Going Green: Clever we are not.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/19/opinion/19friedman.html
A summary of the above article:
While pollution in China is a greater problem than in the United States, China sees the virtue for correcting it.
The European Union, Japan, Taiwan and South Korea — and next year, China — have enacted producer-responsibility laws requiring that anything with a cord or battery — from an electric toothbrush to a laptop to a washing machine — has to be collected and recycled at the manufacturers’ cost. Thus the recycling costs are built into any product. Of course recycling costs will work their way into product design.
A U.S. company has developed a way to recover plastics from discarded consumer products, and re-manufacture the result into new plastic, cutting energy usage per unit of new plastic produced by 90%. The U.S. government helped pay t develop this process, but this company's two plants are overseas, where governments require recycling, as noted above.
When it comes to recycling, the United States is a Bozo
If it weren't for your
If it weren't for your bizarre schizophrenic ramblings about sexism at local jazz establishments, I might actually have read this and taken your arguments seriously. But I can no longer give any credence to whatever you say, so I'm going to go throw a big sack of recyclables into a garbage can instead of a recycling bin. I hope you're proud of yourself, Earth-killer.
here here!
here here!
Schizophrenia is defined as
Schizophrenia is defined as paranoid or bizarre delusions and disorganized speech and thinking, both of which you displayed in your ridiculous sexist jazz bar posts. The fact that you didn't seem to recognize the sarcasm in my other post suggests to me that you might just have Asperger's Syndrome or something of that nature. But I would be very surprised if you don't have some sort of mental impairment. I'm about as pro-feminism as it gets, but I had a good laugh at your sexist jazz bar threads just like, I imagine, everyone else who read them.
A sane person does not go to
A sane person does not go to a bar where there a few less women playing than might be expected and decide right then and there that the venue must be run by sexists.
If I owned one of the bars you have accused of sexism in your posts, I could sue you for libel and probably win. That might teach you a lesson about making baseless and insulting claims about a locally owned business.
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