Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/10/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]http://www.surebeamcorp.com/food/faqs.html#9 - -----Original Message----- From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Alexey Merz Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2001 8:54 PM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: OT: RE: [Leica] mail irradiation affects film On Sunday, October 28, 2001, at 10:47 PM, Leica Users digest wrote: > Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2001 06:53:48 -0800 > From: "Frank Filippone" <red735i@earthlink.net> > Subject: RE: [Leica] mail irradiation affects film > Message-ID: <01ff01c15fc0$5965fc20$0201a8c0@Workgroup> > References: > > The perceived ( or real ) need to irradiate all the mail in > certain Post > Offices, regardless of actual destination of letter, was forced by > the USPS > labor unions to protect their workers. If you accept that fact, > then FedEx > or DHL or UPS will be forced to do the same, or face serious financial > consequence from lawsuits or work stoppages of employees. Ok, anyone wants to reply to this please do so on the LUG Forum, I won't post here again on this topic. Wanna see a terrorist risk? Just put a screamin' hot gamma source - a lump of Cesium 137, say - in every Post Office in the country. Many such lumps have gone missing in the former Soviet Union, where they have been used as slow and relatively undetectable assassination devices by the Mob. The more lumps spread around the country, the greater the likelihood that some lumps go missing. Let's remember to count the actual deaths that have occurred so far (and compare to, say, 9/11!), and remember that if the terrorists had used Anthrax to kill the maximum number of people rather than scaring our loud but (almost entirely, Dr. Blacktape notwithstanding) scientifically illiterate media, they would have dispersed the material in the subway at rush hour. They still might; irradiation of mail would do absolutely *nothing* to prevent it. What ever happened to the Republicans' insistence that cost/benefit analyses be used in public safety decisions? The silence is deafening. Alexey Merz Department of Biochemistry Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover NH 03755-3844 alexey@webcom.com | alexey@dartmouth.edu 603-650-1702 | http://www.webcom.com/alexey/ - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html