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Are you a tree-hugger or a Brazilian logger?

Published Thursday 20th December 2007 11:21 GMT

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Where are the "denier" options ? 

By Andy
Posted Thursday 20th December 2007 17:40 GMT
Black Helicopters

No buttons to tick if you think most of the hoo-hah is just a great big cash cow for the Govt. After all, what are they going to do with the dosh ? Plug the holes in the ozone layer with fivers ?

@ Andy: yes there is. 

By yeah, right.
Posted Thursday 20th December 2007 23:08 GMT
Stop

The last screen has that exact option (at least when I did it). Then there's the comment sections you can fill in as well.

There's no "management are clueless phuckwits" option though.

Q. 3.4 sys it all. 

By Charley
Posted Friday 21st December 2007 03:25 GMT
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3.4 What are the challenges in moving forward with an effective environmental strategy in IT? (please tick all that apply)

This is organised by the sort of people who use the words "moving forward" as if they mean something. Well, I say paradigm, synergy and pro-active to the lot of them.

Perhaps they mean "Why is being a greeny tosser so hard when working with computers?"

"The sky is falling, the sky is falling..."

It's a scam 

By bws
Posted Saturday 22nd December 2007 03:45 GMT
Flame

to profit those twits who are selling carbon offsets and a folly for those who are gullible enough to buy them.

Who's writing this stuff? 

By Andy Fletcher
Posted Sunday 23rd December 2007 20:52 GMT
Pirate

I thought we were an intelligent readership around here, and as such surely we all have the sense not to blindly believe in the current "man made" environmental catastrophe the press is so keen to promote, and as mentioned above our governments are SO keen to tax us on.

Having said that, anyone who's still chucking monitors into landfill should be spoon fed lead polluted water of course - there are some environmental issues that do actually exist ;)

Boring! 

By Rich
Posted Sunday 23rd December 2007 22:53 GMT
Joke

I thought we were going to get questions like:

1. Our building power backup is

a. a windmill

b. a catalyst equipped bio-diesel generator

c. an always-on furnace fueled with orimulsion and whale blubber

2. my server power supply features

a. switching technology rated to 90% efficiency

b. a big transformer

c. a 0.1 ohm wirewound ballast resistor, aircooled by a 2kw fan blower

3. I print emails

a. as they arrive, in triplicate

b. only for reading on public transport

c. never, we have abolished printers

3. i would like for christmas

a. a wind up OLPC laptop

b. a low power EnergyStar flat screen monitor

c. a collection of power-saver disabling hacks for all common office machines

4. My choice of festival activity for 2007 was:

a. heavy metal night at the local pub

b. a hippy eco-carnival in the Welsh borders

c. Burning Man 2007 - The Green Man

bah 

By dave
Posted Thursday 27th December 2007 16:09 GMT

too bloody long. I did half and then gave up, MAKE THE POLLS SHORTER and you will get many more answers. Oh and dont let marketing retards write the fuckin things.

I must concur with the general sentiment 

By Brett Weaver
Posted Thursday 27th December 2007 20:35 GMT
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Here in Middle Earth we speak Elvish, Commonspeak, Newspeak (so we cannot disagree) and English (usually like a second language - even if its not!)

But I have never read such a lot of poorly phrased, illdefined questions. Even "Pay for a Result You Want" Gartner are better than this.

Nonsense!

Shame, its probably an important issue. This poll brings it down to Knowledge Management, TQM etc type faddishment.

Happy New Year!

Going Greenerer 

By Andy Bright
Posted Friday 28th December 2007 00:29 GMT

I'm proud of the efficiency of all our coal furnaces - we keep them all sparkly clean by pushing all that CO2 into the sky where it doesn't matter.

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