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HP the Victim of Enterprising Greenpeace Stunt
An anonymous reader writes "Employees at Hewlett-Packard in Palo Alto received a shock this morning as they checked their voicemail and found that each and every one of them had received a message from Captain James T. Kirk, AKA William 'The Shat' Shatner, upbraiding the company for abandoning their plans to remove toxins from its hardware. The organization behind this stunt was Greenpeace, who, to underline their point, scaled the building and painted 'Hazardous Products' on the roof with toxin-free paint."
Now some of their moves are pretty dumb, but I like this one. Would be nice to see that picture end up on Google Earth, but I imagine it would take under 5 minutes before the lawyers would get involved.
Someone should go to jail for trespassing.
Terrorist actions should not be overlooked.
... would cause more heat. That white roof is designed to reduce the amount of heat produced. When they added black to the roof, it just caused the roof to be inefficient. Looks like greenpeace is trying to increase the amount of carbon produced by air conditioning.
Couldn't they have tied this in better with the Reg's thing for HP having massive boxes?
GP's anti-nuclear stance is the worst thing they've done, by far. They're largely responsible for the general public's irrational fear of nuclear power. Without them, there would be many more nuclear plants all over the world and especially in the States (maybe even efficient designs like the French have) and less coal plants, which literally create lakes of hazardous waste that are a lot harder to contain (you might remember last year's toxic sludge tsunami in Tennessee, for example, but there are many more, you can start here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_spill) and reuse (partially depleted nuclear materials can be reused by more efficient reactors. Also depleted uranium is used in armor and munitions in the military...that one's pretty questionable but it IS reusable). Nuclear would have been an excellent stopgap measure in the transition to renewable power, so much for that.
Apart from that they've generally done an excellent job of making environmentalism look like a fringe nutjob cause by pulling childish publicity stunts such as this. Yay Greenpeace.
"When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
Just mistook sarcastic response to troll as a troll. That will teach me never to mod while browsing above -1.
I don't believe Greenpeace (or rather their affiliated extremist organizations) is above threatening the lives or safety of those they disagree with.
Greenpeace does not have any "affiliated extremist organizations." There is the issue of Greenpeace UK, an anarchist group who trademarked (ironic?) the name in Britain before GP could, they certainly are not above violence (even against GP itself). But GP's non-violence is a core corporate policy, and the reason, for example, that Paul Watson left GP to found Sea Shepard.
This particular belief of yours is not founded in reality. Or perhaps you are getting GP confused with Earth First!?
I remember them burning a housing development on the outskirts of Phoenix with no regard for any homeless who may have been squatting inside.
Not GP nor any affiliated organization, sorry.
If I owned a business Greenpeace disagreed with and they sent their toadies (who they would deny have anything to do with them) ...
If these people don't id as GP, how would you know they had anything to do with GP? Or do the voices tell you?
Yeah, sure you would tough guy. You know after dealing with softies like the DGSE, I'm sure GP activists must be shaking in their boots just to know you're out there! Have you considered surgery for that enlargement problem?
Protecting others from future strong arming by extremists is priceless.
Got a mirror handy?
Hey Greenpeace, guess what, the paint thinner and sealant they're going to use to undo your vandalism is toxic!
Lusers!
If someone is passing you on the right, you are an asshole for driving in the wrong lane.
Killing somebody for trespassing is murder, both morally and legally. If you really are worried about your safety, you would call the police first and only confront them when directly threatened. By purposely confronting them you increase the threat to yourself and anyone with you if they happen to really be dangerous.
On top of this, you're commenting about something that has happened to commercial property, not your private residence.
The World Trade Center was commercial property.
Greenpeace and PETA are nothing more the eco-terrorists and deserve to be hit with both RICO and Patriot Act.
If someone is passing you on the right, you are an asshole for driving in the wrong lane.
When are the arrests? Trespassing and vandalism; perhaps libel.
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