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Group Wants Wi-Fi Banned, Citing Allergy
54mc writes "A small group in Santa Fe, New Mexico is claiming that the city is discriminating against them by having wireless networks in public buildings. How are these buildings discriminatory? Simple. These people are allergic to Wi-Fi. And they're suing the city." I've been trying to sue people for the streetlights that I'm allergic to as well.
I'm alergic to car emissions but I can't sue every driver.
Why UNIX?
send them to live in some remote caves in the mountains. as for me, I'm allergic to idiots
They can't ban WiFi because I'm allergic to stupid.
Now how will we decide whose needs trump whose?
Use the Firehose to mod down Second Life stories!
I have some designs for tin foil hats, I just could never find the proper market.
Looks like I am gonna be rich!!!!
Sorry about the writing. Robot fingers, you know? Cliff Steele in DOOM PATROL #23
Reviewing just the first hour of video games.
I say we quarantine them all in a nice Faraday Cage.
Caveat Utilitor
Lets just glue some crystals and magnets together, hand them out, and say the block the harmful energy.
You and your kids are allergic to Wi-Fi as well?
maybe they haven't heard of the sun
Yes they have, but they call it the day-star and it burns them.
Apparently they are allergic to it as well.
Maybe they are also allergic to the greatest source of radiation: THE SUN!
We should ban it like Mr Burns wanted.
The easiest way to fix this would be for this group to start wearing tin-foil hats. And if they already are, they need thicker ones.
I break out in song.
*ducks*
If I put myself through excruciating pain in order to cook my meals, that's one thing. That's my choice. I'm allergic to dogs, but I still pet them. But if the city says that I have to go through excruciating pain in order to renew my driver's licen... oh, wait.
Did you know that the number of confirmed cases of this problem tripled in the past year?
Do you know how many natural toxins are present in vegetables? Did you know that castor beans contain trace amounts of ricin, a toxin more lethal than arsenic? Do you know how many toxic glycoalkaloids are naturally present in the potatoes you eat, and that it happens to be in the same family as the deadly nightshade? Do you know what the sun is bombarding your skin with everyday, or the potential damage it can cause to the eyes just from looking at it for a few seconds? Are you aware of the cancer risk of naturally occurring radon?
This may seem paranoid, but I choose to be both skeptical and cautious until we have proper, long-term studies of each and every molecule in our natural environment, and of what they do to us in combination. Then, and only then, will I feel safe enough to live in this world.
"move to Afghanistan." Afghanistan - Where people go to stay healthy and safe.
But...But...But... Those are natural. So they must be good for you!!!
Just like lions. Lions are natural, as well.
USE HOT GRITS WITH STATUE OF NATALIE PORTMAN (NAKED AND PETRIFIED)
Jesus Christ it's a wifi get in the car!
Dude, Asian American whispers, please.
Can I get my city to ban them as well?
*Note: I do not live in, around, or anywhere near Santa Fe
== First cross river, then insult alligator.
And smallpox! You forgot smallpox, dude. We know that was natural because it was present centuries ago. HIV of course is a man-made virus that was designed to kill all the black people and queers.
The California Department of Health Services has concluded that, on the basis of a telephone survey, 120,000 Californians - and by implication one million Americans - have left their jobs because of electromagnetic pollution in the workplace. The people who have left their homes for such a reason are not being counted by anyone. That wrongly assumes the rest of America is as fucked up and retarded as California and it's people (if you can really call Californians people).
Help us build a better map!
Over by the sinks where I work, there are signs about it being illegal to pour "chemicals" into the drain.
I asked our guy in charge of environmental compliance if "dihydrogen monoxide" could be put down the drain. He said no.
*headdesk*
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BMO
Oh I parse it just fine, the point I'm trying to make is that what innocently and with good intentions started out to mean man-made chemicals has unfortunately tarnished the word chemical. You talk about chemicals in the body and they'll shy away as if its a bad thing - though you may be talking about haemoglobin. You will hear people talking who have missed the point that carbon dioxide/monoxide levels are bad and instead choose to believe that carbon is one of the evils of the world and comes from exhaust pipes. Never mind that we are all carbon based ourselves, along with most of our diet.
All you have to do would be to get these people to abstain from "di-hydrogen monoxide". That should show results within a week.
The worst part about eating vegetables is what to do with the wheelchairs afterward.
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Can you fly now, too?
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What we have determined is that reasearch causes cancer in lab rats.
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
Ha, you saw the same thing I did. It was the beards, man. The beards. THE BEARDS, I TELL YOU!!!
I also laughed at the one guy "you're like walkin down the street man, and you're like, dodgin cell phone signals!" Dodging cell phone signals, huh? As if!
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Can't prove a negative. I win!
Why yes, I AM a rocket scientist!
I prefer unnatural selection... bring on the zombie apocalypse! All of that bullshit about natural selection goes out the window when you're competing and/or reproducing with the undead!
The three things most in demand after a zombie apocalypse are, in order:
1. Sledgehammers (Fuckin' A!)
2. Social skills (An armed society is a polite society. And an unarmed society in the age of zombies has the lifespan of a mayfly.)
3. Shotguns (More valuable than ammo, you can't club a zombie to undeath with a shotgun shell)
4. Ammunition (Preferably edible.)
And for all of you jackholes saying that wasn't three things; math is not in demand after a zombie apocalypse. The last thing we need is another l33t m4th d00d comparing the relative quantities of ammo and zombies.
I rest my case.
"We have to go forth and crush every world view that doesn't believe in tolerance and free speech." - David Brin