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nanofrog:

--- Quote from: Randall W. Lott on April 04, 2013, 05:54:38 pm ---The thing is.. my company is a "non-profit".

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I'm under the impression the tax implications would be even more critical for them then.
TerraHertz:

--- Quote from: EEVblog on April 04, 2013, 11:51:01 pm ---No, read the forum title, this is a "A Free & Open Forum" (subject to publishing copyright stuff or abuse for example).
I don't care what you post on here, so by all means set up a forum topic and post the photos.
I don't care if there are repercussions and I lose advertising, or demo gear or whatever. Really, I don't, that's how I roll.

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Hmm... I know anyone can start threads, but that really should be a category. Like Buy/Sell/Wanted, General Chat, etc. I can't see any way for users to create categories (and a good thing that is!)

Wanton Destruction Hall of Infamy - seems like a good category title to me. Anyone else agree? Other ideas for the title? Maybe 'Depreciated, my arse!

I definitely can post some photos to kick it off. Dave, I recall you mentioning an example you saw a few months ago, of a large quantity of scopes etc destined for destruction. Any photos?

Oh, and I've read news stories in the US in the last year about people being arrested and charged with theft, for picking up stuff from kerbside council cleanup piles. Even one example in Australia I seem to recall.
The legal argument was that once the resident puts stuff out for a cleanup, it belongs to the council.
Just more insanity, signs of a society spiraling into madness.

Something amusing slightly related: While rummaging (illegally now?) in a council cleanup kerbside pile of junk, I was chatting with someone else going through the same pile. He mentioned one should always check out old couches very carefully. A friend of his had found about $5000 in cash stuffed in one, and he's heard other similar stories. Presumably Granny forgot to tell anyone where she hid her savings. Also often surprising amounts of cash slipped down behind the cushions.

Another story, directly related: Long long ago (of course!) I was working on Garden Island on a ship refurbishment. An adjoining Navy building, some kind of stores warehouse, had a huge dumpster out front. One day a pile of very old ship's radar console gear appeared in the dumpster. All valves and mechanical synchro-servos. Probably from the 40s or 50s, totally obsolete. But I always wanted to have some synchro-servos to play with. I asked in the warehouse if I could salvage them. "Oh no no noooooo! It's all SECRET. Has to be destroyed."  It sat there a few days, infuriatingly taunting and forlorn. The evening before the dumpster was finally carted away, I understand that gear was smuggled out in the back of someone's ute. So glad it was saved by *whoever* it was that would appreciate it.

Coincidentally, I'm looking for a 3-phase 115V AC supply. Anyone have a 3-phase variac or 240V to 115V converter they don't want?
c4757p:

--- Quote from: TerraHertz on April 05, 2013, 12:31:20 am ---Oh, and I've read news stories in the US in the last year about people being arrested and charged with theft, for picking up stuff from kerbside council cleanup piles. Even one example in Australia I seem to recall.
The legal argument was that once the resident puts stuff out for a cleanup, it belongs to the council.
Just more insanity, signs of a society spiraling into madness.

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It's a bit sad that it's happening in Australia - I hate seeing people get more restrictive with that kind of stuff - but that attitude is common in the US. It's not public property because it wasn't released explicitly to the public. TBH I'm not sure whether or not I agree with that, but it is certainly how I and most people I know were raised.
smashedProton:
A while back, my school district gave the axe to the industrial tech department.   >:(   A friend and I 'stole' a couple hitachi scopes, function generators, and power supplies.  My only regret is that I didn't have the balls to go into the other room and get the plasma cutter.  I found all of the equipment that we didn't save the next day tossed in the dumpster behind the school.  I don't understand how people think that test equipment is useless...   Its almost like they think that anything that isn't made by apple is medieval  :-DD
c4757p:

--- Quote from: smashedProton on April 05, 2013, 12:39:56 am ---A while back, my school district gave the axe to the industrial tech department.   >:(

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That's sad. The school near me is giving the axe to everything that's relatively important, too. Funny they don't ever cut the funds to the football shit. And the money whore of a superintendent actually took a raise while all this was going on, too. That doesn't anger me nearly as much as the fact that the town did not show up at her door with torches and pitchforks, the fat piece of shit... >:(


--- Quote from: smashedProton on April 05, 2013, 12:39:56 am ---I don't understand how people think that test equipment is useless...   Its almost like they think that anything that isn't made by apple is medieval  :-DD

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To their credit, a lot of older test equipment would look like absolute junk to someone who doesn't know what it is.
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