Continue to move production out of China. It will cripple their economy.

All over the city when they hear a boom, or see a flash of light in the sky, driving over there, then they are gone. Plus the drone can pinpoint with GPS where it is.

If these "green energy" things are suppose to be THAT good, let them stand on their own without the tax credits. It's called the free market!

Oh come on.

We've been saying "Thanks, Biden!" for years as a joke, and you blue haired legbeards always got riled up with your "source????" and "citation needed???" cries.

(FWIW I don't support Trump and have never voted Republican).

I remember when the "paperwork reduction act" came along in the 90's. People told me I better find another line of work since copiers wouldn't be around much longer. (tech, not sales). Every time a new government rule/law comes along, it "required" more paperwork. Now, all the machines are pretty much multifunction devices. Print, copy, scan, fax, email. Mechanically, they are pretty stable, but it's the SOFTWARE that can drive you nuts. The part that ticks me off about this industry is the RIPOFF of toner/ink. Black toner/ink is one price, but the color is 3-4-5 times more expensive. IT'S THE SAME! Just the pigment is different. When I'm teaching new techs in class, just to screw with them I will switch around say magenta & yellow when they are on a break. When they come back, and make a color copy, the look on their faces is priceless! In troubleshooting, it's common to swap components from one color to another to see if the problem follows the color or stays. If the toner wasn't the same, it wouldn't work. Also, if it were different, the DRUMS would be different for each color. Same with the carrier/developer. If you are 100 miles from the office, on a Friday and the customer really really needs the machine, you need one color of carrier/developer but only have a different color, You install it, run enough copies to run out the wrong color in the carrier (carrier is the "super tiny iron pellets that the toner sticks to) and then supply the correct toner, recalibrate and you are good to go. Yeah, it's a ripoff, but it is what it is.

Without cash, the GOVERNMENT can turn your money on or off with the flick of a switch. Prevent you from purchasing something, if your "health report" shows your BMI is too high after your last government provided "free healthcare" checkup, social media post. Don't think so? Just think about the POWER government would have, if EVERY transaction you make, can be traced!

This is an old article. https://w2.eff.org/Privacy/pri... With the hardware/firmware of most copiers/printers these days I don't know if they all still do it. Most of the machines we sell/service, will print blank if you try to print "money" or scan money. You "can" on some, scan if it is over 150% or less than 75% of the original size. I remember back in the late 90's we had a machine at a local police department and their undercover officers printed copies of the money for a drug bust and it locked up the machine. A "higher up" from the manufacturer and to come with a "secret" file to unlock the machine so it would function. We had a good laugh over that one.

The idea of fossil fuel, is because it gives the impression that it is finite. The gas you put in your vehicle isn't made from the dead flesh & bones of dinosaurs. Petroleum, natural gas and coal come from biomass, primarily from plankton and decaying marine organisms, and “single-celled bacteria” that “evolved in the Earth’s oceans about three billion years ago.” Over millions of years, layers of sediment built up, along with plants (plankton and algae) and bacteria. Heat and pressure began to rise. The degree of heat and the amount of pressure, along with the type of biomass, determine if the material becomes petroleum or natural gas. Over the course of millions of years, “members of these massive colonies died off” and “sank to the bottom of the sea and were gradually covered by accumulating sediment,” writes Strauss. "Over millions of years, these layers of sediment grew heavier and heavier until the dead bacteria trapped below were ‘cooked’ by the pressure and temperature into a stew of liquid hydrocarbons.”

This is such cry-baby nonsense.

NONSENSE.

Since 2008, I have personally mentored dozens of young dudes (at no cost whatsoever, just because that's what successful people do).

I have helped poor dudes in bad neighborhoods buck up, get some side hustles, stack cash, and buy property.

You fucked yourself because you refuse to actually do someone to buy property. I don't know ANYONE, starting with even zero money, who couldn't find a nice home in just 2-3 years of saving money properly -- except the lepers in California, and fuck them anyway.

I always use inkjet for photos. LIke you said, the toner just doesn't pop. I believe it's more because the ink "sits" on the paper, but with toner, it is melted into the paper during fusing. But I have seen the higher end production Xerox boxes (V-280's) produce pretty good photo quality on the right paper, but LOL, those machines when configured are up to 20 feet long with all the add on do-dads, plus requiring 220 V along with 4-5 or more 110 V depending on the add on options. It's one of the benefits to being in the printer/copier business (service side). I don't have a home printer. On the rare times I need to print something, I've got anything I want at my fingertips.

We sell HP, Brother, Xerox, Toshiba, Epson (along with KIP wide format) Stay AWAY from the smaller Xerox C-405's if you find one. The 415's are better. But the one's we seem to have the LEAST amount of trouble are the Brothers. I don't know what your price range is, but these are great! MFCL3780CDW Full color, also single scan duplex, 31ppm. Gigabit Ethernet, dual band wireless. I try to get people to shy away from inkjet in a home environment unless they use them daily. The ink heads just plug up too often.

I would rather let Nazis speak and elect to block them myself than have an entire moderation team block everyone they disagree with.

Reddit is equally a shithole.

Heck. /. used to have a good libertarian minority and today it's nerds defending their trans kids here.

Fossil fuels. It's not "old dinosaurs. Petroleum, natural gas and coal come from biomass, primarily from plankton and decaying marine organisms, and “single-celled bacteria”

Considering I see people daily with the dreaded PIHS (phone in hand syndrome), perhaps they could grow a third arm & hand so they can still have two arms/hands free to drive their car and other things. Just think! It would really spark the fashion industry LOL.

LMAO! Yeah, and with 3,593 back doors to the CCP.