[OZAPRS] smart meters ?

[Ray Wells]

If I had a garbage service I'd toss the monitor in the bottom of the 
wheelie bin and it would just disappear but, no garbage service means a 
visit to the tip. I wonder how many monitors my big dam will hold <g>


Ray vk2tv

On 11/12/10 10:43, Damien Gardner Jnr wrote:
> On 11/12/2010, at 10:38 AM, Ray Wells wrote:
>
>> You mentioned monitors. I recently took two dead CRT monitors to the 
>> tip (I don't have a garbage service) and was informed there is a 
>> (NSW) government enforced $5.00 fee per monitor to leave them at the 
>> tip. How's that for a hidden tax? I wonder how many dead monitors 
>> will now be given swimming lessons?
>
> Wow, that's not bad - ACT govt charges $50/monitor to dump them at the 
> tip.. - when we replaced our 21" sony CRT's with 19" LCD's back in 
> 2005 (worked out we'd pay back the costs of replacing 3x21" 500W crt's 
> with 3x19" 50W LCD's per Desk, in just under 6 months!), we ended up 
> shoving them all into the dumpster out the back over a couple of weeks..
>
> --DG
>
>
> Damien Gardner Jnr
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