To rant and rave

[counter riposte]

Ok...

I hate paperwork. Somewhere, there must be at least half of a national forest that I have cut down and used for paper, because I have tons of it. Some is important, some are momentos of the occasion and others are just plain junk. The problem is with the plain junk! I can't just throw it away, because that would simply waste a perfectly good tree. Recycling it takes so much effort, and time and energy! The last time I took a 150 pounds of paper to the recycling depot, I recieved a whopping $0.57 for my trouble. I spent more on gas, to bring the tree back to be recycled! Why is it that the more energy and resource concious we become, the harder it is to be concoius...

[HilandDoug]

...back to the snow thing: I was talking to a former New Jersey resident who told me chains and spiked tires are illegal in NJ becasue they tear up the roads. I knew that was the case here in Michigan, the Winter Wonderland, but I was unaware other states had the same or similar laws.

[epeefencer74]

Originally posted by counter riposte
Ok...

I hate paperwork. Somewhere, there must be at least half of a national forest that I have cut down and used for paper, because I have tons of it. Some is important, some are momentos of the occasion and others are just plain junk. The problem is with the plain junk! I can't just throw it away, because that would simply waste a perfectly good tree. Recycling it takes so much effort, and time and energy! The last time I took a 150 pounds of paper to the recycling depot, I recieved a whopping $0.57 for my trouble. I spent more on gas, to bring the tree back to be recycled! Why is it that the more energy and resource concious we become, the harder it is to be concoius...

Me too man. When I decided to take up Computer Science in Uni I thought I'd be great to go to work without so much as a scrap of paper in my pocket, fat luck. After four years of software engineering I am generating a larger paper trail than I did at Uni. Documentations for systems running into hundreds of pages and several volumes of it. What's worse my suggestion for a recycling bin for unwanted paper trash, was rejected.

[Rayen]

My backpack alone weighs a ton. Without any sort of books in it. It's all paper.

And it's not like you can get rid of any of it, because one day, in the not-so-far-away future, some hated teacher will ask some obscure question on a test that has absolutely nothing to do with the material that is being covered in the text.

Of course, the question will be asked twenty million times in different forms on the same exam. Which means if you can't find that one paper that the answer appears on (Written in size 2 font), your test grade has dropped from an A to a B. Which therefore drops you from a class grade of an A to a B. Which therefore keeps you off high honors.

*growls* I quit!