Re: Lunacy from Brussels

bill.sloman@xxxxxxxx wrote:

bill.sloman@xxxxxxxx wrote:

And so you should. Over in Europe, we wonder about the US lunatics who
sit still while Dubbya packs all the technical committees with industry
experts, who'd condone sending arsenic up the smoke stack on the basis
that it was good for the skin (as it is - in very low doses).

Whenever you get too uptight about all these modern rules and
regulations, think about the asbestos, chromium, mercury and all the
other "harmless" stuff that cheapskate manufacturers let lose on their
communities. One aspect of the withering away of the state that we
could well skip.

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Bill Sloman, Nijmegen


W Letendre wrote:

Ah well, did say that I often think that Europeans are more sensible
than we are here in the "Land of the Free." Certainly have misgivings
about our current frenzy to dismantle environmental regulations here.

But, did find it startling that trade mags had to caution users on
toxic qualities of materialsfor use in electronic assemblies, when
these materials are mandated by the folks in Brussels.... for safety
reasons!

W Letendre 


Every regulation has at least one un-intended consequence. That
lead-free solders need a flux that is more toxic than the fluxes we now
use  with lead-based solders probably wasn't obvious to the rule-makers
in Brussells.

There's probably a good chance that someone will eventually develop a
less toxic flux for lead-free solders, but these things do take time.

It is unfortunate that these well-intentioned policies about the way we
do things have to be instantiated as inflexible bureaucratic
regulations - like democracy, it is a hopeless way to run a system, but
unfortunately better than anything else we've tried.

Chomsky preaches the virtue's of an anarcho-syndicalist social
organisation, but has nothing to say on how it would actually work. The
German Betriebsrat (Works Council)

http://www.eurofound.eu.int/emire/GERMANY/WORKSCOUNCIL-DE.html

is drawn from the anarcho-syndicalist tradition, but in an
anarcho-syndicalist state it would be one of the political forums,
roughly comparable with municipal councils or city councils (depending
on the size of the firm - the works council of a big multinational
company would probably have their own representative at the U.N.) and
we could expect the bureaucrats making the rules in Brussells to be
drawn - in part - from the industries being regulated, not as
management appointess(as in the US at the moment), but as political
activists coming in through the economic branch of government, where
all we have today are representatives drawn from the law-makers and the
supervisors.

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Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

Meanwhile, nobody is talking about lower reliability caused by whisker growth from the tin in these new solders...
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