I'm well aware of the need and difficulty involved in recycling electronics, but simply put, I don't want to pay for it. Yes, I'm being hideously selfish, I just want my government to handle it with all the money it is already sucking away from me.
I hate what's being currently done, (shipping it overseas... nasty stuff.) but I don't think an additional tax is going to help. They'll add a new tax, but they'll keep up the practice of shipping things overseas because it will still be cheaper and easier for them. They'll be congratulated for their efficient use of funds, and all that tax money will go into a nice raise for whoever brainstormed this.
Of all the things that they can and do tax, now they want to put a tax on recycling? Don't we already have plants that do recycling? I know I already pay fees to have my garbage and recycling picked up and processed-- I sure don't want to pay a second fee on my electronics.
I don't care if the tax is no more than 10$ like the article says, it's an additional grievance that I certainly don't want to deal with. Either they have the means to recycle the sorts of material that are in electronics, in which case the fees I already pay for recycling can cover that, or they don't have the means to recycle this stuff. In that case, they need to quit their porkbarrelling and use some already existing tax money to get that infrastructure in place and then come back to me.
Consider that there is no timeframe or development schedule at all. Sounds like vaporware to me. When they have some numbers or dates this will be newsworthy.
There is a Warhammer Fantasy MMOG currently under development. That's probably what you are thinking of. On the other hand, this announcement is about a Warhammer 40k based MMO, which is GW's other Warhammer line. One is high fantasy and lends itself more to RPGs, and the other being gritty sci-fi.
It's really quite interesting the amount of funding that is sent in the direction of the devs working on the Linux kernel. I'm curious what would happen if the funding was spontaneously cut. Linux was built from scratch and supported for free back in the day, but would the main developers continue to work or even be interested at all if they weren't being paid?
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I'm well aware of the need and difficulty involved in recycling electronics, but simply put, I don't want to pay for it. Yes, I'm being hideously selfish, I just want my government to handle it with all the money it is already sucking away from me.
I hate what's being currently done, (shipping it overseas... nasty stuff.) but I don't think an additional tax is going to help. They'll add a new tax, but they'll keep up the practice of shipping things overseas because it will still be cheaper and easier for them. They'll be congratulated for their efficient use of funds, and all that tax money will go into a nice raise for whoever brainstormed this.
Of all the things that they can and do tax, now they want to put a tax on recycling? Don't we already have plants that do recycling? I know I already pay fees to have my garbage and recycling picked up and processed-- I sure don't want to pay a second fee on my electronics. I don't care if the tax is no more than 10$ like the article says, it's an additional grievance that I certainly don't want to deal with. Either they have the means to recycle the sorts of material that are in electronics, in which case the fees I already pay for recycling can cover that, or they don't have the means to recycle this stuff. In that case, they need to quit their porkbarrelling and use some already existing tax money to get that infrastructure in place and then come back to me.
I must concede to you, you are correct. But I don't think Duke Nukem Forever was the best possible example there. ;)
Consider that there is no timeframe or development schedule at all. Sounds like vaporware to me. When they have some numbers or dates this will be newsworthy.
There is a Warhammer Fantasy MMOG currently under development. That's probably what you are thinking of. On the other hand, this announcement is about a Warhammer 40k based MMO, which is GW's other Warhammer line. One is high fantasy and lends itself more to RPGs, and the other being gritty sci-fi.
Hardly much of an announcement... more of a "Well, we're interested in maybe sometime possibly making another video game."
It's really quite interesting the amount of funding that is sent in the direction of the devs working on the Linux kernel. I'm curious what would happen if the funding was spontaneously cut. Linux was built from scratch and supported for free back in the day, but would the main developers continue to work or even be interested at all if they weren't being paid?