Microwave brain scrambler?

Then within a few days, during a large drug-ring takedown, the police officers all fall unconscious simultaneously. The secret is out! Magnetron beats bullet! Civilization grinds to a temporary halt. Thousands of arrests pending on people who posted the plans online (but arresting officers usually fail to return.) Looting and pilliaging ensue. Sales of tinfoil hats surge, then plummet, when everyone learns that those old web-articles are correct in finding that metal-lined bowl-shaped headgear *focuses* microwaves rather than shielding them. Everyone on the street is walking around with soldered Cu-foil fullhead masks with little screen-covered eyeholes.

Then the first hobbyist-built backscatter x-ray scanners make their appearance, and sales of lead-lined petticoats become all the rage.

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It's a very common tactic. The use of the lawsuit as a weapon. If you don't have the money to hire a good defense to a bogus claim - you lose.

If I decide to take you to court because I claim you are stalking me, what are you going to do? Ignore it and lose by default? Or hire a lawyer?

Er... almost none of them have had subsequent trouble. How about the whistleblowers who brought down Enron? Think they are being stalked by hitmen? You watch too many movies. In real life corporations are very vulnerable and chief execs do not have a group of trained killers on the payroll. Not even Microsoft.

I don't think the judge who awarded £640,000 against McD for hot coffee was mysteriously gunned down... IIRC he was not even fired.

Like Microsoft never gets fined hundreds of millions for anti-competitive practices. Right...

No. Not by a looooong way.

You poor naive fool - the Jewish Nazi Illuminati New World Order has bought you off, haven't they! No... wait... you're a CIA shill... that's it! It's so obvious now, and the proof will be you denying all knowledge of the plot, and sending more harassing brainwaves.

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Let's think this through.

You call a lawyer and tell him you are going after a 50 billion dollar corporation. When he is done laughing, he rings off and calls opposing council at the corporation. Six months down the road, you have successfully moved your life savings into your lawyer's bank account.

Game Over.

Was that a smart thing to do?

I mean, really. :)

Thanks for your thoughts, Dirk.

--Winston

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Hokay, my numbers were off and it would take a power amplifier and / or a slightly larger antenna to kick enough watts through the inverse square law losses to deliver the necessary milliwatt where it needs to go.

One point to you.

I still contend that it does work and can be done for surprisingly little money.

--Winston

Now, that is just silly. :)

--Winston

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I may not have mentioned this but in that case, there was evidence. There were photographs of injuries. There was expert testimony. There were depositions. There were 700 previous complaint records. Evidence. A legal foundation to support a lawsuit.

Hello?

Joe Shmoe does not have the resources of a national government. Can we agree on that?

Thanks for your thoughts.

--Winston

Sounds like he's accidently beamed himself a few too many times.

It was for the woman who sued McD for "hot coffee".

There is no evidence that such a system as you describe is even possible, let alone ever built. And if it was possible why would it not be deployed as a major military weapon?

I may not have mentioned this but in each of those cases there was a huge pile of evidence. A paper trail here, a recording there, a deposition over this way. None of these folks would have picked up the phone if they couldn't prove to a disinterested third party the prestige of an equally powerful entity was being compromised because laws had been broken.

I agree that without interviewing each one it is difficult to say how opposing council made their lives untenable as a result of the lawsuit.

I have two scenarios for you:

"Hello, FBI? I can prove XYZ corporation turned over blu-rays of Defense department plans to a passenger on a commercial flight that will land in Beijing Monday afternoon. I have videos of a highly placed DoD official accepting a package of Kruggerands and handing over the discs to the Chinese national while saying, 'yes Mr. Wang, this is our strategy for Taiwan in the next 60 days and it is going to be BIG!' I have a deposition from the gold dealer where the Chinese official purchased the Kruggerands and tracking information for each coin. I have decrypted recordings of the conversations that took place between the DoD official and his handler over the last six months."

Compare that with this if you would please:

"Hello, FBI? I think I kind of passed out for a second at my local sandwich shop. I never got my change and my wallet is now missing."

They are both whistleblowers of equal importance and standing, yes? Both as likely to participate in a successful prosecution, right?

Thanks for your opinions on this.

--Winston

I may not have mentioned this but:

"Adey, W. Ross, Neurophysiologic Effects of Radiofrequency and Microwave Radiation, Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine, V.55, #11, December,

Bioelectromagnetics Volume 5 Issue 1, Pages 71 - 78 Published Online: 19 Oct 2005 "

Thanks for your input.

--Winston

Like you said about the McD hot coffee - the complaints add up and in this case it would be far less trivial. And when Mr FBI asks the store manager what happened, such is his loyalty to the corporation that said manager will happily go to prison for obstructing the investigation.

Anyway, the whole scheme of yours is just totally ludicrous from technical, legal and logistical points of view. A total non-starter. If you think otherwise, mortgage your house, build and test a device and try and sell it to MacBurger for zapping customers. See you living in a cardboard box...

Which says nothing about knocking out people or doing anything that would have an immediate effect. I reviewed this paper several years ago.

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I may not have mentioned this but:

Adey, W. Ross, Neurophysiologic Effects of Radiofrequency and Microwave Radiation, Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine, V.55, #11, December,

Bioelectromagnetics Volume 5 Issue 1, Pages 71 - 78 Published Online: 19 Oct 2005

Inverse square law losses would restrict it to very close range use. I don't know how one would use such a tool in a military setting.

You say "There is no evidence that such a system as you describe is even possible..."

I say there will be no evidence that it was ever used.

We are not so far apart in our thinking after all. :)

--Winston

I'd like to thank you for your open-minded evaluation of the science behind this tool.

Really, I would.

:)

--Winston