What are you anal about

[wkw]

LCD monitors being used at screen resolutions other than native. for example: using a 17" LCD monitor at 800x600 instead of it's native 1280x1024. CAN'T YOU TELL HOW GRAINY AND CRAPPY IT LOOKS? sheesh, I run around fixing monitors for people all the time. Its my personal mission. I also hate CRT monitors being used at low refresh rates. 60hz flickers noticeably and makes me crazy!

that is all

 

[RojoLeo]

Well, just from a quick read, I can't say I'm any more enlightened. The problem with both articles you posted is that they make it seem like recycling a) only involves paper b) only affects the US. Deforestation is a real, global problem. It's not all for paper, of course, but paper is still a significant factor.

But what I really don't get is this: we can recycle paper, plastic, and glass. The alternative is dump it in landfill (or in the ocean) or burn it. Environmental considerations aside, which would you rather do? To me, it just makes sense to reuse something if I can. Why waste? ... anyway, this topic may be better suited for the politics section. this is about being anal - something no amount of conservative, reactionary clap-trap is going to change .

I'll give you that, to be discussed in Politics later...although I do hope you were referring to the articles and not me on that last line, I'm hardly a conservative - a centrist at best.

 

[pseudobrit]

But what I really don't get is this: we can recycle paper, plastic, and glass. The alternative is dump it in landfill (or in the ocean) or burn it. Environmental considerations aside, which would you rather do? To me, it just makes sense to reuse something if I can.

Ah, but recycling is not reusing. And reusing is not reducing.

Except for aluminium, recycling takes more energy input to reprocess the used goods than it does to simply make new goods from raw stock. So there's the whole energy-carbon-pollution thing rearing its ugly head. The issue is more complicated than a simple "throw it away/reuse it" choice.

 

[MACDRIVE]

Dear God, I was eating lunch while reading this. No longer hungry.

LOL!!! . . .

 

[jng]

Ah, but recycling is not reusing. And reusing is not reducing.

Except for aluminium, recycling takes more energy input to reprocess the used goods than it does to simply make new goods from raw stock. So there's the whole energy-carbon-pollution thing rearing its ugly head. The issue is more complicated than a simple "throw it away/reuse it" choice.

True, but paper and therefore school supplies such as notebooks are much more expensive in Germany. But because of the extra cost, I used far far less paper there than I do here. So indirectly it was reducing.

 

[Plymouthbreezer]

Aside from those other things... I also have typical OCD ordering compulsions.

See this thread for details.