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Subject: Re: Electicity Supply (Re: Pickup trucks for city boys)
Date: 3 Sep 2025 05:44:15 GMT
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On Wed, 3 Sep 2025 00:42:43 +0200, Carlos E.R. wrote:

> On 2025-09-02 23:34, rbowman wrote:
>> On Tue, 2 Sep 2025 06:04:07 -0400, c186282 wrote:
>> 
>>>     Poor access to "junk men" is also an issue ...
>>>     the waste people have become SO picky !
>> 
>> BestBuy takes electronic waste -- except for CRTs. Want a vintage VGA
>> terminal?  Taking them out into the woods and shooting them up is also
>> frowned on.
> 
> I daresay! :-D
> 
> Although I confess to having destroyed one or two myself. No shooting
> here, though. Not allowed.

When we were rearranging offices I managed to drop my CRT. My co-workers 
accused me of trying to get a newer, better one. the replacement was 
actually worse. It still had the property tag from the local university on 
it, probably something the company bought at a rummage sale.

When the CRTs were being replaced with flat screens I looked at the 
company offering, drove up to CostCo, and bought my own. I enjoyed working 
there but the company was never accused of extravagant spending. At least 
they started buying Dell boxes rather than building them in the backroom 
from whatever was on sale at NewEgg.