Oh, fuck you for arguing over some kind of stupid bullshit straw man semantics. Mercury is bad for humans. More mercury in our environment means more sick and dead humans. That's a fact.
I'm sure that Donnie Dipshit thinks that pollution is some kind of "Democrat conspiracy" designed to hurt those wonderful coal miners who cheer him at his rallies.
Good point, AC. I completely forgot about that. Prodigy was pioneering. I was an active user for years, in fact. That's right... they sold Prodigy. I remember thinking at the time that that was a dumb move.
As always, US companies are interested in THIS QUARTER'S numbers. *Maybe* next quarter's. That's what US business schools teach: cut costs any way possible to increase profitability *now*. Planning for a year from now? That's unheard of in most big US companies. Adding an e-commerce website is trivial. They're turn-key. They can be set up by an individual. Sears should have been planning for e-commerce and been selling online 20 years ago. They should have been updating their stores constantly, but most haven't been updated in decades. A tremendous lack of planning on their part and a focus on immediate earnings did them in. Now the private equity vultures are just picking apart the scraps.
Good! I don't use my libraries for high tech gadgets and services and the latest mind numbing toys. I use them to acquire knowledge. Real knowledge is generally compiled and cataloged in a thoughtful, deliberate way. There's very little that passes for knowledge on the Net today, outside of a few (old) scientific journals.
The idea of the Internet democratizing information sadly, hasn't happened (yet?). So far, the Internet is largely used for porn and cat pics and other stupid garbage. As someone who's used the Net from before there was a Web, it's severely disappointing.
Literally 2-3 times the price? Really? A box of cookies is $4 at your local grocery store, but $8-$12 at Whole Foods? I don't shop at Whole Foods because I don't shop with Amazon, but I find what you're saying very hard to believe.
... you forgot the rest of your sentence: "and give up ownership of everything I post and allow Facebook to track everything I do on the web and in real life".
... or you could pay a few bucks a month to a responsible ISP and let them deal with the hassles of hosting. My personal web sites costs be about $3/year.
I do my part. I'm actually studying to be a biologist, so I know how badly I am damaging the environment in many different ways, and I do as many things as possible to ameliorate it. Some of those things make me more uncomfortable than if I were to just indulge in what most people do. I'm not asking for a cookie for it, and I'm not encouraging others to follow my lead.
The Earth is fucked as a habitat for humans largely because people don't really give a shit to inconvenience themselves to do anything about it. I have no interest in trying to convince you or anybody else to make yourself be the slightest bit uncomfortable on order to help others. Best of luck. If you need somebody to pat your head and rub your tummy so that you don't have to buy those awful water bottles, then quite frankly, fuck you. You're not only part of the problem, but representative of the worst of the problem. Buy all the water bottles you want. Buy extras, and just throw them in the trash, for all I care.
Oh, Heaven forbid you have something cross your palette that is less than perfect. I'm sorry you're so delicate. I drink tap water that tastes like chlorine, but I deal with it, because my precious, precious taste buds aren't as important as my contribution to cancer all over the world due to increased externalities from a plastic bottle.
It uses more water to mine the oil and other chemicals needed to make and ship a plastic bottle than it does to move a bit more pressurized water through already existing pipes. I don't know how much, but definitely more. That's all I need to know to say that it wastes energy. It does. It's science. Deal with it, snowflake.
There's the wasted energy that goes into making that plastic bottle. And of course, the toxic chemicals that must be used to make it aren't good. And the oil that went into that plastic bottle won't be usable by humans likely ever again. There's no upside to it, for sure, but there are certainly downsides.
And of course, each of those water bottles that you use is going to be around on the planet for thousands of years. That's a tremendous amount of environmental damage you're creating for no good reason.
They're just going to keep it up long enough until they extinguish all of their competition. Then, they can jack up their prices. Unfettered capitalism at its finest.
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Oh, fuck you for arguing over some kind of stupid bullshit straw man semantics. Mercury is bad for humans. More mercury in our environment means more sick and dead humans. That's a fact.
I'm sure that Donnie Dipshit thinks that pollution is some kind of "Democrat conspiracy" designed to hurt those wonderful coal miners who cheer him at his rallies.
Good point, AC. I completely forgot about that. Prodigy was pioneering. I was an active user for years, in fact. That's right... they sold Prodigy. I remember thinking at the time that that was a dumb move.
As always, US companies are interested in THIS QUARTER'S numbers. *Maybe* next quarter's. That's what US business schools teach: cut costs any way possible to increase profitability *now*. Planning for a year from now? That's unheard of in most big US companies. Adding an e-commerce website is trivial. They're turn-key. They can be set up by an individual. Sears should have been planning for e-commerce and been selling online 20 years ago. They should have been updating their stores constantly, but most haven't been updated in decades. A tremendous lack of planning on their part and a focus on immediate earnings did them in. Now the private equity vultures are just picking apart the scraps.
Good! I don't use my libraries for high tech gadgets and services and the latest mind numbing toys. I use them to acquire knowledge. Real knowledge is generally compiled and cataloged in a thoughtful, deliberate way. There's very little that passes for knowledge on the Net today, outside of a few (old) scientific journals.
"How x won y". What a stupid, mindless, clickbait title. It means nothing.
The idea of the Internet democratizing information sadly, hasn't happened (yet?). So far, the Internet is largely used for porn and cat pics and other stupid garbage. As someone who's used the Net from before there was a Web, it's severely disappointing.
. Some estimate it's $60k per illegal of services drain on the economy
Source?
Literally 2-3 times the price? Really? A box of cookies is $4 at your local grocery store, but $8-$12 at Whole Foods? I don't shop at Whole Foods because I don't shop with Amazon, but I find what you're saying very hard to believe.
What a tremendous pain in the ass. You could've just gone to a store.
... you forgot the rest of your sentence: "and give up ownership of everything I post and allow Facebook to track everything I do on the web and in real life".
Oh I know why: because only 0.0001% on the planet are able to figure out how to run their own website and maintain it and pay for it.
I disagree. It's because most people are lazy. I know plenty of people who knew better and still don't have their own web sites.
... or you could pay a few bucks a month to a responsible ISP and let them deal with the hassles of hosting. My personal web sites costs be about $3/year.
There's nothing to regulate about a personal web site. There's no data being collected and sold.
Your web site doesn't work.
You're missing the point. Joining yet another "service" is exactly what this author is suggesting that people *NOT* do.
I do. It was pretty awesome.
I do my part. I'm actually studying to be a biologist, so I know how badly I am damaging the environment in many different ways, and I do as many things as possible to ameliorate it. Some of those things make me more uncomfortable than if I were to just indulge in what most people do. I'm not asking for a cookie for it, and I'm not encouraging others to follow my lead.
The Earth is fucked as a habitat for humans largely because people don't really give a shit to inconvenience themselves to do anything about it. I have no interest in trying to convince you or anybody else to make yourself be the slightest bit uncomfortable on order to help others. Best of luck. If you need somebody to pat your head and rub your tummy so that you don't have to buy those awful water bottles, then quite frankly, fuck you. You're not only part of the problem, but representative of the worst of the problem. Buy all the water bottles you want. Buy extras, and just throw them in the trash, for all I care.
Oh, Heaven forbid you have something cross your palette that is less than perfect. I'm sorry you're so delicate. I drink tap water that tastes like chlorine, but I deal with it, because my precious, precious taste buds aren't as important as my contribution to cancer all over the world due to increased externalities from a plastic bottle.
My suggestion is: suck it up.
It uses more water to mine the oil and other chemicals needed to make and ship a plastic bottle than it does to move a bit more pressurized water through already existing pipes. I don't know how much, but definitely more. That's all I need to know to say that it wastes energy. It does. It's science. Deal with it, snowflake.
There's the wasted energy that goes into making that plastic bottle. And of course, the toxic chemicals that must be used to make it aren't good. And the oil that went into that plastic bottle won't be usable by humans likely ever again. There's no upside to it, for sure, but there are certainly downsides.
And of course, each of those water bottles that you use is going to be around on the planet for thousands of years. That's a tremendous amount of environmental damage you're creating for no good reason.
They're just going to keep it up long enough until they extinguish all of their competition. Then, they can jack up their prices. Unfettered capitalism at its finest.
What kind of idiot buys plastic bottles of water?
The post office is a government agency. They don't have to make a profit any more than the military does.