Environmental Watchdogs Confused By E-Waste Practices 113
retroworks writes with a California-centric story that might have parallels in other states, too: "The Sacramento Bee digs further into the controversy over E-Waste exports, and finds that environmental watchdogs doth protest too much. Remember how we were all urged to use a 'Pledge' Signing company to properly recycle our old computers and televisions? Remember how companies which didn't 'Pledge' were accused of exporting toxic poisons by groups like Basel Action Network? The Bee's Tom Knudson discovered that some of the loudest Pledge recycling companies used the exact same exporting brokers as BAN was attacking as 'worst actors.' One California firm exported 6.9 million pounds of raw electronics through the same export market which the environmental 'watchdog' attacked earlier this year... Whether or not the export market was ok to begin with, or continues to be unacceptable, the watchdogs still want to be the experts of who is the best 'e-waste' recycling company. Credibility, RIP."
Re:I don't get it... (Score:4, Funny)
As far as I can tell it's about improper handling of e-waste, specifically e-waste was submitted to Slashdot and rather than handling it properly the Slashdot editors just passed the garbage on to it's readers unmodified.
Re:I don't get it... (Score:2, Funny)
A man had two sons, and he came to the first, and said, 'Son, go work today in my vineyard.' He answered, 'I will not,' but afterward he changed his mind, and went. He came to the second, and said the same thing. He answered, 'I go, sir,' but he didn't go. Which of the two did the will of his father?
Irrelevant. The third son said "Screw you and your patriarchial abuse", and had his father arrested for exploiting children for labour.
The farm was sold, the sons finally received a decent education instead of anecdotal fairy tales, and got laid regularly.
Re:I don't get it... (Score:5, Funny)
A man had two sons, and he came to the first, and said, 'Son, go work today in my vineyard.' He answered, 'I will not,' but afterward he changed his mind, and went. He came to the second, and said the same thing. He answered, 'I go, sir,' but he didn't go. Which of the two did the will of his father?
Irrelevant. The third son said "Screw you and your patriarchial abuse", and had his father arrested for exploiting children for labour. The farm was sold, the sons finally received a decent education instead of anecdotal fairy tales, and got laid regularly.
But on their deathbed, they wept openly and cried out, "I only regret that I never learned the difference between a fairy tale and a parable!"