[G4] Black boxes (was: IBM chip fabs)

[John Wilson]

Unfortunately, the ink for the black boxes is made from clubbed baby 
seals and oil-soaked herons.

On Saturday, August 23, 2003, at 01:03  PM, Joseph B. Gurman wrote:

>     Mr. Kunga wrote:
>
>> Well I see the black box as ecologically bad. I wonder if they are
>> using SOY INK for all that black ink. If not, this is quite
>> ecologically repulsive. Does anyone who has one of those boxes know if
>> it says SOY INK on it anywhere?
>
>     I'll have to check if my colleague hasn't ditched it yet. But what 
> makes you think the white or colored photo inks they'd been using were 
> earth-friendly?
>
>     So long as they don't make the machines black, like those 
> butt-ugly Dells. They'd be a blot on the landscape, if even if Michael 
> Dell weren't associated with the product.
>
> 						Joe Gurman