China bans toxic American computer junk

It's just another set of abusive practices, typical of what happens when a closed set of interests controls the market in a commodity the public really believes they need. more below ... Dick ----- Original Message ----- From: "Carlos Murillo" <carlos_murillo(a)epm.net.co> To: <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> Sent: Saturday, June 08, 2002 4:44 PM Subject: Re: China bans toxic American computer junk 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. 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. That's because they're charged with managing an asset that belongs to them but selling a commodity that doesn't belong to them at all.