Reply #8: Shit, I used to dumpster dive behind office buildings...

[Solon]

and also worked as a trash man in rich neighborhoods, damn, you wouldn't believe the stuff they would throw away at either place. I used to, when I could, take video monitors for computers, printers, and all this other shit, rip off the internal serial number for the company, and then pawn it off. Better that some of those things are still used for something other than a tax write off, and prevent them from being put in a landfill. That stuff is particularly toxic to the enviroment. Hell, I even GAVE a full fledged Pentium 3 computer(this was a LONG time ago) that was thrown away and gave it to the Boys and Girls club around here. Not even a tax writeoff, didn't cost a thing to get. Hell, my portable CD player, and my old VCR were free and legal, my CD player was a throw away when, during my roommate's shift at day labor, working as a trashman, he came home with it, spotless. It had one problem, it only played track one of any CD, so I took it apart and found a hair on the screw that moves the laser reader, so with a pair of tweezers, and 5 minutes of time, I had a BRAND NEW portable CD player that was worth at least 100 bucks, even had skip protection.

ON EDIT: Put a comma in a missing place, I didn't mean to damn you, honest. :)