1) There's a long list of materials that are no problem outside your body but that are really bad for you when small pieces get inside your lungs.
2) There's a higher potential harm from new processes and materials that are used everywhere by consumers, versus being used by specialists in exposure-controlled environments.
Because of (1) and (2), if there's anything wrong with this material, the harm will be multiplied.
For example a possibly toxic material used in low-rate specialty manufacturing by protected workers is different from a possibly toxic material that's distributed in fun inhalers inside of cereal boxes.
These concerns are not at all irrational, and are in fact more empirical than reflexive anti-questioning snarkery.
They'd be right to, there are significant health risks to regular glass. People cut arteries while accidentally sticking their hands through panes of it all the time.
Thanks for posting. Carl Page was my undergraduate adviser at Michigan State, and I remember him fondly. It was nice to hear Larry's remembrances of him.
The shit will really hit the fan when your lights go out because your local power utility cannot get a shipment of fuel oil when no bank will guarantee their credit.
After you get the machinery to pump out the mail, there is the issue of getting it through spam filters. I have had numerous problems when sending emails from my own domain. It is all too easy to get on various blacklists even if you are extremely well behaved.
I pay $1232 per month, which includes wife and 2 kids, for pretty top end Blue Cross insurance in Massachusetts. No dental. I'm self-employed and this is through COBRA from a previous job. I suspect I could save by shopping around and going for a high deductible.
