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Hippies Say WiFi Network Is Harming Their Chakras
Anti-Globalism writes "A group of hippies is complaining that a recently installed WiFi mesh network in the UK village of Glastonbury is causing health problems. To combat the signals from the Wi-Fi hotspots, the hippies have placed orgone generators around the antennae." Although there have been many studies that show no correlation between WiFi and health issues the hippies say, "Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man."
I've been saying hippies are harming my wifi network for years. Damn hippies.
You can't own the electromagetic spectrum, man.
Isn't ironic that hippies are harmful to my health.
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Go canucks, habs, and sens!
One man has even begun making orgone generators, which use crystals, semi-precious stones and gold to purportedly put out positive energy to combat the negative vibes flooding the town from the Wi-Fi base stations.
Elsewhere:
Orgone Generators change negative energy from microwaves, TV's, cell phones, computers, fluorescent lighting, automotive wiring, large electrical structures, high voltage lines and step-down electrical transformers, etc. into pure or positive life energy.
Positive Orgone is also known as Chi(China), Prana(India), and Ki(Japan).
The basic and simplified theory of how the orgone devices work is that the negative energy is attracted into the device by the organic component and then it gets bounced back and forth between the resin and suspended metal particles. Crystalline structures within the mix cause the energy to get organized and re-radiated as a positive, clean energy.
Oh yes, these sound like reasonable people.
Everyone knows it's cell phones that cause health problems.
I think it's funny that the hippie movement in SF imploded within months.
If you mod me down, I will become more powerful than you can imagine....
Consult your pineal gland. :^)
We're recycling week-old news now?
No, it would be a coincidence, even if they are harmful to your health.
This issue is a bit more complicated than you think.
I know there are groups out there that are against wifi for many kooky reasons but fox news has as much credibility as the onion.
I read once that people who work on the antennas in mobile communication towers suffer from headaches, dizziness, nausea, severe tiredness, brain fog, disorientation and loss of appetite, loss of balance, and an inability to concentrate if they are exposed to the radiation for too long. So maybe those hippies are just extremely sensitive people. Do they use mobile phones?
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Shut the fuck up Donny!
/You're out of you're element!!
Great, now any time someone suggests investigating whether or not Wifi has any long term effect on peoples health, they'll get lumped together with this group of crazy people.
making hippies think they are protected from "harmful" radio waves, so other people can enjoy the internet.
fruit bruises easily too
...and it makes me feel greater.
I'll see you sometime later
When I'm through with my Accumulator.
Once I was a four stone apology. Now I am two separate gorillas.
I love it! Replaced my wireless router with Gbit wiring in the house; works much better.
Will put up a sleeping pyramid and several orgon collectors as well to compensate for the remaining waves.
I mean - where is all the crap on the planet coming from?
Nobody gives a shit about it any more. Gotta start somewhere cleaning up.
1. Buy a couple hundred acres in the National Radio Quiet Zone and build a resort/spa/retirement community for all the well-heeled electromagnetophobes.
2. Quietly buy up as much of the valley as you can, then support campaigns to get Blue Cross and Medicare to cover electromagnetic hypersensitivity.
3. Profit.
I'd do it, but I don't believe I could live with myself. Especially if I had to give up ubiquitous broadband.
Yes, it would be ironic. Most of what hippies do is justified in part on human or animal health grounds. Environmentalism, organic food, alternative medicine, yoga - need I go on?
And it would be ironic of someone who defined themselves in terms of striving for better health actually did damage to someone's health. Think doctor giving you a cold, and you'll get the drift.
Seriously, how much more stupid is this that the middle east morons on both sides
who wont eat bacon or a ham-cheese sandwich because the bogeyman told then not to?
Its the same level of stupidity.
FiWi connectians doesn't mess up your ability to think, you knough.
It is not a bunch of hippies doing the complaining, it is the residents. They have little use for the WiFi, which has been used 422 times in 6 months. I suspect the locals know exactly what they want. Maintaining jobs and a way of life, which draws on 5000 years of hocus pocus. Orgone generators are right in there as a mix of crystals and gold and romanticism.
As for the headaches? Quite genuine reporting I'd say. My father told me that a satellite receiving station near where he worked was found to generate a wide mix of ills in the 3 months following its official opening. This was not published because it would have embarrassed the Minister. Due to a cock-up in parts supply, they faked the opening and it sat idle but impressive whilst headaches abounded.
Headaches occur, and people want causes assigned. It's a matter of opinion whether it is better to blame an aerial or a spell cast by a witch. Just so long as the majority have a good laugh in the pub in the off-season. Witchcraft is a bit like Royalty. A good historical reason for people to kill each other, but really just a useful source of tourist dollars these days.
Use Humor instead: In other news Samzenpus was seen wearing his "Respect My Authoritah" Cartman T-shirt while adding this to the mainpage ;)
A Man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties -- Albert Einstein
#1. Take responsibilities for you statements and more importantly actions - Period.
#2. See #1
#3 If in doubt... fuck you.... hippies. Grow up.
Warning: Hippies may or may not cause nausea and contempt towards said group. I've heard a lot of these kinds of incidents lately. Some douche has a bright idea on something that might cause a health hazard if they put som effort into it, and suddenly, you've got children and mothers and hippies everywhere with electro magnetic and WiFi allergies. *MEH*
Although there have been many studies that show no correlation between WiFi and health issues
More or less studies than have shown cigarettes are awesome for you and everyone should smoke them?
Or that global warming doesn't exist?
That Microsoft operating systems has a lower total cost of ownership than Linux?
That DDT, Agent Orange and Thalidamide are all totally safe?
To be fair to the hippies, there is a fairly long history of things being repeatedly investigated and found to be safe... right up until they were found not to be.
Unless you live in the state of California - where everything, including reading this post, can give you cancer and needs to carry a warning message, just to be on the safe side.
It does, however, remain true that a Guiness a day will, indeed, keep the doctor away.
I was at Glastonbury for the winter solstice and was chuckling to myself at this story in the local newspaper.
The company that runs the WiFi also provides some high quality streaming webcams - See for yourself.....
http://www.checkglastonburylive.com/
Remember kids! Guns don't kill people - Americans kill people.
Don't forget, wifi also eats babies!
But it does mention Glastonbury. Google it?
What does "idleispants" mean?
Even the false things.
Weaselmancer
rediculous.
hippies... hippies... they say they want to save the world, but all they do is smoke pot and smell bad.
Mr. Hu is not a ninja.
Just crack open the throttle on that Silver Machine... I'm standing on the runway waiting for takeoff...
Donald 'Duck' Dunn: We had a band powerful enough to turn goat piss into gasoline.
Yeah, you may remember this story from March '08 about the norcal hippy town that turned down free public wifi from Sonic.net due to health concerns.... -->> http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/26/0118237 I live in that little town and I love my hippy brethren, but they're fucking nuts. I want my WiFi, damn it... every time I try to educate someone on the subject I get the same kind of "that's just, like, your opinion, man" response. I guess I'm stuck leeching wifi around the residential areas.... *sigh*
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The local paper (Fosse Way) published this story without the slightest critical analysis whatsoever. As someone who has worked on, inter alia, the EMC Directive, I wrote to them asking whether the person complaining of headaches had taken part in a blind test. Perhaps needless to say, the letter has not been published and indeed I've had no acknowledgement of it.
BTW, they do not have a "way of life which draws on 5000 years of hocus pocus". The Glastonbury thing dates back to no more than the 19th century: it's as fake as Druidism in Wales. Glastonbury is just a small town in Somerset that used to make its money from the leather industry till it went bust under Thatcher. Now it's a retirement suburb, the most Conservative part of the district. Currently a few protestors are trying to stop the demolition of the old factory buildings to put up an industrial estate - the old buildings cannot be brought up to modern standards and are a complete eyesore.
Why do I complain about this? Because I live in the part of Somerset that is a net contributor of taxes to keep the residents of Glastonbury from having to have industry and jobs, that's why.
From scarped cliff or quarried stone she cries "A thousand types are gone, I care for nothing, no not one."
I'm an old hippie that is into ham radio, ex-broadcast engineer, wifi junkie, and general RF geek. I can report that my charkras are fine and dandy. See how they glow.
-- I have a private email server in my basement.
The receptionist at work complained that she started getting rashes and other symptoms after we installed a wifi repeater outside her office door, claiming she's electrical sensitive. The problem was that the wifi wasn't even up and running until a few weeks later when the mesh was finished. And also she doesn't have a problem with the cell phone in her pocket which is orders of magnitude more powerful... And she claims that her alarm radio is sending radio-waves at her during the night and waking her up. That's the idea and you get the picture... Some people here have good fun.
Non-Linux Penguins ?
There is absolutely no way an English hippie would talk like that.
Sod off with your US stereotypes, tosser.
...DEFCON has the cure.
Thank you, Edward Snowden.
"Arguments from authority are worthless." —Carl Sagan
Mate, there is a reason why the tranmission towers are turned off when being serviced; I don't know what shit box operation you're running in the US but in most other countries they don't subject employee's to radio waves that can kill birds.
I can't just walk through your house through an open window/door, whether you're using it or not.
Similarly, why should you be able to generate EM radiation that's sent through my body?
If you reject my position on the grounds that the radiation's harmless to me, then I argue that walking through your home is harmless to you.
You, a human, are knowingly and willingly violating my body with your generated radiation in a way more comprehensive and intimate than if you were to rape me. If you were disease free and gentle, the rape might be just as harmless to my body as the radiation, yet rape remains unacceptable. Why is that? If it's about psychological rather than physical harm, then stop and consider that psychological harm is precisely what you're doing to these hippies.
Those hippies are going to be royally fucked when they realise the huge ball of incandescent gas at the middle of our solar system is the largest electromagnetic transmitter within several billion miles. How are they going to fix THAT one?
as if modern medicine is able to fathom full extent of physiological and psychological issues of homo sapiens sapiens ....
something not being known yet doesnt mean it doesnt exist.
Read radical news here
Wifi usually has very low power. DECT is usually much more harmful. It is not such a good idea to keep the wireless phone on the nightstand if it is not in the cradle it keeps radio connection with.
Electromagnetic radiation can be a real, measurable hazard to health. But usually the worst offender is the radio clock on the night stand less than 50 cm away from your head. Cheaply made and poorly shielded it can have an effect on you body.
Here is to hippies:
http://www.southparkstudios.com/episodes/103815/
"We've got fivefold increase of health-related complaints since we installed that cellular antenna. That's pretty scary. What's gonna happen when we actually start to use it?"
These people simply snore. They drink too much, or whatever they do to balance their chakras, then suffer apnea during sleep. All the mentioned symptoms fit quite well:
FTFA: "headaches, dizziness, nausea, severe tiredness, brain fog, disorientation and loss of appetite, loss of balance, inability to concentrate, loss of creativity"
Say out loud: I'm an Aspie and I'm somewhat proud, I guess. Uh. Can I write an email in all caps instead? Hm...
You need one, dude.
The dangers of knowledge trigger emotional distress in human beings.
If Glastonbury shopkeepers can really hear the noise from Worthy Down, which is at Pilton, then I'm impressed. Especially if they can hear it above their own continuous whining.
From scarped cliff or quarried stone she cries "A thousand types are gone, I care for nothing, no not one."
Announce that you're turning off the network in response to public demand. Leave it on. Wait for hippies to declare that things are much better now and WiFi is a health risk. Announce that the network was never turned off to begin with.
Now we can tell anyone who feels their chakra's are being interfered with by GSM antennas that all of their problems will be resolved through the installation of ... whatsit ... ah yes ... Orgone generators! Brilliant. Problem solved.
My office has several microwave links, and I have seen birds perched on the feedhorn of an open grid parabolic antenna for several minutes without dropping dead. Granted, that is not the center of the beam. Maybe their feet are just cold.
Why, without your clothes, you're naked, Miss Dudley!
Hmmm. I wonder if they could build a device that captures there microwaves, focuses them, and slow-cooks some pot-brownies or something of the like. If I build it in a pyramid shape I bet I now know who my target audience would be...
Admittedly, this makes a lot of sense. An imaginary treatment for an imaginary problem. Eggg-celent.
Bring in Cartman to fix the situation.
The hippies clained that the wi-fi network caused "headaches, dizziness, nausea, severe tiredness, brain fog, disorientation, loss of balance, inability to concentrate, loss of creativity." Coincidentally the wi-fi became active at the same time as the local harvest of Glastonberry Green. Should we blame the wi-fi??
But what if the radiation of their chakra's interferes with my wifi network?
if your pants fit well, it's not only because of the pants
If you can't stand the hotspot, get out of the village.
Their health problems are probably associated with old age.
The US government have made it clear that we have no inalienable rights; any we do not defend vigorously will be taken.
those hippys are a bunch of numbnuts.. the glastonbury festival is flooded with wifi.. the green fields have there own node running aswell with 900 mhz and 5ghz links...
i swear most of them are talking out of there veggie butts all of the time......you give a hippy a laptop a wifi connection and your logs will show a huge jump in torrent abuse due to the fact of the shear amount of crusty porn getting downloaded...
"headaches, dizziness, nausea, severe tiredness, brain fog, disorientation and loss of appetite, loss of balance, inability to concentrate, loss of creativity"
Sounds like they have all the symptoms of smoking way too much pot.
There is no "-1 offended" or "-1 you don't agree with me" mod options for a reason.
If there is a significant market niche who believe that WiFi generates negative energy and that one can convert this into positive energy by means of an "orgone generator", someone could make some money by selling WiFi base stations with built-in orgone generators. Just buy a bunch of generic Netgear boxes, case-mod them to look vaguely mystical, using a lot of crystal and gold leaf and such in the process, and sell them at a steep markup. Presto; hippies have good, life-affirming orgone-enhanced WiFi, and you have their money. Everyone's a winner.
The bread and the wine really are changed by God the Holy Spirit into the body and blood of Christ. (1 Cor. 10-11) We aren't told the means. It could be a conferral of identity, or something like quantum entanglement. It isn't "capernetic" What this has to do with wifi, I fail to see.
Yes, these are certainly morons and are they really serious? Do they think that these are the first radio waves they have been exposed to? They never complained while thier bodies were constantly bombarded with tv/radio/cellphone/cordless phone/military radar/space background radiation etc. ( not to mention all the pot & shrooms) but as soon as a wireless network fires up they all become walking antennae?
Keep passing the open windows...
It is obnoxious to make your posts in monospaced fonts just to make them stand out. If you really prefer these fonts, just use lynx/links and just leave us to go our own way.
A few years back I set up a radio network for a municipal water water system using spread spectrum data radios and tested the thing in one little room on our company campus. I noticed that after about two hours in the room I'd get start getting a headache that got more severe as the day went on, and this was not a mental thing as I wouldn't have believed it, if it happened to someone else.
Of course, we're talking about 35 5-watt radios in one pretty small room, and I doubt any 802.11 transmitter is putting out that kind of juice. But still, I think there is some definate health hazard to the RF saturation that we're exposed to on a daily basis.
I think we'd all be better off if we'd ...
Nuke the hippies!!
Its hard to find the right situation to say that.
I still have mine, so I'll be fine
What about the people who CAN'T get vaccines? Like newborns, people alergic to eggs, had a reaction in the past, have a supressed immune system due to disease or drugs for a transplant?
Another point would be that vaccines, depending on the vaccine, are only 90-99% effective. Some people's immune systems either don't learn, or don't keep the antibodies. I have an aunt like that. You can vaccinate her against chicken pox all you like, 3 months later or so and she'll be vulnerable to it again.
Herd immunity is still a good thing.
I don't read AC A human right
look if your going to invent little Scientology-like spirits that live inside you, it'd be smart to make sure they don't get harmed by radio waves its not our fault your god made them vulnerable ok (I am aware how offensive and ridiculous this reply is, but by now I consider it the only approach, at least meet some kind of logic on their side, then realistically take the piss using the laws of the dream-world they choose to live in)
It is just Fox News who qualify them of "hippies". I think there are lots of people who are scared of technologies. And "being hippie" has never been to do with being against new technologies. Anyway, everybody is against technology when it does not profit them. You need to make people make money from it. Install a nuclear power plant that will employ everybody in this village, the project will better welcome than a wifi network.
I like the text of the petition though, it sounds so much like monoxide dihydrogen. They did not get much from being talked about in the news. 72 signatures?
Drats! They've discovered my evil plan!
Prove a Chakra exists, then we will talk.
Woo Woo...all aboard the made up shit train.
The Kruger Dunning explains most post on
How long would it take to hard-hack a WiFi AP to look like a GoodVibes (tm) device? Two birds, one stone, so to speak.
Here will be an old abusing of God's patience and the king's English.
So often "pure" rationalizations fail in the realms of complex systems and biological systems, such as the principal of bio-accumulation of toxins, where extremely low environmental levels of a substance may aggregate to very high levels in a predator species. Or japanese subway cars where the high number of cell phones, and the closed metal shell of the car, can cause standing waves (microwave hotspots) within the car, far greater than the individual phones power output. Resonance can cause astonishing accumulations of power from very low power sources.
The most compelling description of neuronal damage in the brain due to microwave EMF at low levels, similar to a cell phone were studies which found that the blood brain barrier membrane in rats dilated slightly under low level microwave EMF. This then allowed albumin proteins to pass through the membrane into the brain, where subsequent neuronal damage was caused through the molecular interactions.
So, the amount of power required to induce the membrane change was in fact too low to directly cause tissue damage, but the brain was profoundly perturbed due to a subsequent cascade of effects. The world (and us) are symbiotic and minor changes can destabilize the entire system. Acting like a know-it-all cuz you weren't open to following a counter-intuitive concept all the way through is kinda dangerous.. znew=z^2+c
If you don't believe there is something to this (though I imagine these folks are a little beyond the pale), then I challenge you do this simple experiment: An hour before you go to bed shut of all the breakers to you house, ie. cut the electricity completely (ok. you may have to forgo the frig, but cut all the rest...), then see just how you feel in the morning as opposed to most mornings.
How about a local "harvest" of Soylent Green? Then the hippie problem will be solved.
"never trust a Hippie"
FUCK the hippies. Time to move on has LONG gone past you whackos.
My grandmother works as a interviewer/poll person, she goes door to door asking people if they would do a market research poll. She found a group of ultra conservative religious people, sort of like mormons or something, where the women are not allowed to do basically anything, and theirs a "leader" who censors magazines, cutting out articles, pictures, headlines he doesn't think are suitable for his flock, crazy. How do these people feel about radio waves whizzing through their bodies at the speed of sound? Even if they don't use radios etc because "that Eminem chap swears", the actual transmission zaps through them regardless!
Imagine if we DO find out these radio waves are bad for our bodies in the future, these people who lived in "third world conditions" end up having cancer/whatever from our signals. Is that fair? Do these people have to wear Farraday Cage Burka everywhere because you want to talk on your cellphone to your girlf....mum?
Lets just hope the Leader keeps censoring stories about Radio Frequencies for fear that these cults rise up in some sort of christian Jihad against our invisible death ray beams.
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With so many people claiming sickness from wifi we really need some blind studies.
Take a group of people far into the wilderness with some wifi equipment. Leave them out there for a few days and don't tell them if they equipment is on or off.
Ask them if they have any headaches or other BS they are claiming. I am willing to bet, in a blind study you will find out that the claims are ridiculous.
*IF* after a few studies they find it to be true then I would agree with it until then I call BS and ask them to STFU already. :)
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Here's the problem folks: the FCC refuses to acknowledge electronic devices' emissions having any effect on the human body besides thermal. I.E. cellphones must only cause your tissue to heat to a certain level. However, the FCC refuses to regulate the other possible effects of this radiation. Period. This, of course, is of pivotal importance to the high tech and telecom industries, because it lets them keep their products within the 'no effects' category without any government intervention.
Personally, I get dizzy from 45 minute cell phone calls and have to shake it off. By that time the phone is certainly warm. Its other effects? Officially, the government passes the buck!
Check this: the devious Stanford Research Institute (which was, indeed, contracted by the CIA to do remote viewing research in the 1970s, see Operation STARGATE) wrote a very interesting thing about the "Changing Images of Man," the kind of thing spit out by ominous acid-dropping elite scientist types.
http://www.skilluminati.com/research/entry/scientists_on_acid_the_story_behind_changing_images_of_man/
In this marvelous example of 1970s establishmentarian utopianism, there is a good deal of info about studies in "electromagnetic pollution." Think of that: the very phrase is totally alien to us now, even though we are subjected to so much more than we used to be. Their main study cited was about a lady who got schizophrenic-style symptoms; it turned out she had an unshielded power conduit in her wall that was filling her apartment with powerful EM radiation. Once the power conduit was properly shielded, her health problems abated.
If these cats knew it could affect people then (since of course our bodies operate within a kind of electromagnetic flux), why aren't there more substantive studies today?!
For some time I had a WiFi router right next to the head of my bed; I would stare at it as it blinked at me, thinking of all the energy going thru my head. I was happy to have it go away. I don't use WiFi in my home, though of course it leaches in. I strongly feel that longterm studies about cellphone use are coming up rather ominous, especially for younger people whose thinner skulls are less resistant to the microwaves. What is everyone going to feel like after 30 years of intense WiFi and especially cellphone exposure?!
--hongpong.com
Nice Lebowski reference.
This would be an example of one of the many New Age gimmicks which serves primarily to make people stop thinking.
In the box of non-orthodox stuff, there's a fairly stark difference between wishful silliness and truthful ideas. For some reason, people have trouble differentiating between the two. I don't get why. Some things just have that "air of lame", and when you look into them, (as I did with the orogone thing) you find out that, yes, they are indeed lame ducks.
But that shouldn't make people from turn off. It's the old logical fallacy: "All cows are animals, therefore all animals are cows."
Or lame ducks.
Some ducks can fly.
But you won't know which ones unless you do some exploring!
After all, learning is fun, and who wants to do as they're told all the time anyway? People are always telling us what is right and wrong to believe and they enforce it with social pressure. Social pressure is for the birds. The lame ones.
-FL
wow why cant we all just get a long huh? the funny thing is the real hippies from the late 60s are the ones who were expanding there minds and opening up to new ideas to witch we partly owe for today's technology.
Yes this is my opinion, man!
sounds like there are some ego problems here! hah LET GO! haha
peace, love, n happiness,
some gypsy
LOL
The idiots who spent their time getting blazed out of their minds are NOT who we have to thank for modern science. You are *kidding* yourself.
I am scientifically inaccurate.
LOL
The idiots who spent their time getting blazed out of their minds are NOT who we have to thank for modern science. You are *kidding* yourself.
Perhaps he just has a lot of faith in his powers of suggestion.
More likely he just did a little too much acid at Woodstock.
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
Sure, those things you mention are part of the popular impression of hippies, but not mine. I tend to thing of them more in terms of the actual dictionary definition, for example. I.e. mostly just anti-establishment, not so much pro-anything.
So, no, it would not be ironic if they were harmful to your health, merely a coincidence, if not an expected result.
This issue is a bit more complicated than you think.
I'm glad somebody gets it.
You can say how there are all sorts of "atrocities by Christians", but what you really mean is "atrocities by people who call themselves Christian."
There's a huge difference. The Spanish Inquisition (which nobody expects, I know, I know...) runs completely against pretty much every teaching Jesus ever gave.
If you prefer the wording Raffaello used:
christians are responsible for numerous and well documented heinous atrocities specifically due to their religion (crusades, inquisition, witch burning, annihilation of heretics, etc.).
That wasn't specifically due to their religion. It was specifically due to their own warping and perverting of what they liked to call their religion for their own ends.
jesus christ you're a stupid shitbag
Just as a heads up to whichever genius designs the Idiotpart of slashdot, it's impossible to read in IE7 (at work!) as the nesting keeps squeezing comments into thinne and thinner columns until you end up with one letter per line...
Another reason not to bother with Idle.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
RTFA The Radiation Poisoning Of America. It's based on scientific research done by several reputable scientists and research institutes. Check the NOTES section for a complete list of references.
If you still believe RF radiation is completely harmless within FCC approved exposure limits, consider this:
Current FCC exposure limit in the US:
580 microW / cm^2 = 5.8 W/m^2
Current exposure limits in Russia for the 0.3-178.4 GHz frequency band (as reported by a friend of mine from Russia who works as a telecommunications engineer on cell phone towers and other types of RF equipment):
0.1 W/m^2 - for 24 hours at the most
0.1-1 W/m^2 - for no more than 2 hours
1-10 W/m^2 - for no more than 10 minutes
You may also want to know why Microwave ovens were banned in Russia in 1976 and read Dr. Mercola's Ten Reasons to Throw out your Microwave Oven.
For even more information check Wireless Networks (Wi-Fi): Consumer Health and Safety Advice.
There you go, scientific evidence as requested.
Awesome! And maybe we can sell excess positive energy back to the utilities to lower our monthly bill! I'm going out to Home Depot and getting me one of those organ generator thingies tomorrow morning!
This blog is for "nerds" as it says right, so i assume that the hippie hate comes from nonhippie-nerds? I guess nerds need to reflect the abuse they received in school onto hippies. I don't claim to be either, but I don't dis either anyhow. Here is an awesome article on Psychic Warfare that actually offers evidence of EMFs affecting pyschic abilities. http://www.brainsturbator.com/articles/psychic_warfare_from_1981_2008/ read that and then tell me that the "hippies are just stoned out of their minds and not in touch with reality." Seriously, being sensitive to the world is not a flaw, but a gateway towards superpowers. heard of a faraday cage? "When you're inside [a Faraday cage], a psychic, for example, has their performance increased by a thousand fold. A Faraday cage shields you from the electromagnetic radio waves, allowing only extremely low frequency (E.L.F.) magnetic waves to get through. I don't think there's a psychic warfare research lab that doesn't make use of them today." --Andrija Puharich, random online interview
That's not what I said. I was looking for documented instances of anyone actually cooking their guts, as described in some urban legends.
I used to regularly get safety bulletins warning employees not to wear contacts while doing electrical work or carry disposable butane lighters while arc welding. The contacts would get stuck to your eyeball and a butane lighter could explode with the force of a quarter-stick of dynamite. All bullshit, but many people, including safety managers, believed it.
I'm not going to stand in front of a high-power RF emitter. I'd rather be safe then sorry, and I've worked around systems that combined multi-kilowatt transmitters with very high-gain antennas. I'd rather not get premature cataracts or some other injury. I don't worry about cell phones or VHF/UHF hand-held radios, which can often put out 5+ Watts on their high power setting. The only injury that I've seen real documentation on for hand-held radios is the accidental firing of electrical blasting caps that were carried next to a radio that was accidentally switched into transmit mode.
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...a Fox News story? To Slashdot? Really?
... the usage and theory of chakra's is familiar for me. And still, even I, had a good laugh from this. I've encountered more morons in the alternative religions and therapies then I can count...
Seriously, the theory is nice, as long as you can keep your reality check mechanism going. But alas, most of them are far off.
It's NOT a coincidence that people like these shout that Wifi's, DECT's, power lines, etc. hurt their 'inner self', but most of them just talk about it to *sell* an object like the one in the picture with the fine article.
It's nice to see how much they shout about these negative waves hurting your, but in the same breath they also mention that they happen to have a special device to make it all go away... for the minimum price of half a month's salary.
*sigh*
It will never stop. The only enlightment that MOST of those people achieve is making your wallet lighter.
I dare say that I try to practice it all honestly. If somebody has a headache, I advise them to seek a doctor, if they hear somebody talking in their head, I direct them to a psychologist. I don't start working on chakra's, advice to drink 'healing' water or tell them to meditate daily half an hour before the sun sets.
There are a lot of coocoo-heads. Too much, if you ask me.
I give massages and reiki treatments (for real!). More info here: http://www.universele-levensenergie.be
...these symptoms: "headaches, dizziness, nausea, severe tiredness, brain fog, disorientation and loss of appetite, loss of balance, inability to concentrate, loss of creativity" It's affecting me here in SoCal! Brain fog; good line, that!
...Lorenzo / I'm into kinky crustaceans. I just discovered internet praWn.
...neutrino oscillation.
...Lorenzo / I'm into kinky crustaceans. I just discovered internet praWn.
...of the nasty pre-cancerous crappy spots that my dermatologist keeps removing from the skin covering my chakras.
...Lorenzo / I'm into kinky crustaceans. I just discovered internet praWn.