the best kind of evidence so I've been told.

You can go back even further to the radio serials. The advertisers and companies had a really good quid pro quo system. The companies would sponsor the shows, or even write them in a lot of cases. You had quality entertainment from a variety of sources, and in exchange they pitched their add at the start and at the end of the show. If it was a longer episode, you might have an intermission where they pitch again. Everything was very subtle and in a lot of cases very tongue in cheek. IMO, it was a fair exchange.

We have sampling in literature already. It's called citation and quotation. Helene Hegemann took someone else's work and presented it as her own, which I find disingenuous. Had she come out when she released the book and said she "collaged" works for the book that would have been one thing. That concept would have made for an interesting critique on a different media for "mash-ups". I do not personally view what she did as mixing and expanding upon an idea in the same concept of a mashup because she lacked the openness to express what her intention was. pwnies really sums up my opinion, with an excellent point of reference (Girl Talk).

...might be to use your supplier/toner provider's recycling program and when the life cycle of the printer is up, to potentially switch to a solid ink printer instead.

I started to migrate the old company (80 offices) I worked for over to the Xerox Phaser series when we decommissioned old equipment or built a new office (the 7750, 85XX, and 88XX are the models I'm most familiar with). The toner is paraffin wax shaped blocks and dye. Almost next to no packaging and what is there is recyclable.

When we started experimenting with new printers (especially so with the solid ink), we borrowed a unit from the local distributor and tested it in our department for a week to make sure it would meet the basic requirements, then moved it to a more demanding group in the office to see if they approved. Our metric weighed in the factors of base cost of the printer, cost/page (which factors in supplies and average maintenance over a set lifetime), quality of print, efficiency of volumes of jobs, and other day to day tasks.

If anyone else want's to know more about our testing and long term use, let me know and I can give a more detailed breakdown.

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If your company is dead set on the soy toner, have your printer/toner supplier track down some samples to try out on a few printers and see how they work.

I had it nicely formatted and something was lost between the draft and posting *shrug*, the editing of language is just habit from other boards.

I remember this too. It was passed around last year because of how graphic the accident was, and as a cynical tale of poetic justice to the stereotypical spoiled daughter totaling daddy's Porsche (which is why it went viral, and with help from 'chan). The accident tore her family apart and everyone can sympathize with how much emotional trauma is and will be caused because of the accident. What limited a lot of the empathy from people was the fact that she was speeding in her dad's sports car and died a totally frivolous death. Sending her father crash site pictures with captions for ***** and giggles is so fundamentally flawed. * * * Anyone else read the part where they blamed the tumor on daughter doing coke? "It turned out to be benign, but 8-year-old Nikki had to undergo intensive radiation, and doctors told her parents the effects of that treatment on her young brain might show up someday--perhaps by causing changes in her judgment, or impulse control. Her family believes that's why, the summer before the accident, Nikki tried cocaine and ended up in the hospital in a cocaine-induced psychosis. She used cocaine again the night before the accident, her family says. Lesli and Christos discussed checking her into a hospital, but decided against it: she was to visit a psychiatrist the next day, a specialist on brain disorders. So they let her sleep it off, and the next day, the three of them ate lunch together."

Having had to go this exact route, I started to take business analysis courses through a local college to compliment the IT knowledge and work through two fields. An excellent resource books is PMBOK http://www.amazon.ca/Guide-Project-Management-Body-Knowledge/dp/193069945X/ref=sr_1_1/190-4122478-2675606?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1240410769&sr=1-1. The book is really straight forward in general concepts and will give you a good fundamental understanding of project management. If you wish to follow through, there is a designation certification as well. A lot of project management just comes down to being really good at making flow charts and having a general concept of lengths of 'reasonable' work to complete projects. You have to be really detailed oriented and have good common sense.

So they tried once under a Republican body and then again under a Democratic one?