{"id":237,"date":"2010-01-27T19:11:07","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T02:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/?p=237"},"modified":"2010-01-27T22:10:18","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T05:10:18","slug":"237","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/?p=237","title":{"rendered":"Nice words that aren&#8217;t &#8220;Happy Birthday&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, printer manufacturers, I&#8217;ve got you in my sights.<\/p>\n<p>FUCK YOU.\u00a0 FUCK YOU ALL.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/angry-kid.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-240\" title=\"angry-kid\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/angry-kid-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/angry-kid-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/angry-kid.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Greedy, avaricious, gluttonous scum-sucking lowlifes all of you!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m never buying an inkjet printer again.\u00a0 For the amount of sheer hassle I get, for the wasted money spent on ink and paper when things fuck up, for having to shell out big fucking money for a new fucking printer instead of being able to fix my fucking printer, for not releasing proper drivers for Linux and for TELLING ME THERE&#8217;S NO INK LEFT IN THE FUCKING PRINTER CARTRIDGE AND NOT ALLOWING ME TO PRINT ANYTHING EVEN THOUGH THERE IS FUCKING INK LEFT IN THE FUCKING CARTRIDGE YOU FUCKING CRIMINALS!!!!!!!<\/p>\n<p>Okay, I feel better now.\u00a0 Where was I&#8230;&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Ah yes.\u00a0 I&#8217;m going to buy a laserjet next time.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The cost will end up about the same.\u00a0 And I&#8217;m going to look into getting something NOT made by Hewlett Packard.\u00a0 My first inkjet was an HP 722C deskjet.\u00a0 The fucking thing is built like a tank.\u00a0 A tank that shoots out printed pages, but a tank nonetheless.<\/p>\n<p>The only reason I can no longer use it is because HP no longer makes ink for it.\u00a0 I got some replacement cartridges from another manufacturer, but they don&#8217;t work.\u00a0 Not at all.<\/p>\n<p>The only reason I had kept that thing around is because it&#8217;s the only printer I had that could print envelopes.\u00a0 I just figured out how to do that on my newer printer, the one I want to destroy with a fucking hammer.\u00a0 This new printer of mine is an HP C8180.\u00a0 I think the most reliable part of that printer is the CD-DVD drive.\u00a0 That&#8217;s not a joke, look down a few posts to see me talking about how I was playing a game on my PC using my printer.<\/p>\n<p>This fucking printer though, is a god damned joke.\u00a0 It has a touch-sensitive screen on the front.\u00a0 Now, I think having a screen on a printer is a little like having a CD-DVD drive in a printer.\u00a0 Nice, but not necessary.\u00a0 This touch screen doesn&#8217;t display useful information as much as it displays FUCKING ADVERTISMENTS.\u00a0 JESUS FUCKING CHRIST I&#8217;ve already bought the fucking printer.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t need to be bombarded with ads every time I glance over at the fucking thing to see why it&#8217;s failed to fucking print AGAIN.<\/p>\n<p>And this piece of shit fails to print more often than it prints.\u00a0 It is continuously telling me it&#8217;s out of paper.\u00a0 Fucking garbage.<\/p>\n<p>On the plus side, the built-in scanner is fast.<\/p>\n<p>On the minus side FUCK YOU HEWLETT PACKARD!!!<\/p>\n<p>I remember their CEO was involved in some very sketchy practices a while back.\u00a0 Do a Google search for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.ca\/#hl=en&amp;source=hp&amp;q=pretexting+%2B+email+%2B+HP+%2B+CEO&amp;btnG=Google+Search&amp;meta=&amp;aq=f&amp;oq=pretexting+%2B+email+%2B+HP+%2B+CEO&amp;fp=d19d2af751073a3a\" target=\"_blank\">pretexting + email + HP + CEO<\/a> and you will get the whole sordid tale.\u00a0 Lies are just good corporate practice, apparently.\u00a0 Whatever pads the bottom line.<\/p>\n<p>And she&#8217;s now a politician, after being forced out of her CEO position.<\/p>\n<p>And some people wonder why this world is turning to shit.<\/p>\n<p>I have to say it one more time&#8230;. FUCK YOU HEWLETT PACKARD!!!<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s not even all I have to say about bad printers&#8230; I have a doozy of a story to tell about a piece of shit I bought from the criminal ass-rapers at Dymo.<\/p>\n<p>Till next time!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/riding-into-sunset.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-241\" title=\"riding into sunset\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/riding-into-sunset.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, printer manufacturers, I&#8217;ve got you in my sights. FUCK YOU.\u00a0 FUCK YOU ALL. Greedy, avaricious, gluttonous scum-sucking lowlifes all of you! I&#8217;m never buying an inkjet printer again.\u00a0 For the amount of sheer hassle I get, for the wasted money spent on ink and paper when things fuck up, for having to shell out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,137],"tags":[147,86,146,563],"class_list":["post-237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-printers","tag-angry","tag-complaining","tag-hewlett-packard","tag-printers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions\/239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}