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Who said the window had to open all the way? I'd say 5 inches would be way enough the get some fresh air in.

Besides, as certain Toronto natives know, even closed windows won't stop determined jumpers... or idiots:

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/freakish/window.asp

Remember it was US general Norman Schwarzkopf who said "Going to war without France is like going deer hunting without your accordion."

Uhhh, no it wasn't, those words were spoken by Jed Babbin, a former deputy undersecretary of defense in the first Bush administration

I guess it fits better into your chauvinistic view of the world for it to come from an actual general, than one of the chickenhawks.

In the U.S. we speak Microsoft English.

http://www.snopes.com/business/genius/where.asp

Top speed for a 757-223 is 573 mph, which is 256.15 meters per second.

Max takeoff weigh for a 757-200 series is 115,680 kg with 42,680 L of fuel.

So burn off some of the fuel and ballpark it weighing about 95,000 kg when it hit

The photo you linked to was from an engine that punched through the second ring wall after it came off the aircraft.

http://www.snopes.com/rumors/pentagon.asp

See snopes for the rocket car story.. its a classic meme in internet history

http://www.snopes.com/autos/dream/jato.asp

http://www.snopes.com/business/genius/spacepen.asp

Of course, sometimes people who are portrayed in the media as irrational lunatics are just that. As I understand, Obama's campaign released a scanned copy of his birth certificate in June 2008. Bush's eligibility should have been more questionable since there was documented evidence that he should have been dishonorably discharged for dereliction of duty. Hell, even McCain wasn't born in the United States (but he's a natural-born citizen because both his parents were).

Snopes
Politifact

You might be forgiven for asking those questions in 2008, but now, you're just a desperate lunatic clinging to your own delusions.

http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/cfl.asp

They also contain mercury, a fact that causes no small amount of concern in light of how dangerous that substance is. Yet the amount housed in each bulb is very small, about 4 or 5 milligrams, which in volume is about the size of the period at the end of a sentence. (By comparison, old-style mercury thermometers contain about 500 milligrams of mercury, an amount equal to the mercury found in 125 CFL bulbs.) And, provided the bulbs aren't broken open, none of that leaches into the home.

http://curiosity.discovery.com/question/which-mercury-exposure-risk-cfl

Therefore, although CFLs contain much more mercury than fish, fish pose a greater danger of exposing us to mercury because we eat the fish.

The damn battery in your watch contains more mercury then a CFL. I'm also willing to bed more mercury gets released into the atmosphere by the burning of coal to power your incandescent then the breaking of my CFL. Way to externalize the costs there buddy.

Or there is the fact that if everyone replaced one incandescent bulb in their house it would equal removing hundreds of thousands of cars from the road.

Coal-fired power plants emit mercury into the air as part of the electricity-producing process. These plants account for 40 percent of all the mercury released into our environment [source: GE]

For sale:
Space suit,
never worn.

(Hat-tip to Ernest H.)

"The yellowcake removed from Iraq in 2008 was material that had long since been identified, documented, and stored in sealed containers under the supervision of U.N. inspectors. It was not a "secret" cache that was recently "discovered" by the U.S, and the yellowcake had not been purchased by Iraq in the years immediately preceding the 2003 invasion. The uranium was the remnants of decades-old nuclear reactor projects that had put out of commission many years earlier: One reactor at Al Tuwaitha was bombed by Israel in 1981, and another was bombed and disabled during Operation Desert Storm in 1991."
Source

This doesn't sound like it was dodgy hidden under cover drums or anything like that. It sounds as if it was well regulated.

It matters because linguistic sloppiness tends to propagate into situations where it does make a difference, even if what was meant is understood.
Here's one famous example.

Plus, it distracts the reader from the message.

I know you're just trolling and I probably shouldn't respond, but the answer to your "question" is "zero". I mean, even ignoring the fact that 550 tons of yellowcake were found in Iraq,

What yellowcake did they find?

Do you mean the yellowcake that was on a UN weapons inspectors manifest since 2001 (so we knew exactly where it was, not like it was lost or anything).

Also worth noting that the natural uranium (yellowcake) in question was nowhere near suitable for nuclear weapons production or even use in a dirty bomb. In fact it wasn't even fissile enough to be used in a reactor. What your post doesn't say is that no centrifuges that could have been used to enrich the inert material were found.

So to correct your post, in 2008 the US completed removal of a known source of natural uranium. So no weapons of mass destruction found.

Please review this material before posting this again. In fact I strongly recommend you fact check before posting again, Thank you.

I'm not sure if you're being serious, but here's a description of why it is, indeed, "just deserts."

But it doesn't. Escher makes plays on 3D cues, but only on a 2D space. Your eyes focus on the paper. Your lenses focus on the paper. Both eyes see the same picture. And yet, he tricks us. That is unrelated to the idea of feeding independent images to each eye with the images containing conflicting information about the focus point and composure. Any comparison of the two seems silly. They share zero features in common, aside from they are both about the same general subject, though they address it in completely opposite ways.

It tricks the eye-brain system.
Ergo, people's eyes-brain can be fooled - regardless of "not being evolved for 3D movies". Now go back and read my original comment.
No, wait... I'll go get it.

Apparently, people didn't evolve to be fooled by 3D illusions.
Quick! Someone call Escher and tell him he was wrong.
And speak up - he's been dead since 1972, so he may not hear you at first.

Then so far, every 3D movie has been done wrong. And if we aren't arguing what is, but instead what might be, then I'll concede that there may at some time exist some 3D that won't cause discord in the brain. But if you want to argue what is now, then I'll happily assert that current 3D works as the result of sending conflicting signals that can damage people, leading to development issues in children and headaches and such in adults.

Listen, I'm really sorry about this, being rude and all but... go fuck yourself. OK?
Pulling that "think of the children" shit puts you in the same book along with those stupid fucks that yelled the same shit about that vaccine and autism scare not so long ago.
It is a load of bullshit, with zero cases, zero data or even zero urban legends reported.
It has less credence than pop rocks and soda deaths.

As for headaches reported by adults - go see a doctor about that. Rest of the theater doesn't complain. You obviously have a health problem.
But it sure as fuck wasn't caused by all those 3D movies you weren't watching as you grew up.

This is American politics. You don't need evidence for anything. The overwhelming majority of the country believes in religion, alien abductions, psychics, ghosts, and that Iraq had WMDs with which we were sure to be struck any moment. Make an assertion frequently enough and people will accept it as truth. People still believe the bullshit that more women are victims of domestic violence on Superbowl Sunday than any other day of the year.

But this superficial study ignores the fact that every time Microsoft callously upgrades their Operating System without due diligence into compatibility problems with a trillion other bits of software and hardware out there, there are a gazillion compatibility issues to sort out. All the IT professionals run off to classes and seminars and have to retrain anyway, and then begin the mammoth task of ironing out all their unique business software routines, banging it all into shape and forcing it to work. It takes time. Microsoft upgrades are a major pain in the butt to the IT staff on any decent sized firm! Of course, they want this. It guarantees job security. But must the job itself be so painful?

To top it all off, Microsoft are being hypocritical here. They are warning against the change to Open Source software because of the costs in changing, yet ignore just how enormously they had just changed Microsoft Office 2007 when they introduced the Ribbon bar across all the old drop down menu's we used to know! Their rather experimental Ribbon was not just a view option leaving all the old commands and drop down menu's intact, but instead killed many of the old commands and routines users knew. It was an autocratic rewrite of the entire Office suite forcing everyone to go back to basics and learn how to suck eggs. The sheer human capital lost in this arrogant decision was astonishing! Workers with years of Office experience, who could format Word with ease and design beautiful Excel spreadsheets in their sleep, all suddenly found themselves powerless. As the old joke goes,

12. Every time GM introduced a new model, car buyers would have to learn how to drive all over again because none of the controls would operate in the same manner as the old car.

I admit to being an idealist and dreamer, and maybe even a tiny bit lazy. Or is that sane? At a deep, gut level, I just feel that once I learn a piece of basic software like Word I should not have to re-learn the basics all over again. Call me lazy, but I don't want progress and new functionality to force me to have to relearn the basics. The modern world is complex enough, thank you very much!

So even though we are graphic designers and forced to use Mac, the one thing that keeps me wishing a Mac-ish Open Source revolution would sweep away all competitors is the fact that the Open Source model is more grassroots driven, and less likely to waste so much human capital on pointless 'renovations' to the software. Not only that, but it is Open source! The code is open, and available to all. Programmers can design stuff compatible with their Open standards. Microsoft isn't Open. They keep the latest editions of Word locked so that I can't open a .docx file in Open Office. We're talking about a monopoly here! So why on earth did the Australian government mandate support for a monopoly!?

I want the world's governments to accelerate their support of Open Source, not retard it. I like the fact that the

There are more economical ways to travel than by private jet that still offer privacy.

Ignoring that, how about his multiple large houses and their enormous electricity bills?

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2010/05/03/stunning-pictures-al-gores-new-9-million-mansion-media-totally-ignore
http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/gorehome.asp
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/17/photos-al-goree-new-8875_n_579286.html#s91230&title=undefined
http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2010/05/exclusive-estimate-carbon-footprint-of.html

Do we want him spending half is day rubbing shoulders with the public because of the negligible carbon footprint difference from his plane ride?

I don't know about you, but people who say "do as I say, not as I do" can get bent IMHO.

The second two were crap but not because of plagiarism. For the record the plagiarism accusation is so demonstrably false it's got its own Snopes entry:

http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/matrix.asp

The 10 Disc "Fanboys Only" Matrix Box Set has the full analysis of why the sequels failed, the Wachowskis decided to eschew a commentary track of their own to present two by philosophers and critics. The philosophers love all the films, the critics hate the latter two but have some time for the first. The reasons for both sets of opinion are cogent and well thought through.

The critics point out that the first Matrix is revolutionary in that it asks a lot of an audience in terms of the way it plays with reality but it gives a lot in the way it presents a science fiction universe unlike any depicted before. Instead of post apocalyptic grime (which is presented as a footnote of history) or high camp glitter the future inside the Matrix is this polished, designed "game world" filled with extravagantly but stylishly dressed martial arts super heroes. Then, as the series progresses, the "real" world which resembles a hundred other post apocalyptic movies gets used more and more, the stakes become woolly, the plot focus becomes blurry and we lose the ability to care about what's happening.

The philosophers, on the other hand, go through checklisting all the philosophical concepts the movies try to convey; "try" being the operative word. The philosophers are not so keen on what they see as the "Manichean" dynamic of the first movie where good and evil are clearly and allegorically separated. It's fun, but intellectually childish. As the films progress the Wachowskis attempted to introduce more sophisticated notions of individual choice and responsibility but they can't handle fitting those into a movie about "robots vs kung fu". To be fair it's not an easy task for someone to set themselves, I'm not really surprised they failed.

It has been a source of disappointment to me since the whole series finished just how keen people were to buy in to the simple explanation that the Matrix Sequels sucked the way the Star Wars prequel trilogy sucked. They both suck, for sure; but for different reasons. The Star Wars prequels are lazy, incoherent and pompous, the Matrix Sequels are bloated, incoherent and over-ambitious. I applaud the Wachowskis for over reaching, because even today there's something to be found in the Matrix Trilogy for those willing to dig.

The Matrix Trilogy deals with more complex issues than everybody's poster film for intellectual worth of 2010 Inception. Inception is quite easy to pick apart, it just takes a little time and effort. Some of the themes of the Matrix have been central to the human condition for millennia. The worst I can say about Reloaded and Revolutions is that they are dull and incoherent if you don't have a solid grounding in the philosophy of self, fate vs. free will, the nature of reality etc. They can still be dull even if you do know what they're trying to do and you have an instinct for decent storytelling because they don't tell their story decently.

I'm not apologising for them, they're not good movies. However they're about the best bad movies that have ever been made because in their disappointing morass of uninspiring specatacle there are genuine attempts to talk about some really mind blowing stuff. No film maker before or since has attempted to make a fun, accessible movie about these concepts. The reasons they don't should be in recognition of the insane difficulty of the challenge. I suspect it's more because most people just think they're terrible movies like all other terrible movies and "probably plagiarised" to boot.

And I think that's a great shame.

I was associated with a venue and got an approval to run an event on September 11th. I advertised it with big posters with the WTC on fire and whatnot.

:-)

There were horribly annoying videos in the Facebook event and a list of acts that was pretty offensive.

... bbbut Facebook wasn't around in 2001 yet...

... a, you mean, you did this for another September 11th, during one of the following years?

Man, this is just tasteles...

... but these guys did it in a much more classy way, just a couple of weeks before the real September 11th :-)

... or these guys (no pics, sorry, they must have pulled them all during the last ten years, but the ad pictured a structure similar to New York City's Empire State building bending out of the path of a low-flying jet. The ad slogan read, "If only all metal were Flexon." The ad appeared on the inside cover of the August 2001 issue of various optician's trade rags). And, talking about bad timing, some people found a flyer of it in their mailboxes on the morning of September 11th...

[..] can be proven that a power cut at ANY time of the year will ALWAYS result in a baby boom 9 months later.

From what I've read so far this is nothing but an urban mytt, e.g. this.

Uh, yeah. It's true. He produced his birth certificate during the campaign. There were claims it was a forgery. It was not.

Maybe start here: http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/birthcertificate.asp

And yeah, the 'birther' debate IS over his nationality. Which is American. Born in the USA. A natural citizen. Like his mother. End of discussion.

Wheelborrow theft urban legend on Snopes (as other posters say there are versions with bikes and donkeys too but others know your version too). According to Snopes it's been around for years and was also mentioned in a Crocodile Dundee movie,,,

Take a look at what happened in Australia when guns were banned.

What? Gun nuts produced far more FUD about banning guns? Or where the previous ten years before the ban there were 13 mass killings, and there were NONE in the ten years after?

I find it interesting that one of the local TV station's call letters in Tucson is "KGUN".

Too bad the Fox News crowd and other right wing paranoid freak tea baggers can't figure out that there are far more people killed in the United States by gun toting fools than any "terrorist" could ever hope to match. Since 9/11, there have been tens of thousands killed in gun violence in the United States (over 90,000 firearms related murders when extrapolated over nine and a half years). Maybe these idiots should recognize that gun violence needs far more attention than plane passengers X-rayed crotches. Seriously, there are third world countries that are far safer to live the United States. You are far less likely to die from a gun crime related death in Israel (even from terrorism... even from bombs... even surrounded by enemies) than you are in the United States. Idiots like you are the reason so many people die. You stick your head in the sand whenever the truth about firearms is mentioned.

If you want to protect your country from the government join the army... it is made up of normal citizens who are just as patriotic as anyone else, and who want the best for their country.

Take a look at what happened in Australia when guns were banned.

http://www.snopes.com/crime/statistics/ausguns.asp

Here are some pictures for you about taste http://www.snopes.com/photos/hunting/dolphinhunt.asp

[...] but don't complain about gas tax increases or other driving charges to pay for your highways and to keep CO2 and oil consumption under control [...] Don't complain if state/federal tax money is spent on the more efficient population centers [..].

WTF is the government doing taxing me to limit my consumption of oil and CO2 generation? Tax me to have money to keep me safe, tax me for my use of public infrastructure to help maintain it, don't tax me as a way to tell me how to spend money I earned. If people are consuming too much oil, the price will rise and people adjust to consume less of it (at some point). Who are you to tell me or the rest of us that we are consuming too much oil? Who is the government to tell me the same thing? Certainly not the Aliso Viejo municipal government.

On a related note, if these more efficient population centers have more people living there, I would expect more taxes to be spent there.

"Peeance, Freeance"

"Can't get fooled again."

"Too Many OBGYN's can't practice their love with women all across this country"

You were saying?

Keep in mind, we have 8 years of Chimpy McCokespoon's incoherence at our fingertips, thanks toYouTube.

Of course, if one speaks of GOP verbal gaffes, then the name of Dan Quayle must lead the list!

Finally, DO keep quiet concerning teleprompters, lest Google Images must be consulted for thousands of images of Reagan, Bush Senior, Bush Junior, Huckabee, Romney, McCain, and Failin' Bailin' Palin all using teleprompters, and in case of the Wasilla Chillbilly, her left hand as a post it note.

And, um, if you want 'huge overhead'...please actually look at the money you donate to a church. Even the most honest and ethical church gives less to actually help people than, oh, Medicaid.

Snopes’ review lists several charities whose efficiency ratings are between 80%-90%.

And medicaid seems to be around 94-96%.

Read the actual text, and stop making up gibberish claiming that Jesus wouldn't like the government providing for the poor.

I have read it. And there were plenty of places where Jesus said to give to the poor, but I can’t think of any where he said to take other people’s money (without their consent) in order to give it to the poor. In fact he had some rather scathing words for the disciple who suggested that a certain (so he thought) particularly egregious waste should have instead been donated to the poor.

And, um, if you want 'huge overhead'...please actually look at the money you donate to a church. Even the most honest and ethical church gives less to actually help people than, oh, Medicaid.

Snopes’ review lists several charities whose efficiency ratings are between 80%-90%.

He also invented the internet, so he probably should be the go-to guy on this.

Saw that one coming. You need to educate yourself before spreading this knee-jerk lie.

Al Gore didn't say he invented the Internet. What he said was that he took the initiative in creating the Internet, and the very next sentence ('cause, you know, context actually matters), referred to other initiatives he advanced as a legislator. If you and the thousands of sheep that repeat this tired old joke bothered to look it up, you'd find that he's 100% right, he did significantly advance the underlying research through his legislation and funding.

If President Eisenhower had said in the mid-1960s that he, while president, "created" the Interstate Highway System, we would not have seen dozens and dozens of editorials lampooning him for claiming he "invented" the concept of highways or implying that he personally went out and dug ditches across the country to help build the roadway. Everyone would have understood that Ike meant he was a driving force behind the legislation that created the highway system, and this was the very same concept Al Gore was expressing about himself with his Internet statement.

The original was in pretty bad shape, the location wasn't even identifiable, but I did my best churning out a nice reprint for:
http://msgboard.snopes.com/politics/graphics/birth.jpg

Oh, you mean computer stuff? I got nothing. It's faster to just recreate my work from scratch. As in they still look like chicken scratchings when I'm done with them.

And an editorial piece of the New York Times from 1932, several years before the marketing campaign from Coca Cola, already complains about exactly that standardized Santa Claus picture the urban myth attributes to Coca Cola.

That's even from 1927.

http://www.snopes.com/holidays/christmas/santa/cocacola.asp

Well, it was a bit of a Tongue-in-cheek description of Santa Claus, based on a urban not-completely-legend that he was created by Coca Cola in order to sell more Coke during winter.
Actually, he was more like "appropriated" for that purpose.

As for the "symbol of consumerism" - sadly, I can't say that I was joking there.
Cause, he is either selling soda-pop, or promoting shopping.
And even at his pre-Coca Cola moral best, he was still a symbol of material rewarding for "being good".

Bullshit.

Well, it's a dumb argument because ...

    His birth certificate was made available to the public in June of 2008.

    It was also a matter of public record August 4, 1961.

    And the most damning evidence, Snopes, the mighty disprovers of lies and conspiracies, was forced through unknown means (obviously a 3-letter agency that we've never heard of) to print their first and only completely fraudulent article.

    Of course, the reptilian aliens, beyond their ability to travel space and take human form to overthrow the governments of the world (and Snopes), apparently have time travel, and went back to 1961 to have false records published in two newspapers. Crafty devils, aren't they?

    All praise the flying spaghetti monster. He's the only one who will save us from the evil before us.

Well, it's a dumb argument because ...

    His birth certificate was made available to the public in June of 2008.

    It was also a matter of public record August 4, 1961.

    And the most damning evidence, Snopes, the mighty disprovers of lies and conspiracies, was forced through unknown means (obviously a 3-letter agency that we've never heard of) to print their first and only completely fraudulent article.

    Of course, the reptilian aliens, beyond their ability to travel space and take human form to overthrow the governments of the world (and Snopes), apparently have time travel, and went back to 1961 to have false records published in two newspapers. Crafty devils, aren't they?

    All praise the flying spaghetti monster. He's the only one who will save us from the evil before us.

1984, not 40 years ago, and it was Farrell's, not McDonalds http://www.snopes.com/military/icecream.asp

This is the story you're all looking for.

Snuff films don't exist. Yes, videos of people dying have been found/made - and collections of accidental death footage have been sold to the public, but nothing like the deliberate filming of a murder for sexual gratification. Videos with amazingly realistic special effects have been found (ask Charlie Sheen) but nothing like what is popularly defined as a "snuff" film has ever been found. http://www.snopes.com/horrors/madmen/snuff.asp

Also "I believe that the laws prohibiting possession of child pornography have been shown to reduce the production of same." - citation needed. Don't get me wrong, I report all that shit to https://secure.missingkids.com/missingkids/servlet/CybertipServlet?LanguageCountry=en_US when I see it, but what you suggest is, AFAIK, unproven - as well as the equivalent to arresting citizens for reading classified material on wikileaks.

The fossils of giants have been found in guess where...the Mesopotamian area...

You need to fact-check that one, because no such fossils have been found.

To save you some time, you can skip this photo which has already been debunked:

http://www.snopes.com/photos/odd/giantman.asp

Of course you know the NASA space pen story is a myth. Fisher invented the pen on their own dime. Both NASA and the Russians used pencils before these pens were available. They went to these pens because broken graphite in zero G and pure oxygen can cause shorts in electronics and burn in a fire.

http://www.snopes.com/business/genius/spacepen.asp

True or not, I loved those space pens. because you had a nice cap on it that didn't take much room, so you could keep it in your pocket okay for those times you need a pen, but don't have a backpack on you.

Of course you know the NASA space pen story is a myth. Fisher invented the pen on their own dime. Both NASA and the Russians used pencils before these pens were available. They went to these pens because broken graphite in zero G and pure oxygen can cause shorts in electronics and burn in a fire. http://www.snopes.com/business/genius/spacepen.asp

Still not as good as this town.

Yes, I instantly thought of that song. So the commercials were successful in planting the idea of Oscar Meyer wieners in my head.

However, did that make we want to go out and buy some hot dogs? I don't seek out Oscar Meyer brand hot dogs in particular, and I'm not going to run out and get any right now.

So I'm not sure if you could necessarily call that ad campaign successful, unless it had a benefit on Oscar Meyer's sales. Who knows, maybe it did.

Another example of this is the Taco Bell dog. Taco Bell pulled the dog as its spokespooch in 2000, because it wasn't helping their sales at all. I'd say Taco Bell's current commercials are more successful since - they just show the food and say how good it is.

"In July 2000 fast food giant Taco Bell (a subsidiary of Yum! Brands, Inc.) did the ostensibly unthinkable: it abruptly ended what appeared to be a highly successful ad campaign that had worked to establish this memorable brand identity. Seemingly out of the blue, the corporation announced it would no longer feature the wise-cracking Chihuahua in its ads. Though the Taco Bell dog might make cameo appearances in subsequent commercials, he was being retired as company spokespooch."

"The reason behind the move was simple enough: the dog, though beloved of consumers, wasn't working magic on the company's bottom line. Though Taco Bell had succeeded in creating a cultural icon, the resultant symbol wasn't inspiring a great enough segment of the fast food-buying public to make a run for the border. Same-store sales were down 6 percent in the second quarter of 2000, a result the company could only regard as alarming and a certain sign that changes had to be made."

http://www.snopes.com/radiotv/tv/tacobell.asp

http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/57states.asp
You have been brainwashed. Only a moron who thinks the president is a muslim would believe that tripe.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9go38MgZ4w8
But when Palin claims to read all of the newspapers, do you believe that she may have slipped up, or do you believe that she actually does?

Maybe its like the whole fry a frog theory. By releasing so much information all at once, we're likely to get more enraged and do something, but the steady release of information is likely to just warm us up to it and likely to get Wikileaks closed for good before it gets ot the more juicy stuff.

Ironically that whole "boil a frog" thing is exactly wrong. When you throw a frog into cold water and heat it up the frog starts to get uncomfortable and jumps out. Throw a frog into boiling water and its muscles are immediately paralyzed and the frog boils to death before it can recover.

Go figure, huh? Anyway, it doesn't really invalidate your real point; it just makes that particular metaphor really, really bad.

Copper conducts electricity a hell of a lot better than fiber optic though. Not that that's stopped some people:
Couple electrocuted while stealing copper wire
Graphic photos too

http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/luckycoyote.asp

Have elderly parents who need medical supplies? They'll make you wet yourself.

abcnews.go.com: Thomas Sawyer

Small kids? They'll grope them while they scream for help, wondering why their parents aren't protecting them.

examiner.com

Cancer survivor? Have some more rads!

I saw an article discussing this, but I can't seem to find the link right now. About the best I can do is Bruce Schneier's article that discusses, among other things, the case against ionizing radiation in general.

...or become fap-fodder for the guy in the back room?

According to snopes.com, the story reported here is most likely satire. I couldn't find a reputable link anywhere else, so I'd say it hasn't happened yet, but I imagine it's only a matter of time.

HTH!