It's true though. I once heard about a report commissioned by a governing party that was done and printed. It's 2000 pages long. Who reads that in paper form in this day and age? It cost a significant amount of money to print.
When asked who decided to print it or why it was printed... nobody really knew. The question itself surprised some people.
I believe to this day that the answer was just inertia. It got sent to the printers because reports get a thousand copies printed. Why? Who knows. But it's been done that way for as long as people have been there, so it keeps happening.
(Somebody asking the question was the first step to getting it changed, because nobody had given it a second thought before.)
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Re: First a joke then a real post...
Date: 16/11/10 22:29 (UTC)It's true though. I once heard about a report commissioned by a governing party that was done and printed. It's 2000 pages long. Who reads that in paper form in this day and age? It cost a significant amount of money to print.
When asked who decided to print it or why it was printed... nobody really knew. The question itself surprised some people.
I believe to this day that the answer was just inertia. It got sent to the printers because reports get a thousand copies printed. Why? Who knows. But it's been done that way for as long as people have been there, so it keeps happening.
(Somebody asking the question was the first step to getting it changed, because nobody had given it a second thought before.)