Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/08/07

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Subject: [Leica] Another Altered Photo - better version
From: dcm at pobox.com (David C. Mason)
Date: Mon Aug 7 13:25:28 2006
References: <4dccee3d0608070811m7825d6aaw62e9c7bf9edf5de2@mail.gmail.com> <3.0.6.32.20060807132408.00b68da0@pop.mail.yahoo.ca> <44D77B5A.4020908@waltjohnson.com> <1748946B-F9AC-4C64-BF28-EA5F70FCE3EC@mac.com> <000dee57870d85150938d541ca4f354f@earthlink.net> <438E59C9-D376-4B64-AB16-2D436ECD6470@mac.com>

Perhaps that is a bad example George - pharm products have been
victims of some horribly deadly tampering in recent history, the
companies are trying to protect the user and cover their liability in
those cases.

Perhaps a better example would be a flash card which although tiny,
comes in gigantic plastic bubble cases which take hours of unwieldy
knife-work to open.



On 8/7/06, Lottermoser George <imagist3@mac.com> wrote:
> How do we rid the culture of plastic? I recently purchased the
> Walgreens generic baby/old man aspirin dosage. The best price was
> touted as 3 for one and came in a card board box. Inside were three
> #2 plastic bottles. Each bottle contained a few pills on the bottom
> and a huge wad of cotton. All the pills fit in one bottle including
> huge wad of cotton - what's the point of that packaging? More space
> in the truck. More space on the shelf. Just hugely stupid and
> multiply that stupidity by each and every product being shipped in
> half empty plastic and or paper containers.



-- 





--Dave

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