And that's with two google searches and only looking at the first five results, if you utilized ultra extreme 133t tactics like bittorrents I'm sure you could find even more.
Or, as I said, VLC and MPC, which most pirates would be using anyway, because WMP is garbage. Pirates never have to buy anything. Where there's a will there's a way.
You pay for the safe smelters and all of the lead processing equipment, or even start a nice small business that simply processes the thing to be shipped to facilites that already have the machinery and I'd gladly cover the training. Of course if money wasn't the issue all of this stuff wouldn't be getting dumped in China in the first place, would it?
That's a great idea, unless of course the idea of successful revolution in China, given their six million man army, a single party that crushes all dissent, and an economy growing by leaps and bounds, not to mention failed efforts by the US to fight Chinese communism in the past such as their training of Tibeten freedom fighers or support of the white china nationalists, both of which have failed, is completely far fetched and somewhat unreasonable given the circumstances. China isn't a politically devided colony accross the ocean, China isn't a the third world outpost of a crumbling empire, and China is certainly not going to bow to outside political pressure and just throw in the towel. So how about, in the mean time, while we wait for the political revolution,we shoot for some incredibly easy environmental reform?
That however I have seen. if you jiggle the network cable on my notebook running linux the whole thing can lock up and wont respond to anything until you eject the network card, wait, and then plug it back in.
That's great. "If they aren't going to throw off their brutal oppression fuck em! The impovershed third world villagers of rural China need to get their shit together and stop letting government use their backyard as a junkyard!"
I'm as against blaming others as anyone else, but I think there comes a point where you have to accept that some situations are a bit out of your control, and if you're an uneducated villager dying of lead poisoning I think you have a bit less control over the situation than the corperations that are sending the computers there in the first place.
That's what I kept thinking, aren't these the same moms who use IE becasue they don't know any better? Although I guess they're also the moms that can use Gentoo because the documentation is so good and that even Aunt Tilly could start up her own dedicated hardware firewall!
I;ve never seen a USB device crash any of the three systems I'm sitting in front of, nor have I heard of it crashing the 20+ systems runn by my feelow computer nerd friends social circle. The point being, it can't really be typical if there are a lot of people who have no idea what you're talking about.
I futz with my systems constantly, and all of them have an uptime limited only by when I have to restart to change out hardware.
The system is only as stable as the user.
If it's anything like the recycling company I work for, those computers were inventoried, whiped, and resold, so now the company you mother works for has all the paperwork to cover their asses if their was ever a mistake, and they probably got 50% of the profits from selling those systems. And they didn't have to add any IT staffers to do the work for them. Make sense?
That's why it falls upon private industry, becuase there is a profit to be made.
Case in point, you could spend $15 to give your CRT to city waste department where I live, or you could spend $5 to give it to the recycling company I work for. BEcause of a contract with the city we end up with the monitor either way, it's just a mtter of paying the middle man. I would be that a lot of other places are doing the same, they're charging you for their trouble as well as the cost that they're going to have to pay someone else to do the work,
We actually can do quite a bit with them, people just aren't willing to do so. I work for a company in Wisconsin that runs community collection events twice a year for the city as well as handing the influx of collection days in other parts of the state, we also handle a lot of business from two major waste management companies and a number of large corperate entitites.
There's plenty of profit to be made. The precious circuit boards and steel from computers more than pays for the wages of having someone sperate the two. Monitors are almost break even, even with the cost of sending out the CRT to be processed due to the large amount of copper scrap in them. This can be offset by charging $5, or much less. Infact we found that just about everything that people could find as far as electronics is profitable to be dissassembled and recycled if you don't mind a really low profit margine.
Of course if you're a non-profit it wouldn't matter, or if you do like we do and charge a small fee for the items there's plenty of money to be made. I know there's a similar company in Iowa as well as a company that does it all with a massive(like builing sized) shredder in southern california.
I've seen the BAN videos as part of the training at the recycling company where I work called "Why we do what we do." One picture of a CRT being smashed might look faked to you, but when you see a city sized landfill of storage containers fille dwith computer parts and a river turned black by the primitive recycling process that they use or the hundreds of people in the nearby villages dying of lead poisoning and lung cancer it gets a lot harder to ignore.
OSHA, for one. Unlike CHina we have health and safety standards for our workers. Need and example?
Our circuit boards are sent to an outside company that melts them down in an industrial grade smelter run by trained professional using proper safety gear to limit their exposure to hazardous gasses. In China this work is done in open air by a guy with a tourch who will probably die by the time he's 40 from inhaling hazardous fumes while trying to get the soder off of circuit boards.
Our CRTs are smashed, rinsed, and the lead is disposed of while the glass is recycled. In China CRTs are frequently simply smashed in a ditch (which also happens to be a rain gutter) More lead poisoning ensues.
The point is, these things aren't going to recycling centers in China, they're going to impoversed villages whose residences don't want the crap in their back yard but it does provide a source of money so they sell their health and safety. Americans aren't inherently better, but at least for now our worker protections and methodology certainly is.
That's far from a perfect solution. Who do you think has more time to sit around watching auctions, my hypothetical conspirators or a legitimate business? Another 24 hours, what does that cost them? Nothing. But every 24 hours a legitimate business spends waiting for its ultraperfect domain name is 24 hours they got without that venue. I don't think Snapnames has had to deal with anything as monumental as the creation of.eu and I think the system would quickly break down.
Nvidia has 18 cards according to their website. And of course those are just the actual card designations, not taking into account if any of the cards has more than one manufacturer.
I wouldn't say notebooks "tend" to be sodered (although I also shouldn't say they tend not to be) from what I've seen it's pretty hit or miss but it's definitely becoming more common, at least at the high end, than it ever has been in the past.
Or maybe he saw that the three nations with the lowest life expectancies in the world, Zimbabwe and I beleive Sierra Leon and the Ivory Coast, are all in sub-Saharan Africa and made a somewhat insightful thought clearly redundent post that maybe we should be spending this money elsewhere. Combine this with the recent reports that agricultural capacity in Africa has stagnated while population continues to grow, if there aren't enough starving people in Africa for you now, there will be in the future.
I think he was talking a bit earlier like the Carnegies and the Rockafellers who made immense wealth from screwing everyone but were nice enough to give a lot of the money away, just like Gates.
The "Peanut butter jelly time" dancing bannana was featured on the Family Guy and I had absolutely no clue what was going on until months later. Just because a show makes a reference doesn't ensure that people understand it.
Although he was also featured on Entertainment Tonight back around the time Revenge of the Sith came out including how popular and famous his now and how he actually got a huge amount of money from something else and didn't really know what to do with it all.
They are, so are dancing babies, Janet Jackson, and currently Chuck Norris. There's a difference though between being part of our collective memory and being in the front of our minds, everyone has embarrassing moments, but if you stop bringing it up people tend to move on. The sooner he stops making a big deal about it, the sooner people will stop bringing it up.
Case in point, I mentioned the post I was writing to my girlfriend when she walked in the door, her reply was "Star Wars kid?"
"You know the one who danced with the mop?"
*shrug*
"you know!" *makes the twirling spastic arm mostions*
"Ohhhhhhhh! THAT Star Wars kid."
At the rate things are going (ever notice the number of kids today who don't know about goat.cx?) give him another few years and he'll be completely out of pop culture.
Interestingly enough "we were just playing around" is used not only by bullies beating kids mercilessly, but by kids who were just playing around. "I'm telling the truth" is used by people who lie as well as those telling the true.
If someone "can't take a joke" there are always two possibilities, it wasn't funny/wasn't a joke, or they literally can't take a joke. I would be willing to bet we've all met both, and how do you think most people view a kid who sues people for hundreds of thousands of dollars for putting a video that the kid himself made on the internet.
Probably not until you've heard it for the thousandth time. So the one guy in your office who keeps coming back from lunch and forgetting to turn it off the alarm, will as usual, ruin it for everyone.
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So if you had a brand spanking new Intel Powerbook why would you need to triple boot it?
That was his actual question.
The answer of course, much like putting linux on an iPod even though the Apple firmware offers better MP3 playback, is becasue you can.
Actually:
Movie Maker
Movie Maker
WMP
And that's with two google searches and only looking at the first five results, if you utilized ultra extreme 133t tactics like bittorrents I'm sure you could find even more. Or, as I said, VLC and MPC, which most pirates would be using anyway, because WMP is garbage. Pirates never have to buy anything. Where there's a will there's a way.
Or, since WMP and Movie Maker are free downloads thay'll just visit Microsofts site afterwords.
Or, more likely, they'll get other programs like VLC and MPC to do the job.
You pay for the safe smelters and all of the lead processing equipment, or even start a nice small business that simply processes the thing to be shipped to facilites that already have the machinery and I'd gladly cover the training. Of course if money wasn't the issue all of this stuff wouldn't be getting dumped in China in the first place, would it?
That's a great idea, unless of course the idea of successful revolution in China, given their six million man army, a single party that crushes all dissent, and an economy growing by leaps and bounds, not to mention failed efforts by the US to fight Chinese communism in the past such as their training of Tibeten freedom fighers or support of the white china nationalists, both of which have failed, is completely far fetched and somewhat unreasonable given the circumstances. China isn't a politically devided colony accross the ocean, China isn't a the third world outpost of a crumbling empire, and China is certainly not going to bow to outside political pressure and just throw in the towel. So how about, in the mean time, while we wait for the political revolution,we shoot for some incredibly easy environmental reform?
That however I have seen. if you jiggle the network cable on my notebook running linux the whole thing can lock up and wont respond to anything until you eject the network card, wait, and then plug it back in.
That's great. "If they aren't going to throw off their brutal oppression fuck em! The impovershed third world villagers of rural China need to get their shit together and stop letting government use their backyard as a junkyard!"
I'm as against blaming others as anyone else, but I think there comes a point where you have to accept that some situations are a bit out of your control, and if you're an uneducated villager dying of lead poisoning I think you have a bit less control over the situation than the corperations that are sending the computers there in the first place.
That's what I kept thinking, aren't these the same moms who use IE becasue they don't know any better? Although I guess they're also the moms that can use Gentoo because the documentation is so good and that even Aunt Tilly could start up her own dedicated hardware firewall!
I;ve never seen a USB device crash any of the three systems I'm sitting in front of, nor have I heard of it crashing the 20+ systems runn by my feelow computer nerd friends social circle. The point being, it can't really be typical if there are a lot of people who have no idea what you're talking about.
I futz with my systems constantly, and all of them have an uptime limited only by when I have to restart to change out hardware. The system is only as stable as the user.
If it's anything like the recycling company I work for, those computers were inventoried, whiped, and resold, so now the company you mother works for has all the paperwork to cover their asses if their was ever a mistake, and they probably got 50% of the profits from selling those systems. And they didn't have to add any IT staffers to do the work for them. Make sense?
That's why it falls upon private industry, becuase there is a profit to be made.
Case in point, you could spend $15 to give your CRT to city waste department where I live, or you could spend $5 to give it to the recycling company I work for. BEcause of a contract with the city we end up with the monitor either way, it's just a mtter of paying the middle man. I would be that a lot of other places are doing the same, they're charging you for their trouble as well as the cost that they're going to have to pay someone else to do the work,
We actually can do quite a bit with them, people just aren't willing to do so. I work for a company in Wisconsin that runs community collection events twice a year for the city as well as handing the influx of collection days in other parts of the state, we also handle a lot of business from two major waste management companies and a number of large corperate entitites.
There's plenty of profit to be made. The precious circuit boards and steel from computers more than pays for the wages of having someone sperate the two. Monitors are almost break even, even with the cost of sending out the CRT to be processed due to the large amount of copper scrap in them. This can be offset by charging $5, or much less. Infact we found that just about everything that people could find as far as electronics is profitable to be dissassembled and recycled if you don't mind a really low profit margine.
Of course if you're a non-profit it wouldn't matter, or if you do like we do and charge a small fee for the items there's plenty of money to be made. I know there's a similar company in Iowa as well as a company that does it all with a massive(like builing sized) shredder in southern california.
I've seen the BAN videos as part of the training at the recycling company where I work called "Why we do what we do." One picture of a CRT being smashed might look faked to you, but when you see a city sized landfill of storage containers fille dwith computer parts and a river turned black by the primitive recycling process that they use or the hundreds of people in the nearby villages dying of lead poisoning and lung cancer it gets a lot harder to ignore.
OSHA, for one. Unlike CHina we have health and safety standards for our workers. Need and example?
Our circuit boards are sent to an outside company that melts them down in an industrial grade smelter run by trained professional using proper safety gear to limit their exposure to hazardous gasses. In China this work is done in open air by a guy with a tourch who will probably die by the time he's 40 from inhaling hazardous fumes while trying to get the soder off of circuit boards.
Our CRTs are smashed, rinsed, and the lead is disposed of while the glass is recycled. In China CRTs are frequently simply smashed in a ditch (which also happens to be a rain gutter) More lead poisoning ensues.
The point is, these things aren't going to recycling centers in China, they're going to impoversed villages whose residences don't want the crap in their back yard but it does provide a source of money so they sell their health and safety. Americans aren't inherently better, but at least for now our worker protections and methodology certainly is.
That's far from a perfect solution. Who do you think has more time to sit around watching auctions, my hypothetical conspirators or a legitimate business? Another 24 hours, what does that cost them? Nothing. But every 24 hours a legitimate business spends waiting for its ultraperfect domain name is 24 hours they got without that venue. I don't think Snapnames has had to deal with anything as monumental as the creation of .eu and I think the system would quickly break down.
Sounds like a great new banking system. I better go register that domain!
Or a hoard of wealthy investors and Ebay bidsnipers will win 95% of the auctions and buy a chunk of the internet to sell as they see fit.
Nvidia has 18 cards according to their website. And of course those are just the actual card designations, not taking into account if any of the cards has more than one manufacturer.
I wouldn't say notebooks "tend" to be sodered (although I also shouldn't say they tend not to be) from what I've seen it's pretty hit or miss but it's definitely becoming more common, at least at the high end, than it ever has been in the past.
Or maybe he saw that the three nations with the lowest life expectancies in the world, Zimbabwe and I beleive Sierra Leon and the Ivory Coast, are all in sub-Saharan Africa and made a somewhat insightful thought clearly redundent post that maybe we should be spending this money elsewhere. Combine this with the recent reports that agricultural capacity in Africa has stagnated while population continues to grow, if there aren't enough starving people in Africa for you now, there will be in the future.
I think he was talking a bit earlier like the Carnegies and the Rockafellers who made immense wealth from screwing everyone but were nice enough to give a lot of the money away, just like Gates.
The "Peanut butter jelly time" dancing bannana was featured on the Family Guy and I had absolutely no clue what was going on until months later. Just because a show makes a reference doesn't ensure that people understand it.
Although he was also featured on Entertainment Tonight back around the time Revenge of the Sith came out including how popular and famous his now and how he actually got a huge amount of money from something else and didn't really know what to do with it all.
They are, so are dancing babies, Janet Jackson, and currently Chuck Norris. There's a difference though between being part of our collective memory and being in the front of our minds, everyone has embarrassing moments, but if you stop bringing it up people tend to move on. The sooner he stops making a big deal about it, the sooner people will stop bringing it up.
Case in point, I mentioned the post I was writing to my girlfriend when she walked in the door, her reply was "Star Wars kid?"
"You know the one who danced with the mop?"
*shrug*
"you know!" *makes the twirling spastic arm mostions* "Ohhhhhhhh! THAT Star Wars kid."
At the rate things are going (ever notice the number of kids today who don't know about goat.cx?) give him another few years and he'll be completely out of pop culture.
Interestingly enough "we were just playing around" is used not only by bullies beating kids mercilessly, but by kids who were just playing around. "I'm telling the truth" is used by people who lie as well as those telling the true.
If someone "can't take a joke" there are always two possibilities, it wasn't funny/wasn't a joke, or they literally can't take a joke. I would be willing to bet we've all met both, and how do you think most people view a kid who sues people for hundreds of thousands of dollars for putting a video that the kid himself made on the internet.
Probably not until you've heard it for the thousandth time. So the one guy in your office who keeps coming back from lunch and forgetting to turn it off the alarm, will as usual, ruin it for everyone.