California Classes LED Component Gallium Arsenide a Carcinogen 495
Reader LM741N, pointing to a report released this month by California's Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, writes "Gallium Arsenide has now been listed as a carcinogen. Given the increasing usage of gallium arsenide, the main constituent in LEDs, and their recent championing as more efficient light sources in recent news stories and Slashdot, there may be significant environmental concerns as related to their disposal. Morover, workers in industries using the substance may be at risk of cancer as well."
!Carginogen (Score:5, Funny)
I, for one, am terrified of anything called a "Carginogen".
Re:Get cancer from an LED? (Score:5, Funny)
"I guess I will have to stop eating LEDs, at least while in California."
I hope insertion is still safe!
In other news, living has been shown .... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Agenda based FUD (Score:1, Funny)
Is there a strange group out there that wants to go back to a tribal hunter/gatherer type existence? Take our population down to a couple of million?
Yes.
Re:In other news, living has been shown .... (Score:3, Funny)
You wouldn't believe how many problems this would fix in CA.
Re:Known to cause cancer... (Score:5, Funny)
Ah, California, where everything is known the cause cancer.
Including sand. When I lived there, one of the utility bills (I forget which one) always had a statement that the company used chemicals "known to the state of California to cause cancer", because they used sand at some of the plants.
This just in (Score:4, Funny)
Slashdot causes cancer!*
*in California
The real reason things in CA cause cancer (Score:5, Funny)
When you mix Californium [wikipedia.org] and Governmentium [wikipedia.org], causing cancer is the only chemical reaction that is allowed to happen.
The radioactive decay products of Californium include Liberelium and a heavy isotope of Governmentium called Bigovernmentium, which when combined are known to be toxic.
Who would have thought Arsenic was bad for you? (Score:3, Funny)
But they haven't warned about gallium arsenide phosphide so the yellow, orange, and red LEDs must be safe.
Re:!Carginogen (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Known to cause cancer... (Score:4, Funny)
Billy! How often do I need to tell you to NOT EAT THE LED TAILLIGHTS! Just you wait until your father gets home!
Re:The real reason things in CA cause cancer (Score:5, Funny)
I want my simple band-aid solution! (Score:5, Funny)
Like all americans, I want a magic bullet to the problem of carcinogens and cancer! I hear a lot of chatter about incandescent light bulbs and waste, fluorescent light bulbs and mercury, and LEDs and cancer. I don't understand any of it, but I'm certain it's those bureacratic fat cats in Sacramento that are making me so very confused! If they didn't put those warnings on stuff, it probably woudn't be a problem!
Why won't someone just make it simple? Wave an american flag in the direction of the perfect light bulb that has no real-world problems that I can pick up at walmart on my way to Ikea while driving in my hummer and forget all about cancer, global warming, and mercury forever.
Is that really too much to ask?!? I'm beggin you, lie to me and tell me there are perfect solutions! Just give me one saying that will solve the problem completely without consequences that fits on a bumper sticker and I'm there instantly!
Do they post warning signs at all the beaches? (Score:5, Funny)
or does "free range" sand not cause cancer?
Re:Get cancer from an LED? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Known to cause cancer... (Score:4, Funny)
Bah! In my day we had blankets made out of asbestos so the cigarettes we smoked in bed wouldn't burn holes. We had lead paint on our tableware and lead in our water supply pipes. We put mercury solutions on our cuts, brushed our teeth with PCB's and washed our hair with dioxin. We spent every day in the sun without sunblock and it was GOOD for us.
Kids these days have it too easy.
Re:Do they post warning signs at all the beaches? (Score:3, Funny)
Phew! (Score:2, Funny)
Boy am I glad that I live outside of California, where I'm safe from those carcinogens!
- RG>
Re:Known to cause cancer... (Score:3, Funny)
What if the relatives weren't there, would that change your mind?
Re:Do they post warning signs at all the beaches? (Score:4, Funny)
Please please I need to know if tin foil causes cancer or not.
It's fairly well known that the body produces cancerous cells every day (in it's normal operations) -- they're usually taken out by your immune system.
At least that's what the radio station that plays in my teeth tells me.
Re:Known to cause cancer... (Score:1, Funny)
That's just a comparison of the desirability of living in those places. Not everyone who doesn't currently live in California desires to live in California. Not even most.
Moreover, many of us wish the Californians would stay there instead of Californicating the rest of the states.
Yup, I'm a native Oregonian.
"Come visit us again and again. This is a state of excitement. But for heaven's sake, don't move here to live."