Ironically, the people wearing tin foil hats are usually the ones with the least to protect.
There are two small towns in south-eastern British Columbia called Nakusp and New Denver. Their residents are crazy.
No, seriously. They’re all friggin’ nuts. They’ve got their panties into a bunch about the possibility of cell-phone towers being installed in their communities. They’ve tried everything they can to prevent it, but it’s boiling down to about two hundred people who should be put in padded rooms against the entire rest of the community. Two hundred people are foaming at the mouth and making as much noise as possible, while the remainder are simply not that worked up about it.
It becomes readily apparent why we mock this part of the province so much. Think of it as Canada’s little version of the Ozarks. Education? Who needs it when you’ve got snap judgements and half-baked conspiracy theories! Rational thought? We’ll not have any of that nonsense around here! Inbreeding? Oh, we’ve got some, but I’m sure there’s always room for more.
In Nakusp, one gentleman’s concern is that the installation of the cellphone tower will take his property — somehow magically — from the idyllic paradise with a view of the water that it is today to an industrial park, which will then degrade into a slum. In New Denver, their newspaper reporters are fabricating articles about how “most of Europe” has abandoned cellular phones in favour of old-fashioned cable communications. Perhaps our many European readers can chime in here. How long have you been without your cellphone, and why have you failed to mention this?
Perhaps the biggest problem is that it’s nearly impossible to defeat people who are willfully stupid. If people are just ignorant, you can try and educate them. When they’re aggressively trying to be less intelligent, there isn’t much you can do.
Yes, I can confirm this. I worked in Germany and France over the past two years and nobody uses mobile phones. Also, they are now phasing out cars, buses, and trucks in favor of horse-drawn carriages… for the environment.
Looks like it's time to recycle this link so you can pass it along to the good people of Nakusp and New Denver:
http://berkeley.intel-research.net/arahimi/helmet…
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Good thing New Denver and Nakusp are small towns, because with 1 single article, you have effectively stopped any citizen from either community from ever being a member of Atomic Toasters. Well Done!
I doubt their houses are connected to the right tubes to bring them here, anyway.
Are they allowed to have internet over there? Surely the electrical fields will kill them.
Seriously, there's nothing wrong with New Denver or Nakusp; as I said, the majority of people there are reasonable and civilised. But you throw a few wingnuts who aren't willing to do research, or who will believe what one person tells them, and suddenly they make the whole town look bad.
I was wiring the new residences at SFU for a while, and as we'd drive up the hill, you could see the signal bars shrinking as the van went up Burnaby Mountain. I asked various people why there hadn't been any cell towers added, as there was a communications tower visible from where we worked and one person came up with the best answer ever –
Because the hippy-dippy types thought cell frequencies would produce funny-looking babies.
I spit out my coffee when I heard that.
There are nuts everywhere. Here's one particularly kooky installment of a local fellow's letters to the editor, in which German rocketry experiments caused the Dirty '30's, the launch of Mir caused the drought of '88, and NASA's difficulty in launching Shuttles has caused ND's current wet cycle. Also the speed of sound (in air? at what altitude?) is a "law of the earth" that NASA is violating.
Ozarks? Sounds like Appalachians.
I should point out that this summer, they finally agreed to allow Telus to put in a tower, with the understanding that the
nutcasescitizens would be monitoring its power output to make sure it was always below same arbitrarily agreed upon safe level.Are they crazy? Or are we the ones that are crazy for adopting all this "technology" that "helps us communicate" and "enhance our ways of living?" Probably the former.
If you try and take away my iPhone, I will punch you in the throat.
That may prove that I am the slightly crazy one.
Until you start thinking you are crazy.
… only slightly?
Everyone who has an iPhone says the same thing, so you are not crazy…
Speaking of tin foil hats, I have a fantastic picture of engineerd in an impromptu tin foil hat he made at work one morning (I may or may not have been the instigator in that situation). It's probably fortunate for him that I don't know how to upload pictures here.
Yes, I know I'm a little late posting on this one…
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