On 02/04/17 22:02, Morten Reistad wrote:
> In article ,
> Gordon Levi   wrote:
>> The Natural Philosopher  wrote:
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>>> If the EU could have harmonized just one thing that actually needed
>>> harmonizing...
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>>> What useless bunch of Cnuts they turned out to be.
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>> Not true. I thank them every day just for forcing everyone to use USB
>> for charging almost everything.
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> One of the beyond expectations successes of the EU is the standards.
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> Bar none. They have gotten uniform automobile standards, are
> getting pretty close to uniform building standards (but codes from
> place to place can vary, not everywhere have 3 m snow loads etc).
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> Just the electrics have undergone a silent revolution in Europe.
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Golly. Anyone would think there were no agreed European and
international standards before the EU!

However did the TCP/IP standard happen without the EU!
Or the metric system of measurement?

Things the EU did can be divided into two categories

1/. Useful stuff that would have happened anyway because it was in
everybody's interest that it did,

2/. Stuiff that favoured a minority, the EU itself, a large corporate
sponsors, or a vociferous minority  political movement, that no one
wanted anyway and could only happen where there is an oppressive
undemocratic regime to enforce it.

Catch 22. The good stuff happens irrespective, and we don't want the bad
stuff.

Anyway, its all over for the EU bar the shouting. Past it's sell by date.


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