Non-IT News Thread
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Samsung announces two giant new phones today:
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Image from today's blast in China.
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**The following is my spleen vent / rant - you've been warned. I spent 15 minutes sitting in my car yelling at the radio and returned to write the following.
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The local talk radio station here in Victoria just played a full 15min clip of "Dr" Barrie Trower spouting off about the dangers of WiFi radiation. I believe this is the clip they played, though as a disclaimer I could not listen to it again without having my gorge rise.Here's the email I sent in to the host:
Hello Mr Jessop,
I am incredibly surprised and disappointed that you gave this nut job any airtime – with even some cursory research you would see his claims have been debunked from coast to coast.
Should you consider his claims to have any merit I would ask you to try an experiment at home for yourself. Purchase a roast and place it in the microwave on high for 5 minutes. Remove it from the microwave and cut it in half. You will observe that microwaves (AKA non-ionizing radiation around 2.4ghz, AKA wifi, AKA millimetre frequencies, AKA EHF, etc) does not penetrate through the whole roast - it acts upon the first water molecules it encounters, cooking it from the outside inward. Now imagine someone turned a “microwave weapon” on you – how do you think it would affect your body? Is it reasonable to think that this would affect your internal organs before your skin?
In regards to the "microwave radiation weapons" he mentions, they are indeed real! They do work quite nicely (although I consider them unsafe & very susceptible to abuse) and have been tested by (at minimum) the United States Army. Please see the below link for a brief demonstration. You will notice that no one drops dead, no one's brains explode out their ears and no ladies present have their ovaries 'nuked from the inside out as Barrie Trower would have you believe such a powerful (200,000 watt!!) microwave would do.
If you require any further proof of this man’s quackery, I have linked below to some further reading. I would be much obliged if you would cease to give these blatantly false claims any further air time. An apology for airing his garbage would be fantastic, though I will not hold my breath.
http://www2.worksafebc.com/i/posters/2014/ws14_07.html
http://www.macleans.ca/authors/colby-cosh/i-bet-mr-trower-has-a-delightful-accent/
http://www.emfandhealth.com/Barrie WiFi2.html
From a sincerely concerned listener who is tired of hearing this FUD regurgitated by those who trust you to display some journalistic integrity,
Matthew Speller
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@scottalanmiller said:
Image from today's blast in China.
That was yesterday. I was watching clips on the news last night. Or was then a new explosion?
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Early this morning is when I saw it on the news. I think it happened during the night in the US making it hard to figure out which day it was. I did see something about China discussing something for "24 hours" which had already past so likely over a day ago.
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I think that Panama's drought may be over! Whole country is in a massive storm. They really need it.
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Low-fat diets 'better than cutting carbs' for weight loss
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Greece crisis: MPs back €85bn bailout in marathon debate
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Fox spotted sleeping on window sill in Notting Hill, London:
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I've heard that Notting Hill was full of foxes. I guess that I always misunderstood that statement.
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Maybe Samantha's family was visiting!
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For those that don't remember Samantha Fox...
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Edited, not bad but not quite safe for work. Less safe than I had been expecting when it popped up.
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Click the link to see the famous picture of her. But here she is...
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Remember when KMart and Ames used to sell Samantha Fox posters all of the time?
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I had to look up who this was.... I was born in '89.
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