“You, HP, promised me a toxic-free COMPUTER by 2009. Now my friends at Greenpeace tell me that I'll have to wait till 2011. What's up with that?”

—  William Shatner

Company wide voice mail to Hewlett Packard "Green me up, Scotty: William Shatner targets Hewlett-Packard for toxic waste" http://www.theguardian.com/environment/ethicallivingblog/2009/jul/29/star-trek-hewlett-packard-shatner Bibi van der Zee, The Guardian, 29 July 2009

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