Kris Tilford wrote: > On Oct 24, 2008, at 5:55 PM, Stephen Conrad wrote: > > >> Ummm, why would you want to scrap out perfectly good usable monitors >> just so you could spend money on an LCD? >> > > Sometimes spending money actually saves money. In the case of LCD > monitors, the payback period in electricity saving is enough to pay > for the monitor. > > While Bruce may have pointed out that health concerns over EMF are not > statistically proven, the converse is also true, they are not > statistically disproved. It is a fact that most forms of > electromagnetic radiation DO have biological effect, and large, > statistically valid samples have shown that cancers such as skin > cancer ARE correlated DIRECTLY to exposure levels. We know the inverse > square law applies, and that people tend to sit very close to their > monitors. The EU computer safety whitepaper has studied this subject > recommended a safe viewing distance of 86cm, which is substantially > further away than most CRT users sit. > > I've inherited an old 1970's Ford LTD with a big 500 ci engine that > gets about 6 mpg. It too is "perfectly good usable", but it wastes > money in gas, pollutes the air, and carries enough momentum to kill > people driving more fuel efficient vehicles if there were an accident. > I can't justify ever using this vehicle again, and I don't feel > comfortable selling it, so it's headed to the recycler even though > it's "perfectly good". Your free, disposed of, CRTs are not an example > of a efficient use of recycling. Rather it shows the laziness of the > average citizen, placing a CRT in a dumpster rather than recycling it. > And you, to cheap to do yourself a favor, there are new LCDs for less > than $100, buy one, IT PAYS FOR ITSELF! Society as a whole is better > served with your CRTs in the landfill than with them in use. They're > digging coal in Wyoming and shipping it on a smokey diesel train to > Missouri and burning it releasing tons of CO2 into the atmosphere so > that you can waste energy with an antiquated CRT monitor that possibly > harms your health in other ways. There was a reason the monitor was in > the trash, and it has nothing to do with whether or not it's > "perfectly good usable". It's always about money. They're saving money > by throwing the CRT away. You're wasting money by using it. > > I take it that Kris is volunteering to buy everyone that wants one, a lcd monitor. So how do you want us to do it buy it and bill it to you. Or do you want to buy it and ship to us.
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