ah ha, and here I thought mike was an environmental scientist. well mike
if you have recently taken a course in environmental science you would
know that the current train of thought is not to abolish anything that has
an evnvironmental impact. as a westerner you undoubtedly do you part in
destroying the environment. you being a programmer means that you support
a much graver concern than mountain biking and that is "digital waste".
consider the following statement next time you buy anything digital or
promote computers in anyway:

"Electronic equipment is one of the largest known sources of heavy metals,
toxic materials, and organic pollutants in municipal trash waste," said
Leslie Byster, a spokeswoman for Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition, a
nonprofit group in California that studies computer industry waste. "The
only household item I can think of that is worse," he said, "would be
pesticides."

does that mean computers should be abolished....no because you and i would
be out of a job. instead we must do our best to use recycled computer
components and support products that are more easily broken down. IE buy
producst from Hewlet Packard. If you don't "understand" that then I will
apply your own logic and call you a hypocrite for using a computer to
partake in this news group. by doing so you are polluting the environment
of many third world countries where your waste ends up. My enviro prof
would be embarassed by people like you (Dr. Rhonda Mc.Dougal - University
of Manitoba) who are full of half truthes.



. assesment. Ya know, I took an environmental science course at
University .
.So did I, but it counts for nothing when you're 'debating' with Mike.

Especially since you didn't understand a bit of it.


And you did, Mikey? LOL
Yeah, riiiiiight!