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Maggie’s Motivational Pic Thread v2.0 - - New Rules - See Post #1


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Interesting history

the fall of a global superpower



Born in 1280, Emperor Mansa Musa I was the ruler of the Mali Empire, which made up Timbuktu, Ghana and Mali in West Africa. In the 14th century Musa was worth the equivalent of $400 billion today.

Musa’s wealth came mainly from his country being the supplier of half of the world’s salt, and gold. He also invested in architecture and education, leaving behind an intellectual and economic awareness that established Mali as a global superpower and continue well into the Middle Ages.
 
This could just as well be HP printers. I bought some non-HP ink for my 5-yo printer and I had hell to pay to get HP to let me print with my own fucking printer because I didn’t pay 5 times as much for their brand. Computer printers are one of the biggest fucking scams foisted on the digital public. $25-30 for 1/2 oz. of ink? Seriously? Is it made from the testicles of rare Bigfoot progeny?
 
This could just as well be HP printers. I bought some non-HP ink for my 5-yo printer and I had hell to pay to get HP to let me print with my own fucking printer because I didn’t pay 5 times as much for their brand. Computer printers are one of the biggest fucking scams foisted on the digital public. $25-30 for 1/2 oz. of ink? Seriously? Is it made from the testicles of rare Bigfoot progeny?
I work at HP. It's just like the razor blade scam. They make most of their money from ink. You should see what they have coming down the pipe. Printers that connect to the cloud to get authorization to print pages.
 
Interesting history

the fall of a global superpower



Born in 1280, Emperor Mansa Musa I was the ruler of the Mali Empire, which made up Timbuktu, Ghana and Mali in West Africa. In the 14th century Musa was worth the equivalent of $400 billion today.

Musa’s wealth came mainly from his country being the supplier of half of the world’s salt, and gold. He also invested in architecture and education, leaving behind an intellectual and economic awareness that established Mali as a global superpower and continue well into the Middle Ages.

So Wakanda isn't the first superpower state on the African continent? Who knew!
 
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I work at HP. It's just like the razor blade scam. They make most of their money from ink. You should see what they have coming down the pipe. Printers that connect to the cloud to get authorization to print pages.

That's good to know. Hey; do me a favor - pass along a message from... Well, most of the Western world, actually, to your R&D department, or whoever thought cloud-authorization for printing was/is a good idea - please offer our humble suggestion that they give themselves a chainsaw enema. Thanks.
 
That's good to know. Hey; do me a favor - pass along a message from... Well, most of the Western world, actually, to your R&D department, or whoever thought cloud-authorization for printing was/is a good idea - please offer our humble suggestion that they give themselves a chainsaw enema. Thanks.
Yeah. They don't listen to my peon ass. Most of those cloud models will be sold in Asia. I would never buy one.
 
This could just as well be HP printers. I bought some non-HP ink for my 5-yo printer and I had hell to pay to get HP to let me print with my own fucking printer because I didn’t pay 5 times as much for their brand. Computer printers are one of the biggest fucking scams foisted on the digital public. $25-30 for 1/2 oz. of ink? Seriously? Is it made from the testicles of rare Bigfoot progeny?
You need an HP Laserjet 5, I bought one in 1995 and it's a tank.
I get about 10 to 15 thousand copies out if a toner cartridge.

Ink jet different story
 
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