<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On 11/12/2010, at 10:38 AM, Ray Wells wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
<div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000">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?<font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#144FAE"><br></font></font></div></blockquote><br></div><div>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..</div><div><br></div><div>--DG</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">Damien Gardner Jnr</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">VK2TDG. Dip EE. GradIEAust</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><a href="mailto:rendrag@rendrag.net">rendrag@rendrag.net</a> - </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><a href="http://www.rendrag.net/">http://www.rendrag.net/</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">--</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">We rode on the winds of the rising storm,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "> We ran to the sounds of thunder.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">We danced among the lightning bolts,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "> and tore the world asunder</span></div><br></body></html>