From: thangolossus@gmail.com

When I read that line I thought - bullshit.

Then I read the story. Then I used wayback to dig up the old EMP
effects site...

Then I believed the story...

http://www.wnd.com/2012/08/emp-attack-90-of-americans-would-be-dead/

Here's Wayback Machine's silo of the EMP Effects pages, the site's
dead but its ghost waxes eternal :)

https://web.archive.org/web/20160211192750/http://empcover.com/index.html

"EMP: How It Blasts Electronics -- Even Unplugged

An Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) is a burst of energy that destroys
electronics. Terrorists can create the frying pulse of energy using
several methods, but the damage inside electronics happens the same
way.

EMP energy floods the wires and circuits in electronic devices -- the
more wire and circuit, the more energy captured. Generally, EMP
effects electronics that have any of the following:

Circuits larger than a wrist watch;
An antenna;
A connected power cord, especially if that cord is plugged in to a
wall outlet.

In less than a second, the EMP blasts up to 50,000 volts of energy at
your electronics. Most modern business and consumer electronics have
limited shielding and cannot survive this strong burst.

The pulse melts the circuit's tiny metal pathways. Modern computer
CPUs, the "brains" of electronics, are especially vulnerable. That is
because faster CPUs require smaller internal pathways. The smaller
connections are more fragile and closer together, making them melt
more quickly. The logic switches inside the CPU are also easily
damaged by energy spikes.

The energy burst can even destroy unplugged electronics. That is
because the EMP energy travels like radio waves, slamming into any
electronics large enough to act as an antenna."




"No one can compel me ...to be happy after his fashion; instead,
every person may seek happiness in the way that seems best to him,
if only he does not violate the freedom of others to strive toward
such similar ends as are compatible with everyone’s freedom under
a possible universal law (i.e., this right of others)."

Immanuel Kant - "On the Proverb: That May be True in Theory,
But Is Of No Practical Use"

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