This service is available for FREE to residents of Northern Cook County in Illinois. In addition to having a year-round drop off available, SWANCC has local "bulk electronics day" pickup for several towns.
That being said, it is FREE to me, as in: I don't pay directly to drop off the CRT. But SWANCC is paid by a taxpayer fund to take the stuff and deal with it. They take the stuff to COM 2 Recycling who is PAID to take it and break it down and deal with it unlike the company in the parent post.
in this case it would seem they take money to dispose of them, leave them in a rental warehouse, then walk away leaving the problem with the landlord and the city. A warehouse full of dead monitors will not just sit there "forever".
My wife leased a BMW X3 that was a "demo" with 6K miles. I found that the dealer had not bothered to wipe any info stored in the car's nav/entertainment system. The nav had all the previous destinations stored. The radio buttons had been pre-programmed to dial certain numbers and they were still active. Previous users music was still loaded in memory. I had to purge all this myself and now have to do it again when she turns in the car because I can't trust the dealer to do it. I doubt that anyone else really pays attention to this. When I brought it up to the dealer at the first Service interval they just sort of shrugged it off.
Oh, and when we were being "introduced" to the car's tech, the dealer showed my wife how to download their "app". This consisted of going to a BMW web page and then saving the web page to the Home Screen as a shortcut icon. When I said that was not an "app", the tech guy just gave me a look.
Your Anonymized Health Care Data is already available and HIPAA Compliant. https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/privacy/laws-regulations/index.html There are no restrictions on the use or disclosure of de-identified health information. De-identified health information neither identifies nor provides a reasonable basis to identify an individual. I don't see this as being any different. Actually it is different: they are not tracking YOU, they are tracking the UBER driver's car.
I was just going to make this comment! I love my washing machine robot. But to add to it: If I wanted to completely automate the task of cleaning my clothes from the time I removed them, I would not have a "robot" use an existing washer and dryer. I would think it would be more efficient to have a device that automated the entire process so it it controlled as many variables as possible.
My mother-in-law has never done her own laundry despite owning a washer and dryer. She already has a "robot" that does it for her. The "robot" comes to her home 2X a month to wash clothes and while the clothes are being cleaned, the "robot" also tidies up around the house as well.
On the plus side, it makes it much easier to get rid of that tattoo I got last night while drunk.
FTFA: it works best on tattoos that are more than 2yrs old.
On the minus side, it makes it much easier for someone to remove your tattoo in your sleep.
FTFA: it will apparently take several treatments, it is not instant. But I must admit I was thinking of those same pros and cons before I actually read the article....
My wife already has already figured out an easier way with voice commands. All she does is say "I gotta pee" or "I have to talk to this person" and magically the TV pauses until she gets back. Then once she is settled it starts up right where it left off and she doesn't lift a finger or say a word.
my wife used to use an iPad in the kitchen to display a recipe she found, then she gave up on that and just brought her laptop instead. Then she gave up on that. Most of the time she uses recipes she has printed out on paper and who cares if they get stuff spilled on them, she just prints out another one. Or she drags out the "recipe book" from the top of the fridge that has all her olde recipes that she saved on a bazillion scraps of paper. It's just easier than pulling them up on the computer or the iPad or something else.
same with most everything else around the house. I tried using an iPhone app and a dongle to replace all the remotes for the TV and things but that ended up being more clunky than 4 remotes. I would say it was because we are "old" but our late teen grandkids seem to have zero interest in "smart" devices other than to flip them around in the air and do "tricks" with them like "drop" them so they break.
We installed a new boiler last year and the board kept throwing error codes to the point where it would shut down. We couldn't leave the house for more than 24 hours for fear the boiler would lock up in the middle of winter. Coincidentally we had sprung for a Honeywell WiFi thermostat and I could manually check the setting remotely on my phone very easily. The thermostat would also send an alert through the app if the temp exceeded parameters. This, coupled with a new DropCam aimed at the boiler's control panel (which did NOT have the ability to alert us other than throwing a code and flashing a red light) allowed us to leave for trips and contact the installer for repairs if needed and we had a neighbor let them in. Never ended up needing that as they eventually fixed the boiler.
The WiFi Thermostat has come in handy in other ways since then: We installed one in the apartment we rent out to replace the crappy one that the tenant could never figure out how to use. Now when they call or text about issues with Heating or Cooling I can instantly check their thermostat remotely and "fix" it. We also installed one in my MIL's home. She lives alone and keeps screwing with the thermostat. She is supposed to leave the FAN ON all the time so the humidifier runs even when the forced air heat is not supposed to come on. Instead of driving over there to check it, *again* I just check it via the app on my phone. I can turn the FAN on/off, check settings, re-do them if necessary.
No issues with reliability after more than a year of operation.
People who were prune to motion sickness will be worse off without the windows since they are cut off from the last piece of sensory information that tells them that they are moving.
And that is why I refuse to use those new-fangled elevators without windows.
There seems to be a "sweet spot" of just how much cash most people can come up with for used vehicle and it appears to be around $4K max.
I don't know if you mean cash literally which would make sense, but most people can qualify for loans from their bank or credit union.
I meant CASH as in CASH. Literally. Not figuratively. I meant people paying CASH for a car. The segment of the population we are talking about in this thread does not use banks or credit unions. That's one reason why they end up getting these horribly financed vehicles.
That may be true, but if you have the $5K, chances are you are not going to be shopping at one of these places in the first place. These loans are for people who are are literally living week to week.
There seems to be a "sweet spot" of just how much cash most people can come up with for used vehicle and it appears to be around $4K max. Case-in-point: I advertised my 12 year old pickup for $4500 and had several "offers" and tire kickers. I figured it was a very fair price for decent truck, but the buyer ended up being a dealer with a small lot of work trucks. He paid the full amount. I asked him how much he thought he could get out of it. He said $8999. How could a dealer find a buyer for that price when I had trouble at $4500? The difference was that they could finance it for the buyer. Buyer had to put down maybe $2-3K, the rest was financed at a fairly high rate.
and if we want a house we should just save up for 50years?
of course! after a year or two of living on the street, you will have saved enough money to buy a car. Then you can live in that until you have saved enough money to buy a house.
or borrow the money from your parents like everyone else. (Romney joke)
The dealer will buy a car at auction for $2000, then offer it for sale for $5000 but you HAVE to finance it through them. They will NOT let you pay cash. They take advantage of the fact that there are a large group of people out there that are employed at low wage jobs who need a car to get to and from work. They take $500 or $1000 down, or more if possible. Once you make a few payments, the dealer's initial cost for the vehicle is paid and if you don't make the payment, they repo the car and sell it to someone else for the same amount, financing the deal again. These dealers can sell the same car over and over again without having to buy new inventory.
I was always told the 0s got stuck at kinks as they were wider.
That is an old wive's tale that has been proven wrong. www.TheTruthAboutCables.com did an in depth study a few years ago. I forgot about the parity alignment module though, thanks for the reminder.
Make sure the service you find does cable straightening or uses "MASSIVE" brand cables. This ensures all the 1's and 0's get through. Cables with kinks can cause some of the 1's to get stuck. I use 1 inch diameter cables to import all my VHS video footage. Why would you trust your VHS footage to anything less?
find a used Digital8 camcorder with a Firewire (IEEE 1394) output. Put tape in, plug into computer, import footage. Digital8 camcorders will play back video8, HI-8 and Digital8 while converting the video8 to DV on the fly.
These are excellent machines that will play back just about any VHS tape you can throw at them. I am looking at 5 of them across the room from me right now. 3 are in excellent condition, one needs some audio work and one needs all the capacitors changed. I also leave the screws off the covers so I can slide them back and manually clean the heads when I run into some bad tapes (tapes that were crinkled or damaged or have iron oxide flaking off).
The capacitors is the big issue with these. Every.Single.One needs to be replaced at some point. I used to send my machines out to a place in Texas to have them changed for around $300 after I bought them on eBay. Then there was a guy selling them on eBay with the caps changed out for around $300 and they were running like new. I think he is still there.
These machines are excellent at playing back difficult to track tapes, or ones recorded in SLP/EP mode. don't buy one of those all-in-one VHS to DVD machines unless your tapes are all in good condition and recorded in SP mode.
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This service is available for FREE to residents of Northern Cook County in Illinois.
In addition to having a year-round drop off available, SWANCC has local "bulk electronics day" pickup for several towns.
That being said, it is FREE to me, as in: I don't pay directly to drop off the CRT.
But SWANCC is paid by a taxpayer fund to take the stuff and deal with it.
They take the stuff to COM 2 Recycling who is PAID to take it and break it down and deal with it unlike the company in the parent post.
What do you think the recycler does with them?
in this case it would seem they take money to dispose of them, leave them in a rental warehouse, then walk away leaving the problem with the landlord and the city.
A warehouse full of dead monitors will not just sit there "forever".
My wife leased a BMW X3 that was a "demo" with 6K miles.
I found that the dealer had not bothered to wipe any info stored in the car's nav/entertainment system.
The nav had all the previous destinations stored.
The radio buttons had been pre-programmed to dial certain numbers and they were still active.
Previous users music was still loaded in memory.
I had to purge all this myself and now have to do it again when she turns in the car because I can't trust the dealer to do it.
I doubt that anyone else really pays attention to this. When I brought it up to the dealer at the first Service interval they just sort of shrugged it off.
Oh, and when we were being "introduced" to the car's tech, the dealer showed my wife how to download their "app".
This consisted of going to a BMW web page and then saving the web page to the Home Screen as a shortcut icon.
When I said that was not an "app", the tech guy just gave me a look.
Your Anonymized Health Care Data is already available and HIPAA Compliant.
https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/privacy/laws-regulations/index.html
There are no restrictions on the use or disclosure of de-identified health information. De-identified health information neither identifies nor provides a reasonable basis to identify an individual.
I don't see this as being any different.
Actually it is different: they are not tracking YOU, they are tracking the UBER driver's car.
it also finds missing Golf Balls
MB bought them all so they could re-brand them and mark them up. Mystery Solved!
an Infinite Limit?
I was just going to make this comment! I love my washing machine robot.
But to add to it: If I wanted to completely automate the task of cleaning my clothes from the time I removed them, I would not have a "robot" use an existing washer and dryer.
I would think it would be more efficient to have a device that automated the entire process so it it controlled as many variables as possible.
My mother-in-law has never done her own laundry despite owning a washer and dryer. She already has a "robot" that does it for her.
The "robot" comes to her home 2X a month to wash clothes and while the clothes are being cleaned, the "robot" also tidies up around the house as well.
On the plus side, it makes it much easier to get rid of that tattoo I got last night while drunk.
FTFA: it works best on tattoos that are more than 2yrs old.
On the minus side, it makes it much easier for someone to remove your tattoo in your sleep.
FTFA: it will apparently take several treatments, it is not instant.
But I must admit I was thinking of those same pros and cons before I actually read the article....
My wife already has already figured out an easier way with voice commands.
All she does is say "I gotta pee" or "I have to talk to this person" and magically the TV pauses until she gets back. Then once she is settled it starts up right where it left off and she doesn't lift a finger or say a word.
my wife used to use an iPad in the kitchen to display a recipe she found, then she gave up on that and just brought her laptop instead.
Then she gave up on that.
Most of the time she uses recipes she has printed out on paper and who cares if they get stuff spilled on them, she just prints out another one.
Or she drags out the "recipe book" from the top of the fridge that has all her olde recipes that she saved on a bazillion scraps of paper.
It's just easier than pulling them up on the computer or the iPad or something else.
same with most everything else around the house.
I tried using an iPhone app and a dongle to replace all the remotes for the TV and things but that ended up being more clunky than 4 remotes.
I would say it was because we are "old" but our late teen grandkids seem to have zero interest in "smart" devices other than to flip them around in the air and do "tricks" with them like "drop" them so they break.
We installed a new boiler last year and the board kept throwing error codes to the point where it would shut down.
We couldn't leave the house for more than 24 hours for fear the boiler would lock up in the middle of winter.
Coincidentally we had sprung for a Honeywell WiFi thermostat and I could manually check the setting remotely on my phone very easily.
The thermostat would also send an alert through the app if the temp exceeded parameters. This, coupled with a new DropCam aimed at the boiler's control panel (which did NOT have the ability to alert us other than throwing a code and flashing a red light) allowed us to leave for trips and contact the installer for repairs if needed and we had a neighbor let them in. Never ended up needing that as they eventually fixed the boiler.
The WiFi Thermostat has come in handy in other ways since then:
We installed one in the apartment we rent out to replace the crappy one that the tenant could never figure out how to use. Now when they call or text about issues with Heating or Cooling I can instantly check their thermostat remotely and "fix" it.
We also installed one in my MIL's home. She lives alone and keeps screwing with the thermostat. She is supposed to leave the FAN ON all the time so the humidifier runs even when the forced air heat is not supposed to come on. Instead of driving over there to check it, *again* I just check it via the app on my phone. I can turn the FAN on/off, check settings, re-do them if necessary.
No issues with reliability after more than a year of operation.
"No experiments. Leave people alone. And don't spend money that you don't have."
Reference: http://bizlex.com/2015/01/excl...
It should be noted that he is not scheduled to make a formal announcement until Monday (tomorrow).
I see so many people going on about who great this film was but I can't help but wonder what it was that I missed?
The film is about Love. Everything else is window dressing.
If you try and make the film to be about something else, you will be disappointed.
I am so disappointed.
People who were prune to motion sickness will be worse off without the windows since they are cut off from the last piece of sensory information that tells them that they are moving.
And that is why I refuse to use those new-fangled elevators without windows.
There seems to be a "sweet spot" of just how much cash most people can come up with for used vehicle and it appears to be around $4K max.
I don't know if you mean cash literally which would make sense, but most people can qualify for loans from their bank or credit union.
I meant CASH as in CASH. Literally. Not figuratively.
I meant people paying CASH for a car. The segment of the population we are talking about in this thread does not use banks or credit unions.
That's one reason why they end up getting these horribly financed vehicles.
That may be true, but if you have the $5K, chances are you are not going to be shopping at one of these places in the first place.
These loans are for people who are are literally living week to week.
There seems to be a "sweet spot" of just how much cash most people can come up with for used vehicle and it appears to be around $4K max.
Case-in-point: I advertised my 12 year old pickup for $4500 and had several "offers" and tire kickers. I figured it was a very fair price for decent truck, but the buyer ended up being a dealer with a small lot of work trucks. He paid the full amount.
I asked him how much he thought he could get out of it. He said $8999.
How could a dealer find a buyer for that price when I had trouble at $4500? The difference was that they could finance it for the buyer.
Buyer had to put down maybe $2-3K, the rest was financed at a fairly high rate.
and if we want a house we should just save up for 50years?
of course! after a year or two of living on the street, you will have saved enough money to buy a car.
Then you can live in that until you have saved enough money to buy a house.
or borrow the money from your parents like everyone else. (Romney joke)
The dealer will buy a car at auction for $2000, then offer it for sale for $5000 but you HAVE to finance it through them. They will NOT let you pay cash.
They take advantage of the fact that there are a large group of people out there that are employed at low wage jobs who need a car to get to and from work.
They take $500 or $1000 down, or more if possible. Once you make a few payments, the dealer's initial cost for the vehicle is paid and if you don't make the payment, they repo the car and sell it to someone else for the same amount, financing the deal again.
These dealers can sell the same car over and over again without having to buy new inventory.
I was always told the 0s got stuck at kinks as they were wider.
That is an old wive's tale that has been proven wrong.
www.TheTruthAboutCables.com did an in depth study a few years ago.
I forgot about the parity alignment module though, thanks for the reminder.
Make sure the service you find does cable straightening or uses "MASSIVE" brand cables.
This ensures all the 1's and 0's get through. Cables with kinks can cause some of the 1's to get stuck.
I use 1 inch diameter cables to import all my VHS video footage.
Why would you trust your VHS footage to anything less?
find a used Digital8 camcorder with a Firewire (IEEE 1394) output.
Put tape in, plug into computer, import footage.
Digital8 camcorders will play back video8, HI-8 and Digital8 while converting the video8 to DV on the fly.
- Nigel Tufnel
These are excellent machines that will play back just about any VHS tape you can throw at them.
I am looking at 5 of them across the room from me right now. 3 are in excellent condition, one needs some audio work and one needs all the capacitors changed.
I also leave the screws off the covers so I can slide them back and manually clean the heads when I run into some bad tapes (tapes that were crinkled or damaged or have iron oxide flaking off).
The capacitors is the big issue with these. Every.Single.One needs to be replaced at some point.
I used to send my machines out to a place in Texas to have them changed for around $300 after I bought them on eBay.
Then there was a guy selling them on eBay with the caps changed out for around $300 and they were running like new.
I think he is still there.
These machines are excellent at playing back difficult to track tapes, or ones recorded in SLP/EP mode.
don't buy one of those all-in-one VHS to DVD machines unless your tapes are all in good condition and recorded in SP mode.