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...most part, it’s long plane rides, long car rides, long bus rides,” says Vogel. “You pull in and walk past the dumpster, walk up a fire escape, down a hallway full of pipes, and wait in the back kitchen—and then you go onstage. Politics is not glamorous...
...Dumpster divers who make a living from personal information pulled from the trash don't care what form it comes in--paper, plastic or floppy disc. So why not play it safe? The MD 100 Media Destroyer is a paranoid's dream come true. It flattens raised numbers on old credit and ATM cards before cutting them to ribbons. It shreds a CD in about four seconds, reducing it to shards too small to be used for any kind of data recovery. It slices right through floppy discs, metal clips and all. You have to fold letter-size paper before...
NEOPS (short for neopunks) embrace the do-it-yourself ethos of punk as an alternative to mass production. They're the anti-Wal-Mart generation--progressive and experimental, emphasizing imperfection and originality over uniformity. A neop would rather discover a chair in a Dumpster than buy it at Pottery Barn and is likely to opt for handmade or customized clothes instead of off-the-rack. "The handmade thing comes about because independence is an important thing here," says Hively. "There's an undercurrent of rebellion. It's like, 'I don't have to wear a suit to work. Nobody...
...Change is usually pretty good and everybody needs to accept that,” she says. “The talk in the parking lot is, ‘Is Harvard going to buy us? Then get them to fix the dumpster problem.’ I think there’s a sense Harvard could make things better...
...good news is that there are plenty of steps you can take. Most credit thieves are opportunists, not well-organized gangs. A lot of them go Dumpster diving for those millions of "pre-approved" credit-card mailings that go out every day. Others steal wallets and return them, taking only a Social Security number. Shredding your junk mail and leaving your Social Security card at home can save a lot of agony later...