Well, kindof? I mean, I knew enough to know that I didn't want to work on the thing with the power on, and I knew that caps would store a charge. What I DIDN'T know was that the CRT would store enough of a charge to get your attention for a VERY long time.

But, looking back on my youth, there are SO MANY places where I should have been dead....instead, I got injured just enough to make me cautious the next time around.

Cloasters posted:

Ah...Raster lines? ":O}

Yeah, they are all in Guiyu now. Huge mountains of them. Ask the Chinese.

Are those theirs, ours or both...

And
What in God's name will we do if all and all catches fires?

I mean I've seen the smoke from a plastic cup burning and I REALLY didn't like that!

Patti and I have always sorta lived all in one so to speak. That is our Bed is our couch and our living room is our bed room. When you use you bed that way, you need a large screen TV or you'd have to read a book or something.!

*NTSC was not that pretty blown up to 60" Let me tell you! ":O}

*NTSC...is the right? The old Tv standard. Seems right but I can never be sure! ":O}

Guiyu is the world's largest dumping ground for e-waste. Something like 70 or 80% of the world's e-waste goes there; the people there are dying of lead and arsenic poisoning, the ground water is undrinkable, and cancer and other disease rates are incredibly high. Do some reading on it. Recently, the Chinese gov't decided to build a proper waste disposal facility, but I'm not sure if it happened or not. Most of the recycling was being done in home workshops, melting the metals and using chemical baths.

Ultimately, it will come down to the Chinese government and the Chinese people to sort that matter out.

Which is not to absolve ourselves of our own parts in all of this.

First, they wouldn't be risking their lives if there were a better way to make a living. Second, they wouldn't be risking their lives if the unscrupulous weren't sending stuff to them.

Unfortunately, I don't know how to effectively solve either of those problems. I know there are companies that track their waste disposal policies to make sure stuff like this gets properly disposed of, but for every company that does there are at least ten that don't, and with multinational companies, it's very easy for corporations to skirt laws they don't like.

For those who don't know about this place, here's a quite mature slideshow by a high school student:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFN_f5BZ214

I've posted the url, can't seem to get this damned embedding thing to work.

So shit, who needs a fire to see our world burning.

about the people returning..for some reason this quote came instantly to my mind.
"Many the time Ive gone to my knees simply because I had no place else to go."
Abraham Lincon
"The Great Emancipator"





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I availed myself of your link, I can barely bring myself to thank you,
not your fault!
It's the world we have chosen for others to live in that breaks me down.
Thanks TR

I've Always been grateful that Seattle help pioneer E-re-cycling.
It's good to have some place else to go.

For Christ sake George! That's why your poor!
Ah well it could be so much worse! You could be rich!

Desperately trying to get your dumb ass though the eye of a needle.":O}