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Life is hard. Grandma left some furniture behind. I decided to burn it. Unfortunately, I do not have sufficient amount of carbon credits, and people do not trust me with matches. Because of this, I felt compelled to donate it.
I called sa, scheduled the date, and they came. However, they would not take the attempted donation because the couches were colorless, had dust on them, and one had a hair on it. I am not sure why they didn't like the dresser. I mildly protested, and asked to speak to the big boy. Big boy asked for pics, and supported the two guys that shot me down initially.
Apparently, my grandma lived in squalor. Who knew? That, or being poor in the US has a completely different meaning than what I was used to.
I am not sure what the point of this post/thread is. I was just curious if it is typical for sa to refuse donations.
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Sure. Especially for large, heavy objects. They need donations of salable items (your donations go to their thrift shops), not garbage. If they're not going to able able to sell it, they don't want it cluttering up their joint.
Leave your furniture on the curb with a sign saying $25. Maybe someone will steal it for you.
Edited, Nov 21st 2013 3:10pm by Jophiel
Leave your furniture on the curb with a sign saying $25. Maybe someone will steal it for you.
Edited, Nov 21st 2013 3:10pm by Jophiel
Belkira wrote:
Wow. Regular ol' Joph fan club in here.
Yup, they refuse all kinds of stuff. If it takes too much effort to get it to something someone will use they won't waste their time on it.
Also relevant, just leave it in the parking lot next to their donation bin by their store sometime after all the witnesses have gone to sleep.
Edited, Nov 21st 2013 1:16pm by someproteinguy
Also relevant, just leave it in the parking lot next to their donation bin by their store sometime after all the witnesses have gone to sleep.
Edited, Nov 21st 2013 1:16pm by someproteinguy
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I take the hard drives out of my old computers and then pitch the rest into the trash.
Speaking of, a few weeks ago a CFL bulbs burnt out. Flea started talking about the dangers and how I had to do this and that with it due to mercury and deadly gases. I responded "You know how I'm going to deal with that? I'm going to throw it in the outside trash and stop giving a shit."
I'm a monster.
Speaking of, a few weeks ago a CFL bulbs burnt out. Flea started talking about the dangers and how I had to do this and that with it due to mercury and deadly gases. I responded "You know how I'm going to deal with that? I'm going to throw it in the outside trash and stop giving a shit."
I'm a monster.
Belkira wrote:
Wow. Regular ol' Joph fan club in here.
Why must you spit on Mother Earth? 
Our local school has a "recycle electronics thing" every year. We take all the stuff and give it to them, and they do what ever it is people do with old cell phones, computers, etc.
Our local school has a "recycle electronics thing" every year. We take all the stuff and give it to them, and they do what ever it is people do with old cell phones, computers, etc.
That monster in the mirror, he just might be you. -Grover
someproteinguy wrote:
Our local school has a "recycle electronics thing" every year. We take all the stuff and give it to them, and they do what ever it is people do with old cell phones, computers, etc.
I'm pretty sure they just take the hard drives out and throw them in the trash.
King Nobby wrote:
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gbaji wrote:
someproteinguy wrote:
Our local school has a "recycle electronics thing" every year. We take all the stuff and give it to them, and they do what ever it is people do with old cell phones, computers, etc.
I'm pretty sure they just take the hard drives out and throw them in the trash.
Kids these days.
That monster in the mirror, he just might be you. -Grover
someproteinguy wrote:
gbaji wrote:
someproteinguy wrote:
Our local school has a "recycle electronics thing" every year. We take all the stuff and give it to them, and they do what ever it is people do with old cell phones, computers, etc.
I'm pretty sure they just take the hard drives out and throw them in the trash.
Kids these days.
Actually the systems get checked to see if they are still usable. If not they are sent to Asia so poor starving children can earn food money by stripping the electronic parts and melting them down into there toxic base components, which then get shipped to the next door factory where they are remade into new components by some more starving children.
So you see, the Salvation Army does truly help the children in need.
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Yeah, there's good money in electronics recycling just not on the per household level.
Belkira wrote:
Wow. Regular ol' Joph fan club in here.
Best Buy will take your dead electronics for recycling, for that matter.
Whether it actually gets recycled or they just pull the hard drives out and throw it in the trash, I can't say.
Once I give it to them it's off my conscious, at least.
Whether it actually gets recycled or they just pull the hard drives out and throw it in the trash, I can't say.
Once I give it to them it's off my conscious, at least.
Hopefully people would pull the hard drives out BEFORE handing it off to some stranger.
Not that the risk of someone purloining your information is huge but it's so quick to pull a hard drive out it seems silly to risk even low odds.
Not that the risk of someone purloining your information is huge but it's so quick to pull a hard drive out it seems silly to risk even low odds.
Belkira wrote:
Wow. Regular ol' Joph fan club in here.
Free ****! 
That monster in the mirror, he just might be you. -Grover
Of course! What else would I mean by "information"?
Belkira wrote:
Wow. Regular ol' Joph fan club in here.
All that free music you downloaded from Napster before they made it illegal?
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1,500 DOOM .wad files free for the taking!
Belkira wrote:
Wow. Regular ol' Joph fan club in here.
Just run DOD wipe and then drill a hole through the drive platters. Sure the NSA could still read them, but they already have all that anyways.
We actually have a giant hard drive hammer mill shreader thingy of doom here at other work. it turns hard drives into pea sized metel bits of goodness. We then eat the drives sprinkled over our morning oatmeal slowly over the next 4 weeks. Sure the toxic metal poisening gets a bit old at first, but just wait until one of us develops super powers!
We actually have a giant hard drive hammer mill shreader thingy of doom here at other work. it turns hard drives into pea sized metel bits of goodness. We then eat the drives sprinkled over our morning oatmeal slowly over the next 4 weeks. Sure the toxic metal poisening gets a bit old at first, but just wait until one of us develops super powers!
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Just giving it a half dozen good hard wangs with a hammer would probably be sufficient to stop any layperson from accessing it.
Belkira wrote:
Wow. Regular ol' Joph fan club in here.
Dread Lörd Kaolian wrote:
Just run DOD wipe and then drill a hole through the drive platters. Sure the NSA could still read them, but they already have all that anyways.
We actually have a giant hard drive hammer mill shreader thingy of doom here at other work. it turns hard drives into pea sized metel bits of goodness. We then eat the drives sprinkled over our morning oatmeal slowly over the next 4 weeks. Sure the toxic metal poisening gets a bit old at first, but just wait until one of us develops super powers!
We actually have a giant hard drive hammer mill shreader thingy of doom here at other work. it turns hard drives into pea sized metel bits of goodness. We then eat the drives sprinkled over our morning oatmeal slowly over the next 4 weeks. Sure the toxic metal poisening gets a bit old at first, but just wait until one of us develops super powers!
You'd destroy the hard drives beyond recovering, the employees get to build team spirit and you would get to shoot things which I'm told the average American prefers over sex.
Build a hard-drive display cabinet to showcase all your saved rescued drives.
Edited, Nov 22nd 2013 1:43am by Elinda
Edited, Nov 22nd 2013 1:43am by Elinda
Alma wrote:
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I knew this would come in handy again someday.
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Cooking/Fishing 100
"We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary."
— James D. Nicoll
His Excellency Aethien wrote:
you would get to shoot things which I'm told the average American prefers over sex.
You misunderstand. We prefer shooting over sex like you prefer hot fudge over ice cream.
Nothing goes better with fucking than firing off a couple pistols while you're doing it.
Belkira wrote:
Wow. Regular ol' Joph fan club in here.
His Excellency Aethien wrote:
Wouldn't it be more efficient to use them as targets at an employee only shooting range?
I tried, but my even my 70lb draw Hoyt UltraElite target bow was only able to get about halfway through the platters before the arrow exploded in a shower of carbon splinters. I liked that arrow too damn it.
Hitting drives with hammers works if you hit the platter itself. Just destroying the bearings isn't enough, as someone with a little luck and skils could order an identical workng drive, gut it, put the platters from the hammered one into the gutted one, and go to town on the data. Especially if they can find one of those record style "drive recovery machines" that are designed to allow a disk platter to be read from any hard drive. Not too difficult to build if you are good with small components, especially if you don't need a lot of speed.
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I suggest upgrading to a rifle, or maybe exploding arrows.
Dread Lörd Kaolian wrote:
Hitting drives with hammers works if you hit the platter itself. Just destroying the bearings isn't enough, as someone with a little luck and skils could order an identical workng drive, gut it, put the platters from the hammered one into the gutted one, and go to town on the data. Especially if they can find one of those record style "drive recovery machines" that are designed to allow a disk platter to be read from any hard drive. Not too difficult to build if you are good with small components, especially if you don't need a lot of speed.
As I said, sufficient to stop a layperson from accessing it.
Belkira wrote:
Wow. Regular ol' Joph fan club in here.
Pulling out the hard drive would be enough to keep me from accessing it. Hell, removing the power cord would be.
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Jophiel wrote:
Dread Lörd Kaolian wrote:
Hitting drives with hammers works if you hit the platter itself. Just destroying the bearings isn't enough, as someone with a little luck and skils could order an identical workng drive, gut it, put the platters from the hammered one into the gutted one, and go to town on the data. Especially if they can find one of those record style "drive recovery machines" that are designed to allow a disk platter to be read from any hard drive. Not too difficult to build if you are good with small components, especially if you don't need a lot of speed.
As I said, sufficient to stop a layperson from accessing it.
If you're using the drive shredder of doom(tm) to destroy your old hard drives, it's safe to assume laypeople aren't the only concern. We use the same kind of system, only we sprinkle the remains over cornflakes. Masks the bits better, I think.
King Nobby wrote:
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