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| james_s:
--- Quote from: vk6zgo on December 27, 2020, 02:36:38 am ---If you keep your hands under the hot tap in my kitchen, it gets painful enough that you have to move your hand away. An adult's hand looks red after this, but not damaged ------a child would suffer burns. --- End quote --- That's how hot water is supposed to work. I can't hold my hand under the hot water from the tap in my kitchen, it's hot. If it was so cool that I could hold my hand under it then it isn't hot enough to be acceptable. I'm not a child, I don't have children, if I did then I would consider turning down the hot water until they are old enough to be taught not to put their hands under hot water. If you want lukewarm water then you have that choice, but you have no right to dictate to everyone else how hot their water can be, or to tell them what is hot enough. Your get to rule your household, no further. |
| james_s:
--- Quote from: vk6zgo on December 27, 2020, 07:09:33 am ---Maybe with a machine, but it makes no difference with a human, who can see where the gunk is & remove it. --- End quote --- Who washes dishes by hand? I'll occasionally wash something that way if I need it right away or if it's too big to fit well in the dishwasher but I don't know anybody who regularly does their dishes by hand, nearly everyone has a dishwasher. |
| themadhippy:
--- Quote ---Who washes dishes by hand? I'll occasionally wash something that way if I need it right away or if it's too big to fit well in the dishwasher but I don't know anybody who regularly does their dishes by hand --- End quote --- you do now,dont own,never had nor ever want a dishwasher,total waste of energy, space and money |
| james_s:
--- Quote from: NANDBlog on December 27, 2020, 11:45:36 am ---Because often times the user of a device and the purchaser of a device is not the same person. I was able to tell my landlord few years ago, that the installed electrical cabinet, with a single fuse, is not up to the building code. If I wanted, I could refuse to pay rent until he fixes it. Because the law said so. He fixed it within a week. The same applies to many work related objects. The less regulation there is, the shittiest tools and appliances you get for your job. And if you ask for the safe and reliable tools: "but we already have one, use that". This is not a unique situation, billions of people use object, that someone else purchased. Like toys. A kid will want a toy, based on the Disney figure on it's side, not the quality of the injection mold, or the battery compartment. It is probably hard to understand this on the "land of the free*", but most laws are made for you, not against you. Because freedom also means that everyone is free to take advantage of you. That stupid screw costs 0.1 cent. And you are not a toy designer, move on. *read it as explained in Jim Jefferies: Freedumb --- End quote --- I'd be inclined to tell you to vacate so I can move someone else in there. I don't care what the screw costs, I care that it's annoying because I have to go find a damn screwdriver every time I want to change the batteries on something, then I have to go put the screwdriver away when I'm finished, and it's so bloody pointless because any 3 year old could go get a screwdriver as easily as I can so what's even the point? Whenever reasonably possible I throw away the screw and find an alternate method to hold the cover on. The old style covers that click shut are so much more convenient and I resent having my convenience reduced in a futile attempt to protect some other person from their own incompetence. The requirement doesn't accomplish the stated goal of making anyone safer, it ONLY makes things less convenient for the majority. Frankly that wording "most laws are made for you" gives me the creeps. Big Brother knows best. Did you ever read the novel "1984"? It is frightening. Anybody trying to dictate choices for my own good and protect me from myself can go to hell. I deeply resent it, I'm not a child and refuse to be treated like one. The attitude is increasingly prevalent and makes my blood boil. We have created an entire generation that expects to be perpetually shielded from anything and everything that could possibly cause them harm and it results in people who are incapable of dealing with anything. |
| Gyro:
The whole premise of something being safe (coin cell, live mains, or whatever) because it can't be accessed without the use of a tool has become worthless in a modern world, where pretty well everyone has the tool bits, even the tamper proof ones! |
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