[OT] Re: Filthy Apples

[Richmond Mathewson]

Of course one can fool oneself into thinking that one
is not contributing a lot to the general pollution
from computers by upgrading infrequently!

I am sitting behind my Mirror Door "Wind-Tunnel"
dual-processor G4 feeling all smug because I have had
it for nearly 4 years and, at present, am extremely
happy with it.

and wondering why I am the victim of noise pollution
:) - boy, oh boy, does this thing growl!

I suppose that that 'nice man' Mr Jobs will,
eventually make system upgrades that will only work
with the Intel Macs . . .

My PCs that run Ubuntu Linux are all ex-government
stock from Germany - so, until the gypsies in Plovdiv
(Bulgaria) get their hands on them (and I hope the PCs
are good for another 5 years) I am 'delaying the
pollutive effect'.

And, while I am being pompous (nothing new here) I
should like to remind one and all that when I am on
holiday at my house in Scotland I do any stray
word-processing I have to do on my BBC micro (22 years
and counting).

The GREENPEACE website offers QT movies that show old
computers being broken down by people in the most
basic conditions - now I know that Greenpeace are
basically left-wing and quasi-socialist in their
political stance

- and I am not!

- and I don't feel sorry in the slightest for the
people featured in Greenpeace's films - however, I do
feel sorry for their children who were unable to chose
parents with better social and financial advantages.

So it would seem that the way to sort out PART of the
problem would be for a crafty businessman to set up
decent recycling plants in India and China and offer
those poor sods work - and then if they want to go on
working the way they are at present they will only
have themselves to blame.

sincerely, Richmond Mathewson



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                                       Mathewson, 2006
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