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Re: Atari landfill yields up ET stash

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RS Wood wrote:

> Yes, I thought that too.  Or, "Atari busted for illegal dumping."  The
> thing about them only being able to dig for one day makes me think it
> was actually dumped someplace sensitive, like restricted land or
> something.  Either way, yay journalism.  Still, I shed a happy tear for
> happy memories of playing games on the 2600.  8 bits was good enough
> for me, it really was.
> 

Nothing nefarious there - they have been trying to dig that stuff out for 
some time but were held up by environmental rules and necessary permits.  
Trying to excavate landfill sites apparently generates enough paperwork that 
you then need another landfill site just to file the trash generated by the 
process.  It would probably be easier to excavate a nuclear waste site.  A 
local reporter wrote a long article about the permit process some time back 
and the nests of hoops one has to jump through would be hilarious were it 
not (unfortunately) true!

-- 
Will Honea

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Atari landfill yields up ET stash RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-04-28 14:29 +0000
  Re: Atari landfill yields up ET stash Scion <a.b@nospam.invalid> - 2014-04-29 10:13 +0000
    Re: Atari landfill yields up ET stash RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-04-29 17:06 +0000
      Re: Atari landfill yields up ET stash Will Honea <whonea@whonea.net> - 2014-04-29 12:31 -0600
        Re: Atari landfill yields up ET stash Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-05-01 17:32 +0200

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