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Re: Atari landfill yields up ET stash

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On 2014-04-29, Will Honea <whonea@whonea.net> wrote:
> 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!

There was a rather good email circulating a decade or so ago about the
obstacles Noah would face today trying to build his ark.

-- 
Paul Sture

The final step of #heartbleed recovery is to call your mother, and advise
her to change her maiden name                                  -- @gojomo

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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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