Never place your phone in a microwave oven

And the next time some Muslim nutcakes blow up an airplane or a building, all the pacifist liberal sissies will be crying about why the US government didn't do something to protect them.

Good point. The U.S. from its founding has always had enemies who want to kill us -- Some have even turned into friends -- like the British.

I think the Bill of Rights has served us well. May we continue to be worthy of its ideals.

Tomsic

The Constitution is not a suicide pact.

"The choice is not between order and liberty. It is between liberty with order and anarchy without either. There is danger that, if the court does not temper its doctrinaire logic with a little practical wisdom, it will convert the constitutional Bill of Rights into a suicide pact." -- Robert Jackson - Supreme Court Justice

...or if you want someone more contemporary with Franklin:

"A strict observance of the written law is doubtless one of the high duties of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation. To lose our country by a scrupulous adherence to the written law, would be to lose the law itself, with life, liberty, property and all those who are enjoying them with us; thus absurdly sacrificing the ends to the means. -- Thomas Jefferson

In prisons, the prisoners put their cellphones up their...., well you know. o_O

TDD

Oh yea, abuse and terrify the citizenry to keep them safe. Government agents must molest every citizen who wants to travel to protect them but never profile because that is racist and may violate someone's civil rights, especially if they're a terrorist. The people who support that kind of government abuse have brain damage. o_O

TDD

Actually they were a threat when they were created 1400 years ago You need to study up a bit more on that cult of death.

The very BASIC view of Islam with respect to everyone else in the world is defined with: Dar-al-Islam versus Dar-al-Harb. The House of Islam against the "House of War". If you're not part of Islam, you are automatically part of the "House of War". And that means that anyone in Islam can make "war" on you anytime they want. In more simple terms, it's a STANDING DECLARATION OF WAR So as long as Islam is around, and you are not part of it, you have a target on your forehead.

From experience: Don't put a CD in a microwave either.

Ohhh, pretty!

Years ago, my older sister placed a china plate that had a decorative gold metal inlay pattern on said plate into the microwave oven. There were a lot of noisy sparks jumping all over that plate. Her jumping up and down and screaming was very entertaining too. ^_^

TDD

I do it all the time. When I want to destroy CDs/DVDs with sensitive information I find that four or five seconds in the microwave oven makes them completely unreadable. Far more secure than cutting them up or using a mechanical shredder.

-- Bobby G.

Grapes are quite good, too.

Mine's been at the bottom of the office closet for over 4 years; I think I've perhaps missed it (in the sense of "wow, I could sure use the convenience of a cell phone right now") for all of ten minutes in all that time. I am admittedly around a land-line and email a lot, but for times when that's not the case there are few things in life that can't just wait.

cheers

Jules

I put a whole egg in the first one we bought (about 33 years ago). It would have made a real treat (incredibly light and fluffy scrambled eggs), if it hadn't been for the shell. ...another experimental failure.

That's hard on a microwave, might break it. I would also place a small load, like a 1/4 filled coffee cup of water in the corner.

Greg

Might be hard on modern gear but my 1984 Litton manual-twist timer 900W oven has eaten 100's of CDs and DVDs without incident. It's only a few seconds of crackling and it destroys the disks so thoroughly - the patterns look like crazed varnish - that I doubt anyone but the NSA could recover even parts of it.

I think by the time it's thirty years old I will have to open it to replace the fan - it's getting noisy - but other than that, the simpler the better. My sister's gone through at least 4 much newer and fancier ones in all that time.

-- Bobby G.