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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.
... 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?
Trespassing, yes.
"Vandalism" would be a stretch IMHO, but heck send the cleaning bill to Greenpeace.
"Terrorist actions"? WTF you fucking crazy brainwashed american dumbass.
"Terrorist actions?" WTF are you talking about? The term is completely meaningless as it is, but then to apply it to someone painting something on a roof? That is called 'vandalism'. This sort of thinking is well on its way to being the downfall of our society -- people like you have sacrificed more of our freedoms on the altar of safety in the past 8 years than the past 3 generations combined. So, please, give the terrorism thing a rest. The rational world thanks you.
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This isn't terrorism you twat. It's not even a hate crime. It's trespassing and vandalism.
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Can't you just hang, draw and quarter them as an expression of traditional American respect for dissenting opinion and tea parties?
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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.
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Just mistook sarcastic response to troll as a troll. That will teach me never to mod while browsing above -1.
No, no hangings after the fact, but if i caught them on my roof, they would be coming back down in body bags. I don't care who they are, or what they thought they were doing, as they were trespassing and a unknown personal threat.
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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.
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I don't believe Greenpeace (or rather their affiliated extremist organizations) is above threatening the lives or safety of those they disagree with.
I remember them burning a housing development on the outskirts of Phoenix with no regard for any homeless who may have been squatting inside.
Extremist factions must be delt extreme measures. I guess it proves you would die for your ideas. If I owned a business Greenpeace disagreed with and they sent their toadies (who they would deny have anything to do with them) around to "shut me down" I'm afraid they would be recycled in parts deep in an injection well where no one would ever ever ever find them. How's that for green?
Murder is unjustifiable death. Killing for self preservation is natural and honorable. Protecting others from future strong arming by extremists is priceless.
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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.
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How on earth would vandalism be "a stretch"??? Scaling a building and DEFACING IT WITH GRAFFITI is the very definition of vandalism.
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