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Yea, this debate has been around for a long time and many people believe it is a danger to our health. They have to fix that.
Only if you climb them.
Maybe if you stand under them during a strong storm.
I suggest both of you should check out the following link I just found:
http://www.emf-health.com/articles-celltower.htm
So a website which sells a product supposedly to protect against EMF signals is a verifiable and credible scientific source?
Man, do you two ever agree on anything?
lol We actually had a mild agreement this morning with sports gambling.
There are many other sites out there also. However, the site didn't perform the studies, it is just indicating that studies have been performed by other countries and they had results indicating it increases our risk of getting cancer.
In America, the corporations just have to pay off the health studies and stuff.
Only because you hate corporations more than you fear gambling.
Like I said back in the sports gambling topic, the only reason why sports gambling isn't legalized is because the government won't be profiting from it. The whole country was built on gambling, but I guess sports gambling is the last piece the government can hold on to trying to make it seem like they are saving people's lives.
In my opinion, and what seems to be the conclusion thus far of scientific study, the greatest danger posed by cell phone towers is the increased risk of car accidents caused by people using their cellular phones (improperly) while driving.
I'm not at all worried about electro-magnetic fields and their power output.
Online gambling (poker websites) is also illegal. It's not just sports.
Obviously you've never heard of:
http://onionzeta.files.wordpress.com/2007/06/stat…
There are many studies though that indicate otherwise though. Cellphone is a mult-billion dollar industry, do you think they are going to want this type of information of it being harmful being revealed?
How is full-tilt poker around then if it's illegal?
Because it is not based in the US and not bound by US law.
To clarify then, I'm not worried about the EMFs used by cellular phones and their related infrastructure. Or more or less any other household appliance.
Yes. I do. If a company is selling a product that turns out to be dangerous from verifiable consumer research, then that company or its product suffers.
Look what happened with all the restrictions on toys after the toy scares from China.
Dude, it was a joke. It's a kid's cartoon. I must be really bad at this deadpan thing…
No you've just established a pattern of attempting (and mostly failing) to annoy me.
Okay, then if I may getback on topic here . . . . . . . .
Cellphone towers are just as dangerous to you as, say, a 747 falling out of the sky onto your head in the next two seconds . . . Get my drift?
I said it earlier in another thread that EMR affects some people and not others. Like flourescent lighting.
Just my not-so-humble opinion.
Yea but there are no studies out there in the United States that are investigating the harmful effects it has.
How can it affect some people and not others?
Perhaps because there isn't any harmful effects. We have powerful consumer advocacy groups. It's not like they couldn't fund the research if there was a compelling interest to do so, (and I think we would agree that there's a "compelling interest" from public sentiments of Luddite fear). So they do have studies. But they keep finding that there isn't any evidence for significant harm.
The same way different minerals, sunlight/seasons, diets, and chemicals have different effects on different people.
A lot of people in the United States go on it though.
The television show is on every single night.
Right, but the website itself is based in the Caribbean. Foreign companies can operate on American soil so long as they don't violate any local or federal laws. Hosting poker events in the states as an advertisement for your online business isn't illegal because there are many states that allow for legal gaming of that sort.
There's also a way around it because of the precise wording for financing your online gambling, but more or less they tried to get it nailed down to forcing people to comply with their in-state laws regarding gambling by forcing the money to stay in-state (regulation through the commerce clause).
The federal law itself against online gambling that was passed was an airdropped provision for a defense appropriations bill. Which only increases its stupidity.
Online gambling should stay banned though.
because… ?
Because let's just say your credit card gets stolen. What's easier for the criminal, gambling online or going to Vegas?
What's going to ruin lives faster with gambling, online or Vegas?
Your credit card is less likely to get stolen online than almost anywhere else you would use it at this point. You are more likely to get your wallet lifted when nearby a casino than have your credit card stolen online. Neither is particularly likely.
Lol yeah I'm with you on that one. Also depends where you are geographically in the United States. Places like Florida and Arizona have some of the worst storms and lighting in the world and they just come out of no where.
Not necessarily. Hackers out there have no lives and do everything they can to track your computer. Spyware, keystroke programs, etc.
They can and do track computers. But the risk of them tracking "Your" computer over someone else's is extraordinarily low and the amount of security for most online transactions, including those involving online gambling, is extraordinarily good. You're much more likely to be accosted by someone near a casino than to have your credit information exposed.
Besides that, there are credit card fraud protections in place that you can use that protect you as a consumer at any time (including after someone has somehow successfully compromised your account). Your individual danger is extremely low.
I don't like them at all. Of course they are a danger to our health, but you won't be seeing them going away any time soon because the corporations are making too much money from them, and corporations run the world.