Friday, February 25, 2005
Take that, Patriot blog
Ignorant people are scared of RFID at the libraries. The first letter, from Jack Finzel almost sounds like a parody, but I get the sad feeling that it's not. I'm more interested in Afrida Freeman's claims. Afrida says that wireless technology is unhealthy. RFID is bad because it bathes us in radiation. Oh no! Oh, by the way, you know that light stuff you see? That's radiation, too. Where are our darkboxes? Our health is doomed without darkboxes!
Then there's some stuff about how evidence shows cell phones cause cancer. That evidence is quite debatable, but let's just grant it as true. Cell phones do not use radio waves. So it isn't even relevant. If only these people would go check out a book from their library (by attendant, of course) and read up a bit on radiation, they might learn something before spouting their OMG WE'RE GOING TO DIE all over us.
Also, those who had hoped to fight wireless corporations cannot do any longer. Mr. George W. Bush signed a law on Feb. 18 according to which we the people cannot file class action lawsuits against corporations.
Well, there you go. Now you have a good idea of how logical and sensible this letter was. We still can file class action lawsuits, but we actually need to have a case, now. The horror.
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