[SATLUG] Laser printers can pollute more than tobacco smoke

[Brad Knowles]

On 8/3/07, Robert J Hewitt wrote:

>  God watching TV ruins your eyes

Too much, yes.  All things in moderation.

>     playing Video Games makes you violent

Can, if you're pre-disposed that way.  But in that case pretty much 
anything might be likely to make you violent, not just video games.

>     sun bathing gives you cancer

Can, if you're pre-disposed.  But you need a certain amount of 
sunlight per day (without sunblock) to get proper vitamin D 
absorption into the body.

>     junk food gives you diabeties (and yes I am Diabetic)

Not just junk food.  Junk food that is high in simple carbohydrates, 
and especially things like high fructose corn syrup.

And yes, I'm a diabetic too.  I'm convinced that it was the 6-12 soft 
drinks per day that I used to drink (sweetened with high fructose 
corn syrup, of course).

Of course, it's the simple carbohydrates that are easiest and 
cheapest to produce, and are easiest and cheapest to produce in such 
a way that they have extended lifetimes on the shelf.  So, Corporate 
Amerika will push such products as much as they possibly can, and 
kill millions or billions of people worldwide, all in the name of 
lining their pockets.

>     Cars Pollute the air and kill the Ozone Layer

That's been known for years.  If you don't believe me, try putting 
your mouth up to your muffler and allow yourself to breathe only 
those fumes for a while.

If you live, you can tell us about the experience.

>     and if we don't change our ways the earth will either heat up and we
>  drown in floods of water from the Icecaps or we freeze in a new Ice
>  Age.

Both extremes are possible when you start screwing around with how 
nature is supposed to work.

>      It seems to me that the environmentalist nut jobs and the rest of
>  the tree hugging hippies want us to abandon everything and go back to
>  nature, who gives a flying F***.

If you don't care, then please F*** off and die, so that the rest of 
us who do care can actually try to do something to save the planet 
for our children and our grandchildren -- if any one left is capable 
of having any.

>                                    Sorry I just get tired of all the BS
>  out there strung on by the Liberal Media (Yes I am a Republican).

Oh, don't get me started on the media-by-Murdoch.

>                                                                 It's
>  bad enough I hear the garbage the Ecco Nuts dump into the world from
>  Cheryl Crow wanting to limit or force me to reuse toilet Paper to the
>  polluting Diesel disaster boats Green Peace use to protest everything
>  from Fishing to Oil Drilling and even the Vegan twits who won't have sex
>  with us meat eaters is just going too far.

Boo hoo.  You can't buy all the gasoline you want and drown the world 
in your fumes, because you haven't stolen enough money from the rest 
of the world in order to pay for it all.  Boo hoo.

>                                              Now they have infiltrated
>  this place with talks of Printer Pollution by toner.  DO you see what is
>  happening to the world, they make us fear everything yet they do and use
>  the same things we do.

The real terrorists here are the government.  Specifically, the 
Republican controlled government that need to keep the sheeple in a 
constant state of terror so that they can continue to put billions 
and billions of dollars into the pockets of their various friends, 
such as the guys at Halliburton who so very conveniently decided that 
they had to move their corporate HQ to Dubai, so that they can escape 
corporate taxes.

Talk about un-American.

>      What I am getting at is this has nothing to really do with Linux so
>  why do we discuss it here, this is just my opinion and if I offend I
>  apologize but do we really need to keep talking about printer pollution
>  to death

Black lung is a very serious disease.  So is lung cancer.  My mom was 
diagnosed last year with one of the most aggressive forms of lung 
cancer, one that metastasizes quickly and usually isn't detected 
until it's already invaded the brain and you've got just a few weeks 
left to live.

So unless you or one of your immediate family is a terminal lung 
cancer patient (in Stage Four, the final stage), I don't ever want to 
hear any more f***ing crap whatsoever from you regarding any subject 
related to Black Lung or Lung Cancer.


If you've got strong political views, either keep them to yourself, 
or be prepared for the blood bath to follow.

-- 
Brad Knowles <brad at shub-internet.org>, Consultant & Author
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