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California Considering Recycling Fees on PCs
Jeff writes: "It looks like two US senators are introducing bills that would impose recycling fees on new computer systems sold. These bills look to cover every high-tech product a consumer might buy, including computer and video monitors, desktop and notebook PCs, and handheld gadgets."
Remember, these monitors will only be worth 5c in most states, but if we take them to michigan we can double our money!
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After all, if it wasn't for their bloated OS requiring more and more power and hardware we wouldn't have this problem.
I've decided to mispell one or more words in all my correspondence. If you don't like it then don't read it.
When I have a computer I don't want anymore, I leave it on the sidewalk with a sign that says "FREE".
Yeah, I do the same thing with all the crap I don't want anymore. Old car batteries, used oil, broken refrigerators. Out of sight, out of mind...
Somebody please tell this machine I'm not a machine -
Maybe we could collect up all this junk equipment and make a series of Junkyard Wars (aka Scrapheap Challenge here in the UK) for those of us who don't feel confident in our welding or engine maintenance skills? I can see it now...
"You have ten hours from when the ball reaches the bottom of the Scrapheap clock to bulid... a working firewall!"
"W00t! I found a dual processor mobo!"
"Excellent! DDR Memory!"
"I know we wanted a 10Gb hdd, but all I could find is these 200Mb paperweights."
"Jackpot! Linux distro!"
Maran
That's OK; most Californians I know can't name the two U.S. Senators they elected (Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein)
Can't? Or won't admit that our state as a whole would elect these two idiots. I am ashamed that they represent the great State of California.
An ideas on when you plan to get rid of your pr0n?
> Heh - apparently, irony is completely lost on the /. moderators.
Hey, we're discussing old computers here. There's very little irony in them. It's mostly steely, aluminumy, silicony, coppery, plasticy and leady, with a little goldy and heavy metalsy.
Good thing I cleared that up.
Virg
The job of Freddy J. Bumfuck High School down the street is to teach things like reading, writing, math, history, biology, physics, chemistry, etc, not to make dozens of computers, all different mind you, function. It's a high school for God's sake, not ITT Tech. 99% of schools have enough trouble with the basics to bother teaching kids how to be computer repair people. The idea that you can throw your useless piles of 10+ year-old hardware their way and have them do something with it is idealistic to the point of silliness.
I'm amazed at the naivete of this. You're computer people dammit, doesn't "Garbage In Garbage Out" mean anything to you?
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