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[Tarus Balog <tarus AT opennms.org>]

On Oct 24, 2007, at 9:55 AM, Marc Wiatrowski wrote:

> On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 18:36 -0400, Tarus Balog wrote:
> > I think this is getting blown way out of proportion. After all, it's
> > not like they are watering it to make it grow, or to make it
> > prettier; the fact is that dry astroturf is about as yielding as
> > concrete. If you want to have collegiate sports on astroturf, is
> > must
> > be watered heavily. I bet they are also putting water into their
> > swimming pools.
>
> Doesn't this just beg a different question... With all the different
> kinds of synthetic crap we can make, we can't make "yielding  
> AstroTurf"
> that doesn't requiring water!?

Heh, water's free, right?

Even though I sell free software for a living, I'm a hard core  
capitalist. Plus, I am also an environmentalist. The two are not  
mutually exclusive. The current system is broken in that much of it  
is based on the assumption that air is free (we can dump as much  
carbon and pollutants in it as we want), water is free, and land is  
free (from the point of view of waste). If we could capture the cost  
of these "externalities" in the price of goods, the system would work  
a lot better as the market would sort it out.

-T

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