I had an episode kind of like this a couple years ago taking my garbage & recycling bins to the curb. Lost traction, but was able to surf down the driveway and stay upright. Bonus: high school kid waiting for the bus got to see it all.

I share some of your cynicism in terms of politicians and their incentives but climate change, whether you acknowledge it as a serious issue or not, is something that can only be addressed on an inter-governmental level.

I've said this before in a different video thread but individually minimising your carbon emissions is quite literally an exercise in self masturbatory indulgence. The vast majority of emissions are the result of industrial by-products in the product cycle. The same applies to regular pollution (and whether you use the recycling bin or not) and water wastage among other issues.

Actively selecting environmentally friendly products is generally either impossible (where alternatives don't exist) or impractical (where you're simply not provided sufficient or accurate information to effectively do so).

The efficient and effective way to reduce emissions is through a climate trading scheme. Emissions reduction occurs where it is cheapest to do and those for whom it is expensive buy the permits from those who can offset cheapest. Broad international adoption is the only way that this gets implemented because the costs are borne by everyone. In progress towards that goal, Republican opposition and the broad corporate campaign in the US against what is a scientific consensus is the primarily roadblock here.

The level of belief in climate change being caused by human activity and of being perceived as a threat in the US is woeful:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change_opinion_by_country

The EU is on board. Japan is on board. Among the largest economies, the US is the laggard and perhaps China. With the US being a major funder and significant influence on international agencies, they are clearly the roadblock here. With just EU, Japan, and the US, there would be consensus in >50% of global GDP output, which should be decisive.

You should acknowledge that, if you are wrong, while you may think you're hedging your bets by being environmentally responsible as you claim, in sum you're doing more harm than good through spreading FUD.

Don't understand why they don't just toss the bottles into the recycling bin like normal people. Fuckin litterbugs.

No-Because trolls on YT don't usually come back to defend themselves against other trolls.
Hey-The film blew, what can I say...Talking ferrets??

11 million budget
$397,070-total domestic gross

Calling it like I see it-Watched 10 minutes of this turd then straight to the recycle bin ♻ and still had homemade popcorn left!

I was pretty sure that files in the recycle bin do not have their pointers removed yet and that they are really just "moved" into a folder with special rules. I thought the pointer got removed when they were really deleted.

BTW, your link has a typo in it. Also, I can plug DBAN which does the same sort of thing, but for the entire hard disk.

Haven't watched the video yet, but I'll save you some time if you have no idea what the answer is: Deleted files don't go anywhere. Basically, the pointer to the file on the hard drive is just marked as deleted, but the data stays where it was before deletion.

This is why (on Windows) you can easily undelete from the recycle bin.

Your deleted files can be recoverable for a very long time because the data will sit there until some other data is saved in the same location. And even in that case, most of the original data might still go untouched for a long time.

This is how forensic computer geeks are able to recover all the dirty secrets you thought were really deleted.

To really delete something, the entire file's saved data needs to be overwritten. There's a lot of great software like Eraser that you can use to do this easily.

STOP.
LICKING.
YOUR.
FUCKING.
FINGERS.

I hate when people do that. Is it really that hard to flip a page?

Also, next time, drop that paper into a recycle bin, and you not only get your message across, but seem environmentally conscientious at the same time. WINRAR!

I guess to fully answer your question, @JiggaJonson, my desktop, including task bar and icons, would look like this:

http://i.imgur.com/PeR6J.jpg

All you'll see is one icon - the recycle bin. As I mentioned, the background changes every 20 minutes, but the recycle bin and the task bar are the only other things in view. I have no problem sharing this info.

However, don't ask me what my browser's bookmarks are. Those records will remain permanently sealed.

I ripped to shreds and tossed your *kids provocation in the recycle bin... that is on the Jennifer Connolly clip I have.

It really is not a kid clip ( via bleeping her words ??? all one has to do is use imagination to insert the blank, therefore filling the blank, therefore saying the word, therefore re-enforcing the cuss word, which sir/mam I do know you not forth appreciate such fuddery) not a kid movie at all, I am watching it as we speak and it is fit for a KID if you consider someone of 13 or older. It is very well done, although it has graphic innuendo , adult themes and would give actual kids say 10 year old, nightmares.

Thank you for you interest.

Right-wing prejudice against greenies? Get real. A full THIRD of all federal regulations are environmental regs. We're not talking about a few recycling bins here but the systematic destruction of the free market, which has protected resources through private property ownership way better than some bureaucrat deciding you can't cut down a tree on your own property.

When green fanatics announce that "all GW debate is over", compare their opponents to "Holocaust deniers" and rush to pass still more wealth and freedom-destroying legislation before it can be debated, what else can "man-made" GW be but a hoax?...a hoax perpetrated by government force. TIME IS RUNNING OUT is the mantra of the used car salesman.

It's embarrassing that so many otherwise 'rational' people would suddenly link millions of years of natural global warming and cooling cycles to a few centuries of industry, as if THE SUN plays no role in earth not being a ball of ice. (measuring by the cycles we're LONG overdue for another ice age).

Now greenvangelicals are trying to declare water vapor and carbon dioxide TOXIC and in need of regulation. There's no end to these power grabs and no limits to the human lust for power and other emotional defects from which the atheist naively declares immunity.

"The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded.

Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific technological elite."

-- Dwight Eisenhower speech, 1961

http://www.globalwarminghoax.com/news.php

I've even gotten rid of the recycle bin. When I delete something, I want it gone!

For years the only icon I've had on my desktop is the recycle bin.

Oh yeah, and on a separate note - have the ingenious OS X creators figured it out yet that people might need to retrieve separate files from the (Recycle) Bin?

Because last I checked a mere couple of years ago on a then almost brand new Mac laptop, there was no way to restore or drag&drop a single file out of the Bin - one could either restore all the files to their original locations (imagine what you'd do if it's a couple hundred of them) or empty the bin, or permanently delete all the other files that you didn't need at that particular time and THEN use the Restore All option on the single file. Truly genius, the simplicity and usability.

Somewhere in Guantanamo Bay or a secret CIA prison, someone is being tortured with a non-stop loop of Fox News.

It truly is amazing to know that the world is falling apart, but Fox is there to fill space with reactions to the legality of pornography.

Is it so surprising that we have a president who, for seven years, has ignored bin Laden, in lieu of a fight against terrrrrrrists around the world? It may not bring us justice, but goddamnit, it brings us entertainment! KEEP SHOPPING! KEEP GOING OUT TO EAT AT RESTAURANTS! KEEP YOUR EYES FORWARD AND YOUR MOUTHS SHUT, AS WE FORCE-FEED YOU GARBAGE FROM OUR INDUSTRIAL RECYCLING BIN! MADE IN CHINA!

Oh, my head. My lovely brain is dying.

*Ahem
*Discard this *dupe-licate to the recycle bin please, Sifty.