[TriLUG] Public service message

[jonc at nc.rr.com]

There is a kook in England who has fixated on the word "radiation", as
in: Wireless routers give off "radiation"... Radiation in the sense that
light or radio signals are radiation.  

He recently helped the BBC 1 do a Special on this silent
potential-unstudied-danger to our children.  They went to a school to
show how much "radiation" is in the typical classroom (due to the
schools wireless router), but even the 4th graders knew enough science
to laugh at them - at which point the teacher politely kicked them out.

The show actually made it to air: 10% science (shaken vigorously), 30%
paranoia, 30% confusion, and 30% emotional appeals ("for the sake of the
children"). If the presenters had all worn tin-foil hats it would have
been hilarious.... Unfortunately, they didn't, and they were serious, so
it was absurdly tragic.

----- Original Message -----
From: Brian Daniels <bitmage at pobox.com>
Date: Friday, May 25, 2007 3:37 pm
Subject: [TriLUG] Public service message
To: trilug <trilug at trilug.org>

> http://www.wellingtongrey.net/miscellanea/archive/2007-05-27--the-
> truth-about-wireless-devices.html
> 
> How will the steering committee deal with this threat to our 
> membership?
> Happy Friday/holiday, everybody!
> 
> --Brian
> 
> -- 
> Be it thy course to busy giddy minds
> With foreign quarrels; that action, hence borne out,
> May waste the memory of the former days.
>                	Henry IV, Part 2
> 	
> 
> Brian Daniels                  bitmage at pobox.com
>      http://www.eviloverlord.net
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