"John Smith" wrote in message
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JB wrote:

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That's the trouble with you people. You insinuate by "asking a
question" or
making up a meaningless phrase like "noticeable damage" or "common sense
laws" in such a way that it panics the ignorant or non thinking people
into
running over a cliff or voting, then you sit back and feign ignorance.
Just
beware you don't get caught in your own stampede. I submit that power
tools
should be rendered safe before exposing them to people with "artistic
license" or who feel themselves "not responsible" for their actions
because
they are crazy.
...

Yes, I have heard that argument before, with tobacco ... Nicola Tesla
once said chewing gum was more damaging than alcohol ... This URL:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalidomide

This drug was once thought "safe" and marketed/sold in over 50
countries. It was thought so safe, it was given to pregnant women,
causing innumerable birth defects in children (children born without
hands/arms/feet/legs/etc.

Your argument against caution is simply ignorance such we have seen in
the past ... some of us learned. Even when the BEST AUTHORITIES say is
is "OK", use caution!

We know that the human body can be harmed by just sitting in the sun too
long. How much RF at what frequency has or has not caused damage to
those
who have been or are exposed, has been addressed only by FCC setting an
arbitrary specification without supporting data other than that supplied
by
military microwave studies with respect to high powered radar. Nor do
the
studies support that there is noticable damage by observing the military
safety standard or by the FCC standard that sets limits much lower, and
even
lower still for those who aren't knowlegable on the subject.. So then
it is
anything but an objective issue. I too have been exposed, but limited
my
exposure based on time averaging, so I have encountered field-densities
thousands of times greater than a cell phone for a several minutes and
hundreds of times, for as much as an hour with no discernible effect in
the
long or short term, but have encountered unknown intense fields with
short
term issues, such as headache in the evening after exposure, but gone in
the
morning. I have certainly encountered the same thing more often from
over
exposure to "a day at the beach".

OK, so do an experiment yourself to test the amount of damage!

1) Cut an opening in the door of your microwave.

2) Insert your hand.

3) Turn on the microwave for 5 seconds.

4) Repeat 1 - 3 until "noticeable damage" occurs.

5) Come up with a time you think it is "OK" to microwave your hand;
quite possibly, you may wish to consider a time MUCH LOWER (as a "test
standard", note that zero seconds will ALWAYS be safer) than the time to
do "noticeable damage."

(Disclaimer, the above is only meant as a warning to demonstrate the
ignorance of the previous posters logic -- i.e., IT SHOULD NEVER BE
ATTEMPTED FOR ANY LENGTH OF TIME!) Or, don't do this yourself, EVER!


Case in point: As a nonsmoker, I have problems reworking PC boards
because
my employer has no plausible deniability that any respiratory ailment I
might succumb to in later years wouldn't arguably be caused by a
self-inflicted lifestyle condition rather than an employment hazard.

ABSOLUTELY! OTHER things cause cancer/illness, a search of the internet
will provide you with countless and proven substances/tasks/jobs/etc.
which you should provide. If you think there is a real danger with ANY
job you take--QUIT--IMMEDIATELY! But then, you can't protect some from
themselves, those will die for their occupation/job. :-(


In the face of other more serious health risks such as sunstroke,
falling
off a tower or electrocution, RF exposure is a common sense issue for
hams
and those in the business, and a non-issue for those who will never
enter
restricted areas. In fact, there are far more daily hazardous things
that
we encounter, as to obliterate any test data. Your Petri dish and
sal****er
experiments have less credibility than the anecdotal.

Hey, some will make a trade off and face such serious consequences to
their health and safety in exchange for money -- I only hope their
compensation is justified, at least to them. Again, some people cannot
be saved from themselves ... and then, once they have made such a BAD
decision, they only wish to blame others.

If you are too stupid to protect yourself, am I required to do so? (I
mean I will, but then, I will not let you work at places injurious to
you! I mean, for God sakes man, you will raise insurance premiums
through the roof!)


It's like the illegal alien issue. Due to the lack of proper judgment
and
widespread hysteria, more housekeepers and migrant workers will suffer
than
gangbangers who find prison to be a climate-controlled mailing address
with
a few inconveniences, but "three hots and a cot". Deportation gives
opportunity for those with plenty of drug money to do it again. All the
hysteria does is help to polarize nationalism (and foreign nationalism).

Well, I guess, declines in the American living standards, importation of
3rd world conditions here, lack of medical care for millions, untold
people without home ownership, etc., is nice! -- if you like that sort
of thing ... personally, I would seek other/more-positive solutions.


With the population of foreign nationalist gringo haters in this country
outnumbering those in Mexico, why do we need fences at all? Perhaps for
a
start, we might plant more businesses in Mexico rather than having
everything shipped all the way from China.



Well, we could just give them everything, then hate them for having it
and work for slave wages getting it back and just keeping fed, I guess;
again, some people have different ideas.

Personally brother, I would move away from such conditions -- but that
is just me ...

Regards,
JS

You seem to have a real problem with reading comprehension too.