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Tuesday, March 30, 2004
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Hello Salon. Are you there?
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Hawaii's America's Blog Story
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My last story will be sorrowfully continued as I promised and soon it will. My personal problem with that ideology in my current time is that I'm particularly disturbed by any connection with this too much seriousness stuff. How could I yawn and then miss the current news?. In this case, the story appears in my local paper that is making fun of the limited percipience of children involved in the blogging sport and/or warning of the inherent dangerousness of pedophiles aiming for the younger generation bloggers.
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Many Hawaii (sic) teens are putting themselves and their families at risk by setting up 'blog' sites and revealing intimate daily details of their lives - just the kind of information pedophiles and other criminals are seeking.
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As far as I believe, there aren't any pedophile author members permitted in the Salon blog club. And that is positively where my seriousness today ends.
You must be advised when you come across a blog man going by the name of Mark. He has a mean camera and boy, he does know how to use that thing! Do you remember the Raven? He will not tolerate eating in the same restaurant with loud children (or children making any sound for that matter…) What about Susan? No. None of these people mentioned so far would be or are potentially frightening to children. Susan does in fact warn children away from her blog. There is - yes, there is - a nasty critter on that thing that have bitten and in fact, eaten children. (Well, I never actually saw it but I swear that awful snake really scares me!)
Have you seen your state's paper version for this story as well? There are certainly a lot of them.
(One last time - I'm stating that the referred people linked to above are wonderful people- ya' got that?! Go read 'em if you dare.) |
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Sunday, March 28, 2004
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What Is Wrong with The World? |
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To be continued… |
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It's time to have a nice time on this Sunday. I haven't currently been away on any big exploration in this world. Here is my back door and here is my front door. I don't have time to fully explain what all of you already know is already a problem. I don't have the time because I really do other things in my life other than spending too much time behind a computer screen. There is no shame in spending an allotted time period in front of the computer. But for heaven's sake: Go surfing today. What - no beach with big waves? I'm sorry. Next time maybe you'll have time off to join me with your stick. Here is one of my beaches. I must confess that I don't spend a lot of time lounging on the warm sand. Well, you get it.
Yes, this story will continue. This is just a picture for the next jes-maybe.
On the beach there. Did you notice those things on the picture to the right here. That's right. They are Cocos nucifera L.. Keep that in mind. That's all for now. The surf is up this morning.
Wait a minute. What are those things in the upper right? Are those things Hawaiian? |
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Endemic Plants
Endemism, the occurrence of species within narrow geographical ranges, is second in importance only to species richness as a measure of biodiversity. Endemic plants are native to a particular place and found only there. Centers of endemism are areas where many endemic species occur together. Endemism correlates generally but not exclusively with species richness. The greatest numbers of endemics occur on islands, on mountain peaks, around desert springs, and in other unusual and isolated habitats. Arid zones are particularly rich in endemic succulent plants. Serpentine soils (composed primarily of hydrated magnesium silicate) typically support many endemic species wherever they occur, but particularly in the tropics.
Ecological Regions with the Most Endemic Plants
According to the World Wildlife Fund, the following ecological regions have the highest percentage of endemic plants:
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| Madagascar moist forest |
Madagascar |
| New Caledonian moist forest |
New Caledonia |
| Hawaii moist forest |
United States |
| Madagascar dry forest |
Madagascar |
| New Caledonia dry forest |
New Caledonia |
| Hawaii dry forest |
United States |
| Mexican pine-oak forest |
Mexico, Guatemala |
| Fynbos |
South Africa |
| Kwongan heathland |
Australia |
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Thursday, March 25, 2004
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The Proudest Monkey |
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It seems to me that my life is turned completely upside down lately. There isn't any major thing wrong. Well, not that I can contend anyway. I conclude that none of us have enough time to live a complete living. I mean the hours in a day in which we are allowed to be awake. To make sense. To work hard and enjoy our various products in which I provide to other "needers". And still having enough time left over in a given day to have some fun too. I simply cannot live in a state of constant seriousness. I must do without humorlessness. I need my main tools returned.
Once upon a time at a much earlier time in my life, the richenatrix and I lived through a complete inflammation of a previous house. During that particular disaster, the personal insurance firm that was thoughtlessly prevented from returning a great many of our counted owned thingies. Let me offer more explanation. My most important thingy was my stereo. I could do without any clothes or furniture or all of the thousands of canned goods underneath the various cabinets and the damn list continues ad infinitely. Good lord! Do you understand? I needed my music back to me immediately.
The time of due reiteration has come for both myself as well as my ever listening neighbors.
Thankfully, that thing has finally happened. Don't bother calling me - I can't hear the phone. |
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Crash Into Me
You've got your ball
you've got your chain
tied to me tight tie me up again
who's got their claws
in you my friend
Into your heart I'll beat again
Sweet like candy to my soul
Sweet you rock
and sweet you roll
Lost for you I'm so lost for you
You come crash into me
And I come into you
I come into you
In a boys dream
In a boys dream
Touch your lips just so I know
In your eyes, love, it glows so
I'm bare boned and crazy for you
When you come crash
into me, baby
And I come into you
In a boys dream
In a boys dream
If I've gone overboard
Then I'm begging you
to forgive me
in my haste
When I'm holding you so girl
close to me
Oh and you come crash
into me, baby
And I come into you
Hike up your skirt a little more
and show the world to me
Hike up your skirt a little more
and show your world to me
In a boys dream.. In a boys dream
Oh I watch you there
through the window
And I stare at you
You wear nothing but you
wear it so well
tied up and twisted
the way I'd like to be
For you, for me, come crash
into me
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I concede that this song is a bit older since its release. It came out in circa '96 if my memory serves correctly. Hell, I don't even care. I've always enjoyed the old jazz-as-if tones like BB King, Lowell George and many others.
I have always enjoyed the astounding opportunity to tape the live concerts performed by this guy (Dave) of the Dave Matthews Band. Attendant people of the '90's discovered that live-concert-tape experience was a unique entertainment possibility. |
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I also remember some of that other guy's "jazz" together with his strange lyrics as well. I seem to be just old enough to remember taping his live concerts as well. I believe his name was Jerry. Don't worry. If you don't remember him then you are probably fans of some groups that I'm not even aware of. |
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Monday, March 22, 2004
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Microsoft Was Here |
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Do various software companies provide irritating things to you? Did you catch the offender in the illustration above?
A long time ago when I began my educational phase, "personal computers" were a largely unknown collection. There were large computers to be put in use by equally large and seemingly important companies.
An upstart software provider company known as Microsoft programmatically impressed me. Some of Microsoft's original computer technologies were well planned and designed.
The computer world quickly grew to be very large. Soon, nearly every family owned a personnel computer. Each family child was provided their own computer as well. Microsoft made a lot of money selling software to everyone and virtually taking over that very specialized market.
And Microsoft wanted to take over software provision - not simply the game-playing family that were storing recipes and studying their checkbook balances. It’s true. I was impressed with Microsoft in those days. Those days did not last very long.
The newspaper followed Microsoft's endeavor too. Do you remember the published piece on or about September 21 of 1997? I don’t really want to pick on people. They don’t deserve it right? Sure…And if you’re a big fan of Microsoft save it for the next guy will you?
 Dr Miller (seen to the left) used to be employed as CIO for the Navy. She no longer works with the Navy. Instead, she is currently a college professor teaching all of the new generation what to do the right way. Good luck now Ann without Microsoft.
The Navy USS Yorktown ship part of a so-called Smart Ship system left Naval base at Norfolk, Virginia, and never returned under its own power or its navigation computer system.
While Microsoft continued to exalt the success of its NT operating system over Unix-based systems, the US Navy was having second thoughts about putting NT at the helm. A system failure on the USS Yorktown temporarily paralyzed the cruiser, leaving it stalled in port for the remainder of a weekend.
"For about two-and-a-half hours, the ship was what we call 'dead in the water,'" said Commander John Singley of the Atlantic Fleet Surface Force.
The warship was testing its new “Smart Ship” system, which uses off-the-shelf PCs to automate tasks that sailors have traditionally done themselves. "The Navy started the Smart Ship program with three essential goals in mind: improve combat readiness, reduce crew workload and operating costs, and to do it safely," said Singley.
The statement said that Unix was still being considered for future Smart Ship technologies, acknowledging that many systems already utilize Unix-based systems and that a "government team is currently researching the best technical and financial solution[s] ... of which the decision to use Windows NT or Unix will play a major role."
In a statement issued this week on why NT was chosen over Unix, the Navy said that while Windows NT was specified in the Statement of Work as the operating system for the workstations in question, other components of a coming upgrade will primarily utilize Unix-based systems.
Singley said that human factors were considered in the decision to use NT, partly because it was thought to have a more friendly graphical user interface (GUI) than Unix systems. Critics of the move pointed out that modern Unix-like operating systems have multiple GUIs to choose from.
Some additional factors may have influenced the decision to go with NT as well. In the Navy's "Information Technology for the 21st Century" (IT-21) report, NT 4.0 is named the operating system standard. In addition, some commercial, off-the-shelf products were used, which tend to come pre-installed with Microsoft products. Furthermore, Microsoft's Bill Gates nominated the Smart Ship program for the ComputerWorld/Smithsonian Awards Program.
But there has been growing public scrutiny over the use of Windows NT in critical enterprise environments.
"Why Windows NT Server 4.0 continues to exist in the enterprise would be a topic appropriate for an investigative report in the field of psychology or marketing, not an article on information technology," said John Kirch, a networking consultant and Microsoft certified professional, in his white paper, Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 versus Unix. "Technically, Windows NT Server 4.0 was no match for any Unix operating system."
The paper goes on to say that, when reliability is of utmost importance, Unix-like systems were preferable. That includes the free, open-source Linux operating system, which was recently shown to be the only non-Microsoft operating system whose user base is steadily growing. Vendors including Oracle, Informix, and Computer Associates have recently announced plans to support Linux.
As most of you are already informed, Microsoft has had a recent hell’s living with security problems aboard its own operating system (to name only one). Lately with the oncoming 2003 and 2004 OS’s, Gates has said that they’ll do a lot better.
Don’t bother to read the following guarantee. Yes, it is better than what it was originally. What does it say now? Well, nothing!
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Tuesday, March 16, 2004
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Is the Hubble Worn Out or is O'Keefe?
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NASA representatives on "60 Minutes" said things like, "If you throw your car keys up into the air, the keys do not come back down to your hand - they disappear while accelerating away from the earth. A question comes to mind. Why is this strange thing happening? Well, it isn't with the keys but what if just that same scheme is happening in the universe. The universe was created supposedly in what has been historically referred to as the "big bang". Let's assume for a moment that I'm a kind of sorta somewhat normal kind of person that assumes what other normality assumes: The universe began as a large lump of stuff and exploded into tiny little pieces that expanded in a way that created the universe. Just who thinks about something in this class is a little bigger than I can assume as a truth but let's not worry about that right away. But wait! People would expect that we could figure out where the logical center of the universe is. The center then becomes a logical center point of so-called gravity that would slow down the expansion of the universe eventually - and in a very long time.
We kind of have a problem at this point. The universe is not only still getting bigger but the universe's expansion process is speeding up.
Allow me to pose a personal question that I simultaneously expect from some other somewhat normal people: "What the hell is going on here?" If I were to ask Einstein that same question, he might initially answer, "Beats me but that sure is a nice telescope you folks have…"
Because he originally thought the Universe was static, Einstein conjectured that even the emptiest possible space, devoid of matter and radiation, might still have a dark energy, which he called a "Cosmological Constant." When Edwin Hubble discovered the expansion of the Universe, Einstein rejected his own idea, calling it his greatest blunder.
I don't plan to criticize anyone in administrative charge of NASA at this time. Nor have I ever. Spending huge amounts of money and perhaps hurting or killing some astronauts in a fantastic exploration is, in my opinion, a still greater mankind philosophical and scientific return as well as revenue than perhaps, instead, a war.
The mystery seems to be a thing called the dark energy in the universe that seems to be repelling stuff that should not be happening. Is any of that conversation physically correct? The best way that we have to explore and explain things that occur in this big universe is a little item known to most folks as a telescope. In fact the Hubble telescope aided in the discovery of this strange accelerating universe expansion. Our telescope floating about in space (which began having a real eyesight problem on its own) has expended its expectant lifetime. The probably but not to be officially named JWST is the current Hubble telescope replacement and is due to be launched in 2011.
Apparently, simply providing ongoing maintenance on the current Hubble is too dangerous. Yes, we all know that those things called space shuttles or rockets are dangerous. (No disrespect or dishonor is meant or implied to the family of those previously killed in space traveler disasters.) I believe that Dubya is currently planning to finish building a working space station and, for that matter, expedite us onward to another planet? Mars is about 1275 times the distance to the known earth moon. Clearly the NASA administrator Sean O'Keefe finds each and every one of these endeavors to be dangerous endeavors.
Good lord. Does this remind me of anything?
A newly released tape recording from November 21, 1962, reveals NASA disagreed with President John F. Kennedy's number one priority at the time: to beat the Soviet Union in landing a man on the moon.
In a heated exchange with Kennedy, NASA chief James Webb was asked if he agreed with the president on that priority. "No sir, I do not…." he replied.
No single space project in this period will be more impressive to mankind, or more important for the long-range exploration of space; and none will be so difficult or expensive to accomplish," Kennedy said. |
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Saturday, March 13, 2004
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How Gas Prices Evolved
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It isn't such a bad gasoline station commercial operation at my Halawa Heights station. The actual pumps are located in the rear of the illustrated building. The prices for the gasoline sold at the location are respectably low on our state's average.
I always appreciate the world's weekends although I never allocate weekend time exclusively for life's fun since I might miss the remaining 71% portion. It's always nice during a weekend because I don't have a lot of things to be irritated or unhappy about.
So let's see how things are going.
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In the era of circa 1930 it seems that the proposed cost of gasoline began to be advertised in much the same way that America advertised everything and every price. I don't know about you but at least in my case, I always see items at my paradigm exemplary of $1.99, $3.99, or the laudably expensive radioland subscriptions of $39.95. The vendors always intend to really earn the major proportion of another dollar but they didn't actually brandish it. Of course that example is a bit more modern. Back in those early days when cars were lined up in gas stations that greedy mobilized population was not about to be willing to fork over a whole other penny were they? Just as ridiculous as that sounds - that is exactly what was happening. In fact, in more recent days, there were certain laws (in Ohio) that did not allow the price of gasoline to increase by a whole penny.
In the fore days in which gasoline was beginning to be sold for automobiles the gasoline itself was being pumped into an overhead measurable container and eventually drained into the automobile via gravity. The actual price for a gallon of gas was a dime. It doesn't really matter if the price of the gasoline was increased by nine tenths of a cent or a whole penny, the increase proportion was roughly a ten percent increase and that was a lot.
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At one time that began in Arizona, the old nine tenths of a penny was meant to inspire the people's thoughts that the fuel portioned item was claiming to be in some way "accurate". Gasoline pumps those days are still recognizable and are still counting the gallons delivered to the nearest 100th of a gallon. Well, they knew the same thing that was beginning in the legislation of Arizona as it has also in the state of Hawaii. The accuracy of fuel pump delivery was accurate - each pump delivered a measured volume of quantity. Funny too was the way that measure determiners properly measured the quantity of fuel delivered and compared with that actual amount to the measurement provided by the pump dials. You know what - the same way that was accomplished by those old pumps; put the fuel in a measuring cup and examine the actual amount. Do you know what the actual problem was in Arizona about the accuracy of gas pumps? That's right - nothing. Each pump was delivering the actual volume of gasoline indicated. That is correct about most pumps.
The problem was the temperature of the gasoline that is sold at any given time. It is good to live in Alaska and buy gasoline rather than live in Arizona or Hawaii and buy gasoline. Each customer is vended the identical volumes of gasoline but depending on the temperature of the delivered gasoline, its weight may vary significantly.
Hawaii, has practiced some form of temperature correction of retail sales of motor fuel for the past 29 years. Does your state? |
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0.9793 |
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0.9822 |
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0.9852 |
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233.8 |
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This gauge on a five gallon prover shows the ± 6 in.3 permissible meter error, a range equivalent to 1.04% (12/1155=0.010390)
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Sunday, March 07, 2004
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the lesson of the moth
i was talking to a moth
the other evening
he was trying to break into
an electric light bulb
and fry himself on the wires
why do you fellows
pull this stunt i asked him
because it is the conventional
thing for moths or why
if that had been an uncovered
candle instead of an electric
light bulb you would
now be a small unsightly cinder
have you no sense
plenty of it he answered
but at times we get tired
of using it
we get bored with the routine
and crave beauty
and excitement
fire is beautiful
and we know that if we get
too close it will kill us
but what does that matter
it is better to be happy
for a moment
and be burned up with the beauty
than to live a long time
and be bored all the while
so we wad all our life up
into one little roll
and then we shoot the roll
and that is what life is for
it is better to be a part of beauty
for one instant and then cease to
exist than to exist forever
and never be a part of beauty
our attitude toward life
is come easy go easy
we are like human beings
used to be before they became
too civilized to enjoy themselves
and before i could argue with him
out of his philosophy
he went and immolated himself
on a patent cigar lighter
i do not agree with him
myself i would rather have
half the happiness and twice
the longevity
but at the same time i wish
there was something i wanted
as badly as he wanted to fry himself
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Saturday, March 06, 2004
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Happy Birthday Dr. Suess
I heard last week that the 100th anniversary or should I say birth of a man by the name of Theodore Geisel is being almost universally adored while representing a very different author that I met in my early youth. The books that I was introduced to, The cat in The Hat and Green Eggs and Ham delighted me in sort of delirious way. The books were full of words that I could eventually sound out phonetically but missed entirely any entry for these new words in my mother's dictionary. For that matter, those words were unfamiliar by anyone's mentality that could have been any aide for me. And I just didn't care. I was introduced to "other" books in the 1960's while attending school. Such "educational" books featured the almighty couple named Dick and Jane, who together with their dog Spot, meant to encourage my own skills in readership. I was attending the first grade while living in an old house of our family. I swear I didn't have much of a problem at school although I know that my mother was concerned because I often missed some of my school classes all together. I remembered that she asked me what had happened to me and why it was that school representatives were calling her to inform her that her son had virtually disappeared. Well, I can imagine that folks in these days might be frightened when their own children were kidnapped or lost or perhaps simply askance or awry in some capriciously phantasmagorical way.
You might as well stop reading this Mom because no one really pays much attention to me, either then or now much but I do what I want to do. I told my teachers that I really didn't want to read those books anymore. I recall that the actual reading process in those days occupied a primary post in class itself among the students themselves. Each student had a shared role of reading from Dick and Jane aloud in the presence of the rest of the class. I confess that I wasn't embarrassed about reading from Dick and Jane in class company with the rest of students - and there were plenty who really had their own limits to their reading ability - but I just didn't like those stories.
The teachers suggested to me that I should take my books home with me and study them privately. It was in my teachers' opinion that the learning experience would be an educationally enhancement for me. In those days, students often walked to and from school themselves. I'm not sure that children do that sort of thing any more. But I did experience a kind of freedom from the rest of the accompanying world and I could choose for myself to do what I considered to be the right thing to do.
Just a moment. I'm talking about one of my favorite writers in that era, Dr. Suess ( yes, named after his mother). Between 1937 and 1991 he published more than 40 books, which have sold half a billion copies between them. Dr Suess nearly burned his first book, while it was turned down by 27 other publishers
Dr Suess did not have children. He didn't even like children and was not particularly fond of spending time with them either. He was concerned that children were surprising and mostly unpredictable.
The Butter Battle Book, published in 1984, about the arms race was his most controversial work. Taking the place of the US and the USSR, or perhaps the German East and West are the Yooks and the Zooks, who disagree on whether bread should be eaten butter-side down, or butter-side up. The story ends with a blank page, allowing readers to imagine the result of the rising tensions for themselves. The book remained on the New York Times' bestseller list for six months - for adults. The televised version of the book was shown in the USSR in 1990; Dr Seuss joked that it was after this that the country began falling apart.
Initially, I simply had to do away with those "other books". I considered actually placing them in the garbage receptacle but the devious six year old that I was was cautioned about having the book revoked and thus saved themselves from my otherwise "accident" and thus was beleaguered at school by both fellow students and teachers about my inability to perform by myself keeping forth with my supplies that were leant to me. Bullshit! Those books by whatever unknown author were in my own opinion dead and I buried them while I was hidden in my own backyard.
Good work Theodore Suess and happy birthday!
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Friday, March 05, 2004
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Neighborhood Cell Phone Antennas
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Historically, I think you'd have to agree that our fancy but archaic communication method seems to have recently attained the world's vendor. Just take a look at the kids these days - their population being only a minority - of a major accompaniment of communicative beings with the so-called cell phones.
How do cell phones work? Yeah! Just exactly like the walkie-talkies that we once used many decades ago. The only difference is that now the "walkie-talkie" has become the apprehensively expensive modern do-hickey. It has now enhanced the mandated half mile communicative potential to an aggrandized worldwide range in a pocket sized item.
Aren't the things amazing that were and are accomplished by utilizing that thing discovered by Ben in 1752 called electricity. I think so but not all agree. Since the early days of electricity transportation or the use of x-rays for children's shoe fitting, people have instigated one or an amalgamate of lawsuits involving dangerous exposure to one form of radiation or another. Since then, most of those same lawsuits have decreased in significance but haven't disappeared entirely. For example, who cares if it is dangerous for the police to use radars to catch speeding drivers in automobiles?
Who cares if we have to string wires over our heads to run my light bulbs and power my television and radio. I think we all know that magnetic fields induced by those wires don't cause any harm right?
In relation to power lines a so-called magnetic field encountered in any particular circumstances will relate mainly to the circuit current and the distance from the line. In most situations for high voltage power lines at 100,000 volts or more, average field levels of 0.4 µT or above are encountered at distances of several hundred feet away from the line.
The paper said: Major U.S. Cancer Lawsuit Ends: An EMF Era Comes to a Close? Plaintiffs Cite Lack of Clear Evidence. A major lawsuit over childhood cancer and electromagnetic fields was withdrawn on October 14, a move that may represent the end for such litigation in the United States.
According to our court, those electrical things must be safe because we all want them and need them.
So the majority of the people have concluded that electricity is safe. Listening to a radio which has the same radiation emitted from antennas in your and my cities is also safe. Well it must be safe because we're modern people. And we modern people can't live without electricity or television can we? Using just that same logic for argument would amuse me the same way saying that we can't possibly safely exist without cell phones on our freeways right? I have to know where my children are even though there are no longer many more pay phones in the normal world.
 The problem with the electrical lines being stringed about the world doesn't seem to be a safety problem. A person can venture beneath electrical wires in order to obtain a Christmas tree. The problem with them is that they are just the ugliest things that we string up just about everywhere. If we can live with the incompetently planned electric lines everywhere then we must be able to handle the cell phones and their new antenna population? People want to be able to reach me wherever I am doing whatever I happen to be doing. What if I burn myself on the barbeque in the back yard? I can't simply dial the phone inside. I must be able to contact the emergency relief from my backyard. There must be an antenna within certain needed limits. Is that alright with everyone? It was alright with my neighbor. Just look at him together with the new cell-dandelion that has suddenly sprouted in his backyard.
Apparently the question is simple. How much are you willing to spend for world "progress" or "improvement" or just plain environmental "change"? I'm not alone here with my answer. |
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Friday, February 27, 2004
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I'll probably be fixing this thing later. I'm just having fun...
I'm finished. Now back to the next story.
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