Gumby
Veteran
I haven't had dealing with Kodak, but deal daily with other large multi-national corporations. Times are tough, people are greedy and contradictions (as you politely call them) are increasingly common. When we hear contradictions we always have to consider the source. Engineering personnel have different interest/motivations than marketing, who have different interest/motivations than sales, who have different interest/motivations from customer service, who have different interest/motivations than low/middle management, who have different interest/motivations than upper managment, who have different interest/motivations than the Board of Trustees, who have different interest/motivations than the stockholders.
daveleo
what?
Jees . . . okay . . . mis-communication from some Kodak guy, a weak thread title (missing a question mark ?) . . . the OP scrambled for verification while the mob nipped at his heels . . . . time to drop it ? . . . or throw another dog in the pit ?
Gumby
Veteran
... are you volunteering for pit duty? Ha ha ha.
Nigel Meaby
Well-known
Hi Roger I'm interested to hear what you know about Sterling. I used some Sterling B&W film when I was in India a few years ago and it wasn't bad at all. Are they no more?
daveleo
what?
Roger Hicks
Veteran
Alas, gone beyond, The land on which the coating line stood was worth so much that they sold it for a shopping mall or some such. Allegedly, both the old (ex-Agfa) and new (in house, never used) paper coating lines were disassembled and are in storage. As far as I know, they never coated film, though. I'm 99% sure (or more) that the film was a licensed product, but I forget exactly to whom. If they'd had a film coating line I think we'd have seen it on our factory visit.
Cheers,
R.
sepiareverb
genius and moron
I was told the minimum order to RESPOOL Double-X into 100' cans was $10K. That's just a smaller size package. And this after more than several emails that went unanswered.
zauhar
Veteran
kuzano
Veteran
Wow!!!!!
Wow!!!!!
Seven Hours and 143 posts later...
I have this vision of the villagers of Belrive, a small village outside of Geneva Switzerland, converging on the rumoured hiding place of Frankensteins Monster (the OP??). Armed with torches, pitchforks, meat cleavers, large knives, nooses and lots of drool, they are intent on the destruction of the monster, in a "kill the messenger" action due to his warning of the demise of "film". (well, a bit of compositional license, here
)
I can only hope that the Monster will not resort to the last act of Victor Frankenstein's creation and retreat to the far north Arctic, where he will kill himself and burn his body to ashes, so the the world will never encounter his countenance again.
Hang in there, oh villified OP. This too will pass.
Wow!!!!!
Seven Hours and 143 posts later...
I have this vision of the villagers of Belrive, a small village outside of Geneva Switzerland, converging on the rumoured hiding place of Frankensteins Monster (the OP??). Armed with torches, pitchforks, meat cleavers, large knives, nooses and lots of drool, they are intent on the destruction of the monster, in a "kill the messenger" action due to his warning of the demise of "film". (well, a bit of compositional license, here
)I can only hope that the Monster will not resort to the last act of Victor Frankenstein's creation and retreat to the far north Arctic, where he will kill himself and burn his body to ashes, so the the world will never encounter his countenance again.
Hang in there, oh villified OP. This too will pass.
Roger Hicks
Veteran
Seven Hours and 143 posts later...
I have this vision of the villagers of Belrive, a small village outside of Geneva Switzerland, converging on the rumoured hiding place of Frankensteins Monster (the OP??). Armed with torches, pitchforks, meat cleavers, large knives, nooses and lots of drool, they are intent on the destruction of the monster, in a "kill the messenger" action due to his warning of the demise of "film". (well, a bit of compositional license, here
I can only hope that the Monster will not resort to the last act of Victor Frankenstein's creation and retreat to the far north Arctic, where he will kill himself and burn his body to ashes, so the the world will never encounter his countenance again.
Hang in there, oh villified OP. This too will pass.
Hey, you forgot the axes, billhooks and scythes.
AUX ARMES, CITOYENS!
Cheers,
R.
fstops
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Why a Kodak employee would reply with such news?
Its not April 1st. The only reason one could come up with is, the employee simply tried to pass on a rumor that must be going around Kodak offices.
Its not April 1st. The only reason one could come up with is, the employee simply tried to pass on a rumor that must be going around Kodak offices.
kuzano
Veteran
Oooops...
Oooops...
So easy to forget how many farm tools can be used to destroy defilers of farmers daughters.
As you mention it, I suspect that some forms of firearms were also possible in the early 1800's?.... right? That, however, might smack of less rending of the monsters body by the inflamed villagers.
Have to keep the story line as grisly as possible, much as in this thread.:bang:
Oooops...
So easy to forget how many farm tools can be used to destroy defilers of farmers daughters.
As you mention it, I suspect that some forms of firearms were also possible in the early 1800's?.... right? That, however, might smack of less rending of the monsters body by the inflamed villagers.
Have to keep the story line as grisly as possible, much as in this thread.:bang:
Nigel Meaby
Well-known
Thanks Roger. Too bad!
Roger Hicks
Veteran
Interesting question. I really don't know when firearms would have become affordable to the peasantry. In the USA, they were in reasonably widespread use by the time of the Rebellion in the 1770s. In France or the rest of Europe? Just dunno. My unkind suspicion is that it wasn't until the 20th century, because that was when the bourgeoisie began to pass laws limiting their possession and use, though given the lag between social change and law, the mid-to-late 19th century might be more realistic. Before then, I think you'd need to be quite wealthy to own firearms. There's a school rule against carrying firearms at Winchester that dates from the late 18th century, from memory.
Cheers,
R.
Gumby
Veteran
Ahem. Rebellion?
sevo
Fokutorendaburando
The even more simple reason would be that the outsourced, off-shore call centre staffer failed to find an answer on his computer system, and made something up.
sepiareverb
genius and moron
Roger Hicks
Veteran
Wondered who'd react to that...
Depend on where you're standing, of course.
Consider the Sepoy Mutiny from an Indian viewpoint.
Cheers,
R.
Roger Hicks
Veteran
Not unlikely, but my chums at Kodak weren't happy about it.
Then again, offshore call centres tend to use what they think of as WASP names such as John and Christopher.
Cheers,
R.
Gumby
Veteran
Sure, perspective is everything but I thought the only person to ever use that term for America's Glorious War for Independence was Rudy Kipling.