From: Hachiroku ハチロク on
<whining> "It's not fair!!!!"

"One percent of the population makes 95% of the money."

Huh? Um, sure, Mike

"The United States was founded on Democracy and fairness, so how is it
fair that 1% make most of the money."

What gets me is, he's telling this to a multi-millionaire who has a
collection of cars the value of which exceeds the GDP of a bunch of
third-world countries...

Put together!


From: Fatter Than Ever Moe on
Hachiroku ハチロク wrote:
> <whining> "It's not fair!!!!"
>
> "One percent of the population makes 95% of the money."
>
> Huh? Um, sure, Mike
>
> "The United States was founded on Democracy and fairness, so how is it
> fair that 1% make most of the money."
>
> What gets me is, he's telling this to a multi-millionaire who has a
> collection of cars the value of which exceeds the GDP of a bunch of
> third-world countries...
>
> Put together!
>
>

The system has worked pretty well for Micheal Moore also. His next
movie ought to be something about "biting the hand that feeds you".
And I've been thinking, you must get a lot of bad old computer
cards? Why not cut the gold plated ends off and throw them in a box? I
think they are apt to become a cash cow sooner or later. I know places
that recycle computer stuff get the lead and gold and whatever they can
sell from them. Same goes for anything with gold contacts, sockets
whatever.

From: Hachiroku ハチロク on
On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 20:38:58 -0700, Fatter Than Ever Moe wrote:

> Hachiroku ハチロク wrote:
>> <whining> "It's not fair!!!!"
>>
>> "One percent of the population makes 95% of the money."
>>
>> Huh? Um, sure, Mike
>>
>> "The United States was founded on Democracy and fairness, so how is it
>> fair that 1% make most of the money."
>>
>> What gets me is, he's telling this to a multi-millionaire who has a
>> collection of cars the value of which exceeds the GDP of a bunch of
>> third-world countries...
>>
>> Put together!
>>
>>
>>
> The system has worked pretty well for Micheal Moore also. His next
> movie ought to be something about "biting the hand that feeds you".
> And I've been thinking, you must get a lot of bad old computer
> cards? Why not cut the gold plated ends off and throw them in a box? I
> think they are apt to become a cash cow sooner or later. I know places
> that recycle computer stuff get the lead and gold and whatever they can
> sell from them. Same goes for anything with gold contacts, sockets
> whatever.


I looked into that about 10 years ago. Do you have any idea what it takes
to get the gold off of those things?!?!

You ain't doing it in your garage! And if you are, pray the EPA doesn't
find out!

It's a real mess, highly regulated, lots of permits, etc. When i was
looking into it, gold was about $400 an ounce, and it took about $275 to
get it.


From: Fatter Than Ever Moe on
Hachiroku ハチロク wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 20:38:58 -0700, Fatter Than Ever Moe wrote:
>
>> Hachiroku ハチロク wrote:
>>> <whining> "It's not fair!!!!"
>>>
>>> "One percent of the population makes 95% of the money."
>>>
>>> Huh? Um, sure, Mike
>>>
>>> "The United States was founded on Democracy and fairness, so how is it
>>> fair that 1% make most of the money."
>>>
>>> What gets me is, he's telling this to a multi-millionaire who has a
>>> collection of cars the value of which exceeds the GDP of a bunch of
>>> third-world countries...
>>>
>>> Put together!
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> The system has worked pretty well for Micheal Moore also. His next
>> movie ought to be something about "biting the hand that feeds you".
>> And I've been thinking, you must get a lot of bad old computer
>> cards? Why not cut the gold plated ends off and throw them in a box? I
>> think they are apt to become a cash cow sooner or later. I know places
>> that recycle computer stuff get the lead and gold and whatever they can
>> sell from them. Same goes for anything with gold contacts, sockets
>> whatever.
>
>
> I looked into that about 10 years ago. Do you have any idea what it takes
> to get the gold off of those things?!?!
>
> You ain't doing it in your garage! And if you are, pray the EPA doesn't
> find out!
>
> It's a real mess, highly regulated, lots of permits, etc. When i was
> looking into it, gold was about $400 an ounce, and it took about $275 to
> get it.
>
>

It's like catalytic converters, you sell the whole thing, someone else
will do the recovery.
Here's a web site with some prices. There are more, looks like it
ought to be easy to get 500 bucks worth of old computers but I'd wait
till prices moves on up before selling. Collect them now, sell them
later. From what I understand it's the gold and lead in them that has
the value, and the weight of the steel cases.
They are also buying old computer/cell phone batteries.
http://www.recycle.net/computer/scrap/xv030500.html
And the markets, overseas right now,
Click on the component to get a chart.
http://netdania.com/Products/live-streaming-currency-rates-foreign-exchange/real-time-quotes/QuoteList.aspx


From: Hachiroku on
On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 22:48:25 -0700, Fatter Than Ever Moe wrote:

> Hachiroku ハチロク wrote:
>> On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 20:38:58 -0700, Fatter Than Ever Moe wrote:
>>
>>> Hachiroku ハチロク wrote:
>>>> <whining> "It's not fair!!!!"
>>>>
>>>> "One percent of the population makes 95% of the money."
>>>>
>>>> Huh? Um, sure, Mike
>>>>
>>>> "The United States was founded on Democracy and fairness, so how is it
>>>> fair that 1% make most of the money."
>>>>
>>>> What gets me is, he's telling this to a multi-millionaire who has a
>>>> collection of cars the value of which exceeds the GDP of a bunch of
>>>> third-world countries...
>>>>
>>>> Put together!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> The system has worked pretty well for Micheal Moore also. His next
>>> movie ought to be something about "biting the hand that feeds you".
>>> And I've been thinking, you must get a lot of bad old computer
>>> cards? Why not cut the gold plated ends off and throw them in a box? I
>>> think they are apt to become a cash cow sooner or later. I know places
>>> that recycle computer stuff get the lead and gold and whatever they can
>>> sell from them. Same goes for anything with gold contacts, sockets
>>> whatever.
>>
>>
>> I looked into that about 10 years ago. Do you have any idea what it takes
>> to get the gold off of those things?!?!
>>
>> You ain't doing it in your garage! And if you are, pray the EPA doesn't
>> find out!
>>
>> It's a real mess, highly regulated, lots of permits, etc. When i was
>> looking into it, gold was about $400 an ounce, and it took about $275 to
>> get it.
>>
>>
>
> It's like catalytic converters, you sell the whole thing, someone else
> will do the recovery.
> Here's a web site with some prices. There are more, looks like it
> ought to be easy to get 500 bucks worth of old computers but I'd wait
> till prices moves on up before selling. Collect them now, sell them
> later. From what I understand it's the gold and lead in them that has
> the value, and the weight of the steel cases.
> They are also buying old computer/cell phone batteries.
> http://www.recycle.net/computer/scrap/xv030500.html
> And the markets, overseas right now,
> Click on the component to get a chart.
> http://netdania.com/Products/live-streaming-currency-rates-foreign-exchange/real-time-quotes/QuoteList.aspx


Overseas they just bring the thing inot the back yard and start burning
it. Worse thing you can do, and they usually do it with the kids running
around...