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Not true, one hopes

At work, we have four-holed recycling and waste bins with a label over each hole: CANS AND BOTTLES ONLY, WHITE PAPER ONLY, MIXED PAPER ONLY, and TRASH. Apparently the ISO 14000 compliance team decided that the way to stop so much non-trash from going into the trash was to add the word "ONLY" to its hole, too. Meanwhlie, they also wanted to make sure the "WE RECYCLE" slogan was displayed prominently. The unfortunate result was this sticker:

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While we might be said to "recycle" trash down at the pyrolysis plant, it does make one wonder what we've started doing with all the cans, bottle, and paper.

Andrew Reid: Actually, they are, because that's how men's shirts button.

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Glenn Knickerbocker
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"Glenn Knickerbocker" wrote

It continually amazes me how people who care enough to recycle cannot do it properly. The printer is across from my open door, and people have learned that I will mock their intelli- gence if they put anything but white paper in the white paper bin. (No, the wrapping that reams of white paper comes in is not white paper. I don't care if you are too lazy to walk a few feet to the garbage can, you are a bozo and I'm calling you on it.)

I seriously doubt this affects their behavior elsewhere.

--oTTo--

Reply to
Otto Bahn

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Correct. Because I have nowhere to recycle racially segregated paper. We recycle all our paper together, as one entity, be it white, coloured, cardboard or glossy, ink-jetted, laser-burnt or pure virgin clear, as it stands, one substance, under ghod, with fibres and no staples for all.

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TomH

"TomH" wrote

Staples aren't that big of an issue. They grind it all up and use GIANT MAGNETS to turn on Darla.

It still helps to remove them, but I wouldn't go out of my way. This applies to tiny splinters and skateboarders as well.

--oTTo--

Reply to
Otto Bahn

One of the reasons to disassemble b0rken disk drives is for the strong magnets that are contained within.

Collected. Waiting. For Darla. FNARRla. All lined up. Pole-to-pole. IYKWIM.

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TomH

Uhnnn ohhh oo oo oo aahhhh

-=D=-

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Reply to
Darla Vladschyk

Note to Darla: If you can get hold of an old 1.1GB drive from a Cray YMP um something, then they're great. The drive was about 16 inches long, 5 inches tall, 8 inches wide, and weighed about 15kg (all going by memory here), much of it solid metal. I spent about an hour trying to separate the magnets when they inadvertently came together (FNARR!).

P.S. If anyone can give me the instructions to wire up the 10-14 connectors of the motor, I would be thouroughly grateful. I too like big magnets, and would love to see how powerful the drive is when it spins up to full speed. Mmmmm, angular momentum.

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TimC 
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way we talk about confusion.    -- Some astronomer at a talk.
Reply to
TimC

Red + Black - is usually a good place to start.

Reply to
Adam Funk

What about grey grey grey grey grey grey grey grey grey grey -> black connector?

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TimC
"Eppur si muove!"  (And yet it does move!)
              -- Galileo Galilei
Reply to
TimC

Hook those up to any other equal number of loose connectors you find. Then start swapping them around to reduce the knocking.

Reply to
Adam Funk

The power socket to the whole thing was proprietry (and I can't even identify which one was power). No hope of getting the motherboard to work, so I was hoping the motor might be just a little easier. Alas.

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TimC
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TimC

Reply to
Mike Berger

It's actually kinda problematic because all those wires? Those are typically controled via the daughterboard on the drive. What normally would be done via brushes in the moter (energizing the next electromagnet in series to make the armature turn) is done via that daughterboard so that the drives speed can be carefully controled. You'd have to make a similar circuit that would stat each wire with b+ sequentially. Might be fun. :)

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John Smith

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