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Coin cell safety improvement a world first in Australia
Rick Law:
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--- Quote from: ratatax on December 22, 2020, 07:09:31 pm ---"one child a month"
Yeah so who cares. Natural selection. If we needed to prevent any misuse of any product everything would be forbidden, even spoons.
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Nah, if would be a different story, if it would be 12 year olds.
There is a stage in children's development, where they experience the world by putting things into their mouth. It's better at feeling things than their hands. Freud and stuff.
Same way, I slow down and be careful about birds and cats on the road. They have no idea about the danger.
I care less about jaywalkers and cyclists who are breaking the rules. They all know it well what they are doing.
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12 year old or 1 month old, it still would be natural selection - based on parental behavior. Same as a tigress that would not feed the baby tiger, her gene is terminated.
Nature is more cold and efficient than modern human society...
From a financial stand point, you would be better off hitting an animal then trying to avoid one. Say a deer for example; hitting a deer has lesser financial impact than having an accident while trying to avoid hitting an animal. You hit a car, or a fence, or any other property while trying to avoid a deer, it is your fault and you are responsible for the damage. Your insurance rate will reflect it by increased premium. You hit the deer, it is no fault (at least in my State)... Rare the deer's next-of-kin would take legal action. If you run over a cyclist or jay walker, you would still be paying for it by increased premiums years later.
Muttley Snickers:
It seems that this topic comes up every few years but little if anything changes, a previous thread linked below. Our local Coles supermarket has all of the batteries including button cells on display not even 4 feet away from the lollies and chocolate bars, mummy I want a packet of the shiny ones. :o ::) :P
https://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/don_t-swallow-coin-cells/
Edit: Added Image.
VK3DRB:
--- Quote from: Rick Law on December 23, 2020, 02:15:33 am ---
--- Quote from: ratatax on December 22, 2020, 07:09:31 pm ---"one child a month"
Yeah so who cares. Natural selection. If we needed to prevent any misuse of any product everything would be forbidden, even spoons.
--- End quote ---
12 year old or 1 month old, it still would be natural selection - based on parental behavior. Same as a tigress that would not feed the baby tiger, her gene is terminated.
Nature is more cold and efficient than modern human society...
From a financial stand point, you would be better off hitting an animal then trying to avoid one. Say a deer for example; hitting a deer has lesser financial impact than having an accident while trying to avoid hitting an animal....
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This reminds me of Dr. Groeteschele (Walter Matthau) from Fail Safe (1964) - my favourite movie.
It is probably a misquote that the tyrant Joseph Stalin once said: "A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic." In any case, a human trait is concern over death or injury diminishes with time and physical/cultural distance from the victims.
As for the coin cell bitter taste solution, if the batteries were sprayed with a bitterant, would that not create contact resistance issues?
KaneTW:
Pointless. This is not something that will ever have real benefit from regulation. Just extra nonsense for engineers and companies to keep track of.
As for bitterant, the amount you need will have less of an impact than the random oils on your skin from touching the battery.
Ed.Kloonk:
That statistic would be much closer to the floor if more mothers stayed with their babies.
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