I wonder why those opposing wifi in Sebastopol have such an odd mixture of hypochondria and paranoia.

The real problem is that in Sebastopol human contact with other humans just isn't prevalent as it is in other cities. This creates a lack of paranoia's opposite, trust. Both the city council and O'Reilly are to blame for this lack of trust.

Wifi not allowed in cities? Then I wonder what all the free wifi in Estonia is... [www.wifi.ee]

From their government website ([www.valitsus.ee]):
WE SHALL ENSURE THE AVAILABILITY OF THE INTERNET AND DATA COMMUNICATIONS

To that end the Governing Coalition shall:
[...]
3) enable free wireless Internet in the centre of each local authority by 2010 by establishing a respective public service standard. Similarly to entire Estonia having been covered with a mobile telecommunications network, it shall be possible to use free wireless Internet in all city and rural municipality centres;

If enough microwave radiation to heat you up less than a good pr0n0 bothers you, there's a legitimate fix: aluminum foil, especially as a hat.

Oddly enough, the site "bioinitiative.org" is owned by "Sage Associates" [www.sageassociates.net] -- looks like enough money is involved for this company to "care" about people.

@sample032: They will sell you "home and office shielding": [www.sageassociates.net]

I really hope no one tells that person about cell phones. And cosmic radiation... and the bogeyman.

@Adam Rock: I wonder if they also sell EM detection gear in order to know when to start faking symptoms... er, I mean, to *explain* the onset of symptoms.

These people have been a problem to the RF industry for a long time, and Sebastopol is just another town on the list of many with a fuzzy-brained "Mommies Against Microwaves" (a colloquialism used inside the telco world) contingent preventing the deployment of all manner of RF equipment and services. It is not just WiFi, they also dislike cellular towers, power lines, emergency services equipment (which frequently uses RF), etc. The bias is completely unscientific, and they conflate unrelated things as a matter of course.

There is roughly a one-to-one correspondence between regions where the majority think Noam Chomsky is brilliant and insightful man (instead of a nutty anti-bellwether with a stunning track record for being reliably wrong) and where Mommies Against Microwaves routinely interfere with RF deployments.

@Barce: No, there are just a large number of space truckers who are holed up there, who seriously "feel" the rays affecting them.

(prior resident of Graton)

Huzzah! Another victory for holistic thinking!

A couple hundred milliwatts! Well, dont rub your hands together. I had a dear, dear friend that claimed she had an RF sensitivity; she spent thousands on crazy devices to render her abode "safe". Couldn't use cordless phones, had to put monitor in a special box. Now she says, after 5k$$ in stuff, she is set.

I took her out for a walk near her home in CT - and showed her a tower, less than 750FT from her abode, that was owned by the CT state police. A 750 watt CW repeater. She didnt look so good after that. I told her, my dear, please find out what is really making you feel poorly.

Jason Calcanis doesn't believe in free wireless. Jason believes that if you want internet bad enough, you'll pay for it - with your spare internal organs!

Please if anyone here is from sebastopol sign this petition to counter this obvious mistake.

Free WiFi:

[www.petitiononline.com]

Thank you