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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."
It's not jus the building, it's the cars! I'm still struggling to believe this - at first I thought the stickers (on the drivers window, no less) were some kind of meme/joke on the notices on every building, but no! Your tax dollars at work.
Here's a hint, hippies: when every building and car has a sign on it warning that this area contains chemicals known to cause birth defects and cancer, it makes the warnings a joke. It also makes you a joke. It doesn't do anything to change the chemicals used in manufacture, butcause no one takes the signs seriously.
Also, I'm sure there are a few places where the levels of dangerous chemicals are genuinly dangerous, but I'll blunder right into them because every place has the same damn warning.
Socialism: a lie told by totalitarians and believed by fools.
Carcinogen != causes cancer
But hey, the theory of metastasis is still used as a justification for chemotherapy so why argue semantics?
Of course I didn't RTFA... why would I do that? You really are new here aren't you? Don't let my UID fool you.
If you wash your hands after plugging in a power cable, you really are a moron and should remove all sharp objects from your residence.
Mea navis aericumbens anguillis abundat
Obama will will double capital gains tax, raise Social Security taxes, income taxes, and most likely tons of other taxes (gasoline?) which affect everyone, (especially the poor) not just the rich.
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hv559EfDVQDOVDVYhGxB2xcwCveQD92ORLP00
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2007/11/11/obama-i-deserve-a-tax-increase/
http://www.standardspeaker.com/articles/2008/08/24/editorial/hz_standspeak.20080824.c.pg2.hz21let_skuba_s1.1892436_edi.txt
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/23/AR2008082301848.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/leading_article/article4597395.ece
http://www.investors.com/editorial/IBDArticles.asp?artsec=16&issue=20080822
Enough news sources for you, or should I go to the second page of google results? Obama simply believes in the old-fashioned "tax the rich" nonsense.
Its = possessive. It's = "it is"
Riiiight, it's all the lenders' fault. That's the ticket. Them and George W Bush. Buyers not to blame at all, no siree, the speculative buble was just not the fault of the speculators, and anyone who says so is just mean spirited. Or something.
Socialism: a lie told by totalitarians and believed by fools.