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More waste is awesome to you? Apple making it impossible to recycle their products (genrating more profit for themselves, which is not casual) is awesome? From
by thefz 4y ago
More waste is awesome to you? Apple making it impossible to recycle their products (genrating more profit for themselves, which is not casual) is awesome?
From TFA, which you clearly did not read:
> Often the previous owners are corporations or schools who buy and sell the machines in bulk and aren't interested in helping recyclers or refurbishers unlock them. "Previous owners do not return phone calls, and large corporations that dump 3000 machines assume they have been destroyed, so it is critical we have a solution that does not depend on the previous owner approving,” Bumstead said. “And after all, we have property rights, so the original owner is not the current owner and does not technically have a right to condemn to death what is no longer their property."
Do you think this is accidental? Think again.
- tristor 4y ago> and large corporations that dump 3000 machines assume they have been destroyed You clearly did not read, or comprehend, the quote you just pasted in here. This is someone committing fraud against the companies paying them to destroy decommissioned computer systems, something they may be legally obligated to do for compliance reasons. They're trying to make a buck on the backend instead of doing what their customers paid them to do. I read, and comprehended the article, did you? From the HN guidelines [1]: "Please don't comment on whether someone read an article." [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- bambax 4y ago> I read, and comprehended the article, did you? > From the HN guidelines [1]: "Please don't comment on whether someone read an article." Is this supposed to be funny or ironic? I find it's neither.
- katbyte 4y agoAnd one comment up: > From TFA, which you clearly did not read: It’s a fair comment and callout in response.