Re: Re: Taking a Stand in the War on General-Purpose Computing
  By: Deloptes to Mayayana on Fri Mar 19 2021 08:38 am

 > XPost: alt.anonymous, comp.misc, alt.os.linux
 > XPost: talk.politics.misc
 > 
 > Mayayana wrote:
 > 
 > > You may be able to fix your car, house and dinner. I don't
 > > know. But I'm sure there are things in life that you depend on
 > > without understanding how they work. And your confidence
 > > using those things probably depends on regulation.
 > 
 > The absurdity of this all is the "precedence" in the US law. So you can make
 > and sell a toy or airplane that would fail. People would die and only after
 > this they will regulate.
 > I am not for regulations, but as you point out in many cases they are
 > required, so that our lives are endangered.
 > Recently the EU introduced a low "the right to repair". I doubt that it will
 > have effect, because even if I knew how to repair my broken car,
 > manufactures make special tools that are so expensive that only the car
 > repair shop can afford. Some tools are available only for licensed shops.
 > This is pure pornography

Regulations have a tendency to be reactive instead of proactive everywhere, not
just the US. Politicians are bad at addressing problems regarding fields of
expertise they don't dominate, so they only get to address them once the
problem is actually impacting people and thus becomes known _to them_.

Which is why you should do your homework while politicians are struggling to
put their paperwork together.


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