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Stray Electron:

--- Quote from: james_s on May 27, 2022, 06:23:13 pm ---
--- Quote from: free_electron on May 26, 2022, 02:40:16 pm ---ah yes. another one of those turds. instead of warning us about it , why don't they remove the crap ?

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Because they can't. Have you looked at the list of substances that Prop 65 covers? It is huge and growing all the time, and it does not take quantity into consideration, trace amount or a majority of the composition makes no difference. On top of that there is no penalty for putting the warning on something that does not contain any of those substances while there is a penalty for failing to place the warning on something that does contain it so the end result is many companies just put the warning on absolutely everything just to cover their bases. The law may have been based on good intent but it is fundamentally flawed and it takes either a special kind of stupid or magical thinking to believe that it actually does something useful. A warning that is on everything tells you nothing, and amuses me to some degree that California seems blissfully unaware that they are the laughing stock of the entire country. I can't tell you how many times I've seen someone see that stupid cancer warning and say something like "well, it's a good thing we're not in California! har har"

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   They've been putting a health warning on cigarette packages in the US over 50 years yet there's no indication that they ever deterred anyone from smoking. Splashing warnings on every possible package and/or product like the People's Republic is prone to doing is a complete waste of time! Apparently the safety-at-any-cost folks in the People's Republic never learned the lesson from Aesop's fable about the boy that cried Wolf! too often.

  But it is rather amazing at how many people are so diligent about searching out traces of gluten (or meat, dairy or animal products, etc etc) even when they're not allergic to them but billions people world wide completely ignore warnings on a product that is widely known to kills tens of millions of people every year!
Halcyon:
You also see "Gluten Free" on some packs of bacon... It's used purely as a marketing strategy to appear "healthier", even though bacon never contained gluten in the first place.


--- Quote from: Stray Electron on May 28, 2022, 12:55:20 am ---They've been putting a health warning on cigarette packages in the US over 50 years yet there's no indication that they ever deterred anyone from smoking. Splashing warnings on every possible package and/or product like the People's Republic is prone to doing is a complete waste of time!
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Doesn't that say more about American people, rather than the system? In Australia, since the introduction of mandatory labeling on cigarette packets (and other similar measures), only about 11.4% of the population smoked in 2021 and it's dropping every year. You're basically considered to be an outcast in today's society if you're a smoker. We also have strict laws which prohibit smoking in most enclosed/indoor areas and you can't smoke in a car with children on-board. There are also state-based laws which prohibit smoking in some outdoor areas as well, for example in my state, you can't smoke within 10 metres of a children's playground or swimming pools or within 4 metres of an entrance to any public building or public transport areas.

Some might see it as authoritarian but I disagree, it's about the health of the greater population. If you're silly enough to light up a cigarette and destroy your body, that's on you, but no one else should be subject to it.
MathWizard:
Motherboard makers pointing to an added CPU power connector, and not mentioning that it's the chips doing all the magic, and 1 8pin connector is enough anyways.
vk6zgo:

--- Quote from: free_electron on May 23, 2022, 03:06:06 pm ---Before the mods kill this as non technical :

just found this one ....  :palm:

from the MG chemicals catalogue none the less....
i guess its to guarantee no static in your receiver.

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It certainly will do that, by shorting the plates of the tuning capacitor, but it could be useful on the wipers & bearings to ensure that the variable plates are connected to the frame of the cap.

Another case of quite a good idea inadvertently sabotaged by dumb marketing.
TimFox:

--- Quote from: Halcyon on May 28, 2022, 01:20:29 am ---You also see "Gluten Free" on some packs of bacon... It's used purely as a marketing strategy to appear "healthier", even though bacon never contained gluten in the first place.


--- Quote from: Stray Electron on May 28, 2022, 12:55:20 am ---They've been putting a health warning on cigarette packages in the US over 50 years yet there's no indication that they ever deterred anyone from smoking. Splashing warnings on every possible package and/or product like the People's Republic is prone to doing is a complete waste of time!
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Doesn't that say more about American people, rather than the system? In Australia, since the introduction of mandatory labeling on cigarette packets (and other similar measures), only about 11.4% of the population smoked in 2021 and it's dropping every year. You're basically considered to be an outcast in today's society if you're a smoker. We also have strict laws which prohibit smoking in most enclosed/indoor areas and you can't smoke in a car with children on-board. There are also state-based laws which prohibit smoking in some outdoor areas as well, for example in my state, you can't smoke within 10 metres of a children's playground or swimming pools or within 4 metres of an entrance to any public building or public transport areas.

Some might see it as authoritarian but I disagree, it's about the health of the greater population. If you're silly enough to light up a cigarette and destroy your body, that's on you, but no one else should be subject to it.

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Quantitative, from CDC website for USA:  "Current smoking has declined from 20.9% (nearly 21 of every 100 adults) in 2005 to 12.5% (nearly 13 of every 100 adults) in 2020."
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