27 Jul
2002
27 Jul
'02
11:13 a.m.
Chance are they were probably sent off to be scrapped
or something, so you
should have come back later and grabbed them :)
Yeah, I'm thinking they just chuck them in their dumpster... but I didn't
poke around in it because of the other people there at the time. Since
they were early Pentiums... I didn't care that much.
Maybe tomorrow I will take a few old clothes to be "donated" and I'll
poke around a bit more. I wonder if dumpsters are considered like
curbside garbage, once you toss it, it is public domain? (I don't know
the cops in that town as well, so I might get hassled if I am back there
dumpster diving at 3am)
-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
27 Jul
27 Jul
2:23 p.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "chris" <mythtech(a)mac.com>
To: "Classic Computer" <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Saturday, July 27, 2002 04:12 PM
Subject: Re: latest anti-haul from the local Goodwill
One of the places had a big sign making the claime that it was stealing to
take anything in (I agree), on (maybe) or around (don't think so) their
drop-off dumpster. It's since been replaced with a big sign claiming
leaving anything on the ground is illegal dumping and will be prosecuted to
the full extent of the law.
YMMV, IANAL, etc., etc., etc. Remember, it's only wrong if you get caught!
;)
>Chance are they were probably sent off to be
scrapped or something, so
you
should have
come back later and grabbed them :)
Yeah, I'm thinking they just chuck them in their dumpster... but I didn't
poke around in it because of the other people there at the time. Since
they were early Pentiums... I didn't care that much.
Maybe tomorrow I will take a few old clothes to be "donated" and I'll
poke around a bit more. I wonder if dumpsters are considered like
curbside garbage, once you toss it, it is public domain? (I don't know
the cops in that town as well, so I might get hassled if I am back there
dumpster diving at 3am)
-chris
Bob
3:19 p.m.
On Sat, 27 Jul 2002, Robert Schaefer wrote:
One of the places had a big sign making the claime
that it was stealing to
take anything in (I agree), on (maybe) or around (don't think so) their
drop-off dumpster. It's since been replaced with a big sign claiming
leaving anything on the ground is illegal dumping and will be prosecuted to
the full extent of the law.
So taking stuff that others have dumped illegally would effectively be
undoing that illegal act thereby nullifying it.
That's one way to look at it at least :)
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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3:27 p.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sellam Ismail" <foo(a)siconic.com>
To: <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Saturday, July 27, 2002 12:18 PM
Subject: Re: latest anti-haul from the local Goodwill
Of course, there's a fair to middling-good chance that the lawyers would
*not* see it that way...
On Sat, 27 Jul 2002, Robert Schaefer wrote:
> One of the places had a big sign making the claime that it was stealing
to
> take anything in (I agree), on (maybe) or around
(don't think so) their
> drop-off dumpster. It's since been replaced with a big sign claiming
> leaving anything on the ground is illegal dumping and will be prosecuted
to
the full
extent of the law.
So taking stuff that others have dumped illegally would effectively be
undoing that illegal act thereby nullifying it.
That's one way to look at it at least :)
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer
Festival
Bob
6:10 p.m.
At 09:18 AM 7/27/2002 -0700, Sellam Ismail wrote:
So taking stuff that others have dumped illegally would
effectively be
undoing that illegal act thereby nullifying it.
That's one way to look at it at least :)
I once had to call the cops on an idiot in my apartment building
who, after I mentioned that I was donating a pile of stuff,
thought that he could have whatever he wanted from it, and
proceeded to steal a number of my soon-to-be donations.
Why steal from the drop-off container? My conscience is
clear and my results are satisfactory from raiding the
*garbage* dumpsters at these places. Many have policies
against selling computers, so they just dump them when
they get them. They'll also dump anything that seems
technological but too old - like an old calculator.
- John
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