12-13-2018, 05:22 AM | #31 |
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Well, if keeping your privacy is your highest priority, then a Kindle won't be a good option for you. There are many other eink readers out there you could use instead. Why choose Kindle and then complain how you cannot use it the way you would wish?
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12-13-2018, 12:16 PM | #32 | |
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12-13-2018, 02:34 PM | #33 | |
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12-13-2018, 02:40 PM | #34 | |
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12-13-2018, 08:31 PM | #35 |
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Personally, I don't give a fig about what Amazon are up to. I just don't like wifi, it gives me a headache. The Great Power of Amazon is welcome to know about the mobileread classics I read. I'm in the middle of reading a not-very-rivetting book I purchased from Amazon. Big deal!
I truly don't understand the OP's over-concern. |
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12-17-2018, 06:55 AM | #36 |
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12-17-2018, 08:50 AM | #37 | |
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19681059 The most likely explanation, as the above link suggests, is a "nocebo effect" - ie exposure to something that you think will make you feel ill really does make you feel ill. The symptoms are real, even if the cause is purely psychological. Last edited by HarryT; 12-17-2018 at 09:35 AM. |
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12-17-2018, 12:48 PM | #38 |
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For years there was "no evidence" that smoking damaged health, just anecdotes. Many people thought smoking was good for you - ever seen the old adverts?
Just for the record, I rarely use a mobile phone, except for texting. Also it's a dumb phone. I still have, and use, a landline. If I'm out, I'll text "on my way" etc. My moby is normally switched off. |
12-17-2018, 01:08 PM | #39 |
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Absolutely, but that's not what we're talking about here. A total of 46 separate properly-conducted double-blind medical trials to investigate the phenomenon, not one of which has found any evidence that anyone actually is able to detect when a WiFi signal is or isn't present, really can't be discounted. As the link I posted says, nobody is suggesting that the symptoms are not very real, merely that the cause has been pretty conclusively proven not to be electromagnetic fields.
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12-17-2018, 01:51 PM | #40 | |
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Later, after the Surgeon General released his report in 1964, it was found out that the tobacco companies knew for decades about the health risks. There were always ads about the health benefits of tobacco before that. When studies began that prompted the Surgeon General's report, and those were made available to the public, the ads that promoted the health benefits increased. After the Surgeon General's report they switched to other advertising memes. The key fact here is that for decades before this the tobacco companies knew cigarettes were dangerous to health and they covered it up. I forget the penalties they suffered because of that but they were considerable. I'm 78 and in those days I was a smoker so I lived through all this and watched it unfold with interest. This is all from memory. I may have some details wrong but I have much of it right and there was a lot more to it than I remember now. Barry |
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12-17-2018, 04:10 PM | #41 |
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Thank you for that information, barryem, that stirs things in my memory which I've seen in documentaries. Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't doctors, probably working from a remit from the tobacco companies, constantly repeat the "no evidence" claim until something like the 1980s?
Who funded the above-linked studies? Any chance that there's a vested interest? I'm not someone prone to headaches, and these were of a very specific type - a deep, painful ache in both temples - which would begin about an hour after switching on the laptop's wifi. It doesn't happen when using the home plugs with the laptop's wifi switched off. For the record, I'm also sensitive to X-rays (they make me feel sick), but not MRI scans. Odd. PS Let's not get into the hazards to radio frequencies some say are caused by home plugs. Message already received, but irrelevant here. Last edited by BookCat; 12-17-2018 at 04:14 PM. |
12-17-2018, 04:11 PM | #42 |
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@Rona 75: Not everybody wears a tinfoil hat like you do. BookCat keeps all devices off of wifi, not for privacy but health reasons.
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12-17-2018, 04:16 PM | #43 |
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DuckieTigger: A good reminder to stay on-topic.
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12-17-2018, 04:41 PM | #44 |
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That is not odd at all given that an MRI does not use radiation while x-ray, CT scans, and nuclear imaging does. Ultrasound would be another alternative for you that is safe to use (no radiation enters the body).
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