[sdiy] The Dreaded ROHS

Tue Feb 17 01:05:45 CET 2009

David said:

>I am currently accepting any and all donations to make me rich :)

hehe, I figure if everybody in Australia gave me 5 cents, I'd be a rich man, 
and all the donators wouldn't miss that amount.

let's see.... ~20,000,000 people times $0.05 is a cool $1 million.

SIGH

*someone* has my share of the average wage!

--
Regards, Bob Devries, Dalby, Queensland, Australia

Isaiah 50:4 The sovereign Lord has given me
the capacity to be his spokesman,
so that I know how to help the weary.

website: http://www.home.gil.com.au/~bdevasl
my blog: http://bdevries.invigorated.org/

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Ingebretsen" <dingebre at 3dphysics.net>
To: "'Synth DIY'" <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 9:46 AM
Subject: RE: [sdiy] The Dreaded ROHS

>I am currently accepting any and all donations to make me rich :)
>
> David
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: synth-diy-bounces at dropmix.xs4all.nl
> [mailto:synth-diy-bounces at dropmix.xs4all.nl] On Behalf Of David G. Dixon
> Sent: Monday, February 16, 2009 3:56 PM
> To: 'Bob Weigel'; simon.oo.o at xs4all.nl
> Cc: 'Synth DIY'
> Subject: RE: [sdiy] The Dreaded ROHS
>
> Not to add to the rant, but...
>
> As anyone who has ever visited a third-world or eastern bloc country will
> attest, there is only one sure-fire cure for pollution:
>
> Affluence.
>
> The worst polluting countries are those which are desperately trying
> (through heavy industry) to convert soft currency (rupees, rubles, etc) 
> into
> hard currency (US dollars, British pounds, Japanese yen, etc).
>
> Affluence is also a pretty good antidote to over-population.  How many
> people do you know in your affluent countries with 8 children?  And yet,
> think of sub-Saharan Africa, where many children (all starving) is the 
> norm.
> Or, think of your own ancestors.  You probably don't have to look too far
> back to find someone in your ancestry who had 7 or 8 siblings.
>
> The key to a sparkling clean planet is to make everybody rich, and then
> allow them not to work for a living.
>
>
> David G. Dixon
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: synth-diy-bounces at dropmix.xs4all.nl [mailto:synth-diy-
>> bounces at dropmix.xs4all.nl] On Behalf Of Bob Weigel
>> Sent: Monday, February 16, 2009 1:56 PM
>> To: simon.oo.o at xs4all.nl
>> Cc: Synth DIY
>> Subject: Re: [sdiy] The Dreaded ROHS
>>
>> Simon Brouwer wrote:
>>
>> > Bob Weigel schreef:
>> >
>> >> For example I recently calculated that if 1 billion people of the
>> >> world drove some log truck that intakes .5 cf per rev (350 does .1 cf
>> >> per rev) of let's say..utterly polluted useless air (which isn't the
>> >> case..but..just say to get a concept) out the other side... and they
>> >> all drove them 10,000 miles per year... the total impact on the
>> >> atmosphere would be on the order of  1.7ppm
>> >
>> > And you think that a yearly increase of that much CO2 in the
>> > atmosphere will not have a large effect on global temperatures in the
>> > long run?
>> >
>> > 1.7 ppm may *sound* negligible but that doesn't mean that it *is*.
>> >
>>
>> Well the thing is we have an earth that is full of processes of
>> combustion.  The little ones people do in vehicles pale in comparison to
>> the ones nature does beneath the surface all the time.  And of course
>> whenever a volcano errupts we see a mass display of this that of course
>> overshadows a billion little tailpipes even.  Average surface area of
>> exhaust of .15 ft radius even is 70million square foot of exhaust pipe
>> ;-).  Which would be a mile and a half x mile and a half hole putting
>> away.  The vent size of a typical volcano is..quite  a bit smaller but
>> when they errupt it's like an a bomb going off in contrast.  And they
>> can continue to spew for quite some time... there are something like 65
>> 'active' volcanoes at the moment each of which during an erruption and
>> in the aftermath will of course make man's contribution to the picture
>> look quite insignificant.  NOT to mention these aren't distributed and
>> nature has to reconcile the damage in a much more concentrated area
>> which isnt' good at all :-)
>>
>> Anyway we're ranging wildly from the topic but I'm just saying..nature
>> is pretty durable because of the broad bandwidth of things it entails.
>> If we don't burn the oil...what the heck do people think happens when a
>> volcanoe errupts through it? :-)
>>
>> If we don't build houses out of the trees, what do people think happens
>> when a forrest fire takes it all out?
>>
>> There are some areas where people try to *strain out gnats* basically
>> I'm just saying and in the end it looks very foolish indeed.  And the
>> ROHS thing has been one of those if there ever was one.  People wonder
>> why economies are failing etc. Yet they keep thinking of more and more
>> trivial things to plague people's efficiency with.   This human control
>> is webbing it's way into all aspects of life.  The food we eat even.
>> But anyway... that's all I'll say.  I don't want to plague people
>> because it really is pretty off topic in a way except... hey if the
>> world government players destroy people's productivity I don't think
>> we'll be talking about sdiy stuff much.   People will just be trying to
>> survive.
>>
>>  -Bob
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