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Shift-work: Keyboards heaped in a field push North Yorks council's fly-tipping buttons
A cache of keyboards has been dumped in a field in North Yorkshire, England, leading to speculation that the person responsible for Deleting them from the face of the Earth didn't want to put in another Shift. The local authority with Ctrl over the Space where the plastic word-pianos were fly-tipped, Craven District Council, …
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Thursday 1st November 2018 14:09 GMT Ragarath
Re: Just google a few serial numbers
Or as this is obviously a business due to the amount. Just pay the few quid it costs to have it disposed of properly.
On the other hand all Councils now actively encourage fly tipping IMO because they charge twice. First in your tax and then when you take stuff to the tip. Reap what you sow and all that.
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Friday 2nd November 2018 22:51 GMT YetAnotherLocksmith
Re: Just google a few serial numbers
If only, after 8 years of cuts,the central government idiots could figure out that taking 20% off the top each time means there's f all left in the council's budgets. And no police to catch the fly tippers either.
That you're still blaming a government that left the national debt in far better condition than it is right now, 2 (3?) general elections later, tells us something important about your ability with a budget.
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Wednesday 31st October 2018 15:21 GMT mark 120
Re: Examine them
No use to anyone though. If the keyboards are second hand, it only tells you who used them at some point in the past, not who dumped them. Even then, it only identifies that pool if their DNA is already on file, unless you're going to have a dragnet and sample everybody with at least one arm within 50 miles of Craven
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Wednesday 31st October 2018 14:59 GMT Peter2
Re: Some white ones visible on the pictures
Nobody is going to fly tip IBM model M's. Firstly, the resale value is so high that only an idiot would do it.
Secondly, anybody trying to lift a stack of them would have collapsed with a hernia. The Model M is not exactly what you might call lightweight.
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Wednesday 31st October 2018 18:50 GMT Stoneshop
Re: Some white ones visible on the pictures
The Model M is not the only worthwhile IBM keyboard. They all share the same characteristics though: clicky, heavy and robust. Bash some luser's head in and just run it through the dishwasher before using again robust.
They also had some very average plasticy spongy ones that came with the PS/2s and such.
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Thursday 1st November 2018 15:37 GMT Tom 38
Re: Some white ones visible on the pictures
Nobody is going to fly tip IBM model M's. Firstly, the resale value is so high that only an idiot would do it.
I got my model-m from keyboardco.com ~10 years ago for £24. If you want one now (I spilt sugary milky tea over mine, and it never properly cleaned, even after going through the dishwasher, hard to use it without R,D,F or G), you're looking for easily £100 - more if its a proper one made in the 80s (the late 90s one are _definitely_ not as good).
Bought a daskeyboard 4 to replace it, also cost ~£100, nowhere near as good (keys keep repeating).
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Wednesday 31st October 2018 16:21 GMT }{amis}{
Re: Some white ones visible on the pictures
I'm going to guess this lot came from somewhere that has some form of teaching going on the colorful one in the pic looks like the type they use to teach touch typing in schools like : LessonBoard
My bet would be on a local collage or maby prison had a refit done and somebody skimped on the disposal costs.
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Wednesday 31st October 2018 15:15 GMT Peter2
Re: V.amusing but...
(What, your keyboard doesn’t have an Any key?)
As you should explain to any user having trouble with this, the "any" key is the large unmarked key in the middle of the bottom row, also known as the "space" key.
This has the positive effect of the user ending the call happy with IT, and thinking that they have learned something few other people know. They then spread that around with their friends, which as people tend to hang out with similar people tends to eliminate calls from their social circle too.
It also has a slight chance that it might come out in the pub with their friends that they called the IT department asking which key was the "any key", leading to their friends saying to them what we want to say.
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Wednesday 7th November 2018 14:47 GMT Toni the terrible
Re: V.amusing but...
I can't believe that this joke has continued for so many years; a bit like the idea of typists putting correction fluid on their monitors or like tartan paint and buckets of sparks.
However, there is often a 'reset' on the bottom of laptops - so I looked at the base of my PC's Redragon keyboard, much against my common sense, and of course found nothing. My laptop hoowever has several things to press on its underside, so.....
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Wednesday 31st October 2018 15:20 GMT DavCrav
Re: V.amusing but...
"There's a cost here in removing them for proper disposal, this cost has now passed to me through the taxes I pay."
Sort of. Shoving them in the back of a Council van is quick, and surely WEEE directives still apply, so the manufacturer is responsible. Or does that only apply to consumers?
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Wednesday 31st October 2018 19:28 GMT Kernel
Re: Perhaps
"They were dumped in a field one town over, and the people that found them didn't want to end up paying for disposal in their taxes so they re-dumped them in your town?"
I believe there is precedent for this , dating back to the 11th century.
The Norman invaders of England, in an attempt to reduce the numbers of dead Normans blotting the landscape, apparently passed a law that, in theory at least, would result in a significant fine for the Saxon village nearest to said dead Norman.
I have read that what was actually achieved was a lot of late night re-dumping of dead Normans on some other villages patch in an attempt to mitigate the cost to the local taxpayers.
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