Out if interest I had a look at the way spaceX is funded or at least seed funded and it's clear that Musk has risked the fortune he earned from paypal (100 million) to get spaceX going.
There is no doubt there is risk however he has his own skin in the game so I've never understood why people give him a hard time, just because he is living every kids dream and having a go? It say's a lot about the hater mentality that wants us to sit around doing nothing, not wearing deodorant criticizing people reaching for the stars.
I can't see him doing this without some sort of government funding and the la times seems to thinks so however I don't really see this as grounds for criticism, how could he do it without government funding and contracts?
Should Musk expect government funding to continue to develop rocket systems via spaceX. Why not? If his companies are meeting the specified goals to receive funding then why shouldn't they receive funding. We've been told for years by Boeing and Lockheed Martin that re-usable launch systems were not possible however clearly that is not true.
So while I don't think I fall into the category of being a fanboy, I certainly don't want to see him fail. So if you are going to make up allegations about the companies financial state, let's have a look at what you've got so we can evaluate it.
One thing is for sure, whatever you think of the guy, Musk has generated a lot of interest in space flight. There is nothing boring about a pair of launch boosters making a double sonic boom before they land.
I think I might be too, it is perfect work for autodidacts. I have my own persistence layer and UI layer that allows me to concentrate on domain and UI design. I'm planning a MQ for the persistence layer. I've designed business processes and applications to match. Designed and rationalized the DB, did the UAT.
From notepads and projectors to deployed in data center. I can design discreet electronics if I need to. I've been in competing project situations and projects with penalty clauses for not achieving certain project milestones by a deadline.
First of all, it is kind of a buzz, I really enjoy doing it, however it is all consuming and exhausting so I needed to find a balance. I carefully directed my career for years to prepare however I work in a pretty dense IT market so I think that is a factor too, always the deep end and many steep learning curves. I always find other geek/nerds projects interesting for what I can learn or contribute and learning to interact that way really made a big difference in terms of opportunity presenting itself.
I learned a lot and am grateful for the experiences I've had in my career and the opportunity to design and deploy some interesting projects from the ground up, they've always been fascinating. Especially when I let go of the ego and learned to handle pressure, so my takes is satisfying but exhausting.
If I'm not specifically there to do such a project (preferably on a contract) generally a company who has employed me will figure out you have those skills available and attempt to utilize them, which has generally been my experience. I had the same experience as you, employers will try to get out of paying you for what it costs to accumulate those skills. However some are generous.
Also designing business processes is intensely interesting, challenging aspect, which is the natural leader of full stack development I've experienced however if your soft skill are lacking you don't stand a chance. You have to manage stakeholder expectations, keep the respect of the developers and no one want's to work with an asshole. At first I only did architecture however I also learned project management.
I personally can't do it all the time, so I don't, but it makes you really employable because of how adaptable you become. I usually like to spend my energy on my own interests and I don't want to neglect them so sometimes I specifically don't do full stack projects so I have enough energy to chase my own dream. That's the balancing act.
This is how MS do things that make me think they suck, pull as much PR goodwill value from it as possible and then drop their true intent and meaning, expansion of their cloud business internationally.
Interesting times for MS, Windows is out, Cloud is in, Windows Senior Product Lead gone, C# programmer for.Net working on Typescript, WSL for Linux and Ubuntu.
So what's next? Time to jump ship and transition plan it's EEE over Linux, the biggest one yet, For All is Cloud!
For context, I've spent the last 4 years doing *extreme* physiotherapy to repair all the accumulated damage I've done to my body from years of the sports and martial arts I've done. I've collected a lot of data on this subject and, annoying sound aside, I think I'm coming to some conclusions.
* Why does this uncomfortable feeling happen in the first place that goes away when you crack your knuckles?
You injured yourself and after the injury healed scar tissue formed and caused the fascia tissue, which is rich in nerves, to stick to a place in your muscles. I call them adhesions for want of a better term. Can you feel that knot in your back that is driving you crazy, that is what your body is trying to resolve. As far as I can tell your body is trying to get you to move through a full range of motion to break up the scar tissue.
* What causes the bubbles?
I'm not sure, however the more you extend the range of motion the less you 'crack'. That cracking is called
Crepitus.
* Are the bubbles related to the feeling, or not or merely a side-effect?
I can only conclude they must be, however I'm not sure how. I'm glad this study came out, I thought the cracking was the joint cavitating. The cracking is the engine of the change. If you manually manipulate the joint you will generally find some range of motion causes pain, you may even feel bone grinding. Manipulate the joint through that pain and it will crack a lot more until it finally releases and then it will be silent and smooth.
I also discovered the cracking releases endomorphines in the brain and jokingly asked the physiotherapist if that makes me a 'crack addict';)
And it's not just knuckles. Toes, shins, knees, elbows, neck,... it seems it can be everything, depending on the person.
Shoulders, wrists, thumbs, hips, ankle, arches of feet, chest, all of these I cavitated until they resolved. The extreme physiotherapy is dry needling, where a needle about 7cm long is stuck into the adhesions and knots all around the body. Well over 6000 of these needles have been stuck into me now. The most at one time is 50 (legs) and I've had four inserted into my feet at the same time while I squeeze my feet. All of this effort resulted in the intense feeling of needing to move and cavitate these joints. This has resolved 28 major injuries I accumulated over the years.
I took measurements and drew diagrams of the movements that would produce the cavitation. For example my left ankle cavitated approximately 90 times per minute (three cavs per rotation, one in the opposite direction) over an exhausting 5 hour session for 4 sesions (IIRC), measured temperature of the ankle joint peaked a 34C from 27C at the beginning of the sessions. It has now settled down to maybe 10 per minute over a 30 minute session for 18months of work. I've been in shock twice from how severe some of the releases are. Elbows, by far, are the most painful joint to release (240 cavs , 2 massive cavs per day over approx 4 months). My right shoulder moved in a single, giant cavitation. My hips have almost been re-aligned in two planes - due to the ankle I suspect.
It has been totally worthwhile, I feel amazing - for the true meaning of the word. I only need 6 hours sleep and it is very deep, like someone took all of the marbles out of my bed. I think more clearly, I feel stronger, more flexible that I was in my 20's. I've had some x-rays done before that I plan to compare with new x-rays when I am done. Still working on the ankle and once that is all done I'm keen to start training again.
Most of all, my joints barely crack at all anymore.
I wonder how many "rebels" will wear masks, sunglasses, wigs, overcoats, and walk with a limp as they jaywalk, just to "beat the man".
It doesn't matter. I don't know if you have seen what they are using, it's an AI augmented camera array that picks up multiple markers of a persons identity, they are really pretty scary.
One of the things it does is provide descriptions of offenders in real terms like "suspect is moving west, red shirt, black shorts, black hair, 5'3", white shoes". Worse they pick up mood, so it can tell if you are pissed off.
It's about the most intrusive thing I've ever seen AND if you are paying attention politicians used some awful tragedy to implant the idea into peoples conscious that these sorts of camera arrays are a necessity and all the ones I saw on news reports talking of the need for it so they prepare the way for legislation to mandate these devices.
If you accidentally replied AC, here is your reply.
I was reacting to your statement, "The thing we have to remember is we cook food with this wavelength all that differs is the wattage and time it takes to do the cooking. Yikes!", which implies that using WiFi rather than wired network connections in a school might put children at risk.
So, you're not swayed by reason, you're swayed by emotion, like all the others here that read the one sentence I wrote to try to humanise my post.
If this risk is not the result of heating from radiated microwave energy, which you also imply in the same sentence, what would be the mechanism of damage that concerns you?
Wavelength harmonics and resonances breaking strands of mDNA.
My point was that power drops off so quickly with distance from the source, that at any reasonable distance from the transmitter the power from a 30 dBm / 1W source is going to be negligible.
Did you actually read my post before your emotive reply? The answer is there: Damage to mitochondrial DNA in the eggs of girls, who are born with their entire inventory of eggs, occurs as low as 10 Gy according to some of the papers.
With respect to the typical output power of wireless routers I intended to type 50 rather than 5 mW, based on a Google search. But it seems that I was mistaken even at that. Repeating the search now consistently yields the result of ~100mW. One of the sources is https://superuser.com/question....
So what? They are on *all the time*. They don't turn on for 2 minutes and off when your browser refreshes. SYN, SYN-ACK ACK millions of times a day. Accumulated damage, constant repeated low power exposures. Why is this so difficult to unserstand?
" the other thing you don't take into account is pulse width, duration and transient pulses"
What effect do you attribute to the modulation scheme with respect to potential for harm?
Transgenic disease in subsequent generations. None of this stuff is hard to understand if you take the time to study it. Stop watching crap.
And why are you concerned in particular with mitochondrial DNA?
It's the germline all the way back to the first human mother. In effect it is the evolving DNA of humanity itself. It's not wise to fuck with it.
Do you believe that it's more sensitive than DNA in the cell nucleus?
Lastly, how long do you think it will be before the effects of microwave radiation on human health will actually be seen? Many cordless phones used in homes since the 1990s also used the 2.4 GHz spectrum. So do microwave ovens and several other devices.
All subsequent generations after the children who have acquired damaged mDNA.
One study found that the power density in the same room as a cordless phone transmitter was higher than that seen in proximity to cellular base stations. (http://www.emfrf.com/2-4-ghz-cordless-phone-radiation-report/)
If we're so arrogant, callous, short sighted and foolish as to not look at the technology we deploy and have an honset look at the biological consequences on the next generation while they are basically defenseless then not only are we fucked as a species, we deserve it.
Don't you think we'd know by now as a result of all these low-level exposures most of us have been subject to for at least the last ~25 years?
How long was smoking considered harmless and how long did it take for an industry whose product, when used as directed, kills you? How long did they protect their revenue stre
Sooooo, the point is the sensitivity to the wavelength because we're not talking about cooking children in a microwave oven, we're talking about the threshold for damage to mitochondrial DNA. Biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiig difference.
Cool story. So how long does it take for lightbulbs and cabdles to damage your mitochondrial DNA?
About as long as a troll is proud of his ignorance.
How would the emissions from wi-fi routers get all the way to the ovaries?
wavelength at 2.4 Ghz is 13cm
They can't even penetrate the outermost layer of our skin.
And the power threshold for this is?
And the difference in wattage between microwave ovens and wifi is pretty significant. 1 watt (FCC max) vs. 1100 watts.
The point is the sensitivity to the wavelength because we're not talking about cooking children in a microwave oven, we're talking about the threshold for damage to mitochondrial DNA.
Wifi transmitters typically produce 5 milli-Watts, and microwave power drops off with the square of the distance from the antenna.
The FCC doesn't regulate the "default" output power, just the maximum and the maximum is 1 Watt (1000 mW). With high-power PAs, 30dBm ( == 1000mW == 1 full Watt) APs are increasingly common. This is because of the prevalence of high quality Low Noise Amplifiers which increase the receive gain for the AP are becoming more common. Asides for being roughly 200 times what you say, the other thing you don't take into account is pulse width, duration and transient pulses.
Then we can talk about mobile phones, whose maximum power output is three watts in your front or back pants pocket.
Sooooo, the point is the sensitivity to the wavelength because we're not talking about cooking children in a microwave oven, we're talking about the threshold for damage to mitochondrial DNA. Biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiig difference.
The question being What is the safe level of microwave irradiation for the ovarian follicles during the first 100 days development of the embryo?
One analysis revealed that in the study group, the number of follicles was lower than that in the control group. The decreased number of follicles in pups exposed to mobile phone microwaves suggest that intrauterine exposure has toxic effects on ovaries.
The general findings suggest that emissions from wi-fi routers and the X-ray scanners used before boarding have enough energy in them to damage the mitachondrial DNA within the unfertilized eggs carried in girls. Energetic emissions absorbed into the body damages reproductive cells in both sexes which causes transgenic diseases that can manifest in the next generation.
Damage to mitochondrial DNA in the eggs of girls, who are born with their entire inventory of eggs, occurs as low as 10 Gy according to some of the papers. Considering that any damage done to mitachondrial DNA will be passed down to *all* subsequent human generations as an increased prevalence of many kinds of inherited diseases, accumulating the more we are exposed to it, it shouldn't be too difficult to take a pragmatic view of this issue and decide what is really important to us.
Being pragmatic about what that means, wifi affects children more because they have a lower body mass than adults, that they need to keep their distance from wifi because they have less water, muscle and bone to shield their reproductive system, that schools should be cabled with fibre optic and ethernet instead of trying to scrimp installation costs with wi-fi. They're not difficult problems to solve by making simple construction and infrastructure decisions.
The thing we have to remember is we cook food with this wavelength all that differs is the wattage and time it takes to do the cooking. Yikes!
I was there 30 years ago and IT just keeps getting more and more interesting. It was cool geek fun back then however now is fucking awesome and it seems to get better and better. Only problem is that it has attracted some real dicks to get involved, they need to go.
You mean something like, "Hey that one Big Falcon Rocket".
I think the way the boosters separate after take off means that it is a Big Forking Rocket, however I wouldn't know because I am not a forking rocket scientist.
We have the option to decide between liberty and controlled environment. At least now we still have that choice. Freedom entails also that some will abuse this freedom...Freedom means responsibility. That's hard for some, I know. Living in a nanny state where your don't get to decide anything and everything is decided for you depends on how benevolent your daddy is.
This maybe provocative however I don't understand why this is modded down. Opportunist is right about Freedom and responsibility. Just because people are angry with pedophiles doesn't mean these statements are false.
You can judge a society based on how they treat their most despised and if our emotional states are so fluid that they can be altered by someone simply pointing out 'Hey this affects all of us', as Opportunist has done, then child porn in the blockchain is a very small problem by comparison.
And if history teaches us anything, then that police states usually make abusive parents.
Which brings us to the crux of the issue. Every police state screams 'SEX CRIME' whenever there is something they need to control so here we go again, 1984 and all the lessons of a police state generating a false reality.
abusive parents.
and how pedophiles got that way in the first place. I'm pretty sure they didn't consent to being abused either, it doesn't make it right that they become abusers themselves however the real issue we seem to be talking about is a mental health issue, not a blockchain issue.
Stealing some kids innocence is and should be a crime, but if we want to make *real* inroads into solving the issues we have to find mental health outcomes that break the abuse cycle that perpetuates this form of child abuse.
It seems to me we are producing an enormous volume of environmental damage in plenty of other ways as well. Consider the sheer scope of industrial activity on our planet, just the list is huge.
If you then you consider the impact of each industrial activity, like the amount of plastics that end up in the seas, or the environmental impact of CRTs becoming obsolete, or even planned obsolescence as an example and the whole discussion about Climate Change and the amount of carbon in the atmosphere is just a part of the larger argument about the sheer amount of waste that this consumer economy creates. Carbon is one externality, not all externalities.
It's difficult to escape the very nature of media is used to create this false reality of ourselves and sell it back to us. The consequence of believing this false reality is it triggers behaviors in us that cause us to consume. How much carbon does our consumer economy drive into the atmosphere just powering unnecessary consumption, let alone the waste stream it created.
I think advertisements try to mold me into an "individual" with desires to buy buy buy. I just look to the waste and crap in my own life that I can't avoid making just interacting with our civilization and I wonder if it is right to suggest that maybe this is the consequence of the human mind being manipulated by advertising in the western world for 50 years or more?
Seems to me we're trapped in this never ending quest for the production of more items by having out unconscious desires manipulated and that's what's destroying the planet.
Maybe the science isn't just about the planet, maybe it's also about us?
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Out if interest I had a look at the way spaceX is funded or at least seed funded and it's clear that Musk has risked the fortune he earned from paypal (100 million) to get spaceX going. There is no doubt there is risk however he has his own skin in the game so I've never understood why people give him a hard time, just because he is living every kids dream and having a go? It say's a lot about the hater mentality that wants us to sit around doing nothing, not wearing deodorant criticizing people reaching for the stars.
I can't see him doing this without some sort of government funding and the la times seems to thinks so however I don't really see this as grounds for criticism, how could he do it without government funding and contracts?
Should Musk expect government funding to continue to develop rocket systems via spaceX. Why not? If his companies are meeting the specified goals to receive funding then why shouldn't they receive funding. We've been told for years by Boeing and Lockheed Martin that re-usable launch systems were not possible however clearly that is not true.
So while I don't think I fall into the category of being a fanboy, I certainly don't want to see him fail. So if you are going to make up allegations about the companies financial state, let's have a look at what you've got so we can evaluate it.
One thing is for sure, whatever you think of the guy, Musk has generated a lot of interest in space flight. There is nothing boring about a pair of launch boosters making a double sonic boom before they land.
I think I might be too, it is perfect work for autodidacts. I have my own persistence layer and UI layer that allows me to concentrate on domain and UI design. I'm planning a MQ for the persistence layer. I've designed business processes and applications to match. Designed and rationalized the DB, did the UAT.
From notepads and projectors to deployed in data center. I can design discreet electronics if I need to. I've been in competing project situations and projects with penalty clauses for not achieving certain project milestones by a deadline.
First of all, it is kind of a buzz, I really enjoy doing it, however it is all consuming and exhausting so I needed to find a balance. I carefully directed my career for years to prepare however I work in a pretty dense IT market so I think that is a factor too, always the deep end and many steep learning curves. I always find other geek/nerds projects interesting for what I can learn or contribute and learning to interact that way really made a big difference in terms of opportunity presenting itself.
I learned a lot and am grateful for the experiences I've had in my career and the opportunity to design and deploy some interesting projects from the ground up, they've always been fascinating. Especially when I let go of the ego and learned to handle pressure, so my takes is satisfying but exhausting.
If I'm not specifically there to do such a project (preferably on a contract) generally a company who has employed me will figure out you have those skills available and attempt to utilize them, which has generally been my experience. I had the same experience as you, employers will try to get out of paying you for what it costs to accumulate those skills. However some are generous.
Also designing business processes is intensely interesting, challenging aspect, which is the natural leader of full stack development I've experienced however if your soft skill are lacking you don't stand a chance. You have to manage stakeholder expectations, keep the respect of the developers and no one want's to work with an asshole. At first I only did architecture however I also learned project management.
I personally can't do it all the time, so I don't, but it makes you really employable because of how adaptable you become. I usually like to spend my energy on my own interests and I don't want to neglect them so sometimes I specifically don't do full stack projects so I have enough energy to chase my own dream. That's the balancing act.
This is how MS do things that make me think they suck, pull as much PR goodwill value from it as possible and then drop their true intent and meaning, expansion of their cloud business internationally.
Interesting times for MS, Windows is out, Cloud is in, Windows Senior Product Lead gone, C# programmer for .Net working on Typescript, WSL for Linux and Ubuntu.
So what's next? Time to jump ship and transition plan it's EEE over Linux, the biggest one yet, For All is Cloud!
Interesting times.
The land of the free readying a platform to export freedom suppressing laws. I thought America was about protecting freedom.
I wonder if anyone will notice?
For context, I've spent the last 4 years doing *extreme* physiotherapy to repair all the accumulated damage I've done to my body from years of the sports and martial arts I've done. I've collected a lot of data on this subject and, annoying sound aside, I think I'm coming to some conclusions.
* Why does this uncomfortable feeling happen in the first place that goes away when you crack your knuckles?
You injured yourself and after the injury healed scar tissue formed and caused the fascia tissue, which is rich in nerves, to stick to a place in your muscles. I call them adhesions for want of a better term. Can you feel that knot in your back that is driving you crazy, that is what your body is trying to resolve. As far as I can tell your body is trying to get you to move through a full range of motion to break up the scar tissue.
* What causes the bubbles?
I'm not sure, however the more you extend the range of motion the less you 'crack'. That cracking is called Crepitus.
* Are the bubbles related to the feeling, or not or merely a side-effect?
I can only conclude they must be, however I'm not sure how. I'm glad this study came out, I thought the cracking was the joint cavitating. The cracking is the engine of the change. If you manually manipulate the joint you will generally find some range of motion causes pain, you may even feel bone grinding. Manipulate the joint through that pain and it will crack a lot more until it finally releases and then it will be silent and smooth.
I also discovered the cracking releases endomorphines in the brain and jokingly asked the physiotherapist if that makes me a 'crack addict' ;)
And it's not just knuckles. Toes, shins, knees, elbows, neck, ... it seems it can be everything, depending on the person.
Shoulders, wrists, thumbs, hips, ankle, arches of feet, chest, all of these I cavitated until they resolved. The extreme physiotherapy is dry needling, where a needle about 7cm long is stuck into the adhesions and knots all around the body. Well over 6000 of these needles have been stuck into me now. The most at one time is 50 (legs) and I've had four inserted into my feet at the same time while I squeeze my feet. All of this effort resulted in the intense feeling of needing to move and cavitate these joints. This has resolved 28 major injuries I accumulated over the years.
I took measurements and drew diagrams of the movements that would produce the cavitation. For example my left ankle cavitated approximately 90 times per minute (three cavs per rotation, one in the opposite direction) over an exhausting 5 hour session for 4 sesions (IIRC), measured temperature of the ankle joint peaked a 34C from 27C at the beginning of the sessions. It has now settled down to maybe 10 per minute over a 30 minute session for 18months of work. I've been in shock twice from how severe some of the releases are. Elbows, by far, are the most painful joint to release (240 cavs , 2 massive cavs per day over approx 4 months). My right shoulder moved in a single, giant cavitation. My hips have almost been re-aligned in two planes - due to the ankle I suspect.
It has been totally worthwhile, I feel amazing - for the true meaning of the word. I only need 6 hours sleep and it is very deep, like someone took all of the marbles out of my bed. I think more clearly, I feel stronger, more flexible that I was in my 20's. I've had some x-rays done before that I plan to compare with new x-rays when I am done. Still working on the ankle and once that is all done I'm keen to start training again.
Most of all, my joints barely crack at all anymore.
About as long as a troll is proud of his ignorance.
You'll have to put that into non-troll language for me.
Already done.
I wonder how many "rebels" will wear masks, sunglasses, wigs, overcoats, and walk with a limp as they jaywalk, just to "beat the man".
It doesn't matter. I don't know if you have seen what they are using, it's an AI augmented camera array that picks up multiple markers of a persons identity, they are really pretty scary.
One of the things it does is provide descriptions of offenders in real terms like "suspect is moving west, red shirt, black shorts, black hair, 5'3", white shoes". Worse they pick up mood, so it can tell if you are pissed off.
It's about the most intrusive thing I've ever seen AND if you are paying attention politicians used some awful tragedy to implant the idea into peoples conscious that these sorts of camera arrays are a necessity and all the ones I saw on news reports talking of the need for it so they prepare the way for legislation to mandate these devices.
I wouldn't be surprised if you see it soon.
I was reacting to your statement, "The thing we have to remember is we cook food with this wavelength all that differs is the wattage and time it takes to do the cooking. Yikes!", which implies that using WiFi rather than wired network connections in a school might put children at risk.
So, you're not swayed by reason, you're swayed by emotion, like all the others here that read the one sentence I wrote to try to humanise my post.
If this risk is not the result of heating from radiated microwave energy, which you also imply in the same sentence, what would be the mechanism of damage that concerns you?
Wavelength harmonics and resonances breaking strands of mDNA.
My point was that power drops off so quickly with distance from the source, that at any reasonable distance from the transmitter the power from a 30 dBm / 1W source is going to be negligible.
Did you actually read my post before your emotive reply? The answer is there: Damage to mitochondrial DNA in the eggs of girls, who are born with their entire inventory of eggs, occurs as low as 10 Gy according to some of the papers.
With respect to the typical output power of wireless routers I intended to type 50 rather than 5 mW, based on a Google search. But it seems that I was mistaken even at that. Repeating the search now consistently yields the result of ~100mW. One of the sources is https://superuser.com/question....
So what? They are on *all the time*. They don't turn on for 2 minutes and off when your browser refreshes. SYN, SYN-ACK ACK millions of times a day. Accumulated damage, constant repeated low power exposures. Why is this so difficult to unserstand?
" the other thing you don't take into account is pulse width, duration and transient pulses"
What effect do you attribute to the modulation scheme with respect to potential for harm?
Transgenic disease in subsequent generations. None of this stuff is hard to understand if you take the time to study it. Stop watching crap.
And why are you concerned in particular with mitochondrial DNA?
It's the germline all the way back to the first human mother. In effect it is the evolving DNA of humanity itself. It's not wise to fuck with it.
Do you believe that it's more sensitive than DNA in the cell nucleus?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Lastly, how long do you think it will be before the effects of microwave radiation on human health will actually be seen? Many cordless phones used in homes since the 1990s also used the 2.4 GHz spectrum. So do microwave ovens and several other devices.
All subsequent generations after the children who have acquired damaged mDNA.
One study found that the power density in the same room as a cordless phone transmitter was higher than that seen in proximity to cellular base stations. (http://www.emfrf.com/2-4-ghz-cordless-phone-radiation-report/)
If we're so arrogant, callous, short sighted and foolish as to not look at the technology we deploy and have an honset look at the biological consequences on the next generation while they are basically defenseless then not only are we fucked as a species, we deserve it.
Don't you think we'd know by now as a result of all these low-level exposures most of us have been subject to for at least the last ~25 years?
How long was smoking considered harmless and how long did it take for an industry whose product, when used as directed, kills you? How long did they protect their revenue stre
Sooooo, the point is the sensitivity to the wavelength because we're not talking about cooking children in a microwave oven, we're talking about the threshold for damage to mitochondrial DNA. Biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiig difference.
Cool story. So how long does it take for lightbulbs and cabdles to damage your mitochondrial DNA?
About as long as a troll is proud of his ignorance.
So you lump x-ray weapons checking machine together with Microwaves ?
He's a match so you can burn your strawman.
How would the emissions from wi-fi routers get all the way to the ovaries?
wavelength at 2.4 Ghz is 13cm
They can't even penetrate the outermost layer of our skin.
And the power threshold for this is?
And the difference in wattage between microwave ovens and wifi is pretty significant. 1 watt (FCC max) vs. 1100 watts.
The point is the sensitivity to the wavelength because we're not talking about cooking children in a microwave oven, we're talking about the threshold for damage to mitochondrial DNA.
Give me a break!
No need to get all emotional.
Wifi transmitters typically produce 5 milli-Watts, and microwave power drops off with the square of the distance from the antenna.
The FCC doesn't regulate the "default" output power, just the maximum and the maximum is 1 Watt (1000 mW). With high-power PAs, 30dBm ( == 1000mW == 1 full Watt) APs are increasingly common. This is because of the prevalence of high quality Low Noise Amplifiers which increase the receive gain for the AP are becoming more common. Asides for being roughly 200 times what you say, the other thing you don't take into account is pulse width, duration and transient pulses.
Then we can talk about mobile phones, whose maximum power output is three watts in your front or back pants pocket.
Sooooo, the point is the sensitivity to the wavelength because we're not talking about cooking children in a microwave oven, we're talking about the threshold for damage to mitochondrial DNA. Biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiig difference.
Several studies have been released on this subject.
The IAEA, the Russian Federation has also produced a report, with the effects on males and the American Association of Physicists in Medicine has also produced a report.
The question being What is the safe level of microwave irradiation for the ovarian follicles during the first 100 days development of the embryo?
One analysis revealed that in the study group, the number of follicles was lower than that in the control group. The decreased number of follicles in pups exposed to mobile phone microwaves suggest that intrauterine exposure has toxic effects on ovaries.
The general findings suggest that emissions from wi-fi routers and the X-ray scanners used before boarding have enough energy in them to damage the mitachondrial DNA within the unfertilized eggs carried in girls. Energetic emissions absorbed into the body damages reproductive cells in both sexes which causes transgenic diseases that can manifest in the next generation.
Damage to mitochondrial DNA in the eggs of girls, who are born with their entire inventory of eggs, occurs as low as 10 Gy according to some of the papers. Considering that any damage done to mitachondrial DNA will be passed down to *all* subsequent human generations as an increased prevalence of many kinds of inherited diseases, accumulating the more we are exposed to it, it shouldn't be too difficult to take a pragmatic view of this issue and decide what is really important to us.
Being pragmatic about what that means, wifi affects children more because they have a lower body mass than adults, that they need to keep their distance from wifi because they have less water, muscle and bone to shield their reproductive system, that schools should be cabled with fibre optic and ethernet instead of trying to scrimp installation costs with wi-fi. They're not difficult problems to solve by making simple construction and infrastructure decisions.
The thing we have to remember is we cook food with this wavelength all that differs is the wattage and time it takes to do the cooking. Yikes!
I was there 30 years ago and IT just keeps getting more and more interesting. It was cool geek fun back then however now is fucking awesome and it seems to get better and better. Only problem is that it has attracted some real dicks to get involved, they need to go.
My 2c
It's already a Big Flying Rocket at that point in time, isn't it?
yeah, and Bloody Fast too.
You mean something like, "Hey that one Big Falcon Rocket".
I think the way the boosters separate after take off means that it is a Big Forking Rocket, however I wouldn't know because I am not a forking rocket scientist.
I was being slightly sarcastic.
The federal law on the matter is 18 U.S. Code  2252A. It says it's illegal to KNOWINGLY send and receive child porn.
oh, oh, now we all know.
We have the option to decide between liberty and controlled environment. At least now we still have that choice. Freedom entails also that some will abuse this freedom...Freedom means responsibility. That's hard for some, I know. Living in a nanny state where your don't get to decide anything and everything is decided for you depends on how benevolent your daddy is.
This maybe provocative however I don't understand why this is modded down. Opportunist is right about Freedom and responsibility. Just because people are angry with pedophiles doesn't mean these statements are false.
You can judge a society based on how they treat their most despised and if our emotional states are so fluid that they can be altered by someone simply pointing out 'Hey this affects all of us', as Opportunist has done, then child porn in the blockchain is a very small problem by comparison.
And if history teaches us anything, then that police states usually make abusive parents.
Which brings us to the crux of the issue. Every police state screams 'SEX CRIME' whenever there is something they need to control so here we go again, 1984 and all the lessons of a police state generating a false reality.
abusive parents.
and how pedophiles got that way in the first place. I'm pretty sure they didn't consent to being abused either, it doesn't make it right that they become abusers themselves however the real issue we seem to be talking about is a mental health issue, not a blockchain issue.
Stealing some kids innocence is and should be a crime, but if we want to make *real* inroads into solving the issues we have to find mental health outcomes that break the abuse cycle that perpetuates this form of child abuse.
Need I go on?
Yes, clearly everything needs to be made illegal. Only then will we save the children.
Relax, it's an observation.
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. - Gandhi
It seems to me we are producing an enormous volume of environmental damage in plenty of other ways as well. Consider the sheer scope of industrial activity on our planet, just the list is huge.
If you then you consider the impact of each industrial activity, like the amount of plastics that end up in the seas, or the environmental impact of CRTs becoming obsolete, or even planned obsolescence as an example and the whole discussion about Climate Change and the amount of carbon in the atmosphere is just a part of the larger argument about the sheer amount of waste that this consumer economy creates. Carbon is one externality, not all externalities.
It's difficult to escape the very nature of media is used to create this false reality of ourselves and sell it back to us. The consequence of believing this false reality is it triggers behaviors in us that cause us to consume. How much carbon does our consumer economy drive into the atmosphere just powering unnecessary consumption, let alone the waste stream it created.
I think advertisements try to mold me into an "individual" with desires to buy buy buy. I just look to the waste and crap in my own life that I can't avoid making just interacting with our civilization and I wonder if it is right to suggest that maybe this is the consequence of the human mind being manipulated by advertising in the western world for 50 years or more?
Seems to me we're trapped in this never ending quest for the production of more items by having out unconscious desires manipulated and that's what's destroying the planet.
Maybe the science isn't just about the planet, maybe it's also about us?
IIRC is the name of Alastair Reynolds books telling the story of when an AI Observatory spotted evidence of another AI.
It's a great read!
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