"John Smith" wrote in message
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Richard Clark wrote:
On Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:59:58 -0700, John Smith
wrote:
I never claimed
What you haven't claimed could fill that popular page-turner, the
Congressional Record.

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC

Well, I did "stretch" the facts on one point, blood has about 1/3 the
salt content of sea water (not meaning the content of "sodium chloride"
specifically!--or, any other element ...)--however, the point was not
being made on heating blood until it "burned"--but just to do
"noticeable damage" ... I am sure you will grant me that "writers'
license." grin

Regards,
JS

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.

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".

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.

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.

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).

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.