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Cranky Callers to Target Disney
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| 8.13.03
| Katie Dean
Posted on 08/13/2003 12:22:58 PM PDT by freepatriot32
Edited on 06/29/2004 7:09:58 PM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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Angry at Disney's plans to sell disposable DVD movies, environmentalists plan to dump their grievances on CEO Michael Eisner in a massive phone protest Wednesday.
Hundreds of students from around the country will call Eisner to discourage the sale of these throwaway DVDs, and urge the company to abandon the product, according to the protest's organizers.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Extended News; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: callers; cranky; disney; disposable; dvds; eisner; enviromentalists; landfills; phone; target; to; walt; world
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"Do they realize how much plastic they will be adding to the landfills?" Besides the fact that 90 percent of all lanfill materials are GLASS and only around 11 percent are plastic just the fact that these groups are pissed off at disney about this is an admission that they are total failures as enviromentlists.They know for a fact that they themselves will never recycle these disk s so they just assume no one else in america will either.Because they are as big of hypocrites as barbra streisand thats the real message behind this campaign against disney
To: freepatriot32
Hundreds of students from around the country will call Eisner to discourage the sale of these throwaway DVDs, and urge the company to abandon the product, according to the protest's organizers. Because people with jobs and living in the real world don't have time for such nonsense.
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posted on
08/13/2003 12:24:51 PM PDT
by
Phantom Lord
(Distributor of Pain, Your Loss Becomes My Gain)
To: freepatriot32
yeah but glass is natural...
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posted on
08/13/2003 12:28:25 PM PDT
by
CJ Wolf
To: freepatriot32
They should collect them and send the old DVD's to Disney like that guy did with AOL CD's.
To: All
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Trash our society and souls (Gay daze) = OK!
Disposable DVD's, hurt the muther erth = TEH EVIL-- Must call!!
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posted on
08/13/2003 12:30:53 PM PDT
by
CygnusXI
(Where's that dang Meteor already?)
To: Phantom Lord
Hundreds of students from around the country will call Eisner to discourage the sale of these throwaway DVDs, and urge the company to abandon the product, according to the protest's organizers. Because people with jobs and living in the real world don't have time for such nonsense.
Well said..I am amazed and envious of people who have so much free time for so little a problem..
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To: freepatriot32
"Do they realize how much plastic they will be adding to the landfills?"
So when will they go after AOL? I've tossed out at least enough free AOL CD's to build a coffee table with.
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posted on
08/13/2003 12:42:57 PM PDT
by
Grig
To: freepatriot32
lemme see if I have this right... these misguided junior envirowhacks are causing disney inc. heartburn?
and the problem with this is???
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posted on
08/13/2003 12:43:25 PM PDT
by
glock rocks
(Pray daily for our men and women in harm's way. God bless America)
To: freepatriot32
I guess everyone hates Disney now. Except for the gays.
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posted on
08/13/2003 12:44:39 PM PDT
by
July 4th
To: freepatriot32
How long before Disney only sells vanishing DVDs of all their movies so they'll have to be repurchased over & over?
I don't support anything this greedy, immoral company does, starting with ABC.
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posted on
08/13/2003 12:44:59 PM PDT
by
Smittie
To: freepatriot32
This is going to result in a sharp increase for DVD-R burners.
1. Open EZ-D
2. Rip to hard drive (striping off CSS, region coding and macrovision in the process)
3. Burn to DVD-R
4. Enjoy movie forever.
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posted on
08/13/2003 12:45:26 PM PDT
by
Grig
To: freepatriot32
So how much energy is used returning the traditional DVDs to the rental store?
Seems like throwawy DVDs might actually be the evironmentally friendly solution?!
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posted on
08/13/2003 12:47:21 PM PDT
by
5by5
To: freepatriot32
...is set to market movies like The Hot Chick...Ideally a dvd like "The Hot Chick" would expire before it could be viewed.
BOYCOTT DISNEY: a vortex of seductive evil
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posted on
08/13/2003 12:48:13 PM PDT
by
Petronski
(I'm not always cranky.)
To: Grig
I was thinking the same exact thing. How difficult would it be to just make a non-self-destructing copy of the DVD?
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posted on
08/13/2003 12:48:59 PM PDT
by
Theo
To: Grig
shhhhhhh...
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posted on
08/13/2003 12:49:22 PM PDT
by
eyespysomething
(You've a loose screw. Can I tighten that for you?)
To: freepatriot32
bump
To: Theo
I was thinking the same exact thing. How difficult would it be to just make a non-self-destructing copy of the DVD? I don't have a DVD burner but I certainly would find it easy to hook up some RCA plugs between the DVD player and the VCR. Not too tough.
To: freepatriot32
Well let's see....they've replaced Mickey Mouse with Gerry the Butt-Gerbil, but we could all still just get along. Now that they produce trashy entertainment on trashy DVD disks, that just goes over the line.
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posted on
08/13/2003 2:02:20 PM PDT
by
.cnI redruM
("Magna cum laude, summa cum laude, the radio's too laude." - Johnny Dangerously)
To: freepatriot32
When the time expires, bonding resin on the DVD reacts with the air around it, making the DVD unreadable. I wonder... If you leave one of these in your player, will it leave resin byproduct gunk in the disc tray, on the laser emitter, etc.?
I'd never buy one anyhow.
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posted on
08/13/2003 2:06:40 PM PDT
by
Sloth
("I feel like I'm taking crazy pills!" -- Jacobim Mugatu, 'Zoolander')
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