Amused by that.

[Phani Pavan]

I was browsing through Razer's website and found this at the bottom of the razer blade.

So, I went to the website they showed to look up what it is this is what I found...

Is this true?

[corrado33]

EVERYTHING in the state of California is known to cause cancer. You can safely ignore these warnings. 

 

Signed - A chemist

 

Did you know that 100% of people that have ever had cancer drank a chemical known as dihydrogen monoxide! And THEY SERVER IT AT RESTAURANTS!

[Razor Blade]

According to NICNAS.gov.au, toxicity of the substance mainly happens through inhalation or oral. Dermal absorption is very low. So as long as you don't plan to eat the laptop or smoke it... seems like you should be just fine.

 

https://www.nicnas.gov.au/chemical-information/factsheets/chemical-name/diethylhexyl-phthalate-dehp

[Guest]

Anything can give you cancer. 

If you can buy it & you don’t eat it & there’s no “mask”/“glove” warning, you’re prolly fine. 

 

 

5 minutes ago, corrado33 said:

Did you know that 100% of people that have ever had cancer drank a chemical known as dihydrogen monoxide! And THEY SERVER IT AT RESTAURANTS!

http://mentalfloss.com/article/501907/14-year-old-who-convinced-people-ban-dihydrogen-monoxide

 

 

[mariushm]

What's not mentioned is the AMOUNT of said chemical that would have to get in your body in order for it to cause cancer.

 

Some chemicals are slowly removed from your body, others remain and accumulate over time.

 

In the case of this laptop, think of it as something like this ... in order to be at risk at cancer, you would probably have to be drooling and chewing on the plastic of the case and ingesting particles of plastic and paint for hours EVERY DAY and then maybe after months of doing this, IF you still have a working laptop case, you may have increased your risk of cancer by some measurable percentage.

 

 

As a food for thought .... Mercury is in that list : https://oehha.ca.gov/proposition-65/chemicals/mercury-and-mercury-compounds

But some ocean fish has quite significant amount of mercury: https://www.fda.gov/food/foodborneillnesscontaminants/metals/ucm115644.htm

 

With some types of the above fishes, if you'd eat fish two times a day for months, a kid eating like this could have development problems. Yet, you don't see warnings like those on food, and most people would not eat like that anyway, so the warnings would be pointless.  

 

[corrado33]

10 minutes ago, VegetableStu said:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1986_California_Proposition_65

 

was made for a good reason, now wielded by frivolous people

It's nothing more than a joke to the rest of the US. 

 

I'm not joking, the very large majority of things that you buy outside of California have that warning on it. 

 

Also, did you know California has it's own lawnmowers that they HAVE to buy? They're not allowed to use "non-California approved" lawnmowers.

[mariushm]

Problem with everything like this is people get desensitized quickly and then just get annoyed by them...

 

User Account Control (UAC) in Windows ... good idea, bad implementation ... by the 10th time people get asked if they want to continue and run an application, they don't even look at the message and hit continue. Could be a virus or something, they'll just click to continue.

 

The stupid EU law that says users should be notified if sites collects user info and how it's used (the messages you see on websies about sites using cookies, hit ok or accept to continue) .. another annoyance ... now a few months later you could even say in that text that website will install a virus and people will just click accept/confirm/ok just to get rid of message 

 

These California warnings ... they appear on so many things people just ignore them.

 

[Nicnac]

9 hours ago, corrado33 said:

EVERYTHING in the state of California is known to cause cancer. You can safely ignore these warnings. 

 

Signed - A chemist

 

Did you know that 100% of people that have ever had cancer drank a chemical known as dihydrogen monoxide! And THEY SERVER IT AT RESTAURANTS!

and when someone wanted some H2O, too they unfortunately died....