LaserMonks Offer Prayer, Printer Cartridges 404
Minnesotan writes "According to a Twincities.com article: If you need discounted inkjet- or laser-printer cartridges, Wisconsin's LaserMonks say they'll give you a doozy of a deal while you 'support prayer for the world'. The Cistercian priests - yes, they're actual Catholic monks - oversee a novel e-commerce enterprise out of their rural abbey. Proceeds go to maintain the monastery and finance charitable works around the world."
It gets weirder (Score:4, Insightful)
(Next, they'll be back at handwriting Bibles again for the lack of printing ink...)
Re:time honored tradition (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:But ALL religion is faith based. (Score:2, Insightful)
New twist on an old idea. (Score:5, Insightful)
Now they are selling us the ink to copy and illuminate whatever manuscripts we want.
Since I'm pretty sure those ancient monks never had permission to copy any of the works they did, does that make them the original data pirates?
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Re:With These Guys (Score:5, Insightful)
Joke apart, those monks could do it : can you imagine Lexmark dragging them to court over this? Sure they'd be guilty, but Lexmark's sales would take a big dip, so they'd never do it. How's that for a DMCA circumvention scheme?
Re:time honored tradition (Score:5, Insightful)
And a particularly appropriate task. After all, one of their primary functions was copying books.
Re:time honored tradition (Score:3, Insightful)
They make their own way to do their own thing! (Score:1, Insightful)
Help these guys out and I bet they even bless the toner. you will notice they dont hit you up for an offering to pray for you. They pray for you because they love God and they care.