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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 allergic to stupidity. Can we ban these people?
Are they allergic? Let's not let data get in the way of a good argument: No they're not.
Wow, even Wikipedia agrees.
They're spacin me out with all their "electro-waves" I wonder if they know they've been bombarded with electro-waves their whole life. Or maybe they haven't heard of the sun.
Ze Atomic Device! It iz Ztolen!
Well the key there is that the "5 out of 144" were the control group for the experiment.
In other words of the people who claimed to be sensitive, only 4.5% correctly identified when the mast was on in all 6 tries. Meanwhile in the control group - the group of people who do not claim to be sensitive - 4.3% correctly identified when the mast was on in all 6 tries.
Draw from that what you will, but the only logical conclusion is that a group of people who claimed to be extremely sensitive to EM signals are no more sensitive than a random group drawn from the general population. It's like taking a group of people who claim to be NBA all stars and pitting them against a team of randomly selected people, and then having the game end in a tie.
He was referring to reproducible studies.
Wild almonds are also natural. Its just that one wild almond can cntain enough cyanide to kill you.
Cancer rates have DECREASED over the last several years. (http://seer.cancer.gov/csr/1975_2005/results_merged/sect_01_overview.pdf WARNING: PDF) What most fail to recognize is that the perceived increase is a combination of increased news access and increased numbers but the actual per capita numbers are trending down. So while living longer and preventing or surviving other diseases grant ample increased opportunity to get cancer, better living has also saved many from that fate. {Examining the other data at this site will probably indicate that some cancers are on the rise, as well as cancer incidents in some populations being on the rise. The PDF I linked to shows the overall trend.)
I hope this comment is well received... I could have moderated instead!
Persecutors will be violated!
Damn, two in one post. I could make a reference to gay men lacking the sports-gene, but BF defies that stereotype.
That's why he has the glove. He actually wants to catch balls... I just don't want to die of head trauma.
Do hemlock, ricin, nightshade, and cyanide ring a bell?
Some poisonous mushrooms are so toxic that a single bite will destroy your liver, requiring a transplant if you want to live, and are lucky enough to get to medical help in the first place. Said mushrooms are virtually indistinguishable from the common button mushrooms in every grocery store and on every pizza.
Nature has PLENTY of toxins which we are not at all equipped to deal with. The above are just some well-known examples off the top of my head, and I haven't even mentioned a single venomous animal there.
cya,
john
Imagine all the people...
I suppose I can sue the cordless phone manufacturers who also produce phones using the 2.4GHz range for this then, right? Since they use the same frequency and power as a WiFi network? Or cell-phone companies, or pager companies, and the radio communications companies who provide service to the police, taxis, fire dept, etc? How about TV stations for the radiation their towers cause? Radio stations for the same? People like this are why our country is a laughingstock. Please go back to Uzbekistan or wherever the hell you came from, and return to your 'dead king inheritance' scam emails instead of trying to wipe out a useful technological institution like public WiFi.
If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can't be taken on its own merits
OK, we've established as above that 1) I am gay (though bf flies in the face of that as a sports disability and I did play ultimate a lot in college - so that's less of an excuse) and 2) he's drug me to both RiverCats and Kings games, but I would also like to add 3) that I worked overnight last night as an ER doc in a college town on the Friday of Memorial Day weekend.
Cancer rates have DECREASED over the last several years.
Quote: "Global cancer rates could increase by 50% to 15 million by 2020
3 April 2003 | GENEVA -- Cancer rates could further increase by 50% to 15 million new cases in the year 2020, according to the World Cancer Report, the most comprehensive global examination of the disease to date. However, the report also provides clear evidence that healthy lifestyles and public health action by governments and health practitioners could stem this trend, and prevent as many as one third of cancers worldwide."
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2003/pr27/en/
www.iarc.fr/IARCPress/general/wcr.pdf
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TaijiQuan (Huang, 5 loosenings)
I find the following a useful thing to add to my userContent.css.
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... and similar things for javascript links and target="_blank"/"_new" links. I find it makes web browsing enormously less infuriating.