Two sane questions and a stupid question

[devi]

Sane No.1: Does anyone know anything about those 'buy a piece of rainforest' schemes as seen on Good Gifts and similar places? If you do buy some, does it actually mean anything? Do the bought pieces of forest actually get protected from logging and so on? Apparently they're 'held in public ownership'. I wonder what that means.

Sane No.2: For the Londoners - what's your favourite London-related charity? Why?

Stupid: Um... how do you actually format a hard disc? Do you just go to the DOS prompt and type format c:? It's been so long since I've done it, and none of the GUI-based system tools (eg System Restore) are working on the sick machine. They just won't display.

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[nisaba.livejournal.com]

Eaves Housing. ladycat works there, and it's horrific the kind of things that still happen in what we like to think of as modern times. Surely kidnapping women in poor countries and selling them into sexual slavery in "civilised" places such as the UK went out with the dark ages?

Sadly not.

[verlaine.livejournal.com]

q.v. extremely depressing but all too realistic film Lilya 4-Ever.