August 02, 2007
Laser Printers are Deadly!
Stop printing or
you will die!!!
That's the message from Lidia Morawska, PhD, director of the International Laboratory for Air Quality and Health at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia, and colleagues. They have done some testing and determined that some printers -- and they cannot identify which ones -- emitted high levels of particles.
To show that Ms. Morawska is completely biased, she declared:
There should be regulations
In other words, she wants more, bigger government to protect people from themselves. A person interested in freedom would have declared, "Here is the information and the risk. Now people are smart enough to decide if they want to take risks or not." But not Ms. Morawska. She demands that government quickly start passing new regulations. I wonder if she'd prefer a new government department of "printer emission regulation." Of course they'd need hundreds of employees, all paid a "living wage" of at least $50,000 per year. And they'd need enforcement agents with arrest powers.
Oh, how I yearn for freedom.
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Hmmm, lost my comment . . .
so that's what all this "indoor pollution" is from? I thought it was my smelly neighbor to the right who likes to go "au naturale"! Cause, well, you know - deodorant harms the environment!
Posted by: oddybobo at August 02, 2007 03:26 PM (mZfwW)
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But...but Ogre...don't you see the potential business here? Global warming freaks will jump onto this bandwagon too...making claims printers and inks are bad for the environment. SO, collectively we could have an entire US Dept devoted to printer regulations AND save the people and the planet all at once!!
Green Inks made of human safe-to-breathe ingredients. Ingenious.
Posted by: Raven at August 02, 2007 03:39 PM (rB48X)
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I think instead, Raven, I'll take the easy way out -- I'll get YOU (read: government) to pay to educate me so I can become an "Indoor Printer Air Pollution Expert." Then I'll demand a $100K+ salary from the government and more money to pay for various studies that I'll do to analyze and make conclusions about "Indoor Printer Air Quality." And since I'll be a government enforcement employee, I'll get to be armed everywhere to help enforce my Indoor Air Pollution Regulations.
Then I'll be qualified to answer Oddy's question as to whether human-emitted indoor air pollution is more or less dangerous than the combinations of roll-on deodorant or printer emissions.
What do you mean someone already has that job?
Posted by: Ogre at August 02, 2007 03:45 PM (oifEm)
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howza bout we regulate the "regulators"! Ha
Posted by: Angel at August 02, 2007 04:01 PM (AdUgs)
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This makes sense. Then the department can grow to regulate pencils and pens- after all they are pointy and dangerous. But what about non-laser printers, I bet those nefarious things are keeping their emissions on the down-low- hiding them from the rest of us. Oh they are so diabolical.
Posted by: John Kaiser at August 02, 2007 04:26 PM (zukYy)
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Certainly, Angel, we will have oversight of the regulators. Those will be high level (read: expensive) bureaucrats whose job it will be to watch the lower level workers.
And John, you bring up a good point! How can we allow children to have pens and pencils? What if they get hurt? I think we need to limit people to 1 pencil a month -- and only if they have passed a strict licensing test to ensure they know how to handle those dangerous objects. Next time someone gets hurt, I'm suing the manufacturer. In fact, the states should sue pencil manufacturers for medical expenses!
Posted by: Ogre at August 02, 2007 07:32 PM (oifEm)
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