I retract the previous post - well I know I can't retract it, but I'm sorry I sent it. I'm going to apologize to Bob off list now. I'm having a bad weekend, and I'm taking it out on the list, especially Bob. It ain't right...
Sorry. -frank frank theriault wrote: > Hey, Bob, > > Don't twist my words. I didn't suggest any such thing. > > Do you drive a car? If you do, you put a hell of a lot more crap in the air than > I do, and quite frankly, are in no position to say much to me on the issue of the > environment. Until you ditch the car and use bicycles, walking and public > transit to get around, I'd say I'm on the higher moral ground. > > BTW, I didn't suggest that we go back to spray deodorant (which I stopped using > well before they were taken off the market), I merely pointed out that those > accelerants did much more damage than Freon in a can. So did fridges and air > conditioners in cars and homes. > > I merely suggested that the government tends to use very broad brushes, making > all sorts of things illegal, whilst many worse offenders are used with impunity. > Computers are a huge problem, not just due to the amount of space they take up in > landfills, but due to the chemicals that are leaching into the soil from their > plastics and electronic innards. Yet, nothing is being done about those. > > In the meanwhile, I have to use non-mercury cells in my old cameras, which last > about 1/5 as long, and which may (in my opinion) pollute more, since they must be > replaced so often. > > That's all I was trying to say. > > BTW, everything after your "snip" was Keith Whaley, not me. > > cheers, > frank > -- "The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true." -J. Robert Oppenheimer
