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Re: Is monitor radiation slowly cooking me?



I read in sci.engr.electrical.compliance that Ed Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote (in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) about 'Is monitor radiation
slowly cooking me?', on Fri, 24 Oct 2003:
>
>"Walter Driedger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> All new electronics has that new electronics smell.  It's not the CRT
>> itself, its the electronics.  I recognize that smell since I was a kid and
>> that was when transistors still had light bulbs in them.  This is the
>first
>> time anyone told me I'm supposed to be scared of them.
>>
>> Walter.
>
>
>You are supposed to be afraid of many things.

I'd put it stronger than that. You are *required* to be afraid. If you
are not, you are clearly irresponsible and a threat to society.
>
>If you are not, then there's no money in the game of protecting you.
>
It's not by any means a game; the word 'racket' comes to mind.

Not that I advocate a 'free-for-all', of course. It's a value judgement
where to draw the line between public protection and 'nannying'.
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