On 18/03/2021 18:58, Richard Falken wrote:
>    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

Bless!
> 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_.

Bless!

Take climate change. Whole rafts of proactive legislation that does not
addfess an existing problem that affects people, but a *possible* future
one that *might* affect people,  that in any case  does *not* address
carbon *emissions*, only make profits for 'green' 'renewable' companies
who are heavily subsidised as well. They cant fail. Except they do all
the time.

Legislation is the primary way to market product no one wants or needs,
by mandating its adoption. And thus obsoleting existing perfectly
functional product.

In Europe the EU is pwned by large manufacturers. In the USA the EPA is
going that way

In third world countries this level of corruption is de rigeur: You
simply wont get to operate without bribing the government officials,


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