Comment:Dear EHO, I hope nobody mistakes my "two years later..." as a PC/Mac squabble. I like Mac hardware as much as the next geek. I was trying to make a comment on computers in general. Every high-priced object of technolust turns into another piece of useless garbage almost before we get it home - and where are we going to keep all of this garbage? It's bad enough that when we buy a *bag* of grapes, the supermarket clerk is will probably put it into another *bag* by itself, which most of us take home and put into a *bag* in the trash can, all of which end up in a landfill, but all this hardware being created is full of lead, mercury, cadmium, and then there are compounds and gels and other stuff inside some of the components, all of which are poisonous to life, and most of which are not being recycled. And this doesn't even bring up the awful stuff used to manufacture computers and their parts. I just found this link: http://www.svtc.org/cleancc/e_platform.htm I also hope nobody thought I was calling Gizmo's design garbage by putting my landfill next to it. Roz
Description:Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition (SVTC) and its international network, the International Campaign for Responsible Technology, works to document and expose the hazards of the high-tech industry. The Clean Computer Campaign is working for sustainability, accountability and cleaner production in the high-tech industry. This may be from the website's own description.
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