Seems to be much complaint about these weapons, but aren't non-lethal weapons better than lethal weapons?

In a perfect world you wouldn't need any weapons at all, but face it, we don't live in a perfect world.

What should you be more worried about terrorists building a giant microwave to inflict "Painful Testis" on a victim (who should notice?) or buying a couple hundred pounds of fertilizer and blowing up a building?


But if they fried my computer I would probably die of boredom...

"microwave signals can be transmitted directly into a person’s ear, making them hear schizophrenic type voices inside their heads"

err? isn't that a mobile phone?

Hey tin man, if you think your suit of aluminum foil will "foil" the ray gun, you'll be in the hot seat. That ray gun is aimed by an operator looking at a screen with a dot in the middle, and your eye will be taking up 3/4th of the screen. Ever get sunburn in your eyes before? Feels like sand is there everytime you blink. So you go ahead and suit up. I'll sit on the sidelines and laugh. Search around for '60 minutes ray gun', you'll enjoy the show.

I am in the process of extending my tinfoil hat into a full-body version as we speak. I kind of like the cyborg fashion statement, anyway.

Reynolds wrap = 1, Multi-billion-dollar oppression research = 0. 

Unfortunately, this suit of aluminum is not so comfortable for lounging around in. Perhaps our Chinese friends could start manufacturing "decorative" fashion clothing with close-weave aluminum thread, along with matching eafmuffs? (Kevlar lining optional.)

I wouldn't wish this to a monkey on a rock slinging chimp chunk mackers! Be obedient to your big brother, children.
"Gotta get down to it.
Soldiers are cutting us down.
Should have been done long ago."
Slant
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,146087,00.html
Snap
http://archives.cnn.com/2001/TECH/science/03/02/new.weapon.02/
Video
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/march2008/010308gun.htm
Notes
Raytheon Company’s nonlethal Active Denial System, a counter-personnel directed energy weapon that projects a electromagnetic speed-of-light millimeter wave of energy that makes skin feel like it’s on fire. 
penetrates the skin to a depth of less than 1/64 of an inch and produces heat that within seconds becomes intolerable
.... at a frequency of 95 GHtz has a range of roughly half a mile - the exact range is classified - The effective range could be hundreds of meters
Prolonged exposures has caused skin blistering and boils.
ADS is to be deployed in Iraq this Summer.
This would come in quite useful in Gaza, and shuting down Supreme Court/Legislatice protests when Roe Vs. Wade is reversed.
I can't think of any regime that would not flip over these; power is so intoxicating. Yes, it's better than taking a bullet; but the ADS pain ray rarely misses. 

Important articles:
Targeting the Human with Directed Energy Weapons
http://www.mikrowellenterror.de/english/mw-weapon.htm

THE MISUSE OF MICROWAVE WEAPONS BY CRIMINALS AND TERRORISTS
http://www.mikrowellenterror.de/english/index.htm
Best wishes from Germany
Dr. Reinhard Munzert

There are hundreds of people in the UK who have been complaining since 1998 (the date of Bioeffects of Selected Non-Lethal Weapons) of precisely the combination of the various ill-effects documented to be inflicted. This despite the fact that the information remained classified "Secret NOFORN" until 6 December 2006. Ask yourselves: How did we all all know what these weapons could do up to eight years BEFORE their existence was declassified? Why won't the British government throw it weight behind the 1999 call on the part of the European Parliament for such weapons to be banned worldwide?

I claim that I was the first person to publish Bioeffects online, by the way, It's on www.slavery.org.uk.

John Allman
www.thatfund.org

The answer is mylar... grounded mylar.

re: aluminium clothing - there are a variety of EM-shielding products, including clothing, already available. 

If you're really concerned, go everywhere in a Faraday cage too or build a safe-room with such a framework within its walls - you can run cables out of it to aerials, so it needn't be cut-off from telecoms of various types.

As for microwave weapons - not only do they exist, they also don't need much (to any) modifications to utilise the existing mobile frequencies. Yes! your cute little cellphone really is also a deathray reciever.

And in case anyone really worried about this to the point where they can't jape about it thinks I'm being too flippant - not at all, I first got a WAP-enabled mobile phone many years ago, and the first time I connected it to the internet - that's exactly how it felt in my hands: as if they were being fried. I also got the impression they looked luminous orange in colour and that's never happened before or since.
I also get headaches from just being nearby to someone else who is using a mobile phone - I can feel it focused inside my head, and it does bring on flu-ish and feverish symptoms.