When I hear that our Agency sometimes donates our old computers to schools, I cringe. This is about as useful as when someone asked me if I thought they could still use the old DOS CompuServe software [CIS] could be used for internet access so their stores would not have to buy at least 1 new computer wint Win9x on it.

>In the office where my wife works, a question arose about how to dispose of old computer monitors. They e-mailed a couple of people asking for opinions and received the following reply, which she shared with me:
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>...There's just no good solution right now.
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>Maybe I could get a candidate to make it a campaign promise? Sounds like the kind of thing Al Gore would (claim to) stand behind:
>"I was just saying as I was kissing Tipper passionately the other night that when I invented the computer monitor, I never imagined we would have this incredible disposal problem. Why, in Texas alone there are over 700 million monitors sitting on the furniture in the homes of the poor who have to stand all day because the Bush administration would rather see the poor have no place to sit than accept their environmental responsibilities...."
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>Then again, maybe Gov. Bush would find something in the issue:
>"I think any surplus that we have should be shared with the American people. That's why I propose that all middle income families receiving a tax refund under my program also get an old monitor. And if your family makes less than $35,000 a year, you'll get that monitor plus two obsolete keyboards. And let's not forget out seniors and their prescription needs. With the help of my proposed program, every senior that gets a prescription will get an unusable computer and possibly a dot matrix printer without any drivers."
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>What do you think? Doesn't it sound just a bit too much like reality?
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