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Where Computers Go To Die
broohaha writes "Salon.com has a featured article on where all our unwanted techno trash gets sent, and what is not being done enough to account for all the so-called 'recycling' we're doing. From the article: 'More than 50 percent of our recycled computers are shipped overseas, where their toxic components are polluting poor communities. Meanwhile, U.S. laws are a mess, and industry and Congress are resisting efforts to stem the effluent of the affluent.' Some sites to visit dedicated to attacking the problem are Computer Take Back Campaign and Ban Action Network."
Not out of me, it won't generate any! I have multiple levels of advert blocking. Ad-blocking proxy, list of sites with blocked images, and no flash player. Sweet!
Je fume. Tu fumes. Nous fûmes!
An entire city in a basement. Amazing. Simply amazing.
They're there affecting their effect.
No. Only one member of the Council is appointed by the government that I elected; the others are appointed by other member governments that I did not elect.
We are forced to implement directives proposed by the (unelected) Commission and nodded through by the Council, over the opposition of our single representative. There is no possibility for meaningful debate in our own Parliament and House of Lords. In effect, we have given up the ability to decide for ourselves which laws we (allow our government to) impose.
The only way to end this madness is to succeed from this insane union entirely.
Heh ..... it's always Anonymous Cowards that complain about my "zero tolerance, zero compunction" attitude to adverts.
If a product is advertised, I won't buy it. I want the manufacturers to go out of business for having the arrogance to tell me how their brand of crap is better than any of the fifty billion other brands of crap out there. They're all crap, nothing is made properly anymore. But the companies that spend good money on bullshitting the public are obviously spending less on the quality of their products. Not on my shilling, they don't.
If an advertisement comes on while I'm watching telly, I leave the room. If an advertisement comes on while I'm listening to the radio, I change stations {and leave it on the BBC}. If someone tries to advertise to me on the Internet, I add them to my blocked list.
If your business model depends on somebody looking at an advert in order for you to get paid, then what you have is a broken business model. I owe advertisers nothing. I have a right to ignore advertisements.
Je fume. Tu fumes. Nous fûmes!