Nanotech Protests Begin

ByteWoopy wrote to mention a Wire.com story discussing the danger of nanotechnology, and the beginning of a backlash against the branch of technology. From the article: "...environmental activists sauntered into the Eddie Bauer store on Michigan Avenue, headed to the broad storefront windows opening out on the Magnificent Mile and proceeded to take off their clothes. The strip show aimed to expose more than skin: Activists hoped to lay bare growing allegations of the toxic dangers of nanotechnology. The demonstrators bore the message in slogans painted on their bodies, proclaiming 'Eddie Bauer hazard' and 'Expose the truth about nanotech,' among other things, in light of the clothing company's embrace of nanotech in its recent line of stain-resistant nanopants."

Pictures?

[eggoeater]

So where are the pictures of these protestors?

Here we go...

[Datamonstar]

And thus begins the Nanotech protests... Don't let the grey goo... Hey! a naked chick!!!

someone enlighten me please

[harlemjoe]

who the **** wears nanopants?

mary-kate and ashley?

I think the nanotech protestors...

[Anonymous Coward]

...are a very very tiny minority.

Yeah..

[MaGGuN]

Nano bad.. let's get naked!

Nanopants

[ciole]

Squeeze as I can, I just can't fit in em.

Whats so bad about this?

[qazwsxqazwsx90]

I'm going to start wearing nanotech all the time if it draws protesters like these.

Nanopants?

[mpathetiq]

My pants are already too tight, why are they making them smaller?

Dont bother clicking the link...

[0kComputer]

Theres no nudity in the pictures :(

Re:Yeah..

[databyss]

Yeah, nothing says that you're serious about an issue like getting naked!

Re:Pictures?

[AltGrendel]

Believe me, we all know that there are people that SHOULD wear clothes. And these were probably them.

Yeah...

[paul248]

Just call me when self-replicating pants start to take over the world.

WTF? Protesting pants?!

[rainwalker]

Seriously, WTF are these people thinking?! Stain-resistant pants are "nanotechnology" in the sense that they have small fabric fibers! How the hell is this an environmental hazard?

Still, the idea of a "catastrophe brought on by millions of uncontrolled, destructive [Eddie Bauer pants] that chew through the environment" is very appealing to me, and I suggest that the SciFi channel makes a movie about it.

...[E]xperts note that little research has yet been conducted into the effects of nanotech materials on humans...

Yes, of course, the dangerous effects of pants on humans. These people are just fucking stupid. Way to be afraid of a marketing word.

Re:I think the nanotech protestors...

[computational super]

Actually, I clicked through the link and looked at the pictures. Tiny wouldn't describe any of the people I saw pictures of...

Don't get excited...

[lottameez]

It's probably just some guy standing out there waving around his nano-penis. On the other hand, I suppose it's an interesting twist on the "does size matter?" question.

Re:I'm confused!

[halivar]

I thought the Evil Religious Right(tm) had cornered the market on unreasonable opposition to scientific progress. What am I supposed to make of this??

Only that you should be thankful we keep our clothes on. Well... most of us, anyhow. Those other ones are total loonies.

Re:Whats so bad about this?

[wolfgang_spangler]

I'm going to start wearing nanotech all the time if it draws protesters like these.

Apparently you didn't see the pictures...

eesh

[aztektum]

NSFW? That's NSFVAA = Not Safe For Viewing At Anytime

Re:eesh

[networkBoy]

I must go kill myself now.
I wish I listened to you.
-nB

Of all the anti-pc @$#&

[mrisaacs]

Where do these heartless luddites get off protesting clothes meant for truly size-challenged individuals. There's always some new form of bigotry. We ought to organize a counter protest (clothed of course) to support these poor diminutive folk, so sorely in need of nano-pants...

Re:Pictures?

[Locke2005]

Oops! Well, at least now I know what NSFW means -- "Not Suitable For Work." Anybody know of any firms that are hiring software developers in the Portland, Oregon area?

Re:Kneejerk Activism

[Anonymous Coward]

Remember, the camel spit on him first so he sorta started it.
The camel only spits first in the new digitally re-mastered Director's Cut..

Pelting PETA activists for fun and profit.

[Vapebait]

This is what happenened when PETA activists showed up at my school and tried to force-feed us their bullshit:
http://www.animalrights.net/archives/year/2002/000 325.html [animalrights.net]

Nothing stops a naked protest quite like crude oil

[kb9vcr]

Seriously, can we wait until the cool nano-tech stuff comes out before the protests start? This is like protesting the realistic violence in video games just after the release of Pac-Man.

Re:someone enlighten me please

[Anonymous Coward]

OMG ur waring CANSER!!

Re:someone enlighten me please

[mr_z_beeblebrox]

I wear nano-pants

I wish that I could wear nano-pants, I am apparently too big.

Illinois Nanotech Hippies

[Mr. BS]

Jake: Hey, what's going on?
Officer: Ah, those bums won their courtcase so they're marching today.
Jake: What bums?
Officer: The fucking nanotech hippies.
Elwood: Illinois nanotech hippies...
Jake: I hate Illinios nanotech hippies.

Re:Send in the Clowns

[doconnor]

I don't hate you because of the cable channel's website. I hate you because you took my post too seriously.

Re:I'm confused!

[Stinky Cheese Man]

Unlike "scientists" who are interested only in the welfare of the human race and whose motives and actions are always pure and above reproach.

SCM

Re:someone enlighten me please

[be-fan]

Hmm. I can't stand 'em. They don't breathe nearly as well as real cotton. Though, that fault is probably more noticible down here in "the climate resembles hot sweaty balls" Georgia.

Re:Pictures?

[Afrosheen]

OMFG, where's the trashcan...I think I'm gonna be sick.

The grandparent was 100% dead-on. Yet another terrifying image added to the tubgirl-can't-erase-that-part-of-my-brain collection. Thanks guys.

Re:Teflon is bad

[John Whorfin]

Cooking with Teflon cookware will kill your birds

I thought cooking birds would kill them irrespective of the material they were cooked in.

Re:eesh

[dual_boot_brain]

where is Ralph Nader when you need him ... Unsafe at any resolution...

Re:Here we go...

[qazwsxqazwsx90]

But what about the white goo that these protesters may cause when they get too close to slashdotters?

Re:someone enlighten me please

[Anonymous Coward]

What I don't like about them is that when you're done taking a piss the few dribblets of urine that always remain go down and gets on your legs rather than be absorbed by the pants. Yes I shake.

Re:someone enlighten me please

[boredman]

Yes I shake.
Is it possible to mod this one +0.5 TOO Informative?

Re:No grey goo...

[qbwiz]

Okay, let's just suppose that you are a green, unobtanium-plated robot from Wolf 359, who is on Earth solely to post on Slashdot.

Re:Kneejerk Activism

[Dominic Burns]

"They showed me a letter from the Spanish Department of the Interior which said, basically, "Gosh, if you say they were abused, then we believe you." Then they waved this letter around claiming the Spanish Government corroborated their claims."

Point well made. The Spanish government's a good source of moral outrage when it comes to the treatment of animals.

Bovines, for example....

Re:someone enlighten me please

[Fishstick]

<AceVentura>The urine stain on your pants tells me that you are a workaholic. You are a two-shake man, far too busy for the follow-up "jiggle".</AceVentura>

Re:Pictures?

[droleary]

As the parent said, these women are quite average... which anyone who gets out of their basement and away from their computers for a few hours a day would quickly realize.

That hardly makes a compelling case for the real world, now does it?

Re:Pictures?

[pokeyburro]

Look at about 100,000 pictures of naked people on the Internet and see how selective your tastes get.

Re:Don't get excited...

[tricorn]

We need to eliminate candles, kerosene lanterns, diesel engines, carbon arc lamps, and fireplaces, because they all produce buckyballs and carbon nanotubes. Soot of any kind is just loaded with nanoparticles. What about all those nanoparticles they add to tires? Then there's dihydrogen oxide, which is known to penetrate all the cells of the body.