As my friends may know, I had very high hopes for this film. Indeed, it was the only film I was going to pay for this summer.
Wow.
We've lost another one.
Much like Lucas, Kevin's brain appears to have melted as well.
What a lousy, LOUSY film. One giant, vulgar joke. It made me wince to see how he managed to get so many cool names throughout Hollywood to make cameo appearances; he burned up all the positive Karma he'd earned with his first films in 98 minutes. What a terrible shame.
All the good stuff I've come to expect from Smith was missing; the lucid & witty observations about society and culture made from an X-Gen perspective contained within impossibly clever dialogue. Totally gone. It was all just retarded sex-humor and Muppet style physical gags which serve only to widen the gap between real world observations and hokey magic land bullshit film making. It made Dumb & Dumber look like pure genius. Heck, that fucking nothing film had a plot, direction and sense of balance. This thing was just self-congratulatory and juvenile.
I really hope Kevin can get past this turkey, because I suspect that he's not actually been replaced by a pod-person; he's just a guy who made a terrible misjudgement and is now probably feeling about as low as it's possible to feel.
Anyway, what I heard after seeing the film was that despite some initially promising screen tests, it ran into some really bad tests. In a last minute panic, they bumped it from opening on Wednesday as planned to opening Friday, providing less time for word of mouth to travel before the big weekend cash grab.
So much for movies this year. At least we got the Cohen brother's film, so it wasn't a total waste. (Or was that last year. . ? Hmm. ..)
-Fantastic Lad -Dazed and Ill from bad film Ju-Ju.
I guess Jason and Kevin will be knocking on my door anytime now. Except I know Lad-Fu.
I've been wondering when this 'new' technology would finally be released.
According to a number of sources I won't disclose, (thank you very much), you-know-who has been using crstl mtrix technology for years in computers and, more importantly, for power storage, (enough to drive not only computers but vehicles and other gear.)
Knowing the way this crap goes, we'll probably have to wait about 10 years for crstl mtrix technology to be 'developed' into something both useful and available to the public. And who knows to what level you-know-who will have advanced at that point.
Ahh! The bullshit parade. "Oooh! Look at the wonderful science news! None of this has anything to do with mass manipulation & slave-nation control! The power structures of the world really DO have the best interests of the public at heart! Ah, plug me into the Discovery channel, my sweet, sweet opiate would never lie to me, would they?"
Mind you, I still think Slashdot is really cool. Despite the idiot flamers and general naivete, this site allows for actual communication to take place. It allows for the possibility of information dissemination and comparison. And assholes like me to whisper periodically. . .
> That may be true, but if you're using electricity and typing on a keyboard, you're right there in the bowels with granny and her AOL.
Sad but true.
Well, almost.
Waking up from the beast doesn't automatically eject one a-la 'Matrix'.
Going cold-turkey is rarely the recommended meathod of breaking an addiction. Instead, you do it in stages
For starters, over the last three years I have. . .
Gotten rid of my evil car. Quit my evil sales job and got a much lower paying job, working maybe 15-20 hours a week. (Fixing computers & tutoring ESL students.) We stopped eating mass-produced meat products last year. (Mostly veg now, with free range meat produce now and again. I feel much healthier, BTW. The pundits were right!) I don't buy anything I don't need or can't make myself. Cancelled the cable subscription. (OMYGOD-WHAT-A-DIFFERENCE!) It's SO much nicer to actually TALK with friends and room mates; to play Scrabble and D&D type games. To socialize rather than stare at a fucking CRT.
We ditched the air conditioner this summer. (Really no need. A little summer weather never killed anybody!) We wore sweaters and thick socks last winter. Our power & gas consumption dropped significantly. Plus, over the last year, we've managed to get our household trash output (four adults) down from two garbage bins per week to less than one half. (We got a big composter for the backyard.) And this fall, I start donating time to a community center.
The end result is that I consume a LOT less, contribute a LOT less garbage, have a LOT more free time, feel a LOT healthier/happier, and have more friends than ever before. And weirdly, even though my income has dropped to a quarter of what it once was, I still somehow seem to have more than enough money for everything I need or want to do. (When you stop consuming crap, life gets a hundred times cheaper). All in all, I'm mighty glad I got fed up and decided to make a change before I became another fat, miserable & confused loser in corporate land. If anybody had told me five years back that life could be this good I would have laughed in their face.
But, yeah, while we're still in the land of milk & honey, and while there is still a lot one can do, if everybody in my city decided to start living this way, I can't help but think that the world would be a MUCH better place.
Wierdly enough, the internet is one of the few resources which I find still holds a great deal of merit. But with a Linksys router and one DSL connection split between four people, high speed internet only costs me $10 a month. Life is SO good. And while it takes an extra effort, making the decision to find and live with room mates, rather than feel forced into that life style makes life very good. My roomies have become some of the best and most caring friends I've ever had. The whole illusion that people are greedy and stupid and impossible to live with is, I'm certain, something which is programmed into us by those who would rather we all live seperate from one another and consume to feel good rather than simply be good people. But you can break through propagandized bullshit and turn back the social clock to where small communities were warm and wonderful things. I've been living with the proof of that for nearly two years now.
Not only can it be done, but it's a helluva lot easier than you might think. The only thing to overcome is the fear of change.
-Fantastic Lad
Seanbaby is TOTAL crap.
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See. . , what I don't get is this:
I hate the spew of AOL/Time-Warner, etc.
But neither can I stand the bullshit spewed by moron sites like Seanbaby. I don't care about silly news items or about honing a youthful irreverent attitude toward popular media.
Whether it's "culture", or "counter-culture", it's still the same light-weight, glittery awareness-lowering, brain-decaying garbage that everybody is running around paying way too much attention to.
I don't give a rat's ass about Aquaman or Bart-fucking-Simpson or the 'Family Guy' anymore than I do about the latest CNN mis-information propaganda.
It's all just material generated by the same zombie assholes who want everybody to work 10 hour days, eat too many food additives and continue raping the Earth in order to produce more stupid & useless shit. To extend the greed and suffering to all new levels.
Culture on this landmass is less than a complete fucking joke. It's a mind-control program deluxe.
Seanbaby is almost worse than AOL; Those who think they're somehow breaking free of the program through a "counter-culture" response, are only re-enforcing their participation by regurgitating the same old shit by way of a subroutine designed to capture all the sheep who fall through the cracks and threaten to maybe maybe wake up.
The only true rebellion is to cut the umbilical cord altogether. There's a whole world out here. . .
-Fantastic Lad The most half-awake Lad of them all!
Carmack had issues with locker-room showers.
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Ahem. I shall now ascend the soapbox of toxic opinion. . .
As far as I'm concerned, single player FPS games got boring after Dark Forces. (Possibly the most amazing FPS ever made.) --Dark Forces was fun was because you got to be in Star Wars, shoot a blaster with Ben Burt sound effects, and take down storm troopers after they bark over their crackly com links, "There he is! Get him!". (Too bad the Star Wars feel got polluted with misplaced James Cameron Terminator stuff. . , but that's another story. The first mission of that game was the coolest damn thing I ever saw! I was thinking, "Oh no! I MUST capture those Death Star plans! The Resistence; heck, super-babe of the entire male X-Gen youth, Princess Leia herself, is counting on me!)
Damn, that was a good game. And no saves between levels. That's what fun is all about!
Anyway, Half Life was also sort of neat. Finally somebody did something semi-worthwhile with the whole X-Files bullshit parade. --Although, the game made the entire American military look like a bunch of poorly trained retards. . . "Forget Freeman! That geek boy is just too good for our armor plated super-trained asses! Run for your lives!" But that's just a bit of weak writing; the rest of it was engaging, --Although, I could have done with about 10 fewer levels of endless weird-space or wherever the heck all that boring alien bullshit was taking place.
But Quake? Hell, ID, in general. . . Is it just me or is Carmack and his team of CRT radiated white & pasty code monkeys members of the Todd McFarlane jar-headed "Cuz, demons are like, fuckin' cool," posse? Give me a break already. What's with this obsession with demonic nonsense, anyway? It isn't frightening, it isn't interesting, and the fabled Quake 'atmosphere' just makes me feel I've got slime on my boots, hands and elbows. Ooh. Fun. Slime. Honestly! Why would anybody want to spend their free gaming time crawling around in drippy torture chamber hallways? I bet even the undead hate their digs, which would explain their foul tempers.
To ID: Either come up with an aesthetic which isn't loaded down with painfully obvious Freudian highschool washroom references, or go live in the sewers with the rest of the fricking Morlocks.
Sheesh.
Lad out.
Fantastic Lad - The most opinionated Lad of the all!"
The twin infared laser creating an ionized circuit for an electric shock is a pretty damn cool idea. . ! (I wonder how many decades ago the tech went stale and got mothballed by the military. . ? Whatever.)
Anyway, it be great to have one of those things. I mean, all you have to do is make it visible to the naked eye when it fires and you've got yourself a real-life phaser, there cowboy!
Too bad that only the evil empire has them.
Ah well. Hopefully they'll be easy enough to build in my basement from an electronics hobby magazine and some spare parts.
Imagine. . . Being able to invisibly & non-lethally zap anybody in a kilometer range. Damn. The world could get really stupid if this kind of tech ain't vapor. I mean, screw paint ball! Though if this tech is only becoming available now, (i.e. it's ancient history), imagine the crazy shit they currently have with which they can drop you at a thousand yards. (How many of us already have chips in our heads? I wonder. Beep beep.)
This way I don't have to waste precious moments of my life on the irritating task of coming up with fake names and info with which to sign on to the NY Times reader's list.
(Screw them and their opt-in database. They can data-mine like everybody else.)
-Fantastic Lad; The most irritating Lad of them all!
With the kind of cut and pastery of the post above, I can skim the world press.
This combined with the few advertising clips seen on television allows me to not have to pay money for and (sic) actually watch what appears to be yet another a lousy, lazy, over-produced piece of shit in a long, long string of Hollywood moronics in action.
Thank you, Slashdot!
The only good films this summer, I expect will be the new Kevin Smith production, and possibly possibly the new Tolkien thing.
Here's to hoping!
-Fantastic Lad.
The best film I've enjoyed recently is the Phantom Edit; not because it's especially good, but because it makes me feel empowered. I can't wait for the DVD release, so that the film might be further repaired!
Or like suggesting that one bacterium could build another bacterium. Ridiculous! That could never happen.
Ugh. I was hoping nobody would waste band-width with that lame logic, but I guess I'll deal with it:
Nanotech is massively inferior to the living micro-organisms which already populate the world.
Nanotech is all about micro-robotics; manipulating the world through kinetics. KINETICS. Little motors running little legs and pincers. Not. . , I repeat, NOT molecule modifying enzymes and chemicals. I seriously doubt that tiny metalic bugs with microscopic CanadaArms are going to to be able to unlock atoms which have been covalently bonded to other atoms. If you can't pull apart a diamond with your fingers, then how can you expect a robotic bug to have any better luck?
Now, Bio-engineering. . , that's a whole other ball of wax. Biotech is powerful. Nanotech is just the retarded younger brother which will never catch up to the millions of years of evolution which brought us living things.
All I'm saying is that little tiny robots are going to be far more limited in their power and application than popular fiction suggests. -Sorry to dash the hopes and dreams, (saccharine delusions), of a wonder/terror-world future based on nano-tech, cuz it's just plain dumb and misdirected. There are far more important things going on!
Why the heck can't geeks just get over their inferiority complexes and face the fact that the world around us right now is already massively complex and that it is the one we ought to concentrate on living in? Digital is a powerful tool at best and a hallucinogenic false hope at worst.
Remember your Star Wars: The Dark Path is always easier.
Learn to manipulate reality; not a bunch of ones and zeros, or you'll end up looking all pasty like the Emperor.
Is it just me, or are hopes for nano-tech out of whack with any actual possible reality?
I mean. . . Building a car out of a pile of rocks? Don't think so. Cars are made from certain elements which a pile of rocks just can't provide no matter how smart your nanotech is. Plus. . . I haven't read, 'Diamond Age', (Snow Crash was more than enough lousy, nihilistic story telling B.S. for me.), but I understand one of the main principles Neal was pushing was that things in the future would be built primarily out of diamond.
Please. Nanites will be able to stuff on the molecular level? I mean, stacking all those carbon atoms one at a time just so. . . Give me a break. That would require robot pincers FAR smaller than the scale nanites are projected to be constructed at. Think about it! If the smallest transistor you can get is one molecule big, and you need several thousand just to make a nanite brain, then the nanite itself is going to be a behemoth by comparison to a single carbon atom.
Plus, nanites will still have to navigate around the treacherous micro terrain. We can barely build robots today that can handle a stupid backyard 'Mars Terrain' without some serious human assistance. And our backyards aren't filled with antibodies and other same-sized life forms looking to kill stuff.
Argh! And another thing. . ! One nanite Will Not be able to build another nanite. -That's like suggesting that a backhoe can build another backhoe. Retarded. Maybe a bunch of different nanites all working together, being fed all the right elements and micro lego bricks, will be able build a machine which can build nanites. Maybe. But that's a whole other proposition.
The basis of most Nanotech dreams/nightmares is that the technology will prove to be self-sustaining and unstoppable. Nonsense! (See above.) Sure, nanotech will probably work, but I doubt it will instantly transform humanity into something utterly unrecognizable. Nanites are just going to be another dumb technology which costs too much and won't work reliably without a ton of tech support. --Like every other stupid high-tech product or service in the world. (Cars. Phones. Airplanes. You name it. Pull people out of the equation, and everything grinds to a halt.)
Nanotech is not a panacea. Plus, if it works right, guaranteed, it won't work in the favor of the public.
Fantastic Lad
--Stephenson started out as a bloody Mac-user. Think about it! Mac-users are the least creative & intuitive people on the planet. --I mean, they drive the new Volkswagon Bugs and think they're being cool. Yeesh!
Similarly mysterious buildings in South America show evidence of massive stones fitting with other stones so precisely and tightly that one cannot insert a knife blade between the blocks. The method for this kind of construction is believed, (based on scrape marks), that rather than employ perfect cutting before placement, rough cutting was done and that the stones, once placed, were rubbed back and forth until they wore into one another, thus achieving a perfect fit.
There are a variety of peculiar bits and pieces of construction mystery.
While the kite theory is exceptionally cool, it doesn't strike me as terribly likely.
Slaves. Hired help. Honored help. (All using Mud Ramps.) Doesn't look like it.
Aliens?
Weirdly enough, I don't think it was those creepy grey bastards either. I mean, the aliens accused of abducting people today helping pharos build pyramids yesterday? Explain them politics. (I say weirdly, because I think there's some weight to alien theory in other arenas; --that and people think I'm weird as a general rule.)
The idea I find most interesting states that the technology used to construct ancient Big Stone Monuments is in fact available today, but the powers that be keep it suppressed because its one of those 'cat out of the bag' techs which automatically come packaged with the keys to unifying theory, general enlightenment, free love and a complimentary desert topping in one of five fabulous flavors. -Based, some suggest, on a brand of harmonics and vibrational energy manipulation.
Far flung and hard to corroborate? Sure. -Especially with the garbage info we have fed to us through television and media. --Especially Televison. (Ah. . . The warm, safe voice of the scientist we were all weened on and now subconsciously trust with all our hearts ever since Mom first plunked us down in front of the T.V. "What Will They Think Of Next!")
But you can get some clues by watching the fear impulse reactions of the Evil Empire. -Look how the media is spending so much time and energy recently to ridicule, obfuscate and litter with B.S. 'Learning Channel' science/history propaganda the whole question of ancient origins and alternate histories, of which Big Lego Blocks in Egypt are an integral part. I mean, they're even pulling out the big guns; Disney just dumped a retarded Atlantis film into the waters just to muddy them up further. Gads! (I should probably watch that damned thing, just to see the exact mechanics of the mind-twist of public collective awareness, but I'm not sure I can bring myself to blow $11 on Hollywood. ..)
-Not that the media is knowingly applying the cover-up, mind you. But from all indicators and everything I've read, seen and done, it appears extremely easy for the powers that be to make people do and say pretty much anything without Jack getting wise.
Anyway, the whole question of what is and isn't depicted in Hieroglyphs is kind of pointless. They may not have hieroglyphs of tuning fork guys playing with kites on mud ramps, but neither did they have pictures of people doing a whole bunch of things which were surely common back then. I think it's important to remember that hieroglyphs are an icon based language. While I don't claim to be able to read 'Egyptian,' I suspect that any such written language with a finite alphabet can be made to communicate more complex ideas through icon combinations.
--Fantastic Lad -- For Entertainment Purposes Only! Enlightenment Optional.
It occurred to me; Phantom Mucus didn't just suck. It sucked in ways which benefit certain parties. . .
I wonder if Lucas was 'Reprogrammed,' by the Committee For Dumber Sheep, (who think you should watch more television, buy more crap, work longer hours, and generally be a malleable brain-mush slave upon whose back the gravy train of the rich and powerful rides.)
See. . . The new Star Wars film had the potential in these difficult times to raise people's awareness as to the workings of Good & Evil. Moreover, it could have added much weight to the current popularization of Eastern magic and philosophy.
The general message of the first three Star Wars films was that Big Soulless Selfish Technology destroys life, and here's how and why you can weaken and defeat it. Do not give into the Dark Side. --An excellent message which was lost beneath a sea of lame which was the new film, ignored by everybody who counts in the adult world, and made retarded to the point that even a child would miss the point.
Yeah. I think they Greenbaumed Lucas. Or just plain replaced him. --I mean, we're talking about a guy who once understood certain deep principals of life and story-telling suddenly allowing his company which once stood for high standards of both creativity and morality to turn into a runaway greed machine. Taco-Hell, for goodness sake! (Selling merchandising rights to the highest bidder rather than standing by old relationships. I knew the film would suck the second I saw Jar Jar's retarded mug on the side of KFC!)
Personally, I can't wait for the DVD's of Star Wars to Jedi come out. Then I'll take my Laserdisk copies and cut them together with the DVD's, and chop out all the garbage from the new releases. Ahh. . . Color corrected and improved Star Wars, but without a dumb-ass hand puppet monster in the sand pit. And no Luke screaming on the way down. . .
First off, you believe in the peer review system. Hint: If there is any funny business going on, (and there is), with Cell Phone companies, who have all the money, government support, advertising, (much of the Cell market is owned by media conglomerates), and thus the ability to hire and sway the scientific community, then any official peer review system is going to be suspect.
Pardon me while I quote myself: (No need to write these things twice when the flawed premise I'm addressing is the same!):
It is widely acknowledged that the peer review system in the scientific community is hugely subject to bias and even corruption based on status, favoritism and funding concerns. How likely are old scientists who have spent their lives supporting one theory, who have investors pouring millions into said theory, who have their egos tied up with the same theory. . . how likely is it that they are going to immediately support an opposing view point which might reduce their status, livelihood and sense of self-worth? And in the case of Very Big Business which is the Cell Phone market, the problem is further aggravated. --I've read papers which have received huge funding from governments and arms of Telecommunications giants which spent huge sums of money to buy names and discredit some of the very studies I quoted above. These kinds of problems have hampered the advancement of science for centuries in one form or another. Personally, I really LIKE the fact that the internet allows me to read papers which would otherwise never get published, because it allows me to form my own opinions.
I suggest you read through some of the self-published material in order to form your own opinions too, rather than base your beliefs on biased popularity contests. It's important to think for yourself.
I haven't been programmed by PR monkeys. I measure the effects and perform checks on Base stations for a job. I have been doing it for 10 years, sometimes in RF fields a lot greater that Cellular base stations.
The simple fact that you hold this job without actually knowing or even caring about any effects which your employers tell you are not worth worrying about means you have been programmed. Period.
Think for yourself rather than trying to maintain a worry-free attitude through denial. Remember, in the long run, it makes no difference to me. --I've offered you enough ideas here to get you started. Where you go from here is up to you. I would recommend a thorough review of what you know, and that you initiate your own investigations into the matter. But if you want to go back to sleep, that's your choice too.
It's up to you. Personally, I think denial is fundamentally self-defeating and unworthy of any respect. But that's just my opinion. Good luck and goodbye.
First of all, rats ain't people. Has anyone done these studies on people? It shouldn't be hard to give cell phones to 100 college students, have them talk on them for one hour, and then test their short term memory vs. a group which talked on a land-line phone for an hour. Memory tests would be trivial; dye injection is a bit trickier, but could be done. The fact that this research isn't out there is highly suspect. It's the first thing I thought of, and I don't do this for a living.
No, rats are not people, but labratory animals have been used extensively for many years by the scientific community for a variety of reasons, one of the primary being that it is possible to completely regulate an animal's environment thus reducing their exposure to 'random noise stimuli', such as differences in diet, air, light, sound, sleep conditions, etc. To control all of these elements in a group of 100 college students, and thus make an experiment 'clean' would be extremely expensive. To dispense with these factors and not make the experiment clean, (allowing the kids to eat, drink, sleep as much or as little as they want during the test period), would reduce the experiment to the level of a standard statistics measurement; and everybody knows how little stock people put into statistics.
In any case, if rats are being affected by EM, then it should certainly raise concerns for humans. To discount such findings simply because "rats ain't people," is evidence of very closed thinking.
Secondly, some of this data is seriously old. #4 is from 1982. It was self-published (Via the SUNY-Albany press), not published in a peer-reviewed journal. The peer-review process might have its problems, but I trust it a heck of a lot more than some guy who publishes stuff on his own.
'Old' does not mean 'useless.' This is a concept hammered into people by a society driven by commercialism. It should not apply to scientific meathod, especially when the data comes from experiments which, when you read up on them, were well documented and valid in their execution.
As for self-published work. . .
I have less problem with this than I do with material which IS peer-reviewed by the current system. It is widely acknowledged that the peer review system in the scientific community is hugely subject to bias and even corruption based on status, favoritism and funding concerns. How likely are old scientists who have spent their lives supporting one theory, who have investors pouring millions into said theory, who have their egos tied up with the same theory. . . how likely is it that they are going to immediately support an opposing view point which might reduce their status, livelihood and sense of self-worth? And in the case of Very Big Business which is the Cell Phone market, the problem is further aggravated. --I've read papers which have received huge funding from governments and arms of Telecommunications giants which spent huge sums of money to buy names and discredit some of the very studies I quoted above. These kinds of problems have hampered the advancement of science for centuries in one form or another. Personally, I really LIKE the fact that the internet allows me to read papers which would otherwise never get published, because it allows me to form my own opinions.
I suggest you read through some of the self-published material in order to form your own opinions too, rather than base your beliefs on biased popularity contests. It's important to think for yourself.
#5 is from 1974 in a Warsaw Bloc country. I have no idea what sort of review it would have undergone, and I have no idea how valid its methods are. Unless you read Polish, I don't think you know what it says, either.
Granted, the Polish information is in Polish, and readers must rely on translations and interpretations, but I would not necessarily discount it just because of these reasons.
In any case, these are all just starting points; not things to take without question. But the whole exercise is pointless if you discount them out of hand without doing any of your own research. Denial is easy, and dangerous.
Please pardon my harsh wording. It only puts backs up. However, I was not talking about cancer.
Here's some info for you to chew on if you're interested. . .
Following are points from a number of studies.
Lab rats were found to have their short term memory impaired after being exposed to electromagnetic radiation (EM) at frequencies and amplitudes common in portable phones, markedly affecting their performance in a maze after 1 hour/day periods of EM exposure. In a second experiment designed to measure the time needed to complete a maze task, it was estimated that exposed animals required approximately one third more time than the control rats. {1}
Using an apparatus which tested for object recognition, researchers found that exposed rats suffered observable memory loss after EM radiation exposure. This test was done in 1994 specifically testing the effects of portable phones. {2}
The blood-brain barrier in test animals is made permeable to foriegn substances in the blood which would not normally be allowed to pass through brain cell walls. This, according to one group of researchers, was discovered when dye was injected into the blood stream of test rats and found to be absorbed by brain cells in exposed rats after twenty minutes, but not by those in the unexposed control group.{3}
The general effect of EM on the endochrine system, (the system of glands throughout the body, including the adrenal, thyroid and pancreatic among others,) is also noteworthy. The results from a variety of studies were lengthy and, frankly, difficult to briefly document as it seems different glands react to different frequencies and power levels in a wide variety of ways, sometimes having opposite effects simply by changing the pulse rate of a given wave form. Research only scratches the surface, and it seems that the potential for further study is enormous. Essentially, EM radiation as emitted from Cell Phones, pagers, wireless computer hardware and computer monitors does a wide range of strange things to the human body. One researcher simply summed up the overall effect of EM on the glandular system as resulting in, 'general stress disorder'. {4}
Delta Wave sleep patterns of test subjects were found to be inhibited after regular exposure, (one hour per day), to frequencies and power levels commonly emitted from computer monitors and in other tests, higher frequency portable phones. {5}
--With a drive for faster, cheaper and higher power wireless digital equipment, the general public might be well advised to remain cautious of the possible health hazards associated with the increased use of microwave active devices.
In the few instances where the large telecommunications companies have been challenged regarding the safety of their products, it is interesting to note that their public relations stances have been remarkably similar to those once commonly employed by the cigarette industry concerning tobacco use. It will be interesting to observe the direction and ultimate outcome of these trends.
References:
1. Henry Lai, 1998. Neurological effects of radio frequency electromagnetic radiation Presented to the Workshop on possible biological and health effects of RF electromagnetic fields. Project team: Mobile Phones and Health, Symposium, October 25-28, 1998, University of Vienna, Austria. http://pages.britishlibrary.net/orange/henrylai.ht m
2. James C. Lin, 2000. Effects of microwave and mobile telephone exposure on memory and memory processes. University of Illinois, Chicago, IL, USA http://www.eecs.uic.edu/eecspeople/lin_ieee42_3.ht m
3. Frey A.H., Feld S, Frey B. Neural function and behavior: defining the relationship. Ann NY Acad Sci 247:433-438
4. Dr. Robert Becker & Dr. Andrew Marino paper, "Electromagnetism & Life" http://www.ortho.lsumc.edu/Faculty/Marino/EL/ELTOC.html
5. Drumanskiy, Yu.D., Sandala, M.G. 1974. The biologic action and hygenic significance of electromagnetic fields of superhigh and ultrahigh frequencies in densely populated areas. In Biologic effects and health hazards of microwave radiation, p. 289. Warsaw: Polish Medical Publishers.
While connections to Cancer have been found to be tenuous in many tests, short term exposure to Cell Phone Radiation has been found to have significant impact upon other aspects of the mind and body.
Following are points from a number of studies.
Lab rats were found to have their short term memory impaired after being exposed to electromagnetic radiation (EM) at frequencies and amplitudes common in portable phones, markedly affecting their performance in a maze after 1 hour/day periods of EM exposure. In a second experiment designed to measure the time needed to complete a maze task, it was estimated that exposed animals required approximately one third more time than the control rats. {1}
Using an apparatus which tested for object recognition, researchers found that exposed rats suffered observable memory loss after EM radiation exposure. This test was done in 1994 specifically testing the effects of portable phones. {2}
The blood-brain barrier in test animals is made permeable to foriegn substances in the blood which would not normally be allowed to pass through brain cell walls. This, according to one group of researchers, was discovered when dye was injected into the blood stream of test rats and found to be absorbed by brain cells in exposed rats after twenty minutes, but not by those in the unexposed control group.{3}
The general effect of EM on the endochrine system, (the system of glands throughout the body, including the adrenal, thyroid and pancreatic among others,) is also noteworthy. The results from a variety of studies were lengthy and, frankly, difficult to briefly document as it seems different glands react to different frequencies and power levels in a wide variety of ways, sometimes having opposite effects simply by changing the pulse rate of a given wave form. Research only scratches the surface, and it seems that the potential for further study is enormous. Essentially, EM radiation as emitted from Cell Phones, pagers, wireless computer hardware and computer monitors does a wide range of strange things to the human body. One researcher simply summed up the overall effect of EM on the glandular system as resulting in, 'general stress disorder'. {4}
Delta Wave sleep patterns of test subjects were found to be inhibited after regular exposure, (one hour per day), to frequencies and power levels commonly emitted from computer monitors and in other tests, higher frequency portable phones. {5}
--With a drive for faster, cheaper and higher power wireless digital equipment, the general public might be well advised to remain cautious of the possible health hazards associated with the increased use of microwave active devices.
In the few instances where the large telecommunications companies have been challenged regarding the safety of their products, it is interesting to note that their public relations stances have been remarkably similar to those once commonly employed by the cigarette industry concerning tobacco use. It will be interesting to observe the direction and ultimate outcome of these trends.
References:
1. Henry Lai, 1998. Neurological effects of radio frequency electromagnetic radiation Presented to the Workshop on possible biological and health effects of RF electromagnetic fields. Project team: Mobile Phones and Health, Symposium, October 25-28, 1998, University of Vienna, Austria. http://pages.britishlibrary.net/orange/henrylai.ht m
2. James C. Lin, 2000. Effects of microwave and mobile telephone exposure on memory and memory processes. University of Illinois, Chicago, IL, USA http://www.eecs.uic.edu/eecspeople/lin_ieee42_3.ht m
3. Frey A.H., Feld S, Frey B. Neural function and behavior: defining the relationship. Ann NY Acad Sci 247:433-438
4. Dr. Robert Becker & Dr. Andrew Marino paper, "Electromagnetism & Life" http://www.ortho.lsumc.edu/Faculty/Marino/EL/ELTOC.html
5. Drumanskiy, Yu.D., Sandala, M.G. 1974. The biologic action and hygenic significance of electromagnetic fields of superhigh and ultrahigh frequencies in densely populated areas. In Biologic effects and health hazards of microwave radiation, p. 289. Warsaw: Polish Medical Publishers.
If it's not, then you have a severe case of radio-controled-good-little-zombie.
But hey. It's your choice to not think, if that's really what you want. I'd try the alternative just for one week before making such a huge decision, though.
It's a shame that most people live and die without ever realizing that there is even a decision to be made.
I don't think it's possible to keep TV out of one's life without great effort.
When I moved in with my current room mates, we all decided that we wanted life without TV. It makes perfect sense. Save money and have more hours to live in. Be like the people with lives that everybody watches on TV. Hooray. We expressed this desire to our landlord who lives in the basement. He said, "Yeah. I made the same decision a year ago, called up the cable company and told them to disconnect me. This was surprisingly difficult; they argued and it actually took arm twisting. But they finally sent a guy who chopped the cable and took me off their billing computer. --Except. . . The cable which got chopped was an old and already disconnected one. So now we still get fifty or so channels and don't pay a cent."
So we don't pay for cable, we don't want cable, but there is just enough TV addiction still in the blood that we don't make that final call to have the free cable disconnected.
My opinion:
The Evil Empire wants people plugged in to the brain-wash box for more reasons than simple profit. The only people who have trouble getting cable are the ones who are already brainwashed, and who will eventually plug back in of their own accord. I'm willing to bet that if you really don't want cable, you'll find weird situations like mine pop up in your own life. It's all about mind-control. I honestly believe this.
Of course, most people call me crazy. Problem is, the people who say this are miserable, confused and bitter most of the time. --Whereas I am happy, healthy, well adjusted, sure of myself, and I have lots of friends who all wonder how I do it.
It's dead simple; the only drawback is that the status quo accuses you of being crazy.
Hint: That status quo are wrong. They have been imprisoned in a thousand different ways. You can't break free until you see the bars and learn how to laugh at them.
But there's reasonable risk and then there's unreasonable. And Cell Phone irradiaion is a risk which has been 'chosen' society-wide by the underinformed. --More accurately, it was chosen for us by the telecommunications industry. (How DID we manage to get along before without Cell Phones?)
The fact of the matter is that the dangers of Cell Phone EM are known to all the major players, but are not reported.
Second. I use a land line, and I won't be buying into any Blue Tooth technology. But that doesn't mean I won't be radiated constantly by ignorant 'risk-takers' all around me. And when Blue Tooth becomes standard, just try getting a job in a non-EM toxic building.
Your 'whatever' attitude and embracing of general ignorance may serve to reduce your own worry, but I think society could be managed much more responsibly.
So pardon me for making you 'sick and tired' with 'crazy' extremism. Just because you like to swallow the lies and live a manipulated life doesn't mean everybody else is content to do so.
"You need to relax.... All mobile phones do is emit radio waves, If there was a problem with high power radio waves why aren't there loads of cancer ridded people around TV broadcasting towers which have an output of 1000000 Watts at a similar frequency to the phone(around 820MHz in UK). These towers have been around for at least 50 years. Your GSM mobile phone emits a tiny 1.25W. This is closer to your head but the the thermal effects are nothing( about 0.1 C) People have been getting cancer for a long time when there was no phones, powerline etc."
The reason broadcast towers don't affect the whole population is that their effect drops geometrically with distance. Come on. You KNOW that.
Second. Broadcast towers DO have an affect on those within a certain radius. The American Government, despite its support of the telecommunications industry, even recommends that people stay a minimum distance away from Cell Phone broadcast arrays.
Third. Cell Phone broadcast stations are EVERYWHERE. If you live in a top floor apartment and there's a Cell tower on the roof, you're being radiated in unhealthy ways.
Fourth. Theremal effects are NOT the issue. The human body and nervous system is electrochemical in nature; you are 70% electrolyte for goodness sake. If you think that you are unaffected by EM radiation, you have done no proper research or have otherwise been well programmed by the P.R. monkeys. There are a bunch of studies which describe a whole mess of different, creepy effects caused by low level exposure to Cell Phone EM, from handsets. --Everything from short term memory impairment, retardation of object recognition skills, to brain cells becoming permeable to foriegn substances in the blood, to the body's endochrine system of various glands being messed up in countless ways, (the overal effect of which reserchers described simply as causing, 'General Stress Disorder.').
Just because you happen to love technology doesn't mean it loves you back. Denial may be sweet, but it'll also turn your brain into mush.
"The mobile phone you have been using these past few years, is most likely safer than all the televisions your family have been watching through the past decades."
You've been bought and sold.
Do the bloody research. It's all out there. It only takes an evening or two.
Cell phone radiation messes you, the lab rats, and everybody else who uses them right up.
I did some research on EM. For every time the term 'Cell Phone' pops up, replace with 'Wireless device.'
After an early flurry of concerns during the mid Nineties about the impact of microwave Cell Phone radiation on public health, interest in the topic seemed to vanish during the late nineties and early years of the third millennium. Interestingly, this trend continued despite numerous studies in various countries which found that Cell Phone radiation had many unexpected effects upon biological systems. While connections to Cancer were found to be tenuous, short term exposure to Cell Phone Radiation was found to have significant impact upon other aspects of the mind and body.
Following are points from a number of studies.
Lab rats were found to have their short term memory impaired after being exposed to radiation at frequencies and amplitudes common in portable phones, markedly affecting their performance in a maze after 1 hour/day periods of EM exposure. In a second experiment designed to measure the time needed to complete a maze task, it was estimated that exposed animals required approximately one third more time than the control rats. {2}
A study by another lab, using an apparatus which tested for object recognition, it was found that exposed rats suffered observable memory loss after EM radiation exposure. This test was done in 1994 specifically testing the effects of portable phones. {3}
The blood-brain barrier in test animals is made permeable to foriegn substances in the blood which would not normally be allowed to pass through the cell walls of brain cells. This, according to one group of researchers, was discovered in a test where dye was injected into the blood stream of test animals and found to be absorbed by brain cells in exposed rats after twenty minutes, but not by those in the unexposed control group.{4}
The general effect of EM on the endochrine system, (the system of glands throughout the body, including the adrenal, thyroid and pancreatic among others,) is also noteworthy. The results from a variety of studies were lengthy and, frankly, difficult to briefly document as it seems different glands react to different frequencies and power levels in a wide variety of ways, sometimes having opposite effects simply by changing the pulse rate of a given wave form. Research only scratches the surface, and it seems that the potential for further study is enormous.
Essentially, EM radiation as spit from Cell Phones, pagers, wireless computer hardware and computer monitors does a whole mess of strange things to the human body. One researcher simply summed up the overall effect of EM on the glandular system as resulting in, 'general stress disorder'. {5}
Delta Wave sleep patterns of test subjects were found to be inhibited after regular exposure, (one hour per day), to frequencies and power levels commonly emitted from computer monitors and in other tests, higher frequency portable phones. {5-2}
--With a drive for faster, cheaper and higher power wireless digital equipment, the general public might be well advised to be remain cautious of the possible health hazards associated with the increased use microwave active devices and take measures to avoid unnecessary exposure.
In the few instances where the large telecommunications companies have been challenged regarding the safety of their products, it is interesting to note that their public relations stances have been remarkably similar to those once employed by the cigarette industry concerning tobacco use. It will be interesting to observe the direction and ultimate outcome of these trends.
References:
2. Henry Lai, 1998. Neurological effects of radio frequency electromagnetic radiation" Presented to the Workshop on possible biological and health effects of RF electromagnetic fields. Project team: Mobile Phones and Health, Symposium, October 25-28, 1998, University of Vienna, Austria. http://pages.britishlibrary.net/orange/henrylai.ht m
3. James C. Lin, 2000. Effects of microwave and mobile telephone exposure on memory and memory processes. University of Illinois, Chicago, IL, USA http://www.eecs.uic.edu/eecspeople/lin_ieee42_3.ht m
4. Frey A.H., Feld S, Frey B. Neural function and behavior: defining the relationship. Ann NY Acad Sci 247:433-438
5. Dr. Robert Becker & Dr. Andrew Marino paper, "Electromagnetism & Life"
http://www.ortho.lsumc.edu/Faculty/Marino/EL/ELTOC.html
5-2. Drumanskiy, Yu.D., Sandala, M.G. 1974. The biologic action and hygenic significance of electromagnetic fields of superhigh and ultrahigh frequencies in densely populated areas. In Biologic effects and health hazards of microwave radiation, p. 289. Warsaw: Polish Medical Publishers.
I don't know specifics about the U.K. situation, but there are huge concentration camps set aside in the U.S., just waiting for the people to fill them when the day comes.
Put your programming aside for an afternoon, open up your mind, (tough, I know,) and do some Google research. Start with, "Denver Airport". That's an excellent 'on-ramp' because all the many creepy assertions are entirely verifiable and the questions raised by them have answers of vast import.
While you may live in the U.K., it is entirely foolish to believe that you are not affected, or that the negative perception of population control is merely a 'cultural thing' specific to any one region. There is a great deal of evidence to suggest that the world is on the cusp of an enormous, planned tragedy.
Dig until it hurts. Don't be a 'Blue Pill' piece of live-stock. Knowledge Protects.
-Fantastic Lad -He's just crazy, right guys? Guys?
After reading through the posts here and finding that 90% of them were just repetitve slags of Slashdot stories, I have come to the conclusion that many of the posters out there either:
A) Take life WAY too seriously, or,
B) Find a great deal of pleasure in being able to attack, kill and destroy anybody or anything which slides under the percieved 'coolness' radar for even a microsecond. Sheesh. Did you get beat up a lot when you were kids, or what?
Slashdot isn't your bread and butter. It's something you read for distraction. The Internet is just a big silly video game and any 'News' about it is equally non-life threatening. Life won't end if you can't play an MP3 or watch a stupid movie or chat with your mates in Australia via email.
I for one enjoy pondering hypothetical questions, and I am willing to bet that practically every last person out there slagging this site has spent hundreds of hours in highschool hallways talking about exactly that kind of shit.
Don't be such a bunch of tight-ass jerks. Life is fun!
Anyway, interfacing alien with human technology is a moot point. If aliens want to install devices on this planet with human help, they'd simply get us to build the hardware ourselves based on physical concepts which, even if we hadn't come upon them yet ourselves, will remain standard no matter which part of the universe you hail from. We'd just build the stuff with appropriate interfaces for human useage. Read up on Montauk and the Philadelphia experiment to see an example of how it works.
Also, oral language is easy enough to learn when you can communicate through psychic means to establish common bearings. No big deal.
Remember: This isn't Star Trek. They're here to kill us. It's organized and it's smart and it's effective, and they've done it countless times before. And aliens are only a piece of the over-all scenario. There's a ton of frightful weirdness on the way, and it's all going to hit between 1 and 12 years from now. So do what you can to get your shit together, because all the rules are about to change. In the words of Henry Rollins; "Relax. Be Drinkable."
Fantastic Lad --That arrogant fuck isn't serious, is he? Wow. Glad I'm not messed in the head like that!
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As my friends may know, I had very high hopes for this film. Indeed, it was the only film I was going to pay for this summer.
Wow.
We've lost another one.
Much like Lucas, Kevin's brain appears to have melted as well.
What a lousy, LOUSY film. One giant, vulgar joke. It made me wince to see how he managed to get so many cool names throughout Hollywood to make cameo appearances; he burned up all the positive Karma he'd earned with his first films in 98 minutes. What a terrible shame.
All the good stuff I've come to expect from Smith was missing; the lucid & witty observations about society and culture made from an X-Gen perspective contained within impossibly clever dialogue. Totally gone. It was all just retarded sex-humor and Muppet style physical gags which serve only to widen the gap between real world observations and hokey magic land bullshit film making. It made Dumb & Dumber look like pure genius. Heck, that fucking nothing film had a plot, direction and sense of balance. This thing was just self-congratulatory and juvenile.
I really hope Kevin can get past this turkey, because I suspect that he's not actually been replaced by a pod-person; he's just a guy who made a terrible misjudgement and is now probably feeling about as low as it's possible to feel.
Anyway, what I heard after seeing the film was that despite some initially promising screen tests, it ran into some really bad tests. In a last minute panic, they bumped it from opening on Wednesday as planned to opening Friday, providing less time for word of mouth to travel before the big weekend cash grab.
So much for movies this year. At least we got the Cohen brother's film, so it wasn't a total waste. (Or was that last year. . ? Hmm. .
-Fantastic Lad -Dazed and Ill from bad film Ju-Ju.
I guess Jason and Kevin will be knocking on my door anytime now. Except I know Lad-Fu.
According to a number of sources I won't disclose, (thank you very much), you-know-who has been using crstl mtrix technology for years in computers and, more importantly, for power storage, (enough to drive not only computers but vehicles and other gear.)
Knowing the way this crap goes, we'll probably have to wait about 10 years for crstl mtrix technology to be 'developed' into something both useful and available to the public. And who knows to what level you-know-who will have advanced at that point.
Ahh! The bullshit parade. "Oooh! Look at the wonderful science news! None of this has anything to do with mass manipulation & slave-nation control! The power structures of the world really DO have the best interests of the public at heart! Ah, plug me into the Discovery channel, my sweet, sweet opiate would never lie to me, would they?"
Mind you, I still think Slashdot is really cool. Despite the idiot flamers and general naivete, this site allows for actual communication to take place. It allows for the possibility of information dissemination and comparison. And assholes like me to whisper periodically. . .
-Fantastic Lad; Loud AND Annoying!
Sad but true.
Well, almost.
Waking up from the beast doesn't automatically eject one a-la 'Matrix'.
Going cold-turkey is rarely the recommended meathod of breaking an addiction. Instead, you do it in stages
For starters, over the last three years I have. . .
Gotten rid of my evil car. Quit my evil sales job and got a much lower paying job, working maybe 15-20 hours a week. (Fixing computers & tutoring ESL students.) We stopped eating mass-produced meat products last year. (Mostly veg now, with free range meat produce now and again. I feel much healthier, BTW. The pundits were right!) I don't buy anything I don't need or can't make myself. Cancelled the cable subscription. (OMYGOD-WHAT-A-DIFFERENCE!) It's SO much nicer to actually TALK with friends and room mates; to play Scrabble and D&D type games. To socialize rather than stare at a fucking CRT.
We ditched the air conditioner this summer. (Really no need. A little summer weather never killed anybody!) We wore sweaters and thick socks last winter. Our power & gas consumption dropped significantly. Plus, over the last year, we've managed to get our household trash output (four adults) down from two garbage bins per week to less than one half. (We got a big composter for the backyard.) And this fall, I start donating time to a community center.
The end result is that I consume a LOT less, contribute a LOT less garbage, have a LOT more free time, feel a LOT healthier/happier, and have more friends than ever before. And weirdly, even though my income has dropped to a quarter of what it once was, I still somehow seem to have more than enough money for everything I need or want to do. (When you stop consuming crap, life gets a hundred times cheaper). All in all, I'm mighty glad I got fed up and decided to make a change before I became another fat, miserable & confused loser in corporate land. If anybody had told me five years back that life could be this good I would have laughed in their face.
But, yeah, while we're still in the land of milk & honey, and while there is still a lot one can do, if everybody in my city decided to start living this way, I can't help but think that the world would be a MUCH better place.
Wierdly enough, the internet is one of the few resources which I find still holds a great deal of merit. But with a Linksys router and one DSL connection split between four people, high speed internet only costs me $10 a month. Life is SO good. And while it takes an extra effort, making the decision to find and live with room mates, rather than feel forced into that life style makes life very good. My roomies have become some of the best and most caring friends I've ever had. The whole illusion that people are greedy and stupid and impossible to live with is, I'm certain, something which is programmed into us by those who would rather we all live seperate from one another and consume to feel good rather than simply be good people. But you can break through propagandized bullshit and turn back the social clock to where small communities were warm and wonderful things. I've been living with the proof of that for nearly two years now.
Not only can it be done, but it's a helluva lot easier than you might think. The only thing to overcome is the fear of change.
-Fantastic Lad
I hate the spew of AOL/Time-Warner, etc.
But neither can I stand the bullshit spewed by moron sites like Seanbaby. I don't care about silly news items or about honing a youthful irreverent attitude toward popular media.
Whether it's "culture", or "counter-culture", it's still the same light-weight, glittery awareness-lowering, brain-decaying garbage that everybody is running around paying way too much attention to.
I don't give a rat's ass about Aquaman or Bart-fucking-Simpson or the 'Family Guy' anymore than I do about the latest CNN mis-information propaganda.
It's all just material generated by the same zombie assholes who want everybody to work 10 hour days, eat too many food additives and continue raping the Earth in order to produce more stupid & useless shit. To extend the greed and suffering to all new levels.
Culture on this landmass is less than a complete fucking joke. It's a mind-control program deluxe.
Seanbaby is almost worse than AOL; Those who think they're somehow breaking free of the program through a "counter-culture" response, are only re-enforcing their participation by regurgitating the same old shit by way of a subroutine designed to capture all the sheep who fall through the cracks and threaten to maybe maybe wake up.
The only true rebellion is to cut the umbilical cord altogether. There's a whole world out here. . .
-Fantastic Lad The most half-awake Lad of them all!
As far as I'm concerned, single player FPS games got boring after Dark Forces. (Possibly the most amazing FPS ever made.) --Dark Forces was fun was because you got to be in Star Wars, shoot a blaster with Ben Burt sound effects, and take down storm troopers after they bark over their crackly com links, "There he is! Get him!". (Too bad the Star Wars feel got polluted with misplaced James Cameron Terminator stuff. . , but that's another story. The first mission of that game was the coolest damn thing I ever saw! I was thinking, "Oh no! I MUST capture those Death Star plans! The Resistence; heck, super-babe of the entire male X-Gen youth, Princess Leia herself, is counting on me!)
Damn, that was a good game. And no saves between levels. That's what fun is all about!
Anyway, Half Life was also sort of neat. Finally somebody did something semi-worthwhile with the whole X-Files bullshit parade. --Although, the game made the entire American military look like a bunch of poorly trained retards. . . "Forget Freeman! That geek boy is just too good for our armor plated super-trained asses! Run for your lives!" But that's just a bit of weak writing; the rest of it was engaging, --Although, I could have done with about 10 fewer levels of endless weird-space or wherever the heck all that boring alien bullshit was taking place.
But Quake? Hell, ID, in general. . . Is it just me or is Carmack and his team of CRT radiated white & pasty code monkeys members of the Todd McFarlane jar-headed "Cuz, demons are like, fuckin' cool," posse? Give me a break already. What's with this obsession with demonic nonsense, anyway? It isn't frightening, it isn't interesting, and the fabled Quake 'atmosphere' just makes me feel I've got slime on my boots, hands and elbows. Ooh. Fun. Slime. Honestly! Why would anybody want to spend their free gaming time crawling around in drippy torture chamber hallways? I bet even the undead hate their digs, which would explain their foul tempers.
To ID: Either come up with an aesthetic which isn't loaded down with painfully obvious Freudian highschool washroom references, or go live in the sewers with the rest of the fricking Morlocks.
Sheesh.
Lad out.
Fantastic Lad - The most opinionated Lad of the all!"
Anyway, it be great to have one of those things. I mean, all you have to do is make it visible to the naked eye when it fires and you've got yourself a real-life phaser, there cowboy!
Too bad that only the evil empire has them.
Ah well. Hopefully they'll be easy enough to build in my basement from an electronics hobby magazine and some spare parts.
Imagine. . . Being able to invisibly & non-lethally zap anybody in a kilometer range. Damn. The world could get really stupid if this kind of tech ain't vapor. I mean, screw paint ball! Though if this tech is only becoming available now, (i.e. it's ancient history), imagine the crazy shit they currently have with which they can drop you at a thousand yards. (How many of us already have chips in our heads? I wonder. Beep beep.)
Whatever.
A Lazy Saturday afternoon. . .
-Fantastic Lad
This way I don't have to waste precious moments of my life on the irritating task of coming up with fake names and info with which to sign on to the NY Times reader's list.
(Screw them and their opt-in database. They can data-mine like everybody else.)
-Fantastic Lad; The most irritating Lad of them all!
With the kind of cut and pastery of the post above, I can skim the world press.
This combined with the few advertising clips seen on television allows me to not have to pay money for and (sic) actually watch what appears to be yet another a lousy, lazy, over-produced piece of shit in a long, long string of Hollywood moronics in action.
Thank you, Slashdot!
The only good films this summer, I expect will be the new Kevin Smith production, and possibly possibly the new Tolkien thing.
Here's to hoping!
-Fantastic Lad.
The best film I've enjoyed recently is the Phantom Edit; not because it's especially good, but because it makes me feel empowered. I can't wait for the DVD release, so that the film might be further repaired!
Ugh. I was hoping nobody would waste band-width with that lame logic, but I guess I'll deal with it:
Nanotech is massively inferior to the living micro-organisms which already populate the world.
Nanotech is all about micro-robotics; manipulating the world through kinetics. KINETICS. Little motors running little legs and pincers. Not. . , I repeat, NOT molecule modifying enzymes and chemicals. I seriously doubt that tiny metalic bugs with microscopic CanadaArms are going to to be able to unlock atoms which have been covalently bonded to other atoms. If you can't pull apart a diamond with your fingers, then how can you expect a robotic bug to have any better luck?
Now, Bio-engineering. . , that's a whole other ball of wax. Biotech is powerful. Nanotech is just the retarded younger brother which will never catch up to the millions of years of evolution which brought us living things.
All I'm saying is that little tiny robots are going to be far more limited in their power and application than popular fiction suggests. -Sorry to dash the hopes and dreams, (saccharine delusions), of a wonder/terror-world future based on nano-tech, cuz it's just plain dumb and misdirected. There are far more important things going on!
Why the heck can't geeks just get over their inferiority complexes and face the fact that the world around us right now is already massively complex and that it is the one we ought to concentrate on living in? Digital is a powerful tool at best and a hallucinogenic false hope at worst.
Remember your Star Wars: The Dark Path is always easier.
Learn to manipulate reality; not a bunch of ones and zeros, or you'll end up looking all pasty like the Emperor.
-Fantastic Lad
I mean. . . Building a car out of a pile of rocks? Don't think so. Cars are made from certain elements which a pile of rocks just can't provide no matter how smart your nanotech is. Plus. . . I haven't read, 'Diamond Age', (Snow Crash was more than enough lousy, nihilistic story telling B.S. for me.), but I understand one of the main principles Neal was pushing was that things in the future would be built primarily out of diamond.
Please. Nanites will be able to stuff on the molecular level? I mean, stacking all those carbon atoms one at a time just so. . . Give me a break. That would require robot pincers FAR smaller than the scale nanites are projected to be constructed at. Think about it! If the smallest transistor you can get is one molecule big, and you need several thousand just to make a nanite brain, then the nanite itself is going to be a behemoth by comparison to a single carbon atom.
Plus, nanites will still have to navigate around the treacherous micro terrain. We can barely build robots today that can handle a stupid backyard 'Mars Terrain' without some serious human assistance. And our backyards aren't filled with antibodies and other same-sized life forms looking to kill stuff.
Argh! And another thing. . ! One nanite Will Not be able to build another nanite. -That's like suggesting that a backhoe can build another backhoe. Retarded. Maybe a bunch of different nanites all working together, being fed all the right elements and micro lego bricks, will be able build a machine which can build nanites. Maybe. But that's a whole other proposition.
The basis of most Nanotech dreams/nightmares is that the technology will prove to be self-sustaining and unstoppable. Nonsense! (See above.) Sure, nanotech will probably work, but I doubt it will instantly transform humanity into something utterly unrecognizable. Nanites are just going to be another dumb technology which costs too much and won't work reliably without a ton of tech support. --Like every other stupid high-tech product or service in the world. (Cars. Phones. Airplanes. You name it. Pull people out of the equation, and everything grinds to a halt.)
Nanotech is not a panacea. Plus, if it works right, guaranteed, it won't work in the favor of the public.
Fantastic Lad
--Stephenson started out as a bloody Mac-user. Think about it! Mac-users are the least creative & intuitive people on the planet. --I mean, they drive the new Volkswagon Bugs and think they're being cool. Yeesh!
There are a variety of peculiar bits and pieces of construction mystery.
While the kite theory is exceptionally cool, it doesn't strike me as terribly likely.
Slaves. Hired help. Honored help. (All using Mud Ramps.) Doesn't look like it.
Aliens?
Weirdly enough, I don't think it was those creepy grey bastards either. I mean, the aliens accused of abducting people today helping pharos build pyramids yesterday? Explain them politics. (I say weirdly, because I think there's some weight to alien theory in other arenas; --that and people think I'm weird as a general rule.)
The idea I find most interesting states that the technology used to construct ancient Big Stone Monuments is in fact available today, but the powers that be keep it suppressed because its one of those 'cat out of the bag' techs which automatically come packaged with the keys to unifying theory, general enlightenment, free love and a complimentary desert topping in one of five fabulous flavors. -Based, some suggest, on a brand of harmonics and vibrational energy manipulation.
Far flung and hard to corroborate? Sure. -Especially with the garbage info we have fed to us through television and media. --Especially Televison. (Ah. . . The warm, safe voice of the scientist we were all weened on and now subconsciously trust with all our hearts ever since Mom first plunked us down in front of the T.V. "What Will They Think Of Next!")
But you can get some clues by watching the fear impulse reactions of the Evil Empire. -Look how the media is spending so much time and energy recently to ridicule, obfuscate and litter with B.S. 'Learning Channel' science/history propaganda the whole question of ancient origins and alternate histories, of which Big Lego Blocks in Egypt are an integral part. I mean, they're even pulling out the big guns; Disney just dumped a retarded Atlantis film into the waters just to muddy them up further. Gads! (I should probably watch that damned thing, just to see the exact mechanics of the mind-twist of public collective awareness, but I'm not sure I can bring myself to blow $11 on Hollywood. . .)
-Not that the media is knowingly applying the cover-up, mind you. But from all indicators and everything I've read, seen and done, it appears extremely easy for the powers that be to make people do and say pretty much anything without Jack getting wise.
Anyway, the whole question of what is and isn't depicted in Hieroglyphs is kind of pointless. They may not have hieroglyphs of tuning fork guys playing with kites on mud ramps, but neither did they have pictures of people doing a whole bunch of things which were surely common back then. I think it's important to remember that hieroglyphs are an icon based language. While I don't claim to be able to read 'Egyptian,' I suspect that any such written language with a finite alphabet can be made to communicate more complex ideas through icon combinations.
--Fantastic Lad -- For Entertainment Purposes Only! Enlightenment Optional.
I wonder if Lucas was 'Reprogrammed,' by the Committee For Dumber Sheep, (who think you should watch more television, buy more crap, work longer hours, and generally be a malleable brain-mush slave upon whose back the gravy train of the rich and powerful rides.)
See. . . The new Star Wars film had the potential in these difficult times to raise people's awareness as to the workings of Good & Evil. Moreover, it could have added much weight to the current popularization of Eastern magic and philosophy.
The general message of the first three Star Wars films was that Big Soulless Selfish Technology destroys life, and here's how and why you can weaken and defeat it. Do not give into the Dark Side. --An excellent message which was lost beneath a sea of lame which was the new film, ignored by everybody who counts in the adult world, and made retarded to the point that even a child would miss the point.
Yeah. I think they Greenbaumed Lucas. Or just plain replaced him. --I mean, we're talking about a guy who once understood certain deep principals of life and story-telling suddenly allowing his company which once stood for high standards of both creativity and morality to turn into a runaway greed machine. Taco-Hell, for goodness sake! (Selling merchandising rights to the highest bidder rather than standing by old relationships. I knew the film would suck the second I saw Jar Jar's retarded mug on the side of KFC!)
Personally, I can't wait for the DVD's of Star Wars to Jedi come out. Then I'll take my Laserdisk copies and cut them together with the DVD's, and chop out all the garbage from the new releases. Ahh. . . Color corrected and improved Star Wars, but without a dumb-ass hand puppet monster in the sand pit. And no Luke screaming on the way down. . .
-Fantastic Lad
Pardon me while I quote myself: (No need to write these things twice when the flawed premise I'm addressing is the same!):
It is widely acknowledged that the peer review system in the scientific community is hugely subject to bias and even corruption based on status, favoritism and funding concerns. How likely are old scientists who have spent their lives supporting one theory, who have investors pouring millions into said theory, who have their egos tied up with the same theory. . . how likely is it that they are going to immediately support an opposing view point which might reduce their status, livelihood and sense of self-worth? And in the case of Very Big Business which is the Cell Phone market, the problem is further aggravated. --I've read papers which have received huge funding from governments and arms of Telecommunications giants which spent huge sums of money to buy names and discredit some of the very studies I quoted above. These kinds of problems have hampered the advancement of science for centuries in one form or another. Personally, I really LIKE the fact that the internet allows me to read papers which would otherwise never get published, because it allows me to form my own opinions.
I suggest you read through some of the self-published material in order to form your own opinions too, rather than base your beliefs on biased popularity contests. It's important to think for yourself.
The simple fact that you hold this job without actually knowing or even caring about any effects which your employers tell you are not worth worrying about means you have been programmed. Period.Think for yourself rather than trying to maintain a worry-free attitude through denial. Remember, in the long run, it makes no difference to me. --I've offered you enough ideas here to get you started. Where you go from here is up to you. I would recommend a thorough review of what you know, and that you initiate your own investigations into the matter. But if you want to go back to sleep, that's your choice too.
It's up to you. Personally, I think denial is fundamentally self-defeating and unworthy of any respect. But that's just my opinion. Good luck and goodbye.
-Fantastic Lad
First of all, rats ain't people. Has anyone done these studies on people? It shouldn't be hard to give cell phones to 100 college students, have them talk on them for one hour, and then test their short term memory vs. a group which talked on a land-line phone for an hour. Memory tests would be trivial; dye injection is a bit trickier, but could be done. The fact that this research isn't out there is highly suspect. It's the first thing I thought of, and I don't do this for a living.
No, rats are not people, but labratory animals have been used extensively for many years by the scientific community for a variety of reasons, one of the primary being that it is possible to completely regulate an animal's environment thus reducing their exposure to 'random noise stimuli', such as differences in diet, air, light, sound, sleep conditions, etc. To control all of these elements in a group of 100 college students, and thus make an experiment 'clean' would be extremely expensive. To dispense with these factors and not make the experiment clean, (allowing the kids to eat, drink, sleep as much or as little as they want during the test period), would reduce the experiment to the level of a standard statistics measurement; and everybody knows how little stock people put into statistics.
In any case, if rats are being affected by EM, then it should certainly raise concerns for humans. To discount such findings simply because "rats ain't people," is evidence of very closed thinking.
Secondly, some of this data is seriously old. #4 is from 1982. It was self-published (Via the SUNY-Albany press), not published in a peer-reviewed journal. The peer-review process might have its problems, but I trust it a heck of a lot more than some guy who publishes stuff on his own.
'Old' does not mean 'useless.' This is a concept hammered into people by a society driven by commercialism. It should not apply to scientific meathod, especially when the data comes from experiments which, when you read up on them, were well documented and valid in their execution.
As for self-published work. . .
I have less problem with this than I do with material which IS peer-reviewed by the current system. It is widely acknowledged that the peer review system in the scientific community is hugely subject to bias and even corruption based on status, favoritism and funding concerns. How likely are old scientists who have spent their lives supporting one theory, who have investors pouring millions into said theory, who have their egos tied up with the same theory. . . how likely is it that they are going to immediately support an opposing view point which might reduce their status, livelihood and sense of self-worth? And in the case of Very Big Business which is the Cell Phone market, the problem is further aggravated. --I've read papers which have received huge funding from governments and arms of Telecommunications giants which spent huge sums of money to buy names and discredit some of the very studies I quoted above. These kinds of problems have hampered the advancement of science for centuries in one form or another. Personally, I really LIKE the fact that the internet allows me to read papers which would otherwise never get published, because it allows me to form my own opinions.
I suggest you read through some of the self-published material in order to form your own opinions too, rather than base your beliefs on biased popularity contests. It's important to think for yourself.
#5 is from 1974 in a Warsaw Bloc country. I have no idea what sort of review it would have undergone, and I have no idea how valid its methods are. Unless you read Polish, I don't think you know what it says, either.
Granted, the Polish information is in Polish, and readers must rely on translations and interpretations, but I would not necessarily discount it just because of these reasons.
In any case, these are all just starting points; not things to take without question. But the whole exercise is pointless if you discount them out of hand without doing any of your own research. Denial is easy, and dangerous.
Here's some info for you to chew on if you're interested. . .
Following are points from a number of studies.
Lab rats were found to have their short term memory impaired after being exposed to electromagnetic radiation (EM) at frequencies and amplitudes common in portable phones, markedly affecting their performance in a maze after 1 hour/day periods of EM exposure. In a second experiment designed to measure the time needed to complete a maze task, it was estimated that exposed animals required approximately one third more time than the control rats. {1}
Using an apparatus which tested for object recognition, researchers found that exposed rats suffered observable memory loss after EM radiation exposure. This test was done in 1994 specifically testing the effects of portable phones. {2}
The blood-brain barrier in test animals is made permeable to foriegn substances in the blood which would not normally be allowed to pass through brain cell walls. This, according to one group of researchers, was discovered when dye was injected into the blood stream of test rats and found to be absorbed by brain cells in exposed rats after twenty minutes, but not by those in the unexposed control group.{3}
The general effect of EM on the endochrine system, (the system of glands throughout the body, including the adrenal, thyroid and pancreatic among others,) is also noteworthy. The results from a variety of studies were lengthy and, frankly, difficult to briefly document as it seems different glands react to different frequencies and power levels in a wide variety of ways, sometimes having opposite effects simply by changing the pulse rate of a given wave form. Research only scratches the surface, and it seems that the potential for further study is enormous. Essentially, EM radiation as emitted from Cell Phones, pagers, wireless computer hardware and computer monitors does a wide range of strange things to the human body. One researcher simply summed up the overall effect of EM on the glandular system as resulting in, 'general stress disorder'. {4}
Delta Wave sleep patterns of test subjects were found to be inhibited after regular exposure, (one hour per day), to frequencies and power levels commonly emitted from computer monitors and in other tests, higher frequency portable phones. {5}
--With a drive for faster, cheaper and higher power wireless digital equipment, the general public might be well advised to remain cautious of the possible health hazards associated with the increased use of microwave active devices.
In the few instances where the large telecommunications companies have been challenged regarding the safety of their products, it is interesting to note that their public relations stances have been remarkably similar to those once commonly employed by the cigarette industry concerning tobacco use. It will be interesting to observe the direction and ultimate outcome of these trends.
References:
1. Henry Lai, 1998. Neurological effects of radio frequency electromagnetic radiation Presented to the Workshop on possible biological and health effects of RF electromagnetic fields. Project team: Mobile Phones and Health, Symposium, October 25-28, 1998, University of Vienna, Austria. http://pages.britishlibrary.net/orange/henrylai.ht m
2. James C. Lin, 2000. Effects of microwave and mobile telephone exposure on memory and memory processes. University of Illinois, Chicago, IL, USA http://www.eecs.uic.edu/eecspeople/lin_ieee42_3.ht m
3. Frey A.H., Feld S, Frey B. Neural function and behavior: defining the relationship. Ann NY Acad Sci 247:433-438
4. Dr. Robert Becker & Dr. Andrew Marino paper, "Electromagnetism & Life" http://www.ortho.lsumc.edu/Faculty/Marino/EL/ELTOC .html
5. Drumanskiy, Yu.D., Sandala, M.G. 1974. The biologic action and hygenic significance of electromagnetic fields of superhigh and ultrahigh frequencies in densely populated areas. In Biologic effects and health hazards of microwave radiation, p. 289. Warsaw: Polish Medical Publishers.
Following are points from a number of studies.
Lab rats were found to have their short term memory impaired after being exposed to electromagnetic radiation (EM) at frequencies and amplitudes common in portable phones, markedly affecting their performance in a maze after 1 hour/day periods of EM exposure. In a second experiment designed to measure the time needed to complete a maze task, it was estimated that exposed animals required approximately one third more time than the control rats. {1}
Using an apparatus which tested for object recognition, researchers found that exposed rats suffered observable memory loss after EM radiation exposure. This test was done in 1994 specifically testing the effects of portable phones. {2}
The blood-brain barrier in test animals is made permeable to foriegn substances in the blood which would not normally be allowed to pass through brain cell walls. This, according to one group of researchers, was discovered when dye was injected into the blood stream of test rats and found to be absorbed by brain cells in exposed rats after twenty minutes, but not by those in the unexposed control group.{3}
The general effect of EM on the endochrine system, (the system of glands throughout the body, including the adrenal, thyroid and pancreatic among others,) is also noteworthy. The results from a variety of studies were lengthy and, frankly, difficult to briefly document as it seems different glands react to different frequencies and power levels in a wide variety of ways, sometimes having opposite effects simply by changing the pulse rate of a given wave form. Research only scratches the surface, and it seems that the potential for further study is enormous. Essentially, EM radiation as emitted from Cell Phones, pagers, wireless computer hardware and computer monitors does a wide range of strange things to the human body. One researcher simply summed up the overall effect of EM on the glandular system as resulting in, 'general stress disorder'. {4}
Delta Wave sleep patterns of test subjects were found to be inhibited after regular exposure, (one hour per day), to frequencies and power levels commonly emitted from computer monitors and in other tests, higher frequency portable phones. {5}
--With a drive for faster, cheaper and higher power wireless digital equipment, the general public might be well advised to remain cautious of the possible health hazards associated with the increased use of microwave active devices.
In the few instances where the large telecommunications companies have been challenged regarding the safety of their products, it is interesting to note that their public relations stances have been remarkably similar to those once commonly employed by the cigarette industry concerning tobacco use. It will be interesting to observe the direction and ultimate outcome of these trends.
References:
1. Henry Lai, 1998. Neurological effects of radio frequency electromagnetic radiation Presented to the Workshop on possible biological and health effects of RF electromagnetic fields. Project team: Mobile Phones and Health, Symposium, October 25-28, 1998, University of Vienna, Austria. http://pages.britishlibrary.net/orange/henrylai.ht m
2. James C. Lin, 2000. Effects of microwave and mobile telephone exposure on memory and memory processes. University of Illinois, Chicago, IL, USA http://www.eecs.uic.edu/eecspeople/lin_ieee42_3.ht m
3. Frey A.H., Feld S, Frey B. Neural function and behavior: defining the relationship. Ann NY Acad Sci 247:433-438
4. Dr. Robert Becker & Dr. Andrew Marino paper, "Electromagnetism & Life" http://www.ortho.lsumc.edu/Faculty/Marino/EL/ELTOC .html
5. Drumanskiy, Yu.D., Sandala, M.G. 1974. The biologic action and hygenic significance of electromagnetic fields of superhigh and ultrahigh frequencies in densely populated areas. In Biologic effects and health hazards of microwave radiation, p. 289. Warsaw: Polish Medical Publishers.
Cool post.
But hey. It's your choice to not think, if that's really what you want. I'd try the alternative just for one week before making such a huge decision, though.
It's a shame that most people live and die without ever realizing that there is even a decision to be made.
'Nuff said.
. . .
Well, nearly enough. --Check this out:
I don't think it's possible to keep TV out of one's life without great effort.
When I moved in with my current room mates, we all decided that we wanted life without TV. It makes perfect sense. Save money and have more hours to live in. Be like the people with lives that everybody watches on TV. Hooray. We expressed this desire to our landlord who lives in the basement. He said, "Yeah. I made the same decision a year ago, called up the cable company and told them to disconnect me. This was surprisingly difficult; they argued and it actually took arm twisting. But they finally sent a guy who chopped the cable and took me off their billing computer. --Except. . . The cable which got chopped was an old and already disconnected one. So now we still get fifty or so channels and don't pay a cent."
So we don't pay for cable, we don't want cable, but there is just enough TV addiction still in the blood that we don't make that final call to have the free cable disconnected.
My opinion:
The Evil Empire wants people plugged in to the brain-wash box for more reasons than simple profit. The only people who have trouble getting cable are the ones who are already brainwashed, and who will eventually plug back in of their own accord. I'm willing to bet that if you really don't want cable, you'll find weird situations like mine pop up in your own life. It's all about mind-control. I honestly believe this.
Of course, most people call me crazy. Problem is, the people who say this are miserable, confused and bitter most of the time. --Whereas I am happy, healthy, well adjusted, sure of myself, and I have lots of friends who all wonder how I do it.
It's dead simple; the only drawback is that the status quo accuses you of being crazy.
Hint: That status quo are wrong. They have been imprisoned in a thousand different ways. You can't break free until you see the bars and learn how to laugh at them.
Okay.
Now it's 'nuff said.
But there's reasonable risk and then there's unreasonable. And Cell Phone irradiaion is a risk which has been 'chosen' society-wide by the underinformed. --More accurately, it was chosen for us by the telecommunications industry. (How DID we manage to get along before without Cell Phones?)
The fact of the matter is that the dangers of Cell Phone EM are known to all the major players, but are not reported.
Second. I use a land line, and I won't be buying into any Blue Tooth technology. But that doesn't mean I won't be radiated constantly by ignorant 'risk-takers' all around me. And when Blue Tooth becomes standard, just try getting a job in a non-EM toxic building.
Your 'whatever' attitude and embracing of general ignorance may serve to reduce your own worry, but I think society could be managed much more responsibly.
So pardon me for making you 'sick and tired' with 'crazy' extremism. Just because you like to swallow the lies and live a manipulated life doesn't mean everybody else is content to do so.
Rant over.
You may now return to your slumber.
The reason broadcast towers don't affect the whole population is that their effect drops geometrically with distance. Come on. You KNOW that.
Second. Broadcast towers DO have an affect on those within a certain radius. The American Government, despite its support of the telecommunications industry, even recommends that people stay a minimum distance away from Cell Phone broadcast arrays.
Third. Cell Phone broadcast stations are EVERYWHERE. If you live in a top floor apartment and there's a Cell tower on the roof, you're being radiated in unhealthy ways.
Fourth. Theremal effects are NOT the issue. The human body and nervous system is electrochemical in nature; you are 70% electrolyte for goodness sake. If you think that you are unaffected by EM radiation, you have done no proper research or have otherwise been well programmed by the P.R. monkeys. There are a bunch of studies which describe a whole mess of different, creepy effects caused by low level exposure to Cell Phone EM, from handsets. --Everything from short term memory impairment, retardation of object recognition skills, to brain cells becoming permeable to foriegn substances in the blood, to the body's endochrine system of various glands being messed up in countless ways, (the overal effect of which reserchers described simply as causing, 'General Stress Disorder.').
Just because you happen to love technology doesn't mean it loves you back. Denial may be sweet, but it'll also turn your brain into mush.
You've been bought and sold.
Do the bloody research. It's all out there. It only takes an evening or two.
Cell phone radiation messes you, the lab rats, and everybody else who uses them right up.
After an early flurry of concerns during the mid Nineties about the impact of microwave Cell Phone radiation on public health, interest in the topic seemed to vanish during the late nineties and early years of the third millennium. Interestingly, this trend continued despite numerous studies in various countries which found that Cell Phone radiation had many unexpected effects upon biological systems. While connections to Cancer were found to be tenuous, short term exposure to Cell Phone Radiation was found to have significant impact upon other aspects of the mind and body.
Following are points from a number of studies.
Lab rats were found to have their short term memory impaired after being exposed to radiation at frequencies and amplitudes common in portable phones, markedly affecting their performance in a maze after 1 hour/day periods of EM exposure. In a second experiment designed to measure the time needed to complete a maze task, it was estimated that exposed animals required approximately one third more time than the control rats. {2}
A study by another lab, using an apparatus which tested for object recognition, it was found that exposed rats suffered observable memory loss after EM radiation exposure. This test was done in 1994 specifically testing the effects of portable phones. {3}
The blood-brain barrier in test animals is made permeable to foriegn substances in the blood which would not normally be allowed to pass through the cell walls of brain cells. This, according to one group of researchers, was discovered in a test where dye was injected into the blood stream of test animals and found to be absorbed by brain cells in exposed rats after twenty minutes, but not by those in the unexposed control group.{4}
The general effect of EM on the endochrine system, (the system of glands throughout the body, including the adrenal, thyroid and pancreatic among others,) is also noteworthy. The results from a variety of studies were lengthy and, frankly, difficult to briefly document as it seems different glands react to different frequencies and power levels in a wide variety of ways, sometimes having opposite effects simply by changing the pulse rate of a given wave form. Research only scratches the surface, and it seems that the potential for further study is enormous.
Essentially, EM radiation as spit from Cell Phones, pagers, wireless computer hardware and computer monitors does a whole mess of strange things to the human body. One researcher simply summed up the overall effect of EM on the glandular system as resulting in, 'general stress disorder'. {5}
Delta Wave sleep patterns of test subjects were found to be inhibited after regular exposure, (one hour per day), to frequencies and power levels commonly emitted from computer monitors and in other tests, higher frequency portable phones. {5-2}
--With a drive for faster, cheaper and higher power wireless digital equipment, the general public might be well advised to be remain cautious of the possible health hazards associated with the increased use microwave active devices and take measures to avoid unnecessary exposure.
In the few instances where the large telecommunications companies have been challenged regarding the safety of their products, it is interesting to note that their public relations stances have been remarkably similar to those once employed by the cigarette industry concerning tobacco use. It will be interesting to observe the direction and ultimate outcome of these trends.
References:
2. Henry Lai, 1998. Neurological effects of radio frequency electromagnetic radiation" Presented to the Workshop on possible biological and health effects of RF electromagnetic fields. Project team: Mobile Phones and Health, Symposium, October 25-28, 1998, University of Vienna, Austria. http://pages.britishlibrary.net/orange/henrylai.ht m
3. James C. Lin, 2000. Effects of microwave and mobile telephone exposure on memory and memory processes. University of Illinois, Chicago, IL, USA http://www.eecs.uic.edu/eecspeople/lin_ieee42_3.ht m
4. Frey A.H., Feld S, Frey B. Neural function and behavior: defining the relationship. Ann NY Acad Sci 247:433-438
5. Dr. Robert Becker & Dr. Andrew Marino paper, "Electromagnetism & Life" http://www.ortho.lsumc.edu/Faculty/Marino/EL/ELTOC .html
5-2. Drumanskiy, Yu.D., Sandala, M.G. 1974. The biologic action and hygenic significance of electromagnetic fields of superhigh and ultrahigh frequencies in densely populated areas. In Biologic effects and health hazards of microwave radiation, p. 289. Warsaw: Polish Medical Publishers.
Denial: Sweet but deadly.
I don't know specifics about the U.K. situation, but there are huge concentration camps set aside in the U.S., just waiting for the people to fill them when the day comes.
Put your programming aside for an afternoon, open up your mind, (tough, I know,) and do some Google research. Start with, "Denver Airport". That's an excellent 'on-ramp' because all the many creepy assertions are entirely verifiable and the questions raised by them have answers of vast import.
While you may live in the U.K., it is entirely foolish to believe that you are not affected, or that the negative perception of population control is merely a 'cultural thing' specific to any one region. There is a great deal of evidence to suggest that the world is on the cusp of an enormous, planned tragedy.
Dig until it hurts. Don't be a 'Blue Pill' piece of live-stock. Knowledge Protects.
-Fantastic Lad -He's just crazy, right guys? Guys?
A) Take life WAY too seriously, or,
B) Find a great deal of pleasure in being able to attack, kill and destroy anybody or anything which slides under the percieved 'coolness' radar for even a microsecond. Sheesh. Did you get beat up a lot when you were kids, or what?
Slashdot isn't your bread and butter. It's something you read for distraction. The Internet is just a big silly video game and any 'News' about it is equally non-life threatening. Life won't end if you can't play an MP3 or watch a stupid movie or chat with your mates in Australia via email.
I for one enjoy pondering hypothetical questions, and I am willing to bet that practically every last person out there slagging this site has spent hundreds of hours in highschool hallways talking about exactly that kind of shit.
Don't be such a bunch of tight-ass jerks. Life is fun!
Anyway, interfacing alien with human technology is a moot point. If aliens want to install devices on this planet with human help, they'd simply get us to build the hardware ourselves based on physical concepts which, even if we hadn't come upon them yet ourselves, will remain standard no matter which part of the universe you hail from. We'd just build the stuff with appropriate interfaces for human useage. Read up on Montauk and the Philadelphia experiment to see an example of how it works.
Also, oral language is easy enough to learn when you can communicate through psychic means to establish common bearings. No big deal.
Remember: This isn't Star Trek. They're here to kill us. It's organized and it's smart and it's effective, and they've done it countless times before. And aliens are only a piece of the over-all scenario. There's a ton of frightful weirdness on the way, and it's all going to hit between 1 and 12 years from now. So do what you can to get your shit together, because all the rules are about to change. In the words of Henry Rollins; "Relax. Be Drinkable."
Fantastic Lad --That arrogant fuck isn't serious, is he? Wow. Glad I'm not messed in the head like that!