Originally Posted By: LRF
Joe,
I don't know what you do for a living however in my case
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'paperless office'
This is the here and now. I am an engineer for Honeywell and I may and I mean may print a piece of paper once a day. I don't even have a filing cabinet in the traditional form anymore.

I retired from a nuclear power plant after a career counting and arranging and assembling beans, IOW I filled various engineering positions including determining/massaging the total number and unit cost of some of the beans. You as a design engineer may not generate much paper but I can ASSURE you that all those FAX machines and copiers out there are still churning along merrily, 24-7 in many cases.

Kinda reminds me of things like perpetual motion, fusion, world peace & interplanetary travel; sounds like a wonderful and even doable idea at first, but somehow in practice it just doesn't seem to work out quite like the planners wished. Sorry, 'Paperless Office' still sounds like an oxymoron to me.

Here are 2 more to add to the list, both by Kent Anderson: Sympathy for the Devil and Night Dogs. Kent has obviously been there and done that, and it shows. I wish he'd write some more!

Last year I reread (3rd time) C.S.Forester's Single-Handed, published in the US as Brown On Resolution. One particular paragraph in the book is a classicly cogent description of the awesome power of a determined man with a rifle; indeed the entire book is a tribute to this theme but this particular paragraph will stick in my mind forever. You'll hafta read the book to find out what it says though (grin).
Regards, Joe

You can lead a man to logic but you can't make him think. NRA Life since 1976. God bless America!