#4456827 - 01/10/19 11:09 PM
Re: Is the printed page dying?
[Re: MarkG]
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Blade_RJ
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Think of the enviroment ! sure, everything now is PDFs or "can we switch your billings to your mailing system its easier, faster, better blah blah" companies are really saving on print, kids don't print research anymore,they just screen grab or take a photo of their google search......the only place printing office material really survive is academics,mostly politics and laywering.
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#4456828 - 01/10/19 11:34 PM
Re: Is the printed page dying?
[Re: MarkG]
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LB4LB
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It sure seems to be dying a quick death. Everything from bank and Visa statements to monthly bills is done online. People don't even use printed sporting/entertainment tickets now. I am not even sure my home printer still works. I can't remember the last thing I printed.
Side note, have you ever smelled a paper mill ? They are pretty nasty.
Last edited by LB4LB; 01/10/19 11:34 PM.
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#4456831 - 01/10/19 11:40 PM
Re: Is the printed page dying?
[Re: PanzerMeyer]
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letterboy1
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Companies like Georgia Pacific can survive but they will need to diversify into making other products and they need to do this quickly.
They might have a chance if they diversify into porn.
The issue is not p*ssy. The issue is monkey.
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#4456837 - 01/10/19 11:57 PM
Re: Is the printed page dying?
[Re: MarkG]
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Blade_RJ
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This paper mill also makes toilet paper and paper towels which hasn't been replaced by digital media yet. Anyway, bullet dodged...for now, wife is one of the 300 staying. Kind of a wakeup call for me, though. Nothing is ever certain. just wait till they get air blowers on phones
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#4456838 - 01/11/19 12:00 AM
Re: Is the printed page dying?
[Re: MarkG]
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PanzerMeyer
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Anyway, bullet dodged...for now, wife is one of the 300 staying. Kind of a wakeup call for me, though. Nothing is ever certain.
I’m glad to hear about your wife! And you are correct, nothing is certain and no one is irreplaceable unless you happen to be someone like Lebron James, Jeff Bezos or Dwayne Johnson.
“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
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#4456866 - 01/11/19 04:48 AM
Re: Is the printed page dying?
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MarkG
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I hope it works out well for your wife. I know all too well how stressful these situations can be. I tapped danced through that minefield my whole adult working life. Thanks. Oh boy, me and jobs...showing up for work one Monday morning in Atlanta. The entire office had been packed up over the weekend and moved to Nebraska. Several of us were walking around aimlessly in a gutted office wondering what had happened. Owner ended up in prison. Wife was recruited by GP on the LSU campus Spring of '89, started working at their Atlanta HQ that Summer. So she's been with them for a long time, by far the most stable part of our lives together over the decades.
The rusty wire that holds the cork that keeps the anger in Gives way and suddenly it’s day again The sun is in the east Even though the day is done Two suns in the sunset, hmph Could be the human race is run
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#4456873 - 01/11/19 05:58 AM
Re: Is the printed page dying?
[Re: MarkG]
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I prefer books. I still have a large library of a couple hundred books, but I was sad when I went from 5000 books to 200 or so books. I read like a machine, but for the last few years I have slowed down to read to enjoy instead of just cranking through it so I can learn things.
Keep Calm and Check CanopyThere are no ex-paratroopers, only ones off jump statusLearn Economics at: http://www.mises.orgCarthago delenda est
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#4456887 - 01/11/19 11:42 AM
Re: Is the printed page dying?
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PanzerMeyer
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Oh boy, me and jobs...showing up for work one Monday morning in Atlanta. The entire office had been packed up over the weekend and moved to Nebraska. Several of us were walking around aimlessly in a gutted office wondering what had happened. . That must have been a totally surreal feeling to experience that. It reminds me of that live news video footage from 2000 where you saw the Enron employees leaving the corporate building in long lines while carrying boxes with their personal things.
“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
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#4456899 - 01/11/19 02:25 PM
Re: Is the printed page dying?
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I prefer reading actual books to Kindle/iPad or whatever digital screen thingy. As for magazines, those as well, but I switched to a digital subscription of FlyPast magazine simply because years of issues took up huge amounts of space. Now I download the new issue every month, and have access to all of them on my iPad, so I can read them on long flights. I couldn’t imagine reading a 500-page book on a screen, though. There’s just something about the tactility of a book in your hand, and I find the constant background light from a screen tiring.
In all my years I've never seen the like. It has to be more than a hundred sea miles and he brings us up on his tail. That's seamanship, Mr. Pullings. My God, that's seamanship!
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