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Laptops May Be Hazardous to Your Fertility
Spy der Mann writes "Researchers find that men who place portable computers on their laps are inadvertently raising the temperature of their scrotums -- and possibly damaging their sperm. Guess laptops should get a namechange soon... before our fertility does."
is this really such a surprise???
- tristan
The only thing this article didn't discuss was it good for a woman to use a laptop? Should I encourage my wife to strap a powerbook to her punany?
Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.
in a DELL training class. In 2000 I attended a training seminar for the campus wide rollout of a wireless network. Tech support training for DELL was part of the seminar and DELL sent some people.
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They were very adament about us calling the DELL machines given to faculty and students "portables", and never to call them "laptops". They said that the portables got so hot that extended stay on one's lap could cause injury. They didn't want the potential liability due to negligence. You could after all consider the name "laptop" to indicate positioning the machine on one's lap.
Putting a laptop on one's lap. Imagine that!
p.s.: Naturally the University still referred to this part of the "wireless initiative" as the laptop pilot program. Guess they didn't care about sperm count and liabilities
Agreed. Most CSRs at places like Dell, HP, etc. have been instructed by their legal teams to make sure that the devices are referred to "Portable Computers" and never "Laptops." They are also instructed to correct any customers who misuse the terms. Failure to comply will cost you your job.
The extra heat that gets trapped when you have a notebook PC on your laptop - bad for you, and bad for the PC. It's ergonomically bad aswell (esp. your neck), so just put it on a table already.
Actually, wearing tight trousers or briefs does have an impact as well. Read more here
Food not Bombs is a nice platitude but it breaks down when you notice that the Bombees are usually well fed
Go for the 12" (has heat problems, but the 17" has more area for the heat to spread in than the 15"), or better yet, something with a P4EE or a Prescott (desktop CPU, FWIW).
Or, just get my Toshiba Satellite Pro 405CS. Pentium 75, so it's cheap, and it's fucking HOT (I think it's the fact that the HDD is between the keyboard and the battery...)
Assumedly that was the first thing he checked.
It is not uncommon for a vasectomy or a tubal ligation to fail for any number of reasons. Further, it is possible to have either procedure reversed. If you get a vasectomy, you should make sure it took and held for 3-6 months following healing before assuming sterility.
Food not Bombs is a nice platitude but it breaks down when you notice that the Bombees are usually well fed
Slightly elevating a risk of prostate cancer which already has a 1 out of 6 chance doesn't seem like a good idea to me. Prostate Cancer Foundation
"If you fight, fight without fear. If you love, love without reservation." -- J. Michael Straczynski, Babylon 5
It's been known for years that sitting in an too-hot hot tub for a while or wearing overly-restrictive underwear can cause a short-term decrease in sperm count. It is any real stretch of the imagination to determine that putting a different heat source near the crotch and sitting in a way that confines the testicles in that heat would have the very same effect?
Your balls need to be somewhat cool to function properly... why the hell else do you think they have to dangle outside of the body in their own little storage pouch-- for ornamental purposes?
~Philly
You can get the air in a sauna a great deal hotter than the water in a bathtub safely. Air is an insulator, so the energy transfer is much less even at higher temperatures.
Are you trolling? By following your own link, I found this:
"The failure rate for a vasectomy is less than one percent."
Yup, my doc said the failure rate was something like one in 5,000. What he didn't mention was that was the rate given that you have had a negative semen test. Turns out the actual failure rate before the test is much higher. I was a little, uh, tardy in getting my test. For the record, I was tested before the second vasectomy, and the first had indeed failed.
So for all of you considering a vasectomy, be sure to have your test.