I remember having a Canon(?) printer that wouldn’t print in Black & White if you ran out of color-ink…because it wasn’t a true black & white, but, rather, a special blend of 11 herbs & colors.
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That’s what my HP does now. It doesn’t use “less black” for grey. It uses some combo of the colored inks for grey.
Wow, if out of context, and missing some words, that can come off as racist. I apologize to all who read this out of context and/or miss some words.
Bully for Canon good capitalism all around. I don’t think a $5 million lawsuit will effect a large player in a $40 billion dollar industry.
Sure. I can’t easily copy posts, only move them, but that seems reasonable in this case. Let me just open this thread on a laptop…
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Done. But I messed up despite having a full screen and keyboard. Sorry about that. It’s mostly okay, though.
I blame the J&J. 
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It’s all good and the sooner the offshoot thread was formed, the less there is to move.
Appreciate the heads up about the order, mainly for the benefit of others who only stumble across the new thread and hadn’t already read the properly-ordered posts in the original thread.
Case managers for $1.5B program for brain damaged kids didn’t consult specialists to determine whether medication, surgery, or therapy for these kids were necessary. They used Google instead.
https://www.propublica.org/article/these-findings-boggle-my-mind-audit-rips-apart-florida-program-created-to-aid-brain-damaged-kids?
The WTFiest part of the story, to me, is this:
Now, there are up to 120 hippos roaming around Colombia, and they are considered one of the top invasive species in the world.
That link doesn’t work, but this one does:
Well, they must be the largest invasive species. And her i thought they were endangered or something.
Well, in their normal habitat, sure.
There is a wiki article on invasive species in Colombia, and the hippos are the only mammals on the list
Makes me wonder if we could save the elephants by importing them to the Amazon. I bet they would be invasive and destructive, too.
(Although they breed really slowly. So maybe not all that invasive.)
Why not round up the 120 hippos and send them back to their natural habitat? How many hippos can FedEx ship in one aircraft?
Google tells me that up to 3 horses can go in one air cargo container/crate. I think hippos are fatter than horses, so maybe 2 hippos per crate? How many crates per airplane? That I’m having trouble finding. I assume it varies by plane type, but 777 is the biggest.
I’m assuming that animals can only go in the top half of the plane, where passengers would go in a passenger airplane.
So 2 hippos per crate x N crates per plane / 2 since they can only go in half the plane.
No clue what N is though.
Seems to me, the most difficult step would be catching the hippos in the first place.
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Right. They moved all the other animals, but left the hippos because they were too hard to catch. They are big nasty animals.
Tranquilizer darts? I mean, that’s a LOT of tranquilizer darts. But catching and transporting hippos is a thing that happens.
I imagine it would be a massive project. Get some veterinary students to help maybe?
I was thinking that the bigger issue might be that if whatever issue caused them to become endangered in the first place still persists… then it might not do much good and merely prolong the inevitable by a generation or three.
Might as well shoot them all, shipping them to Africa seems bizarre.
Eta, there are 125,000 hippos in the wild, I think we can lose 150.