China bans toxic American computer junk

From: Eric Dittman <dittman_at_dittman.net>
Date: Sat Jun 8 21:15:11 2002

> > >That's called supply & demand.
> >
> You wouldn't say that if it had been YOUR money, either wasted on the excesses
> of the "free-market-captialism" practiced by the power-middle-men, who really
> produced nothing other than waste and really did nothing but steal, first from
> their victims, and later from their own help.

I haven't been running around for years voting against power
plants. I also refuse to live in California, which is over-
populated anyway. The constant water shortage is a good example.

> If it's the LEFT coast, you must be in the South. If you were from the North,
> the West coast would be the Right coast, and the East coast would be the Wrong
> coast, Right? You're right about the stupid consumption habits. It's the
> result of lower rates per kwh for more kwh's. If 10x the amount of power cost
> 10^10 as much people would behave differently. I'd get behind a rate schedule
> that reflected n^(n^2) rates so the megacorp that uses 1000 times as much
> power as the little homeowner would have to pay 10^1000 as much for every kwh
> he uses. I'd also get behind that for gasoline rationing.

Most of the people I know call California the left coast, both in
the north and south (except for the liberals).
-- 
Eric Dittman
dittman_at_dittman.net
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Received on Sat Jun 08 2002 - 21:15:11 BST

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