From: Hachiroku ハチロク on 15 Sep 2009 23:07 <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 15 Sep 2009 23:38 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 16 Sep 2009 00:03 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 16 Sep 2009 01:48 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 16 Sep 2009 15:06
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... |