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environmental costs of computing

from a /. post about the environmental costs of replacing paper with computers:

ttp://www.goldsmithgroup.com/servfacts.htm

Florida Environmental Report states about Computers and Monitors:

“Out of 175 million computers comes a laundry list of toxins including 650 million pounds of lead, 987,000 pounds of cadmium and 231,000 pounds of mercury.
Each CRT (Cathode-Ray Tube) contains four to six pounds of lead. (New York Times, November 23, 2000)
According to University of Florida tests, color monitors contain enough lead to contaminate ground water if deposited in landfills. “Those monitors would fail the legal standards of leaching lead,” said Susan Mooney of the EPA, Region 5 (Chicago).
These computers also contain 2 billion pounds of plastic. ”

so thats like 1/4 pound of lead per PC on top of the 4 to 6 per monitor. so thats a lot of lead.

http://members.aol.com/Ramola15/funfacts.html

“Americans use 85,000,000 tons of paper a year; about 680 pounds per person.”

so lets say you throw your computer out every three years. thats about 18 pounds of lead versus 2000 pounds of paper over three years. imagine throwing your honda civic, made of paper, into the ground. then cover it with something like 1/5 a gallon of molten lead (crappy math, hey i think its within an order of magnitude).

which do you feel worse about? the honda civic sized paper ball or the fifth of lead?

public service announcement: i have a 10th grade math education

http://www.ilo.org/public/english/protection/safew ork/cis/products/icsc/dtasht/_icsc00/icsc0052.htm

94219754

hot summer jamz

alexi says that the new cut by talib kweli (which apparently is even getting play on mainstream radio) is the hot jam of the summer.

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playlist

soophie nun squad/abe froman split lp
tem eyos ki lp
caustic christ/r.a.m.b.o 7″
gravy train 12″

from the r.a.m.b.o. side:


why support-the people who want
to pacify and kill you-our worst enemies
let’s throw back the shit they sell us
don’t dillute your anger-let it burn
One little 40 oz. bottle of malt liquor can stand for so much: crap consumerism, corporate
control, racist advertising, and economic segregation. These are all tools used to hold us down.
At the same time this very bottle can be reconfigured for a new potential: to literally set the
state on fire with the very apparatus they intend to pacify us with. Props to the straight edge–
cheers to the home brewers.

93939583

fscked up

“On May 5, 2003 The Ohio State University Police Department served search warrants at four campus residence hall locations. The warrants sought computers and related property that were being used in an unauthorized manner and in violation of Ohio law. The computers seized were being used to operate a file sharing system, known as Direct Connect, on the university residence hall network, known as ResNet.

Five computers were seized and are considered to be the machines that operated the Direct Connect network The network was established by students in the residence hall system in October 2002 and grew to nearly 3000 users. The file-sharing enterprise established by the students required membership, had an established set of operating rules, and sanctions for those who violated the rules.

The search warrants came as the result of a 3 month investigation, conducted by University Police and the Office of Information Technology, into the unauthorized use of the university’s computer networks and telecommunications fraud. No charges have been filed in this case. The Investigation is ongoing.”

info also at http://www.thelantern.com/main.cfm?include=detail&storyid=433515

and http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1471719/20030506/index.jhtml?headlines=true

and http://www.onnnews.com/story.php?record=23982

and http://www.nbc4columbus.com/news/2186789/detail.html

and http://www.dispatch.com/news-story.php?story=dispatch/news/news03/may03/1782141+.html

and

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