Blazor

[Blazor]

I grew in my father's print shop, just as he grew up in his.  In the late 80s, I was with a suburban newsgroup that put out five daily newspapers.  I was very proud of creating the very first digitally created color weather map that ran on the back page of the A section across all five papers.  I think that was the year I got a beta version of Photoshop 1 to play with.

I lived with my great grandparents til I was 5, my great grandpa had a printing press in the basement and printed for the church mostly. He had a line-o-type, so he used the lead type. I really miss the way that type of printing feels on the paper, it indents it.

Digital wise, I got in during Creative Suite 2 in 2004. But I also had a lot of art experience from school, but it wasn't digital.

[Reggie Essent]

Nah, they don't have a clue about margins and bleeds and crop marks and shit. 100s upon 100s of times I've explained it to these noobs, and most will keep coming back still frickin' clueless! Like "wheres the bleed bitch! I've told you and told you!" lol.

They don't know web is RGB and 72dpi, while newspaper is usually grayscale and 150 dpi, and magazine and such is CMYK and 300 dpi. Most are designing in web mode.

I worked at a print shop, I know all about CMYK plates for the press. There at the end, we were going towards digital printing, which is pretty much just big ass copiers.

I plan on learning more fiddle tunes over the Winter, that's what I lack, a good amount of tunes I can jus kick off. I know several, and can play along a bunch with other folks, I need to learn more I can do solo. Btw, I've been gifted a mandolin, and inherited a banjo too. The mandolin I've fixed up, its good to go, but the banjo needs a lot of work before its playable.

I want to pluck on a banjo, so I might just spring for one.  Got nothing much else to do but work shit, and I do need to turn my guitar over to a luthier I know for a while for a strut adjustment and a nice restring, so I might just buy one to pluck on while my git is gone.  I usually change my strings myself, but I need the neck tweaked and I don't want to fuck it up by trying to adjust it myself  - hope the guy I'm thinking of is still in business, otherwise I might have to risk fucking it up.

Oh, and the print shit.  It is an increasingly narrowing road, no doubt, but there will always be a market need for actual printed materials. It's just a matter of being in position to benefit from the wealth stream created by the production of those printed materials.

Sounds like you're close to one of those streams now.  I have benefited from such a stream myself, and still ride the wave of that stream like a surfer trying to ride a wave all the way to shore.

Life happens.

[Lab Flaker]

I want to pluck on a banjo, so I might just spring for one.  Got nothing much else to do but work shit, and I do need to turn my guitar over to a luthier I know for a while for a strut adjustment and a nice restring, so I might just buy one to pluck on while my git is gone.  I usually change my strings myself, but I need the neck tweaked and I don't want to fuck it up by trying to adjust it myself  - hope the guy I'm thinking of is still in business, otherwise I might have to risk fucking it up.

Oh, and the print shit.  It is an increasingly narrowing road, no doubt, but there will always be a market need for actual printed materials. It's just a matter of being in position to benefit from the wealth stream created by the production of those printed materials.

Sounds like you're close to one of those streams now.  I have benefited from such a stream myself, and still ride the wave of that stream like a surfer trying to ride a wave all the way to shore.

Life happens.

My wife used to work for Roland. Apparently they have one of the best printers in the world. About seven years ago a group of bikers bought a printing machine for just over 100K...cash. And then bought another one about a month later with counterfeit $50.00 notes...lol. They went on to buy another machine with more counterfeit money printed off the machine, but they were declined. Federal police were involved in the whole scam. There's still the odd note that one sees still to this day.

It was the colour tints and the plastic material purchased that tipped off the feds.

[Blazor]

I want to pluck on a banjo, so I might just spring for one.  Got nothing much else to do but work shit, and I do need to turn my guitar over to a luthier I know for a while for a strut adjustment and a nice restring, so I might just buy one to pluck on while my git is gone.  I usually change my strings myself, but I need the neck tweaked and I don't want to fuck it up by trying to adjust it myself  - hope the guy I'm thinking of is still in business, otherwise I might have to risk fucking it up.

Oh, and the print shit.  It is an increasingly narrowing road, no doubt, but there will always be a market need for actual printed materials. It's just a matter of being in position to benefit from the wealth stream created by the production of those printed materials.

Sounds like you're close to one of those streams now.  I have benefited from such a stream myself, and still ride the wave of that stream like a surfer trying to ride a wave all the way to shore.

Life happens.

Banjos ain't cheap btw lol. But you should go for it!

[Blazor]

My wife used to work for Roland. Apparently they have one of the best printers in the world. About seven years ago a group of bikers bought a printing machine for just over 100K...cash. And then bought another one about a month later with counterfeit $50.00 notes...lol. They went on to buy another machine with more counterfeit money printed off the machine, but they were declined. Federal police were involved in the whole scam. There's still the odd note that one sees still to this day.

It was the colour tints and the plastic material purchased that tipped off the feds.

Lol, the digital press's today wont allow counterfeit lol, it prints a yellow dot pattern that is naked to the eye, but shows up when they use that marker at the store.

[Lab Flaker]

Lol, the digital press's today wont allow counterfeit lol, it prints a yellow dot pattern that is naked to the eye, but shows up when they use that marker at the store.

Did you hear of that counterfeit story though? If you rubbed the note hard, the colour would come off.

[Blazor]

Did you hear of that counterfeit story though? If you rubbed the note hard, the colour would come off.

Nah didn't hear it. Believe it though.

[Lab Flaker]

Nah didn't hear it. Believe it though.

We have these biker gangs that do stupid shit. A lot of Lebanese involved.

[Dove]

Everyone has their opinion, I can respect your opinion without going crazy lol, but here is how I feel....

1) having unwanted kids starts at sex, if you don't want them, you take measures. In todays world there are several ways to do that. The Woman can be responsible and take birth control (I don't like a Lady to take it, bad chemicals), or any of the other methods available. Or the Man can be responsible, and use a condom, spermicide, or even simply pull out (my preferred method). Or simply neither one have sex, if you are not prepared for the consequences. Even if the Man cums in her, there is even a Plan B pill to take the next day.

2) say pregnancy occurs, the decision will need to be made ASAP on keeping the child or not. Abortions beyond 2-3 months should be criminal. I think Dove shared a video once, of a child being aborted, while using some type of imagery enhancing device (was better than a sonogram), and it showed the child twisting and scared for its life when the mutilation started. It was awful, you saw a child fighting for its life!

3) you can call a child whatever term you want while its still in the womb, but in the eyes of the Lord, it is still a child. To murder that child goes against God's will, and you are instead making a sacrifice to Moloch, which is evil.

4) I can understand when it is something necessary, like a life threatening situation, or after being raped by a dirty Jew, lulz.

5) hate to say it, but Men (and Women) suck these days. Seems a lot are after pussy/dick and not a relationship, thus resulting in WAY too many abortions. I'm one of those Men that you described in the upper 30%.

6) also, a lot of families that cant have kids, want kids. So if the pregnancy crosses the 2-3 month barrier, and they still don't want the child, they should give the child up for adoption... but by then, those that give up their child, are indeed very selfish, unless they simply cant take care of the child or something.



Those are most of my thoughts lol.

 That was called the "Silent Scream" and it was done by an abortionist who later became pro life and was bringing attention to what actually happens in an abortion.

 I wanted to address something Cascur said. 99 percent of the abortion issue is a game of semantics.

 Yes a developing human life is in the womb. It begins as a zygote. A human zygote is a human being at the developmental stage of human development called the zygote stage.

 Then when then human being become an embryo, we have a human being in the embryonic stage of human development.

 Then when the human being developes into the fetal stage, now we have a human being in the fetal stage of human development.

 Then when the human being is born we have a human being in the neonatal stage of human development.

 Then the human grows into an infant and we have a human being in the infant stage of human development.

 Take this through to toddler stage,than child stage, adolescent stage, adult stage and finally senior stage to end of life stage.

 "Baby" is not any medical ot scientific term. It's a term of endearment.

 Saying it's "not a baby yet" so it's okay to end that humans life is no different than saying well...that human isn't an adult yet so it's okay to kill them.

 From the time that fertilized egg actually fuses to the uterine wall and begins the developmental journey of the human life span, that is a living human being.

 So what many fertilized eggs do not fuse and begin the human life span? That's the same as saying "Humans die everyday" as a justification to kill humans.

 Every single one of us is going to die..so who cares if we can be killed. Right?  That's that argument. Well most fertilized eggs don't even make it, so it's okay to destroy and kill ones that do during the stages of human life development.

 And no everyone knows that a human being in the zygote/embryonic stage of human development isn't yet developed into an infant. But that's not an argument for killing them.

 That argument is saying that only human beings who reach a certain stage of human development should be granted the right to live.

 My argument is that any living human being deserves the right to live.

[DKG]

Er, no.  He wasn't a very good President at all.  He was basically an empty suit who didn't know what he was doing who won the Presidency in 1960 through verifiable and indisputable ballot fraud in Illinois. He didn't accomplish much of anything during his three years in Office aside from sending "military advisors" to Vietnam that got us involved in that mess and failing to support the anti-communist Cuban Patriots at the Bay of Pigs fiasco which led directly to the nuclear stand-off with the Soviets with the "Cuban Missile Crises" that ultimately consigned the Cuban people to the past 60+ years of dystopian hell.

Jack Kennedy was not an icon.  He was just young, handsome, had a hot wife and got his brains blown in Dallas while riding in the back seat of a cool Chrysler convertible. If the getting his brains blown out thing hadn't have happened, he would not be so fondly remembered.

He was the last Democratic president to cut/reform taxes.

[deadskinmask]

All 3 of the Abrahamic faiths are horseshit.

lmmfao.... you talk a big game on THIS side of the grass.... catch me on the flip and see what song you sing....

[deadskinmask]

Dove - i wouldn't say all humans have a right to live.... but i do say they at least deserve consideration.... and somewhat of a discussion....

[Blazor]

This kitty video is so cute n awesome lol

[Blazor]

 

[Dove]

Dove - i wouldn't say all humans have a right to live.... but i do say they at least deserve consideration.... and somewhat of a discussion....

 Here is my stance. I support the death penalty. I've had people argue that I'm a hypocrite for being anti abortion and pro death penalty....which is interesting, considering its absolutely inconsistent to he pro abortion and anti death penalty. I wouldn't call it hypocrisy....but it IS inconsistent.

 Pro abortion IS pro death penatly. Except they are arguing that only innocent human beings should be subjected to death (and brutal death) if their mother decides it, before a certain developmental stage.

 I argue that only human beings who have brutally violated the basic human rights of other humans, who stand a fair trial and are found guilty beyond reasonable doubt by a jury of peers, can and should be put to death for their crimes against another human.

 A human being in the zygote/embryonic/fetal stages of development have committed no crimes, no brutalities..they have not violated the human rights of another. They have not had a fair trial. These are innocent human beings.

 And no, an unwanted pregnancy is certainly not a violation of a woman's human rights.

 I am a woman. I have a functioning and healthy reproductive system. At my age, 44...I now become absolutely feral during ovulation. That tells me I'm fertile and my body is urging me to reproduce.

 So I know to take precautions to prevent becoming pregnant. I have an IUD....that thing really hurts going in. But it passes and now i don't have to even think about getting pregnant. And I take extra precautions during times i know instinctually I'm more fertile.

 It's NOT difficult to avoid pregnancy. I could just NOT have sex during that time as well.

 People talk about sex like it's their right. Sex is NOT a right or an entitlement. No one is entitled to get laid. You need another consenting partner and you best have some responsibility because we all know pregnancy is the natural goal and outcome of sex.

 I hate when people argue for abortion ad if sex is some right they have. I don't give a fuck if someone else never gets laid again...you shouldn't get to subject an innocent and helpless human being to such a gory and merciless death just so you could have an orgasm.

 Just have oral sex ffs. I hate people.