Cumputer radiation

[romanstopme]

Ok my parents are from the stone age they always yell about how computer monitors and having the computer in the room may have side effects on your health. so i decided to ask the people who have lots of experience. Does a computer in the room affect your health in any way? I have always wanted a computer in my room but my parents would not let. Since im growing up i would like to prove my parents wrong. Any suggestions or answers?

[gadgetguy]

Your parents are right. Your parents are always right. When you are paying the mortgage and they're living under your roof, then you can be right. Until then, they are always right. Facts are not an issue.

[freebird73717]

Tell them that as long as they wear their tinfoil hats everything will be okay!


joking of course





Kidding aside, I have never heard of any adverse affects to people from computers... Unless you count the negative effect of spending to much time on your computer rather than spending it with your family. I will say this though. My kids do not have a computer in their room. I have no objection to them using computers but that computer is in a common family room. Just keeps my kids from getting into stuff they shouldn't.

I do also agree with gadget guy. You should abide by your parents wishes and not press the issue of getting a computer in your room.

[romanstopme]

i respect my parents and everything. they were just raised in a different time and different country that i am. i just wanted to show them that computers are not your ennemy

[edDV]

i respect my parents and everything. they were just raised in a different time and different country that i am. i just wanted to show them that computers are not your ennemy

It started with the Swedes as I recall. They thought the poor data entry workers were being exposed to CRT beams that "might" affect their health. This caused gov't to insist on leaded screens that would stop any possibility of emission exposure just in case. The scare spread so leaded screens were used in most of the world just to stop the the issue.

Seven to ten years later the Swedes moved on to global investment or something else but the new trend was dangerous lead pollution in landfills so computer monitors became toxic waste that required Hazmat suits and large fees for disposal. It was then known that CRT beams were relatively harmless but if you ate large quantities of ground monitor glass you might get sick.

So now CRT computer monitors must be disposed in a manner to isolate lead. Or in other words it was all about nothing but getting money out of your consumer pocket at purchase and again on disposal.

LCD monitors have none of these issues.

[DereX888]

LCD monitors have none of these issues.

LOL, just for NOW
Very soon someone "smart" and with influence will "find" something wrong with them - and govts. will "regulate it" (meaning *we* will have to pay extra for it)


BTW @OP:
what is Cumputer?
Does it count how many times one cums during lifetime? (because cumculators count it over one night only... )

[INFRATOM]

The are other things effecting you before radiation. If you use computer a lot you damage your eyes first then if you don't sit right you become hunched back and will have pain as you grow older, if you don't position your hands correctly you get carpal tunnel it is the nerve in your wrist you get all this before radiation gets you!! There are other things too ...

[redwudz]

I might mention that most of those CRT monitors also have lead/silver solder on the circuit boards. Much more a hazard than the lead that's in the CRT itself.

But on topic, no study that I have ever heard of has ever shown that the 'radiation' from a CRT tube is harmful to anything. As a side note, most CPUs in those computers operate at similar frequencies to a microwave oven, about 2.5Ghz. But it's well shielded and at very low power lavels compared to a microwave.

[bendixG15]

.............. Since im growing up i would like to prove my parents wrong.....

Once you have grown up, you will learn that you never want to prove you parents wrong, its a lose - lose proposition.

Might just be they want the computer in an open place so they can see what's on the screen.

[FulciLives]

Do your best to save some money. Maybe ask for money as a gift for your birthday or christmas etc. then when you have enough buy a cheap laptop and keep it hidden in your room.

**** you parents and do what you want. Everyone here apparently forgets that they were young once with stupid rules to abide by because of parents.

Do what you want. They will bitch and moan. Take it. That's all they will do. Eventually it will die down.

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[Verify]

You are a naughty boy Fulci - please go to your room and leave the advice to the adults (picture a smiling emoticon).

[FulciLives]

You are a naughty boy Fulci - please go to your room and leave the advice to the adults (picture a smiling emoticon).

I may be 36 but an adult ... never!

Anarchy rules

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[bendixG15]

You got problems FulciLives ....

[hudsonf]

"what is Cumputer?" Your computer after surfing prOn sites.

[Number Six]

Get one of these suits and you will be just fine :P

[ofbarea]

Ok my parents are from the stone age they always yell about how computer monitors and having the computer in the room may have side effects on your health. so i decided to ask the people who have lots of experience. Does a computer in the room affect your health in any way? I have always wanted a computer in my room but my parents would not let. Since im growing up i would like to prove my parents wrong. Any suggestions or answers?

You could tell your parents that that health problem rumor was associated with tube monitors. For Liquid crystal monitor, there are not many concerns. This will allow you to upgrade to a greener monitor (less power consumption) and you will reclaim some space in your desk.

[usually_quiet]

Your parents are correct. If you spend too much time in front of a computer it does have negative effects on your physical and mental health, but it isn't necessarily the monitor at fault. Weight gain/poor physical fitness, carpal tunnel syndrom, eyestrain, back problems, lack of social skills, are common side-effects from too much computer time.

[isogonic]

i am from the "stone age" also. A long long time ago when TV came through the "air", rotary phones and record players? The radiation exposure question started with TV sets. computer monitors also emit some level of radiation. Is it harmful? who knows. Agree that sitting for lengths of time be it in front of a tv or a computer screen will produce bad habits and probably health problems in the long run. so your parents are correct, computers can and do have bad side effects.

[Midzuki]

You are a naughty boy Fulci - please go to your room and leave the advice to the adults (picture a smiling emoticon).

I may be 36 but an adult ... never!

Anarchy rules

Mr. Burbank said:

"Folks wonder how I've kept so young.
I'm almost seventy-seven and I can still go
over a gate or run a foot-race or kick the chandelier.
That's because my body is no older than my
mind --- and my mind is adolescent.
It has never grown up. It never will, I hope."