JFlah's Blunders

  You know... I never really gave those environmental activists much thought, but I ran across something today that made me stop and think. Did you know that the environmental groups push a Marxist agenda (like socialism where the government owns all natural resources and the people own nothing - all resources are shared) and believe that the human race is the number one threat to the world today? It blows my mind. I mean, let's put the Marxist stuff aside and just look at the whole "humans are the enemy" thing. Are they serious? Apparently so. With the human population world wide set to implode (see This 2003 Article , or just do a Google search on "population implosion" to get some info) instead of doing what crazy Ehrlich said it would in his book "The Population Bomb" he wrote in the 60s, you'd think they'd back off of all that hype - because that's what it is. It can't be called "truth" by any standard - it's scare-t...

As a designer, working with Xerox work stations have been very difficult. Today when I opened the dialog box I noticed that it called itself a "Malfunction System". Isn't that funny? That Xerox is so aware that their machines malfunction that they've called it a malfunction system? Anyway, I told the office administrator that it would be better to go with a different brand machine when he renewed the lease last year. This "new" Xerox printer has more glitches and issues than the last one and the user interface is less user-friendly. It's as if we've stepped back in time. I'd much have preferred to try a Ricoh, a HP, or a Minolta, or just about any other brand print station. Not only are those machines more user friendly (at least in my experience they have been), the customer service is faster and easier to contact - there isn't so much red tape. With Xerox, you've got to call their 800 number, talk with someone who doesn...