Another Big Brother happening
 

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/...ment-stimulus/

They don't carry guns and there's no police academy to train them, but if you don't recycle your trash properly, they can walk up your driveway and give you a $100 ticket. They know what's in your trash, they know what you eat, they know how often you bring your recycles to the curb -- and they may be coming to your town soon. That is, if they're not already there.
In a growing number of cities across the U.S., local governments are placing computer chips in recycling bins to collect data on refuse disposal, and then fining residents who don't participate in recycling efforts and forcing others into educational programs meant to instill respect for the environment.

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Just toss your beer cans in the neighbors newspaper recycling. That will fix him. He will be sentenced to recyclers anon for 6 months sensitivity training.

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This is what happens when you have stupid laws.

Enforcing the stupid laws in a stupid manner-- where are the strong people of these cities? Why aren't they mounting a referrendum or something?


Where's a good community organizer when you need one?

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Stupid liberals. They represent voters that can't make decisions.
This is from the community organizers.

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A whole city of indecisive voters?

Sounds like good intentions gone awry to me.
Smacks of laziness too-- not enough people care enough to stop the lunacy.

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Well, let's see. Someone has to pay for the chips, the enforcement officers and the recycle trainers and all of the support personnel. If it were me, I would have made the fines $250.00 for the first failure and $500.00 for each additional occurrence, plus 30 days in jail. One would have to pay court costs and the salaries of the jailers. Gee, this could be fun! And, look at all that money we could get in just to hire some more bureaucrats who are not held accountable to the citizens.

1984 was a little late in getting here, but now we can relax, everything (er, everyone) is now under control.

The invention of the chip sure made my computer run nice. Now, those little bugs are starting to run my life. :grampa

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Meh. There'll be a hack online within days of major deployment.

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If anyone islooking for a longer news article:

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/...ment-stimulus/

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I loved the Super Bowl tv commercial last year with the "green police" arresting people for not having CFL lightbulbs, etc. It was probably prophetic.

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So Big Brother is alive and well!!! :razz

In our city rcycling is voluntary.As I recall about 10% participate.
The recycle bin is free. You can recycle the usuals...plastic with the 1 or 2 in the triangle, newspaper, junkmail, cardboard, cereal boxes......but NO glass.

Someone must have been cut....glass was taken off the list. You can personally take glass bottles to a drop off site.

It's all rather low key. I do recycle but it's not a big deal if I toss a soup can in the regular trash.