05:34 - Thursday, Feb. 02, 2006
thursday ramblings
hay hay!! groundhog day!! if bush comes out and sees his shadow, 6 more years of iraq.......
welp, i think im over this flu!! this morning is the 1st morning in 3 weeks i havent woken up hacking my head off!!!
i got the new innernet exploder 7 (beta) and it hasnt exploded yet.
i cant put off laundry anymore. it has to be done.
if the pedestrian has the right of way, how come cars just whiz by?
opinion.
when the innernet came out, my thought was that children should not have access to it. it appalled me to see kids using the internet. it still does. a few years back, i was at the library in seattle, and i noticed a 13 year old boy looking at porn pics online. i told the person behind the desk there about it, and the kid got up and took off.
now, i see all kinds of stuff on tv news about how "shocking and appalling" people are now all of a sudden "concerned" about what kids see online. and then theres mongrels out there trolling for kids online. disgusting.
my opinion is and always will be, if you are under 21, you do not belong online, or in front of a computer. its gotten to the point now, where they have computers in schools, and children are getting their "education" using computers. instead of using their brains.
if communities prohibit children from using the internet, then all these problems dealing with kids online will go away.
when i was coming up, ya know, we didnt have computers, when hand held calculators came out, we were prohibited from using them in school. we actually used our brains to learn and read, and spell.
one of the things that totally disgusts me is jay leno's "jaywalking" segment. its where jay asks people on the street simple questions, for example, last night, he asked, "what was the name of the first first lady" and these people could not come up with "martha washington"!!!
cheesus h. crispy cremes!!! every time i see this segment, it just amazes me as to how stupid people are!!! things you allegedly learned in school, and you are 20 years old and you cannot answer a simple question!!! sheesh!!
now, here is a totally disgusting, groundless, irresponsible story about a money grubbing idiot who is suing apple because he says the i-pod can cause deafness!! hey shitball, if you go around with an i-pod with the music ass-blasting in your ears, thats your own gad-damned fault!!! cheesus!!
By DAN GOODIN, Associated Press Writer
SAN FRANCISCO - A Louisiana man claims in a lawsuit that Apple's iPod music player can cause hearing loss in people who use it.
Apple has sold more than 42 million of the devices since they went on sale in 2001, including 14 million in the fourth quarter last year. The devices can produce sounds of more than 115 decibels, a volume that can damage the hearing of a person exposed to the sound for more than 28 seconds per day, according to the complaint.
The iPod players are "inherently defective in design and are not sufficiently adorned with adequate warnings regarding the likelihood of hearing loss," according to the complaint, filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in San Jose, Calif., on behalf of John Kiel Patterson of Louisiana.
The suit, which Patterson wants certified as a class-action, seeks compensation for unspecified damages and upgrades that will make iPods safer. Patterson's suit said he bought an iPod last year, but does not specify whether he suffered hearing loss from the device.
Patterson does not know if the device has damaged his hearing, said his attorney, Steve W. Berman, of Seattle. But that's beside the point of the lawsuit, which takes issue with the potential the iPod has to cause irreparable hearing loss, Berman said.
"He's bought a product which is not safe to use as currently sold on the market," Berman said. "He's paying for a product that's defective, and the law is pretty clear that if someone sold you a defective product they have a duty to repair it."
An Apple Computer Inc. spokeswoman, Kristin Huguet, declined to comment.
Although the iPod is more popular than other types of portable music players, its ability to cause noise-induced hearing isn't any higher, experts said.
"We have numerous products in the marketplace that have the potential to damage hearing," said Deanna Meinke, an audiology professor at the University of Northern Colorado. "The risk is there but the risk lies with the user and where they set the volume."
The Cupertino-based company ships a warning with each iPod that cautions "permanent hearing loss may occur if earphones or headphones are used at high volume."
Apple was forced to pull the iPod from store shelves in France and upgrade software on the device to limit sound to 100 decibels, but has not followed suit in the United States, according to the complaint. The headphones commonly referred to as ear buds, which ship with the iPod, also contribute to noise-induced hearing loss because they do not dilute the sound entering the ear and are closer to the ear canal than other sound sources, the complaint states.
turn the fricken i-pod DOWN, you idiot!!!
ok, im gonna go rest my neck now.
