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JonnyStead


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The 'Greens' are being sensible again
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7473366.stm

So in a nutshell, this one goes like this -

Greenpeace decide to run a table of the most eco-friendly technology companies. They contact a bunch of them - asking them questions about how they do things and then, based on a criteria set solely by Greenpeace they rank the performances of these firms.

Nintendo looked at their proposal and said 'Nah - we dont want to be involved, thanks anyway' - the Greenpeace response? They marked them bottom of the league - despite the fact they didnt take part, they just guessed the answers from what they could lift from the Nintendo website and completely ignored Nintendo's frankly sensible protest 'we didnt give you answers, how could you grade us?'

You gotta love balanced views from pressure groups...

We're all bottom of the league too by the way - because we didnt even get approached!

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I like this phrase:

"In the end it had been forced to use information from Nintendo's website, she said."

Forced to! You wouldn't think that greenpeace would be doing themselves any favours with stuff like this, but unfortunately people generally take headlines at face vale and don't even try to read between the lines!

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JonnyStead


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I know! - considering the content of the article I would have hoped the Beebs headline would have been a little more balanced -

Anway - Nintendo are cool - they are the 'David' of the games world right now and doing a good job with a different approach. If Greenpeace dont back off, I'm gonna start hunting whales again...

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Hmm. I have an image in my mind of you hunting whales with a crossbow. I'm afraid it's not going so well...

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This would be ok

http://thelongestlistofthelongeststuffatthelongestdomainnameatlonglast.com/smallest19.html


otherwise its harpoon time!

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Good find. Also, it's small size would make the postage costs less when you sent it's corpse and an explanatory note to Greenpeace!

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JonnyStead


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Nice! might even be small enough to DHL it

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Indeed - as long as they don't drop it on its corner making a big dent that means you have to send it back to Amazon and wait yet another week for it to arrive...

Sorry... I might be talking about something else... Whales don't have corners, so they?

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They didn't contact me either because I told them the next eco-whacko that wasted my air would be fed to the worms...That put me at the bottom of their "eco-friendly" list and the top of their "to-be-avoided-at-all-costs" list...furious...Ben

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JonnyStead


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Truckman wrote:

They didn't contact me either because I told them the next eco-whacko that wasted my air would be fed to the worms......furious...Ben



super.gif Its the intolerance that I love so much...



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He has such a way with words! thumbsup.gif

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