Re: [CGUYS] What really happens to the computers we recycle?

2009-09-01 Thread mike
Oddly MFB's have the same psychological issue. On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 1:12 PM, TPiwowar wrote: > On Sep 1, 2009, at 11:40 AM Sep 1, Jordan wrote: > >> We've had 8 years, really many more since it started before Reagan, of >> tearing down regulations. It doesn't work.(like we didn't already know

Re: [CGUYS] What really happens to the computers we recycle?

2009-09-01 Thread TPiwowar
On Sep 1, 2009, at 11:40 AM Sep 1, Jordan wrote: We've had 8 years, really many more since it started before Reagan, of tearing down regulations. It doesn't work.(like we didn't already know that) Look where we are now. We need freedom for people, not freedom of corporations to take advantag

Re: [CGUYS] What really happens to the computers we recycle?

2009-09-01 Thread mike
This isn't logical on it's face, this says that our useless congress and senate have spent decades unmaking laws...we know this to not be true. There are regulations in the thousands more then there were years ago. On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 8:40 AM, Jordan wrote: > Bill Wajert wrote: > >> >>> To p

Re: [CGUYS] What really happens to the computers we recycle?

2009-09-01 Thread Jordan
Bill Wajert wrote: To put it straight we have not been the "Land of the Free" for decades. We have become the "Land of the Regulated." We've had 8 years, really many more since it started before Reagan, of tearing down regulations. It doesn't work.(like we didn't already know that) Look wh

Re: [CGUYS] What really happens to the computers we recycle?

2009-09-01 Thread John Duncan Yoyo
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 10:33 PM, phartz...@gmail.com wrote: > On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 7:37 PM, Jeff Miles wrote: > > >And if keeping these jobs in America is to expensive for a > business, > > why not make it a prison job. We've got the worlds largest live in work > > force. > > To foll

Re: [CGUYS] What really happens to the computers we recycle?

2009-09-01 Thread Bill Wajert
O On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 7:37 PM, Steve wrote: To follow this suggestion would increase the incentive to put even more people in prison. We are already very close to having the highest percentage of population in pri

Re: [CGUYS] What really happens to the computers we recycle?

2009-08-31 Thread phartz...@gmail.com
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 7:37 PM, Jeff Miles wrote: >        And if keeping these jobs in America is to expensive for a business, > why not make it a prison job. We've got the worlds largest live in work > force. To follow this suggestion would increase the incentive to put even more people in p

Re: [CGUYS] What really happens to the computers we recycle?

2009-08-31 Thread t.piwowar
On Aug 31, 2009, at 7:37 PM, Jeff Miles wrote: And if keeping these jobs in America is to expensive for a business, why not make it a prison job. We've got the worlds largest live in work force. In China the state enhances revenue by selling prisoner body parts. If those prisoners were to

Re: [CGUYS] What really happens to the computers we recycle?

2009-08-31 Thread Jeff Miles
And if keeping these jobs in America is to expensive for a business, why not make it a prison job. We've got the worlds largest live in work force. Jeff Miles jmile...@charter.net Join my Mafia http://apps.facebook.com/inthemafia/status_invite.php?from=550968726 On Aug 31, 2009, at 4:05 P

Re: [CGUYS] What really happens to the computers we recycle?

2009-08-31 Thread phartz...@gmail.com
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 6:42 PM, t.piwowar wrote: > Why would you expect the free market to ever address such an issue? Palming > off our pollutants on a distant part of the world is good business. We get > to rid ourselves of the dangerous junk and somebody else gets to do the > dying -- looks li

Re: [CGUYS] What really happens to the computers we recycle?

2009-08-31 Thread Rev. Stewart Marshall
I think this should become the new green industry we develop here in America. I am sure enough material can be safely reclaimed from this old electronics hardware that it can then be recycled back into the industry. When my dad worked for ATT we helped recycle old phones ringers etc. to be cl

Re: [CGUYS] What really happens to the computers we recycle?

2009-08-31 Thread t.piwowar
On Aug 31, 2009, at 10:06 AM, Arnold Kee wrote: Should we rely on the "free market" to address this issue? Why would you expect the free market to ever address such an issue? Palming off our pollutants on a distant part of the world is good business. We get to rid ourselves of the dangerous

Re: [CGUYS] What really happens to the computers we recycle?

2009-08-31 Thread Snyder, Mark - IdM (IS)
This is what Congress is for; it will take federal law to change this, at least for how we process discarded electronics in the US. If concerned, please contact your representative and senators. Tell them explicitly what you expect in federal law. Thank you, Mark Snyder -Original Message---

[CGUYS] What really happens to the computers we recycle?

2009-08-31 Thread Arnold Kee
Hello all: Last night 60 Minutes aired a disturbing piece on what happens to some of the computers we have been bringing to "recycling centers". Without repeating the name of the particular recycling/distrubtion company, the reporter tracked the shipping container that was filled with recycled c