[TheForge] explanation of the printing and legal nightmare update.

[terry l. ridder]

hello;

first off thank you to everyone for their suggestions.

the original documents are e-mail msgs and web pages. the e-mail msgs
were in plaintext and the web pages were converted to plaintext. all the
originals files exit as plaintext ( ascii ) files. i have roughly
250,000+ plaintext files archived. i am printing a small portion of
that ( the most important portion ).

the printer i am using is a samsung clp-510n color laser printer. the
plaintext files were converted to postscript files and the postscript
files were converted to pdfs under linux. the pdfs were than transferred
to the imac and emac to use their print driver to print the files.
(the samsung provided print driver for linux is braindead. long story)

i am going to use several different color uv invisible inks to mark the
paper. probably just use a small spray bottle and spray paint the edges.

several people have asked me how the case is going. to be blunt it is
not going anywhere. the sticking point is how do you vocationally
rehabilitate a person who has an electrical engineering degree. the
judge is leaning toward declaring me an 'oddlot permanent total
disability'. fancy legal terminology for i could work doing something
but from a practical standpoint no one will hire me. not much demand for
an engineer with multiple physical challenges. the opposing lawyers
really do not like that. it would cost them a minimum of $3 million usd.

there has been only one suggested vocational rehabilation 'path'.

0. send me to send back to college to get a teaching certificate so
that i could teach math and science in the public schools.

the opposing lawyers really choke on that idea. their clients would not
only have to pay all the college tutions, fees, and books, but they
would also have to pay me 'maintenance' while in college. that
'maintenance' in my case would be $760.52 usd per week. their clients
would also have to provide medical insurance coverage for me. than they
would have to help find me a position in my local area. given that
teaching would not pay anywhere close to what engineering was paying at
the time of the accident ( 26 nov 1996 ) their clients would have to pay
the difference ( pay differential ).

so the bottomline is the opposing side wants to keep their money and i
want to take a large sum of it.

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terry l. ridder ><>