Re: Prices for sun sparcstation IPC and Sparcstation 1

From: David Kirkby (nospam_at_nowhere.com)
Date: 11/10/04 

Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 22:41:43 +0000

Beardy wrote:
> David Kirkby wrote:
>
>> Beardy wrote:
>>
>>> <OT_rant>
>>>
>>> Here in London, people pretty much do this already. My home became a
>>> victim of dumping over the last few days, and I live in a
>>> not-too-dodgy area. Fortunately someone took a liking to the ***
>>> that had been dumped, and took it away. Strange. Our council (London,
>>> Ealing) simply puts up taxes and god knows where the revenues go -
>>> certainly not into services to the public - just into councillors'
>>> pockets.
>>>
>>> </OT_rant>
>>
>>
>>
>> An ex-colleague of mine said in his part of Canada they had a good idea.
>>
>> For three days of the year, everyone put outside their house anything
>> they no longer wanted - junk, plus things of potential use to someone
>> else. People then combed their neighborhood, looking for things they
>> wanted.
>>
>> After the 3-days, the council collected the remainder.
>>
>> It seems like a good idea to me. Sure there is a bit of junk lying
>> around for 3 days out of 365, but it would allow others to use what
>> you don't want, and would save a lot of 'fly tipping'.
>
>
> That's a bloody excellent idea - I will pass it on to Ealing Council.

Let me (or the newsgroup) know what response you get. One of my colleagues

http://www.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/~mefry/

lists 'Finding things for free' as one of his interests, so I'm sure he,
like myself, would love to visit Ealing for the 3 days.

> Now what was Rich Teer's home address? I s'pose I could just loiter
> around Kelowna for a year or so - his place should be easy to spot ;-)
>
>