Posted on 12/10/2010 5:41:46 PM PST by matt04
The hippies at the World Wildlife Fund have created their very own file format, WWF. One catch, you have install their own propitiatory software to view it. Unlike other file formats, such as PDFs, this one saves the environment by preventing you from printing it, ever. You can feel good while running your PC to read a document.
Apparently it’s an unprintable .pdf document, which would take a fair-to-middlin hacker about 15 minutes to break. It’s only available for Mac users right now.
I find it hilarious that liberals don’t know where electricity comes from. All they know is it has something to do with lightning and a kite. They saw a picture about it once.
Hahahaha!!!
Yeah, gotta get me some propitiatory. Great stuff.
Or all the plastic and metal components of their computers, iPhones, Kindles, etc.
We've been here for a nano-blip of the planet's existence of ice ages and meteor impacts and warmings and polarity shifts, things happening per millions of years. We are the lifespan of a mosquito in the lives of 10 generations of people. We don't know squat.
The "Green Minded" think they have the power to destroy the planet. It's laughable in the context of a world so cold only 500 years or so ago that there was snow on the California coast, if my history is correct. Sea levels have changed pretty often, in the big picture. You can see the traces of old shorelines from 125,000 years ago all along every seashore or plain. A measly 125,00 years! We're hard-pressed to determine beyond a few thousand years our own history on this planet.
And yet, over the past 50 years, those who have it best have come to assume they have the power to destroy it, hence the responsiblity to "save it," which is total illusion. We're civilized so we clean up after ourselves instead of live in the efflux of pollution and waste. That's about it. The rest of the earth rolls along as it has for hundreds of millions of years. Other than that, what happens on the planet is out of our hands. We're along for the ride.
It's beyond the Green Mindeds' grasp because they're vain.
It's amazing how vanity works to bad consequences.
They started sending me my cell phn bill without itemizing the calls. I had refused to pay it untill they sent me an itemized bill. Honest to god, this is what she said ‘Well, Mr. ———, We are enviromentalist here and we don't like sending out alot of paper!”
I promptly told her to go find an axe and cut down enough trees to print me an itemized bill and then I will pay it.
Take a screen shot. Insert screen shot into word processing document. Print word processing document that includes the screen shot.
The planet has survived multiple asteroid impacts and a “snowball” Earth period. It’ll survive us.
Just use "print screen" or use the snipping tool in Windows, load into Word or graphics program and print away. Be sure to include a couple of bricks in your FedEx shipment for effect.
The WWF was started by Nazis back in the 1940s, and I’m surprised that Bill Clinton doesn’t have a wing for them in his un-presidential library.
Great, now let’s build a car you can’t drive. That way we can decrease our collective carbon footprint.
This is a brilliant idea and I suspect it will spark a whole new generation of similarly innovative “green” technology.
Some examples:
1. A special stamp issued by the post office that when affixed to mail allows them to simply compost the mail rather than actually delivering it. (The post office should like this idea since they could sell the special stamps a bit cheaper than regular stamps, yet still make a big profit on not delivering the mail.)
2. A light switch that when flipped on always trips the breaker. (Saves energy and provides needed employment for your local electricians.)
3. A special blend of fuel that when used to fill your automobile’s tank causes the engine to fail to start. (I’m thinking 100% dihydrogen oxide would work. Fuel companies could slightly reduce prices and increase profits at the same time.)
4. A special light bulb that burns out during the first second of usage. (Industry will love this one as people will have to buy a great many more light bulbs than they do now.)
5. Special stereo speakers which have their volume limited to zero dB. (These would be cheap to make too, since you could use some black spray paint to paint some concrete blocks that have fake terminal glued on which you could attach your speaker wires to.)
6. A special TV set that produces only an extremely dim, energy-saving picture that can be viewed only in pitch dark. (Additional energy savings is achieved since you can’t watch the TV with lights on.)
7. A special computer that crashes as soon as you power it up. (This is particularly easy to develop if the computer is to run a Windows operating system.)
8. A special Internet browser that will show only the home page. (However, you do get to pick your home page from several dozen possibilities.)
9. Special batteries that are almost pre-dead from the factory. (Again, a real money-maker for industry as people would have to keep buying more batteries.)
10. Special cell phones that always show zero bars. (Wireless companies will love this one because they’ll save billions from not having to build pesky wireless networks. And the visual environment is improved too since unsightly cell towers won’t be littering the landscape.)
11. A special blend of fuel for your furnace that contains zero BTUs. (I’m thinking plain air from the atmosphere pumped into natural gas lines should do the trick. Natural gas companies could cut their rates a bit and yet still make hefty profits.)
12. Special airplanes built without enough thrust to take off and therefore have to be towed down the highways. (A bit slower to travel than airplanes that actually fly, but much safer since you can simply hop out of the airplane if the engines fail. Hijackers would be thwarted too, since hijacking such airplanes would be no more effective than simply hijacking a Trailways bus.)
I could go on for quite a while, but I think you get the idea. Anyone else have any more brain dead environment-preserving “green” ideas?
If it really is just a PDF, the ability to restrict printing is built into the software. Congrats, anyone with Acrobat can do that, though you don’t get feel like you helped the environment by sending someone a WWF file.
It also appears that the WWF software you have to download to create these PDF files “phones home” to the WWF to supposedly check for updates without telling you. And you can’t disable it.
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