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Re: Art Debate Was: [Re: Swearing?]
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Date: 
Tue, 11 Jan 2000 15:19:55 GMT
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Matthew Miller <mattdm@mattdm.org> wrote:
I believe barnesandnoble.com is doing that now. (Or is it just that they've
got it in development for deployment soon.) Either way.

But that doesn't exactly reduce paper consumption. :)

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  Re: Art Debate Was: [Re: Swearing?]
 
(...) Uh, no. The paperless office is a big myth. The ease with which paper is created id one of the biggest problems of our times, IMHO. Let printer ink and toner be taxed at an additional $2.50 per page, I say. _THEN_ we'll see a paperless office. (...) (25 years ago, 12-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
  Re: Art Debate Was: [Re: Swearing?]
 
(...) Ah yes... slap a tax on it instead of trying to set things up to get at the root costs, eh? Typical tax and spend thinking. Why not go after lumber companies for causing erosion when they clear cut, and charge the proper amount to dispose of (...) (25 years ago, 17-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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  Re: Art Debate Was: [Re: Swearing?]
 
(...) However, the machines that can print and bind a one-off book from typeset files and do it quickly are getting there. In a few decades at most, physical distribution of books will be gone, except fro the mass-market things. Those can probably (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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