Study: 'Toxic Dust' on Computers Has Chemicals Linked to Diseases ( WE'RE DOOMED)

AP ^ | June 3, 2004

[sam_paine]

Oh for crying out loud. Even if there is a threat, these yoyos are just throwing a fit about computers? As if the manufacturing principle of a computer (semiconductors soldered to a printed circuit board made of flame-retardant FR4 fiberglass then encased in a zinc plated metal and plastic box) is any different than that of manufacturing a stereo, microwave oven, clock radio, remote control, digital camera, automobile EPA emissions controller, etc etc ad naseum.

[xJones]

So why the heck are we living longer? This is series!

Let's try to cheer up. For instance, the DUfers will never know what hit them....

[nuconvert]

"Hey, Dad, the man is here for the venetian blind."

Yogi: Well, go in my pocket and give him a couple of bucks for a donation and get rid of him.

[jocon307]

LOL, i just checked this thread to see the picture. I knew it would be here.

It must be an amazing thing to create a classic commercial. I bet it is always a surprise!

[nuconvert]

WHAT??! WE'RE DOOMED!!.

[Petronski]

[a moose once bit my resistor]

LOL

[Paul Atreides]

Wasn't it funny how things turned out, considering Joycelyn Elders? The president hires a woman who advocates masturbation, all the while he is doing it in the White House sink. Truth really is stranger than fric-, er, fiction.

[Blue Highway]

Dell Inc. and many other computer makers continue using a flame retardant related to PBDEs on circuit boards. They use lead, mercury and other toxins in central processing units and monitors. But Dell, along with Apple Computer Inc. and others, stopped using PBDEs in 2002.

"Dude, you're still getting a Dell!"

[nuconvert]

You think that was a coincidence???

[concerned about politics]

according to a new study by several environmental groups

The horror.
The horror.

[Paul Atreides]

"Who wants to live forever?"

[Paul Atreides]

Nah! It just makes me wonder if she and he.....never mind. It's too sickening to think about.

[al baby]

want some of that Eric Clapner music played at my wake

I remember that how funny that was

[Servant of the 9]

DOOOOMED

So9

[Gator113]

Oh no....does this mean that I will eventually have to die??? Let's all sue Bill Gates!

[Cicero]

It's more dangerous than brushing your teeth, but less dangerous than shampooing your hair, which according to a recent study may rot the brain.

Also looming as a tragic threat is beauty parlor syndrome:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1123563/posts

[scott7278]

Don't lick your computer equipment and you should be all right.

[arbee4bush]

OMG--ROFL!

[LibTeeth]

"The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and several other organizations have confirmed that PCBs damage brains of human fetuses. "

So does partial birth abortion, directly and deliberately. All abortions do indirectly. Naturally (pun intended) the collectivist enviro-socialists just haven't gotten around to speaking up for the fetuses, too much class warfare benefit to be gained for now.

[Salamander]

Ouch.
That hertz.