[time-nuts] OT: At the Flea

[Tom Holmes]

And a very high percentage of us survived.

OK, bring on the anecdotal sob stories about someone you know who did not. 

Now that some of you have your blood boiling, and forgive me John the
Moderator for contributing to the perpetuation of this OT thread, but there
has to be a balance somewhere in the risks vs. safety discussion. When most
of this list was growing up, we worked did not have seatbelts and
Ground-fault protected outlets and double insulated tools, or even 3-wire
plugs for AC ( here in the US anyway). We now have an entire industrial and
bureaucratic complex that makes a living from allegedly protecting us.

So now kids get helmets, shin guards, etc while they ride skateboards,
snowboards and the like, and still get badly messed up or killed because
they hit a tree or roll out in front of a car. We have automobiles that
would appear to be, and are marketed as safety cocoons, yet when you see an
accident, the occupants are still very badly injured because they drive like
that cocoon will protect them from every possible hazard. Except driving
like an idiot.

End of rant, and hopefully, of thread.

Tom Holmes, N8ZM
Tipp City, OH
EM79

> -----Original Message-----
> From: time-nuts-bounces at febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-bounces at febo.com] On
> Behalf Of Chris Albertson
> Sent: Monday, April 18, 2011 10:56 AM
> To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement
> Subject: Re: [time-nuts] OT: At the Flea
> 
> On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 5:48 AM,  <aartmolsen at comcast.net> wrote:
> > On CSPAN's Book TV yesterday the President of Dow Chemical stated that
their
> *starting* salary for newly graduated chemical engineers is now $120K.
That $10
> chemistry set might have been a good investment.
> 
> That kids father was either really smart or stupid.  We don't know.
> He could of been a chemist and read the content and made an informed
> decision.  For example, "no we are not heating Mercury in an open test
> tube, not in my house."  Or he could have been ignorant and had a fear
> of "chemicals" not knowing what scary sounding things like "sodium
> chloride" is.   If it was a 50's vintage set I'd not be surprised if
> there was something really dangerous in there.  After all this was the
> period when they sold hot chassis TV sets and cars with no seat belts
> just to save a buck or two.
> --
> =====
> Chris Albertson
> Redondo Beach, California
> 
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