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@artician, the law is essentially a complex solution to a complex problem.

The video was hilarious, but it really needed more context. I wanted to know who the guy was being interviewed, and why he was so evasive about photocopiers!

This video shows incorrectly how light passes through the lens, which it disappointing considering the subject.

As far as age, Nikon, Pentax, and Leica are all older. Canon's first camera was the 'Kwanon,’ a rip off of a Leica design of the time. Their greatest early success was in mass producing units cheaply with the AE1.

Since making a name for themselves in manufacturing cameras, the electronics company makes at least as much money from printers and photocopiers as it does from cameras, if not more.

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Photocopying your ass at the office party takes on a new dimension.

OMG, We've ALL been discovered...

What Should I Consider Suspicious?

People Who:
- Are overly concerned about privacy, attempts to shield the screen from view of
others
- Always pay cash or use credit card(s) in different name(s)
- Apparently use tradecraft: lookout, blocker or someone to distract employees
- Act nervous or suspicious behavior inconsistent with activities
- Are observed switching SIM cards in cell phone or use of multiple cell phones
- Travel illogical distance to use Internet Café

Activities on Computer indicate:
- Evidence of a residential based internet provider (signs on to Comcast, AOL,
etc.)
- Use of anonymizers, portals, or other means to shield IP address
- Suspicious or coded writings, use of code word sheets, cryptic ledgers, etc.
- Encryption or use of software to hide encrypted data in digital photos, etc.
- Suspicious communications using VOIP or communicating through a PC game

Use Computers to:
Download content of extreme/radical nature with violent themes
- Gather information about vulnerable infrastructure or obtain photos, maps or
diagrams of transportation, sporting venues, or populated locations
- Purchase chemicals, acids, hydrogen peroxide, acetone, fertilizer, etc.

Download or transfer files with “how-to” content such as:
- Content of extreme/radical nature with violent themes
- Anarchist Cookbook, explosives or weapons information
- Military tactics, equipment manuals, chemical or biological information
- Terrorist/revolutionary literature
- Preoccupation with press coverage of terrorist attacks
- Defensive tactics, police or government information
- Information about timers, electronics, or remote transmitters / receivers

Here is the Pamphlet: http://publicintelligence.net/do-you-like-online-privacy-you-may-be-a-terrorist/

This is an older pamphlet. It's a scanned photocopy, it's hard to tell if this is official or not but several sites seem to have it posted: http://welfarestate.com/pamphlet/

Maybe. The alternative view is that this was a watershed moment and the internets will always win: http://johnquiggin.com/2012/01/19/the-internet-is-like-a-million-page-a-second-photocopier-or-is-that-a-series-of-tubes/

My direct experience with Asians (specifically Indian origin) at college were that a lot of them were admitted with scholarships or worked as teaching assistants to pay back what they owed as the difference. Many of them were in the graduate program while I was in the undergraduate, but my last two years there about half my classes were graduate classes with a couple projects removed for undergrads.

And what I witnessed to make up the higher than average test scores of the Indian students was that they would cheat. I had one of them turn around during a test and try to cheat off of my work. I turned him in so I wouldn't be blamed if he copied word for word something before I noticed, nothing happened.

They would take past students homework, put their name on it. Photocopy it 5 times and all the indians in the class would turn it in as their own work. They would get together to work on projects, despite it not being group projects...it was all heads on one screen for hours on end.

So, they may test better and score better, but after speaking with a few....their society doesn't seem to punish cheating like you have here in the US. So I don't put much stock in scores, I spoke with a number of them and they had their smart members who carried the dumb ones along.

And the reverse can also happen. The dumb ones can smother the smart ones potential. Seen it happen while I was in school, "jocks" who were obviously very intelligent would blow off classes and homework because it wasn't what the other guys in their group were doing. These were white folks mostly.

And then you have native born US people of white or black families who are just not capable of mathematics beyond simple multiplication and division. And don't absorb most subjects, but might be a wizard at automotive or electrical given the opportunity. Perhaps they are developing more slowly than others, or perhaps they will never be capable of what you expect of them. But they reflect poorly in your scores, and are not immigrants.

That doesn't mean there isn't a place for them in society.

Now if you tell me that the jobs that would normally be there for folks like this are just swamped by the immigration.....then that's another thing they should be accounted for.
Or if their low scores are holding back other students, that's nationwide...and I'll agree it's a problem that needs to be addressed.


Obviously in immigrants or native born, if you don't see improve in certain cultures after one generation...something is wrong. And it can't simply be that these people are from a certain background that is incapable of adapting...they are human after all.

But I don't think immigration is causing the flaws you see. I think they are exacerbating the problem that already existed prior to their arrival. And that native born and people with established cultural centers in those areas have learned to adapt to and taught to the new arrivals.

A few flaws I saw while in high school:

- Over indulgence in sports programs. The books would be literally falling apart and they would be paying to have a new sports complex built. Saw this in a number of schools. I even did some work on one once I was out of high school. Multi-million dollar project where half of it was in their field and complex. The other big chunk was for the administration, and a quarter or less was put into stuff for the kids...you know the reason the place exists in the first place. The common thinking was that the sports complex would "make them money", except if it had to pay it's own way and cover the payments on the property, upkeep costs, etc...it would spent it's entire years "earnings" in a single month. But the board thought it was making money, despite what everyone else told them. While the actual classrooms were all cost (in their eyes)....even though they should be the core of the school's focus and were rarely without issues. Leaking roofs, leaking windows, etc.

- Teachers overworked. Many of them had extra curricular things they were in charge of in addition to teaching class, grading homework, meeting with parents, etc. Some even worked second jobs so they could supplement their income....especially the newer teachers.

- Teachers over-controlled. Discussion was kept a little too politically correct in most explanations of topics. It makes it more difficult to wade through the language to get to the lesson being taught. Sometimes some plain spoken wording would have made it much more clear. Dancing around the holocaust and civil war subjects are doing a disservice to their impact.

- Teachers reciting from text books. Basically in these cases the teachers didn't know the subject well enough to explain it to others. These people should no be teaching. I knew of parents who would come in and remove students from particular teachers classes because they had older siblings who told their parents how horrible this teacher was. I had to suffer through because I couldn't convince my parents, and I think it hurt me in the subject of mathematics for quite sometime following that class. I lost a lot of interest in the subject because of this teacher.

- Stupid punishment. I had principals who would bend over backwards for sports players especially soccer and football, but would threaten me with detention and what not every time they thought I was doing something. One example stands out. Big snow the night before, they never plowed the township I lived in until right around the time school started. My vehicle wouldn't go in the snow, I had to go home and get a ride from my parents since their vehicle was heavier. Principal didn't believe me until the bus that would have been on my route showed up 20 minutes after I did. He threatened me with all kinds of stuff. And I lost another big chunk of interest in school, because why bother if they are going to punish you for nothing and let others slide for basically bullying other students.

- And I could go on and on. If you weren't a native English speaker or aware that all this above shit was common. You might think you were being singled out and only end up going because the law says you have to. And most times despite the evidence that the above does not work, it's just enforced more stringently...making it even less desirable to put up with all the BS.

Education might be considered a socialist program, but it's lost it's focus from education and put it into sports or administrative costs...or when it comes to college outrageous fees that have little to do with what you are receiving. Or....profit centered for many people involved. A capitalist way of thinking, and it's not WHY these places exist..it's against their nature to be this way. And it's going to affect the overall education of your population as costs rise and money is taken away from what should be it's only goal.

One year back in elementary school, I had to do a project on a "notable person." I had to take out books, write a biography, and even learn how to draw a realistic portrait of the person I chose, as well as justifying why I chose them and what impact they made in the world. After all the research was done, we had to dress up as our person and even act as them at a "notable's night" later on. I borrowed plaid shirts and even glued a 'proper' fake beard to my face so I could better resemble my childhood hero, Jim Henson.

I remember one day my father came home with a photocopied article from a magazine from 'Life Magazine.' The cover photo was a image of Kermit sitting in Henson's director's chair. The article written shortly after his untimely death. I had been devastated by the news.

Indeed, Kevin Clash has lived one of my childhood dreams, and made thousands millions of kids happy in the process with his *quality work.

There is usually a way to wipe the hard disk before you dispose of the photocopier, but I bet nobody ever does! Then there's the problem of how well the inbuilt disk wipe works... but if nobody runs it in the first place, that point's kinda moot.

@blankfist We also have a pixma, and have had none of the issues you speak of. It certainly doesn't stop the other functions from running. Also, there's a simple key combo you can do (holding two of the buttons on it or something) which will make it keep printing past when it says it's run out of ink.

Yeah, they're inks are overpriced, but no moreso than the entirety of the printing industry. In fact my wife just recently said how much she liked the printer, how it just does what she wants, easily and quickly. And she's studying at present and prints out a lot, and photocopies a lot on it.

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In reply to this comment by TheGenk:
Why does a photocopier even need a harddrive? Why don't they use just a small amount of cheap volatile memory?

Copiers cannot depend solely on volatile memory alone because the file size of scanned documents can easily exceed the size of affordable RAM solutions. This is especially true when you need to keep an entire document stored in memory (such as when you wanted to print multiple copies of the document in page-order).

In the 'old' days, when copiers didn't use harddrives they were unable keep copied sets in order, they would scan one page, make 10 copies, then scan the next page and then 10 more copies, etc. Then the operator would have to collate all the pages of the sets into the correct order. This was extremely tedious!

The use of harddrives removes that old limitation and allows for very large documents to be scanned and collated.

In reply to this comment by TheGenk:
Why does a photocopier even need a harddrive? Why don't they use just a small amount of cheap volatile memory?

Copiers cannot depend solely on volatile memory alone because the file size of scanned documents can easily exceed the size of affordable RAM solutions. This is especially true when you need to keep an entire document stored in memory (such as when you wanted to print multiple copies of the document in page-order).

In the 'old' days, when copiers didn't use harddrives they were unable keep copied sets in order, they would scan one page, make 10 copies, then scan the next page and then 10 more copies, etc. Then the operator would have to collate all the pages of the sets into the correct order. This was extremely tedious!

The use of harddrives removes that old limitation and allows for very large documents to be scanned and collated.

Why does a photocopier even need a harddrive? Why don't they use just a small amount of cheap volatile memory?