On Fri, 2009-05-01 at 13:10 -0500, Scott Granneman wrote: > No, you don't. Of course not. > > I've never said you should leave behind everyone else. But we have to > recognize certain changes that are inexorable and speeding up. And at > what point DO we stop including CD-ROM's? When dialup is only 20%? > 10%? 5%? 1%? > > And we also have to reduce, reuse, & recycle. :)
Oh trust me, my household does ... to the point that the weekly trash pickup is usually one small (think standard grocery-bag-sized) sack. Kitchen scraps go to the worm composting bins, rainwater fills two 55-gallon drums for watering plants and gardens, newspapers go to the Humane Society (along with all those stupid pre-approved credit card applications, which get shredded with the other paper documents), glass and other metals go out with the weekly recycling pickup ... grass clippings fertilize the lawns, yard waste goes to the big outside compost bin. And old computer stuff gets recycled with ByteWorks! (if it's too old, it goes to W.I.T.S.) It's a good question, when to cut things off. And of course, neither of us got into how quickly such software on CDs becomes obsolete! Although, speaking of reduce, reuse & recycle ... I read recently that someone has come up with another use for old CDs -- evidently when hung from strings, they are good at keeping elephants out of crops. They can also be used as a signaling device if you are ever lost out in the high desert .... Theresa --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) Main page: http://www.cwelug.org To post: cwelug@googlegroups.com To subscribe: cwelug-subscr...@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe: cwelug-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
