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Major Linux Hardware Donor Is a CNN "Hero"
christian.einfeldt writes "James Burgett of the Alameda County Computer Resource Center calls himself a 'tattooed freak' and a recovering drug addict, but CNN is calling him a hero (video) for diverting tons of computers from landfills, installing Ubuntu Linux on them, and giving them out to schools, non-profits, and poor people. Burgett's filmed interview is currently leading a CNN contest among videos of 'ordinary people' whom CNN considers everyday heroes, narrowly edging out the video of a man who is saving gorillas from extinction. In his interview, Burgett points out that the people working for him are also recovering drug addicts or recovering mental illness patients." Update: 10/02 23:46 GMT by KD : Reader stefanlasiewski posted a journal article describing how, bewilderingly, the state of California is threatening to shut down Burgett's ACCRC.
Why not make stew out of you and your family? Y'all are significantly less rare and important in genetic diversity terms.
If nothing else, the gorillas are classier than you are.
Fuck gorillas. What have they ever done for us except giving us AIDS?
Obama likes poor people so much, he wants to make more of them.
So rather than let old computers die, he's prolonging their life-span, thereby increasing the global PC population, each of which is plugged into a power socket. All of these are sucking electrons from the grid, and leading to additional power generation demand. Tonnes more CO2 spewing into the atmosphere. Yay!
Ah, the law of unintended consequences.