Michael Baier <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>Now they at least have to pay for their junk.
Everything looks great, but we have to look closer to the
meaning of "they". On first reading, it appears as if "they"
refers to "those nasty companies". On second (and third and
fourth reading, particularly between the lines), the truth
slowly begins to emerge.
>HP, Electrolux, Other Manufacturers to Pay to Recycle EU Goods
>By Adrian Cox
>
>Brussels, Oct. 11 (Bloomberg) -- Hewlett-Packard Co., Sony Corp.,
>Electrolux AB and other manufacturers will be forced to pay to recycle
>televisions, refrigerators and toasters under an agreement by European
>Union governments and lawmakers.
Hmm... HP "will be forced to pay"... This will be a shock. Usually,
you hear things such as "HP MPE-Image customers will be forced to pay
gigantic prices to downgrade their applications away from the hp3000..."
But I digress :-)
...
>"It will be an
>incentive to produce more environmentally friendly products."
You bet :-)
>In a nine-hour meeting that finished after 3 a.m. today,
This sounds just like "normal computer programming hours" to me.
>... Companies will have to guarantee
>that they will pay for recycling when they put a product on the market.
There is, as always, a lot of unmentioned material between the lines.
Companies do NOT pay for anything: Their customers do.
Bottom line: Companies will simply raise their prices, either explicitly
with a "visible fee" (as mentioned -- amazingly -- in the article), or
implicitly (with a good-old-plain price increase).
Now, how did all of this ever come about as a result of the subject
"Fiorina dings Dell. And Sun. And EMC (Tech Update Alert)"?
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