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From: lgbeard
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On Sun, 15 Feb 2004 23:52:58 +0800, Bateau <Gamera@work.stomping.aza> wrote:


<snip>
>>>>>But my laptop was stolen out of my bag while I was going crosscountry 
>>>>>for 6 days via the bus.  So now I have lost all of that work and all
>>>>>of the source photos that I used for insperation and modles.  
>>>>Its a hard loss to have something stolen by a thief. But on dream on
>>>>side you can have it display this     and the 15 seconds it restarts ;)
>>>>
>>>>This Laptop Will Self destruct In
>>>>15 Seconds ( Inter Password ) Now
>>>>       _________
>>>>      |.-------.|
>>>>      ||       ||
>>>>      ||       ||
>>>>      ||_______||
>>>>     .-==----==-.
>>>>   .' ;;;;;;; .'
>>>> ___________.'
>>>>'---=====---'
>>>
>>>I went trashing last week and I got 3 working laptops.
>>
>>You went Garbage dump diving ? Phew, Still they were
>>somebodies property that thur an act of revenge, theft,
>>or plain stupidity wound up in the trash. 
>
>No twice a year the council comes around with a big scoopy thing and
>trucks and if you leave your broken washing machines and furniture by
>the road they take it away. Everyone goes out in their utes and starts
>looting stuff. I met some builders who had found some sinks and a bath
>tub. I also got 4 monitors, 3 scanners, 2 mice, 3 keyboards, 6 cases, 4
>hard drives, 1 cd rom, 2 floppy drives, assorted motherboards, ram,
>chips (486-p200) all working. People just throw it out because it's old.

:) I have heard of some communtities doing what your describing. Must be
working out fairly well for all concerned. Here we a hazardous waste day
about every 3 months for households in the communtity, everything from
cleaners, paints, oils, ect. Works fairly well.

lgbeard