Incoming from Niels Voll: > [snip] Thoughtful piece, Niels. :-)
> So bottom line - I doubt, that it will make a dent into the waste > problem (it's probably just a tax grab with good marketing spin) - but I > admit I don't have a better answer to the waste creation problem in our The three "R"'s are "Reduce, re-use, and recycle", in that order. A laptop instead of a desktop is reducing; there's ca. nine lb. of lead in your typical desktop monitor. LCD's aren't nearly so gluttinous. If you can turn an old system into _something_ else (remember, laptops come with built-in UPS's :-), that's good reusing. Beowulf clusters for everyone! You wouldn't believe the prices at Computer Surplus for used drives. Pocket change! Once something absolutely, positively, has reached EOL, that's when you have to either choose to use it as a boat anchor, or recycle it. Either that, or all the LUGs should get together and rent a container to ship it all off to Africa. There's lots of people out there trying to get their hands on this stuff if only we can get it to them. -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling Please don't Cc: me. - - _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
