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California Classes LED Component Gallium Arsenide a Carcinogen
Reader LM741N, pointing to a report released this month by California's Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, writes "Gallium Arsenide has now been listed as a carcinogen. Given the increasing usage of gallium arsenide, the main constituent in LEDs, and their recent championing as more efficient light sources in recent news stories and Slashdot, there may be significant environmental concerns as related to their disposal. Morover, workers in industries using the substance may be at risk of cancer as well."
Yes. They are called Sierra Club, Greenpeace, PETA.. its all about voluntary human extinction with them now, not just conservation or environmental awareness.
No surprise here. California has always been on path to economic self-destruction. This is what happens when you have nanny state liberals in office.
Let California be a lesson to the remaining 49 on how *NOT* to run a state. Sorry, but sexy women and nice weather alone will not be enough for its future.
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lern2read, moron.
Okay, once again I'm actually surprised by the response. It never occurred to me that there are people such as yourself (on slashdot no less) that behave in the opposite way by not only believing the labeling to a ridiculous level, but altering their behavior as a result.
Now, part of me thinks "What kind of an idiot would buy a blender that has a cord made out of lead?" But, still more astonishing to me is that you apparently truly believe that the synthetic insulation on your blender cord actually contains lead and that it contaminates your hands whenever you touch it.
I'll bet your mattress and pillows still have their tags on them. [Hint: that was sarcasm]
The right-wing anarcho-capitalist nutjobs HATE it that "liberal" states tend to be far more economically prosperous than the "conservative" anti-environment, anti-union states. It kills them
Well yeah, as much as you steal food, oil and raw materials from everyone and call it a basic right to consume, of course you should come out ahead. The amazing thing is, that you've even fucked up manufacturing in your states despite having the cheapest water, food and electricity of any of the industrialized nations in the world. Yeah, Wall Street has taken a beating as of late, while commodities have gone up, but maybe that's just because the world has finally figured out American cities are husks of their former selves. They aren't centers of manufacturing, because its t o o d i r t y.... instead, they are just packed full of poor people that shoot each other all day long over a bag of rocks and even that seems preferable to the left wing than actually building a factory because it might hurt mother earth. What person would invest in that? Let alone live there.
So yeah, if you want to have economic fairness, let's let American farmers, miners, and oil men be able to pool together and negotiate quotas for their products, the same way that city bound democrats want to have for unions band together and control the price of labor. Assuming Obama somehow is magically able to drive down the price of commodities without producing anything more, let's revisit every state between the east coast and the west, and Republicans will only need to hang one sign, to get control of all of middle America:
George Bush: Corn - $6/bushel
Barrack Obama: Corn - $2/bushel
George Bush: Coal - $100/ton
Barrack Obama: Corn - $20/ton
And we could do the same in every state... you tell me, which party these states will go for?
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