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The Bernanke Legacy: When Printer Ink Costs More Than Blood
What is more valuable than the life-giving properties of human blood? Why, in the new normal, it's the life-blood of the financial markets - printer ink!!
(h/t @DataIsAmazing)
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No blood for ink.
Soon it will cost more then a dollar to print a dollar.
Maybe print on smaller dollars. Or just one side. Advertisement on the other. Preparation-H, Turbo-Tax, etc...
Might have to go all digital and arrest anyone with BitCoin for counterfeiting fake digits...or...something.
I propose that the dollar be printed only on one side with George Washington and on the other side have paid advertising which will cover the cost of the printing.
The above picturegram is inaccurate because it depicts the cost of voluntarily given blood. The cost of blood shed in war is more expensive than any element known to man.
Over a thousand trilion dollars so far (inflation adjusted), according to the research published in a 1914 New York Times piece that also makes the following observation:
Brilliant deeds on the battlefield are done by the man who will take the greatest risks in support of an ideal; the man who will take the greatest risks is, ordinarily, the best of men. So these are least likely to escape. …
And thus does the killing of the best in war also kill “a certain portion of the incalculable social and educational effort of the ages.”
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/guest-post-end-history
offthebeach, just read your comment properly. I was half asleep but your post made real sense which is why I probably repeated it. My apologies for the plagiarism.
Never the less it's pretty clear that you can grow a stable company where the startup costs are nothing more than a knife and a empty bottle...
Where's 40 year old scotch?
In the blood. :D
Oh! You already want to expand the bIzz with harvesting of the parts!
you should IPO already man...
http://www.lifedynamics.com/abortion_information/baby_body_parts/
For adult parts you'll have to locate in India , China or perhaps in a Islamic country such as England , France or the Netherlands (you can collect from dead infidels). There are limited opportunities also in the United States ,, for things such as bone tissue which can be surrepticiously harvested by the funeral parlors... http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/27/AR200601...
Sudden Debt , love the name and the avatar ... I deal with the local blood cartel here in Central Florida ,, the executive floor of their building is exquisite , the CEO pulls down about %750k a year ... here's the scoop ..
Blood is mislabeled as a "human organ" so that it falls under the laws that make selling organs illegal ... this was done many decades ago to shut down competition and limit supply... by law blood banks can only offer token payment (and it's usually not in cash but a meal or a discount at a local store/cinema/restaurant) and they usually give nothing but a soda and some cookies... They effectively pay nothing for the blood ... however they do run a large battery of tests on it ... What they charge the hospitals for is for the testing ... which they mark up by at least 1000% .
Fun fact, ask your hospital what they pay for AB-.
If any aspiring politican wants to take a run at the Blood scam and lab testing animal rackets, I will bet a corn beef on rye operating costs of hospitals (and more beds) will free up overnight.
Doesn't surprise me, I've been told various stories of people buying new printers, only to throw the printer away as it comes with inks and it's cheaper than buying JUST the inks on their own.
Crazy.
DavidC
It's been that way for close to 15 years. Buy a printer with cartridge for $25. New ink cartridges $25. Basically makes the printer disposible. Insane.
Yeah, but now those assholes sell youthe printer with 1/4 filled cartridges.
Gotta love the 3D printing community, now building extruders to make their own filaments.
In order to incrase corporate profits, perhaps the big ones, like Xerox or Ricoh will manufacture new printers that use blood instead of ink......the supply will come from the left overs of the new health care system.......recycle...recycle....
It doesn't actually cost that much to produce printer ink, it's a "razors and blades" game. They give away the printers at cost or below to get the future revenue stream of the ink cartridges (which are obviously proprietary). What costs them pennies they sell for dollars.
This documentary on this subject is excellent:
http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/light-bulb-conspiracy/
indeed an excellent documentary, thank you!
Excellent documentary. Thanks for the link.
This is more HP's legacy than the Bernank's. He gets a pass this one time.
After switching from an HP to an Epson, could not agree with the infograph more.
I have an Epson (rx-640) and if there's anything about Epson is they're worse than anyone else: expensive inks and most of it can be wasted by the head "cleaning" each time you switch it on; add the ink that remains in the containers when the chip decides it's empty, and the cost is even higher than what you'd expect.
Also, you run out of 1 ink, and even if you don't need it (e.g.: bw printing), you can't print any more, and you can't scan either (you can using the OS, but not directly from the printer).
Rarely use it, anyway.
More expensive than Vodka? ... Well, you just wait and see.
Whoa !
Maybe a good news in disguise .
Will they stop printing ?
Not literally.
Who's the bigger liar: HP, when they claim hundreds of pages of printing per ink cartridge, or Obummer?
Obama.
HP only lies about capacity; our fearless leader lies about everything.
Everything else is based on the price of the two at the far right.
I've been using generic Chinese made printer cartridges and toner for all my printers for 10 years, over 400 of them, and 99% work fine. Before I buy a printer I check if genericcartridges are available on Ebay. I buy the new generic cartridges, I don't buy ink refill them myself. The ink costs $2 to $5 a cartridge (and Staples gives me $2 each to recycle them!) and the toner cartridges are about $13 each. F*ck full price ink!
Talking about corruption:
New Snowden revelations show that diplomats' hotel bookings being tracked by GCHQ
A programme devised by British intelligence allowed analysts to monitor the bookings of foreign diplomats at 350 top hotels across the world, according to documents leaked by the whistleblower Edward Snowden.
The German news magazine Der Spiegel reported on Sunday that the automated system alerted the UK's eavesdropping centre, GCHQ, to the timings and locations of diplomats' travel arrangements.
The papers make clear that these details allowed the "technical operations community" to make necessary preparations before the visits, the magazine said, suggesting that the diplomats' rooms would be monitored or bugged.
The GCHQ programme, called Royal Concierge, was first trialled in 2010 and has been in operation since then, the papers reveal.
The programme worked by intercepting reservation confirmations when they were sent to government addresses from any of the 350 monitored hotels, said Spiegel online.
Separate documents seen by Spiegel listed the potential capabilities for monitoring a hotel room, which included wiretapping the telephone and fax machine as well as monitoring computers hooked up to the hotel network.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/17/edward-snowden-diplomats-hotel-bookings-documents
Remember that scene in Die Another Day where Mr.Bond goes into the hotel and they show him to a special suite ? And after seeing the old 'incriminating honeypot' come up he just shoots out the 1-way window ?
Yeah, this is old news.
The new game is when you know your room is bugged by simply running a multimeter over the wall sockets & tv jacks what sort of zany shit you can get them to believe. The Tight Gas play in the pea soup basin is a old classic. Old masters allegedly could have half of their trip files filled with random shit that flew just close enough to the bullshit detector that the junior staff would brief it as actionable pickups but when that report went back to Directorate or station head whole internships would be shitcanned.
Why only HP, there others such as Brother, DULL and many more?
What about toner?
Printer ink was always a ripoff. I haven't owned a printer for years.
When you start to get letters from the government printed in red I would start to worry.
Go long water.
Unfortunately in a trauma situation demand for blood can often be quite high. One unit of blood is about 500ml and I've crossmatched up to 65 to save one person's life who was actively bleeding. 20 years ago a unit of blood cost us $185 which included all the testing to guarantee its safety so 0.40/ml seems a bit low for today's numbers. When you run out of printer ink, it is an irritation. When you run out of blood (which has happened to me) someone dies.
Miffed;-)
I had 3 nose-bleeds in 2 days and I was down about a litre. Because I was so white and had a BP of something over 60 they moved me to the front of the line at ER. They told me to stop picking my nose then they saved my life.
3D printing in color will save us all as the new innovation that will revolutionize productivity ... (sarc, just in case your actually believe the hype)
A kilo of plastic goes for about $50. The things you print (the ones that don't end up in a trash bin), end up costing more than lego bricks.
We all pay in blood for the profligate use of ink.
Maybe wake up one morning to the so- called "bank holiday".You cannot access your bank for cash.You have one week to exchange the old money for the new money at any bank.All the counterfeit money worldwide disappears because they can't hand it in and you know all those hundreds of billions of dollars floating around in the hands of big drug operatives in order to do huge dope deals?Let's see them hand all that cash in.Can't happen you say?I say it will as a step towards the reset.
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