Comments on: Junk hits junk status

By: Sedona az mls | Arizona Real Estate News

Sedona az mls | Arizona Real Estate News — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 07:38:57 +0000

[...] Or, as the New York Times puts it, “trash has crashed”. The economic downturn has hammered the recyclables markets, dropping the price of trash so low that it has once again become junk. No one wants to buy the material, leaving aggregators Read more about Sedona real estate [...]

By: aceinstall

aceinstall — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 17:27:53 +0000

This is good news for me, I buy old newspaper to make cellulose insulation. I watched the price climb to over 180/ton, then crash to its currant 25/ton in just a few months. I now have all the raw material I need at a good price. This just goes to show that the free market works, one person’s loss is anothers gain type of thing.

By: Vashta.Nerada

Vashta.Nerada — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 15:05:47 +0000

If the Chinese are not buying our trash, what will they make products to sell to us from?

By: Recession Lowers The Value Of Trash « Beltway Snark

Recession Lowers The Value Of Trash « Beltway Snark — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 13:31:44 +0000

[...] Lowers The Value Of Trash Jump to Comments Man, everyone is getting hit by this whole recession thing. The economic downturn has decimated the market for [...]

By: TMK

TMK — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 08:00:48 +0000

I mean, does Netflix think I’m going to be offended by the title of something I’m looking for?

Yeesh.

irishspy on December 9, 2008 at 5:42 PM

It’s for when the computer says “Hey if you like ________, you might also like ________!”

Whoops, Grammaw Sue doesn’t like “_________!”

By: Hawkins1701

Hawkins1701 — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 06:23:16 +0000

keep the change on December 9, 2008 at 7:19 PM

And as a lifelong Star Trek fan, you can imagine the disillusionment I faced when I came to this conclusion
about my favorite show.

Well said. And sadly true.

By: abobo

abobo — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 05:23:48 +0000

Junk hits junk

Prop 8 FTW!!

By: Charlie Foxtrot - Capitalism Saves the Planet?

Charlie Foxtrot - Capitalism Saves the Planet? — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 02:03:13 +0000

Capitalism Saves the Planet?…

Perhaps the new Obama Administration could mandate price controls on recycled scrap. That way we could continue to save the planet through the goodness of government, and avoid the ickiness of a market-driven solution…….

By: dominigan

dominigan — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 01:54:12 +0000

From the headline, I thought the story would be about the New York Times stock price…

By: tarpon

tarpon — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 00:29:08 +0000

Can’t they burn the plastics for heat? We are going to need it.

By: keep the change

keep the change — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 00:19:53 +0000

Recycling, like global warming initiatives, will be a taxpayer funded scam. Recycling does not have to exist on a purely market basis, or any market basis at all. If it did, it wouldn’t exist. Even if there was no market for trash, recycling will never go away because the government will simply subsidize the activity. This is in keeping with the liberal view of the galaxy, what I call the Gene Roddenberry gene. In their future galaxy, most aliens speak English, Earth has one world government, we are allied with thousands of different alien races, all peaceful, and most importantly, there is no more need for money. Things, like galaxy class starships get built, and the entire society functions without a profit motive. Just as Karl Marx said was not only possible, but most efficient.

Read your Star Trek people. It’s like reading Marx & Engels. That is the world the liberals think will be created if we let them have their way. If faster-than-light travel is possible with their system of communal federation-wide effort, do you honestly think they are going to let recycling be sidelined by something as drôle as the capitalist market?

(only the disgusting Ferengi care about profit. That’s why they are made to look like such misshapen little trolls. It’s a shot at the founding principles of free enterprise and capitalism. As much as enjoyed ST:NG, half the episodes had a distinctly left wing moral story. The writers and producers of sci-fi are notoriously uber liberal)

By: petefrt

petefrt — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 23:59:22 +0000

Let’s hear it for free markets. Time to rid the economy of dead ( and dying) wood and start anew with more efficient, more cost-beneficial enterprises. Viva capitalism!

By: angelat0763

angelat0763 — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 23:55:38 +0000

Esthier on December 9, 2008 at 5:08 PM

Sorry about your car! My Ford Escort started after sitting for 5+ years, but we knew we were lucky. Did you put new gas in it?

If not, try putting it on eBay with a low starting bid and somebody will buy it. There’s probably not much really wrong with it.

By: Esthier

Esthier — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 22:52:32 +0000

I mean, does Netflix think I’m going to be offended by the title of something I’m looking for?

Yeesh.

irishspy on December 9, 2008 at 5:42 PM

As someone who works in the TV listings business I think I can answer that question.

We provide all sorts of clients with our information and because someone who is just flipping channels (or reading through a paper, or wherever else our information is), might not intend to watch porn, we even censor our porn descriptions.

That doesn’t mean we use symbols, but we write descriptions for those programs that are suggestive without being graphic. And we also use *s for titles of programs that aren’t G rated.

For instance, we list a title of South Park as “Eek, A P*nis!” Anyone who is sensitive about the word penis really shouldn’t be watching South Park anyway, but we have to cater to everyone.

By: goat

goat — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 22:49:12 +0000

Homeless and poor hardest hit we now need a bailout of the recycling industry so the homeless can still buy their booze

By: irishspy

irishspy — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 22:42:47 +0000

Going off on a tangent, this entry made me decide to add Bullshit! season 1 to my Netflix queue. Only, i couldn’t find it by title. “Odd,” I thought. “I know it’s on DVD.” So I searched by “Penn” and “Teller.” This time I found it. Yay! I also discovered that, to find it by title, one has to type “Bullsh*t.” Yes, with the asterisk, even though the cover image of the DVD has it spelled correctly. I mean, does Netflix think I’m going to be offended by the title of something I’m looking for?

Yeesh.

By: eh

eh — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 22:31:55 +0000

a-hem... I don't even know you!

By: eh

eh — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 22:29:57 +0000

Tissue? MadisonConservative on December 9, 2008 at 5:21 PM

I don't even know you!

By: Dr.Cwac.Cwac

Dr.Cwac.Cwac — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 22:27:58 +0000

I’m getting the feeling that the price of R.J. Reynolds and Lorillard Tobacco Company will suddenly be rising.

By: BKennedy

BKennedy — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 22:24:42 +0000

Not reported: New York Times has also hit “junk status.”

By: steveegg

steveegg — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 22:21:58 +0000

Look for all that trash to be recycled into the US Gubmint Trabant 2.0, much like the East Germans recycled their trash into the original Trabant.

And while 2.0 can stand for many things (such as the version number or number of hamsters under the hood, or the amount of cargo it would hold in cubic feet), it won’t stand for the displacement of the engine (mainly because it won’t have an internal combustion engine).

By: MadisonConservative

MadisonConservative — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 22:21:43 +0000

so, the prohibition on potty language has been lifted?

eh on December 9, 2008 at 5:20 PM

It’s the name of the show. Tissue?

By: eh

eh — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 22:20:51 +0000

Penn and Teller foresaw this coming. In a seminal episode of their television series Bullshit, the two exploded many myths about the recycling cause. You can see a clip of the second-season episode here.

so, the prohibition on potty language has been lifted?

By: roux

roux — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 22:18:57 +0000

My next door neighbor saves cans. I give him mine as well and usually take him to the recycle center to cash them in. They were paying about 85 cents a pound and within a few weeks it dropped to 25 cents a pound.

By: Brat

Brat — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 22:09:26 +0000

My county (GWINNETT, GA) has just stealthily “unprivatized” our trash collection as of 1/1/09. My private company is now charging me a $23.50 deactivation fee. That company picked up my trash today, and also took their receptacles! Where do I put my trash from now until 1/1/09??

The worst part to me is that the county is putting their trash fee on my PROPERTY TAX bill. Now they want to fine anyone not recycling $500!!

This is all done by RINOs, all decisions and their contractors and plan were announced 11/7 – AFTER THE ELECTION.