They clearly don't have a clue.But don't expect that to keep them from billing this poor guy for a consult.
Purchasing the larger (and more expensive) ink cartridges for your printer/scanner/fax increases tenfold the chances that the machine will FAIL even before you insert those cartridges.
My printer has been making ugly noises and often aborting print jobs for the last few weeks so I wasn’t surprised this morning when it sounded like a manual transmission with extra parts thrown in amongst the gears. It would load the first couple of inches of a sheet and then grind horribly before giving me a “Print job terminated” message. I did that a half dozen times before I gave up and noted time of death.
I am now the owner of a new HP All-In-One machine that cost $150 ($50 less than the now-deceased HP) and comes with a touch screen for controls, is both Blue Tooth and Wi-Fi enabled and has its own photo paper tray - should I ever decide to print a photo (something I’ve done twice in my life). The ink cartridges for this black beauty (there are five of them) require financing.
I’m still working through the set-up process. If this end-user can figure out either the wi-fi or Blue Tooth features I’ll be able to print from the comfort of our air conditioned house instead of going into the office/sewing room/laundry room where most months of the year the temp is in the triple digits.
Here’s an interesting news item that caught my eye:
VW Bus recovered 35 years later
My brain told me to take the day off after yesterday’s triple workout so my muscles can recover. But my body is used to daily exercise and is antsy to get some sort of workout.
Two weeks before my first marathon, when I was running upward of 70 miles every week with a 20-mile run on Saturdays, I was diagnosed with a stress fracture in my left tibia. The dr. told me to stop running immediately and not start again for six weeks. For the next two weeks I drove Pam crazy. With no place to use all that energy each day I was a bundle of nerves.
Still haven’t figured out where to put the extra five pounds of potatoes. But the sermon is written. Saturdays are for percolation.
All faith roads do not lead to God. There is one name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved (Acts 4:12). Jesus Christ is the way, the truth and the life, and no one comes to the father except through him (Jn 14:6). Accordingly, Islam is a false system that offers a counterfeit hope and is opposed to the only means of salvation - faith in God’s Son, Jesus Christ.
That said, followers of Islam are loved by God and are equal recipients of his saving grace when they place their faith in Christ. They are not the enemy. They should be shown all the love and grace that we have received. It is our duty before God to reflect his love for them.
Thus, we have to be very careful about what we say (or write) in the aftermath of an event like the killings at Fort Hood Thursday. Muslims in the U.S. are understandably afraid of a backlash against them, even in an era of unprecedented political correctness that extends special consideration to anything not “Christian.”
But at some point, even while we extend every grace and courtesy to Muslims, don’t we have to question the underpinnings of a system that produces this much hatred and violence against innocent civilians? Muslims insist their religion is not violent, does not teach violence. Setting aside passages in the Quran to the contrary (infidels must be wiped out), Islam clearly fosters a particularly cruel kind of violence.
Left to its own resources Islam is its own worst enemy if the system hopes to spread beyond a particular ethnic group. The world community won’t long abide a religion that kills this many non-combatants. And that seems to be instructive about how we can spread the gospel of God’s love and provision, gain a hearing in the world’s marketplace.
My printer has been making ugly noises and often aborting print jobs for the last few weeks so I wasn’t surprised this morning when it sounded like a manual transmission with extra parts thrown in amongst the gears. It would load the first couple of inches of a sheet and then grind horribly before giving me a “Print job terminated” message. I did that a half dozen times before I gave up and noted time of death.
I am now the owner of a new HP All-In-One machine that cost $150 ($50 less than the now-deceased HP) and comes with a touch screen for controls, is both Blue Tooth and Wi-Fi enabled and has its own photo paper tray - should I ever decide to print a photo (something I’ve done twice in my life). The ink cartridges for this black beauty (there are five of them) require financing.
I’m still working through the set-up process. If this end-user can figure out either the wi-fi or Blue Tooth features I’ll be able to print from the comfort of our air conditioned house instead of going into the office/sewing room/laundry room where most months of the year the temp is in the triple digits.
Here’s an interesting news item that caught my eye:
VW Bus recovered 35 years later
My brain told me to take the day off after yesterday’s triple workout so my muscles can recover. But my body is used to daily exercise and is antsy to get some sort of workout.
Two weeks before my first marathon, when I was running upward of 70 miles every week with a 20-mile run on Saturdays, I was diagnosed with a stress fracture in my left tibia. The dr. told me to stop running immediately and not start again for six weeks. For the next two weeks I drove Pam crazy. With no place to use all that energy each day I was a bundle of nerves.
Still haven’t figured out where to put the extra five pounds of potatoes. But the sermon is written. Saturdays are for percolation.
All faith roads do not lead to God. There is one name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved (Acts 4:12). Jesus Christ is the way, the truth and the life, and no one comes to the father except through him (Jn 14:6). Accordingly, Islam is a false system that offers a counterfeit hope and is opposed to the only means of salvation - faith in God’s Son, Jesus Christ.
That said, followers of Islam are loved by God and are equal recipients of his saving grace when they place their faith in Christ. They are not the enemy. They should be shown all the love and grace that we have received. It is our duty before God to reflect his love for them.
Thus, we have to be very careful about what we say (or write) in the aftermath of an event like the killings at Fort Hood Thursday. Muslims in the U.S. are understandably afraid of a backlash against them, even in an era of unprecedented political correctness that extends special consideration to anything not “Christian.”
But at some point, even while we extend every grace and courtesy to Muslims, don’t we have to question the underpinnings of a system that produces this much hatred and violence against innocent civilians? Muslims insist their religion is not violent, does not teach violence. Setting aside passages in the Quran to the contrary (infidels must be wiped out), Islam clearly fosters a particularly cruel kind of violence.
Left to its own resources Islam is its own worst enemy if the system hopes to spread beyond a particular ethnic group. The world community won’t long abide a religion that kills this many non-combatants. And that seems to be instructive about how we can spread the gospel of God’s love and provision, gain a hearing in the world’s marketplace.
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I'm really glad the guy with his tongue in his nose has scrolled down a little.
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