OT-End of an Era

Gunner · 2004-01-24T07:03:26+00:00

PICTURE THAT: More than 100 years after it introduced the Browniecamera, Eastman Kodak Co. has announced it will discontinue marketing35mm and APS film cameras in North America and Western Europe by theend of the year. Kodak says it will concentrate instead on digitalmodels. (Reuters) ...The headline: "Film on the way out. Webcast at 11:00."" ..The world has gone crazy. Guess I'm showing my age... I think it dates from when we started looking at virtues as funny. It's embarrassing to speak of honor, integrity, bravery, patriotism, 'doing the right thing', charity, fairness. You have Seinfeld making cowardice an acceptable choice; our politicians changing positions of honor with every poll; we laugh at servicemen and patriotic fervor; we accept corruption in our police and bias in our judges; we kill our children, and wonder why they have no respect for Life. We deny children their childhood and innocence- and then we denigrate being a Man, as opposed to a 'person'. We *assume* that anyone with a weapon will use it against his fellowman- if only he has the chance. Nah; in our agitation to keep the State out of the church business, we've destroyed our value system and replaced it with *nothing*. Turns my stomach- " Chas ,

Jan 24, 2004 41 Replies

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Gerald Miller 22 years ago

Is that the one I bought for a dollar to get the disk drive, then discovered it took an odd size that was only available by special order at a premium price? Gerry :-)} London, Canada

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pyotr filipivich 22 years ago

A city wide blackout at 25 Jan 2004 17:47:48 -0800 did not prevent jim rozen from posting to rec.crafts.metalworking the following:

I don't build 'em. I just fill them.

Its a really neat financing program they have. Like the normal method of getting the car and then making monthly payments, you make the monthly payments, and when the car is paid off, then they deliver the car from whenever you finally paid it off. So of course, I took out the extended mortgage, and have a nice 2008 model. Salesman's Demo, so I got a price break, too.

Just look for the lot with the big blue policeman's box on the corner.

tschus pyotr

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