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Tokyo 2020 Olympic Medals To Be Made From Recycled Phones (silicon.co.uk)
Mickeycaskill quotes a report from Silicon.co.uk: The medals for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games will be made from recycled mobile phones in an effort to engage the Japanese nation and meet sustainability criteria. The Tokyo 2020 organizing committee has called on the Japanese public to donate their "discarded or obsolete electronic devices" to provide the eight tonnes of metal required for the production of the medals. The production process will reduce this eight tonnes down to around two, enough to produce 5,000 Olympic and Paralympic medals. Collection boxes will be installed in the stores of partner organizations NTT DOCOMO and the Japan Environmental Sanitation Center (JESC) from April, with the collection ending when the eight-tonne target is reached.
Well at least the supply not be a problem!
in Japan?
Let's see, the current medals are mostly silver and bronze with traces of copper and gold. Do cell phones have a lot of silver in them?
Remember parents, if your kids talk about Aniseed they're talking about illegal Anime! and if they talk about Oreos they really mean "Ore no Nounai Sentakushi ga, Gakuen Love Comedy wo Zenryoku de Jama Shiteiru"!
Donald trump is a stinking pile of poo and Democrats are his allies we need a workers party to fight for socialist revolution! Full citizenship rights for all immigrants!!!!!!
It is odd but usually the "Workers Party" is opposed to Immigration because that is who competes with their jobs. And the pro Corporation party is for immigration because it is source of cheap labor. The alignment of these positions are upside down in the US political arrangement.
From Wikipedia: "Olympic Gold medals are required to be made from at least 92.5% silver, and must contain a minimum of 6 grams of gold.[6] All Olympic medals must be at least 60mm in diameter and 3mm thick.[6] Minting the medals is the responsibility of the Olympic host."
Even though I mislike President Trump (nee: Drumpf), rhetoric and sheer energy are extremely unlikely to be of any use in opposing him. If we (collectively) leave off anger and knee-jerk reactions and instead choose to exert a calm continuous opposition to the current administration I suspect we will gain both a more receptive audience for our views and a far greater effectiveness in our efforts.
We got yer Lithium, Zinc and Antimony medals right here.
The Russians have won. They have made the world a cesspool of distrust, greed, fear and hate.
During the medal ceremony, don't forget to set your medal to vibrate.
2 tons of material required for crafting 5000 medals, this makes each medal as heavy as 400 kg.
Indeed you need to be an athlete of Olympic class to carry that on the podium.
Will the medal winners be able to cover the roaming charges?
Do they come with free data plans, or do you have to pay for the 24x7 surveillance they provide?
and you don't need nearly as much devices to keep that fire going as for those stupid medals.
And Trump fanbois still deny that they are a bunch of bloody xenophobes?
"It's such a fine line between stupid and clever" -- David St. Hubbins, Spinal Tap
3rd place: Samsung Galaxy 7 with the inscription "You're on fire"
2nd place: Google Nexus 5X with the inscription "We expected great things from you but you didn't made the grade"
1st place: Apple iPhone with the inscription "You think you're the best but that doesn't last forever"
You know how Olympic athletes like to bite into their medals after receiving them? (because that used to be a way of telling that "gold" was really gold) Well, I hope they're healthy after biting into lead and gallium arsenide...
>> the collection ending when the eight-tonne target is reached.
There's your problem : it's just a marketing stunt. Why not continue it ?????
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Trump is extremely bad and trump should make an executive order banning it
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The worker's parties came to realize that progress and movement of labour are good. Just like they don't advocate smashing machines any more. Rather, they favour support for workers who need to retrain and gain new skills. Better to swim with the tide than against it.
It is interesting how conservatives have no adopted the politics of anger over immigration now.
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SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
If you are talking about the GOP, I have seen 0 platform positions to indicate they have an issue with LEGAL immigration. No one, not even progressive Europe is for opening the borders and letting in all who come. Why do you think that porous borders are a good thing? All the GOP is trying to do is secure the borders, not reduce the 2 million legal immigrants we have now. The H1B position could possibly be looked at this way, but Trump's current direction with this is not to reduce the number of H1B workers, but remove the slave labor portions of the H1B program by forcing H1B wages up where they should be since these are supposed to be people so skilled that no US citizen can do the job.
APK likes to ask for responses to the same things over and over. Maybe he just likes the responses?
I see nothing to indicate that the idiot above is a Trump supporter. Calling everyone with a contrary position to yours a Trump supporter is a great way to paint your opposition as all the same though.
APK likes to ask for responses to the same things over and over. Maybe he just likes the responses?