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."
Well somebody has to say it... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Well somebody has to say it... (Score:5, Funny)
Perlmonks [perlmonks.org]
Elgon
They also outsource windows hardware config... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Well somebody has to say it... (Score:2)
H2G2 (Score:2, Funny)
Re:H2G2 (Score:2)
I don't believe so.
Re:H2G2 (Score:3, Funny)
Hmmm. (Score:4, Funny)
I guess Xerox wasn't too much off the bat...
Oh, so that has been my problem ... (Score:4, Funny)
Michael Bolton: Load Letter? What the f*ck does that mean?!?!?? You wanna step to this? I didn;t think so!
Re:Oh, so that has been my problem ... (Score:2)
Well, I'm pretty sure printers are evil, but maybe this tames them somehow. Kind of the same reasoning as with those snake-wielding southern pentecostals. (Or whatever they are. Baptists?)
Could be worth a try. The chickens didn't work, but they're really for SCSI so maybe that was it...
Re:Oh, so that has been my problem ... (Score:3, Funny)
With These Guys (Score:5, Funny)
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?
time honored tradition (Score:5, Interesting)
This practice kept a lot of trades and information alive that might have otherwise died out. It would take a reel jerk to sue them for DMCA violations too =:-)
Re:time honored tradition (Score:5, Funny)
A DMCA suit then appears inevitable.
Re:time honored tradition (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:time honored tradition (Score:2)
My favorite is Chimay beer (Score:2)
Re:time honored tradition (Score:2, Funny)
Re:time honored tradition (Score:5, Funny)
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:5, Interesting)
And a particularly appropriate task. After all, one of their primary functions was copying books.
And those scribe monks got very pissed when the printing press made their skills obsolete. Maybe this is their revenge: undercut the overpriced inkjet sinners.
Re:time honored tradition (Score:2)
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Makes you wonder (Score:3, Funny)
That'll make for a wonderful headeline:
"Lexmark to sue monks"
Still, can't help but think of Brother Theo from Babylon 5, great character.
Re:Makes you wonder (Score:3, Funny)
Nah... they havent got a prayer!
sinners (Score:5, Funny)
Re:sinners (Score:5, Funny)
Only if you get modded up for joking about it.
Re:sinners (Score:3, Funny)
I guess i should better go confess to them for being a karma whore.
Re:sinners (Score:2)
1. Make clever pun
2. Respond to other's self-referential posts
3. ???
4. Get modded up!
--Joey
Re:sinners (Score:2)
As far as I know, 'Funny' gives 0 karma bonus. (while overrated still recuces your karma)
In other words: posting +6 funny -1 overrated gives you a penalty to your karma while stilling being modded to 5.
Weird 'flaw' in the mod system. (losing karma for posting funny stuff)
Re:sinners (Score:2)
Access to this server is forbidden from your client
Dr Evils new plan... (Score:3, Funny)
mwhhhahhahahaha mwhhhaaaa
Borrowed scripts (Score:5, Funny)
It gets weirder (Score:4, Insightful)
(Next, they'll be back at handwriting Bibles again for the lack of printing ink...)
Re:It gets weirder (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:It gets weirder (Score:5, Informative)
There is a great and long tradition of Trappist monastaries brewing beer. The Belgian trappist ales are some of the finest in existence. If you like your beer dark, rich and potent then there is nothing finer. The best known are the Chimay [chimay.be] ales which are truly excellent, especially the chocolatey Trippel.
Goodness I think its time to leave work and find God at the bottom of a bottle...
Re:It gets weirder (Score:2)
Cough! (Score:2)
Re:It gets weirder (Score:4, Informative)
So? They're catholics, not mormons. Jesus turned water to wine, they turn grain to beer.
Re:It gets weirder (Score:2)
Exactly. I can't recall offhand what the literal Greek translation is, but the New Testament injunctions are against getting/being drunk (i.e., loss of control), not drinking.
Many Christians observe that, since one of the first things to go when drinking is your ability to tell whether your self-control is impaired, the easiest way to avoid losing control is not to drink to begin with. Some just recommend it informally, some leave it up to the individual, others (like the Mormons) make it dogma.
Re:It gets weirder (Score:2)
Actually, the Mormon prohibition on drinking has nothing to do with the New Testament, but instead comes from modern revelation from a living prophet.
The Word of Wisdom was given to Joseph Smith in 1833 and can be found here [lds.org]. It's not just "don't drink, don't smoke", but a list of things to eat that are healthy for you as well.
Re:It gets weirder (Score:5, Interesting)
1 Timothy 5:23, New King James version.
Only the Mormons are against all drinking, really, though a few other denominations (e.g. Methodists) did participate in Prohibition, ages ago. The Bible only really condemns being drunk (not just drinking) as parent says.
Re:It gets weirder (Score:5, Interesting)
Only three monks know the identity of the 130 plants, how to blend them and how to distill them into this world famous liqueur. They are also the only ones who know which plants they have to macerate to produce the natural green and yellow colours. And they alone supervise the slow ageing in oak casks.
(text from http://www.chartreuse.fr/pa_green&yellow_uk.htm)
Wonderful liquer. Tastes like drinking a Christmas tree, but one made of 55% alcohol.
Re:It gets weirder (Score:2, Funny)
Re:It gets weirder (Score:2)
Ya, but do you black-out? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:It gets weirder (Score:2)
Not just beer, either. The liquers Frangelico [frangelico.com] and Benedictine [benedictine.fr] were originally made by monks.
Re:It gets weirder (Score:2)
Aha! (Score:2)
Blasphemy (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Blasphemy (Score:5, Funny)
Maybe we could find... (Score:5, Funny)
no affiliation (Score:5, Interesting)
Ok, so I have an affinity. Check my nick.
Douglas Adams is back! (Score:3, Funny)
Are these LaserMonks related to the Electric Monk [forum2.org] by any chance?
I for one... (Score:5, Funny)
In my prayers tonight: "God, give me strength to put up with my job to take care of my Fiance..."
God: "I can do that for you, but buy some new toner for your HP Laserjet 1100 for only $50 at http://www.lasermonks.com and you'll get a raise and your Fiance will love you forever..."
Re:I for one... (Score:2)
Re:I for one... (Score:2)
Being Trappists, they're sure as he^H^H^H^H^Hnot talking much to anyone else!
Oh yeah, they also make realy good jam [spencerabbey.org]!
I can see it now... (Score:2, Funny)
and so these intergalatic boomstick hawkers called themselves...PhaserMonks.
A reasonable question (Score:4, Informative)
What can I say? (Score:3, Funny)
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:New twist on an old idea. (Score:2)
Re:New twist on an old idea. (Score:2)
Re:New twist on an old idea. (Score:5, Interesting)
Actually, copyright did not begin to form as an idea until the 17th - 18th Centuries.
The huge cost of reproducing a book meant that it was not a problem until the movable type printing press became popular at the end of the fifteenth century - which ultimately put the monks out of that kind of business.
Interestingly, the way that reproduction happened in the middle ages (and before) was was very similar the way that people copy music now. Essentially, a monastery would swap works with it's "friends" (other monasteries, generally).
Sources:
Huh? (Score:3, Interesting)
Citations, please?
I'm pretty sure they did. Because many of the copied manuscripts have little line-counts in the margins, called stichoi, noting how many lines the scribe copied that day, so that the person hiring the monks to do the work knew how much to pay him. Perfectly legitimate job.
Re:New twist on an old idea. (Score:3, Funny)
I hope so, or there's gonna be one hell of a lawsuit
Glory to God Towing (Score:2, Funny)
We used to have a Glory to God
Towing company in Fort Collins.
Vocations to the Priesthood (Score:2, Funny)
On a more serious note, it's a difficult job raising money in a monastery. Unless you happen to a
Other Monastic Geek Suppliers (Score:5, Informative)
Sweatshop monks? (Score:2)
But... (Score:2, Funny)
Lazermonks? (Score:2, Offtopic)
"You know, I have one simple request - and that is, to have monks with frikkin' laser beams attached to their heads!"
Amen.
Monks who illuminate web pages (Score:2)
One stop shopping (Score:2)
View from HP? (Score:2)
"Access to this server is forbidden from your client"
Not very friendly monks, now are they?
Re:My wish (Score:2)
Re:You insensitive clod! (Score:5, Funny)
and a dyslexic too.
Re:You insensitive clod! (Score:2)
Re:And a libertarian, eh? (Score:2)
--Joey
Re:maybe this isn't such a good idea... (Score:3, Informative)
*ahem* it is the greek orthodox church, i believe that circumsized and baptizes.....not the catholics
Re:maybe this isn't such a good idea... (Score:2)
We do get Baptized (i somehow thought that was common in catholics.. it's not!?) but we do not get circumsized.
Re:maybe this isn't such a good idea... (Score:2)
Re:maybe this isn't such a good idea... (Score:3, Offtopic)
Yes, my mistake with the terminology.
I believe your assertion that "very few" people are circumcized may apply only to the US. Many people outside the US are "intact". There is no medical reason why the procedure is performed - anyone who bathes on a regular or even semi-regular basis has nothing to worry about in the genital hygene dept.
Perhaps this is a new
- Yes, I've been cut.
- N
Re:maybe this isn't such a good idea... (Score:2)
Re:maybe this isn't such a good idea... (Score:2)
I do not know one single circumcised person.
Re:maybe this isn't such a good idea... (Score:2)
According to Roman Catholic doctrine, you are not supposed to mutilate your body unless you explicitly need it for health reasons, or to benefit another without prejudice of your health.
Read this [circumstitions.com] for more info. Circumcision used to be strictly forbidden according to canon. Only in 1952 was it considered permissible but only for health reasons.
Re:maybe this isn't such a good idea... (Score:2)
"It firmly believes, professes, and teaches that the matter pertaining to the law of the Old Testament, of the Mosaic law, which are divided into ceremonies, sacred rites, sacrifices, and sacraments, because they were established to signify something in the future, although they were suited to the divine worship at that time, after our Lord's coming had been signified by them, ceased, and the sacraments of the New Testament began; and that whoever, even after the passion, placed hope in thes
Re:But ALL religion is faith based. (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:But ALL religion is faith based. (Score:2)
Re:Some facts... (Score:2)
Re:Some facts... (Score:2)
This means what, precisely? Being a christian means you have a high IQ? Puhleese. Go tell it to Gallileo.
You're bantering the same horse as the parent. (Not)? Being a Christian does not preclude someone from being smart.
Anyways, Galileo was a Christian. However, a faction in the inquisition didn't like his discoveries because it threatened their world view and|or power.
Re:Some facts... (Score:2)
Do you mean in edits in transmission or translation? As far as transmission goes, that's what textual criticism [wikipedia.org] is for. Theoretically, critical texts should be able to cull out later edits from the original text. If you check the underlying text of modern bible translations, there are only trivial differences. Even the non-critical texts (like the Textus Receptus [wikipedia.org]) don't provide a lot of gr
Re:Some facts... (Score:2)
Re:BonsaiMonk has been doing this for a while now (Score:2)
What, the Scary Devil Monastery [catb.org] isn't good enough for you?
Re:getting slow so... (Score:3, Informative)
Monk e-business
BY JULIO OJEDA-ZAPATA
Pioneer Press
More photos JIM GEHRZ PHOTO
The Rev. Bernard McCoy heads up LaserMonks -- when he isn't praying, of course.
SPARTA, Wis. -- Phone calls to LaserMonks' rural headquarters are sometimes tinged with caution or outright suspicion.
Those are awfully good prices for generic inkjet or laser-printer cartridges, a caller might remark after checking the offerings at www.lasermonks.com.
What's the catch?
And, c'mon, you aren't really monks, are you?
A recent
Re:Thanks for the warning (Score:2)
--Joey
Re:Just goes to show... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Tax Write Off? (Score:2)
Every reciept I've ever recieved for a donation says something to the effect of 'no goods or services were exchanged for this donation, keep this form for taxes'