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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."
woohoo first post! ... i have made my mark in this world ...i can now peacefully die :)
whether computers dies or not
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This is all good information, personally verified or witnessed by none other than me, but I will not answer any questions about it or go into any detail other than what I've already typed out. I may reply with more information or anecdotes if I see fit, but I've pretty much already scraped the barrel of my experiences.
These are some facts I have witnessed and learned through my employment. Take it at face value, believe it or don't believe it, because I'm not providing corroborating pictures, details, or evidence beyond my own testimony.
Homeland security buys in bulk and at great premium millions of dollars of useless personal appliances from China, such as rice cookers, nose hair trimmers, massage wands, and heating pads, boxes them up, and buries them in railroad shipping containers in the Arizona desert for no reason whatsoever other than to spend its budget and prevent sub-agencies from getting the funds. I suspect that the money goes to a middleman in order to secretly siphon funds into foreign organizations which we can't support over the table, but this is just me trying to find a justification for this massive and intentional government waste.
Donald Rumsfeld needs to wear iced underwear because of some medical condition, and he has his secret service detail hold his spares. He was recently getting uncontrollable long-term erections and had to change up his medical treatments. The underwear and the erections is why he uses a standing desk, not because he is some super-man. He also wears nylon stockings, not because he's gay, but to control some vascular problem with his legs which causes him intense pain.
President Bush uses anti-depressant medication, a lot of it, at a stupendous dosage, and he is hiding it from the American public. This is the real reason he stopped drinking. Because of the dosage, he is also impotent.
Tom Ridge carries 20 credit cards with him at all times, each one with a very low limit. I have never heard of him using one, ever, but he has them. He also wears his socks inside-out, and will flip the fuck out and walk strangely if he is forced to wear them properly, because it drives him crazy. All of his socks must be laundered right side in and then turned inside out before they are returned to him. He gave specific instructions about handling his food, and not allowing his vegetables to touch any other food item on the plate. His utensils must be steamed over boiling water. He will not eat soup which hasn't been boiled within the past 20 minutes or which he has not prepared himself. If any of these rules are violated, he flies into a rage, turns beet red, and will not eat a single thing. He has his personal attendants confirm over and over that the food is as he likes it. He also shaves his forearms and hands because he can't stand the idea of body hair on his arms. He demands that his bedsheets are bleach white and changed fresh every night and he sleeps in a separate bed in a big, tight, body-length nylon sleeve, with a fan blowing over him at full power. He is terrified of animals which have fur or hair longer than one inch, and will not go near curly hair of any kind, even on people. At one time he ran from his office and demanded that someone look under everything for a rodent which did not and could not exist, then he had the entire place wiped down with disinfectant and vacuumed twice. While this was done he couldn't even bear to look at the door, or come within 20 feet of his office. He was in hysterics.
President Bush, when dining at the white-house, does not eat any item of food which has not been first sniffed by a trained dog before being prepared. Think about that.
Word among the staff is that Cheney was drunk when he shot that lawyer, and secluded himself for a day to sober up and avoid felony firearms charges. I don't have any direct information on this because the guys with him at the time are not talking. This is totally unconfirmed, but I think it is plausible.
Dick Cheney has chronic gum problems and his breath sme
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!
2000 Presidential Election Gore: 51,003,926 Bush: 50,460,110 51,003,926-50,460,110=543,816 What a great democracy you have in the states...
That's amazing. Salon's still going!
An entire city in a basement. Amazing. Simply amazing.
They're there affecting their effect.
If the site uses ads for revenue then it loses because there are less visits.
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!