MacWorld is an awful magazine and has been for years.
And that's too bad, because they used to be a GOOD magazine. These are some things that sent MacWorld down the tubes, and they are responsible for most of them.
I noticed the "do not dispose with regular garbage" on a CF bulb in January 2006, and contacted my City to ask what to do with it. Their response is quoted below.
Essentially, they do the same thing as they do with radioactive waste: toss it in the ground and hope it doesn't leak.
A couple months later, a councillor made the same observation and brought it up in the media, and now there is one store that takes back any used CF bulbs, and Ikea will take back used bulbs bought at Ikea.
Thanks for your interest in the City of Ottawa's Solid Waste Services programs. The City of Ottawa's municipal landfill is regulated by the Ontario Ministry of Environment Regulation 347. Under this regulation, there is a small quantity exemption for residents to dispose of mercury containing light fixtures that would be equivalent to 17 standard 4 foot, 1 and 1/2 inch diameter fluorescent tubes per month. You can place this type of material out with your regular curbside collection. These types of light fixtures do contain trace amounts of mercury. You should be aware that the City's municipal landfill has an impermeable liner and an extensive leachate collection system where the leachate is collected and then treated at our sewage treatment plant. The concentration of mercury in the landfill leachate has never been out of compliance with the City's Sewer Use Bylaw and in fact has never been detected (detection limit is 0.0001 mg/L for mercury) in our leachate over the past 4 years. Manufacturers are working to reduce the mercury content without reducing lamp life in these types of fixtures.
Hopefully this helps.
George Reimer Waste Diversion Project Coordinator City of Ottawa, Solid Waste Services 4475 Trail Road, R.R. #2 Ottawa, ON K0A 2Z0
Yes. I noticed that TFA didn't mention if any of the *other* rooms in her house were also tested for mercury, as a control. Perhaps her house(/walls/carpeting/whatever) just had a lot of mercury in it.
A lot of electricity is produced with coal, and that puts out more mercury than the CFL contains over the life of the bulb. Okay, but what about those jurisdictions who rely primarily on "clean" energy? While there aren't many such juridictions in North America (although Wikipedia reports that Quebec uses 97% hydroelectric), the less-mercury-produced-by-coal-burning argument doesn't seem to hold there.
the article seems to be written more as an argument against using CFL rather than a simple report on the compromise. Yes, this is what we in North America call "objective reporting". CanWest is quite good at it.
Large stores like WAL-MART and Home Depot make their money by having a much higher ratio of product/customers to employees. Unlike smaller stores, individual customers can't be served/monitored by employees.
This increases the opportunity for theft, so small items, such as pocket knives, are placed in ridiculously large blister packs that make it harder to conceal in a theft. In addition, these packs provide additional advertising space for our overcommercialized world.
The result, as David Imhoff puts it in his book Paper or Plastic: Searching for solutions to an overpackaged world, is that you need a pocket knife to open the package it comes in.
Back when lasers were still new, it was really big in sci fi (such as James Bond and Star Trek), as a magical tool with near universal applications and can safe (or destroy) lives.
Nowadays, lasers are. They're used in everyday objects like CD players, to complex medical procedures like laser eye surgery and those machines that kill otherwise inoperable brain tumours.
So you're suggesting that we invest in expensive solar power ventures now because the capital/startup costs will be lower in the future, after it's already built?
the whole, "I was just trying to help them" argument sounds fishy.
That's because what he said was: "I was planning on going to Cisco with the vulnerability this summer,"
When what he probably meant was: "I was planning on going to Cisco with the vulnerability this summer, if I got caught."
It's a fairly common first defense, but it needs to be corroborated. The evidence you (PP) cited seems to not corroborate his claim of benign intentions.
The simple fact is that inkjet printing is just a bad idea, no matter what the costs are. It can't compete in any way with laser printing technology, except by using marketing to take advantage of peoples' poverty and my colourblindness.
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Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa... whoa.
It said human rules, not ogre rules.
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Even if he didn't realize it at the time, telling off the richest guy in the world is pretty frickin' awesome.
Keeping your job after it is just icing on the cake!
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Worked for the shampoo industry:
Lather, rinse, repeat.
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Yes, and Brazil actually had the balls to stand up the the U.S. and refuse AIDS prevention money that was locked into abstinence-only programs.
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I stopped a flamewar once, and was disappointed not to get any recognition from Smokey Bear.
Not even a letter!
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All the more reason for Goliath to want to negotiate!
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So essentially, it got taken over by Microsoft?
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Yeah, it's a little editorial tactic called "putting a little nothing in all the right places".
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Essentially, they do the same thing as they do with radioactive waste: toss it in the ground and hope it doesn't leak.
A couple months later, a councillor made the same observation and brought it up in the media, and now there is one store that takes back any used CF bulbs, and Ikea will take back used bulbs bought at Ikea.
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Yes. I noticed that TFA didn't mention if any of the *other* rooms in her house were also tested for mercury, as a control. Perhaps her house(/walls/carpeting/whatever) just had a lot of mercury in it.
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Large stores like WAL-MART and Home Depot make their money by having a much higher ratio of product/customers to employees. Unlike smaller stores, individual customers can't be served/monitored by employees.
This increases the opportunity for theft, so small items, such as pocket knives, are placed in ridiculously large blister packs that make it harder to conceal in a theft. In addition, these packs provide additional advertising space for our overcommercialized world.
The result, as David Imhoff puts it in his book Paper or Plastic: Searching for solutions to an overpackaged world, is that you need a pocket knife to open the package it comes in.
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Really, cause all the newer consoles mod it +4 Funny.
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Back when lasers were still new, it was really big in sci fi (such as James Bond and Star Trek), as a magical tool with near universal applications and can safe (or destroy) lives.
Nowadays, lasers are. They're used in everyday objects like CD players, to complex medical procedures like laser eye surgery and those machines that kill otherwise inoperable brain tumours.
I have a feeling that carbon nanotubes will too.
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I think they'll still be made of skin and bones for quite some time.
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I don't think it counts when there aren't any listeners...
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So you're suggesting that we invest in expensive solar power ventures now because the capital/startup costs will be lower in the future, after it's already built?
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In this case, the person has been camping out on my land for months, and inviting his friends over.
It doesn't sound like he was going to tell the landlord about the hole in the fence.
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That's because what he said was: "I was planning on going to Cisco with the vulnerability this summer,"
When what he probably meant was: "I was planning on going to Cisco with the vulnerability this summer, if I got caught."
It's a fairly common first defense, but it needs to be corroborated. The evidence you (PP) cited seems to not corroborate his claim of benign intentions.
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No, it's more like Nike. He doesn't sell fruitcakes per se, he sells the fruitcake lifestyle.
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Perhaps for some consumers, but most of the (keyboardless) tablet PCs I've seen have been as big as, or bigger than, most small laptops.
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There, fixed it for you.
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