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Not lead paint. IMPORTED lead paint. That makes it all exotic.

So, Gekko, no tablet not ever no for you, then? You won't be crawling back here 4Q when HP releases the sexolicious webOS tablet?!

If you were a minimalist, you wouldn't need a damned keyboard. Once again, you are FAIL, Gekko.

*snort* The scientific consensus of who? The scientists paid *by* the industry to run the tests *for* the industry? We saw how self-oversight worked with BP. That went well. But hey, maybe you'll *like* your leukemia or brain tumor. If the latter, give it a cute name. Maybe Fred?

If you're worried about radiation, stop getting any medical imaging, quit taking flights in aircraft, throw away granite countertops, and go live in a salt mine where radon gas doesn't seep through.

Radiation is a natural part of everyday life. Your body can handle the exposure that daily life gives it. I work in the business. You're more likely to die from eating too much shitty food and not enough exercise. Your cell phone won't kill you, frozen pizzas will.

I work with many old-heads who were former reactor operators. Some of these guys received big doses of radiation when doing regular maintenance like steam generator tube inspection, where you enter the cold leg of the OTSG wearing an ice vest, two banana suits, and a respirator. This is all monitored and only for a short period of time. They know the exact dose they're receiving each minute, and that exposure is monitored by OSHA and the NRC. These old-heads all have five kids each, a few grandkids, and cancer-free.

We have studies radiation exposure extensively. We know its effects. We can predict it under various scenarios, model it, and protect against extended exposure.

You will not die from a cell phone, CT scan, or nuclear power plant. You will die from eating processed food with too much sodium.

Care to construct a counter-argument, or are you just going to sit there, dumbfounded and with your thumb up your ass, still thinking that any kind of radiation is fatally toxic and poisonous to the human body?

How do you think bandaids and syringes are sterilized? Strawberries? They all get zapped with a high radiation dose for a short period of time. This exposure is many thousands of times more powerful than you or I receive while talking on a cell phone. And we consume and use those products without dying. You can look it up and track it using units of Rad, Rem, Sieverts, Roentgen, etc.

You know you're in trouble when the conspiracy theorists are the majority.

Like someone else said, the radiation emitted by phones is the same type emitted by pretty much every other gadget that your house has been teeming with since the '60s.

You get way more radiation from your microwave than you ever will from your phone.

And if you enumerate all the carinogenic things in your life and rank them by risk, you'll find that eletronics are the least of your worries.
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IBanana?

Mike, you're still trying to be irreverent, but succeeding at being irrelevant.

Congratulations!

well as the great Remo Gaggi once said - "Look... why take a chance?"

You're getting radiation right now. Educate yourselves, and stop being the clueless American public that I have to put up with on a weekly basis:

http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/fact-sheets/bio-effects-radiation.html

Do you have any idea how many stupid barroom conversations I've had with people who don't know a damn thing about my industry, yet somehow claim I'm killing myself and everyone around me? Answer: lots.

Your cell phone is not a danger. Ignore this junk science.

-Bosco
m105 -> NX70v -> NX80v -> iPhone -> iPhone 3G

:-(lol)

Who owns the thread. Who owns their thoughts? i seem to recall an individual trying to own a thread just for sharing a thought.

E-T

If you knew htf to actually *comprehend* words you see on the screen, you would have seen a link that said it all, rpa, you dimwit.

Con - in so many words - you're f******d--------

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hlVGuVESYOu2BXRotQtAQU6vCHGgD9GE1A8G0

Thanks Abosco. Well written.

Who puts a phone to their ear anymore anyway? BT anyone?
Pat Horne

Since WebOS & Android both STILL lack voice dialing over BT, you pretty much have to take yer life into your hands (radiation-wise) and hold 'em up to your head. It's absolutely inexplicable that Palm & Google cannot conjure up BT voice dialing for their respective platforms. This is mid-2010, not 2001. Heck, Palm still hasn't figured how to add programmable voicemail #'s into WebOS so I shouldn't be at all surprised.
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Man, I hated SpaghettiOs even as a kid, when they first came out! And I saw that item before you posted it. And if you think only "losers" eat crap in a can, dig this:

>>>But then [Matt Lauer] hit a major slump. Four shows he hosted were canceled, one right after the other, and though he found some cable television work, he couldn't land a new job at the same level. In an emotional and financial crisis, he gave up his New York City lifestyle and moved into a very small cabin upstate to reevaluate his career. He needed money but didn't want to wait tables, because he knew he had less of a shot at a resurrection if anyone recognized him and perceived him as down and out. So Matt applied for a job as a tree trimmer, because he knew his face would be obscured by a hard hat. The next day, the phone rang. Matt answered it, expecting it to be the tree trimming company responding to his query, but it was Bill Bolster, the general manager of WNBC-TV.

>>>"He gets on the phone and he says, ‘This guy just brought me a tape of yours a couple of days ago, and I'd seen you around, but this tape got my attention. I know you used to host this show…what are you doing for dinner tomorrow night?

>>>"'Let me look in my book,'" Matt recalled saying, laughing in retrospect. "I'm doing nothing. I'm eating Beefaroni in a can."

That's from: Got What It Takes? Successful People Reveal How They Made It to the Top by Bill Boggs

richf wrote:
abosco, I hope and pray you are correct. I do not need any more radiation in my life. I worked on the flight line in the vicinity of nuclear missiles while in the air force. We all wore dosimeters but were never told what the results were. At the time we were young and immortal and I never heard anyone say anything. I would be seriously upset if something that gives me hours of entertainment were killing me( my phone). I also hope you are a nuclear engineer and speak with authority. I lived a few miles(55) from TMI and there was a lot of junk talk being passed around at the time. Bottom line is your words give me some relief. Thanks very much.

I am a mechanical engineer in the nuclear industry. I actually did some work for TMI last year (I work for a consulting company). I don't see any reason why you would be in danger from your military experience. Nuclear missiles contain almost pure Pu-239 or U-235. They naturally emit alpha radiation. Alpha particles (essentially just a helium nucleus, 2 protons 2 neutrons) are large and blocked by your skin without any damage at all. The only way alpha poses a risk is if it's ingested, where it has direct line-of-sight to internal organs, not impeded by the skin, and does a lot of damage. But when scientists handle samples of weapons-grade Uranium or Plutonium, your really just need to hold it with a piece of paper between your hand and the metal. It is warm to the touch. The only reason why they even wear gloves is to prevent the oil from human skin from contaminating the purity. The same goes for reactor fuel - it's safe to the touch, but you shouldn't anyway because of the oil in your skin.

As for TMI, the releases from the plant were negligible. The containment building did its job, and while a $2B reactor got wrecked, we as residents were not in any danger. The only permanent effect was that Jane Fonda got a generation of people to have an irrational fear of nuclear energy and convinced people that this country can run exclusively on wind and solar. All the while, coal and gas are being burned to provide true, useful baseload energy while emitting carbon and soot in the air. Nuclear energy can do that with none of the polluting emissions, but Americans are so afraid of this wonderful technology that we pioneered while all other countries are charging ahead with new nuclear plants. Our new builds are stuck in regulatory and legal gridlock.

-Bosco
m105 -> NX70v -> NX80v -> iPhone -> iPhone 3G

There is another technology that we created and pioneered that solves that problem. We used to reprocess used nuclear fuel in this country. During reactor operation, new fissile U-235 and Pu-239 is bred. From used fuel, you can extract the highly radioactive nuclides (1% of total waste) and recycle the rest into new fuel, since reactor grade fuel is only ~5% U-235 and 95% U-238. The resulting waste is of a smaller volume and far less radioactive - trimming the half life from a few thousand years to a few hundred. This waste is then vitrified (turned into a stable glass) to resist leeching if it contacts water, then placed into the sturdiest, most indestructible containers ever made. You can watch a few vides on YouTube of the government performing tests to try to destroy these containers by simulating transportation accidents. Covering it in jet fuel and setting it ablaze for a few hours, putting it on a train and hitting it head-on into concrete, dropping a cask from a crane, etc. This waste can be buried under Yucca Mountain without risk of leaching into the water supply. The problem is regulatory and politically natured, not technical. From an engineering standpoint, the waste issue has been solved.

Why don't we reprocess fuel in this country? Because Jimmy Carter was afraid that companies would extract the Plutonium from the fuel and sell it to terrorists to build bombs back in the 70's. We have tried to get reprocessing back in this country, but to no avail. As a result, other countries have been going full speed ahead with building reprocessing facilities and geological repositories. France, Japan, Russia, China, and virtually all other nuclear-powered nations reprocess fuel for civilian use. If anything, the USA should be able to do it with an been higher security standard than any of these other nations because of our defense budget.

By the way, Yucca Mountain is built and fully functional. It's strictly a regulatory issue. It is the most-studied piece of land in the history of the world.

-Bosco
m105 -> NX70v -> NX80v -> iPhone -> iPhone 3G

I'd expect anything we build to store spent fuel would be more secure than the Russians. I would hope.

Then again, where'd all that anthrax come from, eh?

Anyway, you go ahead and get an iPhone 4. I'll be content to watch. From afar. Hmmm... what's that strange object on your ear that you hold your iPhone to? LMAO!

I think some engineers will be packing their bags and getting pink slips in the morning. Maybe this kind of screw up is what Ruby was talking about ;-)
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>>>what Ruby was talking about

That was the guy before him:
http://mikecane.wordpress.com/2007/09/07/dumbass-of-the-year-ed-colligan/

Someone pointed out that Apple is selling a bumper case for the 4. The first such case Apple has ever sold. So, someone understood this would happen and that case was made for it.

A full metal jacket to help the SAR rating.

E-(

Erm, a full metal jacket is a type of hard metal-encased bullet.

Did you mean a full lead jacket?
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A well designed jacket that is appealing to both men and women. Could be built into phone holders or a slip cover.
It would look like any phone holder except lined with lead.

E-T

We could call this innovation full metal jacket except that hkklife informs me this refers to a "bullet". Do we need to come up with another name. Any thoughts? Though this solution appeared like a speeding bullet to help the customers peace of mind.

E-T

More thoughts: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/I_have_a_pocket_cell_phone_case_that_has_a_sheet_of_lead_in_the_lining._Will_the_lead_prevent_harmful_radio_waves_from_entering_my_body_will_the_phone_take_an_incoming_call

E-T

Easy. Easy. Just take the pill and then wash it down with a sip of water. :-)
Pat Horne

Wrapping tinfoil around your head will also keep the CIA lizard people fluoride mind control away
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