And he didn't say a word about English being the native language, he said people should speak it. It is by far the most common language in America, and last I checked the most common second language in the world. Not one word about it being native, but plenty to say about it making your life a lot easier.
In the enlightened words of Jules, "English, motherfucker! Do you speak it?"
Couldn't the same argument be used against distro repositories, security vendors websites, and any other system that people assume is safe and working in their best interests?
Obviously the entire point of doing it p2p is to speed up distribution, but that doesn't mean the fixes couldn't go through some kind of verification process before being flagged as safe and useful fixes.
Seems to work out pretty well for Blizzard updates.
Yeah, the old process involved using a cutter to separate the front from the funnel while under a constant spray of water to keep lead dust from killing people, though I believe I misspoke and they actually leave the leaded section leaded until it's reprocesses. The front section is typically vacuumed or washed out to remove the phosphorus powder (which is a bastard to clean up when you break one sometimes) and then different glasses are separated and graded before being sent to smelters or glass to glass recyclers.
Most newer methods of seen involve updraft systems that basically keep the air moving away from any personnel while the cutting and breaking is done, although in my experience many places using this method don't appropriately maintain their ventilation systems which are prone to clogging (and then becoming completely useless, even though if you try to check it by hand you can still feel the air current)
Yeah, that's one of them right there. Once something is declared as waste it's a hazardous waste and there's all sorts of rules and regulations to deal with, but if you simply say "These are electronics" regardless of how worthless or defective they are, they're not a waste and it's the same as shipping a boatload of new alarm clocks or PS3s. Just because the second it gets there they look at it and go "This is garbage!" doesn't matter, it wasn't garbage when it was shipped.
There are a couple of African countries trying to ban importation of obviously non-functional electronics, but it's an uphill climb.
There are in fact plenty of guidelines for exporting electronic waste, but just like everything else there's plenty of loopholes, most of which include just lying on paperwork.
Tip number 1: Don't call it waste. If you don't call it waste it's not waste, it's just electronics, and everyone likes electronics right?
It's sickening the lengths people go to to save a buck.
The problem is that there are also junk hoarders. People who fill their homes with this technology that they managed to get another year or two of use out of, and then it ends up in the garbage.
I get asked about that at work just about every day. It's fine, people are just curious about what's going on, but do you ask every police officer you see if they execute people in cold blood? Or every biker if they're a drug smuggling gang member?
I truly appreciate this kind reporting, but this is an update to two older videos, this isn't a new problem, and not everyone is part of the problem regardless of what the news would like to tell you.
The problem is the massive amount of overhead involved. There are countless numbers of local, and I would assume plenty of larger, charities. Unfortunately if you're the budget officer or IT manager for Faceless Megacorp it's not really in your interest to do anything but get the equipment out of your building as cheaply and as quickly as possible.
The company I work with works with a lot of donations, and frankly companies that want to donate their equipment are generally doing it for tax reasons and are not at all committed to the project which makes it an incredibly stressful endeavor for us trying to deal with them. This all may seem like a side note, but companies and governments put out such a volume of old equipment as to make any private holdings kind of irrelevant and minuscule in the discussion.
I can personally vouch for the company that I've worked for for the last four years. I know, literally, where every peace of equipment and commodity was headed when it left our docks.
There are always some problems though for instance:
India is the center of modern plastics recycling at the moment, most U.S. vendors are unwilling to take the kind of low grade plastics found in most home electronics.
Resale. Given a standard 2-3 year refresh cycle on computer hardware, most of the equipment companies with corporate contracts receive is still very usable and in high demand in developing areas where a $65 P4 that's two years old works just as well for them as a $300 Dell. Unfortunately, once they computers have served another 3-4 years it's questionable whether their new owners are as responsible as the original.
The big one, and the one that worries everyone the most, is corrupt down stream vendors. We visit each and every one of our down stream processors to try to verify their legitimacy both by meeting with them and inspecting their processes. However, there's little was to guarantee that just because a company has the ability and equipment to handle say, leaded glass, doesn't mean that it's not all a show put on and the real materials are going in a shipping container once you've left the building.
And if a parent tells you it's ok to shoot their child with a BB Gun it's perfectly on the level because it's not your fault the parent doesn't love their child?
There are plenty of operations that more or less shred the materials and then seperate them using a variety of systems such as eddy currents to split out various useful thing. Throwing it direct in the smelter is a no go though, there's far too many batteries, glass, plastics, and any number of other things that are not only hazardous to burn in an uncontrolled setting (or one not specifically controlled) and that make extraction of useful materials afterwards less than cost effective.
It's perfectly logical, it categorizes a large section of disposable waste both by source and by expected hazards. Electronics waste is specially legislated and defined by the EPA to better handle the specifics that are pretty common almost anything you'd be working with, such as circuit boards, batteries, and a whole lot of heavy metals.
Is it any crazier than referring to medical waste?
It's true that many people don't have phones, but there are also people like me who at any given time have 2-3 cellphones between personal need and work, and also the fabulously extravagant who are more than happy to throw away their cell phone ever time the latest Gold plated Razr or 3G iPhone comes out.
You and I may only replace phones when they're broken, and may try to find a use for the old ones, but we're not representative of the majority of American who are happy to sign a new contract or drop $300 for the latest and greatest before throwing their old model in a dumpster.
It can be recovered by what amounts to pressure washing, I don't see why they couldn't get it from heating. My guess is that lead dust from CRTs isn't nearly as valuable as solder from circuit boards which is much easier to reclaim and far more valuable to resell.
They seem to have the largest land army in the world that has been put to good use suppressing protectors and subjugating disputed territories but they can't direct a few of those 2.3 Million active duty troops to enforce a few environmental regulations? I call bullshit.
I bring this up every time there's one of these stories because there are countries along the west coast of Africa that have the laws and are making every effort to enforce them that simply don't have the manpower and stability to keep things under control, It's not a problem that China traditionally seems to have.
I never said once that it was meant for them, that they had a claim to it, that it's theirs rightfully or anything of the sort.
The have it, period. They are in it and they have the will and force to keep it, period.
I didn't make a single call at the right and wrong, the fair and unfair, I simply called it like it is. If you want to believe that a realistic view of the situation (ie: Palastinians will never force Israel out of Gaza unless Israel leaves by their own choice) is some Zionist rant you're more than welcome to.
No, it really is more of a waste of time, because the game has a built in system of automation that it assumes 99% of people will be using, and the gameplay is engineered accordingly.
It's like trying to beat GTA only making left turns. Yes, it can be done, but you're not doing anything but making your own life harder with no real added satisfaction.
And have a game that was already a 70 hour waste of time become a 120 hour waste of time because the combat system was designed to function without constant input?
Here's the deal. The storyline of FFXII was great, and that's the only reason I finished it. That, of course, has absolutely nothing to do with the game play which was in no way "the most adult" and since that's what we're talking about here you might want to keep it on track.
I always asked myself, what would it be like if they made a game I could play well while doing 10 other things? Well, they did it, and it's not very fun, not to mention that the characters are 100% interchangeable it almost seems like every aspect of gameplay was designed to make it as insignificant and ignorable as possible.
They really should have just put the story together as an FMV and sold that for $30 I would have been much happier.
You should check that episode of that sports science show. They did a segment on the hardest hits in sports, and without padding the hit from a charging linebacker could snap the spine of a man without too much trouble.
I honestly have absolutely no idea what you're trying to say or what point you're trying to make.
Is that a jab at linemen not being athletic? Linemen not getting paid enough? Was it even a reply to what you quoted? If so, then how? The genetics and conditioning that goes into football in America is absolutely mindblowing.
Slashdot Mirror
We were all trying to wait a couple hours before we started pointing out what a massive waste of time most of our elected officials are.
And he didn't say a word about English being the native language, he said people should speak it. It is by far the most common language in America, and last I checked the most common second language in the world. Not one word about it being native, but plenty to say about it making your life a lot easier.
In the enlightened words of Jules, "English, motherfucker! Do you speak it?"
Couldn't the same argument be used against distro repositories, security vendors websites, and any other system that people assume is safe and working in their best interests?
Obviously the entire point of doing it p2p is to speed up distribution, but that doesn't mean the fixes couldn't go through some kind of verification process before being flagged as safe and useful fixes.
Seems to work out pretty well for Blizzard updates.
Yeah, the old process involved using a cutter to separate the front from the funnel while under a constant spray of water to keep lead dust from killing people, though I believe I misspoke and they actually leave the leaded section leaded until it's reprocesses. The front section is typically vacuumed or washed out to remove the phosphorus powder (which is a bastard to clean up when you break one sometimes) and then different glasses are separated and graded before being sent to smelters or glass to glass recyclers.
Most newer methods of seen involve updraft systems that basically keep the air moving away from any personnel while the cutting and breaking is done, although in my experience many places using this method don't appropriately maintain their ventilation systems which are prone to clogging (and then becoming completely useless, even though if you try to check it by hand you can still feel the air current)
Yeah, that's one of them right there. Once something is declared as waste it's a hazardous waste and there's all sorts of rules and regulations to deal with, but if you simply say "These are electronics" regardless of how worthless or defective they are, they're not a waste and it's the same as shipping a boatload of new alarm clocks or PS3s. Just because the second it gets there they look at it and go "This is garbage!" doesn't matter, it wasn't garbage when it was shipped. There are a couple of African countries trying to ban importation of obviously non-functional electronics, but it's an uphill climb.
There are in fact plenty of guidelines for exporting electronic waste, but just like everything else there's plenty of loopholes, most of which include just lying on paperwork.
Tip number 1: Don't call it waste. If you don't call it waste it's not waste, it's just electronics, and everyone likes electronics right?
It's sickening the lengths people go to to save a buck.
The problem is that there are also junk hoarders. People who fill their homes with this technology that they managed to get another year or two of use out of, and then it ends up in the garbage.
I get asked about that at work just about every day. It's fine, people are just curious about what's going on, but do you ask every police officer you see if they execute people in cold blood? Or every biker if they're a drug smuggling gang member?
I truly appreciate this kind reporting, but this is an update to two older videos, this isn't a new problem, and not everyone is part of the problem regardless of what the news would like to tell you.
The problem is the massive amount of overhead involved. There are countless numbers of local, and I would assume plenty of larger, charities. Unfortunately if you're the budget officer or IT manager for Faceless Megacorp it's not really in your interest to do anything but get the equipment out of your building as cheaply and as quickly as possible.
The company I work with works with a lot of donations, and frankly companies that want to donate their equipment are generally doing it for tax reasons and are not at all committed to the project which makes it an incredibly stressful endeavor for us trying to deal with them. This all may seem like a side note, but companies and governments put out such a volume of old equipment as to make any private holdings kind of irrelevant and minuscule in the discussion.
I can personally vouch for the company that I've worked for for the last four years. I know, literally, where every peace of equipment and commodity was headed when it left our docks.
There are always some problems though for instance:
India is the center of modern plastics recycling at the moment, most U.S. vendors are unwilling to take the kind of low grade plastics found in most home electronics.
Resale. Given a standard 2-3 year refresh cycle on computer hardware, most of the equipment companies with corporate contracts receive is still very usable and in high demand in developing areas where a $65 P4 that's two years old works just as well for them as a $300 Dell. Unfortunately, once they computers have served another 3-4 years it's questionable whether their new owners are as responsible as the original.
The big one, and the one that worries everyone the most, is corrupt down stream vendors. We visit each and every one of our down stream processors to try to verify their legitimacy both by meeting with them and inspecting their processes. However, there's little was to guarantee that just because a company has the ability and equipment to handle say, leaded glass, doesn't mean that it's not all a show put on and the real materials are going in a shipping container once you've left the building.
And if a parent tells you it's ok to shoot their child with a BB Gun it's perfectly on the level because it's not your fault the parent doesn't love their child?
There are plenty of operations that more or less shred the materials and then seperate them using a variety of systems such as eddy currents to split out various useful thing. Throwing it direct in the smelter is a no go though, there's far too many batteries, glass, plastics, and any number of other things that are not only hazardous to burn in an uncontrolled setting (or one not specifically controlled) and that make extraction of useful materials afterwards less than cost effective.
It's perfectly logical, it categorizes a large section of disposable waste both by source and by expected hazards. Electronics waste is specially legislated and defined by the EPA to better handle the specifics that are pretty common almost anything you'd be working with, such as circuit boards, batteries, and a whole lot of heavy metals.
Is it any crazier than referring to medical waste?
It's true that many people don't have phones, but there are also people like me who at any given time have 2-3 cellphones between personal need and work, and also the fabulously extravagant who are more than happy to throw away their cell phone ever time the latest Gold plated Razr or 3G iPhone comes out. You and I may only replace phones when they're broken, and may try to find a use for the old ones, but we're not representative of the majority of American who are happy to sign a new contract or drop $300 for the latest and greatest before throwing their old model in a dumpster.
It can be recovered by what amounts to pressure washing, I don't see why they couldn't get it from heating. My guess is that lead dust from CRTs isn't nearly as valuable as solder from circuit boards which is much easier to reclaim and far more valuable to resell.
That's always been my question.
They seem to have the largest land army in the world that has been put to good use suppressing protectors and subjugating disputed territories but they can't direct a few of those 2.3 Million active duty troops to enforce a few environmental regulations? I call bullshit.
I bring this up every time there's one of these stories because there are countries along the west coast of Africa that have the laws and are making every effort to enforce them that simply don't have the manpower and stability to keep things under control, It's not a problem that China traditionally seems to have.
I never said once that it was meant for them, that they had a claim to it, that it's theirs rightfully or anything of the sort.
The have it, period. They are in it and they have the will and force to keep it, period.
I didn't make a single call at the right and wrong, the fair and unfair, I simply called it like it is. If you want to believe that a realistic view of the situation (ie: Palastinians will never force Israel out of Gaza unless Israel leaves by their own choice) is some Zionist rant you're more than welcome to.
No, it really is more of a waste of time, because the game has a built in system of automation that it assumes 99% of people will be using, and the gameplay is engineered accordingly. It's like trying to beat GTA only making left turns. Yes, it can be done, but you're not doing anything but making your own life harder with no real added satisfaction.
And have a game that was already a 70 hour waste of time become a 120 hour waste of time because the combat system was designed to function without constant input?
Here's the deal. The storyline of FFXII was great, and that's the only reason I finished it. That, of course, has absolutely nothing to do with the game play which was in no way "the most adult" and since that's what we're talking about here you might want to keep it on track.
I always asked myself, what would it be like if they made a game I could play well while doing 10 other things? Well, they did it, and it's not very fun, not to mention that the characters are 100% interchangeable it almost seems like every aspect of gameplay was designed to make it as insignificant and ignorable as possible.
They really should have just put the story together as an FMV and sold that for $30 I would have been much happier.
Damnit! There goes my funny comment.
There's no continent "Britain" either. America in this context is short for United States of America, continents have nothing to do with it.
Guess what, in the U.S. we call the U.S. America and ourselves Americans, we call them South Americans or names based on their specific nationalities.
I appreciate your concern, unfortunately my reply to your point is exactly the same.
You should check that episode of that sports science show. They did a segment on the hardest hits in sports, and without padding the hit from a charging linebacker could snap the spine of a man without too much trouble.
I honestly have absolutely no idea what you're trying to say or what point you're trying to make.
Is that a jab at linemen not being athletic? Linemen not getting paid enough? Was it even a reply to what you quoted? If so, then how? The genetics and conditioning that goes into football in America is absolutely mindblowing.