I hazard to think about what an e-waste nazi would think if they came into my lab space. I have a sizable quantity of ancient mercury-wetted relays, and various other cool items in my stock of parts. Lots and lots of non-ROHS electronic components, too.
Dell has a program here where I live to destroy all computers that are donated to Goodwill. It doesn't matter if it's two years old or ten years old, if you donate a PC to Goodwill, Dell has a bounty on it and off it goes to the shredder.
I'd hardly call it a 'green' program. It's Dell insuring that there isn't a strong secondary market for PCs. It's heartbreaking sometimes to see the nice new keyboards, mice, and displays come out on the sales floor, and know that recent-vintage machines were probably donated with them.
Oh, and it's because the bogey-man would get the 'information' on the hard drives. And... and... and... somebody might install something from Microsoft on the machines that they didn't properly pay for... or worse... something other than Microsoft.
Rich crony capitalists earned vast amounts of money, a little part of which they donated to certain political interests. How can you not have noticed the boost in that?
People like Nancy Pelosi don't get rich on their own, ya know.
Believe me, regulators aren't just along for the ride.
They might deeply and sincerely believe they are doing 'the good work' but they collect their fat government paychecks. File those forms in triplicate, please, and don't forget that Form 349-N is due by next Wednesday.
As long as a failed Solyndra doesn't result in a passel of big fat crony capitalists who support and promote one 'wing' of the political spectrum, you have a point. As it stands, though, it's proven to be a fucking con game.
If you run on the road, and you don't do it on the shoulder on the side of the road where you are facing oncoming traffic, you are doing your running on the illegal side of the road. Pedestrians should always travel facing motorized traffic. It's the law.
Any device can be 'legally used' in some fashion. It can be used as a decoration. The existence of a device does not imply it will be used to break the law.
It's called Prior Restraint, and it's a well established legal principle.
Law enforcement needs to focus on instances where a crime has occurred, not chasing after hypothetical cases.
Correct. So the law enforcement should focus on people who use equipment in unapproved way. Not in prohibiting equipment in the first place. I own an RF sweep generator, and it would be trivial to attach it to an RF amplifier and antenna and wreck havoc on the airwaves. It would be my doing so that would be illegal, not the fact that I own the RF sweep generator and the necessary skills to amplify and radiate the signal.
Please, let's not let this Farmville jargon take over the net, including Slashdot. Nothing was 'gifted' unless it had certain special qualities. Things are given, not gifted.
Language changes. But not because fucking Zynga made a game.
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I hazard to think about what an e-waste nazi would think if they came into my lab space. I have a sizable quantity of ancient mercury-wetted relays, and various other cool items in my stock of parts. Lots and lots of non-ROHS electronic components, too.
Dell has a program here where I live to destroy all computers that are donated to Goodwill. It doesn't matter if it's two years old or ten years old, if you donate a PC to Goodwill, Dell has a bounty on it and off it goes to the shredder.
I'd hardly call it a 'green' program. It's Dell insuring that there isn't a strong secondary market for PCs. It's heartbreaking sometimes to see the nice new keyboards, mice, and displays come out on the sales floor, and know that recent-vintage machines were probably donated with them.
Oh, and it's because the bogey-man would get the 'information' on the hard drives. And... and... and... somebody might install something from Microsoft on the machines that they didn't properly pay for... or worse... something other than Microsoft.
Tip them out of their wheelchair and beat them on the head with their femurs?
Go back to Democratic Underground. Your talking points are stale.
Fucking Martinet.
Frankly, I wish more of them had failed. The ones that haven't failed are still sucking on the government teat.
Tesla Motors, for example, collects $10,000 from the government for each Luxury Sports Car they sell.
Rich crony capitalists earned vast amounts of money, a little part of which they donated to certain political interests. How can you not have noticed the boost in that?
People like Nancy Pelosi don't get rich on their own, ya know.
Where does this 'unsubsidized market' in PV and wind exist?
I mean, be real. Where??
Believe me, regulators aren't just along for the ride.
They might deeply and sincerely believe they are doing 'the good work' but they collect their fat government paychecks. File those forms in triplicate, please, and don't forget that Form 349-N is due by next Wednesday.
As long as a failed Solyndra doesn't result in a passel of big fat crony capitalists who support and promote one 'wing' of the political spectrum, you have a point. As it stands, though, it's proven to be a fucking con game.
Here's some chickenfeed, Little.
Some people are stereotyping motherfuckers. Those people tend to do a lot of namecalling. Enjoy your paperdoll parodies much?
Not the NIMBYs.
Just the No Nukes Never Nohow types. They manage to shove wedges in at places that drive costs astronomically higher.
The burden of proof falls on those proposing sweeping changes.
Deal with it.
And you think government 'cares?'
Heh. Did you really believe all those film strips and motion pictures they showed us in Junior High School?
The electric car drivers just stop driving for a few days/hours? Is that in the sales brochure? On what page?
If you run on the road, and you don't do it on the shoulder on the side of the road where you are facing oncoming traffic, you are doing your running on the illegal side of the road. Pedestrians should always travel facing motorized traffic. It's the law.
I have long advocated an exemption from mandatory-helmet laws. So long as the rider agrees to register as an organ donor.
Any device can be 'legally used' in some fashion. It can be used as a decoration. The existence of a device does not imply it will be used to break the law.
It's called Prior Restraint, and it's a well established legal principle.
Law enforcement needs to focus on instances where a crime has occurred, not chasing after hypothetical cases.
You want a powerful HERF blast, that fries the electronics in the Glass, not something that just interferes. Destroy the evidence.
But this is just conjecture.
Correct. So the law enforcement should focus on people who use equipment in unapproved way. Not in prohibiting equipment in the first place. I own an RF sweep generator, and it would be trivial to attach it to an RF amplifier and antenna and wreck havoc on the airwaves. It would be my doing so that would be illegal, not the fact that I own the RF sweep generator and the necessary skills to amplify and radiate the signal.
And the law should be used to enforce against people who operate a device. Not because the device exists.
Only you think that, your grandchildren (great or not) don't and won't, unless it's your will and even that will get read to them by somebody else.
You raise your kids the way you want, and GP will raise their kids the way they want.
given to one of the lab employees, not GIFTED.
Please, let's not let this Farmville jargon take over the net, including Slashdot. Nothing was 'gifted' unless it had certain special qualities. Things are given, not gifted.
Language changes. But not because fucking Zynga made a game.
Why are you injecting the term 'injun' into the discussion? Nobody mentioned it and it's irrelevant.
501c3 tax exempt groups are explicitly denied the ability
to make political endorsements. So the Tea Party PACs do not qualify anyway.
You have evidence of this? A group with Tea Party in their name must by definition make explicit political endorsements?